Rachel Kramer Bussel: Archive

How to make a book trailer by Donna George...

Oct 2nd

Chaos, Possibly Controlled But Probably...

Sometimes I have to stop and take a step back and look at my life and force myself not to last. I...

Oct 2nd

NYC exhibitionists and voyeurs wanted:...

I’m shooting a book trailer on Sunday afternoon from around noon to 6 pm for my new anthology...

Oct 1st

OMG. Am I jealous that I don’t have any cavities? A...

Oct 1st

We spent pretty much all 3 hours last night dealing with...

Oct 1st

My awesome new personal organizer

Oct 1st

From The Feminista Files. You’re welcome.

Sep 30th

Girldrive is out

And what other book do you know about where Kathleen Hanna and Michele Wallace are gonna be reading...

Sep 30th

Ask me anything from now through October 11th...

Sep 30th

Vanessa Vaughn launches In The Flesh in...

See her site for more info: After searching in vain for a sex-themed reading series in Dallas, I...

Sep 30th

October 5th is America's Most Common...

New to me. From a press release: CARLE PLACE, N.Y., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — On any...

Sep 30th

Sex sex sex sex sex October 22nd in...

Greenpoint! Indie Bookstore! I’m probably bringing cupcakes! Thursday, October 22,...

Sep 30th

A better photo of my pretty new bracelets from Objets...

Sep 29th

Teaser from Best Women's Erotica 2010

Publisher Cleis Press allowed search inside on Amazon for Violet Blue’s upcoming anthology...

Sep 29th

If you could "Eternal Sunshine" someone...

In a heartbeat. ameliamagritte: I would.

Sep 29th

In hosting/giveaway mode. Another by Anya Garrett.

Sep 29th

From the last In The Flesh. Photo by Anya Garrett. Multiply...

Sep 29th

My chance to get another copy of Conrad...

Several years ago I had a really hot night in the Hilton at 53rd/6th with a very sexy couple. I will...

Sep 29th

Have a quickie and free cupcakes with me...

Unless some major free time opens up in my schedule (ha ha ha ha ha!) this will be the last...

Sep 28th

"Try to accept them with an open heart."

I got edits today (messengered!) for a Very Important Essay. For a big-time anthology that I will be...

Sep 28th

“Q: Other than cupcakes, space, and social media, what do you...”
— San Franciscans: the next...

Sep 28th

Maybe not What To Post when you are fasting but whatever....

Sep 28th

Tried to see the sneak preview on Saturday but it was sold...

Sep 28th

Stay tuned to Cupcakes Take the Cake for four...

Sep 28th

“I’m strung up on a St. Andrew’s cross, blindfolded, my...”
— From my story...

Sep 27th

Little Debbie celebrates chocolate cupcakes...

Sep 25th

“You didn’t enjoy Melora’s precipitous Amy Winehouse-like...”
— Amy Sohn at Double X on her...

Sep 25th

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It’s a video kind of night - my friend Courtney McLean, who I missed at the Fringe Festival by...

Sep 25th

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My hometown (Teaneck, New Jersey) produced some pretty talented people - in this case David Heatley,...

Sep 25th

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Sep 25th

“So what’s the deal? It turns out that Dr Pepper’s role in...”
— Interesting - from NYT Media...

Sep 25th

And the pretty cover! I finally ordered my postcards so if...

Sep 25th

Where to be an exhibitionist in NYC

So I’m making a book trailer next weekend for my book Peep Show: Tales of Voyeurs and...

Sep 25th

Gchat is apparently not that good for stalking, I mean,...

Sep 25th

Was a little tough to take a photo of my own arm but I am...

Sep 25th

Cupcakes Take the Cake gets a Newsweek...

Sep 24th

Of course I want to read this! Based just on the title. More...

Sep 24th

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I’m Sorry You Feel That Way and Best Sex Writing 2010 contributor Diana Joseph talks to me...

Sep 24th

When Rape (Fantasy) Becomes a Reality

Sep 23rd

Randomly found this gorgeous book cover on Amazon and...

Sep 23rd

How not to blog

Wholesale lift an entire column (though points for crediting the author, aka me). How to blog....

Sep 23rd

More reasons to love Mary Pols

Sep 23rd

Where to promote readings?

I’m trying to spread the word about, oh, about 5 October events. If you can clue me in to...

Sep 23rd

The same free book offer I always make

My usual free book offer – if you’d like a copy of Peep Show and promise to (and are eligible to)...

Sep 22nd

Yes, it’s a total marketing gimmick, but it worked. I...

Sep 22nd

Litquake kicks off my little Bay Area tour!

Sep 22nd

Sex and Comedy Night at In The Flesh, October...

Sep 22nd

“Even though I like Tao Lin most of the time and think he is...”
— Threadjack on “Bitch,...

Sep 22nd

My reivew of Mary Pols' Accidentally on...

I added in the spoilers after two people on Amazon commented, but fwiw, wrote this a while ago, my...

Sep 22nd

Sometimes in all the chaos and deadlines and commuting and...

Sep 22nd

I Love New York

It’s not over yet, but I just had one of those magical nights that I’m sure do happen in...

Sep 22nd

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Love British pop. Sing-Sing, a band that grew from the ashes of Lush, with Emma Anderson. Makes me...

Sep 22nd

Elizabeth Mitchelle of Ida at Symphony Space,...

Sep 21st

I Love Blogging/I Hate Cattiness

I won’t quote the exact cattiness, but I love how especially on my cupcake blog (I guess that’s the...

Sep 21st

“Initially, Tyree wanted to write magazine articles about...”
— Dirty Old Men and Other...

Sep 21st

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Sep 21st

“But I think to me the fact that it goes on uncomfortably...”
— Jennifer’s Body director...

Sep 21st

I have found my people

http://www.compulsive-hoarding.org/Three-Cs.html Clots Clots are when collections of clutter...

Sep 21st

“3. I’m not a cougar. I am mortified to be included in the...”
— “Sitcom Premiere and...

Sep 21st

Same window.

Sep 21st

Window of Sacco last night.

Sep 21st

Diana Joseph and Kerry Cohen with me at In The Flesh Reading...

Sep 21st

Jennifer's Body reviewed in Time

And frustratingly I’m trying to read her blog post about what it was like to go to LA and...

Sep 20th

“Lastly, we have the fierce, whip-smart goddesses our good...”
— “Mad Men or Mad...

Sep 20th

TMI

You can learn a lot about a person from cyberstalking the Internet. You can learn their birthday,...

Sep 20th

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My friend Anya Garrett, photographer extraordinaire, who shot last night’s In The Flesh, is an...

Sep 18th

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about...”
— Robert Frost (via...

Sep 18th

Emily Easterley, photo by Lauren Kelly, via Emily on MySpace...

Sep 18th

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Thanks, Obama! via Huffington Post Shana Tova to anyone who’s celebrating Rosh Hashanah.

Sep 18th

I don’t do tattoos, but I do bruises. This seems like...

Sep 18th

“I think — and I base this opinion on having worked in book...”
— Emily Gould, “Bitch,...

Sep 17th

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Beautiful.

Sep 17th

What a sick girl eats for dinner. Thanks, Westville East.

Sep 17th

I’m SO happy that my friend Anya Garrett is going to...

Sep 17th

Pill Head author and In The Flesh reader...

Sep 17th

30 pounds 30 pounds 30 pounds

Gonna post this here as much as a reminder to myself as anything; must drumbeat it into my head and...

Sep 17th

“Romance novels, an inexpensive escape for women, are helping...”
— From Time, “The Global...

Sep 16th

DoubleX wants your sexual fantasies

For The Desire Lab, to be moderated by Daniel Bergner: What role does sexual fantasy play in your...

Sep 16th

by Anna Fischer

Sep 16th

Hilarious! Wonder where this is…and while I think...

Sep 16th

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Her voice is so beautiful it’s sometimes shocking how dark the lyrics are. I really like Carly...

Sep 16th

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Yes, I bared my bare breast in a bar in SoHo. It’s, perhaps ironically, part of my essay...

Sep 16th

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How can you not love a called “Keep Your Jesus Off My Penis?” From a man famous for a...

Sep 16th

Page 69 test for Claire Zulkey's novel...

Firstly, if you don’t know who Claire Zulkey is, go spend an hour or five reading her site...

Sep 16th

Travel reading tonight (sex at the...

Yes, my infamous handjobs at the Atlanta airport story shall be read by me, hopefully with a minimum...

Sep 16th

“Thou shalt not reproduce without permission. Except for...”
— Ha! That cracked me up. And in...

Sep 16th

I haven’t even seen the VMAs but I did hear about this...

Sep 16th

“Each relationship provides a canvas. Where we have failed...”
— “Returning to My...

Sep 16th

Erotica writing class in Corte Madera,...

FYI on the random chance you know someone there or will be in town. October 15 I’m doing...

Sep 16th

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I’ve never actually seen this before, but since I actually was flying into Chicago at night...

Sep 15th

Umami

This post was totally going to be “dictionary inspiration 2” because I’m kindof...

Sep 15th

Dictionary inspiration

I’m in way too fucked up of a shape to write anything coherent, as evidenced by my lack of...

Sep 15th

Decisions, decisions...

I think I’m getting sick, and I’m also kindof sick in the head today about things that...

Sep 15th

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I don’t even know how many times I watched Dirty Dancing growing up. From E! Online, Patrick...

Sep 15th

Why yes, you can win all these prizes from Babeland (well,...

Sep 14th

You can’t make this up. Oh, and it said “Shit...

Sep 14th

Sheela Namakkal had the coolest rental car ever and was SO...

Sep 14th

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Aftermath trailer. There’s a Facebook discount but this is even better: CheapTix ...

Sep 14th

I want to see Aftermath

I’m a fan of the YA novels of Jessica Blank, which have a weight and social commentary to them...

Sep 14th

First time for everything

I have never been tempted to go to one of those sites that blocks a website for you, but it may come...

Sep 14th

I concur (actually, I only nominally read her Twitter feed...

Sep 14th

Snapped by me at Renegade Craft Fair, Chicago. For sale by...

Sep 14th

I fell in love with The Bleeding Heart Bakery. Their Veruca...

Sep 14th

!! A gift from Swirlz Cupcakes, bought at She Lost It on...

Sep 13th

At O’Hare on Friday night.

Sep 13th

I can never get enough of Agent Provocateur’s windows.

Sep 11th

Philadelphia: Win tickets to The Last...

No idea if anyone in Philadelphia reads this but fyi, maybe pass it on to someone who does. Also, I...

Sep 11th

Amazon tags for Spanked: Red-Cheeked...

This book, Spanked: Red-Cheeked Erotica, sold pretty well, probably due to the book trailer, or so I...

Sep 11th

Authors: I highly recommend tagging the hell out of your...

Sep 11th

Overlook These Women At Your Peril

Thanks for the shoutout! I’m honored to be in such good company. charitini: …because I will...

Sep 11th

Dream a little dream of me

This totally made my day! Thanks @mrsexsmith! If you want further proof of his coolness, check out...

Sep 11th

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If you’re in New York and looking for something to do tonight that is somewhat related to...

Sep 11th

"Why Self-Promotion Will Save The World"

So I wasn’t planning to go to SXSW next year because I was out of panel ideas and am not...

Sep 11th

Reading in bed

When I get back from Chicago, I will be deep into finishing my first book, which is going to be,...

Sep 11th

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Oldie but goodie; Jonathan Ames reading at In The Flesh in 2008. “Womb Shelter” from...

Sep 11th

“Don’t hesitate to let a writer know that they struck a...”
— I Love a Man in Uniform and...

Sep 10th

“The vocabulary of justice becomes especially important...”
— “Union movement includes...

Sep 10th

“At its most rarefied, shoe shopping still takes place in...”
— “Happy Feet” by...

Sep 10th

Next Choice opens up emergency...

From EmPowHer (though, fyi, I paid $49.99 for Plan B One Step today at a NYC Duane Reade, more on...

Sep 10th

No, I did not eat them by myself.

Sep 9th

“11. Will I experience any side effects from Plan B®...”
— Good to know. And me not...

Sep 9th

“Dear Sarah Palin: Hi. That seems like a fair enough place...”
— From the so awesomely titled...

Sep 9th

I am going to have such an awesome weekend in Chicago with...

Sep 9th

It’s not only because I quit a heavy (4-6 liter/day)...

Sep 9th

"Some Thoughts on Submitting to an Anthology"...

Sep 8th

Love this warning about my Daily Beast Cake...

Sep 8th

"EFF, ACLU says Google Books will chill...

I’m sad to say that I don’t know as much about this as I should, considering my name is...

Sep 8th

Viva Editions wants your happiness...

From their blog: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 What Makes You Happy? Call for stories - please tell...

Sep 8th

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PJ Harvey, “Good Fortune.” I love this song.

Sep 8th

Tell the story until it blows up in your...

My friend Rebecca Woolf of the blog Girl’s Gone Child wrote about her book deal (for Rockabye)...

Sep 8th

7-11 in Philadelphia goes warning crazy.

Sep 8th

Weekend public art, stumbled upon it as I was stumbling...

Sep 8th

Rocco totally made my weekend in all his baby adorableness....

Sep 7th

Why book covers matter

Via the love-it-more-every-time-I-read-it Elizabeth Scott’s blog, an article in School Library...

Sep 7th

I’m now a fan of Second Stop Cafe. And Claire...

Sep 7th

What you missed if you missed Quickies on Friday at Happy...

Sep 7th

Snapped at Momofuku Milk Bar this morning as we were waiting...

Sep 7th

writinggirl2writingwoman: nightbirdchi: soul-asylum: ...

Sep 5th

Imagination Playground, after spending the best afternoon...

Sep 5th

Peep Show is going to press now, out late October!

Sep 5th

This is an outtake from the 2010 Sex Blogger Calendar, with...

Sep 4th

“Yesterday when our designer contacted the US printer we had...”
— I can’t tell you how mad...

Sep 4th

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Get your nerd on with us at Big Quiz Thing!

Sep 4th

“Every inch of me is covered in blue Saran wrap, and I must...”
— from “Caution: Sharp...

Sep 4th

Yes, I totally need a manicure, on the weekend agenda. But I...

Sep 4th

More food porn - chocolate milkshake from Remedy Diner.

Sep 4th

Why I hate to hear "I'm bad at...

I mean, there’s nothing I can do about it, but as a host, I would like to think readers want to...

Sep 4th

Not bad indeed for a diner. The one on Houston and Norfolk....

Sep 4th

“As someone with stories in Best of Best Women’s Erotica 2,...”
— Me at Erotica Cover Watch (go...

Sep 3rd

(via fuckyeaheliza)

Sep 3rd

I am such a media whore that...

the idea of turning down The Martha Stewart Show baffles me. Being on was one of the highlights of...

Sep 3rd

I’m also grateful I read this book this week. I highly...

Sep 3rd

10 Things I'm Grateful For

My friend Courtney McLean does these wonderful gratitude emails, and in the 3 (I think it’s 3, which...

Sep 3rd

Yes, I’m competitive, but it’s also nice to know...

Sep 3rd

Rhetorical question

Do you ever do things that are really, really emotionally unhealthy and you are aware of that but...

Sep 2nd

How to get a book deal via Twitter in one...

Sep 2nd

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Mary Lou Lord video so vintage I’ve never even seen it! Some classic covers. “Smells...

Sep 2nd

Readers needed for this Friday, 9/4,...

Because I ROCK at organizing things - NOT. I need a few (like 3) more readers for Friday night’s...

Sep 2nd

"World's Ugliest Cakes" by me at The Daily...

Sep 2nd

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More from Lauren Ober at Seven Days, which, it must be said, is a kickass newspaper from what...

Sep 1st

“Everything about the scene was predictable. The signs the...”
— Lauren Ober at Blurt, the...

Sep 1st

Crystal Renn by Matt Jones; photo via Corpulent.

Sep 1st

We, the young people, whom you so...

This is my new favorite blog. madmenfootnotes: When the two young ad boys try to help Don...

Sep 1st

Love this!

From an interview with Stephen Elliott about The Adderall Diaries at Pop Damage: KR: Is writing...

Sep 1st

Alison Gopnik explains baby think

The Philosophical Baby author gets interviewed at Babble - I know there are probably more rough sex...

Sep 1st

Diana Joseph’s new pug Colby. Do be sure to read about...

Sep 1st

Laurie Sandell on interviewing Christina...

from Laurie Sandell’s blog (more on her EXCELLENT memoir The Impostor’s Daughter soon,...

Sep 1st

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Tristan Taormino’s Rough Sex trailer. Read a review here. Via the newly-married Tristan on...

Sep 1st

by artist Jeremiah Ketner, a re-imagining of “After...

Sep 1st

US Army Africa on Flickr

Sep 1st

photo by the fabulous Courtney McLean, who I’m super...

Sep 1st