O’Come All Ye Kinky blog tour

Thank you for joining us on the O Come All Ye Kinky virtual book tour! For two weeks, anthology editor Sarah Frantz and her merry band of authors will be stopping by some of your favorite blogs to spread kinky holiday cheer! How, you ask? Well, if you don’t know what candy caning is yet, pick up your copy of O Come All Ye Kinky from Riptide Publishing today and see how these authors get into the holiday spirit.

Whether you’ve been naughty or nice, follow our tour for the chance to win one heck of a stocking stuffer—a $100 gift card to The Stockroom, where kinky dreams come true! Leave a comment on the post below by Dec. 16 and you’ll be entered to win.  Check out the complete tour listing to see all the places we’ll be stopping by to chat about BDSM, the holidays, and all eight steamy stories, and comment on each post to earn more entries.

*Holds up mistletoe*  Look at that—our lovely host today is under the mistletoe! You know what that means—a big kiss from the entire O Come All Ye Kinky group for hosting us today! We hope everyone enjoys today’s post from Sarah Frantz, editor of the anthology.

“Pervertibles in O Come All Ye Kinky” by Sarah Frantz

The call for the O Come All Ye Kinky anthology went something like this: “The Winter Holidays are times of love, joy, family togetherness, peace and goodwill for all. They are also times of stress, strife, family feuds, pressure, and heartache. But most of all, they’re chock full of pervertibles: ornament hooks, candles, jingle bells, tape, candy canes, kinky gift giving, and more.” So my amazing authors were primed to use pervertibles in their stories.

Pervertibles are your normal, everyday items that can be perverted to kinky uses. They’re things like spatulas in the kitchen or paint stirrers in the workshop—they look innocent, until someone not-so-innocently slaps them against their thigh, eyebrow raised, smiling wickedly at their submissive. OCAYK is chock-full of pervertibles, so I thought I’d detail some of them as a way to preview some of the fun sexy-times in the volume.

Joey Hill, Alexa Snow, and Kim Dare use candles for wax play in their stories. The drops of molten wax against unprotected skin can be quite shocking and very sensual. The dominant in Joey Hill’s story takes the wax play a bit further, sticking feathers in the drying wax and turning his submissive into an angel, just in time for Christmas.

In fact, Christmas is very much on the minds of the characters in these stories, of course. The dominant in Jane Davitt’s story wraps the…um, interesting parts of his submissive in wrapping paper and uses duct tape to secure the paper…and then rips it off.  He also decorates his submissive with garland (tinsel in British English parts of the world). Dominants in the stories by Elyan Smith and Joey Hill use Christmas lights to decorate their submissives, turning them into living Christmas trees and playing with the heat of the bulbs. Both heroes of L.A. Witt’s “Candy Caning” use a candy cane: the dominant as, well, a cane, and the submissive for the heating/cooling effects of peppermint on wet skin.

Turning to New Year’s celebrations, Rachel in Katie Porter’s story uses glitter and a paddle to turn her submissive into a private fireworks display, which Kingsley of Kim Dare’s story uses champagne for breath play, ice to counteract the molten wax, and roses—and their thorns—all to great effect on his submissive.

There are non-holiday related pervertibles in these stories: carriage reins for bondage in Ava March’s Regency-set historical, clothespins and a missor in Katie Porter’s story, Lincoln Logs and stick horses in Joey Hill’s amazing story, a jingle ball cat toy in Jane Davitt’s tale. These authors—and their characters—are nothing if not inventive.

What are your favorite holiday-related pervertibles?

Happy Holidays, everyone! May they be happy and as kinky as you want them to be!

More about O Come All Ye Kinky:

Christmas is a time of love and joy, and the New Year is a time of renewal. But they are also times of stress and strife, family drama, pressure and heartache—a potent mix of high expectations and conflicted emotions. Add in power exchange relationships, kinky gift swaps, and unconventional love in a sometimes unforgiving world, and you have a formula for a sizzling anthology of stories that tug at your heart.

From Ava March’s forbidden Regency love between men, to Katie Porter’s scorching hot contemporary tale of two women discovering holiday happiness, everyone will find a favorite here. Pervertible toys abound: Lambda Literary Award finalist L.A. Witt’s candy cane, Jane Davitt’s wrapping paper and tape, and Alexa Snow’s Christmas candles all please and delight. Newcomer Elyan Smith and fan favorite Kim Dare both celebrate New Year’s Eve with romantic flair and kinky fireworks, while bestselling author Joey W. Hill’s poignant story of discovery and commitment will lead you home.

Whatever your desires, we invite you to explore new fantasies and old with these eight kinky tales of holiday happy endings.

20% of all proceeds from O Come All Ye Kinky will be donated to the Domestic Violence Project of the National Leather Association–International. (If you buy the book, digital or print, from Riptide’s website, more money goes to the charity because we’re not paying third-party vendor fees.)

You can find out more about the anthology and all the stories here.

About Sarah Frantz:

Sarah Frantz has a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Michigan. She edited two academic collections, Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750-2000 (Lexington, 2009) and New Perspectives on Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays (McFarland, 2012). She is President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance, recipient of an Academic Research Grant from the Romance Writers of America, and has published academic articles on Jane Austen, J.R. Ward, Suzanne Brockmann, Joey W. Hill, and scenes in which the romance hero breastfeeds from the heroine. Sarah reviewed romance at Dear Author for almost four years, is now an acquiring editor at Riptide Publishing, and a freelance editor at Alphabet Editing.