"The Cartographer" in Best Bondage Erotica 2011
For me, writing erotica has sometimes felt like peeling an onion. Many fleshy, flavorful layers lead inevitably to the core. Sometimes when you cut into the onion, you cry. Other times, you catch the magical scent of succulent possibility.Erotica is much the same.
In the past two years I’ve written stories I could never have imagined when I first began writing. I have pushed against my own personal boundaries, have slowly peeled away my fear of tapping the wellspring of my own past for ideas, and I have been rewarded with stories that surprise and excite me as I write them.
My story, “The Cartographer” will be in Best Bondage Erotica 2011, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel, and available from Cleis Press in December 2010. This story sprang from a memory of a nautical chart I had when I was a girl. I was raised on a sailboat and such charts were a constant in my early years. I remember the thin, inked strokes that delineated coasts, shoals and reefs, the tiny, important numbers marking water depths, dotted lines for banks, or little, sketched fish to note conservation zones. This story grew from my love and memories of these charts, and from other, darker waters far removed from those early memories. I loved writing this story and I hope you will enjoy reading it.
I am also very thankful that I still have so many layers to go until I reach the onion’s core, and I look forward to sharing those stories with you.
Posted by Angela Caperton at 6/22/2010 8:40 PM 
Categories: Best Bondage Erotica 2011, erotica, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Angela Caperton, Cleis
Tags: erotica Rachel Kramer Bussel Angela Caperton Bondage Cleis
Categories: Best Bondage Erotica 2011, erotica, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Angela Caperton, Cleis
Tags: erotica Rachel Kramer Bussel Angela Caperton Bondage Cleis
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