Filthy Friday: Tanith Davenport
Check out Tanith Davenport’s fab post in this series to help promote the erotic anthology, Smut by the Sea.
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When I write, sometimes I have a title in mind, other times it comes later. With I Like It Wet, the title came first. There was a certain cadence to it, as well as a certain spice. I pencilled it in as a potential title for a shower sex story and put it to one side.
And then I met Victoria Blisse and Lucy Felthouse at Eroticon. They handed me a card for Smut By The Sea and that was that – shower sex became beach sex. And since I had recently been to Scarborough and been utterly soaked during a walk down the seafront, I immediately had the idea for the ultimate water kink – being drenched by waves.
Talia was a great character to write. I read far too many heroines, even today, who have no purpose in life beyond finding a man and no sexuality until he awakens it. Talia, however, is a junior fashion designer who has plans for her future career and takes control of her own pleasure – something which drives my hero, Jay, absolutely wild. A fellow designer and a passionate man, Jay is used to being underestimated and misconstrued by those around him, so the discovery that Talia also has hidden depths is enough to ignite sparks between them.
And Scarborough is a great place to fall in love. I go there a lot and I love the place.
So next time I go, I may slip down to the beach and think about Talia and Jay frolicking in the waves. In the meantime, I hope everyone else enjoys reading all about it – and maybe discovering they also like it wet.
Light hearted, sexy fun by the sea is the theme of this erotic anthology, edited by Victoria Blisse and Lucy Felthouse.
From the sun soaked bays of Australia to the rainy coastal towns of England, Smut by the Sea has it all. Whatever your interpretation of naughty seaside fun, there’s something nestling between the covers for you. Surfer boys, sea creatures, pirates and the fairground abound in this exciting collection of stories from erotica’s finest authors.
Deciding exactly what my couple would get up to was the hardest (no pun intended) part of all. I find the excitement and nerves when a couple could get caught always intriguing to read though writing it was a challenge. I’d chosen a very busy seaside—Brighton Beach, and at a very busy time—an open air concert, so keeping the anxiety level while still conveying what the couple were up to was taxing. There was certainly a lot of ‘Fat Boy Slim’ music played while writing it…just to get the atmosphere, as he’s held a few open air concerts on Brighton Beach.
If you saw yesterday’s blog post, you’ll already know that I had a lesbian erotic romance story come out as part of Evernight Publishing’s 
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It’s certainly going to be a fun-filled day – but it doesn’t stop there! In the evening will be the official launch of the Smut by the Sea anthology (calls for submissions available at http://smutbythesea.co.uk/call-for-submissions/, closing date 1st June 2012 – edited by Victoria Blisse and Lucy Felthouse), with readings from the authors, and some seriously saucy swag bags with gifts from sponsors Sh! Women’s Erotic Emporium, Total-E-Bound and Lovehoney, to name but a few.
