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Just got home. We’re here about long enough to do laundry and have a night in our own bed, then back out. We did Richmond, Virginia last night. The crowd was wonderful. The quote for the night has to be the woman who said, “That we were the hottest thing to hit Richmond since the civil war.” We took it as the compliment it was. We got so many presents in Richmond that we had to have our media escort ship stuff home. Thanks guys. We actually got two questions in the Q and A that we’d not had before. One was why doesn’t Anita like women, as in like-like. Honestly, it’s because I forget that women are potential sex objects. I am just terribly heterosexual, so I notice men, but women just don’t hit my radar. As a writer I see it as a deficit. I even went out to the mall with Jon and said, show me how to look at women, but we discovered that our taste in women is too different. Women he thought were cute just didn’t do it for me, and women I was willing to say were cute didn’t do it for him, so it wasn’t very useful. I am trying to add more women to the Anita series in the current book I’m working on, but sadly, the women are probably never going to get the loving description that the men do. My apologies.
The other question we got was how do I come up with all those sex scenes. Truthfully, I’m going to have to think about that one for a while. I mean to me it’s not an effort to come up with the scenes. Once you know your characters you just have to think how they would make love, what they would do during sex. Your sex scenes should be different when you’re with different people. Personality isn’t something that just happens before you get into bed and then afterwards. The person you are is very much there in bed with you, or should be on paper and in real life. I think that’s one of the reasons I’ve never done causal sex, it’s never just the physical that interests me. I have to know someone before the idea of sleeping with them appeals to me. I think this is the same with the characters. I have to know them, know their history, and something about who they really are before they get that chance on stage with Anita.
Gotta go and finish packing. I started this blog when we landed two days ago. Now I’m finishing it as we get to go back on a plane. Sigh. I look forward to seeing everyone on the West Coast and in Vegas, but damn, the travel is hard. But the weight training has really helped the arm. So far I can do about 140 to 170 without icing it. So let’s hear it for exercise. See everybody out west.