About Anything for A Byline
by Sean Michael
184 pages / 64000 words
ISBN: 978-1-934166-42-0, 1-934166-42-1
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Nat has paid his dues and just needs his first by-line to break into the journalism business. It’s gotten to the point where he isn’t too fussy about what magazine or newspaper that by-line is in either. When his friend and old newshound Al arranges an interview for him at the Velvet Glove, a private BDSM club, Nat figures all he has to do is show up, do the interview and write his story. Hell, these clubs are all for show anyway and nobody really whips people for fun, right?
His first indication that he might be mistaken is the serious, tall and more than a little scary dude who welcomes him into the club, the second is the extensive list of kinks he’s asked to choose from. When he meets the man who’s going to interview him and finds out that the interview is actually a scene, with him playing whipping boy, Nat realizes he may be in over his head.
Join Nat on his fascinating journey into the life of a full-time sub in this story set in Sean Michael’s Velvet Glove universe.
Review
Mychael Black, author of Going Home, writes:
Nat is a reporter, desperate to make his mark. Features, his boss says, and so Nat finds himself posing as an interviewee as a paid sub at the Velvet Glove, a gentleman’s BDSM club. Anything for a byline, he tells himself. Then he meets Richmond, the Dom who conducts his ‘interview.’ Nat is thrust into a world he never believed existed and he wears Richmond’s marks home.
He dreams of Richmond, of wearing the Dom’s marks, of the release Richmond had given him. He’s terrified of what it means, but he returns, needing more.
Richmond knows Nat’s game, but what he doesn’t know is the effect the young redhead will have on him. Richmond realizes that, despite his ability to detach all emotions from the subs, Nat got beneath his skin. When Nat returns--just for him--Richmond vows to never let him go.
But Nat’s investigative nature is not easily curbed, and when someone--a very big, important someone--oversteps the bounds the club has set forth, Nat is determined to catch him.
Can Nat and Richmond work through their problems without losing sight of what’s important?
Anything For A Byline is explosive! Nat is unbelievably adorable, but certainly not a shrinking violet. He’s a natural sub, but still possesses the tenacity of a reporter. And Richmond? Lord…I’ll bottom for him any day!
The scenes, especially the sessions between them, are screen-melting. This is one of those books that you simply cannot stop reading, though you’re desperate for alone time when you’re done!
Yet another HOT one from Sean Michael!
Sample
Okay.
Okay, I can do this.
Four years of journalism school, two years of mailroom work, two years of obits and fuck, I need a break in the worst way.
So when the old-queen photographer -- Al, his name was -- suggested to me that there might be a way to break into features, or if not features, then at least the lifestyles page? I said yes. Sure. Anything. Please.
Of course, I was thinking I'd interview drug dealers, puppy smugglers, people who thought they were vampires, maybe. I never thought that I'd be interviewing for a job at a... God. These BDSM club things weren't real, were they?
I wiggle a little as I wait for the service door to open, the big building looks so huge, so cold, so... unnerving in the pale moonlight. I’m in a pair of leather pants two sizes two small, a mesh shirt that my pale skin just glows milk white in and I look like a dork.
Al promised me a job interview, though. A chance to look around, to see, and I couldn't say no.
Even if the Herald doesn’t take it, one of those jerk-off magazines might and a by-line is a by-line.
When the door opens, I blink up.
And up.
And up.
I swallow. I can do this. I can.