Smut by the Sea - Scarborough 2015

Lady parachutists, penguins, willie biscuits, a bed of nails and sidewalk smut! These were all featured in Smut by the Sea at Scarborough this year.

As usual it was terrific to meet up with fellow smutters including my great friend, Janine Ashbless, who drove us over to Scarborough, and the wonderful Bella Settarra (who supplied the biscuits - see below!), Anna Sky, Cara Sutra and lots of others. It was also lovely to meet new people – Cat Summerfield, Krissie Fortune, Lisabet Sarai to name just a few.

The day was filled with some great 5 minute readings from authors including Ashley Lister, Etta Stark, Ashe Barker and Jacqueline Brocker amongst many others, interspersed between performances from Blue Belle (a sweet burlesque dance) and Bea Noir (who calmly, with huge smiles, lay on a bed of nails even when her partner stood on top of her…. the audience grimaced, but you couldn’t tell from Bea if she was in pain or not!).

And in between those were three workshops. One from Slave Nano on ‘Kinking up the Past’ during which he passed around various historical documents and photos including one of a lady parachutist whose story was larger than life. His point being, it is easy to come up with terrific stories from a few lines in a document or viewing a photo.

Another workshop was from Cameryn Moore as she recounted her experiences as a phone sex operator. I also loved her work writing ‘Sidewalk Smut’. For a fee people will provide Cameryn with details of themselves, then go away for 15 mins or so and she will write a half page erotic story based on those details!

Now, you are wondering where penguins comes into the day, aren’t you! That happened in my own workshop. I am doing a full write up next week, but I had a great time talking about ‘Researching Werewolf stories’ and encouraging everyone to think outside the box. One of those ideas included penguins being the werewolf’s natural predator (at least, it was something like that!). The workshop seemed to go well and I had lots of compliments. J

Lastly, the goodie bags, with items from sponsors and authors, was particularly good this time – not least because I had provided some branded chocolates (and very delicious they are, even if I say so myself!). Goodies included other forms of sweets, a pen, some condoms, lube, mini-vibrator and vibrating cock ring! (Just need a cock to go with the ring!!)

Oh, and, yay!, I sold three books J J

Well done Victoria and Kevin Blisse on another great day.

Next Smut event is in Manchester in October (click on the link for more details)