My History
In 1997, I started to write a BDSM novel. It took about six months to get the first draft complete and what I had in my hands was 'Denise'. A tale of a woman who falls victim to a plot to rob her of her fortune, to reduce her to slavery and humiliation. I tried to offer Denise to publishers, but there was clearly no interest. Was it because of the theme? Was the BDSM too extreme? Was the writing shit? Was the whole idea a step too far? As I sought for a means to publish, I started another novel. This one, Diane' was similar in content, perhaps even more inclined to severe fantasy BDSM, had a stronger plot and a little character overlap with Denise.
And that's where I left it all. Two novels, half edited and never to be seen again.
For some reason in 2010 I picked up where I had left off. I published both of the novels on a free BDSM fiction site (BDSMLibrary is pretty much defunct now, but my offerings are still there last time I looked) just to see if there was even a reaction. There was! Apart from the positive comments from readers, a publisher mailed me and wanted more. This time with a heavier emphasis on the femdom themes and for publication... The best and fastest approach seemed to take 'Denise' and rework it. The result of this was 'Dark Widow'. The whole tale of Denise was rewritten. Moved from first to third person POV and major parts of the novel were added and subtracted. I also learned how to edit systematically with considerable tuition from the publisher and in 2011, Dark Widow was published.
One good piece of advice from the publisher was that practice was needed. I started to write a new novel, but in the meantime I wrote short stories to play with the ideas I had in my head. I changed style each time, wrote from different points of view and practiced like mad. The free tales that you can download here were the result, Denise and Diane are amongst them. They are not my best work by any means, but they are quite readable and full of fresh ideas. A couple of longer pieces like 'Nursery Crime' and 'Gail's Long Day' started as novels, but somehow never quite made the grade. They were experiments in learning to write. Meanwhile, I completed my next novel and this time it was pure female domination fiction.
In the years since 2010, I have written well over 50 novels, collections of shorter stories and other pieces. All are to be found on my website and all can be purchased from me. In 2020 I took something of a pause. Real life intervened, but I still occasionally wrote, I just did not publish, as I felt a complete dissatisfaction in how my books were being marketed, sold and offered to my audience. By 2023 I had decided how I wanted to move forward. Get away from Lulu, Amazon, Kobo and the other big sellers and sell from my own website. That meant I had to re-construct the website from scratch, start all of the accounts to handle the selling, reedit all of my writings (yep, all 55+ of them), restart the social media accounts and redesign all of the covers to give them a consistent look and feel.
This version of the website is the front end of all of that effort! I have found a reliable E-Commerce site to host the files and can now offer all of my writing to my readers.
I keep writing and will do so...
My Writing
My writing is an attempt to offer seriously interesting, erotic female domination fiction. To place the reader in the middle of the action, to make the characters believable. To make the women rapacious, lustful, sadistic and yet still women who cannot help being attractive in their wickedness.
What my writing is not, is easy to say! It is not an attempt to teach safe and consensual BDSM practice, it is not an attempt offer ideas for BDSM sessions and it is certainly not intended to be read by those who have no interest in fetish. I have always had the attitude that, what I write is pure fantasy. I completely accept that my writing is at the further part of a spectrum that runs from romance fiction and 50 Shades all the way to De Sade, but it is intended as entertainment and the content is no more shocking than many mainstream thriller/serial killer novels that are published by major presses.
Having got the strength of the content out of the way, it is time to look at the themes that I write. There are three common denominators that are to be found in all of my writing:
- Female sexual and psychological domination.
- Strong plotting of storylines.
- Three dimensional characters.
In the world that my characters inhabit, there are plenty of opportunities for rapacious females to sate their lust. This world is, of course, based on the real world around us, but it is a deeper layer that lies unseen for most of us! As you walk down the street, Miss Irene or Miss Klein could be walking the other way. Decked in furs, perhaps, heels and stockings, but otherwise unnoticed by all, heading to a place where some victim is waiting in terror in a cage. These women are real in my world! They have personal problems, make mistakes, have to make concessions and occasionally show flashes of love, romance and sympathy. But, in the end, they know what they want and they will do anything to have it.
It is possible to divide the settings of my fiction into two distinct types. On the one hand we have domestic settings. People that are married, live together in a house or apartment and this forms the background of their lives. I call this setup a 'domestic' setting. Husband and wife, girlfriend-boyfriend, family of some sort. Though, incest has never really been of interest to me to write about, but the occasional aunt, mother-in-law or step mother may become involved. While I am on the subject of taboo, under eighteen's are never in the tale. In domestic settings, men find themselves crossing a line and blackmailed. Perhaps they have a lover or some mild fetish that gets exploited by a wife or girl friend. Occasionally the men are the abusive ones and find themselves cornered by circumstances. All in all, domestic settings lead to domestic domination.
Then there are the 'institutional' settings. These are businesses that are designed to oppress victims and perhaps sell them or trade them. Training Institutes, schools for sissies, pony stables and such like where 'professional' trainers who have access to all the equipment and facilities needed to break down their victims and train them to be perfect slaves for their owners. This can verge on horror fiction, but with the delightful twist that it is has a sexual edge.
I have written books that keep exclusively inside these bounderies. For example:
Domestic.
'Ascendancy', 'Paradise Gained', 'To Die For', are all are based exclusively 'in-house'.
Institutional.
'The Domains Series', 'Dark Widow', 'Honey Trap', are based on institutes that train slaves.
There are many tales that move from one zone to the other as domestic becomes institutional or vica versa. A recent series, the 'Maid and Aunt' trilogy follows this course with a domestic setting of the first two books being moved to an institutional setting in the closing book.
Then, there are the settings that follow a more 'thriller' style of writing. In which the main tale is not merely the female domination but a story-arc that involves the characters in constant crisis. This does not mean that there is less sexual content, it means that the problems that the characters have to solve are determined by outside events that they need to cope with. A kidnap that goes wrong, a man that buys a trafficked woman and discovers that her former owners want her back.
Last of all, there are the outliers. 'Succubus' is based around a woman who needs to kill to stay young. An occult thriller, if you like. 'Corrective Therapy' is the collected detailed notes of a group of sadistic therapists that experiment on their victims. 'Fourth Wall' allows the main female character to speak directly to the reader as if she was telling the tale and 'Obsession and Devotion' is a tale of twisted romance and obsessive love that takes a wicked turn.
The short tales are more a gathering of simpler ideas that did not seem strong enough to support a novel length piece but were worthy of attention. Single incidents, strange turns of events and occasional horror. The content varies considerably, but it is all femdom fiction.
I believe that there are two ways to approach BDSM erotica. One way, perhaps the easy one, is to simply relate a scene or a series of interconnected sexual encounters without more than a 'technical' description of characters, positions, equipment and actions based around these factors. To me, this resembles most pornographic movies. A hint of a plot in which a husband discovers his wife fucking a lover. What then follows is a three way sexual encounter for the entirety of the rest of the film. The other way to approach the writing is to follow the basic time worn premise of creating characters that have motives and hopes, passions and reasons for their actions. This means building the characters, sometimes before they have their sexual encounters that are set in the context of their characters. In other words, if the reader invests in the characters, the reader identifies with them. The sexual scenes then have a deeper layer of meaning as well as consequences that pull the reader deeper inside the tale. This second road is the one that I take because I want the reader to be shocked by plot twists, unexpected happenings, escapes and recaptures, panic, love and lust. I want them to become the protagonists and wonder how they would escape or submit.
I also believe that sexual encounters are not always about physical sex, but about overhearing a conversation, admiring a latex dress, being terrified by a partner, being shocked that a maid is a gelded man, playing casually with a helpless maid or telling a man that permanent chastity is his future. These moments, external to actual sexual collisions make the erotica more effective.
And, when it comes to the sex, the intensity of the event is vital. The participants are in deep, just as the reader should be. Putting a mask on a victim or gagging him (or her, because not all victims are male) is all about the sudden helplessness and isolation. The use of a cane is not only about the sound of bamboo on flesh, it is about how that intense agony translates as pleasure and fear. Being forced into high heeled ballet boots is about constriction, loss of control, elegance and servitude. Being caged is about knowing what is about to happen without the power to change it. Female domination and BDSM in general is about loss of control. I choose my words carefully, I try to enter the minds of victim and dominant, tell the reader what they feel, what they hope will happen and then finally reveal what actually does!
Only the reader can decide if my writing achieves these heady goals, if I manage to take the reader to the fetish so effectively that they feel as if they are there, then I have done my job! If the writing does not, then there are thousands of other authors out there to be tried. If it does, then read some more and fall into my malicious and exquisite world of BDSM female domination fiction.
My Aims
I would be lying if I declared that I did not care how many books I sell! The more that I sell, the more that I achieve my goals. The better my wardrobe is filled...
There are so many aspects of female domination fetishism that the whole genre falls into small separated niches that have exclusive appeal. Each and every of my readers has their own jigsaw of obsessions, preferences and fetishes embedded in their conscious and subconscious mind. Shoes, boots and heels. Stockings and corsets. Cuckolding and cross dressing. Fetters and chains. Chastity and restraints. Piercing and tattoos. Branding and smoking. Masks and hoods. Male dom involvement and older women. Constriction and breath play. Rubber and leather, lace and nylon. Feminisation and sissies. Maids and helpless dolls, punishment and love. Each and every one of my readers wants their personal preferences to be catered for... I do my best to vary my output and can state that it would be a rare reader that finds what they want in every tale. This is one of the reasons that I have designed, built and written this website. To try to allow my potential readers to find something that matches their preferences. Each book has not only a synopsis, but also a reference list of the main fetishes covered in the book and some idea of the severity of the writing. So my second aim is to allow each and every reader to find at least one tale that appeals.
So, how did you find your fetish? Stumbling in the dark or the internet until you realised that your obsession was finally found? I could say that my next aim is educational! There are so many possibilities out there and I hope that I can help you find what arouses and appeals. So, I mix it up, rarely taking a simple theme and no other. My writing allows you to explore different points of view and other ways of seeing female domination from close up. Sometimes it is overtly done. For instance the 'Samuel' series of four novellas each take a different fetish situation and explore it before moving to the next. From feminisation and personal maid to rough and ready and from there to the erotic possibilities of human pony stables. Finally coming together in the final volume as a harder edged institutional version of female domination rounds off the tale. Often the changes of tempo and different fetishes creep up in the text and suddenly the reader realises that they are in a different place. That's the idea! So, relax and discover something new...
My next aim is to make the tale and characters a vital part of the story. There are hundreds of writers writing female domination fiction and all have their converts. From fan-fiction to more mainstream efforts. One of the reasons that I decided to write was that I often found that there was no attachment to the characters and the plot in what I was reading. In other words the tales that I read were often 'scenes' rather than 'stories'. What I wanted to do was to give the characters a reason for their actions, motivation and at least a little struggle to manage to make their dreams come true. I wanted plot as well as erotic scenes. I can only hope that I have achieved this aim, because in the end it is the readers that make that judgement of my fiction. In the same vein I also wanted to give the reader the inside track of what it is like to be the victim. It is not enough to tell the reader what sound is made by a cane. What is going through their heads? What is the thrill? How does that humiliation feel? What's more, how does the experience resound later in the mind of the characters? What changed? Why is the character so terrified...
Every time that a reader buys and downloads a book of mine, I get a small thrill of my own. Someone is now under my thumb as they turn the pages and discover what Irene wrote for them. In a bizarre 'findom' kind of way, the reader identifies with the characters and can only read and surrender. Like Michael in the 'Maid and Aunt' series, they are hemmed in, channeled and forced to follow the instructions. What's more, there are no safewords in my books (not quite true, I have fun with that in 'Wish Fulfillment'), the reader is trapped in my imagination, caged no matter what comes next! I just love the idea that my readers are being transformed as they read, addicted and forced to submit...
How I Write
I am impatient as a writer. Many writers compile a plot, create extensive character backgrounds and only then begin to write. I have tried, but cannot write this way. I make some jottings and set out wity the plot that I have in my mind, noting character traits and actions as I go along. This has advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantages are that I often find that, after a few thousand words, I am dissatisfied with what I have written. I have a simple remedy, I abandon the draft and start something else or perhaps just rewrite it again from the bottom up. Weeks can be lost and my collection of half novels is considerable. The advantages of writing this way is that, if something occurs to me, I can simply change direction and there is no loss of planning time. When it comes to the editing, it is then that I fiddle with the detail and massage the text, perhaps adding or deleting scenes as the plot requires.
Another trait of mine is not to dwell too much on physical descriptions. There is a reason for this! What each of finds erotic or attractive is a personal thing. If I leave it open and only mention those traits that are vital for the tale, the rest is up to you to put in place. That's not to say that I don't write detailed erotic scenes, it's just that the reader does not need a list of characteristics that have no bearing on the tale. Reading is a journey of the imagination, I try to leave some of the sights to the reader and allow them to place their ideal in the story. Just as they can place themselves in it, as well.
For some reason that I can't quite get my head around, I write best when I am in a public place! In a cafe or restaurant, library or place where people are moving around. For some reason the atmosphere and chatter around me make it easier to write. So, I take my laptop and head out to write. It is a rare thing that I am to be found at home on the PC banging away at the keyboard. Often I have headphones on and listen to music as I write. Mostly rock and some classical, as it happens! Often I just spend hours with coffee after coffee before me as I am absorbed by the thrill of creating women who are both sadistic and attractive. Each book I sell is about the price of a coffee, so thanks! If you buy a book you are contributing to the next one by crowdfunding my caffeine consumption!
Most novels start with a simple idea. For instance, what would happen if a married couple were bored by sex and he decides to persuade her to try an 'open' marriage? What if he could not find a partner, but she could? there is a long way to go before this idea becomes a novel of 40,000+ words, but it is a place where the characters are in and they are in it because they are the way that they are. He might be unattractive, she might already have a lover that her husband has now made 'legal'. I normally consider the idea and roll it in my head for a week or so, then I write a first chapter and thus create the characters. Find an opening that draws me in to want to explain how it all works out. The slowing of the pace between considering plotting ideas and actually writing allows me to find other ideas that are interesting as I go. By the end of around 5-10,000 words I usually know if it is going to work and then it is on full speed. The more planning that I do, the slower the writing. Commissioned works are by far away the slowest to write.
The last part of writing is the work that comes after the first draft is written. I have a 'main editor' as well as one or two others. I carefully keep them apart because I don't want them to over-influence me. Nevertheless, they have input and often set me straight. I make mistakes, all authors do. I occasionally need ideas to fill in the gaps in a text, make sure that the pace does not slacken and is not to rapid. The editing is usually a chore rather than a joy, but I grit my teeth and get on with it to get the project complete. Then, after it is done, a final polish, a reread that makes sure that the vocabulary is right, that the grammatical points are fully checked. Personally, I think that I have rarely read a novel that does not have typos. I try hard, but they do slip past...
During the whole process, I work on a cover for the book. Making the covers is fun! I need images that are presentable and titles that are not obvious. I don't care for book titles like 'Stiletto Dominatrix' or 'Slave Maids' because they are somehow too genre specific. The same goes for the covers. I was publishing on Amazon and could not make covers that were in any way considered pornographic. I stick to that rule, even though I now self publish. I want to create a cover that could be displayed in a public place, on a Kindle in the subway or tube train. I buy some of the covers from stock image sites and transform them and resist using the copyrighted images on the web. I have commissioned a few covers and created a few of my own. In fact, I am actually on at least a few of my covers! You'll have to guess which ones.
Content
To be honest, I do not have many restrictions on what I will write. No underage sex (18yrs+), no incest (closest is aunt and even then, no intercourse), no scat (though urolagnia happens). Otherwise, pretty much everything is on the cards! This is fantasy fiction, not an instruction manual! Murder-mystery authors have no problems with grisly deaths and rapes described in detail. Horror authors rip people to shreds with chain saws and zombie attacks. I do my bit to add to the body count! My first published novel began with a fetish murder ('dark Widow'), so I was off to a good start! There is a narrow line between BDSM and non-consensual sex! If there were not all tension and thrill would be lost. BDSM is all about control and I am sure that we have all heard of 'topping from the bottom'! I believe strongly that in reality BDSM should always be a consensual game, but what I write is not reality, it is a place where anything could happen. And it does.
I try hard to make plots 'realistic', but once again, if characters always followed the most logical or sensible course the plots would die or become mired in boring detail. So occasionally they do not behave logically or even guard their best interests. On the subject of this, do not forget that when a tale is written in the third person, the reader can see everything like the characters cannot. A third person narrative is like a poker game with all the cards visible to all. A first person narrative is more like a normal poker game with closed hands. So, if occasionally my characters are irrational, I apologise, but sometimes I have an idea that needs poor judgement.
Contact
I have left this until last! I have no problem talking by mail to my readers. I have an Instagram account at:
https://www.instagram.com/irene_clearmont/
I have a mailing address at:
...and a few other social media counts in all sorts of nooks and cranny's on the internet. By all means write to me or comment, but see the comments here about this.
The fact is that I am a private person who happens to write decadent and explicit fiction and I am not interested in 'findom' or face to face meetings.
All I want is for you to enjoy my imaginings and live in my world occasionally for a few hours as well as pay for the next pair of stilettos...
Love,
