Friday 21 September 2012

Friday Five

The week that was summed up in five short items...

What made me laugh
Bill Bailey's new show, Qualmpeddler. It's a bit disjointed, but as always, funny as hell. Bailey is a tremendous performer.

What made me cry
The story I'm writing, provisionally entitled The One Who Got Away. I thought when I started it that it would be straight-up smut, but it's proving to be quite the emotional roller coaster. (Oh, well. Erotic romance is allowed to get emotional, right?)

What made me happy
Receiving a work assignment from a client I hadn't worked for for four years. Best thing of all? It's a relatively easy assignment which should leave me plenty of time to write over the next few months.

What I'm most looking forward to
My upcoming holiday. Which reminds me -- I need to do some planning!

What impressed me with its sheer beauty
This unbelievably sultry photo of Coco Rocha for Yves Saint Laurent.

Coco Rocha Yves Saint Laurent

Friday 14 September 2012

My First Story to Be Published

Tops and Bottoms

The day before yesterday was a special day for me in that it marked the publication of the first short-story anthology I've had the honour of being included in, an Xcite book called Tops and Bottoms: Discipline Delights. It contains twenty BDSM stories about the joys and tribulations of punishment, and was edited by the ever-reliable Elizabeth Coldwell, who has a story in it herself.

My story, 'Tricked', is about a female sub, Brooke, whose Dom, Stuart, has been trying for some time to get her to accept a caning. It contains a fair bit of leather-belt-and-flogger action, as well as some subtle but effective torture. Honesty commands me to say that it's not my best story (it's a bit of a scene, really, rather than a story), but it certainly has its moments, and I had a lot of fun writing it, apart from the all-nighter I had to pull to ensure that I'd meet the deadline. God, I get tired just thinking of that night...

A brief excerpt from my story:

When her upper back was burning as hot as her bottom, Stuart lifted himself off her slightly and told her to turn around. She did as he told her, suppressing a moan of pain when the tender flesh of her buttocks and back met the mattress below. But all her discomfort was forgotten when he inched forward on her chest and pressed the tip of his cock against her lips.

‘Lick it,’ he ordered.

His musky smell flooded her nostrils, making her mouth water for his taste. Her pussy clenched. She reached out her tongue and licked, her wet tongue flickering all over the eye of his hard cock, lapping up the little bit of precome which was oozing from it. However, before she could wrap her lips around it and do all the things she wanted to do to it, he withdrew himself from her mouth, smiling smugly at her, clearly taking a sadistic delight in denying her himself.

She couldn’t contain herself any longer. ‘Please, sir,’ she moaned. ‘Please, let me have it.’

He shook his head at her. ‘Not yet, pet. Not yet.’


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Friday Five

Word count for the week
Just under 10,000. That's quite productive, considering the level of my Internet addiction.

What I learned this week
The Empire State Building was built in just fifteen months. Construction was completed two months ahead of schedule and $2 million under budget. What an amazing achievement.

What shocked me this week
The fact that there are male erotica authors who tag their stories like Pornhub videos ('gaping hole', 'cum-drenched', and so on) and don't understand why women aren't buying their stuff.

What made me laugh this week
As a movie buff and fantasy fan, I had a good giggle over this:



What I listened to this week
Cold Chisel, 'Flame Trees'



I've been pondering whether this song has any potential for a literary adaptation. Of the smutty variety, naturally.