Hannibal by Bryan Fuller_Such subtly delicious scripts, performances and editing.

[Spoilers: last show of first season. Watch the entire season! Television at its finest.]
http://www.hulu.com/watch/503311#play-queued-show-by-original_premiere_date-asc

All Along the Watchtower: Submerged by Neale Sourna [romantic erotica, historical fantasy short story / novel excerpt]

from Book One

General Prince Consort anahk Tor was a hard, dangerous man, among a standing army of thousands of hard, dangerous men, but he was, nevertheless, impaled in the most tender part of him from the first moments of the formal evening meal, with the newly arrived young Tar-Rus princeling, Rüsj­ma­ha­dan, for “an official consult of great import” about the prince’s impending marriage.

And the prince’s consult was with the powerful Shaman Prime of The Children of The Great Mare, Princess Dara.

My Dara, thought Tor, no, rather Tor felt—My Dara—to his deepest core, as this . . . boy encroached upon that sure feeling, but Tor was not absolutely certain how, and needed to be absolutely certain, with the double wax seal still fresh upon the new peace treaty between his king and Her Queen, and his recent love joining with Dara, the royal heir.

There was a difference in dialect with Rüsj­ma­ha­dan’s entourage, and so Tor missed the subtle, idiomatic, and sly, humorous meanings of what the young prince’s visit was fully about.

The reason sometimes clearly embarrassed the young man, yet always he appeared honoured and deferential to Dara, intimately so; in a man to woman fashion, in a new lover to new lover fashion.

That sort of thing anahk Tor, better know as “The Destroyer of Nations,” would notice. http://stories.neale-sourna.com/Watchtower1_submerged.html

Three—By Invitation Only by Neale Sourna [erotic short story]

Three—By Invitation Only by Neale Sourna

I watched them flirting for an hour or more, and was starting to get a seriously impatient hard-on, the kind you need to shoot off, in the proper setting—buried deep in her exquisite, humid pleasure mine.

I was past my limit for waiting. Which I hate, and she knows it.

It’d been two whole days, and nights (which is long for us).

“Hiatuses are good”, she says.

I say, “Hiatus bad, fucking Sandy till she whimpers and gasps, is good. Real good.”

Before, at home, she’d cracked her dressing door open, while we’d gotten ready, separately; that’s so I can’t touch her.

“It’d ruin the game, of anticipation,” she says.

However, I may watch her dress, stepping into stilettos, slinking into a shapely silk dress. Beneath that, her glorious skin only. No underwear, usually, not when we go hunting; just fruit oils, different scents and flavors, massaged all over her highly responsive body, while in front of the full length, triple mirror; my gift....[more]

HOBBLE by Neale Sourna, award winning Best of Year romantic erotica, romantic novels

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My baby, HOBBLE [An Adult Novel], has won an award: Best of Year in Romantic Erotica, Romantic Novels. Yippee and huzzah!!
 
What a surprise! Thank you so much. It looks "mahhhvelous," don't you think? Thank you, Dolores Thornton, thank you, BlackRefer.com, for this sehr tres cool honor. -- Neale

A very SATISFYING Novel about Love and Sexual Obsession, and Trust.

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Picture Larger HOBBLE [An Adult Novel], Catalog/Buy Half Native American medical professional BENNET GILLESPIE'S "off track" life dangerously spirals, as his compulsive and sexual, love entanglement with DAY, a "knife-happy" African American "innocent", and her overbearing, elderly British "guardian/stepfather" threatens to cost Benn more than his life.    Is Benn falling in love or is he just "having the hottest sex" he's ever had with the luscious, hot young cripple with the childlike and homicidal mind? Will Benn take her away, before her stepfather, who's sexin' his stepdaughter, keeping her as his sex slave, sends her back to lockdown, far from Benn? Or before the girl takes matters into her own hands, and kills, again? [Fiction / Adult Fiction / Adult Erotica / Explicit / Erotica for Women / Dark Sensual Romance / Erotica / Dark Romantic Erotica / Dark Romantica™ / Paranormal / Psychological Erotica / Spiritual Erotica / Multiracial / Interracial / Literary Fiction] Benn:"Sex with Day is fun, exciting, and risky. It's not just her and me. She has another lover, too, her stepfather, who hates me, but needs me, because beautiful Day needs me; and does what I say. I can go anywhere, have anyone, but still this childlike woman holds me here." Day: "I need Benn, and I love Benn. I'll tell the world and show the world I want him, and that makes him want me more; my open, shameless, prideless need and desire for him. He's a player and I know it, but that's exactly what I need, to get away. From him, from Hoppy." Hopkins: "The boy thinks he can take her away, but he can't, she's my property, and if he tries, I'll sic the law on him. But, curse him, he must remain, I must keep him here, with us, to let her seduce him, over and over again, and drive him mad, until he burns like a sinner on fire in Hell, just like me; because this foul triangle of sex and madness and wrong hopes, secures her more to me, than anything I ever did to her before, and certainly more than if he were gone." BUY "Hobble" by Phone 877-BUY-BOOK [877-289-2665] CHECK or CHARGE!! Trade Paperback (retail and wholesale) Phone Buy and Online READ First Chapter Excerpt , The Dangerous and Sexy Part of First Chapter, Plot Paragraph Excerpts, yes--more Character Psychology & Sexual Twists, and Adults only -- XXX Excerpts [Fiction / Adult Fiction / Explicit / Dark Sensual Romance / Erotica / Dark Romantic Erotica / Dark Romantica™ / Paranormal / Psychological Erotica / Spiritual Erotica / Multiracial / Interracial / Literary Fiction] BY PHONE 1-877-BUY-BOOK [1-877-289-2665] CHECK or CHARGE!! Barnes Noble BN.com, Borders.com AND Waldenbooks/Brentano's, and more.... Wholesale Orders: Infinity Publishing, Ingrams/Lightning Source Available Retail, too, as Trade Paperback and ebook formats: Adobe Reader (PDF / EPUB), Palm, MobiPocket, Amazon Kindle, MSReader (cancelled by Microsoft) Printed Novel eBook download "Dipping into several genres from erotica to mystery, even sprinkling a little comedy into the mix, Sourne created a story like no other. This ... tale had me shaking my head in astonishment and I can honestly say I never read anything like Hobble before. Sourne wrote a novel with such a large supply of twist and turns it'll have you dropping your mouth in shock. But be forewarned, Hobble has a crazy mix of characters.... Some of the sex scenes had me (a person who loves erotica) squirming. Although the book is racy, it was an interesting read and should be picked up by anyone who enjoys reading something different from the norm." --Joy Farringdon, Nubian Sistas Review READ Full Review "Hobble is a story of lust and obsessive sex...I was so moved...I went back to my (Franklin) dictionary...hobble means to limp along ... to impede ... to tie-up, shackle or leash...all of [which] were used in this steamy story, of sex, incest and betrayal!"--Delores Thornton, www.BlackRefer.com Reviews READ Delores' full review [A www.BlackRefer.com Review] * * * More Reviews * * * INTERVIEWS for you to HEAR and READ at PIE: Percept.com FREE Audio or at http://www.authorsden.com/nealesourna Download [MP3 & zipped .WAV] * * * READ Jordan Duke of ScriptCLEVELAND'S written informative INTERVIEW: Jan 2003, Neale Sourna's HOBBLE Handsome JD's HOBBLE rating: "compelling", "very sensual & spicy", "a terribly sexy, erotic, and guy friendly, um, romance". http://catalog.neale-sourna.com/ Find NEW erotic stories online from YOUR WRITER Neale Sourna, for Kindle, Kobo, IPad, and more. 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From BigThink.com_Why Women Should Write Screenplays by Andrea Chalupa June 27, 2013

Picture from film Thelma and Louise by Callie Khouri

This week, Business Insider wrote about a study reporting the sad news that women are just not selling screenplays at the rate of men. In fact, they’re grossly being left out of misogynistic Hollywood:

According to Suzana Orozco’s analysis of recent sales of spec scripts — scripts written with no deal in place (hence speculative) — women make up a smaller percentage of those sales than any time in the last two decades.

While the spec script market as a whole has cooled from its heyday of the mid-1990s, the impact on female writers has been even more severe.

Between 1991 and 2000, women accounted for 14 percent of spec script sales.  The numbers remained high in 2001, 2002 and 2003 as women sold more than 20 spec scripts each year.

Since then the bottom has fallen out (see the chart below). Only three times — 2004, 2007 and 2009 — have female scribes sold more than 10 percent of specs. Female writers sold the same number of scripts in 2001 as they did in 2011 and 2012 combined.

Between 2010 and 2012, the last three full years this has been measured, scripts written by women constituted just 9 percent of sales. [Emphasis mine.]

Why so low? The usual suspects (pun intended) have been blamed: women like to write romantic comedies—a genre that isn’t in high demand in a Hollywood ruled by epic futuristic apocalyptic space action adventures.

And there’s also the problem that, in Hollywood, the prevailing dogma is that it takes a famous actor, not a famous actress, to get a movie funded. So it’s largely assumed that women screenwriters want to write about women protagonists—and who’s going to want that script? It’s difficult to fund. Actresses don’t sell movies. (Ironically, Calli Khouri’s Academy Award-winning screenplay for Thelma & Louise is held up in screenwriting classes as the gold standard.)

A few years ago, I took on the quixotic journey of writing a screenplay. I was motivated to do so because the story—a Soviet thriller—was inspired by my beloved grandfather’s memoir and the stories he used to tell me about surviving Stalin’s famine in Ukraine that starved to death millions. So I was on a mission. 

Eventually, after years of hard work and rejection, my script was finally optioned—“rented” for a few years—to an Academy Award-winning production company.

Along the way, I met other women who wrote screenplays. Tellingly, none of them wrote romantic comedies. 

They were writing historical dramas driven by complicated male protagonists, gruesome horror stories, dark comedies staring serial killers, and stoner comedies. In fact, I also met quite a few macho straight men who were passionate about writing romantic comedies.

The point is that it’s not the subject matter that’s keeping women screenwriters out of the Hollywood system. Not at all. Anyone who believes that is ignorant.

The study also said that “women have better luck selling books and TV shows than film spec scripts,” according to Business Insider. Why is that? For years women have had role models to look up to in literature and television: from Jane Austen to Marcy Carsey (Roseanne; That 70s Show) to Marcy Kauffman (Friends; Dream On) and Tina Fey. 

There are certainly famous women screenwriters working today; Diablo Codey and Brit Marling come to mind. But they're the minority, according to this latest research.

For those aspiring to break into an industry it makes a big difference if you can see “your kind” already achieving great things in that industry. It’s classic identity formation psychology. When we see others like us—in my case, other female screenwriters—succeeding, then it seems more likely that I can navigate and succeed in that industry. 

Unfortunately, I was writing a historical thriller—a genre dominated by old white men, often old British white men. This only fueled my conviction that I had to succeed with my script. My project became not only driven by my love for my late grandfather, but also my desire to help other women.

My education of becoming a screenwriter consisted of reading countless scripts. The vast majority were written by white men. When I studied to become a journalist and a book writer, I had a far more diverse education. Isn’t it time that women and people of color sold some scripts? And isn't it time that producers around the world helped them?

by Andrea Chalupa

This is self-publishing [author publishing]! The Joy of Cooking

Still in print since 1931!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joy_of_Cooking

Joy of Cooking, often known as "The Joy of Cooking", is one of the United States' most-published cookbooks, and has been in print continuously since 1936 and with more than 18 million copies sold. It was privately published in 1931 by Irma S. Rombauer, a homemaker in St. Louis, Missouri, who was struggling emotionally and financially after her husband's suicide the previous year.

Rombauer had 3,000 copies printed by A.C. Clayton, a company which had printed labels for fancy St. Louis shoe companies and for Listerine, but never a book. In 1936, the book was picked up by a commercial printing house, the Bobbs-Merrill Company. Joy is the backbone of many home cooks' libraries and is commonly found in commercial kitchens as well.

The Joy of Cooking
Cover of 1975 edition
Author(s)	Irma S. Rombauer
Genre(s)	Cookbook
Publisher	Bobbs-Merrill, Scribner
Publication date	1931
ISBN	0-02-604570-2
OCLC Number	1444322