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Meet author Pablo Greene at IML!

Each year at IML the Leather Archives hosts recently published kink authors at its table in the vendor mart. Good news for guys who are into superheroes, bondage and fetish gear — “How To Kill a Superhero” author Pablo Greene will be participating on Friday and Saturday! You can stop by and meet this guy in person.

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Leather Archives IML page here.

Official ‘How To Kill a Superhero’ site here

Metalbond Q&A with Pablo Greene here

Sample chapters of the books here

 

Green Bay Part 2 – The Biggest Step

By ty dehner

Master J answered my ad with an e-mail response that piqued my interest. i returned the e-mail and we started a dialog on line. It was the end of June. We began meeting online through AOL at the same time and exchanging instant messages time and time again. We learned more about each of us and what we were looking for. Master J had purchased a slave but found that they were not compatible. But he had learned about what his desires were. After time we started to talk on the phone.

A voice can give you a stronger feeling for a man, because you can feel his tones. i was feeling something that was good about Master J. He started to push for me to visit. But i was in school and was unable to afford the plane ticket some 2000 miles from home. Then he offered to fly me to visit, we would explore and see who we were. After discussion with my best friend, i decided that i could not pass this opportunity, for i would spend my life wondering what could’ve been.

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david stein’s ‘Carried Away: An SM Romance’ is out in a revised second edition

Steamy leathersex is only the beginning when a cocky, jaded bottom and a once-burned Master come together for some no-strings bondage and SM. After their scene is over, a deeper hunger awakens, and they begin playing for much higher stakes, moving despite themselves toward a dynamic of Owner and owned. Set in New York City back in 1992, when gay leather and SM had emerged from the closet and seedy underground to become almost chic, only to be nearly destroyed by the ravages of the AIDS epidemic, Carried Away recreates a milieu as notable for the compassion gay men showed for their brothers as for the sensual excesses that anti-gay critics harped on.

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This epic novel by longtime gay writer and activist david stein is replete with ferocious SM action, hard-core sex, and fiendishly restrictive bondage — which he describes so well, you won’t need photos to recreate it (assuming you have the right gear, a good space, and a willing partner!). But Carried Away is not only about SM, bondage, and sex, wonderful as all these are. More fundamentally, it is a love story — a romance, if you will — between two 30something gay men who are roughly equal in intelligence, ability, and character, but opposite in temperament and erotic preference.

Terry Andrews is a successful architect and all-around topman with a passion for bondage and the means to indulge it. Matt Stone manages a large bookstore, but he lives for the times when he can surrender control to a man he likes and admires. When they happen to be cruising at the Spike, the heaviest leather bar in Manhattan, on the same slow week night, neither is looking for a new partner, just some hot action. They get that, and much more, from each other — without intending to, they forge a deeper connection. Matt realizes that he needs to belong to someone, not simply let himself be played with and then released. For his part, Terry needs to own what he loves, and once he falls for Matt, enslaving him is the only option!

For this new second edition, the author has carefully polished all of the quarter million words of the text without changing anything that made the novel so beloved by the thousands of readers — both men and women! — of the original 2002 Daedalus edition, now out of print. With both its eros and its romance stemming from the same deep roots in human emotion, Carried Away is one of the most admired BDSM novels of all time, and this new edition fully delivers on the promise of Thom Magister’s hot new cover art and of the intriguing new “Foreword” by Laura Antoniou, best-selling author of The Marketplace and its sequels as well as the hilarious crime novel spoof The Killer Wore Leather.

Carried Away 2nd ed back cover

 

The original edition came out back in 2002 and was launched at IML that year.

This revised second edition is available NOW at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.

For even more information about this book — plus the many other titles from david stein — click for Perfectbound Press.

Santa’s Gift

By ty dehner

The holiday season was approaching quickly. Jack was feeling the pressure of the holiday gift-buying dilemma. He knew that time was running out, but just what do you get your family that has everything in life already? The city was filled with shoppers, and occasionally Jack would notice one of the cute guys. He loved this time of the year, for guys wore boots and jeans. Of course, Jack didn’t look half bad in his full motorcycle leathers. The day had been dry and almost a bit balmy for December. So Jack slid into his leathers, put on his helmet and headed to the city on his Harley. Christmas was tomorrow, and Jack hadn’t gotten anything purchased yet. He was seriously thinking that a check for each person his list might not be such a bad thing.

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