My love affair with Mills and Boon
Since the 1930s Mills & Boon have been supplying granite-faced bachelors, timid virgins, heaving bosoms, stolen kisses and inevitable happy ever afters.
Etta Stark
Kissing
Kissing's great isn't it? It's a bit like sex only you don't need to get undressed to do it and people don't call the police if you do it in public.
Old Spanking Cartoons
I've spoken before about my fondness for old spanking cartoons. They were usually just an excuse to show a pretty lady getting a spanking.
“If only…”
If only... I look at the sense of disappointment when a romance novel has the perfect set-up for a spanking... And there isn't one.
Flip Flop Fetish
Black Flip Flops are, of course, the internationally
recognised preferred footwear of a Dom. I know this from reading Sheri Savill’s Bound for Disappointment.
Etiquette Books
I love etiquette books. Test me on any part of Debrett’s Guide to Etiquette and Manners (1999 edition). Go on, I dare you. I know that baby back to front, inside and out.
Bananas
Worrying, it seems from looking at the internet that there are swathes of people out there who simply have no idea at all how to eat a banana.
Authentic Voices: How much can you get away with when writing Historical Fiction?
Writing historical fiction requires a fair bit of research. You might feel inspired writing about your ruff-wearing Victorian computer programmer and his love of hunting woolly mammoths but you are going to feel pretty silly once the reviews come in.
Why my hero won’t use a belt
An Englishman in the 19th century wouldn’t have worn a belt. He didn’t even have a place to put a belt on his trousers. The fashion was to have smooth high-waisted trousers which created a tidy silhouette.
Six things that sound like they should be porn but aren’t
Some things sound like they SHOULD be porn but they're not. Like Catherine Cookson's The Whip and of course Free Willy.