The Spanking Writers

Perched in a cosy corner of the 38th floor club lounge in my gorgeous Malaysian hotel, enjoying yet another free glass of beer, I’ve been reflecting on the 24 hours since my arrival in this wonderful city for what – given past associations and memories – could have been a very emotionally turbulent trip.

My first evening proved tough – hurt, lonely, tired. But I’ve turned that around, thanks to so many things…

… my fab hotel suite: one of the nicest I’ve ever had. But oh, how it cries out for company. A girl coming into the living room, knowing she’s in trouble. A spanking over my knee on the sofa; a caning bent over the desk. And then the bedroom awaiting next door…

… the views over the city from the lounge window as I write: surely, in those thousands upon thousands of windows over the past couple of hours, there must be at least one girl being spanked? That lass with the letter she’d taken home from school; that young woman, home from the office at the start of the weekend, being snapped out of work mode by a boyfriend who’d roughly strip, strap and screw her; that other office girl, made to wait behind until all of the other employees had gone home then flogged and fucked over the boardroom table…

… the rattan shop in the Central Market; still there, still selling lovely canes for £1 a throw. They looked a little surprised when I bought ten: certain friends may tremble to hear that they’ve moved to slightly thinner, whippier rattan since my last visit…

… the four schoolgirls playing Jenga oh-so-noisly in the coffee shop this afternooon, being called into the headmaster’s office on Monday morning so that he could discuss the complaints that he’d received about their behaviour…

… the names of the current art gallery exhibitions, in the local listings magazine: should I investigate (and mentally corrupt) “The Hidden Girls” (where, why?), “Truth and Dare” (dare!) – or “What’s Your Porn” (honestly!)? I doubt the organisers of the last of these would really want to know…

… and, talking of such things, having some free time to idly reblog photos to my “Spanking Writers” Tumblr site – which now has some twenty pages of naughty images that I find hot. I hope at least a few of you are enjoying it…

… speculating about the thirty-something German lass at the next table, playing cards for money with two male friends, both of whom seem very tactile with her. I wonder what the penalty might be if she loses…? Or, perhaps, penalties plural… Or, perhaps, pleasures?…

… the survey in the local edition of Time Out, completed mainly by twentysomething KL residents, in which 45% of those in a relationship described themselves as “monogam-ish” (great phrase!) or “open”, 20% confessed to having had “sex in public places”, and 33% to having tried role play. Maybes I should try chatting up a few locals? Oh that I were so bold…

… and then pondering what I’d like to do to the astoundingly lovely Malaysian lass with the cute near-perfect American accent looking after guests in the club lounge. I appear to have fallen in lust…

… the image of a girl caught by the police in a clampdown wearing a fake watch from Chinatown, sentenced to thirty strokes of the cane as an exemplary punishment. (No, maybe not a good idea, given the three I bought myself!)…

… the lovely emails from so many wonderful friends: some close in real-life, others whom I only know online. Such strong and caring support really does make all the difference in times of adversity…

… even, simply, and perhaps most importantly of all, writing up accounts of so-different, wonderful scenes with Emma Jane (posted here earlier today) and Kami (which’ll pop up here over the weekend).

I’ve never previously set out so very consciously to treat a business trip as a “holiday [more than] paid for by a couple of days’ work”. And I’m enjoying it. Greatly. It’s been a good day!

Whilst I was updating the blogroll over the weekend, I also found time to play a little…

As you’ll doubtless appreciate, this blog’s always adamantly insisted on being ‘literary’ – that is, we don’t ever post naughty photographs. And, frankly, when I take shots of girls I’ve just spanked, privacy is all-important: unless they want to post copies on their own blogs, the images will only ever be for private consumption.

That said, I enjoy looking at online photos of the naughtier variety as much as the next man or woman. So I’ve had a little experiment, and come up with the Spanking Writers “Tumblr” site.

There’s a somewhat eclectic selection there, of images reblogged from other Tumblr pages. It’s definitely NSFW, and not all directly spanking-related. I’ve got no intention of updating it on anything like a regular basis, but I will add to the five or so pages of images already there whenever something new on Tumblr catches my eye. Feel free to pop over and have a look. I’m curious to know if my tastes and yours align.

It struck me that, having written about my new canes from Prysm a little while back, it might be fun to see which makers / companies people really rate when it comes to c.p. implements.

Here are a few of my favourites, all of whom I’ve bought from personally and am happy to endorse – and who now appear on our newly-updated blogroll:

• For tawses and straps: I particularly rate two makers – first, our friend The London Tanner: Ian makes fabulous implements. Then there’s the always-excellent MC Customs. And for authentic school tawses, eBay’s the place to be – especially, the selection offered from time-to-time by the Church Antique Centre in Crieff.
• For canes: Prysm, Maui Kink, Can-iac and Quality Control. Jack’s Floggers are also recommended (although try finding them at places such as the LAM; I never managed to get a reply to my requests to buy their canes online).
• For paddles: you know, I could do with a recommendation! I have a fair few of them (OK, a dozen or so, of slightly differing shapes and weights, with holes and without), but I’m not sure I do have what I’d describe as a good, solid, American high school paddle in my collection!
• For hairbrushes: it just has to be Mason Pearson – although, bizarrely, I found the most gorgeous cheap brush in Claire’s Accessories when Emma Jane and I were on holiday in Belgium last month, which was very robust but not too severe, and worked rather beautifully

Any other recommendations? And for any other items (I don’t have favourites for whips, crops or the like, for example). And if you happen to make nice implements yourself and want to plug them, feel free!

Morning. Hope everyone’s having a good weekend!

Thanks to all of you who commented and emailed with suggestions last week when I canvassed input to help me update the Spanking Writers blogroll. The new, improved list can be found in the left-hand column of the blog on its home page – hope you like it! I’ve taken most of the suggestions I received on board (although not quite all), and have added a few other sites I’ve been meaning to link to for a while.

Happy browsing… let me know if you discover anything new that you especially like! (And if you think there are still any great sites out there that I’m missing – bearing in mind the links are to sites that are primary literary, non-commercial and /F in nature – I’d welcome any further suggestions).

So, you’re stuck with me, folks, given Haron’s break from writing here (as discussed in her post yesterday).

Now, I know that the fact that our blog’s alternated views from both partners is one of the things that’s made it distinctive for many people – as has the fact that we’ve posted every day for over five years. And, much as I’d like to, I simply can’t commit to writing daily while I’m the only one of us posting here for the coming months.

But I very much hope that you’ll stay with me, and continue to enjoy my meanderings on the site, even without the benefits of my wife’s words of wisdom too. And I have another post to go up today, about recent real-life play, if I can only find what happened to it between writing it before I boarded my plane to Morocco yesterday, and arriving in the hotel… But that’ll have to wait til I can plug my laptop i tonight after work, as my phone and the internet are not friends here…

PS you might have noticed that we’re having on-going intermittent problems with comment on the site. Haron’s still in charge of things technically, and is doing clever stuff to try and resolve it; if you do try and comment and can’t manage to, bear with us! (And, as with Haron’s post yesterday, comments are closed on this one!)

Dear people,

Today is a day of change here at Spanking Writers. With a lot going on in our lives right now, we’ve decided that it makes sense for me to stop posting here for the remainder of the year.

Abel’s going to keep the blog going, and will aim to post at least every other day.

I’m going to spend my time finishing off our new stories site, which will (finally) launch later in the year. And I’ll also start posting more regularly again at AdeleHaze.com (where I can also write more comfortably about other kinky stuff that doesn’t really fit with the primarily /F nature of The Spanking Writers). You’ll also still see me around on Twitter.

Love,

Haron

PS comments on this post are closed to minimise fuss, but – as always – you know how to reach us both by email

I feel the need for an additional quick post to celebrate noticing a  few moments ago that “The Spanking Collection” was ranked at number 79 on Amazon UK’s Kindle “top 100″ bestseller list for erotica.

We’re so excited! Thank you to everyone who’s downloaded it (and, in doing so, helped cancer research). I hope all of the contributors feel very proud of themselves – and that anyone who’s not yet got a copy considers doing so in the next couple of days to push us even further up the charts.

Ordering information for Kindle, other e-Readers and the paperback edition – and a list of the authors / stories – can be found in our post from a couple of days back!

It’s here at last: the most-anticipated book of the year for spanking enthusiasts! We’re very proud to announce the launch of “The Spanking Collection”, an anthology of new and exclusive short stories from a hand-picked selection of twenty of our favourite kinky writers.

As importantly as getting to read some truly great writing, by buying your copy you’ll be supporting an excellent cause, since all profits from the book will be donated to cancer research charities.

You can buy copies online as follows:

• Printed copy, in paperback
• Kindle, via Amazon in the US, UK and Germany
• Several other ebook formats, such as Epub, PDF, RTF, HTML or plain text, working on many ebook reading devices – Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo or whatever you’ve got that reads these formats.

(The paperback version will also be available from Amazon later in the year).

We’re hugely grateful to the authors who’ve contributed their pieces free to this charity collection. The stories are listed below, in the order in which they appear in the book:

The Scholarship Girl – Abel Jenkins

Slipping Up – Emma Jane

Keelin and Shayla – Faye Glass

Watching Xanadu – Paul Bailey

Staff Handbook: Chapter 5 – Discipline and Punishments – Henry Higgins

Penitence and Mercy – Graham Grey

The Punishment Room – Martha Linton

Suite Two – Bonnie

Finished – Rebecca Williams

The Library – Casey Morgan

What the Butler Saw – Jessica Davies

Knock-knock-knockin’ on Mr Batts’ Door – Zille Defeu

That Charming, Disarming Man – William & Catherine

The Royal Wedding – Pandora Blake

Trouble in Telesales – Domino

Heatstroke – Penny Docherty

Arlington Girls’ Reformatory – Rayne

Watching – Discerning Dom

Wifehouse – Serenity Everton

Honour Among Fools – Haron

 

The book also features an introduction by Eliane, as well as a specially-painted front cover by Catherine Thomas showing Abel slippering Emma Jane:

We hope you’ll buy the book and love it; we’re really proud of it, and hope that it’ll raise a good sum for an important charity too.

Britain’s top-ranked women’s beach volleyball team caused something of a stir last week by selling advertising space on the back of their bikini bottoms, according to a BBC report. Specifically:

Bath-based Zara Dampney and Shauna Mullin teamed up with a bookmaker to trial barcodes on the backs of their swimsuit bottoms in a sponsorship deal.

When the matrix barcodes are photographed with a smartphone, the user is taken to the company’s website…. The Quick Response (QR) code is part of a sponsorship deal between Dampney, 24, Mullin 26, and the betting firm Betfair.

We’re rather taken with the idea. Here, for example, is one such QR code:

Scan it with your phone, and you’ll be taken directly to www.spankingwriters.com . Just the sort of thing to mark a girl’s bottom with, methinks…

PS some of you may not be surprised to learn that I have tickets for the women’s beach volleyball at the 2012 Olympics! Fascinating sport, obviously!

So that we can develop a new spanking stories site later in the year – with a long-overdue upgrade to “Abel’s Spanking Stories”, new material from me and  the addition of some of  Haron’s writing – we need to move The Spanking Writers to a new host. You shouldn’t see any interruption to the site, as it should all happen seamlessly. But, being slightly paranoid, we thought we’d mention it – just in case at any point in the next two weeks you sign onto the blog and find that it’s down for a little while!