As Kinky As You Wanna Be
The release of a certain film (no, I haven’t seen it yet) seems like a good time to mention this recent guide to safe, sane and smart BDSM from author and editor, Shanna Germain.
As Kinky As You Wanna Be serves up a mix of advice, anecdote, interviews, info and fiction. I’m a huge fan of sex guides which champion the imaginative, and don’t simply focus and the nuts and bolts of fucking. Being playful and free in your thinking is the best route to having a great time in the sack (even if it’s just you on your own!).
AKAYWB features stories from a bunch of top writers including Remittance Girl, Janine Ashbless, Kristina Wright, Nikki Magennis and Donna George Storey. I have a piece included, The Wrong Woman, which Shanna describes in her introduction as breaking “all the taboos […] to remind us just how hot a dirty, naughty fantasy can be.”
This story first appeared in Maxim Jakubowski‘s Quick and Dirty Erotica anthology, and centres on non-con, sort of. You can read a sexy excerpt here.
And if you’re in the South East of England this weekend, why not check out Dirty Sexy Words, an erotica reading evening in Croydon this Sunday? Last week, Time Out magazine listed the event in its feature on The 20 Sexiest Things to do in London. They also included a photo of me (below) from one of the times I read there which was nice of them! This was two days before the release of Undone, and the first time I’d read from the book in public. It’s less than six months ago but it seems like an age.
Hope to see some of you there on Sunday!
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Kristina Lloyd
I write erotic fiction about sexually submissive women who like it on the dark, dirty and dangerous side. My novels are published by Black Lace (Ebury) and my short stories appear in a range of anthologies, including several “best of” collections, in both the UK and US. I’ve written non-fiction for publications such as The Guardian, The Sunday Times Travel, International Business Times and more.
I live in Brighton, a seaside town in the south of England. Brighton is the setting for my controversial and most popular novel, Asking for Trouble. Check out some reader reviews here.
Praise for Kristina Lloyd
“Kristina Lloyd is one of my favorite writers … Her atmospheric style sends me into orbit” – Alison Tyler
“Kristina makes no apology for writing transgressive fiction with some heavy female submission” – Elizabeth Coldwell
“a very gifted author” – Violet Blue
“Aside from being intensely erotic, Kristina’s fiction does not shy away from taking sex to extremes. And all of this accomplished with a literary finesse that makes her writing truly distinctive” – Ashley Lister
“disgustingly clever and graceful” – Graydancer
“superbly horny … will restore your faith in BDSM literature” – Skin Two
“No one does damaged characters better than Lloyd and has a clearer open line to the well of cravings and obsessions.” – Maxim Jakubowski
Interviews
Interviewed by For Books' Sake
"Our culture doesn’t offer many options for women to be sexual beings on their own terms."
Interviewed by Ashley Lister
"It's the weight and lightness of sex that I'm trying to replicate"
Interviewed in Skin Two
"The combination of sex and danger carries a powerful erotic charge."
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I bought this a few weeks back – your piece is lovely, but I really need to sit down and read the whole thing!
He read ‘Thrill Seeker’ & ‘Undone’… great work, looking forward to reading more.