Monthly Archives: April 2025

For those readers who like my erotica and/or “slice of life” psychological fiction, this is to remind you that there are only about 4 weeks left, through May 28. 2025, in the Kindle Unlimited program for two of my titles, HIS URGE TO SERVE (erotica) and WHEN A WOMAN SCOWLS (“slice of life”). If you’re a KU subscriber, grab your free downloads before the end of May!

A man’s new neighbor quickly dominates him, first to his anxiety, then to his growing delight!

A novella about an older man and a younger woman, who are co-workers at a website publisher, and how an article about two paintings brings their relationship to a crisis…

I selected these as a “double feature” because although one is horny, light-hearted and sexually explicit (His Urge to Serve) and the other is brooding and melancholy (When a Woman Scowls) they are linked by the common subject of men who struggle to accept their desires to submit sexually to dominant women. I think they go together well and show how I can spin off my stories in different directions depending on the approach.

Before this current Kindle Unlimited offering, I had one for the 2023 novella SPOILT PRINCESS GRACE MEETS BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE, one of my favorite tales of all the many hundreds I’ve written and gotten published over the decades. Quite a few pages were read and free ebooks downloaded, landing it on the Amazon bestseller list for Historical Erotica.

There are many reasons why I like this story, chief among them my affection for my friend the REAL Spoilt Princess Grace of Dublin, Ireland, professional dominatrix and video maker, who inspired the idea of writing such a story as well as being the model for the cover by British master artist of femdom scenes, Sardax.

But I didn’t realize until months after I’d published it how much it’s also a kind of an autobiography of who I am and the way I think, despite it’s taking place in 1718. The following will be of interest primarily to those who have read the tale, since there are spoilers…

The story takes place on Lamarr Island, a pirate hideaway in the Caribbean. I knew from the git-go the character of the poet Jeremy Shaw was similar to myself; he’s not a pirate himself, but a gloomy poet, visiting Lamarr Island, drinking glasses of port in the local tavern, who fears his poetry isn’t very good but loves reading and writing verse nonetheless, and who is besotted with the pirate queen Princess Grace in a submissive, “beta” way (to use the current 21st century lingo). But I didn’t realize until later how much Blackbeard was a self-portrait too. Not that I’ve been any kind of pirate or swashbuckler, but like Blackbeard in the story I have my “alpha” side, which has been expressed through my writing and editing career (I edited magazines for just under thirty years). Whereas Blackbeard had a fleet of ships, I was in charge of a small fleet of publications, editing at one point three simultaneously while writing for about ten other periodicals as an interviewer and fictioneer.

Like Blackbeard in the story, my “alpha” side has struggled with this enticing desire to sexually submit to women, feeling all sorts of conflicting emotions, and I was able to write his character (with the addition of much authentic biographical historical detail) because I identify strongly with that. Blackbeard I also modeled on roles played by the actor Warren William, one of my favorite thespians, who most often portrayed “alpha” characters in 1930s Pre-Code movies–frequently businessmen with a kind of pirate-like attitude–stuffy but mostly likable fellows who were humorously but definitively brought to heel under the manicured thumbs of mega-attractive female co-stars like Joan Blondell, with whom he had terrific on-screen chemistry.

Joan Blondell and Warren William in 1934’s comedy-drama SMARTY.

Other aspects of Spoilt Princess Grace Meets Blackbeard the Pirate that are “autobiographical” are expressed through the pirate genre itself, something I’d wanted to write about ever since thrilling to Errol Flynn movies on Saturday afternoon tv back in the ’50s and ’60s when I was a kid; as a freelancer writer I’d collected a number of books and magazines over the years, to be prepared for such a project someday. So I included a scene in the swashbuckling spirit of Flynn wherein Spoilt Princess Grace gets into a sword fight with a drunken tavern lout named Blorgo, he who derides her for being a female pirate. It was fun to write such a lively action sequence–action different from the usual I am more familiar writing about, involving genitals–complete with clashing cutlasses! Originally I’d plan to have the Princess sexually humiliate Blorgo in a subsequent scene too, but since erotic humiliation to me is a form of love play, not revenge, I decided the sword fight was enough for nasty Blorgo and put Jeremy Shaw into that scene instead, a cuckolding situation with him, Princess Grace, and her fellow buccaneer and lover “Happy Jack” Lancaster–a scene which further examined Jeremy’s ambivalence and excitement about sexual submission, and gave me an opportunity to riff on another classic actor as well–Burt Lancaster, who indeed played a pirate himself once on-screen.

So these are the main “autobiographical” aspects of this eighty-seven page novella. Spoilt Princess Grace is the star of the story, but my psyche is also in there too in not-so-hidden form. In fact, the way I depicted the Princess could also be said to be an expression of myself: I watched several of her point-of-view femdom videos to get a sense of her as a practicing dominatrix, but I couldn’t help but select as examples of her character as a pirate queen those videos that most appealed to me, those showing her at her seductive, witty, take-charge best, always seasoned with hints of a wry but subtle humor that, as much as her beauty, made me as besotted as Jeremy Shaw with his Spoilt Princess Grace, way back in the 18th century.  

Well, I think if you read the book, you might be ready to recite a few poems of adoration to the Princess yourself! Here’s an excerpt of Mr. Shaw’s verse from the story:

In one scene, the Princess has Jeremy worship her bottom while instructing him that he would write best about what he actually knew…

And here in the flesh (and lingerie and stockings and heels and lipstick) is Spoilt Princess Grace herself~~

A scene from one of Spoilt Princess Grace’s many creative video productions.

One of her most amazing masterpieces!

And here the Princess takes a break during her busy filming schedule.

So that’s the story behind the story of Spoilt Princess Grace Meets Blackbeard the Pirate! I hope you’ll check it out, as well as His Urge to Serve and When a Woman Scowls. All my books are available at Amazon stores worldwide. Here is the U.S. link.

You can learn more about Spoilt Princess Grace at her website here.

Explore the art of Sardax at his WordPress site here.

And both sites, of course, are for adults only. Enjoy!