The book madness begins

Me being interviewed by Bahram Sadeghi after a screening of The Bi Apple at C*lick Me. Packed house!

I have a big fat post on the way about Amsterdam (I’ll do one here and one on Fleshbot as well) - including video, though at the moment I’m too tired to sort that out. In the meantime, check out the scads of photos on my Flickr.

I had a really amazing time in Amsterdam, with lots of food for thought - which hopefully I’ll have time to write about in detail, though I’m already feeling a bit daunted by the upcoming weeks of madness.

Speaking of: my book is for sale in book stores! Huzzah! Also, I am doing a real flesh and blood tour, starting this week with:
June 4: SMUT reading, Galapagos Art Space, 8 pm at 70 North 6th street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn with Rachel Kramer Bussel and Courtney Weber
June 5: Bluestockings Bookstore, 7 pm at 172 Allen Street, NYC
June 6: McNally Robinson Booksellers Seal Authors Event with Jessica Valenti
and Helen Boyd, 7 pm at 53 Prince St, NYC
June 7: Brookline Booksmith, 7 pm at 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA

Also, I am doing a blog tour, which involves bloggers writing about the book. There is a schedule of blog (and live action) tour dates here, and I’ll be posting links as the posts go up.

First stop on the blog tour is Madeline in the Mirror. She wrote a lot of nice and smart things about the book, and here’s one illuminating paragraph:

This is not a “you’ve read the blog, now read the book” phenomenon. Ray uses her academic prowess to amass the real life experiences of women across the Internet and then makes them accessible to the reader. Naked on the Internet is not the personal story of Audacia Ray, though in a way, it is. She has the fortune of being present at this stage of the Internet and the shifting paradigm of sexuality in America, and of having been involved in so many aspects of Internet sexuality.

Maddy put the post up on Friday but I haven’t had the chance to post about it until today due to naughtiness in Amsterdam. It’s not an excuse, just the reality.

Also on Friday, Regina Lynn put up an interview with me on Wired. In her introduction, she says:

Most interesting to me is how Ray includes sex workers as legitimate voices in the changing realm of female sexuality. The internet itself has changed sex work significantly, but it has also brought more women into the field, many of whom don’t think of themselves as “sex workers.” If you model fetishy outfits once or twice a year for cash to spend on a new tattoo, are you a sex worker? If you dance naked on webcam in an adult community but don’t get paid for it, are you a sex worker, an erotic artist or both?

There’s also a 20-questions interview up at Hot Movies for Her, which is both funny and illuminating (if I do say so myself).

Check those out, plus the Flickr stuff, and I’ll be posting more when I’m coherent and better rested.