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Your story - in a book?? - 10/10/2007 2:01:36 PM

SusanStrict

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First of all, thank you to everyone who has sent me messages with ideas for stories. I'm having a great time putting some new stories together!

But most of that is fantasy and fiction.

I'd like to put together something that's real - a collection of real BDSM experiences from anyone who can write a little.
I'm not asking for great literary works. A short piece of anything between 1,000 and 5,000 words would be perfect, to be compiled into a collection of short stories (I'll edit and rewrite if necessary) and published as an e-book.

Who benefits? Well, assuming there are perhaps twenty of thirty contributors which is what I'm looking for, it's not practical with the small amount of money an e-book is likely to make to distribute it among them. So, in this case, I propose giving all the profit to charity - which charity I don't know but I'm open to suggestions and if there are a number of reasonable suggestions then the contributors can vote to decide which one they prefer the money to go to.

IF anyone is interested in contributing, send your writing to me at [edit bother - the e-mail address gets censored. OK. Send it to me as a message on here or go find the e-mail address on my site and put "compilation submission" in the subject of the e-mail ]. Also, make it clear what name you want as the author for your story - it can be your own name or the name you use on forums etc or something else you make up. It's up to you.

All very altruistic of me? Not quite. Firstly I enjoy reading and putting together things like this, and secondly it can't do any harm to the sales of my other e-books. Even I don't do anything without expecting to gain something out of it!!!!

Anyone up for it?

Susan

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RE: Your story - in a book?? - 10/10/2007 2:11:52 PM

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As this is Breast Cancer awareness month I would cast a vote for you to consider that as your charity.

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RE: Your story - in a book?? - 10/10/2007 2:18:46 PM

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I'll go for that. Unless anyone else has any other suggestions.

Now all we need are the stories...

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RE: Your story - in a book?? - 10/10/2007 2:24:30 PM

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I'd be up for a story or two. Ive done some writing. Let me see what I can find around here, I should have part of one from when I met Angel for the first time around, and I can write one for Kitten or for Shawn (which might be more interesting)
Send me the addy on the other side and I'll see what I can get for you

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RE: Your story - in a book?? - 10/10/2007 2:48:07 PM

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I've done a bit of writing in the past, both vanilla and D/s. Have pub'd in Consent and Submit mags back in the 80's and 90's (yes i am that old).
When I put my chapbook together I found it good to have a very short piece, like a poem or a piece of prose intersperced between the stories (fiction) to break the pace of page after page reading.
below is a sample called 'tether'. Just a suggestion, I would be happy to contribute either story or breaker.

(tether is the name given to the towrope that joins a glider to the towplane. I use that as the motif for the poem to describe a relationship between a Dom and a sub, but this particual poem was pub'd in vanilla rag as well)

'Tether'

you tether me
you hook me to your dreams
an emotional towrope joins our souls
i feel the tug and soon we fly
you sooth my fears, conquer my demons
i feel release in your lead
a freedom from decision
we explore, as we glide through the dreamscape
and just when i feel the most secure
the link drops
falls harmlessly away, and i am alone
no sound, no tether
i reel in fear
my hands sweating on the rudder of my life
bringing my ship under control
plummeting, fighting,
and then, leveling,
sailing
with some trepidation, i see you
i see what you’ve done
you have set me freer than ever
i have no boundaries
soaring on the edge of whim
no conscious decisions, save to land
send my spirit jetting on a thermal of emotion
elation ballasts my wings
then softly, back to ground, and running
to your arms
longing for that freedom again
but safe within yours for now.

N. Roman 5/98

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RE: Your story - in a book?? - 10/10/2007 3:49:07 PM

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I already publish with www.chipmunkapublishing.com
and I would love to contribute as I had this idea myself but you have beaten me to it.
I would love to write a preface or forward if you would like...
I have a new volume I am sending off but a few fragements one of which would serve as an intro.
Check them out: they stand for mental health...
I am so willing simply because psycho-sexual health has been and always will be a life saver for me....
Princess Angelchild...Erotic memoirs for chipmunka publishing sold at amazon etc etc.....
Love and all best wishes...email me here and I will help in anyway that time permits

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RE: Your story - in a book?? - 10/11/2007 2:03:39 AM

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Heavy stuff, Prinsexx!! Impressive, but it may be a little too weighty for what I had in mind. Having said that, an introduction looking at psycho-sexual health might work well.

SirNico, I like the poem. A story would be good if it's based on real events rather than fiction. Thanks.

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