Welcome to the website of Janine Ashbless. I'm a writer of fantasy and paranormal erotica and - more rarely - scorching romantic adventure. I like to write about magic and myth and mystery, dangerous power dynamics, borderline terror, and the not-quite-human. And hot filthy sex, obviously...
News:
An anthology of post-apocalyptic erotica
Romance Novel: third in the Book of the Watchers trilogy
Rights to
Named and Shamed and
Fierce Enchantments have reverted with the closing of Sweetmeats Press - both have now been re-published with lovely new covers by Sinful Press.
I have begun self-publishing reverted works with my Ashbless "brand" covers. Erotica is released with red covers, Erotic Romance with blue, as above.
To my absolute delight I am immortalised on the "Islands of Erotica" in the
Map of Literature by artist
Martin Vargic. You should so buy this awesome best-seller of a
book!Recent Publications:
Short story: Sourdough
The Forgotten and the Fantastical, Vol.5
Publication news! (Not erotica this time)
I came across Teika Bellamy's The Forgotten and the Fantastical anthology series when I met her at a FantasyCon, and I knew straight away I wanted to write for it. These are collections of fairy stories; some re-workings of old tales, some entirely original. Some are dark, some are lyrical, and many - but not all - are about women and/or motherhood (a particular focus of the imprint, Mother's Milk Books). I read three volumes and was impressed by the exceptional quality of each collection. And they have BEAUTIFUL covers!
So I wrote My Son, My Daughter, a story about a desperate but clever mother who is about to lose her firstborn to the fairies unless she works a way out of it. It riffs off the traditional Northumbrian story of My Ainsel.
If you pre-order TF&TF#5 direct from the publisher, you get £1 off the list price!
"Hardcore and literate" (Madeline Moore)
"Vivid and tempestuous and dangerous, and bursting with sacrifice, death and love." (Portia Da Costa)
"One of the hands-down masters of erotic writing." "Janine Ashbless showed me that erotica can be literature." (Violet Blue)
"How one writer can produce story after story to such a very high standard is awesome - she puts other writers to shame." (Jade: the International Erotic Art and Literature Magazine)
"The best erotic fairytale writer around." (Saskia Walker)
"One of the most talented, original and brave authors in the erotica field" (Shanna Germain)
