I'm on Goodreads. If you want to, you can find me pretty easily I think. I'd love to use it more too - got about 15 friends - various interests.

Here's a question; if you have a thing for femme dommes but don't care for male submission, how about stpries where both parties are female? For instance, D.L. King's anthology "The Harder She Comes" (butch/femme erotica) has just come out, and there's always lots of bdsm in D.L.s books. Maybe you could give that sort of thing a try. There's something to be said for knowing just how both sets of sexy bits feel.

(aw my kitty is so adorable, I'm sitting on the couch with my legs up on an ottoman and the laptop on my lap, and instead of plunking herself on my trackpad the way she usually does, she just curled up in the crook of my arm with her forepaws spread out along my right arm.

And now she's snoring.

Kitty, so adorable... and then you snore. )

And more possibilities for female-on-female domination: Sinclair Sexsmith's lesbian BDSM anthology Say Please comes out soon.

I used to be a member of a women's BDSM group in Boston--well, I still am, but at a distance--and trust me, there are women, butch or femme, whose talents at domination are second to none.

(and then two minutes feels like an eternity)

More insights into the writing process, this time from Craig Sorenson:


Craig Sorenson’s thoughts about "Beyond Redemption":

When I write a story, many things can inspire me. I've worked from very well-formed plots with strongly defined characters and outlines. I've worked from very complete characters that shape the story line as they go through the experience. On the other end of the spectrum, I've worked from single ideas, sounds, words or visions, and just let the stories breathe on their own.

For "Beyond Redemption," the opening image, a crucifix gently swaying, suspended by a finial in the center of headboard, then a cinematic pan, back to a woman bound to the bedposts, a gag in her mouth, looking up on a man who steadily, purposefully, fuck her, was the sum of inspiration. Dark visual cues, mysterious characters, and I had an initial sense of "what is going on with these two?" The meaning of the religious symbolism, and how that was reflected in the actions that unfold in the story, grew in my mind as if I was hearing the story as much as writing it. Later, I was reminded of musicians who say that an idea sometimes hits them, and they feel like they are just trying to keep up with the song as it unfolds. "Beyond Redemption" was like this, and I was kind of winded after the first draft.

I tend to be heavy-handed with revisions, and "Beyond Redemption" was no exception, but the revisions in this story tended to be more in the details. The changes between past to present tense, a technique that I sometime like to use to give a sense of immediacy, was a natural part of this story, whereas I usually consciously work these shifts into stories.

A good number of my short stories are written calls for submission; this was not of them. The story sat on my hard drive after the writing, until Rachel Kramer Bussel's call for Best Bondage Erotica 2012 came along. It seemed a good possible home. In truth, I thought the story might be a bit of a stretch for her taste, so I was quite grateful when the story was chosen to be included in this collection.

I love to share a story that came from inside me, and I hope that readers can find the same attraction as they step into the world of these lovers' difficult lives. I hope that they will find themselves drawn in, and in this story, find something worth redemption.