About the Author

VIOLET BLUE (tinynibbles.com) is a blogger, high-profile tech personality, award-winning bestselling author and editor of more than two dozen books in five languages, podcaster, reporter for Web TV show GETV, technology futurist, and sex-positive pundit in mainstream media such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN and The Tyra Banks Show. She is the sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, with a weekly column titled "Open Source Sex," and she runs a podcast by the same name with more than 8 million downloads and counting. Violet is also a Forbes Web Celeb and one of Wired's Faces of Innovation. She writes for media outlets such as Forbes; O, The Oprah Magazine; and the UN-sponsored international health organization RH Reality Check. Violet gives lectures to cyberlaw classes at UC Berkeley, human sexuality programs at UCSF, and tech conferences (ETech and SXSW), in addition to sex crisis counselors at community teaching institutions and Google Tech Talks. Her tech blog is at techyum.com, and she publishes DRMfree audio and e-books at DigitaPub.com.