It’s Squib Saturday. Time to share the best, most interesting (or most entertaining, or most outrageous) tidbit of information I’ve gleaned from all the stuff I’ve read this week. Today: Writing Bad Sex Scenes Gets You an Award — in the UK.
It’s called the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. It is supposed to discourage authors from writing an “outstandingly bad scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel.” The Literary Review, an upscale British magazine started giving out this annual prize 23 years ago in 1993. This year, nominees, initially selected by readers, included best selling authors Ian McEwan, and Jonathan Safran Foer who was nominated for the following gem from Here I Am: Continue reading “News Squib#10 – The Bad Sex Writing Award”