This latest book of mine, “Take Me, Break Me”, is not a plain and simple BDSM story, it’s in a fuzzy zone.

I was talking to someone recently who was quite unhappy at how many so-called BDSM books are not BDSM. Though I agree with her in a way, I also pointed out a couple of things.

One is that people talking about books are starting to use BDSM as a vague term that means the book contains some of the elements of BDSM, but they may not even be happening in a consensual way. I’ve seen the administrator of one internet BDSM group call this BDSM fantasy. To me this is people morphing words to mean slightly different things. If it happens enough the word becomes that new meaning too. One word can have many meanings, which is maybe why people miscommunicate so much. But there’s nothing you can really do if the world population decides to use a word in a way that wasn’t intended at first. It’s happened throughout the centuries and dictionaries will never keep up. You can say until you’re blue in the face that ‘sock’ only means a thing on your foot, but when everyone uses it to mean hitting someone, it means that too.

The other thing about books being labeled as containing BDSM is that sometimes the story changes – which is what happens in “Take Me, Break Me”.  It begins as an arranged capture fantasy, morphs into what are possibly dubious consent scenes, but by the end it is true BDSM.

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Sexy smartass fun with BDSM

The Dom with a Safeword is out tomorrow – Halloween. This is a contemporary Mff romance. Though there is a ghost element to this story it’s pretty firmly set in reality, in New Jersey. I co-wrote this one with 2 other authors. I wrote the Dom, Jude. Leia Shaw wrote the innocent submissive, Sabrina, who is new to both BDSM and girl on girl. And Sorcha Black wrote the bisexual switch Q, who hates her real name and rarely tells it.

Here’s what the book’s about:

Late at night, on an amateur ghost hunt, Sabrina and her best friend Q are caught trespassing by the gorgeous, blonde Jude. The embers of attraction between them sizzle when they discover Jude’s kinks match their own. Jude is a Dom on his last summer of freedom before starting the prison sentence that is med school. Q is a badass bi switch who knows what she wants, and for years it’s been her cute, doe-eyed straight friend Sabrina. But the only way for Q into Sabrina’s heart and panties may be with Jude’s fist wrapped in her hair.

Domming the bratty Q and mischievous Sabrina isn’t going to be easy but Jude relishes the challenge. At the end of the summer, will they find a way to stay together when everything is tearing them apart?

So as you can see, we have, not one, but two brats in this story. Here’s  Jude:

“So… what methods have failed to teach you manners?”