"A Slap in the Face" to be published in Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica

I'm very excited to report that my story "A Slap in the Face" will be published in Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica, edited by Sinclair Sexsmith, to be published by Cleis Press in the spring. More info soon. I was trying to figure out what to say about it, but the title pretty much tells you what it's about. So I'll say it's a story. Isn't everything?

Here's a little teaser, the first paragraph.

Jade strolled into the bar, walked straight up to Amber, who was leaning against it wearing a slinky leopard-print slip, ripped fishnet stockings, a see-through black top along with a sheer black bra, and dangerously tall black heels, her red hair gleaming even in the low lights, and slapped her across the face. The sound was louder than Jade had expected, the sting in her palm stronger, both of which she liked. Amber didn’t smile, not with her mouth, anyway, but Jade knew exactly how much she’d liked Jade’s slap. She could read it in the way Amber shivered, the way her eyes skittered from the ground and, for a second, up to Jade’s, from the way her body radiated a heady combination of fear, awe and desire.

"I’d like to figure out how to leave big heavy bruises on her ass"

I don't really do intense spankings these days, or even less intense ones; it's been a long, long while since I've indulged in that for various reasons, and I'm totally fine with it, but obviously spanking is a big interest of mine. (And I'm gonna soon stop feeling idiotically self-conscious and like I need to talk about my personal life every two seconds - it's pretty irrelevant much of the time.) Part of why I love what I get to do for both a living and the people I've come across is that I can live vicariously through their fiction and nonfiction about some of the things I'm interested in.

So this short post by Sinclair Sexsmith intrigued me, in response to the question "Can you tell us about your most favorite spanking you have ever given?" Kudos to the question asker because I think all too often we hear from the person, fictional or real, receiving the spanking, which is interesting to see/read about, but so is the giver and their experience. I especially liked:

"I like to spend a long, slow time on warm-up, then use my whole body to whomp for a while. I noticed I was even doing a little bit of a jump to get more of my body weight behind the flogger."

and

"I’d like to figure out how to leave big heavy bruises on her ass..."