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The Dutch Father Christmas is called St. Nicholas.

Folklore has it that he celebrates his birthday by bringing gifts to those who are worthy of them on December 5th.

Emmy Smit and Anna Janssen decide to stage their own rather more unconventional celebration of the St. Nicholas feast and find out for themselves what happens to the not so worthy.

A Delightful Evening is a short story of approx. 8500 words.

Now available as a Christmas gift at Smashwords in .epub and .mobi(kindle) formats. Find it HERE

Window Display is now also available on Smashwords.com

Download Window Display here.

Available formats: .epub and .mobi (kindle)

September 18, 2015

That is the date my story ‘Window Display’ will become available to readers.

Window Display will be available HERE.

You will need to be a member of the Goodreads BDSM discussion group to be able to read it there.

What do you do when you’ve made the deadline, you delivered on time, but you’re still fired up and can’t seem to sit still due to a nagging feeling you should be doing something, but there isn’t anything left to do?

August 1 was the deadline for submitting the stories for the Goodreads BDSM group’s Writing Event. Right now the moderators and volunteers are working their butts off to prepare the stories for the group members’ reading pleasure.Starting September the stories will be made available to readers over a period of two months.

All there is to do now, is wait. And decompress.

He watches her. He stalks her. The kinky books she reads? He wrote them. Her lover who fucks her vanilla style three times a week? Not worthy of her. He knows everything there is to know about her, or so he thinks. He thinks she’s perfect. For him, and him alone.

He’s out to change her life as she knows it.

Below are the opening lines of Window Display, the story I am writing for the Bound by Ink Writing Event.

Anyone of my friends who is not a writer won’t understand why we writers must observe everything and everyone around us. They’ll never look at people passing by while they’re having their coffees at a street café. They never notice the waitress who serves them every day has changed her hairstyle. Everything that interests us, they fail to see. They’ll never obsess over why the woman with the poodle walking her dog wore two different pumps last Monday – both a similar but not quite the same dark blue color but with a distinctly unequal heel height – and never noticed it herself. A writer notices. He should notice. I notice. The smallest details of everyone and everything around me may catch my eye, and give rise to extrapolation, conjectures and hypotheses to satisfy my ever present urge to fill in the gaps. A young woman’s stifled posture when a man casually touches her knee, another’s flirtatious looks that go unanswered, the intense heat of gazes exchanged between what could be mother and son… I could go on but won’t, other than to say they spark the imagination, set my mind reeling with the possibilities. There is no escaping it. There is no intention behind it. It is not indiscretion. It is life’s blood. It is called shameless by my friends but I have long ago stopped chastising myself over what is quite simply sucking dry the innocent passerby of all he – or she – is worth in the way of secrets, peculiarities, habits, tics, and whatever else that interests me. It is not obsessive to want to know what I want to know by observing them and their behavior. It is what I have always done and do for a living now. I am a writer. I watch. …

Bound by Ink is the first writing event hosted by the Goodreads BDSM group.  Members provided a photo and letter to inspire writers to create an original story.  Writers picked the prompt that spoke to them most.  The result of their kinky creativity will be a free gift to readers of the group.

To view the original writing prompts,  join the Goodreads BDSM group and look for the Bring Out Your Kink section.

The Goodreads BDSM group is hosting a Writing Event. One of the story prompts spoke to me and wouldn’t let go of me. I took the plunge and signed up for writing a story based on the prompt.

Deadline for story delivery: August 1

What have I done? Why, oh why?

1) No series with annoying cliff hangers at the end of the first novel in the series.

2) No series should take longer than 3 novels to tell the actual story. Each novel in a series has to tell a significant and rounded part of the overall story. The parts of the series should be novel length or if they’re not they need to be combined into one novel. It is allowed to elaborate, add on, extend the story beyond the basic story line in additional sequels, either by adding characters or sideline stories. These can not conflict, contradict, detract from the original basic story. Each of the sequels has to follow these same guidelines.

3) Do not, ever, break the fourth wall. Do not make a character say to us, the readers, what you, the author, wanted to say. Let your characters speak for themselves. Let your text speak for itself. You, the author, have plenty of space to do your own talking in the blurb, introductory notes and end notes.

4) The blurb should not distort the premise of the story. No false advertising. No lemons where peaches were promised and/or hinted at. Or vice versa.

5) Keep your novel free of high-tech, unbelievable, impossible, coulda-shoulda-woulda-talked-but-didn’t plot mechanisms.  Do not try to force our suspension of disbelief so far that it detracts/distracts from anything else.

6) If you’re gonna pull a rabbit out of the hat at 80% of the novel, reversing everything the reader has come to understand about the characters/plot/story direction, bloody make sure that the remaining 20% is spectacular enough to compensate for that.

7) Write with the reader in mind. Use descriptive prose and fluid dialogue. Use scene sequencing to achieve desired effect. Have someone beta read and proofread at the very very least, to take out the more stupid things like killing off the grandmother in chapter 3 and having her to babysit in chapter 10 and the sillier there/their spelling errors as well as the typos. Adapt text according to hints and tips.

8) If there’s gonna be mean things, describe the mean things so we can see/feel/hear/smell how mean they are. Show, don’t tell. Don’t keep the nasty business off camera (all the time), don’t shove it down our throats either.

9) If you’re gonna do a meanie, make him a meanie. The perfect monster is not a sniveling pussy, he dominates. He is consistent, even if only in his inconsistencies. He cannot be out of control for extended periods of time. He can be aggressive, must be superior in most ways and although he may have weaknesses, he must be close to infallible. He must have a reason for being the meanie he is, even if it is not known to the reader (yet). We do want to find out about it though, and his reasons, however outrageous they may be, better be good. The perfect monster has a libido that is at least beyond average and he does not rely on (the size of) his dick alone to do his nasty meanie sexy business. He has a varied repertoire of techniques and/or tools. There will be at least some to an amazing amount of pleasure for the object of his attention. Any pain he inflicts, harm he does, cannot be for the sake of maiming, destroying, killing alone.

10) The woman/girl that attracts the perfect monster’s attention, desire, affection, interest is not too stupid to live. She cannot be an unworthy opponent. If the perfect monster kills her off at the end, make sure it happens in a memorable, worthy way.

(c) Copyrighted and written by Bluerabella (bluerabella@gmail.com) & Zosia, in DarkSafe group of the Goodreads forum, on June 14 2014. This text may be spread around freely, provided you do so in its entirety, including this (c) notice. (Don’t forget to send us an ARC when you think you’ve come up with one that qualifies, thank you very much in advance :D)