Writers don't edit...

"Writers don't edit. They try to re-write." ~ Anny Cook - http://www.annycook.com

Right, I don’t give a crap who disagrees with this….but every time I get an editor who is also I writer I know its going to be a pukeable experience. Why? See Anny’s quote. They try to re-write your story. It’s my story. Not yours – bugger off. I don’t even know how another writer can be objective. And what experience do these writer-editors have other than they read a book on editing once? Do I need an editor? Hell yes – but I want a professional who actually knows what the hell they are doing. I want a professional who understands grammar and the need to keep a writer’s voice intact. I want someone I can have faith in. I don’t want to sit and continuously click ‘reject deletion’ to get my words and thoughts back. Writer-editors…publishing gone mad or more a sign of the times when companies cut costs and settle for less in their staff?

Amarinda Jones
Penn Halligan
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Caution…hot – handle with care.

A sneak peak at Take Me, Make Me - © Amarinda Jones 2010 – under contract
***Totally unedited – to be released in June 2010 with Noble Publishing…pure erotica…

Millicent Bradley would have cried out loud as the cock slammed into her ass but for the fact she was sucking on another dick. She held on tight to the muscular thighs in front of her as she swirled her tongue around the head of the cock as she sucked. Millicent loved sucking dicks. Size was not an issue. Any cock was a good cock to her. It was the most liberating feeling in the world having a man totally at her mercy knowing that her mouth, for that moment, controlled him. She groaned against the dick between her lips. The grinding pain in her ass was wicked. It was hot and brutally hard in an exquisite kind of way that made her ram her butt back against the man who was fucking her with no regard for anything but his own pleasure. Her knees shook and her body trembled. It would take so little for her to fall in a heap and allow the two men to plough their dicks into her any way they wanted. She was after all totally at the command of another.
“Don’t you dare fall,” ordered a harsh, monotone voice.
Millicent shook her head. Her eyes cut to a third man who watched them. He was in charge. She knew the dark haired man only as Captain. He was the one she had sold herself to. Only he knew why she was there. Only he could give her what she needed.
“She has pretty breasts,” murmured a feminine voice.
“Yes, she does and you can taste them later.”
The other woman giggled. “And her pussy?”
“Will be yours when I say so.”
Millicent gagged slightly. She had forgotten the woman was there watching them. The Captain chuckled. He knew Millicent had specifically requested no women and that she ‘wasn’t that way inclined.’ But clearly her wishes meant nothing. This was his game. Millicent had to go along with it. She was his until midnight.

Who is the Captain? His story is coming soon….

Amarinda Jones
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I was so going to do him...

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Say NO to female genital mutilation

Doctors consider 'less severe' female circumcision - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Wrong, wrong, wrong - cutting into someone for some half arsed reason - religion or otherwise - is wrong and I don't care what other countries are 'thinking' of doing this. We need and must say NO to it in Australia. It's against all principles of human rights and equality. It makes me so so angry...say NO to female genital mutilation

Amarinda Jones
Penn Halligan
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Rubber choices...

A man has been arrested in Australia for knowingly passing on the HIV virus to multiple sexual partners - and so he should have been arrested. In my view he has deliberately ruined women's lives for his own sexual gratification. I believe long handled, sharp bladed shears should be applied liberally to a certain part of his anatomy as a lesson. But that's me. I have my own idea of justice in things like this. They have been asking women who may have had sex with this man to come forward to be tested. Hmmm...while I absolutely agree condoms should be used for unprotected casual sex, clearly people still don't despite all the advertising. Look at these women - and, regardless what any of us believe, it’s their choice. You can’t make people do things unless you have a gun trained on them at the crucial moment…

This news story does interests me in the fact that some publishers lose the freaking plot if you write a romance/erotic romance book without condoms the minute there's an erection - unless a writer goes into a deep, usually convoluted reason why it is physiologically impossible for bodily fluids to pass from one character to another. Fair enough. That’s their call. But I ask this - if there are people having random non protected sex, and they read books, do you think they're going to take on board a long involved description on non possible body fluids swapping or give a crap that a writer has tried to write a condom putting on scene as hot and romantically as possible bearing in mind they’re dealing with a rubber tube? I think not. They’re still going to do what they’re gonna do. Do publishers have a moral obligation? Hmmmm…not sure on that. I do know none of us can pass judgment on another and just because you or I decree condoms must be in a book it doesn’t make it so in real life.

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Amarinda Jones
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The age of love…

A friend rang and told me she was in love. I was happy for her. It’s nice to hear good news for a change. She told me she never thought it would happen to her due to her age. She’s in her mid 50’s. Hmmm…interesting. I wasn’t aware that only a certain age demographic could fall in love. Is that a well known theory?

Then I thought about it some more and I realized romance writers always – 98.6% of the time I reckon – based on furphy Amarinda stats - write about only ‘younger’ people falling in love. Why do we do that? Is it because we write to a market that believes only 20 - 35 year olds can find romance? Are we perpetuating the whole what age someone can fall in love thing? When did we all start being surprised an older person could fall in love? Maybe we need to get out more and look at life and the people around us. Maybe TV shows and movies need to be based more in real life age and not Hollywood age. Me? I’m not surprised what anyone does anymore.

Amarinda Jones
Penn Halligan
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Angels among us...

I went to the doctor’s today to have some skin cancers burnt off – not an unusual occurrence if you live in Australia. The sun can tear the hide right off you. Anyway, Fairy Floss – my doctor – so called because she is very new age and existential – did said burning. To stop me swearing as she was doing it – I really wanted to swear when the one on my temple was done – she started talking about angels. No, my life is not normal neither are the people in it but I like that. She said to me ‘are you aware you are one of the angels greatest achievements?' My response? “Jeez I’d hate to see a mediocre attempt by them.”

Despite being a heathen atheist, which I enjoy as it allows me to do a lot of stuff guilt free, I do believe in angels and I agreed with her that those beings do push people into our paths when we need them the most, no matter how much we push them away. Just a shame the angels insist on painful Dr’s appointments to remind us of stuff like this…little buggers...

Amarinda Jones
Penn Halligan
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www.amarindajones.blogspot.com