Vivien Dean and Pepper Espinoza have been writing and publishing together as Jamie Craig since 2006. They have published with Juno Books, Samhain Publishing, Liquid Silver Books, and multiple titles with Amber Quill Press.
Pepper Espinoza has published several books with Liquid Silver Books, including The Zebra Wore Fishnets and The Zebra Wore Red Stockings, Amber Quill Press, Whiskey Creek Press, and Samhain Publishing. She currently lives in Utah with her husband and two cats. She hopes to complete her Masters degree in Literature in May, 2008.
Vivien Dean has published with Liquid Silver Books, Phaze Publishing, and Linden Bay Romance. Her first novel, Chains of Jericho, was a 2006 EPPIE finalist, and another, Two Lives in Waltz Time, was a 2007 RT Reviewers Choice Nominee. She currently resides in northern California with her husband and two children.
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romance novel blogs
on Feb 23rd, 2009
@ 12:00 am:
[...] Jamie Craig: Standard lore is that the first fandom slash was written in the 1970s. It was Kirk/Spock–the slash between the two names gives this subgenre its name. And there was a LOT of it–mainly published in fanzines and exchanged through mail or at conventions. I’m not sure if there was a general female audience for gay erotica (or porn) prior to that, but I bring up Kirk/Spock because I think the answer might be there, somehow. I mean, Kirk was the sex-machine who could get all the chicks, so it’d be easy to write him with a woman. And Spock does not have romantic relationships at all! In fact, he only gets to have sex once every seven years, and that’s more animalistic than meaningful. So why on earth were so many women drawn to this pairing–and why is it STILL a thriving fandom? They’re both emotionally unavailable alpha males, they both take their jobs very seriously, and they both have myriad issues. But, despite the difference in rank, they were equals. Kirk could count on Spock no matter what, and Spock had an equal amount of faith in his captain. They could go on adventures together. They could have really rough sex and push sexual boundaries. They were intellectual equals, though they had different types of intelligence. But it wouldn’t be out of character to be tender with each other, either. [...]