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Prude: lessons on love, sex, and writing from memoirist Emily Southwood

A Q & A with the author on what she learned when her fiancé filmed porn.

by Shawn Alff December 6, 2013March 13, 2025

A Q & A with the author on what she learned when her fiancé filmed porn.

‘Shawn Alff’ makes a cameo in the BDSM romance novel, Stare Me Down

What happened when I gave Riley Murphy permission to use me as a character in her latest book

by Shawn Alff May 28, 2013July 21, 2025

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Rewriting romance with bay area BDSM author, Riley Murphy

by Shawn Alff October 30, 2012July 22, 2025

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On the Island: How Tracey Garvis Graves’s romance novel survived the barren literary seas

by Shawn Alff July 30, 2012August 3, 2023

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Sports reporter, Roxanne Wilder, moonlights as the chick lit author of, In the Stars

by Shawn Alff July 18, 2012August 2, 2025

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Magic men: confessions of two male strippers

“If you look stupid on stage, women will be too embarrassed to tip you.”

by Shawn Alff June 28, 2012July 22, 2025

Writing the young-adult novel: What about the sex?

by Al Musitano September 7, 2009August 17, 2023

Charlie Crist Romance Novel: The Governor’s Mistress – Chapter 3 – My date with Governor C.

by Heidi Lux June 25, 2009August 17, 2023

Charlie Crist Romance Novel: The Governor’s Mistress – Chapter 2 – How I met Governor “C”

by Heidi Lux June 15, 2009August 17, 2023