Eroticon 2014

So It was a fabulous weekend, well, after the longest, slowest train journey in history! Made much more betterer by being with my lovely hubby Kev Blisse and my fellow Northern Bird, Lucy Felthouse. After a few minutes to change and catch breath I took Kev, the honorary Brit Babe, to meet the others. 7 of the 8 of us found ourselves in Bristol in Lily’s room in fact. Kev was in paradise with 7 girls hugging and squeezing him and giggling and being wonderfully girly.

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I gave out some pressies to all assembled, Lily Harlem, Lucy Felthouse (mentioned before!), Lexie Bay, Tabitha Rayne, KD Grace and Kay Jaybee containing brit babes goodies and a little authorly note pad. We donned our Brit Babes Badges and headed up to the very smart and sexy Browns for some delicious food and wonderful chatter.

Which meant we never got to the meet and greet -oops. However, after night of pretty good sleep and a tasty breakfast we hit Armada house and got Eroticon going!

Smily smutters

I helped Kev set up the smutty book stall, said hello to lots of people and got well and truly giddy and excited.
After the opening session on censorship (which was eye-opening) I stayed in for Ashley Lister‘s session on formula. He’s an absolute star and the session sparked much inspiration including the idea for an interesting anthology!

Ashley Lister

After lunch me and KD were up. If you want more on our Sex and Spirituality session check out this separate post on it that I put up for My Weekly Walk.

Lucy and books

After that I stayed with the smutty books, my hubby and the northern bird and chatted with all kind of smutty folk, like the Badge-bearing Zak Jane Kier who made us awesome Smutty badges which everyone wanted!

smutbadges

And I’m ordering more for smut by the sea, so all smutsters can have one. After all the eroticon fun we went off for a delicious meal on a huge table which ended up hosting many more people than first expected as we Brit babes are a friendly bunch and kept inviting more folks to come with us to enjoy the meal!

BB table(03-12-12-21-29)

And after food we made a quick change into our best frocks (Kev’s was too short so I made him put on his suit instead) we headed off to the Elephant Bar for a cocktail party. Thanks to the lovely Cara Sutra (who I didn’t speak to enough, damn time, running out like that!) for this really lovely pic of the Smutters taking a break from planning world domination!

smut cocktails

We, having a 2 hour session to present, went off relatively early for a good night’s kip. I was very chirpy Sunday morning, much to many people’s annoyance! I started the day well by sitting in on Lucy and Kay’s Short story to novel session. I’ve written novels, but their advice was still really useful for me.

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Up to lunch-and I know I talked to loads of folks and I should list you all (‘cos you rock) but I’m really crap with names at the best of time and I know I’ll show myself up. However, if you talked to me, I had fun. Thanks!-I spent time getting organised and talking all ready for the Smut talk in the afternoon.

House of Erotica attended the Sunday and it was lovely chatting to Sara and Paul, plotting plots and making plans for the future. They’re truly a very supportive publisher, I’m very grateful for all they do for me, Kev, Lucy and Smut as a whole.

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The Blisse Guide to Smut was a raring success because I had a team of crack smutmigos helping out.

smutmigos

It was a fun afternoon, including Kay Jaybee’s bag of inspiration:

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And after Smut we had to run, to get to the train station in time for our lift back north. I wish I’d had more time to find everyone and give’em a proper hug. So if you didn’t get one, count this as yours:

owl hug

Thanks muchly to the Eroticon Mistress Ruby Kiddell for putting it all together and keeping it there!

Now roll on Smut by the Sea