Seeking Recommendations for BDSM Fiction

Blue Moon Books are listed on Amazon. "A Capive" and A Captive's Journey" are amongst the best. Enjoy!

Thanks everyone, I'll take a look at those.

Ordalie, thanks for those titles as I used to have a short story collection by Josephine Scott that I really liked, I'll definitely look for those on Amazon ;o)

I'm not familar with the Nexus/Black Lace books you mentioned, so I may be suggesting something totally different, but have you read Exit To Eden by Anne Rice? BTW, the book is different from the movie. Basicly, the movie is about playing the lifestyle, (for a period of two weeks) while the book is about living the lifestyle. (for a period of at least one year) In the book, Elliott is clearly into BDSM, while the movie portrays him as a closet spanko.

Just to point out how different the movie was:
The characters played by the stars in that movie don't exist in the book. The principle plot device of the movie (a jewel theft) does not appear in the book.

They kept the title, the names of a couple of characters, and that was it.

Goodgulf

Exit to Eden struck me as a guilt-laden mental exercise that Rice was going through in order to come to some sort of personally acceptable resolution between her desires and what she felt was healthy. The faulty conclusion she makes is that one can't sustain a long term relationship when trying to combine BDSM and romantic love. I think I threw the book across the room when I reached the ending.

Also, Rice is like the female Stephen King..........or the American J.K. Rowling: interesting story-teller at most times, but a tedious writer always. Even the "Beauty Trilogy" (which is a bit sexier than Eden IMO) is rather repetitive in its themes and scenes.

But to each their own.

Your thread helped increase Amazon's sales since I've just bought the two books by J. Scott I still didn't have, namely "Flame of revenge" and "The fantasies...". I had to order them on Amazon.uk, they were much more expensive on Amazon.fr. On the other hand they charge a lot when posting them to the European union!

Anne Rice writes BDSM fiction (or used to) under the name of Anne Roquefort (not sure if that is spelt correctly, she wrote the Beauty trilogy, I think the woman is conflicted, she is a commited Christian on one hand but writes porn and books about vampires and witches, LOL, I've only read one of the Sleeping Beauty trilogy but it was certainly a good read, that just reminded me about it, another couple of books to look for. I love her Vampire Chronicles, that is her best work in my opinion.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone, I've ordered a couple of secondhand books already (something to be getting on with), Dominant and Secrets of the Whipcord (both Nexus), but I will certainly be looking out the ones suggested here over the weekend.

Anne Rice lives in the Garden District in New Orleans which is halfway up St Charles between the French Quarter and uptown around Audubon Park and the University. New Orleans has a bar on every corner, lots of Catholic Churches, A tradition of voodoo (Marie Laveaux), and sin and depravity on Bourbon Street. No wonder she's conflicted.

When she wrote the porn she wasn't a Christian. She had rejected religion and openly mocked it. Then, after writing the vampire novels and other novels (including the porn) she turned back to religion and started writing about what Jesus was like as child.

As far as I know she hasn't disavowed her earlier work, but her later books aren't selling at the same level. Last year I stumbled over a radio interview with her where she talked about the process of rediscovering her Catholic faith and how hard it was for her husband (a "devote atheist") to re-marry in a church (otherwise they would be living in sin).

Technically she never wrote porn or erotica under her own name - she had two pen names. One for the porn (the Beauty series) and one for the Erotica (Exit to Eden and Belinda).

Yes, there was a time when I was really into her vampire series (before being disappointed by the later books) and I tracked down everything she wrote. The book about the castrati was a bit disturbing, but nothing compared to Belinda...

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belinda_%28Rice_novel%29 for details of why Belinda was disturbing. Rice delved into that subject matter with the same passion (and perhaps the same flaws) as she did with Exit to Eden.

Oh, and it's been a while but I don't think anything On Topic happened in Belinda. I'm sure I would have remembered if there had been a spanking, caning, or whatever in that book.

Goodgulf

I've just ordered A Slave in Time and Thorns by Josephine Scott from Amazon ;o)