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Q&A
THE E WORD
Writer-artist team makes sex education fun
There’s no reason
education can’t be fun
and entertaining, and
author Jordan Rawlins
and visual artist F.C. Brandt do
just that with their A-B-C book
E Is for Erotica.
The duo channel their inner
Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss
for the colorful rhyming primer,
which assigns a different fetish
to each letter of the alphabet.
Readers are guided by a naked,
long-bearded wizard name
Beardo McWeirdo, who helps
present information without
judgment.
The pair funded the book’s
publication through a successful
Kickstarter.com campaign, and
showcased it at the AVN Adult
Entertainment Expo in Las
Vegas last month.
Rawlins and Brandt
answered some questions from
AVN about their creation.
How difficult was it to come up with the 26 fetishes? (Or maybe it was harder to narrow down?)
What has the reception to the book been?
JR: Amazing! There’s a moment when you realize
JR: It was letter to letter. Some we had too many
you’ve written a poem about having sex with a dead
choices and we had to look at what was most visually
body, and illustrated it, when you worry, but across the
interesting (and best to rhyme). Others were hard to
board, people from all walks of life have enjoyed it ...
find anything. I’m proud to say that between us we
kind of like sex, I guess.
knew a lot of fetishes, though.
FC: We’ve taken it to several conventions, and there’s
FC: Definitely harder to “narrow down” the words.
a huge audience ... we’re just trying to find them all. :-)
We wanted to have a good balance of concepts, and
also keep things to a “hard R” in terms of rating ...
something one might catch on Skinemax in the 1980s.
As an example of keeping balance in mind, we had
Hentai for “H” and Tentacle Porn for “T” (the latter is
already a funny specific version of the former), at first,
but didn’t want to make it a book just about Japanese-
based fetishes (although that might make a fun sequel).
Also, there’s a balance between the expected and the
obscure.
Where can people find the book to buy it?
JR: EisforErotica.com
FC: We send people to our own website for ease and
convenience. I’d love to send folks to Amazon for it, but
it shows up sixth on Amazon. It’s the only exact title
match, and we show up sixth!
In the near future, we’ll be uploading a YouTube
video with Jordan reading the poems. And there may be
a Kindle version coming, too ... it’s a lot of work to get it
everywhere it needs to be.
Is this your first collaboration together?
Are there more in the works?
JR: This was our first. Hopefully there will be
many more, but those will take place on a large yacht
purchased with the profits of this first one.
FC: We’ve discussed sequels. At the very least a
trilogy. But, yes, we’ll need to be sitting on a yacht,
first. We can’t go into much detail about what they’d be
about. Can’t let the competition get the jump on us. :-)
What do you want readers to know about the book?
JR: That it’s for them. Each and everyone of them.
This book is all about inclusion, acceptance, filtered
through two things we all enjoy: consensual sex and
laughter.
FC: It’s tough to do a funny book about enlightened
meditation. This was our best effort, and we hope everyone
will get something deep and meaningful out of it.
Making Book Above, on display at AEE. Bottom,
Beardo McWeirdo with Jillian Janson at the show.
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