Violet Blue
Violet Blue is a hardworking sex writer, editor, adult book and video reviewer and machine artist.
Violet Blue is the best-selling author and editor of ten books on sex and sexuality, all currently in print, three of which have been in Amazon.com's top ten sex and erotica categories for the past four years. Violet's first book, Sweet Life: Erotic Fantasies for Couples, has been the number one fiction title on several adult retailers best-selling book lists since its release, and sold out of its first printing within one month of release. Her third title, The Ultimate Guide to Fellatio has been in the top three Amazon.com nonfiction sex titles for the past three years and has sold over 50,000 copies worldwide, with her Ultimate Guide to Cunnilingus right behind in sales. Both oral sex titles have been translated into French, Spanish and soon Russian and Turkish.
Violet is a sex columnist and a sex educator, writing about erotica, pornography, and sexual pleasure and health for various magazines; she is a professional sex blogger. She is the Assistant Editor at Fleshbot.com (Gawker Media), the sex columnist at SFist (Gothamist Media), and lectures to human sexuality students at colleges and independent teaching facilities. She is a celebrity forum moderator at Stockroom's Kinkwire Forum. Her website Tiny Nibbles averages 10-65,000 unique visitors a day. Her podcast Open Source Sex has hit the #3 spot in iTunes at least once and has been featured in Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal.
Background: Violet has been a professional sex educator for over eight years. Her training includes over 80 hours of sex ed training courses, extensive reading and viewing curriculum, over 1000 hours of client counseling, and for over seven years she worked closely with women-run adult retailer Good Vibrations' Education Department to write and develop their training and outreach materials (GV's education staff trains a range of health care professionals including Planned Parenthood). Violet lectures to human sexuality students at San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley and to trainees at national sex crisis and information hotline San Francisco Sex Information.
Violet Blue's newest book, Fetish Sex: An Erotic Guide for Couples arrives June 2006. Daedalus Publishing ISBN 1-88-1943-23-2
