Bad Canadian sex in print
I’ve bitten into the first erotica book of my CanLit challenge. Bitten, I say because this is vampire erotica. It is also a romance novel, a scientific mystery / conspiracy, and characters with exotic names such as Rio, Valian, Simaron, and Chancella.
I wasn’t sure what to expect with this one. I checked the author’s website and discovered that Susan Phelan has two other books in her The Blood Tapestry series and the other two covers feature shirtless hunks. Go to Susan.phelan[dot]com and also take a look at this Canadian author’s blog.
I was quick to nab this book while at Audreys Books in Edmonton in August. I asked the ever-friendly staff to recommend local erotica authors. They sent me to the Gay and Lesbian corner which was loaded with Ivan Coyote et al. I asked for some hetro erotica, by Canadian authors. There was all sorts of smut written by everyone-but-us.
I made my way to the front desk and asked for local authors – period. Turns out, there is no section for local authors, however, there are a few shelves for authors that had come by for a reading or signing and left some autographed copies behind. Eureka! But 3/4 of the books were by Toronto authors.
I snooped and snooped and snooped and presto discovered a signed copy of Susan Phelan’s The Cure – complete with local author sticker and sex in almost every chapter.
And now I offer it up in a new contest. By October 31 please tell us about the WORST sex scene in CanLit or in a Canadian story. Stories by Canadians don’t count if the sex hasn’t occurred in Canada. Short stories count – of course – and heck, why not poetry too? Ok, bad Canadian sex in Canadian books. Let’s hear it.
Tags: Audreys Books in Edmonton, Canadian author’s blog, Canadian Book Challenge, WORST sex scene in CanLit
October 16th, 2009 at 9:00 am
not too sure about this one. I don’t find the bad scenes that memorable so I don’t remember them. I posted this on the ‘BookBlog.com’ to the Canadian blogger group, so perhaps they’ll come up with something.
November 11th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Hi Kathleen,
Thanks for the book. I hadn’t read anything by Susan before. I rather enjoyed it and have reviewed it on my blog, Was the perfect foil to recovering from H1N1. Got the blood moving. My daughter tried to pick it up to read, but she’s only 13 so I had to snatch it back from her. Will be loaning this out to my sister and another friend or two. Its my 6th read for the Canadian Book Challenge.