Find Me in NYC
Posted By lantoniou on June 18, 2013
I’m not traveling far from home this summer, but that doesn’t mean I’m not keeping busy. I’m definitely writing, but I’m also doing a few readings, and a couple of special classes, all in New York City.
- Thursday, June 27th. I’m joining my co-conspirator Midori for another of our one-of-a-kind workshops on protocol. We’ll be teaching the class in a private Soho loft,and seating is limited, so reserve your space now.
- Friday, July 19th. I’m joining a line-up of hot authors at Bluestockings, including author/editors Sacchi Green and D.L. King, and fellow authors Angel Propps, Charlotte Dare, and Aimee Herman.
- Friday, August 2nd. A Marketplace Extravaganza evening at Between The Covers Reading Series. There will be special guest readers from the Marketplace FanFiction Collection, “No Safewords,” including D.L. King, david stein, and others. I’ll also be reading snippets from the upcoming Marketplace novel, “The Inheritor.”
- Saturday, August 24th. I’m joining Clinical Sexologist and and life coach Dr. Charley Ferrar as a special guest lecturer during her three-day writing intensive, “BDSM For Writers.”
So if you’re visiting the Big Apple, or you’re a local looking for something to distract you for a few hours, check out these opportunities!
Summer is a great time to relax, re-organize, and re-energize. I’m doing a bit of that this year, while I take the summer off from travel to write, relax, and write some more. My goal is to finish Book Six in the Marketplace Series, “The Inheritor,” by the end of this year. And while I write, I’ll be dropping some tidbits here, on my website, for folks who like to read how the book is progressing.
My whirlwind, multi-city, multi-country, multi-continent(!) tour with The Killer Wore Leather is drawing to a close. Ever since February, I’ve been pretty much on the road non-stop for over 40 appearances! I’ve traveled from Providence to Washington, DC, from Vancouver BC to Seattle, Denver to Chicago, San Francisco, to Dallas, then on to Australia to Sydney, Adelaide and Canberra; back to Chicago and down to Tampa. As Madeleine Kahn sings in Blazing Saddles, “I’M TIRED!”
I’m back from a wonderful trip to International Mister Leather Contest, surrounded by thousands of leathermen, and celebrating kink and fun. And selling books, of course! Not only did a number of current and former leather titleholders stop by to get personalized copies, and Northbound Leather in Toronto now has a bunch of autographed copies – so tell your Canadian friends!
It’s time for me to return to Chicago, and to the 
from Cleis Press: This Monday, May 20th, publishing legends Judith Regan and Laura Antoniou tackle the mystery of the popularity of 50 Shades of Grey, and the reverberating effects on erotic fiction. They will be appearing in person at Barnes and Noble (Broadway) in New York, and on the Joy Behar: Say Anything! show at 9pm Eastern time.
I think the mainstream media “discovers” kinky sex every 10 years or so. I have seen the furor over Anne Rice’s Beauty books back when she wrote them under the name “A. N. Roquelaure” & Exit to Eden, which she wrote as “Anne Rampling.” Then there was Nine and a Half Weeks, by Ingeborg Day writing as Elizabeth McNeill, and Meeting the Master, by Elissa Wald, writing as… herself, actually. Every single time, the media clutched its collective pearls and wondered how feminists would respond, hastened to assure us all that it’s OK to have fantasies of submission, and did cute little sidebar stories on an occasional SM club or leather bar or sex toy shop. And then they forgot about kinky until the next one rolled to the top of the media haystack.– Me, in 
A Sydney fan writes:
The first part of my “Killer World Tour” has been fantastic. My week in San Francisco was filled with friends and sunshine, and the weekend in Dallas teaching with world-renown sex educator Midori was wonderful.
I am having a great time in San Francisco – from the fabulous weather to the great turnouts at my