I speak with author Michelle Tea over on my other site today, and she has some advice for other writers:

What advice would you give writers who are first-time-public-readers who are nervous about their first performance?
Well, many people enjoy a bravery-boosting cocktail, and lord knows I spent the 90s on stage delivering my poetry in a cloud of booze bravado, but now I'm in AA so you might want to watch that. Face your fears, people. The audience doesn't bite. I've found most audiences to be very warm and cuddly, and they looooooove nervous little first-timers.

And what advice would you give writers on creating a good sex scene?

Oh jeez I don't know. I guess it depends on what sort of good sex scene you're trying to accomplish. I think really awful and awkward sex scenes are so real and therefore good, but they don't necessarily get you off — they're not meant to. As for sex scenes that get you off, that's a personal thing. I just like stories that are really raw and nasty and don't try to be all mysterious and 'erotic'.