The Spanking Writers

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My Lords, Ladies and gentlemen… (and the rest of you )

We are delighted to announce…

For the first time ever…

“The Spanking Writers”, our book!

Yes, folks, it’s true. We’ve finally made it into print. We’ve just taken delivery of our own copies of the anthology which brings together the highlights of the first two years of our blog (that would be 2006 and 2007). And it looks wonderful: hardback, a lovely dust jacket which you can remove if you want to read it in public, and so many fond memories as we read through the entries that we love the most.

If you fancy buying a copy, you can get it here. (It should be on Amazon before long, but we get to keep more pennies if you buy it from our own store. Not that we’re ever going to be millionaires, mind, but it’d be nice not to lose money on the deal). Happy reading!

Fiona Locke, the best-selling author of “Over the Knee” has this to say about the book:

“Discipline has never been sweeter. Quite simply some of the best spanking erotica you will read anywhere. The authors are imaginative, literary and above all, genuine.”

(Should we say something like “great gift idea - buy early for Christmas”? Or just “why not treat yourself to a little relaxing reading before falling asleep…”)

Here endeth the commercial break.

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It was ten years ago today that I took the amazing, brave, scary step into the unknown and delurked on the internet, posting a story to the soc.sexuality.spanking newsgroup. The comments were kind; the police didn’t come knocking at my front door, so more stories and posts followed.

With them came the emails, and with them the new friendships that started to form. Before very long, I started to realise that I didn’t need to feel guilty about those guilty secrets I’d been keeping. (And how was I to know that then-eighteen-year-old student in Ukraine would be downloading my writing, and what that would lead to?!) .

I’ve been re-reading my stories over the past few weeks – 67 of them, remarkably, not counting my writing for the Lowewood blog. Many published, some shared only with friends. (I’m trying to narrow the list down for an anthology of my favourites – watch this space! And we do keep meaning to update our stories site online).

Some things remain the same. The build-up is often the point of the story – I love creating a credible scenario, explaining the background, setting the scene. My girls aren’t usually incurably bad, used to regular punishment, but rather good girls who’ve suddenly fallen from grace.

They certainly don’t enjoy it – and neither do the gentlemen wielding the rod. I’m writing about punishment, not pleasure – set in the schoolroom rather than the bondage club. And there’s little or no sex, even though there may be dark hints of entanglements to come…

But what interests me more is how my writing’s changed, matured even. And it certainly has, not surprisingly – when I wrote my first stories, I was a spanking virgin, writing purely from imagination. (LOL and I wasn’t far off being a virgin in other regards, too!).

Four changes really strike me. First, nudity. OK, I confess – I like, love the sight of naked women. In my early stories, girls were regularly stripped for punishment – now, that’s rarer and more appropriate to the scene being played out.

The offenders had it harder, back then: twenty strokes and a girl got off lightly! Not that some of my more recent writing hasn’t featured harsh punishment – but that tends to be the exception rather than the rule, and more likely to be in a judicial setting that anywhere scholastic.

There’s the description of the individual strokes – now less onomatopoeic: I’ve found more creative ways to describe punishments than with a “WHACK! CRACK! THWACK!” repeated a dozen times.

And the girls themselves rarely get described in physical detail. Not because I don’t have a vivid picture of them in mind when I’m writing: I usually do. But I want my readers to relate: sometimes, to put themselves in the shoes (or bare feet) of the young lady being thrashed. And if a reader’s short and fair, and the main character’s described as being tall and dark, that could be alienating, off-putting.

Does that mean I don’t enjoy my older writing? Not at all – I’ve been delighted in my re-reading to find how much I like it. There are some hot scenes in there, waiting to be resurrected in real-life play. But ten years on, life’s improved so much for the better, and I’d like to think that my writing has, too.

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Our lovely web host Laughing Squid is doing some work on their servers soon, and this means I can no longer put off the frightening task of upgrading our blog to a version of WordPress that hasn’t got dinosaurs’ footprints all over it.

I will probably break it a few times before everything works as it should, but don’t panic: I’ll fix it again. Today. I hope. Whatever you do, don’t tell Abel anything went wrong even for a second, or my techie credentials are ruined forever.

Update: You can stop holding onto your hats now. Everything’s upgraded to within an inch of its life, and seems to be working fine. That said, if you find that something’s misbehaving, please drop me a line, so that I can panic fix it.

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Abel and I are members of a private library: a venerable establishment over 100 years old, with an archive of books on social sciences and arts. There are wooden desks with lamps and chairs, rows and rows of bookcases, and a winding metal staircase to a gallery up top.

That’s where the education section is, in the opposite corner from the staircase. When I go up there, the steps clang under the soles of my shoes, and then, no matter how daintily I walk, my every step on the old creaky boards announces to the readers downstairs: “Here’s another pervert going to the education section!” (Or, to the readers who go there as often as I do: “Here’s that pervert going to the education section again.”)

Obviously, not every book has anything interesting to say about corporal punishment; some are just really dull memoirs of dull educators with dust in their wigs. And yet… there is plenty for us to sink our spanko teeth in.

This looked like a good source of posts for the new year. In the future I’m going to post the juicy extracts from this glorious archive. You’ll like it, I promise.

P.S. And we haven’t even really started on the prison records yet. Or naval history. Or the Romans. Some of those books are less embarrassingly located, I hope.

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Right, time for our second Annual Awards, recognising the highlights of our spanko world.

Best spanking implement provider. An easy one, this. Back in the summer, we purchased a selection of implements from Spankinc. They really are quite superb: beautifully made, fabulous to use and very effective indeed. Given the size of our implement collection, it takes a lot to impress us, and we were duly impressed.

Best spanking blog. Joint winners here. The Lowewood Academy blog, with daily posts on school life, regularly contains great writing. (Note: we may be biased, as we contribute to Lowewood!). And the wonderful Little Red Schoolhouse is always a delight to read.

Best bookstore. We adore Barter Books, the huge bookstore in Alnwick. It regularly proves to be a treasure-trove of books providing kinky inspiration. (Hey, should we be telling you this? If you all dash to the education section, please leave something behind for us).

Best spanking book. We’ve recently discovered the wonderful Curious Pleasures: A Gentleman’s Collection of Beastliness by the “Rev’d Dr Erasmus St Jude Croom DD”. Perhaps the most convincing category winner of all: we’ll doubtless post a few snippets here when we get time, but in the meantime, do get on and buy it for Christmas for friends!

Best spanking scene we’ve played. Our Easter birching scene, so wonderfully recounted by our dear friend Martha.

Best spanking event. We were fortunate to be invited back to Lord Fawcett’s weekend House Party, which took place last month. Wearing regency costumes, staying in character all weekend, surrounded by dear friends, wonderfully organised. A privilege to attend – and, as with our 2006 awards, undeniably our ‘event of the year’.

Best kinky place. No contest: London’s wonderful Coffee, Cake and Kink. Our favourite haunt for meeting like-minded friends. And, it seems, friends we’d previously thought to be vanilla…

We hope you like our selection – and congratulations to the winners!

Meanwhile, we’re heading off on holiday, visiting Malaysia to celebrate Abel’s fortieth birthday. We’ve lined up a pile of posts, and hope to be online pretty regularly to write more – but we’re not sure quite what we’ll have by way of web access.

In the meantime, do excuse any slight delays in responding to or moderating comments!

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It’s September. Can you smell freshly-sharpened pencils? That’s because it’s the start of a new term in Lowewood Academy.

It’s a new term, a new school year; new characters are starting the Lower Sixth. Last year’s prefects have graduated, and the girls are now prefects themselves. The new Head Girl Jessica promises us -

Spanking, cold showers, games, short skirts, gorgeous girls, illicit drinking, evil Masters, sneaking out of school, leather straps, vigilant teachers, Lochgelly tawses, sweets, handsome and horny guys, girly gossip, standing in the corner, stockings, medical examinations, sadistic prefects and of course, the dreaded cane, are all in plentiful supply in this modern version of St Trinians (although the behaviour is probably worse!)

I’m quite proud of what we’ve done in Lowewood so far, you know. Each of the permanent writers has written enough for a small spanking novel, and with all the storylines put together, it looks like quite an epic.

When we started, I certainly hadn’t expected the level of detail we were going to go through, or the elaborate plotting that goes on behind the scenes. Or the gossip whenever somebody writes something outrageous, and the authors call each other up to say: “Have you heard? Gina snogged Laura!” Considering that neither Gina nor Laura are represented by a real person, the level of excitement this produces is rather amusing.

I’m looking forward to the next year. I hope you are, too. If you like Lowewood, tell your friends about it, OK?

Just as last year, when I was starting to write as Sylvie Barnable, I invite the readers to try and guess which new Lowewood character I have taken up. We’ve been blogging as the new pupils for a few weeks now, so go ahead, have a read, and take a guess.

EDITED TO ADD: It’s Ned Corwin. I decided it was time to follow the footsteps of Roald Dahl, and indulge myself in writing some M/m school stories - one of my guilty pleasures. I’ve never written F/m, but I’d like to give that a go as well. Lowewood is a very accommodating universe.

(Abel will continue his occassional posts as the school chaplain, Reverend Jenkins. Until he gets struck by lightning, I expect.)

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We’ve popped up on two other sites in the past couple of days.

Haron’s been involved in the wonderful Lowewood Academy story-writing site for the best part of a year. Abel’s now joined the academic staff (scroll down to the bottom of the page for his character’s profile), and will be writing occasionally as the school chaplain. His first post appeared this morning. (No, the accompanying picture is not really of Abel!).

And we were featured yesterday across at Blog Interviewer. You can read our interview here – if you like our site, do be kind and click on the nice “thumbs up” graphic above our interview.

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Having not been spanked for more than two weeks, I have returned to the England and my husband.

I do believe I’m in for it. Oh dear.

Isn’t it a shame we’re due to go to a play party on Sunday, so he can’t make me too sore in the meantime?

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We’ve got a friend staying over the Easter weekend

Yes, folks. A kinky friend.

Spanking’s on the menu, of course. And, what’s more, she’s going to be telling you all about it. So you’ll find us interspersing our usual posts over the next few days with news from the front line. If she can sit down comfortably enough to write, that is

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We have very nearly missed our first bloggerversary.* To celebrate, we present to you a collection of links to the posts we’ve been most proud of in the last few months. (See previous ‘Best Of’ lists here and here.)

And Then There Was One - in which Abel imagines the fate of a schoolgirl summoned to the Headmaster’s office before the lessons start in the morning.

Google Translates a Spanking - in which Haron puts Google’s translation engine to ill use.

The Spanking Puzzle - in which Abel constructs a spanking word grid.

Forty-Two of The Best - in which Haron wakes up early to see her husband off on a trip, and instead ends up getting forty-two strokes of the cane.

The Captain’s Belt - in which Abel overhears a story about an air hostess’s dangerous mistake, and imagines the retribution she would receive at the hands of the captain.

The Ideal Fantasy School - in which Haron points out the differences in what is outwardly a very similar school kink for her and Abel.

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* It was on Friday. We got reminded of it by a review in Jane’s Guide. We got an “Original” and “Quality” rating. How’s that for a present?

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