tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30282377542779303132024-03-20T00:14:43.512-04:00Victoria JanssenErotica author, aka Elspeth Potter, on Writing from the InsideVictoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.comBlogger682125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-49599959021613160012012-07-18T12:29:00.000-04:002012-09-26T10:49:43.636-04:00The Quick Guide to Purchasing My WorkShorter Work
"Crimean Fairy Tale," an erotic romance set during the Crimean War. About 7000 words, available for Kindle and for Smashwords and for
Nook.
"The Magnificent Threesome," a 6000 word short story set in a loosely historical American West, is available for Kindle and for Nook.
"Under Her Uniform," a Spice Brief - tie-in to The Moonlight Mistress (electronic only): (2012)
Kindle
Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-50414245758101854592012-05-01T08:00:00.001-04:002012-05-01T08:00:14.271-04:00"Under Her Uniform" is here!Available today, at Harlequin! Go here."Under Her Uniform" by Victoria JanssenIsobel Hailey has disguised herself as a man so she can fight in the British Army in World War I. Only a few people know the truth, including her two officer lovers--so why can’t she stop thinking about handsome Corporal Andrew Southey instead? Hailey has to keep her wits about her and her erotic fantasies hidden so Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-7315068882582075842012-01-28T08:00:00.000-05:002012-01-28T08:00:05.493-05:00Publications update!I have a few new short stories out and upcoming."Vanilla." May 2011. Dream Lover: Paranormal Tales of Erotic Romance. Cleis Press. Kristina Wright, editor."Crimean Fairy Tale." August 2011. The Mammoth Book of Hot Romance. Sonia Florens, editor. Running Press (USA)/Robinson (UK)."Under Her Uniform (Hailey's Story)." May 2012. Spice Brief. Harlequin. Available only in electronic format.Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-85488169843785196472011-02-02T10:08:00.004-05:002012-01-27T11:35:52.624-05:00Blog RelocationThis blog has moved! New posts appear at my website. You can susbscribe to the new feed here.You can also follow me on Twitter.Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-78082172164258627742010-12-11T08:00:00.000-05:002010-12-07T11:45:53.565-05:00Launch Party! Dukes & Pirates all welcome!I've moved this blog to my website - all new posts will appear there. RSS Feed for the new address. Please stop by and visit!I'm having a launch party for The Duke and The Pirate Queen, and if you're in the area, I'd love for you to attend.Saturday, December 11, 2010, 3 pmBig Blue Marble Bookstore, 551 Carpenter Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19119Food! Drink! Books!More info and directions at the Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-42339817432461752772010-12-02T08:00:00.006-05:002010-12-02T08:00:00.897-05:00Interview: Victoria JanssenI've moved this blog to my website - after this week, all posts will appear there. RSS Feed for the new address. Please stop by and visit!Remember how, a while back, I mentioned that a journalist friend was helping me with promotion? Well, she interviewed me. Below is the result.#Captain Leung, the coolly powerful privateer, silk-clad and barefoot. Maxime, the charismatic, magnificently Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-49427220920481542312010-12-01T08:00:00.005-05:002010-12-01T09:19:10.617-05:00"The World Beyond the Story" and Release Day!Today, I posted on "The World Beyond the Story" at Ella Drake's blog.And it's release day for The Duke and The Pirate Queen! Imagine fireworks going off! And check out my new website design, including blog!!!"Captain Imena Leung, imperial privateer, is a woman who answers to no one – until her parents decree that she must marry and give up her ship. Her employer, the magnificent Duke Maxime, isVictoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-72291712490179886072010-11-30T08:00:00.003-05:002010-11-30T08:37:09.523-05:00"Writing Explicitly" at Kate Elliott's blogToday, I'm posting on "Writing Explicitly" at Kate Elliott's blog - visit, comment!Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-25307887817915685062010-11-29T08:00:00.007-05:002010-11-29T08:47:22.746-05:00"Sexy Pirates" at The SmutketeersI'm a guest of The Smutketeers all this week talking about "Sexy Pirates" - and am also giving away a print copy of The Duke & The Pirate Queen. Stop by their blog to enter!Also, keep an eye on this blog; in the next few weeks it's going to be moving to my website domain, with a new design and everything. I'll make sure to have pointers when it happens.Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-22814764390710903292010-11-28T08:00:00.000-05:002010-11-28T08:00:01.886-05:00Siegfried Sassoon, "Haunted"HauntedEvening was in the wood, louring with storm. A time of drought had sucked the weedy pool And baked the channels; birds had done with song. Thirst was a dream of fountains in the moon, Or willow-music blown across the waterLeisurely sliding on by weir and mill. Uneasy was the man who wandered, brooding, His face a little whiter than the dusk. A drone of sultry wings Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-63756771511968198482010-11-27T08:00:00.001-05:002010-11-27T08:00:01.585-05:00Siegfried Sassoon, "To My Brother"To My BrotherGive me your hand, my brother, search my face; Look in these eyes lest I should think of shame; For we have made an end of all things base. We are returning by the road we came. Your lot is with the ghosts of soldiers dead,And I am in the field where men must fight. But in the gloom I see your laurell’d head And through your victory I shall win the light. --Siegfried Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-75741098296564820632010-11-26T08:00:00.001-05:002010-11-26T08:00:02.630-05:00Things I Like To Write AboutI'm trying to find my bliss.It's been so long since I've deliberately sought out inspiration on this scale that it feels like something new! I haven't had time to come up with a totally new project since back in 2007. Ever since then, I've been writing from book to book, under contractual demands. It's freeing to imagine all the different things I could be writing right now; or, at least, Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-5799873587668851162010-11-25T08:00:00.005-05:002010-11-25T08:00:13.110-05:00Happy Thanksgiving!And in other news, Erotic Exploits is now available for the Nook. If you have a Nook, and are willing to download the free sample, please let me know if the formatting looks all right or is terrible. The preview function does not seem to be working for me.Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-75240034258351386622010-11-23T08:00:00.003-05:002010-11-23T08:42:03.469-05:00Speculative Erotica Markets -- Philcon 2010Almost every year at Philcon, I moderate the panel on selling fantastic (science fiction and fantasy) erotica. It was interesting this year to note how the panel topics have shifted over time: print to electronic to self-electronic.For several years, after I first began to publish erotica, just before the beginning of the twenty-first century, at science fiction conventions I would give talks Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-82973249292615845832010-11-22T08:00:00.000-05:002010-11-22T08:00:02.986-05:00Rachel Kramer Bussel interviewPlease welcome my guest, Rachel Kramer Bussel! Rachel and I met almost a decade back, when we were both reading our stories from Best Lesbian Erotica at Bluestockings in New York City. She graciously consented to answer some questions I had about the process of editing and her latest anthology, Passion: Erotic Romance for Women.#How do you choose a focus for an anthology? How did you choose Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-91970871852009421842010-11-21T08:00:00.002-05:002010-11-21T08:00:04.616-05:00Siegfried Sassoon, "Elegy"Elegy To Robert RossYour dextrous wit will haunt us long Wounding our grief with yesterday. Your laughter is a broken song; And death has found you, kind and gay. We may forget those transient thingsThat made your charm and our delight: But loyal love has deathless wings That rise and triumph out of night. So, in the days to come, your name Shall be as music that ascendsWhenVictoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-61034173150970404182010-11-20T08:00:00.001-05:002010-11-20T08:00:03.897-05:00Siegfried Sassoon, "The Dug-Out"The Dug-OutWhy do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled, And one arm bent across your sullen, cold, Exhausted face? It hurts my heart to watch you, Deep-shadow’d from the candle’s guttering gold; And you wonder why I shake you by the shoulder;Drowsy, you mumble and sigh and turn your head... You are too young to fall asleep for ever; And when you sleep you remind me of the dead.St. Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-73697103023942155532010-11-19T08:00:00.006-05:002010-11-19T11:29:39.062-05:00Sale, Philcon, NINC guest postThree things today:1. I sold a short erotic story, "Vanilla," to Kristina Wright's anthology Dream Lover: Paranormal Tales of Erotic Romance for Cleis Press. It's already available for pre-order!2. I am at Philcon this weekend, hanging out with a UK friend, an archivist who was one of my chief resources about male homosexuality during World War One for The Moonlight Mistress. If you're there,Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-18266714486754338972010-11-18T08:00:00.005-05:002010-11-18T08:00:03.908-05:00Ella Drake - A Space Western WorldPlease welcome my guest, Ella Drake!#A Space Western worldWhen I started to write Silver Bound, a space western releasing Nov 22nd from Carina Press, the elements of world-building excited me. What’s not to love about creating a world for a book with the tagline: “A dangerous journey across the galaxy”? During the course of the story, we visit five shuttle craft, two planets, two space stations, Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-24237833655355295622010-11-17T08:00:00.007-05:002011-01-12T15:37:44.027-05:00Philcon 2010 & "Hints of Mystery" at K.S. Manning's BlogToday, I'm visiting K.S. Manning's Blog talking about "Hints of Mystery" in the plot of The Duke and The Pirate Queen.Please stop by!I'll be at Philcon 2010 this weekend (November 19-21). Here's my schedule:Fri 7:00 PM in Plaza VII (1 hour)Breaking into the fantastic erotica marketVictoria Janssen (moderator), Stephanie Burke, Jennifer Williams, Lynn PerkinsHow to be part of this burgeoning Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-86223159477567296342010-11-16T08:00:00.002-05:002010-11-16T08:00:10.397-05:00Glimmerings in the FogI was in the shower last week when I finally felt the merest flicker of enthusiasm for a new writing project.I've been deliberately taking some time off from writing. I took a week off solely to read (though I did end up writing a little bit on a short story). Before taking the time off, I wrote two synopses which were fine, adequate, but though they might be salable, I decided I wanted to Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-67621768091469738342010-11-15T08:00:00.006-05:002010-11-15T08:00:10.677-05:00Stacey Kennedy on Wolves & WeresThe winner of the signed print copy of The Duke & The Pirate Queen, per Random.org, is Crystal Jordan. Congratulations, Crystal! I'll email you to obtain your mailing address.Now, please welcome my guest, Stacey Kennedy!#What do we know about wolves? They live in a social hierarchy which is lead by an Alpha. They mate for life and will defend that mate to their death. They’re loving, yet Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-73873774607413506092010-11-14T08:00:00.000-05:002010-11-14T08:00:05.073-05:00Siegfried Sassoon, "Thrushes"ThrushesTossed on the glittering air they soar and skim, Whose voices make the emptiness of light A windy palace. Quavering from the brim Of dawn, and bold with song at edge of night, They clutch their leafy pinnacles and sing Scornful of man, and from his toils aloof Whose heart's a haunted woodland whispering; Whose thoughts return on tempest-baffled wing; Who hears the cry of GodVictoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-26689240780893826262010-11-13T08:00:00.002-05:002010-11-13T08:00:00.651-05:00Siegfried Sassoon, "The Fathers"The FathersSnug at the club two fathers sat, Gross, goggle-eyed, and full of chat. One of them said: ‘My eldest lad Writes cheery letters from Bagdad. But Arthur’s getting all the fun At Arras with his nine-inch gun.’ ‘Yes,’ wheezed the other, ‘that’s the luck! My boy’s quite broken-hearted, stuck In England training all this year. Still, if there’s truth in what we Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028237754277930313.post-12127350196207856252010-11-12T08:00:00.012-05:002010-11-12T08:00:11.532-05:00GreenFlea Market in ManhattanTwo friends and I made the trip up to New York City last weekend, for the GreenFlea Market at 77th and Columbus. The setting:Where furs go to Live Again. Or be Unalive Again? Zombie furs?I declined to purchase this little fellow. Yes, you are intended to wear him.Yarn!!! I don't even knit but I was tempted by the bright colors and the oh-so-soft textures. I have friends who knit....These Victoria Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.com0