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Terrance Aldon Shaw

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The United States

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http://bigbrainerotica.blogspot.com/

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Fiction, Nonfiction

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Angela Carter, Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, J.R.R. Tolkein, Geo ...more

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Terrance Aldon Shaw has written four novels and nearly one-hundred short stories. His work has appeared in print, audio, and on-line publications, multiple-author anthologies, and literary magazines, as well as four self-published collections. TAS is the sole editor of The Erotic Writer’s Thesaurus (With Notes on Usage), (2018, Updated Second Edition 2022) a unique, single-volume reference work, which began, modestly enough, as a simple help-feature on his blog, Erotica for the Big Brain. He collected many of the essays and reviews from EftBB's seven-year run in his 2021 collection 'Fearless Fiction: The Best of Erotica for the Big Brain.' He is currently at work on his fifth novel, and still finds time to turn out the occasional short stor ...more

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	The Erotic Writer's Thesaurus (With Notes on Usage) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moon-Haunted Heart 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summer of '69 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kiss-Off the Devil: 9 Short Stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fearless Fiction: The Best of Erotica for the Big Brain it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seven Seductions: A Novel it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sweet Guy Tells All: An Erotic Entertainment 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night Vision: An Erotic Entertainment it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Turn Me On Again--Tell Me Another Story: A New Erotic Anthology 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Her Dark Passage: An Erotic Entertainment it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)

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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

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