Training Time

Editor: 

BDSM is about need, desire, and identity—about doing what feels right and hot and fulfilling. But it’s also about training. For this collection, we’re seeking stories that use a training period in a BDSM relationship as the springboard for a compelling erotic romance.

Show us your experienced Dom training a new-to-the-lifestyle sub, or a Dom training a longtime sub to their own requirements and protocols. Or bring us that rare unicorn of kink fiction: an experienced sub training a new Dom. Or maybe you've written an experienced Dom training an inexperienced one? Is one of your characters fascinated with a potentially dangerous activity (bondage or blood play, for example) and looking to be trained?  Or is one of your characters looking for more specific protocol training as a service sub or a pony or a puppy?

No matter the training circumstances, give your characters a happy ending and send their stories our way.

Length: 
15,000 to 100,000+ words
Genres: 
Erotic romance in the following sub-genres: contemporary or historical
Heat Levels: 
Hot. Kink is by its nature sexual. These stories should be true erotic romance, where the story's tension is worked out through the sexual interactions between the characters.
Ending: 
HEA or strong HFN
Orientation: 
Gay, lesbian, bi, trans*, or poly with a strong GLBT element
Submissions Due: 
Friday, February 15, 2013
Acceptance Letters Sent By: 
April 1 for novellas, May 1 for novels
Anticipated Release Date: 
November and December, 2013