Wednesday 28 November 2012

Best Bondage Erotica 2013 Out Now!

I was so busy last week that I forgot to mention that the first erotic story I ever wrote has been published! It's called 'The Longest Afternoon' and it's one of 22 stories featured in Best Bondage Erotica 2013, a bondage anthology which is now available in e-book format, although the paper version of the book won't be released until mid-December. Best Bondage Erotica 2013 was edited by the redoubtable Rachel Kramer Bussel, who also has a story in it. Other contributors include Elizabeth Coldwell, Sommer Marsden, Shoshanna Evers, Evan Mora, Tiffany Reisz and Andrea Dale, so you know you're in for a good read...




The blurb for my 4,200-word story:

Melanie has been tied to a chair by her Dom, Steve. She's been in the chair for a long time, and she's getting distinctly uncomfortable. As she waits for Steve to do whatever it is he's planning to do, her mind drifts to all the various possibilities. But when Steve finally reveals what he's expecting from her, she's caught completely by surprise...

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Opening paragraphs:

The heat was the worst. The heat, and the fact that she had to go to the toilet, ASAP.

It hadn't been like this the last time he had tied her up. She'd been on their bed then, which was a nice and comfy place. Moreover, he had used her quickly, so quickly that she'd been astonished at how soon it had been over. She guessed “furious” was the right word to describe it. Furious and brutal and, well, memorable.

Nor had it been like this the last time he had tied her to a chair. They'd been in Paris at the time, in a hotel where everything seemed to be at least 100 years old. The chair to which he had bound her had been a leather armchair, soft enough to be comfortable and old enough to be stylish, and some of its antique beauty had seemed to rub off on her. She'd felt elegant sitting in that chair, whose color perfectly matched the black of her corset and stockings. Yes, she'd felt elegant, despite the fact that her legs were spread wide and she was wearing a ball gag that made her drool. And although Steve had lashed her with both words and whips, she'd enjoyed the experience, because it was so very iconic and because she had always wanted to be part of such an opulent tableau.

She did not want to be part of this tableau. She did not want to be sitting here in their messy living room on this cheap and nasty IKEA chair, bound with a type of rope which she normally didn't mind but which now chafed horribly against her sweaty skin. Nor did she want to be sitting here in front of the window, bathed in sunlight on what was probably the hottest day of the year.

Sweat was running in rivulets down her naked back and between her breasts. It was pooling on the seat of the plastic IKEA chair that was her prison, and was making her skin both itchy and sticky. A few times already she'd felt a stab of discomfort as she had wriggled in her chair, only to feel her skin tear off the smooth, white plastic with a ripping sound. It hurt, and not in the way she liked.

And then there was the fact that she had to go to the loo. This was a problem she hadn't encountered before, as Steve generally had his way with her long before her bladder filled up. This time, though, he seemed hell-bent on keeping her waiting. And since the luxury Sunday morning breakfast to which he had treated her had involved a large pot of tea as well as two glasses of freshly squeezed orange juice, and since it was now well into the afternoon, the pressure on her bladder was getting intense.

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Want to know how this ends? Then get yourself a copy of Best Bondage Erotica 2013 here...

I should warn you, though -- 'The Longest Afternoon' wasn't just the first story I ever wrote; it's also easily the dirtiest thing I've ever written. If you're at all squeamish about bodily fluids, you may want to give this one a miss, although you should of course seek the book out for the remaining 21 stories.

Happy reading!

Friday 9 November 2012

Friday Five: 9 November

This week's Friday Five...

Greatest source of joy this week:
A toss-up between Barack Obama being re-elected in the US and two of my very short stories being accepted for publication, also in the US. It will be a while before the anthology featuring my stories sees the light of day, but I'm already proud to be part of it!

Greatest disappointment of the week:
Being told by one of my publishers that two anthologies to which I've contributed, and which were scheduled to be released this month, have been pushed back until February and March 2013, respectively. I'm sad about this, as my contributions to these anthologies are probably my best stories to date, and I was looking forward to unveiling them.

Greatest laugh I had this week:
Buying a subscription to one stock-photo site, only to find after paying that the photos I need for my upcoming covers are in fact from another stock-photo site. It was the rather fitting culmination of a long day on which I did many stupid things, such as leaving my sushi at the take-away place where I'd bought it, ordering the wrong drink at my favourite tea place, parking badly, etc. Oh, well. We all have those days, right? Right? (Thankfully, my subscription to the wrong stock-photo site is not a waste of money; I'm getting some very good photos out of the deal, at a very sharp price. I'll just have to take out a subscription to the other site, as well...)

Greatest 'aha!' moment of the week:
The realisation that two short stories I abandoned a few months ago may well make a decent novelette if I put them together and add some bits in between. So glad those stories weren't a complete waste of time, after all...

Most UNF-y GIF of the week:

Daniel Craig

Oh, Daniel.

*dissolves into puddle*

And that's all for this week. I should have more exciting news next week...