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They're already out there. fo exhibit A I give you "Possession" a Blaze romance by Tori Carrington, about a gorgeous female FBI agent who's kidnapped by a hunky Louisiana guy in pre-Katrina New Orleans, not necessarily for immoral purposes, but she keeps getting all wet while being hauled aorund tied up by him, and especially while tied to a bed by him ...

Then there's "Finders Keepers" by Shirl Henke, a Bombshell romance about a ffemale bounty hunter who kidnaps a hunky young photographer and keeps him in some pretty severe bondage while squirrelling him around the country in the back of her van, meanshile doing lots of heavy lusting while she's got him tied up in her hotel room.

OK, it's not exactly John Norman, or in line with a lot of the BDSM erotica on the Web, but I'm thinking that romance publishers might be OK with a little softcore bondage in their lines. Specifically, there's a new, as-yet-unpublished Harlequin line which has a suggested reading list for would-be authors that includes "The Story of O."

I'm thinking maybe trad publishers are looking at all the online BDSM erotica that's out there and thinking maybe they want a piece of that action. Hell, Harlequin has a line of manga now. Who knows what's coming down the pike?
 
Until now, I never really gave it much thought as to how many really bad novelists there are in the world.

Nora Roberts, you have some competition.
 
Links, we need links!

Where's this Harliquin manga?
 
Their has been bondage erotica circulating for a bit as romance for a while. No 'coming soon', more like 'here now'.Their are also a lot of D/s books that masquerade as romance books.
 
O'Mac said:
Until now, I never really gave it much thought as to how many really bad novelists there are in the world.

Nora Roberts, you have some competition.
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Perhaps you should consider not readng those works, then. As for bad, this stuff is actually pretty good genre writing. Back to your Chaucer, dude.
 
Perhaps you should consider not readng those works, then. As for bad, this stuff is actually pretty good genre writing. Back to your Chaucer, dude.
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Chauser was a hack! :D
 
graceanne said:
Their has been bondage erotica circulating for a bit as romance for a while. No 'coming soon', more like 'here now'.Their are also a lot of D/s books that masquerade as romance books.
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Well, don't just stand aruond protecting the guilty. We need names, titles, links!

I'm not sure what you mean by "bondage erotica" circulating as romances. There have certainly been romances with bondage erotical elements for a long time. Is there some line or something out there that's Known For It?
 
PatPowers said:
Well, don't just stand aruond protecting the guilty. We need names, titles, links!

I'm not sure what you mean by "bondage erotica" circulating as romances. There have certainly been romances with bondage erotical elements for a long time. Is there some line or something out there that's Known For It?
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Authors. Their are authors who you can generally find bondage and D/s and even more rarely some S/m.

Um, lemme think (and find links).

Off hand, their's Johanna Lindsey. She's been around since the 70's, but not all of her stuff has bondage and stuff in it.

Go for the Warrior Series. Warriors Woman, Keeper of the Heart, Heart of a Warrior.

Also Prisoner of My Desire, Captive Bride, Surrender My Love . . . their's more, but I don't have the time or patience to put them up.

As for some D/s fiction, their's Jayne Anne Krentz/Amanda Quick, Christine Feehan, Bertrice Small . . . I'm sure I'm forgetting someone. If I think of them I'll come back here and post it.
 
graceanne said:
Authors. Their are authors who you can generally find bondage and D/s and even more rarely some S/m.

Um, lemme think (and find links).

Off hand, their's Johanna Lindsey. She's been around since the 70's, but not all of her stuff has bondage and stuff in it.
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Oh, yeah, I read "A Pirate's Love" by Lindsey, and IIRC it did have a couple of long sections where the protagonist is the pirate's captive, including (once again, IIRC) where he makes love to her while she's tied to a bed. But there was one HELL of a lot of plot and characterization to wade through. Frankly, if I'd known ahead of time I prolly wouldn't of bothered. Of course, the book was written almost 30 years ago (1978) so things might have changed since. I'll check out that Warrior series.

Bertrice Small . . . I'm sure I'm forgetting someone. If I think of them I'll come back here and post it.
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I gave a hard run at reading Small's "The Love Slave" but once again, WAAAAY too much plot and characterization and not nearly enough love slavery. Actually, not ANY love slavery of the bondage and dominance sort, IIRC. I think I gave up somewhere between page 200 and page 300. By that time, she'd been captured, sold into slavery a couple of times, and "trained" as a love slave (as I recall, this consisted almost entirely of having vanilla sex with her trainer. Absolutely brilliant historical background, but not enough sex in the foreground. Written in 1995, so I have to wonder about Small ...

Thanks very much for all the links I will be checking them out! :D
 
graceanne said:
Authors. Their are authors who you can generally find bondage and D/s and even more rarely some S/m.

Um, lemme think (and find links).

Off hand, their's Johanna Lindsey. She's been around since the 70's, but not all of her stuff has bondage and stuff in it.

Go for the Warrior Series. Warriors Woman, Keeper of the Heart, Heart of a Warrior.

Also Prisoner of My Desire, Captive Bride, Surrender My Love . . . their's more, but I don't have the time or patience to put them up.

As for some D/s fiction, their's Jayne Anne Krentz/Amanda Quick, Christine Feehan, Bertrice Small . . . I'm sure I'm forgetting someone. If I think of them I'll come back here and post it.
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Lori Foster has a few books with some light D/s with some bondage and SM thrown in. Feehan is always a good read. Katie MacAlister also has a little. Feehan and MacAlister also write vampire/paranormal stuff. But both write pretty well. Sandra Hill is another interesting one - her Cajun series is pretty good and she has a series about Vikings that isn't too bad. She and MacAlister are also pretty funny, if you like characters with a sense of humor.
 
PatPowers said:
Oh, yeah, I read "A Pirate's Love" by Lindsey, and IIRC it did have a couple of long sections where the protagonist is the pirate's captive, including (once again, IIRC) where he makes love to her while she's tied to a bed. But there was one HELL of a lot of plot and characterization to wade through. Frankly, if I'd known ahead of time I prolly wouldn't of bothered. Of course, the book was written almost 30 years ago (1978) so things might have changed since. I'll check out that Warrior series.



I gave a hard run at reading Small's "The Love Slave" but once again, WAAAAY too much plot and characterization and not nearly enough love slavery. Actually, not ANY love slavery of the bondage and dominance sort, IIRC. I think I gave up somewhere between page 200 and page 300. By that time, she'd been captured, sold into slavery a couple of times, and "trained" as a love slave (as I recall, this consisted almost entirely of having vanilla sex with her trainer. Absolutely brilliant historical background, but not enough sex in the foreground. Written in 1995, so I have to wonder about Small ...

Thanks very much for all the links I will be checking them out! :D
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To tell the truth I found A Pirates Love to be intensly boring. lol I loved the warrior series - frankly I own it. Let's put it this way - their's a scene in Warriors Woman where she's tied on the back of a horse-like creature and he's . . . teasing her, shall we say?

Their are a few others, like I said, that I loved, but I can't recall the titles. lol Not all of Johanna Lindsey's stuff has bondage and stuff in it, but they are usually D/s.
 
Yeah, actually, a lot of prominant publishing houses have jumped on the e-book erotica bandwagon, including the BDSM and even M/F/M titles.

If you want good BDSM you might try Angela Knight: http://www. angelasknights. com (no spaces). Her earlier work, especially, is VERY BDSM and D/s. Check out the Mercenary series for sure. She got her name with novellas in the Secrets Anthologies, and she's published with Loose Id, Changeling Press (my publisher) and Ellora's Cave (I think).

Shelby Morgan has a great Domme/sub book called "Plain Brown Wrapper", or something like that. It's an ebook from Changeling Press: www. changelingpress. com (no spaces)
 
If you like vampires and werewolves...

Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series

If you like Celtic mythos (the fay, Seelie & Unseelie courts) try her Meredith Gentry series.

The Anita Blake series starts off pretty vanilla but they get more and more sexually charged and kinky as the series progresses.

The Merry Gentry books start off with BDSM. Merry is a masochist and they make no bones about it. And the Queen of the UnSeelie court, she's a raving sadist... Fun stuff!

Oh... and both series are definitely poly/swing positive.

She's published under the Ballentine Books label by Random House. How much more mainstream can you get?
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/lkhamilton/index.html
Fanclub site is - http://www.laurellkhamilton.org/

If she isn't _in_ the lifestyle, her research and characterization is spot on.
 
Zombifying this thread to say ... Fifty Fricking Shades of Gray!!!!!!!

Finally! Mainstream gets it, this thread is eight fricking years old! And everybody is all amazed: kinky romances? What next?
 
PatPowers said:
Zombifying this thread to say ... Fifty Fricking Shades of Gray!!!!!!!

Finally! Mainstream gets it, this thread is SIX fricking years old! And everybody is all amazed: kinky romances? What next?
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Fixed your math error.

And yes, you were a prophet. All except for the part where you seemed to be unaware of the 15 or 20 mainstream authors mentioned by responders to your OP. :rolleyes:
 
Evil_Geoff said:
If you like vampires and werewolves...

Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series

If you like Celtic mythos (the fay, Seelie & Unseelie courts) try her Meredith Gentry series.

The Anita Blake series starts off pretty vanilla but they get more and more sexually charged and kinky as the series progresses.

The Merry Gentry books start off with BDSM. Merry is a masochist and they make no bones about it. And the Queen of the UnSeelie court, she's a raving sadist... Fun stuff!

Oh... and both series are definitely poly/swing positive.

She's published under the Ballentine Books label by Random House. How much more mainstream can you get?
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/lkhamilton/index.html
Fanclub site is - http://www.laurellkhamilton.org/

If she isn't _in_ the lifestyle, her research and characterization is spot on.
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I have to agree that she does do a pretty good job nailing a lot of the aspects of both poly and BDSM relationships, although as a series I found her writing to be repetitive in choice of phrasing.

It would have made a much better vampire/werewolf series than bloody Twilight though.
 
Sir_Winston54 said:
Fixed your math error.

And yes, you were a prophet. All except for the part where you seemed to be unaware of the 15 or 20 mainstream authors mentioned by responders to your OP. :rolleyes:
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I'm not sure any of them have had anything LIKE the impact on the mainstream that 50 Shades has. Over the summer it hit 40 million in sales worldwide. Also, the relationship in 50 Shades was a straight-up BDSM relationship, no vampires, no werewolves, no historical epoch, no damsel in distress plot. VERY different than what has gone before, both in terms of its popularity and content.
 
Pat, thanks! We need this booklist. Women show up here pretty regularly asking if there is anything else out there like 50Shades. *bookmarks*

Do you have more material to add to it? Please? ;)
 
Stella_Omega said:
Pat, thanks! We need this booklist. Women show up here pretty regularly asking if there is anything else out there like 50Shades. *bookmarks*

Do you have more material to add to it? Please? ;)
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sure, there is a whole genre in ebook format, just google "erotic romance" or "erotic romances" and look around. Now I'm not sure EXACTLY what you mean by "like 50 Shades" though. Most erotic romances are not reformatted Twilight fanfic, though there is plenty of THAT as well.

If you are asking for traditional romances that have kinky elements, well bodice rippers pretty much ARE that, although the kinkery is generally concealed under a damsel in distress story, i.e., nonconsensual kinda sorta in a way, in the way that romances have typically handled those themes.

So ... not sure what you are looking for ...
 
PatPowers said:
sure, there is a whole genre in ebook format, just google "erotic romance" or "erotic romances" and look around. Now I'm not sure EXACTLY what you mean by "like 50 Shades" though. Most erotic romances are not reformatted Twilight fanfic, though there is plenty of THAT as well.

If you are asking for traditional romances that have kinky elements, well bodice rippers pretty much ARE that, although the kinkery is generally concealed under a damsel in distress story, i.e., nonconsensual kinda sorta in a way, in the way that romances have typically handled those themes.

So ... not sure what you are looking for ...
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I'm asking if you can add to this list-- create a little reviews thread. :rose: Doesn't have to be 50shades-like at all, just-- good romance reading.

Or is there a reviewer out there that you like?

As I said, we do get women asking for recomendations. they reference 50 shades, because it's the first ever erotic romance they've ever read. Me, I know nothing about romance, and my erotica choices are hardly satisfying to romance readers.
 
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