Lenny's Smutty Paperback Reviews

[Jim Cantor]

Originally Posted by Libra6Poe

Definitely! The most you'll get at Barnes & Noble is in the anthology section where you can find mammoth books of erotic fiction, etc. Some Half Price books have erotic sections & some don't. And when they do, it's so hard to find. I don't always feel comfortable asking where it is. :o

It does depend on where you are. I recently found quite a lot of good smut in B&N in Santa Barbara. So there's no nationwide ban on it. If your local store doesn't carry it, start making a habit of asking for the books you want. Look surprised and disappointed when they say they don't have it. Mutter that you'l have to start shopping at amazon instead of your local bookstore. There are plently of us smut-lovers out there, but if we don't _ask_ they won't know it.

Males may find this embarrassing, but females usually don't. So if you have a wife or girlfriend who approves, take her along. It's even better if she does the asking.

Jim

[Libra6Poe]

Well, it's okay if I ask... normally I don't because I get pretty shy & self conscious about it... especially when I'm ordering from my own store & have to go through my coworkers (there was a thread on this somewhere here... about me ordering Baise Moi).

And there is some erotica at BN, but you really have to search for it. We don't have a horror section, etc. but we do have a huge fiction section. There you'll find Nin, Miller, the Sleeping Beauty trilogy, etc. But you really have to know what you're looking for, not just browse.

[Libra6Poe]

(there was a thread on this somewhere here... about me ordering Baise Moi)

Here's the thread:
Dirty literary secret!

[Jim Cantor]

Originally Posted by Libra6Poe

And there is some erotica at BN, but you really have to search for it. We don't have a horror section, etc. but we do have a huge fiction section. There you'll find Nin, Miller, the Sleeping Beauty trilogy, etc. But you really have to know what you're looking for, not just browse.

So who decides what's in stock, and why does it vary so much from store to store? Does the manager place orders for individual books? Or does s/he (or some minion) just specify some kind of policy, so that titles arrive without being ordered individually?

I'm really interested to know how books like "Brush Strokes" or "Lessons in Obedience" or "Over the Knee" arrive on the shelves of stores like yours. And if they sell, what determines whether they get reordered?

Jim

[mehastings]

Originally Posted by Libra6Poe

Here's the thread:
Dirty literary secret!

Aah...I remember that now. Have you had any better sucess with it? I still think you should go with the "sister" idea. It works really well!

[Jim Cantor]

Originally Posted by lenny nero

I've never read Brooke Stern or Sarah Veitch, how are they and what's their particular kink?

Most of the smut that you see in airports and railway stations over here nowadays is either spanking-based of Dom/sub-based.

Sarah Veitch started out as a Nexus author, but her more recent books are published by PalmPrint, which I think is her own imprint. The PalmPrint ones don't get into bookstores much, but are easily available online. One of my favorites of the older ones is Serving Time, in which Fern Terris is convicted of burning down a department store. Of course she's offered an alternative to the usual form of prison, and the regime turns out - surprise, surprise! - to involve a lot of corporal punishment. It starts out disciplinary, but gets more and more sexual as the book progresses. Worth a look, anyway.

Jim

[lenny nero]

Next time I place an Amazon order, I'll look for that one. Sounds good.

[Jim Cantor]

Originally Posted by lenny nero

I've never read Brooke Stern or Sarah Veitch, how are they and what's their particular kink?

Brooke Stern has written a couple of spanking novels and (according to amazon) edited a few anthologies. I really liked her first novel, "Suffering the Consequences" (Chimera). I haven't read her second, "Bad Girls", though it's on my list. But "Suffering the Consequences" is great. It's told as a journalists's (Brooke Stern's) story about Lauren and Robert, who have been pilloried in the tabloid press for their torrid spanking affair. The book is the "inside story". I read it a while ago, so the details are somewhat hazy. But I do remember feeling that it's the real thing, a kinky story told by a kinky girl who really gets it. It's smutty, but there's a lot of romance behind the smut. There's a rather implausible scene in a psychiatric ward, but everything else fits and makes sense.

This one is a book for enthusiasts. But if you like intelligent spankophile smut, try it.

Jim

[Jim Cantor]

Looking at amazon.com, it seems that "Suffering the Consequences" is out of print and the few amazon marketplace sellers want ridiculous prices for it. Whenever this happens, look first on abe.com (starting at US$4.06 right now for this book) and then at other amazon sites such as amazon.co.uk, where it's available much cheaper.

Jim

Originally Posted by Jim Cantor

Brooke Stern has written a couple of spanking novels and (according to amazon) edited a few anthologies. I really liked her first novel, "Suffering the Consequences" (Chimera). I haven't read her second, "Bad Girls", though it's on my list. But "Suffering the Consequences" is great. It's told as a journalists's (Brooke Stern's) story about Lauren and Robert, who have been pilloried in the tabloid press for their torrid spanking affair. The book is the "inside story". I read it a while ago, so the details are somewhat hazy. But I do remember feeling that it's the real thing, a kinky story told by a kinky girl who really gets it. It's smutty, but there's a lot of romance behind the smut. There's a rather implausible scene in a psychiatric ward, but everything else fits and makes sense.

This one is a book for enthusiasts. But if you like intelligent spankophile smut, try it.

Jim

[lenny nero]

I've used abe.com before, I like their service. I also like powells.com to order from for used books too.

Have you read Laura Antoniou's Markeplace series? It's usually my first recommendation to fans of S/m smut. So far, it's a 5 book series with actual three dimensional characters, very good sex scenes, and an intriguing setting. I believe the first 2 or 3 books in it have gone out of print but shouldn't be that hard to find.

[Jim Cantor]

Originally Posted by lenny nero

IHave you read Laura Antoniou's Markeplace series? It's usually my first recommendation to fans of S/m smut. So far, it's a 5 book series with actual three dimensional characters, very good sex scenes, and an intriguing setting. I believe the first 2 or 3 books in it have gone out of print but shouldn't be that hard to find.

No, I haven't. But I shall add it to my amazon list immediately.

Jim

[Jim Cantor]

Originally Posted by lenny nero

It is a great cover isn't it? It's probably my favorite out of all the newly redesigned covers that Nexus has done.

Yeah, I like it a lot. In fact, so that other people can see what we're talking about, here it is:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/i...503552&sr=11-1

I particularly the Afterword in "Over the Knee", where Fiona Locke describes posing for the photo. It ends:

"We were happy, the editor was happy, and the people in the cover design department were apparently 'a bit freaked by the full impact of of a spanking in progress'."

"Full impact, indeed; my bottom was very sore - which is just as it should be."

"All in a day's work, really."

Jim

[lenny nero]

I like the cover for Julius Culdrose's Derriere. I like how understated and subtle it is:

http://www.amazon.com/Derriere-Nexus...9947678&sr=1-1

[beer good]

Originally Posted by lenny nero

I like the cover for Julius Culdrose's Derriere. I like how understated and subtle it is:

http://www.amazon.com/Derriere-Nexus...9947678&sr=1-1

Heh. Reminds me of the Swedish cover for The Story of O: http://vertigo.se/bd/om/o.jpg

[Jim Cantor]

Originally Posted by lenny nero

I like the cover for Julius Culdrose's Derriere. I like how understated and subtle it is:

http://www.amazon.com/Derriere-Nexus...9947678&sr=1-1

What I like about that one is that it's obviously part of the same picture as the cover of Leg Lover: http://www.amazon.com/Leg-Lover-Nexu...9953089&sr=1-1