Ask-a-Wildlander Question # 1

So I've gotten a few questions from the Ask-A-Wildlander segment. How exciting!

We are going to start with Tova:

Dear Blaise,

Although you did seem to redeem yourself at the end of Wildlanders' Woman, you were kind of a difficult man to love. You were really unsympathetic to Ava's plight, her discomfort with her new situation, and generally just an unpleasant person. I think you were really damn lucky that she decided to love you in spite of all of that.  All of your Clan does, and I just don't get it. So my question is, how do you feel like you can inspire loyalty in your Clan when you're really not that nice to them?

Blaise: First, I gotta wait until my Clan mates stop laughing, here. I can still kick your arse, hunter, remember that. And wee b'y, remember who trades for your precious books.

Little sister Tova, all's I can say is that first it's a little hurtful ye thinks so poorly of me. Fact is, I give everything to my Clan. Everything. You seen how it works at the end of Wildlanders' Woman. They fucks up, I pays the price.

Killian: Well, I'd like to remind you, big brother, that...

Blaise: Shaddup!

 Killian: Fine, then.

Blaise: I've a great deal on my shoulders, dear Tova. My Clan mates all count on me to head the family, to make proper decisions, and to guide us all down the best pathways. Bringin' a bride into the mix just makes it tougher. And remember, we was all in love with Ava even before we brought her home. Meeting her in the market in that Softfoot city that day... it changed my life. She possessed me then. I knew there was none for me but her. Then that chinless bastard of a Commissioner offers me a trade, gets rid of her like she's no more than rubbish... we gives her a far better life in the Wildlands. She's exalted and honored here. So when she comes in, and she don't see that, it hurts, deep down to the soul. I sees in my mind how it can be, a happy Clan, all lovin' together, and I know how happy we can make her, how much we can please her. But she fights it!

Daven: What he means, Tova, is that he's shocked a woman has thoughts of her own and intelligence inside of her head. He can't see past his own pride to understand he's not the center of everything.

Blaise:Ye want me to stake you out as deragon bait?

Daven: Try it. The rest of your mates love me, remember? None of them can keep off my gorgeous cock. Mine gets touched far more than yours does.

Blaise: That's only 'cuz I actually give a care where I stick mine.

Daven: You stick it in the only one of our mates who would actually take you. Ava's a kind soul that way.

Crash! Clatter!

Jodah: Rrroooaar!

Killian: Oh, fuck.

Ava: Boys! Enough! Or nobody's sticking any cock in me for at least a month!

Silence.

Ava: That's better. Now Blaise, please finish answering the young lady's question.

Blaise: Fact is, I knows what was best for Ava and my Clan. Accept the love, and then everyone's content. So I try make that happen. I know that the faster it happens, the easier it is for everyone. So I push, thinking that Ava would see my wisdom soon. Sadly, I pushed too hard. And I caused her to resort to desperate things, which hurt her and the whole Circle. I paid the price for that, though. And all has been forgiven between us. I know I ain't perfect. But I tries my best to do what's right for my Clan and my Circle, and I should get some respect for that.

Ava: What my darling mate means to say is that he is sorry for his mistakes, and he will try much harder in the future to be a more pleasant person and respect the intelligence of everyone in the Clan before making decisions.

Blaise: Sweetling, that's not entirely...

Ava: Yes, it is.

Blaise: Fuck.

Ava: Not now, my love. But when we get home.

Blaise: Aye!

Ava: Once you admit that you don't always know what's best.

Blaise: I already done that.

Ava: But I'd like to hear it one more time.

Blaise: Make the rest of them stop laughing first.

Sneak Peek from Innocence Aroused

Hey all,

I'm working on Arcadian's Balm and Innocence Aroused. Apparently I can't just write one book at a time. The joys of having ADHD, I suppose. But I guess I shouldn't complain about my strange brain. It enables me to write dirty books, and that's fun!

Anyhow, here's a little clip from Innocence Aroused:

 Coral drifted awake slowly as she waded through the memories of the evening and took careful inventory of her body. Her nipples and clit ached. Her limbs were weak. Her throat was sore from screaming. And she had a vague sense of discord deep within, that something had fundamentally shifted in her relationship with Josiah, and she wasn’t entirely comfortable with it.
“Morning, sleepyhead.”
Did the man ever sleep? “Is it morning?”
“No, it’s actually about midnight.” He helped her to sit. “The boys are still out in the yard. Probably finishing my beer.”
“But you’re up here with me.” Coral pushed herself up on her knees and turned to face him. She needed to see his face, and she needed to be tall enough that she felt like his equal.
Josiah stroked her hair back. “Tonight’s scene was intense. You wouldn’t stay awake long enough to let me bring you down properly, so I sure as hell wasn’t going to let you sleep alone.”
Coral vaguely remembered him bathing and massaging her. “What else do we need to do?”
“Talk, mostly. We stepped up the game tonight. Brought you farther than you’ve been before. It’s the first time you’ve actually begged me to stop.”
Coral bit her lip, suddenly hurt at the memory. “But you didn’t.”
“You didn’t use your safe word,” he said flatly. “That’s the way we’ve set this up, sweets. You still don’t trust yourself enough to ask for what you want. Fuck, you don’t even trust yourself enough to admit what you want, so we’ve agreed that you let me figure it out. And you let me give it to you. And you trust me to never take you beyond what you can handle.”
“It hurt.” Coral shifted slightly, trying to relieve pressure on her abused clit. “Especially when you used that vibrator. It hurt. You made it so I had no choice but to come, and I had to figure out how to do it while it hurt.”
Josiah seemed unaffected by her accusations. “You like pain. You’ve admitted that to me more than once. And the point is, you had to make yourself come. I didn’t do it for you.”

Awesome Blog Interview!

So I'd like to thank Kelly D. Smith of the SmithandLeduc Everything Writing blog for being so kind as to interview me this past week. It was really cool to be able to talk about my writing and give out a few tips. Anyhow, check out the interview here!

A Discussion of Consent

If you're on this blog, you've likely read some of my work. If you've read some of my work, particularly the Wildlands books, you've figured out that I sometimes like to play with questions of consent. So let's talk about it for a few minutes.

First, I want to make it VERY clear that I am a strong advocate for enthusiastic consent in all real-life sexual encounters. Sex is only sex if all parties have agreed to engage in the activity without coercion, intoxication, intimidation, etc. Otherwise, it's a crime.

That being said, dubcon, or even noncon, can be a kink. For certain people, there is something titillating in the idea of being overcome sexually, having your body taken over by a strong, sensual partner who awakens something within you and forces you to respond. It can be a fun sexual game if that's what you're into, and I won't say that I've never tried it. But such games must be undertaken very carefully, with agreed-upon parameters, safety precautions, etc. That is vital for the physical and emotional safety of all parties involved. It's rather ironic, that a dubcon fantasy must be entered into with enthusiastic consent. But it's the reality. Otherwise, the results can be disastrous, and leave people with lifelong scars.

For those of us who do have a dubcon kink, erotic fiction of a certain kind can provide a safe way of exploring those fantasies. For some women, especially those raised in a sexually repressive environment where they are taught that their ladybits are bad and dirty, it's easier to 'forgive' a heroine who experiences pleasure in forced or coerced sex because she did not have a choice. The sex, and by extension the pleasure, was forced upon her. We are going to look at an extension of that mentality in Innocence Aroused, where the heroine enters into a d/s relationship in part because it's easier for her to enjoy her sexual experiences when she can tell herself that she did not have a choice. So we will have to examine that mentality, see whether it's healthy, and whether she can, or should, move on from that eventually.

In a way, writing the kink into the Wildlands series is a lot easier. It's a fantasy world. Though fantasy worlds must have an element of believability to them, it's different than writing about contemporary reality. The Wildland Tribute system is, at its core, a form of marriage-by-capture, and in most of human tradition, marriage has given males the automatic rights over their wives' bodies. In First Possession, even as Ava panics at the sexual act she's about to be performing, she understands that she is essentially these men's wife, and therefore required to allow them access to her body. Part of the narrative of Wildlanders' Woman, particularly the tension between Ava and Blaise, and as we see in the brief scene between Darock and Sarina, is the fundamental difference in perspective between the Arcadian women and the Wildlander men. Wives they may be, but the Arcadian women struggle with the intimacies performed upon them. At times, they feel violated. The Wildlander males don't understand why their women could feel this way, as they always ensure their pleasure. The Wildlander obsession with physical enjoyment makes it difficult for them to comprehend why anyone would choose not to engage in sex, as it leads to such pleasure.

The problems that arise in Wildlanders' Woman, particularly surrounding Ava's addiction and Sarina's criminal activities, are evidence of the problematic nature of the Wildlander mentality. Something's gotta give, here. So as the series progresses, the society will have to move toward a better understanding between the two groups.

Cover of Innocence Aroused and Sneak Peek

Here's the cover for Innocence Aroused, the next installment in the Innocents serial. It continues the story of Coral, a religious fundamentalist young woman experiencing a sexual awakening at the hands of Josiah, a reclusive mountain homesteader. And, as we'll discover in this story, his friends.***

Coral was preparing to load the dishwasher when Josiah came in. He wrapped his arms around her from behind, and she thrilled to be held against his powerful chest. Already, her pussy quivered in anticipation of whatever he’d come up with for tonight.
“Go shower,” he murmured in her ear. “Put your hair up. Then you go wait for me, naked, by the door out onto the porch, in thirty minutes. Figure we should take advantage of this warm night, eh?”
Arousal oozed from between her sex lips. Coral squirmed. Outside, the others could see her. Was that what he intended? Was that what she… wanted?
No, that would be wrong. But if Josiah ordered her to do so, she had to obey. She trembled in excitement, her sex growing slick. They might all look at her, see Josiah make love to her, and wish that they were in his place. How would it feel, she wondered, to have someone other than Josiah inside of her?
She flushed with shame at the thought.
Twenty minutes later, she was hurrying back downstairs, anxious to get into position before he came for her. But he was waiting. When she tried to sink into position, he caught her arm.
“I told you, I don’t need that.”
Outside, one of the lounge chairs was set up at the base of the porch steps, straps and cuffs draped neatly over. Coral’s tummy clenched in anticipation. She glanced around, seeing Lachlan, Pike, Kabel, and Wolf in a half-circle by the fire pit, all with a very good view of what was about to happen.
Coral bit her lip and looked up to Josiah, whose eyes were gleaming. “Let’s just see how much you get off on being watched. We’ll start with a spanking, seeing as how I know how much you like those, but we’ll do it a little differently. I want you to put your hands on the second step from the bottom. Legs spread nice and wide.”

*** Every sexual experience in this story is undertaken with full consent of the heroine, as per the parameters of the d/s relationship.

New Feature... Ask-A-Wildlander

So I spend a LOT of time hanging out in the Wildlands, and, as we all know, the folks who live there are utterly fabulous. And we are endlessly curious about their lives, their minds, and everything that  makes them tick.

It makes sense, then, that readers should be able to ask our delicious warriors questions themselves! Why is Blaise so cranky most of the time? Ask him? Wanna know if Daven's as much of a beast in the sack as he seems? Ask Killian! Why isn't Rustan completely forthcoming about his age? Exactly how big is Jodah's... equipment, and is he willing to offer up photographs as proof?

So, if you have a question, use the contact form here, or email me privately, or post them in the comments. I'll answer them (without revealing the asker's personal information) in a post once a week or so. Let's see what those Wildlanders have to tell us!

Weekly Tumblr Roundup

So I've only done a few Tumblr posts so far, but I love them and want to show them off, so here we go!

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Tip # 1

After you’ve killed trolls with your hunky warrior lovers, the best position for celebration sex is doggy-style. #WildlandersHope

This is, of course, a reference to Wildlanders' Hope, where our intrepid heroine does just that. Wanna see it happen? Buy the book here!

Tip # 2

When you’re stressed out, a little oral in the moonlight can be a beautiful thing. #wildlanderswoman

In Wildlanders' Woman, Ava's adorable mates Daven and Killian ease her tension in that most delightful of ways. 

Tumblr is Here!

So I've decided to play around a bit on Tumblr. I'm not going to make it idential to this blog. Tumblr's interface is not set up for the kind of writing I want to do on here. I'm basically going to use the Tumblr feed for a bit of raunchy fun, namely...

Sex Tips from an Erotic Romance Author

How do you like them applums? (Reference to Wildlands). I'll do a weekly round-up of what has happened on Tumblr over on this blog, and once I figure out how, I'll set up a link so you can easily pop between the two. It just makes good sense to expand my social media base and find new ways to connect with readers.