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18Jun

Today’s guest! KL Joy!

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Hello, everyone! My name is KL Joy, and I’m thrilled to be here today as part of my blog tour for Desire: Stories of Longing, which is the follow-up novel to Catalyst: Stories of Awakening. I often get asked a whole load of questions, and these seem to be the most frequently asked. I’m sure a lot of authors in our genre can relate. So, here is my FAQ of Kinky Erotica Authors.

Question 1: Don’t you just play on Facebook/FetLife all day?

The simple answer is no, I would never get any work done. I have two screens on my PC and they are both taken up by word docs at the moment. On minimize is my browser, it is only opened to ask questions that relate to what I’m doing, post status updates, and look at in break times. Discipline is the key to writing. Without a strong work ethic, nothing would get done. I pride myself on my discipline I set a word limit at the beginning of the day (when writing a book) and will not go to bed ’til that is reached.

Question 2: What fuels your creativity; where do you find inspiration?

People fuel my creativity in my life, my friends, people who I meet at clubs and munches. Munches, for those who haven’t heard the term before, are where kinky people come together informally to eat in a vanilla environment, usually a café/bistro/pub. Also a great way for newbies to meet more experienced people in the kink community, since there is no pressure. Conversation is the key.

08Jun

Today’s guest! Joely Sue Burkhart!

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When you write character-driven stories, you sometimes get surprised. Sometimes the character shows up talking and walking and living and breathing with a definite agenda. It’s not my story. It’s his or her story. And all I can do is hold on for the ride.

With Her Grace’s Stable, it was definitely a crazy ride. A ride I didn’t expect.

I’ll come right out up front and say I didn’t know anything about pony play when I started this book. I have no personal experience to build on. I didn’t even intend for the story to go down that path until Lady Blackmyre took me into the stable within the first couple of thousand words.

I dug in my heels. I didn’t want to go there. I was afraid I’d make a mistake. But Lady Blackmyre insisted. She reminded me of my favorite books I’d read as a child: The Black Stallion series. I grew up riding horses. I had experience in that regard. I know the pleasure of riding your horse for hours, the smell and creak of leather, the companionship and joy. For the rest, I just had to use my imagination.

It was easy to think of a big wild stallion that just needed a gentle but firm hand to tame him. I found the idea of an insanely vicious crazed-animal-of-a man who could be tamed by the right woman very appealing. And each time my confidence wavered, Lady Blackmyre would remind me to just listen to the characters. If I were true to them, all would be well in the end.

05Jun

Today’s guest! Laura Antoniou!

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Just another character quirk

by Laura Antoniou, author of The Killer Wore Leather

I’m not a message writer; I subscribe to the Samuel Goldwyn school of using Western Union for such purposes. Although these days, I’d substitute Twitter.

Still, story elements serve a purpose, and there’s a reason I wanted to write my first mystery set within the world of leather/kink and BDSM. And it’s a very simple one.

When writers first put what we would call gay characters into modern stories and books, they were almost always villains or victims, and often both. They were predatory perverts and psychosexual fiends and freaks, or sad, lonely “inverts” whose search for love or lust eventually condemned them to a variety of deaths worthy of a couple episodes of Game of Thrones. They weren’t characters as much as they were caricatures, and badly drawn ones at that. The story was about how their identity and feelings and yearnings would eventually lead to a bad end.

Later on, they began to turn up as comic relief, or convenient foils for a heterosexual hero or heroine, cut off from any larger sense of identity or community – still often sad and lonely, if more likely to be bitter and sarcastic about it. They didn’t tend to have a story per se – they were relegated to plucky comic relief or corpse around which the lead players could gather and mourn before getting on to the real (and presumably heterosexual) storyline.

02Jun

Today’s guest! Sierra Cartwright!

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Have you ever read a book that spoke to you on so many levels that it left you breathless?

When I first discovered BDSM fiction, I had that experience.

Not only did it leave me breathless, it fuelled dozens of fantasies.

Long before I ever tasted the BDSM lifestyle, I was a voracious reader, and I could consume as many stories about BDSM as I could get my hands on. Maybe like you, there were many books I read over and over again.

I always gravitated toward stories with stern, unyielding Doms, and I was particularly interested in ones that prominently featured trainers.

To me, trainers were the elite Doms, you know, more stern, more unyielding than even a badass Dom. They seemed to be extraordinarily committed to the subs under their instruction, forming their behaviour, teaching protocols, breaking down their barriers, guiding them through the emotional issues.

Secretly, I wondered what it might be like to go through BDSM training.

In my most recent book, On His Terms, I explore some of the themes that intrigue me the most.What’s it like for a strong, competent businesswoman to subject herself to another’s commands? What’s it like for a Dom who hasn’t trained in a lot of years to take a challenging woman under his tutelage? What’s it like to be tested to the limit emotionally as well as physically? What’s it like to be changed from the inside out?

The dynamic that developed between Chelsea, an ambitious businesswoman who will stop at nothing to achieve her dreams, and Master Alexander, an unrelenting Dom with very definite ideas of his own, was fascinating to me. Some of Chelsea’s struggles are my own. And Master Alexander… He’s a Dom I’d love to meet, strong, firm, yet intrigued by this woman who has sought him out. He won’t stop until he knows everything there is to know about her. And once he does, how can he let her go?

15May

Today’s guest! Ann Mayburn!

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Excerpt from ‘Still’

“So, you live here now?”

“Yes.” She glanced at him then back at the road. “I bought some land outside of Austin.”

“Where at?”

“Southwest of Lakeway. Where are you calling home?”

He fiddled with the door. “Right now, just an apartment down by Buda.”

“Is that where your family is? I remember you mentioning something about your mother being a high school teacher in Buda.”

Surprise crossed his weary, but still handsome features. “Yeah. I didn’t realize you were paying attention.”

“Wyatt, I’ve always paid attention to everything you said.”

“Me too, Doc, me too.” He shifted like he was going to touch her, then clenched his hands together in his lap. “So how’re ya liking Austin?”

“It’s nice.”

She glanced over at him and her heartbeat picked up. From the moment she saw him she wanted him but, first, he needed to know some things about her. She wasn’t going to change who she was but, at the same time, she really wanted to get to know Wyatt better. Something about him called to her heart, and to her soul, in a way she hadn’t felt in years.

“I found a local club that I go to now and again.”

“Really? What club? Maybe I could meet you there sometime.” He cleared his throat and quickly added. “You know, to catch up and stuff.”

“It’s called Lila’s.” She waited for his reaction, half expecting him to say that yes he did, indeed, know of the BDSM club and went there often. It wouldn’t surprise her one bit to find out that he was a Dom.

“Never heard of it.”

10May

Today’s guest! Deena Ward!

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Remembering the first time by Deena Ward

No, I don’t mean that first time. I’m talking about the first BDSM novel you read.

Regardless of where their tastes might take them or what new authors they might prefer in the future, the multitudes of readers whose first exposure to BDSM fiction came courtesy of the FSOG trilogy, will likely recall Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele with eternal favor, as their firsts.

We all have firsts. I remember mine. It was special, secret, and felt like it belonged exclusively to me in an odd way.

When I initially found myself interested in BDSM (more years ago than I care to claim, thank you), I lived with my partner in a rural area with no kink community, so we sought out a virtual online community. I guilelessly slipped into a BDSM chat room one night and politely typed in that I was a curious female needing information. You can imagine the response I got: instantaneously cyber-collared by several dozen tough-talking poseurs.

It took a while to find people who actually lived the lifestyle, but I eventually did and formed a platonic friendship with an older male dominant who became a mentor of sorts to my partner and me. When he learned that I enjoyed writing, he suggested that I write down my fantasies and share them with my partner, creating a different way for us to connect.

I gave it a try, liked it, and later passed some of my scribbles along to my Dom friend. He encouraged me to do more, and then, he told me a secret.

08May

Today’s guest! Cara Adams!

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Werewolves, Panthers, Ménages and BDSM all in the one book. Why not?

I’ve always had a taste for erotic romance. Likely I was the only child in middle school who’d read “Forever Amber”, “Sons and Lovers”, and “The Story of O”.

I was the kid who, when we visited with friends, would sit in a corner reading the family’s books, while all the other kids ran around wrecking the house. I read anything: comics, children’s books, and a lot of stuff a kid shouldn’t know about. I just loved to read.

I guess it was inevitable that I’d try to write a book of my own. My first book was about best friends Jennifer and Genevieve, and was written in the back of a school notebook. I can’t remember much about it now, but likely it was just as well it was thrown out with all my other school books at the end of the school year.

More recently I’ve enjoyed reading about shape-shifters, ménages and BDSM. One day someone said to me, “Why don’t you put them all in the one book.” That was an enticing concept. I hadn’t read an erotic romance with all those elements in it. So I did, and the “Unchained Love” series was born.

It started off as a very simple concept. A man, hiding the fact he was a werewolf shape-shifter, in love with a woman and both of them emotionally tied to another man. The werewolf was a Dom. The woman and other man both subs. But where would they live? Where could such a group of people practice their ménage love and taste for BDSM freely? Gradually Carnal Connections, a BDSM community came into being.

05May

Today’s guest! Bonnie Bliss!

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Why BDSM?

Most people don’t know the history of my little Holiday Doms Series. I actually had no intention of writing a story after Bondage on the 4^th of July. Mostly because the story was only intended as a quick holiday read for a holiday most people don’t write themed books about. I felt bad it was forgotten considering it is my favorite holiday.

Fireworks? FUN! BBQ? FUN! Light drinking? FUN! Bondage? FUN!

So, I stuffed the story full of not just some light BDSM play but also a fun little ménage that I dashed in to give it an extra dose of fun.

It was primarily just a fun, quick, read, that could make people smile, and maybe make a few people care. What I never told anyone but my husband (who writes with me) is that the characters invaded me. I had Kenny, Tom, and yes, even Millie screaming in my head, stomping their feet, asking for their stories. Oh, and Millie REALLY wants to get married! She’s a little upset the Christmas story wasn’t a Vegas Wedding. I had to sit down my impulsive submissive and let her know that she deserves more than a Vegas quickie, she replied with, “But quickies are fun!” –but I digress.

I had to tell more stories. First came, Tom, with Halloween Submission. He is my favorite. For some reason I just like this normally very emotional man that is one sexy, sexy Dom. Then came Kenny—Oh, my poor broken Kenny, in A Slave for Christmas. They all had something to say, and they all wanted their own submissives to play with. So, out of this little storm, in a market saturated with BDSM came the Bound Collection.

03May

Today’s guest! Ezrabet Bishop!

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Thank you to the wonderful Lady Lucretia for having me over today at BDSM Book Reviews! In the spirit of bondage and spankable moments, I crafted a new scene that comes months after Ceri and Herne meet in Beltane Fires. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.

Ceri in Bondage

“Stand still.” Herne grasped Ceri’s left wrist and tied it to a young sapling, securing her in place.

Ceri moaned, her eyes shielded by the blindfold he had placed over them. Her pussy moistened and her senses screamed for release.

“One more.” He bound her right wrist to another nearby tree, pulling her taut between them.

“Herne…” Ceri’s whispered plea echoed in the empty woods and she felt his warmth against her back as he ground his jean clad hips against her naked backside.

“Ceri?” Herne’s voice was clipped.

“Yes, Sir.” She panted, desire pooling between her thighs. Rubbing them together to try and ease some of the discomfort, she heard the click of Herne’s tongue behind her.

“Naughty girl. I think you just earned yourself a few more paddles for that.”

“But…”

“No.” She heard him move behind her. “You will count each stroke and thank me.”

“Yes, Sir.” Ceri smiled. She had dreamt of this moment since the first night they met in the woods all those months ago. Her love for her Forest God and Dom had grown into a fiery inferno that couldn’t be quenched and she hungered for his body like no other. The Goddess had truly blessed her.

“We begin.”

Crack!

“One.” The sting of the paddle brought tears to her eyes.

“And?” Herne’s voice became silken, but stern and she quivered in her bonds.

24Apr

Today’s guest! Bianca Sommerland!

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I flove you, babe

Should I assume everyone knows what the word ‘flove’ means? It’s always been one of my favourite words—so full of pure, raw emotion. A word used when ‘love’ just isn’t enough.

So how do you know when the characters in a book flove each other? Well, it’s not when they’re sitting in a field of wildflowers, gazing tenderly into each other’s eyes. Those big long monologues consisting of 101-reasons-why-you’re-the-one-for-me don’t cut it either. What about when the man kneels and pulls out a ring?

Nope.

Flove, in my opinion, is that moment where you’re not sure whether you want to kiss someone or kill them. The moment when you realize you just might hate this person, but you’d be willing to sacrifice your heart and soul for them. It’s an extreme that’s almost more than you can bear. Flove leaves you feeling such violent emotions you feel like you’ve been beaten to a pulp on the inside.

True love is rare, but flove is almost nonexistent in real life. Which is a good thing, as far as I’m concerned. Letting anyone in that deep scares the hell out of me, but it’s fun to fantasize about. Kinda like being an assassin or having super powers. The repercussions in reality would make both much less appealing than they seem in fiction. Because while true love isn’t always rational, flove can be insane.

To name two movies where I would consider the romance flove, I would have to pick Pride and Prejudice (works for the book too ) and Ten Things I Hate About You. There’s nothing quite so thrilling to watch as two people falling in love and then telling each other to go to hell. That’s real flove!

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