about me

My first post here was a childrens/ young people's novel set in the First World War but I have withdrawn it.
Essentially, I do not have time to 'play the game' here, and my story warrants better handling. I'm leaving my name and ID up here for the time being, so that if the opportunity arises I can get back to reading and commenting on others' work.
My sincere thanks to those who did support 'Mademoiselle' so kindly.

R Maxwell Thompson/R V Raiment is a published author with one novel and a half dozen tales in anthologies.

I'm English, live in Surrey, about 40 minutes train ride from Central London (which I love) and I work in education.

I draw, paint (mostly now on computer) and develop learning resources, love kids, like cats and dogs and horses, read a lot of history.

I cut my writer's teeth writing erotica and I have been a member of an on-line writers' community, the Erotica Readers and Writers Association, for almost a decade, though not continuously, and have had a number of works published on their site as well as on other equally reputable sites.

My first commercially published novel, "Aphrodite Overboard" has just been reissued as an ebook with an altogether sexier cover than the original. My work has also featured in the "Mammoth Book of New Erotica (Vol 5)", "Cream, The Best of ERWA" and in various other anthologies.

To my own pleasant surprise, my latest story has just been published in the anthology 'Lesbian Cops, Erotic Investigations' edited by the great Sacchi Green.


As far as future reading and supporting is concerned, much depends on time and my level of busy-ness. If I have the chance to help, I will.

favourite books

Any and everything by Dickens,
Any and everything by Conan Doyle,
Forgotten Voices of the First World War, Max Arthur
The Don Camillo books by Giovanni Guareschi
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
Shamela and Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding (?)
Lost Voices of the Royal Navy, Max Arthur
The Hornblower series and The Gun, by CS Forester, and more...
To Kill a Mockingbird.
Band of Brothers.
The stories of P G Wodehouse.

my websites

http://www.doodles4schools.com     http://www.vraimenterotique.com