The Spanking Writers

I subscribe to about half a million blogs, but I keep myself from going insane by sorting all the feeds inside Bloglines into folders by topic. I’ve got a folder for “Spanking”, naturally - where stuff like Spanking Blog or Bonnie’s Blog goes. And then I’ve got a folder for “Writing” - where blogs by writers go.

And then I read it folder by folder as I sip my morning poison.
Yesterday morning I went through the “Spanking” folder, got more coffee, and clicked over to the “Writing” folder, and thought I was going insane, because I saw the following post title:

I am Lax! Lax, I say! I need a spanking, but hold the ball gag!

But… I thought I was reading the writing folder???? I closed my eyes and opened them again. Yup, that’s right, I was: the title was from the blog by Tamara Siler Jones, who writes awesome forensic fantasy, but not the kinky sort, as far as I know.

It was all explained soon enough: she was just reviewing a book called “Broken Skin” by Stuart MacBride, which sounds like a novel we ought to be aware of:

To say it’s naughty would be an extreme understatement. It’s all about detective Logan MacRae and his new sidekick John ‘Spanky’ Rickards and their search for a twisted sex killer as well as a serial rapist run amok.

Deviant sex in both directions, and yep, it’s that kind of book. Logan and Spanky investigate sex shops, bondage clubs, and porn studios, just for starters. …

[It’s a] gruesome, sick, twisted, and just plain wrong book, the sort of thing you can’t help but devour.

Now, as a rule, thrillers with kinky sex in them are not kind to us pervs.* Still, I don’t mind that the pervs commit gruesome murder left, right and centre, if I get some juicy, juicy details. Plus, I like reading books by people whom I first knew from blogs and writing forums.
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* Because in a thriller kinky sex usually goes wrong, and who causes it? That’s right, people like you.