Quatrième de couverture
It's time to spill it. Let Susie Bright-the reigning mistress of erotica-guide you to reflect on your sex life in this private journal. Whether you are a romantic, a sensualist, a tenderhearted cynic, a close observer of love and lust, or all of the above, Love and Lust offers the perfect place to record past and present private adventures and to dream about future ones. Quotes and suggestive prompts make it easy to get started, while gilded edges and a lush embossed cover make this journal irresistibly touchable.
Biographie de l'auteur
SUSIE BRIGHT SANTA CRUZ, CA http://susiebright.blogs.com Susie Bright is an incredible promoter and marketer and will do attend/host events, signings, etc. Just ask! Susie Bright, also known as Susie Sexpert, is an author, editor, activist, performer, lecturer, sex guru, teacher, and mom. She has a weekly program entitled 'In Bed with Susie Bright' distributed through audible.com, where she discusses a variety of social, freedom of speech and sex-related topics. Bright co-founded and edited the first women's sex magazine, On Our Backs, 'entertainment for the adventurous lesbian,' from 1984 to 1991. She founded the first women's erotica book series, 'Herotica' and edited the first three volumes. She started 'The Best American Erotica' series which continued from 1993-2008. Bright taught the first university class on the subject of the aesthetics and politics of pornography at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California in 1986. She became well-known for her scholarship in sexual representation through her courses on the subject at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She currently resides in Santa Cruz, California. Previously Published Books: **Series Editor, Best American Erotica, Simon and Schuster, 1993-2008 **Editor, Three Kinds of Asking For It, Eric Albert, Greta Christina, and Jill Soloway, edited by Susie Bright, Simon and Schuster, 2005 **Editor, Three the Hard Way, by William Harrison, Greg Boyd, and Tsaurah Litzky, edited by Susie Bright, Simon and Schuster, 2004 **Mommy's Little Girl: Susie Bright on Sex, Motherhood, Pornography, and Cherry Pie, Thunder's Mouth, 2004 **How To Write a Dirty Story: Reading, Writing, and Publishing Erotica, Simon and Schuster, 2002 **Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sex and Creativity , HarperCollins, SanFrancisco, 1999 **The Sexual State of the Union, Simon & Schuster, 1997, 1998 **Author and Co-Editor, Nothing But the Girl: the Blatant Lesbian Image, Cassell, 1996 **SexWise, Cleis Press, 1995 **Editor, Totally Herotica, Book-of-the-Month Club, 1995 **Featured artist, Angry Women, RE/Search, interview by Andrea Juno, Fall 1991 **Susie Bright's Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex Reader, Cleis Press , 1992 **Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World, Cleis Press, 1990 **Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World, 2nd edition with three new chapters, Cleis Press, 1998 **Herotica, 10th anniversary edition, with Afterword by the editor, Down There Press, 1998 **Editor, Herotica, Herotica II, Herotica III, Down There Press and Penguin USA, 1988, 1992, and 1994 AWARDS & BESTSELLERS **Top Ten Sex Blogs, Technorati, 2006 **Erotic Writer of the Year, London, 2005 **Gail Rich Award, Santa Cruz, 2002 **Erotic Video of the Year, Sex Pest, London, England **New York Press Best Sex Columnist, for Salon Magazine's 'Sexpert Opinion' **Lambda Literary Award, Best Art Book of the Year, 1997, for Nothing But the Girl **Firecracker Award, Best Art Book of the Year, 1997, for Nothing But the Girl **Good Vibrations Venus Award, for community service **Full Exposure, National Bestseller **Best American Erotica, National Bestseller **Sexual State of the Union, National Bestseller Best American Erotica Sales: Year / YTD 1993 62,034 1994 50,922 1995 57,655 1996 41,203 (there was no 1998) 1997 51,101 1999 43,339 2000 47,617 2001 33,212 2002 23,535 2003 34,812 2004 31,054 2005 26,534 (being reprinted) 2006 22,264 Total sales in 15 years =Over 600,000 copies
