Just in Time for Valentine's Day "Temptation And The Gambler" is Now Available on Smashwords*

You can buy this bad baby right now just by clicking here or on the pic.
 

"Temptation and the Gambler is now available on Smashwords for just $2.99! It's a 18K word+ consensual BDSM romance about two crime fighters who meet cute the crime fighter way, then enjoy one another in all sorts of distinctly non crime fighterly ways! HEA and everything! Enjoy a nice kinky romantic fantasy on Valentine's Day! Here's da blurb:

Sarah is a proud feminist who spends her days working at a womens' shelter and her evenings as a counselor at a local hospital for victims of violence, domestic and otherwise. But she is a woman of many layers and secrets. Late in the evening, she becomes Temptation, a costumed vigilante heroine who cruises the alleys of her city looking for the men who wreak destruction on women and delivering to them pain, punishment and sexual humiliation. But that's just one secret of Sarah's, and to her, the least shameful secret. Her truly shameful secret is that she is a sexual submissive who desires nothing more than to submit sexually to a man, to be bound and gagged and used like a sexual animal – if and only if she can find a man who is worthy of her, and if she can overcome her shame over her decidedly non-feminist sexual feelings. Rod is a billionaire, a true alpha male, a born gambler who is not only lucky but smart. Worth several billion dollars from his Wall Street gambles, he now finds no joy in financial gambling, and so gambles with higher stakes – his very life, stealing out into the streets of the city to become the Gambler, a costumed vigilante who stops criminals with nothing but his fists and his courage. Handsome, fit and charismatic, Rod can have any woman he wants, but none of them seems a match for him. His closet full of bondage gear and toys has been used only for prostitutes who know how to play with him and his toys, but don't have what it takes to ignite his heart. Sooner or later, Temptation and the Gambler had to meet. And they did, in a dark alley. The sexual and emotional fireworks will result from that fateful encounter? This novella is just shy of 19,000 words long, and is part of the Basic Income/Morality Laws world.

*Temptation and the Gambler has already been published on Amazon, so if you got it there, don't bother buying it here, it's the same story.

An Open Letter To Adam Warren

Cover of Empowered Volume 4, the latest offence against Ellie Mae. Click on the pic to find out more about this shameful publication.

Dear World:

For several years now, comic artist Adam Warren has made millions of dollars bagging on my cousin Ellie Mae Powers, and I'd like him to stop. (Her real first name is "Elissa" and her real middle name is "Megan" I know, but everyone calls her "Ellie Mae" after her great aunt on the Clampbett side.)

Ellie Mae is fondly regarded in the family as a sweet girl, a bit touched in the head but basically really nice. Ever since she was a toddler she was jazzed about superheroes, wandering around her folks' house with a towel pinned to her back by a clothespin, declaring that she could fly, had superstrength, etc. Her mother bought her Wonder Woman underoos then had to fight her to get her to take them off so she could wash them.

It was always kinda funny and we always figured she'd grow out of it until she went to college and majored in "Transhuman Studies." You want to talk about your useless college degrees! Everybody thought it was a bad idea to let her major in that -- why couldn't she get a degree in something useful, like business management or medicine? But no, her folks said it was the only thing she was interested in or would study (and she did get on the Dean's List and stay there while she was in college) so Transhuman Studies it was.

We figured her folks were just throwing away money on someone who was going to wind up teaching grade school somewhere, but what the hell, it was her folks' money and her life.

But after she found the supersuit in her senior year in college she went nuts because of course she figured it meant she could BE superhuman. Like being Ellie Mae Powers of the Kentucky Powers clan wasn't good enough for her. Her Great Granny Clampbett would have tanned her hide if she'd found out about it. Granny Clampbett would have been ESPECIALLY mad about the way Ellie Mae looked running around in public in that supersuit -- pretty much stark naked. I'm not sure what denomination Granny Clampbett was, but I AM sure it was one of those fire and brimstone ones where if women are the least bit sexy, they go straight to hell. And Granny Clampbett wouldn't let any kin of hers go to hell even if she had to make their lives hell on earth.

Meanwhile, Adam Warren bags on Empowered relentlessly in his weekly comic strip. Now, granted, Empowered has given him plenty of material to work with, god bless her, due to that damn supersuit's unreliability, but Warren seems to take a certain amount of glee in detailing the insults, humiliations, and dire perils she repeatedly encounters. Also, Warren seems to know more about Ellie Mae's relationship with her boyfriend Lee ... er, Thugboy, we all just call him Lee ... than is meet or proper, and he gleefully details THAT in his strip as well.

Now, I dunno where you're getting your information, Mr. Warren (I'm betting the Caged Demonwolf, he would be in a position to know a lot of this stuff with his starspawn powers, and he seems the type to dish the dirt on anyone if the price is right or even if it isn't) but I don't see what good it is bagging on the girl so much.

Surely you can find another female superhero who gets tied up a lot by bad guys and has plenty of foibles to exploit. Hell, look at Wonder Woman, she spends more time in the coils of her golden lasso than villains do. Plus, she's totally in the closet about her bondage proclivities nowadays, even though she was practically out about it back in the 50s, when it was really dangerous to be out about such things.

Wonder Woman would be right up your alley with her twisted psyche and strange past, and wouldn't be nearly so affected by your comments, as her ego isn't nearly so fragile as Ellie Mae's, what with her having been an actual goddess at one time.

We still have hopes that Ellie Mae can return to a more normal life -- we understand that Ellie Mae has somehow picked up some experience working as a librarian during her stint with the despicable SuperHomies, and that Lee, um, Thugboy, has had experience working as an administrative assistant of sorts. And hell, Ellie Mae has always had a real soft spot for children, she could always work in day care, maybe even transhuman day care -- I understand those kids could be an armful.

In summary, Mr. Warren, please stop bagging on Ellie Mae. She's a sweet kid who deserves better.

Yours,

Pat Powers
aka Ellie Mae's crazy cousin Pat