I have been a wife and mother for over twenty years. Now I am becoming my husband's lover, too.
We owe it all to my fellow bloggers who gave me the courage to come out to my husband as a spanko.
I do feel like this is a New Beginning for us.

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Monday, July 15, 2019

Now this made me happy!

I was very excited and pleased the other day when the town manager gave me a call. Of course you should keep in mind that my ‘town’ is a small one. But we do have six buildings on main street and one of these building is two stories! So we do think of ourselves as a up and coming city. 


Anyway, I did get the call from the lady who manages bustling metropolis. They are having an arts festival. Not, I was told, to be mistaken for a craft show. And she asked if I would come and participate with my books. Can you say flattered? Now I’m not letting it go to my head too much. I’m sure she has never read one of my books, and I know they hope to get a lot of people to participate, but I was still pleased to be asked.

However, something did happen the other day that I was truly thrilled about.  I’m so very proud of my books and I’m most grateful for those of you out here that buy then and let me know you like them. Honestly, that’s more than many writers get. But with the exception of the lovely bloggers I’ve been lucky enough to meet in person, no one I know in real life has ever had much to say about my books. That’s not a problem, I write to a specific genre, and that genre is seldom talked about outside the blogging world. 


If a real life friend reads my book and is horrified and disgusted by it, few (none actually) have come to tell me so face to face. And if my books sparked a dormant interest in spanking or any form of domestic discipline – if the books excite them, well then they certainly aren’t going to tell me! It’s something I’ve learned to accept.

But back in the spring I was in a craft show in town – selling my bookmarks. I did have a some of my books with me and I even sold a few. One little old lady from my church was looking at one. She’s a sweet thing. She was a school teacher for forty years, never married and lived with her mother until her mother passed away. She’s close to eighty now. She ask me what I wrote and I gave her my standard answer. “I write romance novels for the older crowd. I’m tired of only reading about twenty and thirty-year-olds. My characters are in their sixties.”

I could tell she was intrigued, but I wanted to be forthcoming with her. So I added, “To be honest it’s like a lovely older couple meets
Fifty Shades of Gray.” Her eyes widen a bit and she said, “Oh… well let me think about it.” And she moved on. Okay, so I’d lost a sale. I still hadn’t wanted to shock her.

Jump ahead two weeks and she stopped me at church and told me she wanted to read one and I agreed to bring it to her the next Sunday. I never expected to hear one more word about it. But last Sunday she stopped me to say, “I loved your book! I couldn’t put it down. I love Cassie and all the things she gets into. Are all your books like that?” I told her yes, all the books in that series were about Cassie and Tom and their friends. “Well,” she told me, “I want them all!” 

I was dumbfounded. She never mentioned spanking, which, of course is very prominent in all the books. I wonder if she enjoyed those parts or just skipped over them the way I sometimes skip over sex scenes if a book has too many. I don’t have the guts to ask, but I’ll always wonder.

I do have the occasional heart palpitations when I think of people in my home town reading my books. I know at this arts festival a few of my former teachers will be there, including my first grade teacher, the lady who literally taught me how to write. I had thought she was a hundred way back then, but she’s recently turned ninety-three.  There will be former students and colleagues, these student's parents and various other friends and acquaintances. When I think back to the fierce way I guarded my secret for nearly fifty years this seems amazing.

I’ll be sure to let you all know how things go.

25 comments:

  1. Sounds as though you have a new fan there, PK!
    Hope you get many more sales at the art festival.
    Rosie xx

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    1. I hope so Rosie! I think it will be fun.

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  2. How wonderful. EL James watch out.

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    1. From your computer to God's inbox!

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  3. How sweet that you now have another reader that you know personally! Laughing that you thought your 1st grade teacher was a 100 back then....... It's so cute what little ones (including our former selves) think about their teachers. I hope you attract many more fans! Hugs, Windy

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    1. I'm sure most of my students assumed I was close to 100 too.

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  4. This is wonderful! I love that you’re not afraid to tell it like it is and promote your writing, romance, spanking, or otherwise! Good for you. May your booth at this arts festival be loaded with interested readers and may you sell out every book you take with you! Good for you!

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    1. Thank you this would all be wonderful. I happy too, that I'm comfortable being open about it.

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  5. Anonymous5:17 PM

    PK,
    I am so very happy for you. This is wonderful and you are so darn courageous in stepping out there. Maybe the Beach Sisters should come next year.
    Meredith

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    1. You would all be as welcome as the flowers in spring!

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  6. That is so exciting. I am so proud of you and your books. I wish I lived in your town, I would come out and support you.

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    1. Thank you! That would be wonderful! I do love it when you come by here.

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  7. Hi PK, how fantastic you have been asked to participate in the art festival. You will have to let us know how it goes. Good on you!

    How awesome you have a fan in the lady from church. She may not have mentioned the spanking in the books, but there is so much more to Tom and Cassie than spanking. It is a wonderful love story to read and the books are wonderfully entertaining also thanks to the antics of Cassie and friends. There is a lot to enjoy as a reader, even if the spanking aspect doesn't appeal as much.

    I love how you explained your writing genre to her :)

    Hugs
    Roz

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    1. Bless your heart, Roz! It always makes me happy to know people like my books and even better if they like Cassie! I'll let you know about the Arts Festival.

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  8. That's wonderful, so happy for you. I love that lady.

    Love,
    Ronnie
    xx

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    1. Thanks Ronnie. She sure is fun to be friends with.

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  9. Sorry to be so late with my comment, PK. For some reason the name of this post came up with the title and nothing else when it first showed up in my blog roll, so I ignored the title for 2 days straight!!!

    Glad I took another shot at it, my friend. Well, this is just wonderful news, and I am so pleased for you. The Arts Festival sounds like a place for you to shine. You could always describe your books as love stories with "mild erotica."
    I would love to ask your little old lady (Hell, that's what I am! Who am I kidding?)at church if there were any parts of the Cassie book that "bothered" her.

    Wish all the Beach Sisters were there to applaud you.
    Much love,
    Ella

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    1. That was me - I hit publish too soon and had to take it down.

      I know I keep talking about little old ladies and then look in the mirror and remember, oh yeah, that's me. But the lady that loved the book has to be in her 80's so she is way older than most of us. There are some ladies I know around her age that I would ask, for details, but not her.

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  10. Deena6:50 PM

    I love everything about this! I just purchased the first Cassie book and I'm loving it! Cannot wait to plow through all of them and my guess is my husband will follow suit.

    Cannot wait to hear how this all goes! I'm so excited for you!

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    1. WOW! Do you have any idea how that thrills me! I love my books, all of them. But I know the writing gets better as I went on. Hopefully I'll capture you for all ten in the Cassie series.

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    2. Deena7:26 PM

      Oh you have totally captured me! Just finished the first one and about to embark on the second! I use the word "embark" because I truly feel like I'm on a journey with Cassie...as well as with my real life hubby!

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  11. I can't imagine writing a book... my longest story is 9 pages...

    A request
    You have such a popular blog ! Would you please allow some of that popularity to rub off onto our little blog "O&P Spanking Stories"? Please, please add our blog in your blog-roll... https://oaksandpines.blogspot.com/
    Best regards
    Brigitte

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    1. Brigitte, I'll be happy to add you to my blog roll. But would you be able to email me first?

      elisspeaks@yahoo.com

      I think I have an idea of how you can get more readers.

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  12. that is so fun!!! :-) I am so happy for you and hope the festival goes well for you. thinking of you and sending hugs! ♥ :-)

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  13. I'm so glad your books are bringing joy, especially to a Sunday Church Lady! <3 :)

    These things are for everyone. You don't stop having a pulse after a certain age!

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