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James Williams- Author of

Red Nails In the Sunset (Renaissance eBooks)

But I Know What You Want ( originally from Greenery Press) has now been republished by Sizzler as LIBERATION: AND OTHER TALES OF SEX AND SENSIBILITY by JAMES WILLIAMS.

We reviewed Red Nails and it received our highest ratings. You can read the original review here: http://www.bdsmbookreviews.com/2012/06/13/review-red-nails-in-the-sunset-sex-tales-for-the-different-by-james-williams/ Leave a comment to this interview and be entered to win a free copy of this books compliments of Sizzler. You must leave your comment by midnight Saturday, August 18th, 2012.

Liberation (Renaissance eBooks)

When you first started writing, did you have any idea you’d be writing BDSM/kinky books? Do you write in any other genre?

I never plan what I write, and I never planned what I wrote in the past. Something simply comes over me and I have learned to let it lead. In that sense I bottom to the state of mind that in other times and places I could call my Muse without anticipating pages of complaints and arguments. Perhaps I should call it my Higher Power because the feeling I have is very much one of being high. I follow the story until it ends, usually in a lightheaded frenzy, and if I stop for some extraneous reason – it’s time for dinner; the cat’s down a well; the house is on fire – that usually signals the end of my session and my failure to complete the piece. Because I find the processes of domination and surrender quite compelling, much of my work has concerned BDSM. Because I also find sex quite compelling, much of my non-BDSM work has concerned sex. But because sex and erotic power are not the be-all and end-all of a human life, I have also written stories I’m very attached to that concern neither.

Red Nails in the Sunset: Sex Tales for the Different by James Williams

http://www.amazon.com/RED-NAILS-THE-SUNSET-ebook/dp/B007JE69NW/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1339610354&sr=1-1&keywords=red+nails+in+the+sunset

ASIN B007JE69NW

Story rating: 5 out of 5 paddles

Sting factor (kink): 5 out of 5

”If you have perhaps assumed that only women writers have anything new or interesting to say about sexuality, I suggest that you question that prejudice, and give this book a chance.” From the intro by Pat Califia. I heartily agree.

This extraordinary book collects James Williams’ short work into one volume and presents the reader with short stories, essays, and poetry. All but a handful are erotic.

Some works, some authors, seem to speak to the reader directly, offer them an inroad to their own subconscious, a tour of places that we may have walled off or kept hidden. These would rely on and explore subjective truth. Others work on a different level, by evoking that which is not like us, that which is strange, misunderstood, rejected, or hidden, and elevating it to the level of something that we can understand. These works, these authors, explore objective truth. These stories do both very well.

Williams doesn’t write for titillation, he writes to illuminate. Someone after quick thrills and an easy read – and there’s nothing wrong with that, if that’s what you are in the mood for – should probably go elsewhere. This is a highly literary work, one that I would call”serious” if that did not imply an unfortunate lack of humor. It doesn’t just deal with arousal, it explores sexuality from every angle from the sacred to the truly profane. No, more than sexuality, it explores humanity.

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Interview with James Williams and a free ebook giveaway!

Review: Red Nails in the Sunset: Sex Tales for the Different by James Williams