Your website is different. What’s changing?
Club Drift isn’t the only project I’m working on. Some books that come out won’t be as spicy as the ones you’ve read so far, and some of them might not have romance as the primary focus. You can read more about works in progress here.
Is the Club Drift series still active?
100%. As you may have noticed, I’ve been on hiatus, so I don’t know when Club Drift 3 is coming, but it is coming. You can sign up for my newsletter to be updated as soon as it’s available.
What’s changing in Club Drift?
I’ve always included a brief warning about safety as a prefix to my books that focus on BDSM. I’ve also always tried to write risk-aware consensual kink, but I haven’t always been successful.
There’s a tightrope to walk with this. I want to write something sexy, exciting, and fun to read, but I don’t want to write anything that has the potential to be harmful.
That safety statement includes a note about suspension of disbelief. For example, it’s okay for Maisy to wander into a mystery dungeon alone and let the first bloke she meets pull her hair, but my readers should know it’s not okay for them to do that.
Lately, however, I’ve been thinking that’s not enough. From now on, I’m aiming to rely less on my readers knowing what’s fictionally acceptable, but dangerous in reality, and more on writing a story I’d be happy living through.
I’m also going to stop relying on the off-page “forms” that all Club Drift members have as shorthand for “they don’t have STIs and have agreed on contraception methods”.
Of course, I may still fail in these aims and what I do achieve won’t be right for everyone. Nobody has the same concept of what’s “right” in kink and, as always, my view isn’t the correct one for anyone but me. This is just a little nod to the mistakes I’ve made before and a statement of intent.
Why does Lucy have PTSD in “Lucy’s Diary” and why doesn’t the book tell us?
This is just a note for readers who were frustrated by this element of the book. I get it! It’s annoying. I’ll be more careful in the future. I was trying to make the point that Lucy’s story was her business only, and nobody had the right to know the details if she was a) done with it and b) didn’t want to talk about it. She’s a character with a lot of different traits, and PTSD/being a survivor isn’t the one I wanted her to be remembered for. Often, the symptoms of PTSD haunt you for a long time after you’re done being the person who went through the traumatic experience, and it sucks to be dragged back to that place/person. It sucks even more if you have to explain it to other people. Some people will never look at you the same way again. I thought holding the story back from the reader as well as the characters was an interesting meta-textual way of exploring these points, but I now understand it was pretentious and frustrating for readers. My apologies.