Sex, Murder And A Double Latte
"If Alicia Bright had learned one lesson in life it was that the more settled things seemed to be, the more likely they were to get messed up."
— Sex, Drugs, and Murder
The downside of writing sex scenes is that my mother reads my books.
Until I die I will be haunted by the memory of my mother confronting me after reading my first novel. She stood in the living room of my San Francisco apartment with one slightly arthritic hand resting on her robust hip and the other waving my book in front of my face. "I ask you," she said, "how can a nice Jewish girl write such a thing? It's not bad enough you should give me ulcers with all this talk of killing, but now you have to write about naked people too? I thought only shiksas wrote such things."
I somehow resisted the impulse to run and made the stupid mistake of trying to reason with her. "No, Mama," I said, "smut is nondenominational." But my mother wasn't satisfied with that, so she highlighted the scenes, took the book to her rabbi and asked him for his opinion of her daughter, the sex fiend. The rabbi, who in all likelihood was just slightly less mortified ... read full excerpt from: Sex, Murder and a Double Latte ebook
