Tiptoeing into 2022
A whole month into a new year… so how does 2022 look so far? In the short term, at least, further mass house arrest and further harm to the event and hospitality industries – and all your favourite fetish markets … Continued
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The Joys Of Submissions
Submissions as in stories sent to me, not submission as in me getting tied up and spanked or anything (calm down, the lot of you. I remain as much a dominant as ever, and whether that reassures or disappoints you … Continued
The trouble with ‘Kink’
The trouble with Kink, a new anthology edited by R O Kwon and Glenn Greenell, is not the trouble with kink, if you get what I mean. When a pal pointed me in the direction of this, um, announcement from … Continued
Written On Your Body: text tattoos
It looks as though they are going to allow tattooists to open up again pretty soon. I doubt I’m the only one waiting for the chance to get some new ink – OK, it has been the best part of … Continued
Challenges and opportunities – writing righteous fiction
It’s OK. No one is forbidding you to write the fiction you want to write. No one’s forbidding other people to write the fiction you want to read, either. Billions of people are writing billions of books, all the time. … Continued