Pervert Guides

Hi and welcome to the Righteous Perverts Pulpit! This is the first blog so we will introduce ourselves over the next two weeks. There are two of us ladies (and I use that term loosely) who will be your guides to the weird and wonderful world of the Righteous Perverts Chat and Facebook Groups.

Let us introduce ourselves.

I am Tina. What to tell you. Hmmmm. I am a Leo who likes…..Scratch that you don’t care about that stuff. Instead, I think I will start with the story of how I became a Righteous Pervert. Let’s see. I met most of my cyber friends thanks to Sherrilyn Kenyon’s old website, lovingly referred to as the Dark Hunter BBS.  This is where I met your other guide, Luna.  She and I bonded over hotties. I found the pictures and she made me beautiful banners using them. I also met several other members of the Righteous Perverts on the BBS.

We were very sad to see the BBS go away to the new site and, while the site was in transition, we looked for a new place to chat. Several other members of the BBS told us about Facebook, and that is where we all met up again.

                                                               The Perversion Conversion

Another one of my BBS friends, Bonnie gave me my first erotic romance book, Decadent by the amazing Shayla Black, for my birthday several years ago, and I have been hooked ever since.  One day Bonnie sent me a message saying I should check out this live chat site that featured authors. It was hosted by an author named Kris Cook.   I was skeptical about chats because I am a natural lurker.  I went, not expecting to ever go again, but then Kris welcomed me with such warmth that I decided to keep going—for a while.

I never would have guessed that I would be addicted to chatting so fast. I met some of the most amazing authors there and was shocked to find out how wonderful and normal they are. See, I have always thought of authors as people who had the most amazing ability to take me on a journey without me leaving my home. I put them on a pedestal and never thought that they would be as generous and genuine as they always appear to be in interviews and on the dust jackets of their books. 

At this point, I was still new to the genre of erotic romance so I had never read most of the authors who were guests at the first few chats. After talking to them, most of the intrigued me so off to Barnes and Noble I went. That first year my debit card groaned every time I walked into Barnes and Noble, I swear I could hear it. Soon I was reading several books a day. I was buying all the back lists of most of the authors and discovering new ones every Wednesday.

I found that I was staying later and later after the official chat was done, just talking to some amazing people. Our conversations ranged from books to sex toys to sex acts to anything that caught our fancy.  Naughty and Risqué became words to describe our group, and rightly so. 

Wednesday became my favorite day of the week because I could talk about my passion for Smutty Goodness. I found that I missed my friends the rest of the days of the week so I decided to try something new called a Facebook Group.  I contacted Kris and asked him if he minded if I called it the Kris Cook Chatters. I was shocked when he said I could and that he wanted to be a part of the group. I got it started and added a few of the friends I had made at chats. I even sent invitations to several of the authors that had been chat guests. I was so excited to see that they accepted the invitation to join the group. The group then began to grow fast.

Kris had an author friend of his, Sophie Oak, as a guest and she became a regular chatter.  She mentioned our chat group and called us Righteous Perverts in the dedication of her book, Siren Enslaved. The name stuck and a few months later the Kris Cook Chatters changed our name to the Righteous Perverts. We have tried to live up to our name and hopefully have succeeded.

                                                                                    FigFest

A group of us started talking about trying to meet up in Dallas. Why Dallas? Well, a couple of reasons. One, most of our favorite authors seem to live in Texas. I think there might be something in the water in that state.  Another reason is our group is spread out around the country and even in The Great White North, also known as Canada. So picking a place that was kind of in the middle of the country was perfect.

I was excited to see that so many people wanted to come to what became known as FigFest.  We actually managed to get several members there, and we had a wonderful time. The highlight for me was meeting the authors. Kris, Sophie, Shayla, Heather Long and Heather Rainier hosted a luncheon for the group that included some fantastic margaritas. I had an awesome time just sitting there and watching the group that I spend several hours a week with, having fun and meeting people who enrich our lives with their talent and dedication to their writing.  I hope to do it again sometime and, hopefully, a few new people would like to join us. 

Wow. I had no idea what to write about but now I see I have written over 900 words. I guess when I get to yapping, I can’t seem to stop. Sorry people, but I guess you now see why we have a group that is very active on Facebook.

Sinfully Sarcastic
-Shmuttmeister