Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey

by Perkins, Lori; Day, Sylvia; Rose, MJ

• ISBN13: 9781937856427
• ISBN10: 1937856429
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-11-20
• Publisher: Smart Pop

Summary

E.L. James' Fifty Shades trilogy has fascinated and seduced millions of readers. In bedrooms, in book clubs, and in the media, people can't stop talking about it!

Author Biography

Lori Perkins is a founder and former editorial director of erotica e-publisher Ravenous Romance, and has been a literary agent for 20 years. She is the author of The Insider's Guide to Getting an Agent (Writers Digest Books), and has edited 20 erotica anthologies and more than 100 erotic novels, as well as published erotica under a pseudonym.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Fifty Ways to Look at Fifty Shades	p. 1
Fifty Shades of Erotic Fiction
Between the Covers	p. 7
This Is the Story	p. 13
The Game Changer	p. 17
Fifty Shades of Change	p. 21
The Brown Paper Bag	p. 27
Labels, Schmabels, I'll Take the Publicity!	p. 31
Porn Writer on the PTA	p. 37
Is Fifty Shades Erotica?	p. 43
Fifty Shades of Romance
It's All in the Eyes	p. 53
The Byronie Hero Archetype and Christian Grey	p. 57
Grey Is the New Black	p. 67
Because Love Hurts	p. 73
Every Breath You Take	p. 81
Intermission
Fifty Shades of Play	p. 93
Fifty Shades of Sex
Forbidden Fruit Is the Sweetest	p. 101
Fifty Ways of Looking at Sex in Fifty Shades	p. 109
The McDonald's of Lust	p. 115
Crass Is in Session	p. 121
Sexual Empowerment at the Water Cooler	p. 127
Fifty Shades of Women	p. 133
Fifty Shades of Snark	p. 137
Fifty Shades of BDSM
Kink and Condescension	p. 145
A Queer Leather Reluctant Support of Fifty Shades	p. 153
The History of BDSM Fiction and Romance	p. 159
The Legal Bonding of Anastasia and Christian	p. 173
Wanted: Fifty Shades of Sexual Wholeness	p. 185
A Requested Evaluation of the Mastery of Christian Grey	p. 193
The Collar of Blue Stones	p. 205
Being Stretched	p. 213
Whose Shades of Grey?	p. 221
A BDSM Couple's View	p. 227
Fifty Shades of Sexual Freedom	p. 237
Fifty Shades of Writing
The Delicate Balance	p. 245
Was It Good for You?	p. 253
The Story Is in the Sex	p. 259
Sexually Positive	p. 267
My Inner Goddess	p. 273
Intermission
Fifty Shades of Holy Crap!	p. 281
Fifty Shades of Fanfiction
Fifty Shades of Stories	p. 293
Editing Fifty	p. 299
Throwing Shade	p. 305
When Fifty Was Fic	p. 311
Fifty Shades of Pop Culture
Fifty Shades Is Where You Find It	p. 325
How I Lost Christian Grey at Auction	p. 329
Making Fifty Shades into Cinema	p. 333
Fifty Shades of Grace Metalious	p. 339
Fifty Shades of Diva Frenzy!	p. 347
Imagining a Black Fifty Shades	p. 351
The Professional Poster Child	p. 357
Raising the Shades	p. 363
Appendix: Fifty Shades of Reading	p. 369
About the Editor	p. 373
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