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Just Watch Me: Erotica for Women
Just Watch Me is a sassy selection of the very best erotica by women, for women. Hand-picked by Violet Blue from the Best Women's Erotica series, these stories should be read nice and slow so that every outrageous scenario can be savored. Sydney Beier's "Reading to Horst" follows an American woman living in Germany who conducts foreplay by reading aloud to a tourist from Anaïs Nin's Little Birds. In Alison Tyler's "Four on the Floor," a pair of lovers hunt for and conquer another couple. And Elizabeth Coldwell's "Heat" describes the fierce affair between a barmaid and her brutish boss, a man she doesn't even like but who sets her heart pounding. Intended as inspiration for bedroom adventures, this heady collection of smart, sensual erotic stories is filled with hair-raising, relatable encounters.
250 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 1, 2010
About the author
Violet Blue
111 books270 followersViolet Blue has authored and edited over 40 books, including five (Bronze, Silver and Gold) IPPY award-winners, some of which are now in eight translations. Violet was a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show, when Ms. Winfrey featured Violet's book on women and pornography (11/17/09). That book is also excerpted and featured on Oprah Winfrey's website, as well as in O, The Oprah Magazine.
Violet owns and operates Digita Publications (digitapub.com), an indie digital publisher of e-books and audio books. Rather than a royalty system, Digita books share all sales with the authors fairly and transparently, featuring books in both DRM-free versions and for Kindle on Amazon.
Her online sexuality blog, Tiny Nibbles, is one of the Internet's longest-running sex blogs, and has won many accolades and awards. For her day job, Ms. Blue is a journalist on hacking, crime, cybersecurity, privacy, and at-risk populations for outlets ranging from Engadget to CNET, and occasionally outlets like CBS News, CNN and O the Oprah Magazine.
Violet owns and operates Digita Publications (digitapub.com), an indie digital publisher of e-books and audio books. Rather than a royalty system, Digita books share all sales with the authors fairly and transparently, featuring books in both DRM-free versions and for Kindle on Amazon.
Her online sexuality blog, Tiny Nibbles, is one of the Internet's longest-running sex blogs, and has won many accolades and awards. For her day job, Ms. Blue is a journalist on hacking, crime, cybersecurity, privacy, and at-risk populations for outlets ranging from Engadget to CNET, and occasionally outlets like CBS News, CNN and O the Oprah Magazine.
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August 18, 2011
Are you a voyeur or an exhibitionist or maybe, like me, a little of both? If so, this anthology is chock full of hot well-written stories you'll love such as: JUST WATCH ME, RODIN by Cate Robertson, THE UPPER HAND BY Saskia Walker, UTTERLY NONDESCRIPT by Geneva King, HEAT by Elizabeth Coldwwell, VICARIOUS by Lee Skinner, and DEAL by Emerald. Have fun reading and watching and... Taking your clothes off. ;-)
March 7, 2011
Blurb: Arousing Bedside Reading
Violet Blue, quickly becoming the 21st century's leading sex educator, recommends reading Just Watch Me nice and slow so every outrageous scenario can be savored. She judiciously handpicked these sizzling stories from her Best Women's Erotica series. Intended as inspiration for bedroom adventures, this heady collection of erotic stories is filled with scintillating, relatable encounters.
Elizabeth Coldwell's "Heat" describes the fierce affair between a barmaid and her brutish boss, a man she doesn't even like but who sets her heart pounding. In "Spike", Rachel Kramer Bussel gives us turn-ons of a different kind, when a young goth girl shows a pushy "man's man" who wears not just the pants, but the spike-heeled shoes. Once again, Blue has compiled a book that is both sexy and surprising and as literary as it is libidinous.
What Stephanie Thought: By far one of the most scorching, yet meticulous erotica anthologies I've read, Just Watch Me is a thrill of a read, as well as one heck of a ride.
Selected punctiliously to please women and only women, each short story featured in this Cleis Press collection is every woman's indulgence. There are stories for women who like men, women who like women...women who want the best of both worlds and like both men and women. Women who like it soft and delicate, women who like it hard and exciting. Everyday women who hold utmost dignity to their names, and women who aren't so dignified, but aren't any less reputable either. This anthology is just a book for women.
The stories are just the right length. A book knows it's in trouble when the reader starts to get weary within the first ten pages -- especially if that book is of erotica, which is usually supposed to be an ecstatic read, not a bore. Most erotica anthologies also contain "quickies" -- stories that are too short to really get into (spanning two to three pages, usually). Most of the pieces featured in Just Watch Me ended right when the plot began to stale, having me at the edge of arousal each time. It's an incredible feeling, almost like an orgasm, being so excited, only to have that kindling die down right before it explodes.
I also loved how there was so much variety. Usually, I find a trend in erotica anthologies; after three or four stories, they all seem to blend together. You know what I'm talking about: A notices B from across the room, A sees a spark in B's eyes, A coyly approaches B, B follows A home, A and B have sex, A and B promise to have sex again later. But not in Just Watch Me. Every story was different, differently good, at that, for lack of better words. With Violet Blue, I never got bored. Every story was unique and arousing in its own way.
I definitely recommend Just Watch Me to any woman in search of solo satisfaction. Better yet, if you're looking to spice things up a little with your partner in the bedroom, this anthology just may be your perfect match.
Stephanie Loves: "'I've been trying to find some kind of pattern in the books you choose, but I can't.' He sounded amused, but his voice dropped low, as if he were sharing an urgent secret.
'Oh, I just take whatever seems to jump out at me. I don't want to be systematic.' I was proud of myself for sounding so casual. I even turned and glanced at his shirt buttons, then up to his face. 'It's more fun when you let things surprise you.'
'That's true.' His voice was softer, and more careful. I tried hard not to stare at his mouth. 'But then sometimes something will really speak to you, and you have to find the courage to follow it.'" from Teresa Lamai's "In Snow" -- hate to pick favorites, but it was my favorite story out of the anthology. Read Just Watch Me, even if only for that story :)
Where Stephanie Got It: Naked Reader Book Club via EdenFantasys for review.
Radical Rating: 9 hearts- One of my all-time favorites! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Violet Blue, quickly becoming the 21st century's leading sex educator, recommends reading Just Watch Me nice and slow so every outrageous scenario can be savored. She judiciously handpicked these sizzling stories from her Best Women's Erotica series. Intended as inspiration for bedroom adventures, this heady collection of erotic stories is filled with scintillating, relatable encounters.
Elizabeth Coldwell's "Heat" describes the fierce affair between a barmaid and her brutish boss, a man she doesn't even like but who sets her heart pounding. In "Spike", Rachel Kramer Bussel gives us turn-ons of a different kind, when a young goth girl shows a pushy "man's man" who wears not just the pants, but the spike-heeled shoes. Once again, Blue has compiled a book that is both sexy and surprising and as literary as it is libidinous.
What Stephanie Thought: By far one of the most scorching, yet meticulous erotica anthologies I've read, Just Watch Me is a thrill of a read, as well as one heck of a ride.
Selected punctiliously to please women and only women, each short story featured in this Cleis Press collection is every woman's indulgence. There are stories for women who like men, women who like women...women who want the best of both worlds and like both men and women. Women who like it soft and delicate, women who like it hard and exciting. Everyday women who hold utmost dignity to their names, and women who aren't so dignified, but aren't any less reputable either. This anthology is just a book for women.
The stories are just the right length. A book knows it's in trouble when the reader starts to get weary within the first ten pages -- especially if that book is of erotica, which is usually supposed to be an ecstatic read, not a bore. Most erotica anthologies also contain "quickies" -- stories that are too short to really get into (spanning two to three pages, usually). Most of the pieces featured in Just Watch Me ended right when the plot began to stale, having me at the edge of arousal each time. It's an incredible feeling, almost like an orgasm, being so excited, only to have that kindling die down right before it explodes.
I also loved how there was so much variety. Usually, I find a trend in erotica anthologies; after three or four stories, they all seem to blend together. You know what I'm talking about: A notices B from across the room, A sees a spark in B's eyes, A coyly approaches B, B follows A home, A and B have sex, A and B promise to have sex again later. But not in Just Watch Me. Every story was different, differently good, at that, for lack of better words. With Violet Blue, I never got bored. Every story was unique and arousing in its own way.
I definitely recommend Just Watch Me to any woman in search of solo satisfaction. Better yet, if you're looking to spice things up a little with your partner in the bedroom, this anthology just may be your perfect match.
Stephanie Loves: "'I've been trying to find some kind of pattern in the books you choose, but I can't.' He sounded amused, but his voice dropped low, as if he were sharing an urgent secret.
'Oh, I just take whatever seems to jump out at me. I don't want to be systematic.' I was proud of myself for sounding so casual. I even turned and glanced at his shirt buttons, then up to his face. 'It's more fun when you let things surprise you.'
'That's true.' His voice was softer, and more careful. I tried hard not to stare at his mouth. 'But then sometimes something will really speak to you, and you have to find the courage to follow it.'" from Teresa Lamai's "In Snow" -- hate to pick favorites, but it was my favorite story out of the anthology. Read Just Watch Me, even if only for that story :)
Where Stephanie Got It: Naked Reader Book Club via EdenFantasys for review.
Radical Rating: 9 hearts- One of my all-time favorites! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
April 7, 2016
If Violet Blue's name is on it I will buy it. Never disappointed with any of her anthologies. Always a great sexy collection of short stories by some of my favourite authors plus I usually discover some new to me ones. Something for everyone. Would recommend.
October 19, 2012
"I might only have been able to afford CoverGirl dime-store cosmetics rather than Neiman Marcus special blends, but I could find her swollen clit easily, and that's all that mattered."
June 14, 2014
Very engaging collection...just hot and arousing stuff.
November 10, 2011
Yawn . . .
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