Friday, June 17, 2011

Pretty as Picture!

New e-book alert! Yes, Beautiful Trouble has published yet another of my short romantic erotica, and though I'm proud of all my tales, this one has a very special place in my heart. It's one of my shortest stories, but it is one that I spent a lot of time on.


"Pretty as a Picture" is my tribute to Big Beautiful Women, a story about a fashion photographer who yearns not for the rail-thin models he photographs, but for a woman, as he says, of "three-dimensions." Told entirely from the photographer's p.o.v. it is, perhaps, the most poetic of all my stories as I felt it important to get across in words how the photographer saw his world, the beauty he was trying to capture with his camera.


Having the story all from his perspective allowed me to indulge in lush descriptions and give readers insight into the sexual allure of a plus-sized woman.


Even though the point-of-view is only from one angle, however, both characters reflect on the theme of appearance and prejudices. There is the photographer and his views on thin vs. heavy women; and then there is the plus-sized woman and her feelings about this very handsome man. That he is trim and attractive might seem to counter the message of beauty being in the photographic lens of the beholder. The point, however, is that assumptions on what is and is not attractive can run both ways. I wanted the reader and the photographer to realize that there there might be more to him than his good looks.

That, at least, is some of what I was aiming to achieve when I framed this snap-shot of a story. I hope you'll give "Pretty as a Picture" a read--and I hope, if you do, that you get as much out of it as I put into it.