Francis James Franklin (Alina Meridon)

Adventures with Potato Peelers – Guest Post by Freya Pickard

I’m Freya Pickard. I write novels and poetry and I am a cancer survivor. My most recent publication is a collection of poems written between July 2014 and September 2015. These poems trace my journey through having a colostomy, experiencing open surgery for bowel cancer, enduring chemotherapy and starting the long road to recovery.

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Interview With Two Sexy Vampires

Suzie and Cleo have agreed to an interview, so long as I keep the questions light and don’t ask about their history. We meet at Le Pain Quotidien, the girls sharing a pot of tea and watching the busy station through the glass wall.

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Popular and Favourite Posts

Miscellaneous

• Hymen Enraged
• Romantic and Sexual Orientations
• The Romantic Spellchecker
• Strong Female Characters and Other Heroines
• The Naming of Women
• Defining the Bitch
• A World Without Men
• What is a man?

Writing & Editing

• First Person, Present Tense and POV
• A Beginner’s Guide to Copy-Editing: 1. Apostrophes and Quotation Marks
• A Beginner’s Guide to Copy-Editing: 2. Hyphens and Dashes
• Fix your price and stand by it

Poetry – Musing & Reviews

• Red Stilettos
• Erotic Poetry and Creative Juices
• The 10th Muse

Poetry – Vampires

• Vampire Nun Orgy
• Fatal Fire
• An Uncomfortable Rhyme
• Sparkly Love
• The Bloody Night

Poetry – Love & Rainbows

• Unity
• In the Garden
• Sun Rises; Sun Sets
• Separation hurts
• In Pleasure Drowned
• Love Untrue
• Love at first unsight
• The Siren’s Song
• Antisymmetric
• Infidelity
• My True Love
• Lesbian Queen

Fiction

• An Aromantic Kiss
• An Aromantic Proposal
• The Stellar and the Princess
• Lesbian Succubus Diary
• Hardcore Lesbian Pornstars
• Her second kill
• Inspired by the Prince of Evil

Vampiric

• My Top Ten … Modern Vampire Novels
• My Top Ten … Fantastic Female Vampires
• The Female Vampire
• Female Vampires and Strong Female Characters
• but writing makes it so
• The Hunger – Vampire Music?
• Pansensual, Non-bisexual Vampires
• Toothless Vampires
• Tired of all the sex?
• The Bisexual Question
• The Bisexual Examiner
• Cosmic Vampires
• Here vampire… Nice vampire…

Suzie and the Monsters

• The Cruel Awakening of Sarah Fielding
• Blood, Sex and Inhumanity
• Bisexual Vampire Stalks London Town!
• Lots of Stars – but who’s counting?
• Superficial Specificity: Lorenzi Heels and Illamasqua
• Doing Research

Guests

• Freya Pickard – Adventures with Potato Peelers
• Aidee Ladnier – Why I Love Science Fiction Romance
• Jacquotte Fox Kline – Goddesses of Love, Lust and Liberty
• Amanda M. Lyons – Male Leads: Why Gender Stereotypes Limit Readers
• Cybersex with Alina X
• Georgiana Derwent – Write the book you want to read
• MP Sharma – Why India & vampires are such a sexy combo
• Xia Devore – From Pink Bows to Red Stilettos
• Rose Montague – Jade
• V.T. Davy – A Very Civil Guest Post
• Barbara G. Tarn – Star Minds & Women
• Isaiyan Morrison – Deamhan
• Brandy Nacole – Uniquely Unwelcome

 

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NaPoWriMo & Supergirl

April is National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), basically an excuse (if you need one) to write a poem a day. I have adopted a Supergirl theme – but only because I told myself at the start that I couldn’t write poetry about superheroes, and had the perversity to do exactly that.

Poetic Justice: In search of Supergirl
A million heart-wrenched tears
Index to Supergirl posts & poetry

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Iphigenia

• Iphigenia at Brauron, Artemis; Brauron; Lucretius
• Alyth and Artemis, Artemis; Hecate; The Gate to Woman’s Country
• In the annals of ancient Crete…, Boccaccio; Dante
• Writing Iphigenia – A Love Story, History; Chronology; Atlantis
• Iphigenia in England, Boccaccio; Dryden; Fittleworth; Jan Steen
• Farewell to Iphigenia, Artemis; Sacrifice; Heroism
• Iphigenia, A Poem (Iphigenia at Aulis)
• Iphigenia in Paradise, Fathers Sacrificing Daughters
• Iphigenia, or: The Girl From Ipinama, Etymology, Snakes and Bees

 

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I Like It Hard is a XXX-rated Reality TV show that our bisexual aromantic heroine wants to win. She has trained hard for it, but the competition is fierce and the cameras see everything…
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Yanty’s Butterfly is an international haiku anthology dedicated to Yanty Tjiam and her family. 20 poets from Canada, the U.K., Germany, Persia, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, South Africa, Taiwan, the Philippines, and the U.S. have come together to create this anthology.
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Alina Meridon is the fabled city of silver spires located at the heart of my novel Kings of Infinite Space. This is an epic fantasy full of gods, wizards, and other magical themes. The main character is Hrana, a vampire, but the novel is far more than just a vampire story, it’s a story about identity, love and sacrifice.
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My novella, Hrana, is a more-or-less standalone extract from Kings of Infinite Space.
When Hrana makes a bargain with the Dancer to save her family and village from marauders, the price is to leave her life behind and go in search of the mythical city of Alina Meridon.
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My second novel, Suzie and the Monsters, is however an unrestrained vampire novel, telling the story of Suzie Kew, passionate lover and ruthless killer; this is a love story blended with blood, sex and inhumanity.
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My short story Alyth: Witch on Fire is based on the series of posts on this blog about my friend Alyth.
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A collection of short stories and lyrical poetry with vampires, succubi, mechanical girls and other unusual creatures, Lesbian Succubus Diary & other steamy stuff is sometimes erotic and sometimes romantic, but sometimes quite the opposite.
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A celebration of love and sexuality, Quantum Sex & other entanglements is an erotic journey across the rainbow of human nature, encounters with mythical creatures and monsters, and even a goddess or two.
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My collection of short stories and poetry An Aromantic Romance and other tales which includes The Stellar and the Princess and a selection of other poems and fiction posted on this blog.
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My short story The Slave-Girl and the Vampire is set in a post-apocalyptic future, on the fringes of a lesbian utopia.
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My short story An Aromantic Romance appears in a collection of short stories called Pick ’n’ Mix. The proceeds will be going to the charity Eaves for Women.
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