I decided to take a friend’s suggestion and use LiveStream to broadcast my time recording the Ropecast. This is not terribly exciting – it’s the same thing you find on the ropecast, minus the editing – but it was fun, and here’s the video in case you’re curious. Next week, I’m going to do a[…]

I’ve spent the last two weekends at two great leather events: Leather Camp, in Wichita, KS and then Great Lakes Leather Alliance in Indianapolis, IN. Both events were unexpected places that I sort of fell into. My invitation to Leather Camp had come my way because my friend, the beautiful Sir Dart, usually taught rope[…]

Due to some problems with the publishing process, the actual release of the dead-tree version of the book is going to be Monday or Tuesday of this week. Here’s a sneak preview of the cover (it will be 5.25″x8″ in size): But, since I’m running late, that also means that you can still pre-order. When[…]

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If you’ve used that nifty link there on your right to order Jujun (released in dead tree edition on Aug. 15) you have a nice surprise in your e-mail: a PDF full-version of the novel right NOW. It’s released under creative commons, so feel free to go ahead and send it to 5,10, hell, 200[…]

As a big fan of J.C. Hutchins, I was impressed when he got his own pictorial for Suicide Girls (no, not him, a couple of the SG’s languishing about nekkid and frolicsome with his book, Personal Effects: Dark Art. There are other heroes of mine – Brad Warner, Mur Lafferty – who do columns for[…]

Unfortunately, in the process of upgrading my WordPress Blog, I’ve lost every post I’ve made before this. Plus you’ll notice the sidebar is kind of verklempt, and there’s probably other problems I don’t know about either. Never fear! I have the database backed up, and I know a few different ways that I can actually[…]

Now, while I love my brother Lochai a lot, we don’t share everything. A love of kilts, yes, of rope, yes, his wife, occasionally, but he’s really into things like watersports and enemas that I just don’t share. However, today is also his birthday, and I happen to know that it’s possible we’ll share something[…]

After many months of work and years of procrastination, I am happy to announce that my second novel, Jujun, has been completely translated into audiobook form, top to bottom. And there’s a lot of bottoming in it – if you’ve read my first, the good news is that there will be a lot of familiar[…]

The time has come to think about what you’re going to do in the next year to advance the cause of sexual freedom and awareness. I know that last year a group of concerned sex bloggers – mostely based in NYC – were concerned about the way sex workers were treated and the lack of[…]