by Cooper West | Jul 4, 2013 | Editorial
I was thinking about when I first started wanting to write romance and erotica, and it occurred to me that I was, probably, about 9 or 10 years old. What I remember is drawing very, uh, lurid cartoon people having sex in a variety of positions. At the time I was...
by Cooper West | Jul 3, 2013 | Modus Operandi
My brother and I have been having a lot of talks lately about life. Maybe we’re both at the mid-life crisis stage (we’re in the right age zone, anyway!) but it’s more like were at the “figure out your life” crisis stage. So we’ve...
by Cooper West | Jun 29, 2013 | Writing Update
I’m almost in a state of shock that I just hit the “send” button on the email submission of my (finally finished!) book, The Protector. I’ve talked about it before, and it’s a story that has literally taken nearly two calendar years to...
by Cooper West | Jun 28, 2013 | Editorial
I’m an archivist, at least that’s the day!job description. I work for a congressional library, which is a fancy way of saying I work for the archives of a particular (now dead) congressman. As a sideline, because our archives are not exactly very busy (we...
by Cooper West | Jun 27, 2013 | Editorial, Health, Modus Operandi
I’m going a little OT with that headline, I know. Bear with me. Recently my friend Sarah Madison wrote a very powerful essay about the power of self-acceptance and self-love, which focused heavily on her body image issues. To say I related to that whole...
