Happy Hogmanay!

I honestly can't believe it's been a whole year since I wrote the words, Happy Hogmanay!
Forgive me if I have a bit of a 'swim in lake me' but 2015 has been a pretty bonkers year.
I'll try to keep this brief as I can and mention as many folks as I can. PLEASE forgive any errors, omissions or bad grammar - I have appear to have mislaid some days over the festive season and have had to rush this a little. :D

1 - The sex toy, Ruby Glow (pleasure for the seated lady), that I designed became an actual thing! It is made by Rocks Off and launched at Erofame this October in Hannover - I was so pleased when Cara Sutra sent me some photos she'd taken.

I've had a few interviews about it in magazines including The Erotic Trade Only mag. Ian, Sue, Lesley and all the folks at Rocks Off have been amazing and this toy would not have existed at all had it not been for my wonderful Brit Babes who helped me with testing and refining the prototypes. Read my blog, So I Invented a Sex Toy here.
2 - I went to the ETO show and Award Ceremony where I had the privilege, along with Brit Babes, KD Grace, Lexie Bay and Lily Harlem of accepting Erotica Writer of the Year 2015 Award on behalf of the delicious winner, Kay Jaybee who was too poorly to attend (thankfully on the mend!) we missed Kay but did have a lot of fun living it up on the dancefloor with the gals and Renee from Sh-Womenstore and Melissa from Voluptasse!
3 - I won second prize in Oleander Plume's Prompted Story Competition - click for a snippet of my story, What The Butler Saw - mighty team Oleander and Ms F Dot Solomon are making all the entries into an anthology - so watch this space.

4 - I only went and won the fucking Euphoff!! The Euphoff is a celebration of very bad and euphemistic erotica hosted by Jane from Behind The Chintz Curtain. I'm so very proud to have that title - here's my story, A Visit to the Mechanic. Please do click through to the other stories, they are utterly hysterical!

5 - Brit Babes anthology, Sexy Just Got Rich was released and hit the Amazon charts!

6 -  My entire trilogy was released in Paperback - more here: A Clockwork Butterfly Trilogy

7 - My Sinful Sunday pic, The Experiment was chosen as one of F Dot Leonora's top 5!

8 - I made it onto Kilted Wookie's Naught List!!

There's lots more but like I said, I've lost a few days and I need to go prepare for Hogmanay!

I've met so many amazing new friends this year - had the delight of making penpals with real letters and enjoyed some thoroughly ripsnorting joy throughout! I've danced with new people and made art with others.

I've enjoyed the full circle of life and lost two very close people, one through Parkinsons and one tragically young through suicide. And even though this post is all about *me* I would like to dedicate it to those two men. Having death close by and physically losing people you love reminds me to work harder, love deeper and enthuse higher.

Love to you all - if you've got this far, bloody hell, you are awesome :D

Happy Hogmanay and wishing you so much love, joy, creativity and success in 2016! May this be your year to shine!

Love Tabitha x x x

Happy Hogmanay!

Wishing you all a very Happy Hogmanay and lots of joy in 2015! 

For me, 2014 was the quickest year I have ever experienced! This might have had a lot to do with how exciting it was. 

Some of my highlights: (Please hover over any names for links to books and sites)

Watching my Brit Babe friends, KD Grace and Kay Jaybee being nominated for the ETO erotic writer of the year and helping KD Grace celebrate when she won! Good times :D

This might turn into a bit of a swim in lake me, but I feel I ought to really do a little round up :D

The release of the final two novels in my ClockworkButterfly erotic fantasy trilogy from Beachwalk Press. Huge love to the owner Pamela Tyner (and team) who is utterly wonderful to work with.

Whilst I didn't write a whole novel this year (which made me a little cross) I did manage to get a few short stories out and happened to
work with some of the most awesome writers I've ever met including:
The Brit Babes: Emmy Ellis, Grace Marshall, K D Grace, Kay Jaybee, Lexie Bay, Lily Harlem, Lucy Felthouse, Victoria Blisse

We produced a hot collection Sexy Just Walked into Town which you can download for free! Keep an eye out for a secret new project!

The 13 (dirty baker's dozen) involved in bringing the sexy chocolatey anthology Chemical se[X]  to life! Big mention and throbbing hard love to Oleander Plume for that! Here are the others who have also been fab to work with:

Annabeth Leong , CE Hansen , Dario Dalla Lasta, Ella Dawson, Exhibit A, F. Leonora Solomon, Jacob Louder, Jade A Waters, L. Maretta, Malin James, Oleander Plume, Tamsin Flowers

  

My story, made it into Written on the Skin  - an anthology exploring the erotic and body modification edited by Remittance Girl .

And lesbian short, The Shame made it into Lesbian Lust. 

I came out a bit too this year, casting aside my visual anonymity with an interview and photo in the EAN magazine! Yikes :D 

Writer’s block has had me grimacing this year so I have had to find other ways to use up the creative energy including videos

and paintings.

I took part in Exhibit A’s Sinful Stories and because of the block, made a little film for that. It is part of Molly Moore’s amazing Sinful Sunday project  – check it out – I’m hoping to get braver this year and join in more – it’s a fabulous visual treat every Sunday.

And finally, I’ve been working on an invention to enhance certain experiences but it’s top secret so I’m hoping to share more about that this year. Shhhhh…

I’ve been lucky enough to meet some incredibly awesome people this year, thanks to the internet, ETO, Erofame, and Eroticon where I met loads of people mentioned already and the fantastic Vida Bailey. The world of Erotica is a friendly place indeed.

I had a lovely visit from Jaye Shields who came to stay in my wee Scottish part of the world – she’s such a cool well travelled woman and now has been initiated into the Irn Bru culture ;)

So that’s all my news over (I’ve probably missed out LOADS of stuff so my devastated apologies if you or your event wasn’t mentioned) – what’s been the highlight of your year? Leave me a comment and I’ll put them in a draw send an ebook to the winner :D

The more you smile, the more people smile back! (And if you have an erotic book in your clutches, your smile will be broad indeed!)

Lots of love, Tabitha!! Cheers :D