Salome Verdad's Blog
Saturday 20 September 2014
More filth from Salome
I've written another work of fiction. It is sheer filth, politically
incorrect, and all that. You won't like it. On the other hand, it's only
£0.77p and you might find it a bit of a turn on. That makes it a really
cheap thrill, doesn't it? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Party-Discipline-femdom-Salome-Verdad-ebook/dp/B00NQCSVDM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411206868&sr=8-1&keywords=party+discipline+salome+verdad
Friday 17 January 2014
Review of “Fuck Me Please” by Eden Rose
There is more than one
way to write a dirty book. There's the kind where everything is left
to the imagination, or to the careful decoding of euphemisms. And
there's the opposite – the literary equivalent of “wham bam thank
you mam”, where the writer dumps you straight into the mechanics of
the sex, and finishes up when they finish.
For my money, though,
the best erotic writing combines: a good build-up – an interesting
situation, ideally with some dramatic and sexual tension; some
insight into the inner lives of the participants – I don't just
want to know what bits they put where, or how good it feels, I want
to know what they think and feel about it; and a good, earthy
description of the mechanics.
Eden Rose's new book
ticks all of these boxes. The situations are wild – an
ornithologist seduced by two women from a neighbouring village, a new
age women's resort, an estate agent emerging from a long period
enforced abstinence...each one is well crafted and nicely paced. By
the time the sex arrives – which isn't too long, for the most part
– you are involved in the situation and care about the characters.
It is by no means
romantic fiction. It's about fucking, not love. There is plenty of
kink – group sex, fetishes, and other twists and turns that I won't
spoil for you. A minor disappointment for me, as a fan of Rose's
earlier work, is that there is no S&M at all. Still, informed
sources suggest that she's now working on a femdom novel, so stay
tuned.
This books shows beyond
doubt how well the short story format works for erotic fiction. There
is a natural pace and rhythm to short stories that suits the pace of
sex. I find long dirty novels tend to drag a bit. Either the author
either decides that a book that long needs a properly contrived plot
and narrative arc – in which case that gets in the way of the
depictions of the sex, which is the main reason that you were reading
it in the first place. The abominable '50 Shades' is a casualty of
this tendency as the heroine agonizes about whether she can
ultimately redeem the damaged Christian Grey – who cares?
Or they don't bother
with a plot – in which case it's just one fuck after another, and
you can't but help getting bored.
So I'd back the short
story format for erotica any day. And you won't find better erotic
short stories than these.
Tuesday 1 October 2013
Review of 'The Penitentiary' by Tanya Simmonds
Another amusing femdom
romp by Tanya Simmonds, with lots of luscious detail to satisfy the
most exacting connoisseurs of the genre. Once again, there's a
certain cinematic quality to it, though if 'The Paramount Rule'
sometimes felt like an Ealing comedy, the trashy Southern aesthetic
of this one really feels like it ought to have been made by Russ
Meyer. How we would have loved the assertive big-breasted women
prison guards!
All of Tanya Simmonds'
favourite fetishes are here – orgasm denial, sadistic women getting
off on men unable to come, punishment for ejaculation, and lots of
cocks in cruel constrictions; I don't believe anyone has explored the
erotic potential of the simple rubber band as much as Simmonds has.
There's also a strap-on rape of an inmate by a powerful uniformed
guard – I mean, really, what more could you ask for? There's lots
of enforced cunnilingus, and some rather sweet depictions of vanilla
romantic love between some repentant guards and their devoted
prisoner-lovers. Once again, the cruellest, most sexually repressed
and repressive of the women (a right-wing religious fundamentalist,
naturally) is revealed to be a hypocritical sex-obsessed deviant
herself.
The plot mechanics are
carefully thought through, and there is enough action and twists to
thread the sex scenes into a coherent narrative. I could have done
without the epilogue which ties up all the loose ends and lets us
know what happens to all the characters after the action, but that's
just me. I also don't understand what has happened to the cover,
either, which seems to depict a woman in bondage – where are all
the dominant women and subjugated men from the story?
If you enjoy a sexually
charged story with lots of wanton, cruel women in uniform, then this
one is definitely for you.
Tuesday 3 September 2013
Salome is interviewed!
This celebrity interview with Salome took place ages ago, and then she forgot about it. It appeared in late July, but no-one told her. So she is posting this link late. Oh well, better than never...http://www.bdsmbookreviews.com/2013/07/27/interview-with-salome-verdad/
Monday 12 August 2013
Another review - this time by acclaimed femdom author Tanya Simmonds
And what a super review it is too - read it all here, then read it again, and tell your friends, slaves and mistresses. And tell them how much fun they are missing out on.
You can find out more about Ms Simmonds here, on her blog. She is a talented femdom author with a string of successful publications, so the review is praise indeed.
You can find out more about Ms Simmonds here, on her blog. She is a talented femdom author with a string of successful publications, so the review is praise indeed.
Saturday 27 July 2013
The book's Facebook page
With links to all the reviews, and so on. In case there is somebody I still haven't told. Here.
Monday 22 July 2013
An enjoyable femdom romp in the style of classic British comedy
A review of 'The Paramount Rule' by Tanya Simmonds
This amusing femdom
novel is described by its author as a 'romp', and that's exactly what
it is. There's a touch of classic British comedy to it, though it
isn't exactly played for laughs. In Oakpark Grange school there's a
dodgy institution trading on an undeserved reputation. There are
dissolute aristocrats, and ladies of a certain age with refined
manners but powerful sex drives. It has the acute social observation
that made the Ealing comedies, and subsequently the Carry On films,
so excruciating and at the same time enjoyable.
The cover from the now-rare first edition |
There is a definite
retro feel to it, in the settings, the deferential power and social
relationships it depicts, and most of all in the language. The male
pupils of the school don't have “cocks”, they have “members”
(always turgid or tumescent); they don't “come”, they “spend”.
The story is set in the early 1950s, but it could just as easily be the 1920s. It's definitely in some mythologised past
England, where everything stops for tea at four o'clock.
The retro quality is of
course enhanced by the boarding school setting, which provides for
arbitrary authoritarianism, rules and punishments, relationships
between older women and young men, and lots of creeping about in the
dark for illicit nocturnal rendezvous. Well, it worked for J K
Rowling, didn't it?
The period feeling
doesn't detract from the fun aspects of the book. There are four
beautiful, cruel and passionate dommes, and lashings of lashings,
with lots of different instruments. There is enforced cunnilingus in
a special section of the punishment room, lesbian love between the
teachers, and bondage with special equipment, including a penis
pillory and an ingenious 'controller' which automatically
masturbates the recalcitrant young men but delivers appropriately
timed electric shocks to prevent them from coming. Now that's surely
an anachronism whatever the time-period the book's setting – I
didn't actually get one of those until last year.
There is plenty of
straightforward sex too, between teacher and pupil and then between
pupils once the school goes co-ed. In fact, the book is almost awash
with semen – for a novel in which the focus is supposed to be
orgasm denial, there are an awful lot of high-volume ejaculations.
That's my main gripe with the book. Given the orgasm denial theme I
was looking forward to a lot more teasing and frustrated male desire,
which I find very sexy; but the horny, hot boys are rarely prevented
from coming whenever they want to, even if they are often punished
afterwards. Chastity devices do make a small appearance near the end,
but I'd like to have seen more of them (apparently they are more prevalent in what is in effect the sequel, "Prisoners of the Governess".
Still, this is a minor
quibble. Tanya Simmonds is a great femdom author, with a fine eye for
telling detail, and the book deserves to be read by every devotee of
the genre.
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