The Mammoth Book of Erotic Romance and Domination

by Maxim Jakubowski (Editor)

With the publication of 50 Shades of Grey BDSM gained new popularity. This captivating collection of stories brings together outstanding and newly-commissioned material by some of the best authors in both the erotica and romance genres. They explore aspects of BDSM focusing on sex-positive and life-affirming scenarios that will arouse and seduce.

Genres: Erotica, BDSM, Romance, Short Stories, Anthologies

512 pages, Paperback

First published June 5, 2014

About the author

Maxim Jakubowski is a crime, erotic, and science fiction writer and critic.

Jakubowski was born in England by Russian-British and Polish parents, but raised in France. Jakubowski has also lived in Italy and has travelled extensively. Jakubowski edited the science fiction anthology Twenty Houses of the Zodiac in 1979 for the 37th World Science Fiction Convention (Seacon '79) in Brighton. He also contributed a short story to that anthology. He has now published almost 100 books in a variety of areas.

He has worked in book publishing for many years, which he left to open the Murder One bookshop[1], the UK's first specialist crime and mystery bookstore. He contributes to a variety of newspapers and magazines, and was for eight years the crime columnist for Time Out and, presently, since 2000, the crime reviewer for The Guardian. He is also the literary director of London's Crime Scene Festival and a consultant for the International Mystery Film Festival, Noir in Fest, held annually in Courmayeur, Italy. He is one the leading editors in the crime and mystery and erotica field, in which he has published many major anthologies.

His novels include "It's You That I Want To Kiss", "Because She Thought She Loved Me", "The State Of Montana", "On Tenderness Express", "Kiss me Sadly" and "Confessions of a Romantic Pornographer". His short story collections are "Life in the World of Women", "Fools for Lust" and the collaborative "American Casanova". He is a regular broadcaster on British TV and radio and was recently voted the 4th Sexiest Writer of 2,007 on a poll on the crimespace website.

Reviews

[Karla Schneider · Rating 2 out of 5]

Short stories are like poems... or porn. It either makes a point, or you get to eat your cake. I think erotica is the vanilla version of bdsm. You get just enough to make it exciting, but overall it's all about the empathy and trust between similar creatures to fulfill the destiny the bearded guy bestowed upon us: the need to procreate. And short stories are just not long enough to build up the trust and empathy, so the only other choice is porn. Which defeats the moral of eroticas in its essence.
These stories weren't bad, but there are only so many things humans can do in so many ways before we've seen it all. All drugs have a tolerance before we get jaded to it, and oxytocin is one of them.

[KStar · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed the book, a good variety of stories in it made it for an interesting read, not all were to my taste but that's what you get in collections, something for everyone, these stories are very varied and interesting to read.

[JW David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Several Good stories, a few stinkers
This isn't all of the stories.
Money ****
Cities of Water ****
Vaniglia ***
Four Poster Bed ****
Breakfast at the Farmer's Market ****
The Trespass *****
Tell Me ***
Saving Sage ****
Tomorrow Never Comes ***
A Very Desirable Property ****
No Good Deed ***
Spanish Fly **
A Breath of Peace ***
Tied Noon ***
Juliet 222 ***
10AM - A Dull Creature, or The Art of Ugly Romance **
Damned Love ****
Briony Remastered ****
Seven Stripes of Colour ****
Autumn, Naked, Far from Paris ****
I'm Waiting on My Mail ****
The Subsequent State **
Vieled Girl With Lute ****

[Jenny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kristina Llyod *****