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I was there, against the wall, half naked, pinned down by a hot and sweaty gorgeous man, when I got to the city and had to stop writing to get to work.

It didn’t help that the first person I saw was ‘him’, the man himself, the one I was using.

I don’t believe in the concept of ‘using’ people anymore, at least not among consenting adults in a free society. But in this case, I was using this man’s body and if I’m lucky he will never know.

For either many or no reasons at all, we will probably never have any real thing and his personality is very different from my fiction. My erotica.

On my pages he is adventurous, daring and ends up having sex with this woman. The problem with me is that it took me three days to write it.

Early mornings, lunch times and evenings and yet, at each needed break it was as if I was there, in a movie, being pleasured and paused. I was working and shopping and sleeping with half my soul, the other half stuck in the scene I was creating.

That morning, seeing the inspiration in real life, made me swallow with difficulty, my heart racing, my mouth dry.  My desire was to say ‘excuse me’, reach out, pull his shirt out of his trousers unbutton it from the bottom up but only until it reached his chest, open the shirt passing both hands around his chest reaching for the back, then lifting the left side and looking at his back, seeing for the first time his tattoo without the layer of a t-shirt. Then bending, touching my lips to the tattoo, leaking it and planting a kiss on the inked skin.

After that, just coming back up, looking inside his eyes, buttoning it all up and putting it to right, inside his trousers, preferably brushing against his (hopefully) hard member. Turning around and going back to work as if nothing had happened.

But that was just another fantasy, luckily this one only lasted a split second.

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Great Sex is Reason Enough is free for one day at Amazon again. I am happy to say the first promotion was a success and 110 people got the book.
One guy said it is bad, one woman said it is great who will you agree with? Make your own mind, find your own answers.
Get the book now and write a review.
I will appreciate no matter what you think of the book.
I have all the reasons why I’ve done it right:

•  I have done it for love and nothing else
• I would have done it anyway, and will never regret it
• I was thorough, thinking about it, taking feedback, correcting it and contracting proof-readers
• It is well written

If the content is not to someone’s liking, even the form, or the writing, I don’t mind, because it was done with care, to the best of my abilities.

My love and inspiration to you all.

Aphrodite Fatoz

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This is one of the biggest fears of anyone who writes and one of the most powerful reasons many people write and never publish: The negative feedback, the monster under the bed.

I received one, the first one also, and the only one for a while, on my first published book at Amazon. It broke my heart, but you know what? I survived it.

In a sense the reviewer was absolutely right in all he said about my book “Great Sex is Reason Enough”. He argues that it is a book about paragraph-length thoughts and they are disconnected. That describes the book perfectly. The book is a collection of ideas, all turning around sex, the importance of it in a relationship, and being brave to really assess if a relationship is bound to continue succeeding with or without good sex.

The connection of what I have written is mostly “between the lines” and not spelled out. I think people who have been in a relationship where an unsatisfactory sexual life is present will understand it better. My reviewer may have been one very happy man, or so unhappy he is unable to connect the dots, I couldn’t say for sure.

He also wrote that my reasoning is flawed. I think and write that having happy thoughts through the day would help a person having a happier sexual life. He advocates something to the effect of “try saying to a mother who has lost her child to cancer to think happy thoughts”.

My question when I read this was: “why would a mother who has lost a child be reading a book called Great Sex is Reason Enough?” I would think she would be reading about the grieving process, not about sex. On the other hand, if after losing a child – not immediately of course, but months or years later – a person doesn’t start to think about sex, or about her or his partner, or even about happy thoughts, the relationship will probably die with the child, a reality as cruel as the death of the baby itself, but real none the less.

In any way I realised that yes, I received a one-star review, and my conclusion was “the book was not for him”. I have also understood that I would have written the book anyway, and published it exactly as it is, and loved it with the proud heart of an Author, no matter what.

It is not for everyone, it is not a well behaved book, it has strange notions and feeble connections, but I bet there are people out there who will love it, who will learn from it and who will share my enthusiasm. Even if they never put a review there, I believe in my Art.

Read the book and put your review, let me know what you think!

www.amazon.com/dp/B00CNVZFRW

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I have released a new book on Amazon ‘Great Sex is Reason Enough‘. It is free for two days. It came to me like bouts of nausea; I would wake up from daily life to vomit them on paper. It gave me no choice, it would wake me during the night, assault me at work. I had to carry pen and paper everywhere.

One day I went to the post office and saw myself seated on the curb, my back against a tree trunk, like a five year old doing homework. My little notebooks got filled, sometimes there was not enough space so I had to write on my hands.

Driving I recorded ideas on the phone…

The produce was as badly behaved as was the way it got to me. Words with no respect, politically incorrect, invading any relationships, crossing boundaries and being rude.

I have been through a divorce, after decades of a committed-almost-celibacy I was thrown into the pond of single life, practically without knowing how to swim. Since then, I have faced infidelity, mine and from partners and discovered a world where so many friends are in crisis in their relationships.

At the core of all problems one issue stood out: Sex.

This book is a book of thoughts, small paragraphs with what I have learnt, my lessons and breakthroughs. What I noticed from my experience and those around me. There is no escaping Sex. If you don’t create a fulfilling sexual life in your relationship, most probably it will not last or it will create a conflicted and painful existence.

To give you an idea of what ‘Great Sex is Reason Enough’ is about, here is an extract:

“Extraordinary Sex Beats Perfection If you and your partner are in a perfect relationship, except in bed, with all the reasons why you should stay together and someone comes along offering chemistry and extraordinary sex, all those reasons will lose every time.

It may not be enough to end the relationship but you will doubt whether you’re with the right person; you will entrap your soul. Temptation and extraordinary sex are always trying to find a way into our lives.”

The book will be free at Amazon this weekend. I ask you to buy it and review it.

The promotion should start any minute now, Amazon is not very precise. It is scheduled to be free from the first minute of Saturday, Standard Pacific Time. This means from 5pm in Sydney, 3am in New York, 5am in London.

Reviews are very precious to writers, write one for my book and I will be eternally grateful.

 

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The excuse was to raise money for the Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife, but what I really wanted was participate in this fantastic adventure where over 1000 people shed their outer skins to reveal what was underneath.
It was a swim for liberty, as the main purpose was to push people out of their comfort zones. Even though I am a frequenter of naturalist’s events, this one was special. For one there is a crowd of outsiders that pushes the sensation of being among my own farther than usual. Therefore even I was pushed outside my comfort zone.
Also, I had never adventured too far from the shore when undressed somehow exposing your parts to the depth is scarier than swimming in the shallow.
Another interesting sensation was the water passing between my legs, my thighs, and my lips. The lower ones, it gave me kind of a frisson. I love swimming breast stroke and with such a name for the style I could not think of anything more appropriate than swimming it in the undressed condition.
Though a few days before the swim this preference caused me to almost drown. I was training for the swim in a pool, with a proper bathing suit, of course. In front of me another lady swam her breast stroke and I looked at her… covered… well, flower. I realised If she had been naked I would see her flower perfectly and started laughing. Even though I was swimming I couldn’t control the laugh bubbling up and me bubbling down swallowing water. I had to stop, laugh, then continue to swim thinking people were probably going to see my fanny, and maybe, my uterus, during the swim.
So when I was swimming it was a relief to be a bit far from the next swimmer in front and behind. That is, until a man swam over me, gliding over my body with so much contact I thought I was going to end up pregnant on his way out (or in). A pity it wasn’t one of the boys from the support team. There must have been around 15 of them, most around the 30’s, I would be happy with any one (or various of them) for some fun. A shame they were all dressed those ones, they shouldn’t have been, it would be a much better view if they had stuck to the spirit of the event.
All in all it was a great swim, except for the part that every reflex of sunshine in my goggles made me think there was a shark underneath just out of my peripheral vision, all the rest was great.

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