As I was tossing and turning and unable to sleep last night and wondering just what to do to help, the answer finally came to me. I am here in Saipan but can’t stay here forever and new friends have offered me a bed in Australia. I don’t feel that I should go back home [...]

I just saw a really lovely article in The Japan Times today about my work in Japan. It is such a lovely piece. Thanks Mizuho! http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110310f2.html

A friend of mine once attempted to write an erotic fiction book for Black Lace, but she got so hot and bothered every time she tried to write that she couldn’t manage it. I now know how she feels. I have spent nine hours thinking, reading, and writing about sex with Japanese men. In some [...]

Day three and I’ve finished chapter three, and I’m now up to about 13,500 words. Today started off pretty badly with my cold making me feel so rotten I could hardly get out of bed. But I dragged myself out, went for a run along the beach (by the way, beaches are meant to be [...]

Just finished 5000 words for the second chapter. Took me 12 hours but half of that was going through the survey responses for this particular chapter. My interviewees had a LOT to say about how attractive they found (or didn’t find!) Japanese men, and I had a lot of fun working on this chapter. It [...]

It’s the end of my first day in Saipan today and I managed to finish the first chapter on my next book … 3500 words. It was a bit of a struggle actually, mainly because about an hour before I left Tokyo yesterday I could feel a cold coming and today it hit me. This [...]

Recently there’s been a surge in emails from people asking for another publishing seminar, or asking for advice on publishing their books. So I’m thinking of setting up a 6-month publishing “course.” This course would be for one day per month, from 10am until 6pm, and each full-day session would be dedicated to one specific [...]