B Is for Bondage (Erotic Alphabet) [Paperback]

Alison Tyler (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Erotic Alphabet | Publication Date: January 24, 2007

A Is For Amour, B Is For Bondage, C Is For Co-Eds and D Is For Dress-Up kick off a new series from Alison Tyler and Cleis Press. From Amour to Zippers, this alphabetical extravaganza of erotic delights features 26 hot volumes of explicit, playful stories.
A simple leather strap, a shiny pair of handcuffs, a delicate silk scarf, a lover who takes charge. Here Alison Tyler gathers playful fantasies of sexual control and erotic restraint. Featuring such popular erotica writers as Shanna Germain, Mathilde Madden, and Teresa Noelle Roberts, B Is For Bondage is luscious, naughty, and infinitely sexy.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"a delightful collection." -- Erotica Readers and Writers.com

"a must read for true purveyors of pleasure through pain and I command you to read it." -- UK Forum Online

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Cleis Press (January 24, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 157344264X
• ISBN-13: 978-1573442640
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,357,927 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Called a trollop with a laptop by East Bay Express, Alison Tyler is naughty and she knows it.

Over the past 20 years, Ms. Tyler has written more than 25 explicit novels, including Learning to Love It, Strictly Confidential, Sweet Thing, Sticky Fingers, and Something About Workmen (all published by Black Lace), as well as Rumors, Tiffany Twisted, and Melt With You (Cheek). Her novels and short stories have been translated into Japanese, Dutch, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Spanish. Her stories have appeared in more than 100 anthologies.

When not writing saucy short stories, Ms. Tyler edits erotic anthologies. She's recently completed her 50th collection, Alison's Wonderland (Harlequin, 2010). Her best-selling titles include Naughty Fairy Tales from A to Z (Plume), Naked Erotica (Pretty Things Press), and Best Bondage Erotica (Cleis Press).


Ms. Tyler is loyal to coffee (black), lipstick (red), and tequila (straight). She has tattoos, but no piercings; a wicked tongue, but a quick smile; and bittersweet memories, but no regrets. She believes it won't rain if she doesn't bring an umbrella, prefers hot and dry to cold and wet, and loves to spout her favorite motto: You can sleep when you're dead. She chooses Led Zeppelin over the Beatles, the Cure over NIN, and the Stones over everyone. Yet although she appreciates good rock, she has a pitiful weakness for 80s hair bands.

In all things important, she remains faithful to her partner of 15 years, but she still can't choose just one perfume.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Itty bitty book of itty bitty stories., January 4, 2008

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Geoff (Connecticut snob, temporarily on loan to South Carolina) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: B Is for Bondage (Erotic Alphabet) (Paperback)

My first reaction "out-of-the-box"? This thing is -tiny-. Ignoring the intro, and the "about the author" section, the book is 128 pages of text (not 144), containing 12 very short stories. The average length of a story is a hair under 10 pages, (the shortest being 4.5 pages, the longest being 14). They run the gambit from straight, to gay and lesbian stories, most contain bondage, some discipline, and of course, some sex. I wouldn't want to ruin it for you if you think you might be interested in this book, but there are many themes, spices & pickles to the stories. Many show intelligence, some are thought-provoking, and some even funny. However, the overall quality is comparable (if not even slightly less impressive) than what can be found on the internet. I have found in general, stories in the various newsgroups, and at free and public supported websites to be of a higher quality. It's -sort- of cute, but not worth the price.

3.0 out of 5 stars Alison Tyler's Second Erotic Alphabet Collection, March 31, 2009

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Jvstin "Paul Weimer" (Circle Pines, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: B Is for Bondage (Erotic Alphabet) (Paperback)

Alison Tyler, an author herself, has a pretty strong hand as an editor in this collection of erotic stories. Part of her thematic Alphabet of Erotica, B is for Bondage takes on, well, bondage. Fantasies of control, of tying people up...

It's a decent collection of stories, although I don't think its quite as strong as other volumes in this series. The sexual content in the stories didn't quite register as hot for me as some of the other stories I've read in volumes that Ms. Tyler has published. Was it the mix of authors? Was it that the authors didn't take as many chances as in other volumes? I don't know. The sexual content can be described as playful. This is no bad thing, but I think its a bit *too* playful, at the detriment of the story collection as a collection of erotica.

I did find a couple of stories hot (Shanna Germain's story, in particular), but for me the collection did not have that high of a percentage of hits as other volumes in the series, or other volumes that she has edited.

Sorry, Alison.