Erotica is nothing new.

Neither is scandal.

But you'd be hard-pressed to find an author to compare to the one I'm spotlighting in this episode who did awful things in and out of books.
The Marquis de Sade was a libertine and a madman. He wrote books that still shock the sensibilities even today, books that would be banned from Amazon if we wrote adapted his style to modern times.

So who was he? What was he like? How did he become one of the most famous and notorious authors whose name is synonymous with pain? And why is his work still available when modern authors sometimes find themselves censored?

Sources for this podcast include:

 Smithsonian magazine's article, "Who Was the Marquis De Sade?https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-was-marquis-de-sade-180953980/

The Guardian's "The Most Impure Tale Ever Written"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/07/marquis-de-sade-120-days-of-sodom-published-classic

The New Yorker's At Home with the Marquis de Sade

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/10/12/at-home-with-the-marquis-de-sade

I also want to include a link to K. Webster's "The Wild," which was banned on Amazon. If deSade's books are still available there, I feel like she needs a shout-out.

https://www.authorkwebster.com/product/the-wild/

I'd also like to recognize author Olivia Fox, whose excerpt from her latest book, Daddy's Sweet Ride, appears at the end of this eposide. You can find her books on Amazon here:

www.amazon.com/Olivia-Fox/e/B07ZXMH4CN

Check out her web site at http://www.oliviafoxromance.com

As always, I want to thank our sponsor, L. Woods PR. If you're an author looking for services, they're the ones to see.

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