There is no short version of this. If you bore easily, you might want to skip this. After the success of Fifty Shades of Grey, an old friend reached me through Facebook and dared me to write about my experiences using the Personal Ads in those little throw away papers that existed before the internet. So I wrote accounts of most of the twenty plus women I met that way and some of the sort of spin-off?s that came from them. One of them made me wonder what would have happened IF, so I fleshed it out and made a romance novel, a very explicitly erotic romance novel, from it. I sent a copy to my friend, and she raved about it and said I should try to get it published. So here I am, a married almost seventy year old man who had never had a drop of fiction published in his life, and what the hell, I decided to see what I could do to get it read by a publisher. I started reading postings on Literotica to see if I could improve my writing style, and eventually started posting a few things to see if the direct feedback would help me write things that a female would enjoy reading. Any comments you have about my writing will be read. And I would particularly appreciate comments from females about the erotic parts of my writing, and any ideas you can give me about how I could make my erotic parts more appealing to women. Thanks, Joe |