where would we be without friends/

Up the proverbial creek without a paddle I reckon.


 This last weekend nine erotica author friends got together in Scotland for a weekend of chat, gossip, (yeah and bitching) wine and well ....


 It was fun and laughter filled, we all get on really well, and it was over all too soon. If you think that little over a year ago we were all non published, only two of us knew each other, and we met on line...


(Yeah, okay I can hear the OMG and argh from here, but hey we are all who we say we are, do have a very wide age range and do honestly get on.) We all agree we were blooming lucky that we all entered an on-line competition to get published, got nowhere, became friends, set up a crit group and *deep breath* here we are today. Of the nine, eight are published or contracted and number nine is almost there.


And to be honest, I think everyone of us would say a good part of the reason we are where we are, is due to our friends in the crit group. We support, sympathize, nag, brag, push, shove, hug, and pimp each other at the appropriate moments.


There's always someone to celebrate or commiserate with you when you need it. Someone to share the highs and lows.


Over this past year we have become true friends, not just crit group colleagues. We may not all live close to each other, but we keep in touch, visit when we can, and are now part of each others lives.


One of the reasons this works is that we are honest with each other. If we have had a rejection we say so. Why not? We've all had them, and will all get them. no point in lying. Hey we all are writers, we know how these things work (sadly, sometimes only too well). But the rest of us are there, knowing how you feel, able to offer honest advice and help you back up on your feet so to speak.


There has to be give and take of course, you have to give and receive ( lol) no doms or subs, toppers or bottomers except in our feverish deviant minds and in our very hot novels ( true, go check 'em out.), and in general we do.


So this is really just to say, thanks to a great bunch of ladies, superb writers, and roll on the next meet up, when hopefully some of our friends who missed this will be with us.


WE Rock!