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Susie Bright is the first and reigning queen of contemporary erotica. In How to Write a Dirty Story she reveals her tricks of the trade and shows you how to heat up sex scenes in everything from traditional novels and romances to science fiction and humor. Easing the aspiring writer into the creative process, she tells you how to write the steamy plots and sensual characters that publishers and readers (and listeners) are looking for.

They thought she'd be ease. They thought wrong. It all began with the phone call asking former porn star Angel Dare to do one more movie. Before she knew it, she’d been shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car. But Angel is a survivor. And that means she’ll get to the bottom of what’s been done to her, even if she has to leave a trail of bodies along the way….

In this excerpt from In Bed with Susie Bright, Susie interviews Yale psychologist Paul Bloom about his fascinating best-selling book How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like. Paul and Susie talk about the pleasures of sex and how we perceive them.

[Contains explicit content] It's our last show after 22 years—ones of the longest-running podcasts in show business! In Bed set the tone for so much of what podcasting has come to mean: authenticity, intimacy, and saying what can't be said anywhere else. Susie interviews the behind-the-scenes Audible producers who have made IBWSB so special over the years: Kerry Donahue, Larry Blood, and Jessica Lockhart. We share some amazing memories and studio secrets that even Susie didn't know at the time!

In this week's Front Page, Susie turns her skeptical, sexpert eyes on the growing industry of creams and potion being billed as " Viagra for women." While her free samples are in the mail, Susie explains her skepticism of these stimulating creams and potions and talks instead about what actually makes sex more pleasurable for women. In her Media Whore section, Susie lists her favorite educational sex videos from the porn industry. And, it's week three of Susie's summer challenge.

In our ongoing "Tell Me Your Sex Story" segment, we meet a listener who became famous when she went head-to-head against a cantankerous Tea Party Republican. It was Melissa, a Post Office employee who kept her cool as Congressman Joe Walsh went berserk at a local "meet and greet". (Check it out on YouTube.) Susie and Melissa talk about sexual politics, government corruption, and just what happens to mail carriers when the homeowner wants more than just letters delivered.

To mark its 15th anniversary, and the very last edition of the series, the top-selling erotica anthology achieves a scorching new climax with a special edition showcasing standout stories from the entire series as well as never before published pieces - plus a hot and edgy piece from Susie Bright herself.

Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. This anthology includes brand-new stories by: Tommy Moore, Jessica Breheny, Naomi Hirahara, Calvin McMillin, Liza Monroy, Elizabeth McKenzie, Jill Wolfson, Ariel Gore, Jon Bailiff, Maceo Montoya, Micah Perks, Seana Graham, Vinnie Hansen, Peggy Townsend, Margaret Elysia Garcia, Lou Mathews, Lee Quarnstrom, Dillon Kaiser, Beth Lisick, and Wallace Baine.

On this week's In Bed, Susie talks to author Victoria Bynum. Her book The Free State of Jones turns the narrative of slavery and rebellion in the South on its ear, and explores the legacy of miscegenation still being worked out today. It was made into a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey, which will be released in June.

Get ready for a roller-coaster ride for your senses as Harriet Lerner, Mollie Katzen, and Susie Bright unleash their ideas about America's favorite taboos in Food, Sex, and Relationships. With combined book sales of over seven million copies, these three best-selling writers are at the height of their powers as they cast light in the shadowy corners of the human mind.

Susie is ready to scream! A recent study once again shows that women are not reaching orgasm nearly as often as men. It's not fair! Susie looks at the role of oral sex in this unfortunate gap between men's and women's pleasure. Seems like there is a lot more giving head and less eating pussy happening these days.

Susie Bright digs into the meaning that's underneath people's actions, beliefs, and philosophies when it comes to sex. These interviews take a look at linguistics, "Penthouse Letters", gay pulp fiction and Victorian-Age erotica - to uncover the history of sexual evolution.

Author, editor, publisher, performer, sexpert, and culture critic Susie Bright has delivered decades of frank, funny, and informative insights on all things sexy with her podcast In Bed with Susie Bright, available only from Audible. Now, as the show comes to a close, hear some of Susie’s favorite moments featured in these nine hand-selected episodes.

Susie is totally enamored by a blog called The Honest Courtesan, written by Maggie McNeil, and we feature an interview with her today. Susie wanted to know more about how Maggie got started in the profession, as well as why she finally gave it up. In this very candid conversation, Maggie talks about working in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. And Susie asks her what the biggest myth is about prostitutes.

Susie's happy Brits can finally see what's behind the green door. The British Board of Film Classification is allowing explicit pornography into the country for the first time. Then, Susie talks with writer Jane DeLynn, the author of one of Susie's earliest erotic favorites, Some Do, as well as Don Juan in the Village, and most recently, Leash. Susie and Jane debate the existence of "lesbian bed death" and whether you can will yourself to like being a bottom. Then, should jocks shave?

After Andrea Dworkin, the famous feminist philosopher and activist, passed away, her chief critic, Susie Bright, who many perceived as Dworkin's opposite, published a stirring obituary and series of essays in which she described the ways that Dworkin was a catalyst for the sex-positive movement in contemporary feminism.

What do naked toddlers, TV's reality show The Bachelorette and premature ejaculations all have in common? They are topics up for discussion on today's show. And in our featured story, Susie looks at an article by fellow sexpert Cory Silverberg called "Why I Love Premature Ejaculation". What?

A hilarious, wildly erotic, and biting satire of Hollywood, Blue Movie tells the story of King B., an Oscar-winning director who's determined to shoot the dirtiest and most expensive X-rated movie ever made; Sid Krassman, a producer who's made a fortune catering to the tastes of the American public, and Angela Sterling, a misunderstood sex symbol who'd give anything (and everything) for a chance to do something "serious."

[Contains explicit content] Susie recalls the life and work of one of her biggest intellectual influences - feminist writer, teacher, and activist Ann Snitow - and reads an excerpt from her paper, "Mass Market Romance: Pornography Is Different for Women". And then, "New on Audible": Margaret Atwood's Life Before Man, a sophisticated meditation on non-monogamy and marriage.

[Contains explicit content] Please enjoy another show from 2007! Susie weighs in on the Georgia case of Genarlow Wilson who, at 17, was sentenced to 10 years for getting a blow job from a 15-year-old girl. Susie says it's just another example of how out of touch and hypocritical Georgia lawmakers are. Then, its Part 1 of a rare two-part interview with one of the most important figures in porn history, Jamie Gillis. Jamie's career began in the '70s as a starring stud, and by the '80s he was directing.