Welcome to Filthy Fiction With Feelings
Episode 00: Welcome to Filthy Fiction With Feelings - Season One Introduction
Episode Overview This is the introduction to Filthy Fiction With Feelings, a year-long narrative experiment exploring erotic storytelling, emotional truth, and the craft that holds it all together. I'm Tasha L. Harrison—romance author, developmental editor, and your guide through this project where fiction and psychology talk to each other loudly, sensually, and without apology.
What This Podcast Is:
A space for commentary about the sensual, character-driven fiction with messy, fascinating psychology beneath it
Each season explores a different narrative experiment with the same guiding principles: heat with heart, eroticism with emotional integrity
NOT a recap podcast, NOT a craft lecture, NOT erotic fiction with the edges filed down
A place where fiction and psychology talk to each other—where kink, longing, shame, fear, pleasure, and connection are treated as wisdom, not taboo.
This Year's Project: A Soft Place to Land Ten years of friendship. One midnight kiss. And suddenly, Jade and Theo can't pretend they're "just friends" anymore.
A year-long, slow-burn, grown-folks romance told across four seasonal acts about two best friends who've been choosing each other for a decade—quietly, consistently, intimately—without ever crossing the line. Until New Year's Eve.
Meet The Characters:
Jade Thompson (43): Brand designer who's built a life entirely on her own terms. She's learned the hard way that men who say they love her strength eventually try to relieve her of it—as if independence were a burden instead of a choice.
Theo Matthews (45): Divorce lawyer starting over after his own divorce and cross-country move to Atlanta. He's tired of shrinking himself to fit relationships that were never going to work anyway.
The Central Question: What happens when two people who already share trust, affection, and emotional safety discover they are also sexually—and psychologically—compatible in ways that terrify them both?
How This Works:
Every Friday at 3pm EST: New chapter of A Soft Place to Land drops on Substack
Every Wednesday: Podcast episode breaking down what's happening emotionally and psychologically in the story
Paid Subscribers Get: Bonus scenes, behind-the-scenes craft notes, subscriber chat access
What I'll Be Talking About:
The emotional work the narrative is doing
How I'm using desire to reveal character
Why I made specific narrative choices
The psychology beneath the eroticism
How shadow work shows up in the story
What these characters are really asking for when they ask for what they want
Who This Is For:
Readers who want tension you can feel in your teeth, kink written with emotional depth and ethical clarity, characters that are messy and grown and vulnerable
Writers trying to figure out how to integrate kink authentically, who want to understand the psychology beneath desire, who want to see emotional architecture built scene by scene
Anyone who understands that the erotic is where truth lives, that desire reveals character, that vulnerability is the gateway to intimacy
About Me:
Romance author for almost fifteen years
Developmental editor specializing in emotional architecture in romance
I write cozy kink: BDSM that centers safety, communication, emotional intimacy, and character growth
Gen X Black woman with a BA in English Literature
My craft work is designed specifically for Black, Indigenous, queer, disabled, and racialized authors who want to write romance that goes deeper
Why I'm Doing This: I wanted space to talk about my writing in real time—how I do it, the parts I love, the parts I hate, the parts that challenge me. I've spent years helping other authors build emotional architecture. Now I'm building this story with intention and letting you watch me do it. Every choice, every scene, every emotional beat—made visible.
What's Next: Next week, I'm diving into Chapter One of A Soft Place to Land, breaking down how I'm establishing the reader contract from page one, what shadow work looks like when it's just starting to surface, and why the beginning of a cozy kink romance looks different than you might expect.
Connect With Me:
At the End of 2026: A Soft Place to Land releases as a complete novel in ebook and print. But right now, you get to experience it as it unfolds in real time.
Final Thought: Filthy Fiction With Feelings is the umbrella. A Soft Place to Land is this year's storm. Let's get filthy. Let's get emotional. Let's get into the story.
I'll see you next week.
