{"product_id":"2940154043400","title":"Rough Draft Confessions: Not A Guide To Writing And Selling Erotica And Romance But Full Of Inside Insight Anyway","description":"\u003cp\u003eA non-fiction collection of inside insights about writing dirty, the power of words, taboo language, the freedoms and limitations of genres, fulfilling your creative drive, and the business of writing, this behind-the-scenes companion piece to the author’s ER novels takes readers inside the process of writing and selling flirty-dirty stories. Part coming out story, part creative manifesto, all subversive, RDC connects readers to creative resources in off-the-wall ways, examines the absurdities of publishing convention, and will leave you vibrating with the desire to fall in love, have out-of-this-world sex on a mountaintop, and write a smutty story or two of your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbridged TOC\u003cbr\u003eManaging Expectations: I'm writing for YOU but I’m a liar\u003cbr\u003eSo I write this dirty, dirty book...\u003cbr\u003eYou tell me the title really sucks\u003cbr\u003eAnd then, I get hit by a truck (it’s a metaphor)\u003cbr\u003eSix days crafting a five sentence bio\u003cbr\u003eIrving Layton on poetry, orgasms and academics\u003cbr\u003eThe first pitch\u003cbr\u003eA bad synopsis can be a decent pitch\u003cbr\u003eMail it out, throw up—repeat\u003cbr\u003eOMFG she knows a publisher?\u003cbr\u003eI don't get an agent\u003cbr\u003eRejection blows goats\u003cbr\u003eThe writer’s “FU” impulse by Erica Jong\u003cbr\u003e“If at first you don’t succeed, you shouldn’t try sky diving”\u003cbr\u003eI fall in love by the river and stop being crazy\u003cbr\u003eSusan Sontag and Ernest Hemingway in a conversation about sex (and writing)\u003cbr\u003eThe results of five (actually, two) hours of research\u003cbr\u003eWas Sigmund Freud a Gemini?\u003cbr\u003eHow NOT to write a synopsis\u003cbr\u003eBreaking rules works\u003cbr\u003e“So… may I see some more?”\u003cbr\u003eIndulge me: I really want you to read his entire “I Want You” email, ok?\u003cbr\u003eSocial realist erotica: a collaborative definition from Julia Cameron and me\u003cbr\u003eMy excessive attachment to the c-word\u003cbr\u003eA really bad contract\u003cbr\u003eI can't find any typos\u003cbr\u003eHe likes it, he still really, really likes ME!\u003cbr\u003eI almost forgot to tell you about her (my) name...\u003cbr\u003eI’m not real\u003cbr\u003eI’m not real... but I can create myself—and also, let me whine, Dad!\u003cbr\u003eWait. What happened to that woman...\u003cbr\u003eRantings of a Mad Girl turned into a business plan (sort of)\u003cbr\u003eI try to create a vision\u003cbr\u003eOn second thought: Maybe Sylvia Plath shouldn’t be my role model\u003cbr\u003eOMFG not another creative visualization\u003cbr\u003eArt, sex, imagination\u003cbr\u003ePeriods are over-rated; also, most people sext with one hand, not two\u003cbr\u003eHyphenating “g-spot” and other ways to make a grown man cry\u003cbr\u003eMy parents still love, although they’d love me more if I had written something they could show to their friends\u003cbr\u003eI need a blurb but divorce is a buzz kill\u003cbr\u003eLeslie McIntyre on having it all\u003cbr\u003eA picture is worth a 1000 words\u003cbr\u003eThe way to hell is paved with the best intentions\u003cbr\u003eIsn’t it their job to sell it?\u003cbr\u003eInstead of really preparing myself for the launch, I wrap myself in Persian Poetry\u003cbr\u003eHow do you criticize someone’s sexual fantasies, exactly?\u003cbr\u003eSquirming with embarrassment, and not at what you might think...\u003cbr\u003eAnd then, everything falls apart\u003cbr\u003ePause\u003cbr\u003eBut surely there’s a purpose to all this\u003cbr\u003eWait, I lied\u003cbr\u003eHe had a teenie weenie p----, and that’s why you should read Anne Lamott\u003cbr\u003eI’d really like someone to blame, but...\u003cbr\u003eHe loves me! He loves me again!\u003cbr\u003eI go to Cuba and write another book\u003cbr\u003eDo you think this is true?\u003cbr\u003eI come back from Cuba and have an identity crisis\u003cbr\u003eLet us make one thing easier for you\u003cbr\u003eReading Sylvia Plath when you’re existentially angsting is a TERRIBLE idea\u003cbr\u003eI decide to do nothing\u003cbr\u003eWhen all else fails, consult Cheryl Strayed\u003cbr\u003eI don’t have a clue how to do that\u003cbr\u003eSteve Jobs gives me some advice on being naked... and dead\u003cbr\u003eI hate writers\u003cbr\u003eWhy we like having sex with artists\u003cbr\u003eWhat do you mean you want instructions?\u003cbr\u003eYou know what I just realized? This is also my coming out monologue\u003cbr\u003eSo then I go to this conference and everything changes...\u003cbr\u003eGloria Steinem told me...\u003cbr\u003eMaybe there was something in the water\u003cbr\u003eBONUS: Why writing and reading erotica and romance is important\u003cbr\u003eA very useful APPENDIX\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"M. Jane Colette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177238413552,"sku":"2940154043400","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940154043400_p0.jpg?v=1764062676","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940154043400","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}