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Are You Selling Yourself Short?

I received a freelancing request last night, and the communication spilled over to this morning.

The request was to create a 15,000 word piece on female masturbation. In the job spec, they were looking for writers from the UK, USA, or Canada, and wanted a number of sample pieces before the interview process began.

This came through oDesk (a freelancing site that I used at the start of my career and still keep a profile on). I don’t actively seek out work on oDesk any more, but I do keep the profile up and running as sometimes those looking for adult writers come across my info, then make their way to my site. I tend to brace myself when I get oDesk job interview requests through, for a number of reasons. First, it’s not unheard of for the interviewees to take the samples you send them and do a runner. Get 100 people applying to a job, you’ve got yourself 100 free pieces of writing. The site is also used by a large number of contractors from countries where the standard of living is quite low, and as a result, the payment rates are very minimal. I’ve often seen writing jobs posted for less than half a penny a word.

Given the fact that the job poster was very specific about wanting native-English speaking writers, though, I was thrown for a bit of a loop with the offer – $250, or around $0.017 per word. I usually just click the ‘Decline’ button on these and send the reason as “Rate Too Low”, leaving it at that. For some reason, I thought I’d find out a bit more about this, so I accepted the interview and sent this message. Keep going…I want more…

Ruby Goodnight at Eroticon 2013

Eroticon 2013 Ruby GoodnightNot that I had any doubt that I would be attending, but today it is official. I’ve purchased my ticket to Eroticon 2013. The 2012 event was the premier of this sex bloggers and erotica writer’s event, and I am glad to see that it has been extended to a full two days for the 2013 reincarnation.

According to the web site, Eroticon 2013 is described as “the UK’s only conference for sex bloggers and erotica writers. [...] If you are sex writer, blogger, editor, publisher, journalist, performer or artist Eroticon 2013 will be the networking event of the year. Meet with like minded people and leading voices of the erotic industries, make new contacts and learn new skills in a safe and supportive environment.”

Right now, tickets are in the “Super Early Bird” phase, where you can get the ticket for £77.53 for one day (£75 + fee) or £128.78 for the two days (£125 + fee). If you’re a bit stretched for cash at the moment, you can get it on an installment plan. You’ll be charged £50 up from, then two payments of £37.50 (plus fees) monthly thereafter. This Super Early Bird phase of the Eroticon 2013 tickets only lasts until 01 September 2012, so you have around six weeks to get in and get it at the early price.

With the lineup that is already set up for this year, I know that it’s going to be an amazing event. Hope to see you there!

My Fifty Shades of Grey Confession

50 Shades of Grey eCard

Fifty Shades of Grey – not a single book has divided the erotica and BDSM community more in the last fifty years as this one. Yes, I have read it – more than once. Do I think it’s ‘bad’ for the erotica and bondage lifestyle? In a way, yes. Did I enjoy reading it? Kind of. Am I riding out the insane popularity of this set of novels like the cash cow rodeo that it is? OF COURSE I AM!

I’m not joking in the slightest when I say that every single employer I have worked with in the last three months wants pieces relating to the 50 Shades novels. People who I have contracted with in the past who have NO connection to BDSM are trying to find ways to get the traffic from the Fifty Shades phenomenon. I’ve even bought into the hype and dabbled with my own possible way to cash in (outside of my writing, of course).

Fifty Shades Sucks

Credit to @HypnoPeter on Twitter for this image!

 

In the last 90 days, I have:

  • Rewritten Fifty Shades of Grey scenes in order to make them more ‘hardcore’ and ‘lifestyle friendly’ for BDSM porn sites, as a guide for their movies
  • Added Fifty Shades themed keywords to existing sex toy descriptions to hook into the Google traffic
  • Created shopping lists and how-to guides for sex toy web sites trying to get the attention of new shoppers
  • Designed and ghostblogged an entire new website from the point of view of a ‘first time reader’ for another sex toy shop (with posts pointing them in the direction of their store)
  • Ghostwritten two fan-fic style erotica novels using the 50 Shades characters to be sold on Amazon
  • Started my own affiliate web site for a major bondage furniture web site using a Fifty Shades theme

I kinda feel like a bit of a whore about this whole thing. Fifty Shades is this awfully written book that is spreading misconceptions about the bondage and dominance community, yet I’m playing it out for every single penny it can give me.

Straight FemDom Erotica

This straight FemDom erotica piece is part of a series created involving a dominatrix training submissives. Lucy, a mature milf FemDom is known for her abilities to turn potential submissives into doting sexual slaves.

Lucy was what many men refer to as a ‘cougar’ – a bit on the older side, but with the body of a twenty something and a sexual appetite to match. She had gained confidence in her years, and if she saw something (or someone) she wanted, she went after it. She didn’t mind the guys who played hard to get, but she much preferred those that fell to their knees, begging her to give them the time of day. Lucy was a different brand of cougar – she was a dominatrix with a thing for younger submissive men. She didn’t want a boy toy, she wanted a slave.

She had many of them in her years, ones that come to her as untrained puppies who think they are in for a bit of kink, and leave her well disciplined men that any woman would be lucky to have. The ironic thing was, as she grew older in years, the men who came to her for training seemed to get younger and younger. She’s even had to turn away a few over-eager seventeen year olds in her day, telling them to return when they’re of consenting age.

Recently, she had found herself without any submissives to play with. Her latest ‘boy’ had left her care after months of training, and she was now on the market to take in a new trainee. She had a number of men to choose from, as she had a waiting list that read like a phone book. She decided that she would pick her top three, and have a mini-session with each of them, to determine who was worthy of her tutelage. There was Mark, a 22 year old recent college grad who was trying to make his name on the banking scene, Tyson, a 19 year old college freshmen football player, and Brian, a 27 year old truck driver. Each had requested to come under Lucy’s care, and each patiently waited for her next opening. Lucy sent an email to all three to schedule a weekend where they would come to her home and prove themselves as a submissive that she would be willing to spend her time training.

….

Lucy had arranged to have a car service pick up Mark from the train station and bring him to her home in the countryside. When it pulled up, she watched from the window as the smartly dressed man take his duffel bag out of the trunk of the vehicle and tip the driver. As the car pulled off, Mark made his way up the cobble stone walkway and knocked on Lucy’s door. She closed the curtain behind her, and slowly made her way to her front door to greet her new arrival.

“Miss Lucy?” questioned the young man as Lucy opened the door.

“Yes, boy. Glad to see you have made it. Please, come in.”

Lucy’s home didn’t give away her fetish. Her kinky toys and bondage devices were all locked up in rooms that were not easily accessible to the general guest who enters her home. She directed Mark to have a seat, so they could have a brief chat before their weekend began. It was business right from the get-go.

“The rule are quite simple, Mark. You don’t do anything without asking for permission. You don’t eat, you don’t sleep, you don’t shit and you don’t cum. You lost all of your free will when you entered that door. Speak when spoken to and always remember that it is you that are indebted to me for this training. You have your own room for the weekend. Don’t worry, it’s not one of these stripped back closets with a mattress on the floor. You’ll need quality sleep to keep up with your training – that is if I let you go to sleep. You will address me as Mistress. Do you have any questions?”

“No, Mistress.”

“Good, let’s get going, then, shall we?”

Mark went through the routine that all incoming submissives into Lucy’s home performed – hot steaming shower where they were completely shaved from neck to toes, followed by an overall examination by Lucy. She cleaned out his body with an enema, since much of her training involved anal play. Lucy checked to see the size and shape of the trainee’s penis (both erect and flaccid), how tight their anus was, the length of their tongues, as well as their overall physique. She has seen pictures of Mark naked before – it was part of the application process – but in the flesh it’s so much different. Mark stood obediently, with goose bumps showing on his skin, more from the anticipation than the temperature. He flinched slightly as she probed his bottom with a long and lean vibrator, but his cock showed a different reaction.

“Never had anal, have you boy?”

“No, Mistress.”

“That will take up a significant amount of training then. I’d prefer it if you had a bit of experience, but at the end of the day, I suppose it’s that much more for me to enjoy teaching you.”

“Yes, Mistress.”

“Right then. Your room is right across the way. Wait for me in there while I set up my office. First, let me get this on you.”

Lucy pulled out a cock cage for Mark to wear. It resembled a codpiece that you see on suits of armor, but more a framework than full coverage. It opened at the side to slip over Mark’s dick and balls, and locked shut with a small padlock which Lucy kept the key for. It was attached to a harness that went around Mark’s hips and between his legs, which was kept belted into place with the help of a second padlock. Lucy opened the door to Mark’s room, and told him to wait for her to call him.

While Mark waited with baited breath in his guest room, Lucy prepared the space which she referred to as her office. She unlocked the door, walked into the room that took up nearly half her home, and opened the curtains while she readied for the evening. She uncovered a device that was pushed up against the wall – a set of four stairs, build out of a single large cube of wood so that they were freestanding. On each step were metal pipes that came up and out from the wood so that arms and legs could be easily trapped to restrict movement. She turned to the king size bed and made sure that the restraints that came up from under the bed were still held fast to the frame. Lucy then made her way over to the sex swing that was hanging from a doorway and readied that for its nightly use. Lastly she looked over her collection of anal plugs, vibrators, ball gags, clamps and clips that had been freshly cleaned and sterilized that morning. Everything was perfect and in its place.

She called Mark to her room, and directed him to the bed. Under her instruction, Mark stood at the edge, facing inward. He bent at his hips so that the top half of his body was laying on the bed, while his bottom half was still standing. Lucy attached his wrists to one set of restraints that connected to the opposite side of the bed, and his ankles to a set that were affixed to the floor. She unlocked the back of the chastity belt that Mark was wearing, so that there was nothing in between his ass and the free air. Lucy took out a vibrator that was especially made for those who were taking part in their first ass fucking – long, lean, slightly curved with a good strong motor. She rubbed at bit of lube on the tip, and teased Mark’s exposed rim with its cool plastic vibrations. She could just go full force and ram a fat butt plug up his ass, but she was planning on saving the anal torture for a little bit later in the evening. She slowly slipped the vibe into Mark’s ass as he let out a groan. She could see his body tighten around the probe, and she started to rhythmically pull it out and push it back into his virgin ass.

Mark’s cock hardened, and she could see it pushing up against the top of the cock cage. A drip of pre-cum had started to fall from his tip, and the thought to herself that she would make him clean that up later. Mark started to squirm with each thrust of Lucy’s hand, so she grabbed hold of her favorite riding crop and gave him a few quick smacks on the ass, admiring her criss-cross patters on his bare cheeks. Mark whimpered, but relaxed more as Lucy continued her anal fucking.

“Good boy”, Lucy complimented as she stroked his curly haired head.

She turned and looked over at her toy collection, debating in her mind where to go next. She had the option of now inserting a training butt plug and flipping Mark over so that she could get to work on his cock, or she could continue with the ass fucking, but slipping into a strap on rather than this skinny little vibrator. She decided on the former, and slipped the vibe out of Mark’s ass. She watched his body relax once again, relieved to have his bottom no longer occupied.

“Don’t get too comfortable, boy”, she directed.

Lucy took hold of the small red anal plug, and touched the red rim of Mark’s hole with it’s cool tip. With one quick motion, she pushed it in to its hilt, causing Mark to scream aloud in pain.

“What did I tell you about the rules? Did I give you permission to scream?” questioned Lucy.

She knew that this was the reaction she would get, so she wasn’t all too disappointed in Mark’s disobedience, but she loved to keep them on their toes. Mark’s ass was now filled to the brim with cool red latex, which was being held firmly in place with the tightness of his asshole.

She untied Mark’s arms and legs, and watched as he tried to stand at attention while having a butt plug up his ass. Lucy almost laughed to herself at the awkward positions that Mark tried to get himself in as to not put too much pressure on his bottom, but in the end she told him to sit on the black stool that she placed near her bed. Mark flinched as the butt plug went deeper into his ass, but soon settled after finding a somewhat comfortable position.

Lucy located her Hitachi vibrator and plugged it into the wall socket nearby. She planned on ending this session rather quickly so they could move onto other things later in the evening, and she knew that this vibe was the way to go. She ordered Mark to scoot forward so that his cock and balls were hanging off the edge of the stool, but his ass was still firmly filled with the plug. He struggled slightly, to which he was punished with a few smacks to his cock cage. The pain only turned him on that much more, and his firmness pushed against the tip of the chastity belt. Lucy took out her keys and unlocked the belt, leaving his stiff dick free to grow as large as it could.

She turned on the vibe, and it’s loud hum filled the room. Lucy took her hand and started stroking Mark’s cock in rhythm. He leaned back on the chair and moaned in pleasure. She placed the head of the vibrator underneath Mark’s balls, with his reaction being one of immediate stiffening. She knew it would be quick now, but she wanted to tease him a bit.

“You can’t cum without permission, Mark.”

“Yes, Ma’am” replied the slave-to-be.

Lucy knelt down and tongued a trail up and down Mark’s purple cock, moving back and forth slightly from the vibrator. She saw it twitching, and took her wet mouth away to give him a bit of space to relax. Soon she was back to his manhood again, this time teasing the tip with her warm lips. She could taste the saltiness of the pre-cum, and she lapped it up with one quick lick. Mark grunted and begged Lucy to let him cum.

“Not yet, boy.”

She moved in closer to him, and lifted her skirt, exposing her shaved pussy. She turned off the vibrator and set it on the floor. She then rubbed the lips of her mound against his hard cock, and Mark shuffled his body as to not cum right then and there.

“Keep still, boy.”

Lucy pressed her pussy up against Mark’s cock, took his dick in her hands, and started rubbing it against her swollen clit. She felt the rush of blood to her pussy, and started using that pre-cum as a lube for her own sexual desires. She moaned along with Mark as she turned his cock into her own personal pleasure tool. Her hand movements were getting Mark harder and harder, and his throbbing started to occur on a regular basis.

“I cum first. When I’m done, you can have yours” Lucy gruffly spoke while she was getting herself off with Mark’s dick.

She spread her legs slight as to get more contact between her ready clit and Mark’s cock. She pulled her own nipples through her shirt, and soon she was cumming. As she worked through her orgasm, her hand sped up movement to give herself as much of a ride as possible. With each tug, Mark steadied himself, waiting for her to finish before he exploded. Lucy screamed as she was brought higher and higher into a state of ecstatic sensation, and slowly began to come down off her high. When he breathing slowed and her screams subsided, she told Mark he could now release.

Mark didn’t wait much longer after those words before he let down his guard and sprayed Lucy’s pussy with a river of cum. He grunted and groaned through the whole process, and shuttered so much that Lucy had feared that he would fall off the stool. He rocked against the butt plug as he came, each time a squirt of cum followed through. Again, as his breath slowed, Lucy knew that he was finishing, but the night was only to start.

She looked down at herself, then again at an exhausted Mark, and knew that there was a long night ahead of them.

 

Writing Porn Versus Writing Erotica

Fan Fic Porn Writer

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When I started off as a freelance writer, my bread and butter was writing for porn sites. After I had started writing longer form erotica, especially for those looking to resell my work on Kindle, my writing needed to change.

Porn gallery descriptions and blog posts tend to focus on a set of keywords. Webmasters are looking to get their sites to rank as high as they can, so ensuring that the phrase “Thai creampie” (or whatever else the site is hoping to rank for) occurs a certain number of times in a block of text is rather important. The writing tends to be short and rough, quick and dirty. Let’s be honest, no one – especially guys – go to the majority of porn sites to read. Descriptions for sex toy web sites are quite similar. I walk a fine line between keyword-stuffing and readability, in the hopes that the latest Google update doesn’t penalize the site for over-optimization. I do have to admit, though, I do enjoy the intense rush of being as dirty as possible in as few words as possible (as webmasters are often looking for pieces between 100 and 300 words).

There are a few exceptions to this rule, though. Certain fetishes attract men who want as much detail as possible. They want to read what the slave is thinking when she is getting fucked in the ass with a mechanical dildo. They don’t want to imagine what it’s like when a Dominatrix steps on their naked cock – they want it spelled out for them.

This is where one genre of writing starts to roll into the other. This is where things like character, plot, exposition and conclusion come into the picture. Sometimes it all happens in the context of 250 words, other times a bit more fleshed out.

Erotica writing obviously tells a story. Going out on a limb here, I dare say that the main ‘readers’ of porn are men, and erotica women. Google doesn’t rank book text, so there’s no need to find ways to include a phrase over and over again. My erotica tells a story in “X” number of words. Sometimes I am given a general framework to write it (such as someone wants a vampire story, or a teacher-student piece, or FemDom), or I’m just told to write a 7K word story using my own ideas – as long as it’s formatted for Kindle, includes a title and a blurb, and can be expanded into a series if need be. This is where I write what I like to read, and where my skills as a freelance adult writer grow the most.

I often worry if employers for one side see the other half of my work and get turned off. If a webmaster read Snow White and the Seven Fetishes, would he think I’m too ‘wordy’ or ‘story driven’ for adult gallery descriptions? If someone who wants me to write erotica reads my work on Thai Fuckers and think I can barely string a sentence together that goes above the level of a twelve year old? I suppose its something to battle if that discussion ever arises.

Fetish Authors Writing Without Experience?

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While at Eroticon this weekend, something came up that I think deserves a bit of a discussion. While watching a S&M demo, I looked around the room at the audience in attendance, and noticed that there were a few members who did not seem comfortable with the situation. After the demo was done, there was a brief discussion about what we (as the audience) just saw. One individual brought up what I had noticed. In turn,  Rubyyy Jones asked those in attendance who had never seen an actual session before.

A small number in attendance raised their hands. Rubyyy then asked those who had their hands in the air if they had ever written about BDSM before. The conversation kind of fizzled out from there, which was a shame, since it really could have expanded on the concept as a whole – do some fetish authors write without experiencing the activities they write about, and on a lesser note, does the reader ever notice the difference?

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Smashwords Removes Certain Types of Erotica

Although I currently don’t publish my erotica at Smashwords, there are some that might find this news interesting.

Paypal is requiring Smashwords to remove any erotica that contains bestiality, rape, or incest. I know that the first category is still a bit taboo, the second less so (especially in BDSM), and the third being quite common.

Here is the email that is floating around…

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Promoting Erotica on Free eBook Websites

Well, with my first free run on Kindle just over a week ago, I learned a few things that I will certainly take into account when doing my next run. One of those lessons is making sure that I contact web masters and bloggers that will advertise your free day on Amazon on their site. There are quite a few lists going around with links to these sites, but unfortunately, a good number of them don’t accept erotica or anything with graphic sex.

In preparation for my next free run I’ve checked out many of their sites to get their stance on erotica ebook submissions. I’ve compiled a list of sites that do accept erotica. If you come across any sites that are not on this list, or know about a change in any policies, please let me know in the comments.

I hope that other erotica writers out there will find this list helpful! (I’ve also listed other sites that DON’T accept erotica at this time, in the event that there are non-erotica authors looking for a list of sites to submit their free ebooks to.)

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The Breaking of Bridgette by Ruby Goodnight

The Breaking of Bridgette femdom erotica ebook Ruby GoodnightThe Breaking of Bridgette is Ruby Goodnight’s second release under Ruby Goodnight’s own pen name. This fetish erotica ebook has an estimated release of March 2012 on both Amazon and Smashwords.

FemDom Arianna had been living quite happily with her dutiful slave Marcus for a few months, but after meeting the young and naive Bridgette at a local S&M themed night club, she couldn’t resist the thought of taking her home and making her part of the ‘family’. Presented as a collection of diary entries and emails, follow Mistress Arianna through her pursuit, seduction, training, and eventual breaking of Bridgette in the latest erotica by fetish author Ruby Goodnight. 

Stay tuned for more details about The Breaking of Bridgette as the release date grows closer!

Snow White and the Seven Fetishes by Ruby Goodnight

Ruby Goodnight Erotica eBookSnow White and the Seven Fetishes is my first foray into writing ebooks under my own pen name. While I have created numerous fetish erotica stories for a number of employers, it took a bit of convincing for me to start it under my own pen name, Ruby Goodnight.

Unlike the fairy tale that we are all familiar with, Snow White and the Seven fetishes takes a bit of a twist. Rather than our heroine taking shelter in a house filled with dwarves, she seeks shelter at a brothel, run by seven men with seven very different fetishes. Snow White comes to learn how to please them all in their own very unique ways, both as a dutiful submissive and a controlling dominatrix. I love the mix of roles that Snow White takes, and the exploration of both her subby and FemDom sides.

It’s a very quick read, less than 5000 words, and priced accordingly. During St. Valentine’s Day, I listed this fetish erotica for free on Amazon, and it was downloaded more than 850 times between the US, UK and German versions of Amazon. I made a couple of posts about the process as it was going on, which you can read here and here.

You can read your own excerpt from Snow White and the Seven Fetishes on Amazon, as well as read the comments from readers who have downloaded this erotica ebook.

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