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About Me

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I write Erotic SF and so far, I have six books and one novella published by three different publishers, Liquid Silver Books, Loose Id Books and Atlantic Bridge Publisher.I want it ALL! I want real aliens and real SF included with my characters' lives AND I want them to have active love lives too. I don't see any need to hide their love lives in a closet or keep it all off camera. After all, with SF, we should be able to boldly go everywhere.The Huntress is my best known book. When it debuted at Fictionwise last year it jumped to the number one slot in Erotica for eight straight weeks. The Huntress also took the number two slot against all genres and beat out Dan Brown's Da Vinci code during those eight weeks.Then, in August 16, 2005, The Huntress won the Dream Realm Award for Best SF Erotica.Barbara K. aka Chainsaw (That's the nickname my crit partners gave me on account of my ruthless critiques where I push them to write their best work and apply the same high standards to their writing as I do to my own writing.)

My Interests

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mysteries, Suspense, Swimming, Dancing and just having fun.

I'd like to meet:

Oprah Winphrey, Octavia Butler, S.M. Stirling, C.J. Cherryh, Elizabeth Moon, Denzel Washington, Vin Diesel, Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp.

Music:

A little bit of everything. I'm an omnivore when it comes to music.

Movies:

Serenity, Lord of The Rings Trilogy, Star Wars, Gattaca, Legend, Labyrinth, Krull, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Back to the Future Trilogy, Terminator and Shrek II.

Television:

Firefly, Red Dwarf, the new version of Battlestar Galactica, Dark Shadows, third season Beauty and the Beast with Vincent and Diana.

Books:

Too numerous to mention here. A few of my favorite authors are Andre Norton, C.J. Cherryh, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, S. M. Stirling, Mercedes Lackey, Zenna Henderson, Octavia Butler, Elizabeth Moon, Lois McMaster BuJold, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.

Heroes:

My father, Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy

My Blog

Games Aliens Play

One area that many writers forget to look at when creating alien cultures and stories is figuring out what they do for fun. Games and sports play a large role in any culture. The need to relax and ha...
Posted by Barbara on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:11:00 PST

Science Fiction Sexuality, human and alien

Back in 1969, a song soared and became the number one hit. The first words were, "In the Year 2525." Lots of good ideas and possibilities in that song from popping pills to change your thoughts to te...
Posted by Barbara on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:47:00 PST

Race in Erotic Science Fiction and Fantasy

One of the things that I noticed in mainstream SF and Fantasy back in the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's was the fact that the majority of those books had all Caucasian humans. I'd wonder what happened to ...
Posted by Barbara on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:18:00 PST

Sexuality for Shapeshifters and other Fantasy types

A very popular form of erotic SF and Fantasy involves shapeshifters from many different species ranging from werewolves and vampires to werecats, werehorses, weredragons and even a werewhale. Laurell...
Posted by Barbara on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:43:00 PST

Hermaphrodites and Alien Sexuality

For the most part, many Erotic SF and SF Romance novels such as Linnea Sinclair's booksfocus on the traditional male and female gender roles and heterosexual sexual activity. My most recent Erotic SF ...
Posted by Barbara on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:47:00 PST

PROMO: Rated: X-Mas 23 in Anthologies at Amazon.com

I'm very proud to announce that Rated: X-Mas, the anthology with my Christmas Noir novella is now ranked at 23 in Anthologies at Amazon.com.Plus, if you don't want to wait to receive this anthology in...
Posted by Barbara on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:21:00 PST

Pets and Small Children in SF

Many new writers are taught not to include pets and small children into their Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy stories. Supposedly, the inclusion of pets and small children in adult fiction detracts ...
Posted by Barbara on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:58:00 PST

Combining Fantasy and Science Fiction when writing Erotic Science Fiction

Fantasy fiction features elements of magic, wizardry, supernatural feats, and entities that suspend conventions of realism in the literary arts. Often set in medieval worlds with medieval characters. ...
Posted by Barbara on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:18:00 PST

Humor and Alien Sex

Humor and Alien SexInserting humor into your writing is another way to insert realism and individualize your alien characters' personalities. It doesn't have to be slapstick humor. You don't have to h...
Posted by Barbara on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 08:13:00 PST

Positives to exploit in writing alien sex

Positives to exploit in writing alien sex 1. Popularity of Science Fiction: For some strange reason, mainstream publishers and agents have this mistaken belief that the audience for Science Fiction co...
Posted by Barbara on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:38:00 PST