Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Bondage On A Budget by Alison Tyler






Filled with delicious fictional scenarios requiring no more than simple household items and a little imagination, this guide to do-it-yourself SM explodes the myth that adventurous sex requires a dungeonful of expensive custom-made paraphernalia.


The Interview:



1. How did you come up with the list for Bondage of a Budget?

Masquerade Books published Bondage on a Budget in the 90s—which seems like an ice age ago. (I actually remember what I wore to the pitch meeting with Richard.) The table of contents built progressively as I worked on the stories. Fun fact: Mr. Kasak bought the book based on my title alone.

2. What were some of your favorite stories?

Antonia’s Beast (which is a tale within a tale and involves eavesdropping and anal sex) and Andrew and the Blade (about facing your fears and desires).

3. Do you think you will re-release it with the popularity of 50 Shades making erotica more mainstream?

Bondage on a Budget is currently available as a Kindle. I am hoping to get a print version (at least a POD) together in the near future. Here is a link to Amazon:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004A8ZSUA?ie=UTF8&tag=prettythingsp-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004A8ZSUA

4. What is the kinkiest home bondage episode from your book?

I think the naughtiest scene in BOB features eggs, an enema, and a shower curtain. However, I received a nasty review once which accused that particular chapter of reading like something out of a ladies’ magazine you’d buy at a grocery store. I always wondered what the deviant sex life of that reviewer was like. I mean, to me, the story was filthy with a capital F.

5. Your book is wonderful because it teaches you how to use common household items to craft a kinky scene practically anywhere. Have you come up with a couple of things to add to the list?

We’re always trying to push the erotic envelope. A recent event in my house involved one of those classic bells you ring for customer service at a deli counter. No idea what inspired me to purchase the little chrome toy—but our incorporation of the device into our sex life gave new meaning to the words “you can ring my bell.”

6. What are some of your favorite sexy songs?

I feature songs a lot on my blog. I mean, a fuck lot. And I make no excuses for my bipolar musical tastes. From the Kinks to Elvis, from the P-Funk All Stars to Gogol Bordello, from Portishead to Ringside—I am a radio junkie. Here was one day when the radio gods smiled down on me:

Love is the Drug by Roxy Music
Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed
Kiss by Prince
Time by Pink Floyd
Love Me Chase Me by Carney
Big Time by Peter Gabriel
Killing in the Name of by Rage Against the Machine
Closer by NIN


7. Have you ever used Christmas decorations or holiday gear in a kinky way?

Have I been tangled up in tinsel? Pleasured by a peppermint stick? Adorned with ornaments? Santa just checked his list and said, “Yes.” I’m a fan of using a variety of items in non-traditional ways, to the point where I’ve edited two collections of Christmas sex stories: Merry XXXmas and Naughty or Nice both from Cleis Press.

8. What is one thing you want readers to get from your book?

A pumped imagination is the sexiest tool you’ll ever need in the bedroom (kitchen, backseat, movie theater, alleyway, airplane, phone booth—oh, I miss a good phone booth…) If you can spin a story, or create a scene, using words and your fantasies, you’re good to go.

9. Eclairs or Twinkies?

Neither, thank you very much. I’m not a cake or pastry girl. Delight me with tubes of colorful Sweet Tarts, exploding Zots, and Sour Strings. I’ve got a dimestore palate. I can get off for .50 cents.

10. What are you working on now?

Several projects at once. That’s how it always is. I have a new bondage collection to turn in on September 1 for Cleis, a sequel to my guide Never Have the Same Sex Twice due on October 1, and a novel for November 1.

alison tyler

Ms. Tyler is loyal to coffee (black), lipstick (red), and tequila (straight). She has tattoos, but no piercings; a wicked tongue, but a quick smile; and bittersweet memories, but no regrets. She believes the rain won’t fall if she doesn’t bring an umbrella, prefers hot and dry to cold and wet, and loves to spout her favorite motto: “You can sleep when you’re dead.” She chooses Led Zeppelin over the Beatles, the Cure over the Smiths, and the Stones over everyone—yet although she appreciates good rock, she has a pitiful weakness for ’80s hair bands.

In all things important, she remains faithful to her husband of 15 years, but she still can’t choose just one perfume.

Check out her website and her list of amazing books!





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