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2019: An Author's Year in Review

Last year was a fabulous year for me on the creative front. Part of that was invitations to contribute to other projects (thanks to Kylie Gable and my Sisters in Smut); part of that was publicly sharing progress and announcing deadlines; and part of that was making use of colleagues and friends to beta read; all of which empowered me to overcome my usual procrastination and publish better work sooner.

After a bit of a sales dip last year, in which I did far too much procrastination and far too little publishing, this year turned out to be my best ever - more than 3X my previous best. For that, I owe each and every one of you a huge Thank You!

In terms of where those sales come from, the top 3 countries, month-after-month, are USA, UK, and Germany, with Canada, Australia, and India taking turns rounding out the top 5.

As for what sold best this year, the top 5 releases are an interesting mix of new releases and old favorites:
Holly Daze: An Erotic Transgender Romance (2017 release)Make Him Fit: Taken, Trained and Transformed (New release)Vintage Tanya Tales Collection (New release)Fear, Love, and Broken Things (2018 release)The Great Sorority Sissy Hunt: Heather and Becky (New release)    
So, what can you expect of 2020? Well, since public accountability seemed to work so well for me last year, I am going to go out on a limb and commit myself to a few projects.

First up will be my next forced feminization story for Candy Apple Press, tentatively titled  Lap Dances and Lawsuits . I have been brainstorming it for a while, and have discussed it with a few people, so I am more than ready to begin writing.

After that, and this is something I am delighted to say people keep asking about, should come the third Futanari Moans erotic adventure, tentatively titled  Futanari Moans and the Giant(s) Pearls . This one promises to be bigger than the first two combined, with a far larger cast and a whole new batch of fetishes to explore.

With that done, I would like to edit the first Futanari Moans story, expand the second in a few scenes, write a few bonus short background pieces that explore her origins (lab reports, journal entries, etc.), then publish a paperback edition of the entire saga. I love her so much, and I really want to be able to hold her in my hand - or, given her futanari excess, perhaps two hands!

This year also needs to be the year I finish my 'big' supernatural horror/paranormal romance novel, which I made significant progress in rewriting during NaNoWriMo. Tentatively titled  Restless  (although that title will definitely change), I have 29,000 words polished and another 76,000 words in need of a solid edit. It has always been my dream to find it a home with a professional publisher, but it is time to stop procrastinating, start editing, and commit to self-publishing if that home does not materialize.

There will be more as well, but I never know what ideas will take hold of my imagination and demand an ending. I do have a captured/transformation/hucow scenario roughly plotted out that should be nasty; I have a near-future futa story in mind that will be sexy and tender and sweet and socially provocative at the same time; and there is an unfinished draft of an erotic sword-and-sorcery novella that has been teasing my imagination and demanding an ending.

I am bound (I do like being bound!) and determined to make sure this past year was not a fluke but the start of a long, successful, enjoyable ride that I hope you will all share with me!© 2019 Bending the Bookshelf All Rights Reserved

Snow Globes and Candy Canes is NOW AVAILABLE!

Holly Daze  (which I love to pieces) was my first holiday story, and it sort of closed the chapter on a part of my life. There's so much of the old me in that story - hiding from the holidays, looking for an escape, and desperately seizing the opportunity to be loved for who you are. It's a happy, sexy, entirely positive story, but it was written to conquer unpleasant holiday memories.

Snow Globes and Candy Canes , which just published today, is a story of the new me - accepting and celebrating the holidays because sharing them with someone you loves brings a joy that was so long absent. It's a total impossible fantasy of Christmas wishes, but such a sweet, sexy, silly story that I am delighted to share it with you all!


Snow Globes and Candy Canes: A Sweet & Sexy Gender Swap Romance
by Sally Bend 

It all started with an office holiday party, an ugly Christmas sweater, a shower of glitter, and a strange card that read "May all your Christmas wishes come true."

A little tipsy and a lot horny, Sandra and Nick stagger home and into the bedroom, where she initiates a little cross-dressing fun with tinsel, snow globes, candy canes, and Christmas stockings. A few idle wishes and a good sleep later, stocky Nick awakes to find himself a busty Nicky, eager to please his incredible girlfriend and her delicious new toy!

Sandra is going to take her new girlfriend in every way she can, hard, deep, and unprotected, until they’re both sweaty, spent, and overflowing with holiday cheer!

Snow Globes and Candy Canes is an erotic romance that is sweet, sexy, and seasonably silly. Unwrap 10,000 words of gender-swap, futa-on-female, loving erotica. For adult readers only.© 2019 Bending the Bookshelf All Rights Reserved

The Great Sorority Sissy Hunt: Heather and Becky NOW AVAILABLE!

With The Great Sorority Sissy Hunt, Kylie Gable & Claudia Acosta kicked off an amazing epic of forced feminization and female domination storytelling that will see six different authors contribute to ten different books.

Today it is my turn. :)


When a sorority needs to raise money fast, they come up with a novel idea - kidnapping and feminizing men into sissies. Soon, they turn the unused wing in their sorority house into the sissy wing and, with each pair of sisters taking one guy, they begin to put their plan into motion.

Heather and Becky chose their victim for two reasons. One, Jason has more than enough flesh to create a naturally feminine shape once they squeeze him into a corset. Two, all that flesh sweats a lot of toxic masculinity, and he’s been stalking some of the freshman girls . . . making them feel threatened.

While the two girls fully intended to enjoy feminizing their sissy and putting him through his paces, they’re also looking to deliver a little justice. They may all the students at the same school, but he’s the one who is going to be learning a lesson.

Heather and Becky is part of The Great Sorority Sissy Hunt, an amazing epic of forced feminization and female domination storytelling.


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Essential Halloween Reading - Sally Style!

Happy Halloween, bois and ghouls!
If you would care to make my fave night complete, I am more than happy to turn a few literary tricks if you promise to share with me your melted treats! I am super good at, ahem, cleanup. :)

Fear, Love and Broken Things is 10,000 words of erotic horror that explores fear, love, and the redemption of broken things

Packed with 7,000 words of pulp futa adventure, complete with a taboo side of monster erotica, Futanari Moans and the Suckers’ Cure is superbly silly, and scandalously sexy! Perfect for fans of her first adventure, or those just discovering her.

Gender Swapped by the Haunted Brothel is 14,000 words of gender transformation, sexual awakening, and paranormal penetration. 
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Fiction Exclusive: The Rose’s Thorn by Miss Irene Clearmont

My beloved and I are off on a short vacation, which means no Freebie Fetish Friday post today (sorry), but I have something extra special to share with you in its place.
I have had the great pleasure of getting to know Miss Irene Clearmont over the past year, talking fetish and fiction, and getting a glimpse into her creative process. When I shared my review of In Silver, the fourth book of her Domains saga, I cheekily asked into which Domain she would assign me.
Much to my eternal delight, she answered the question by writing an exclusive Domains story that explores my erotic fate. I cannot put into words my gratitude or my excitement. If you are already a fan of her saga of sissies, slaves, ponies, and dominant women, then I hope you will find this a treat.
If you have yet to visit the Domains, then I really hope this inspires you to get reading!
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The Rose’s Thorn
Miss Isabella watched as they were lined up on the wooden flagstones. Her practiced eye took in the livestock at a glance, and she strolled down the line to decide the fate of each of them. Strength was important, but not essential. The question was, which would look good in harness, which were suitable between the shafts and which would fill the two stalls that required mares.
“Mare, filly, filly, gelding,” she muttered as Mistress Rose noted her choices. “I am just a little disappointed in the selection… one moment…”
She halted and sized up the trembling figure that stood with eyes turned downward.
“This one?”
“A moment,” answered her companion who flicked at the screen of her phone as she scanned the chip embedded deep in the subject’s body. “Taken just a week ago…” Mistress Rose’s eyes took in the information and she smiled as she realised that this was a quite special slave.
“Mmm, Sally Bend, a writer of erotica, so it tells me,” she said. “Several books published, chosen for Roan by another author…”
“Seems that someone is taking out the competition,” laughed Mistress Isabella. “Anything listed in the way of work to be done, or do we have a free hand?
“No specified modifications… released to the Domains.”
Mistress Isabella placed a manicured finger under Sally’s chin and lifted the eyes to meet hers.
“Potential,” she commented. “Nice and fit, just needs a few weeks in the ring and she would be a perfect gelding…”
Mistress Rose shook her head.
“I might be interested, myself!”
Mistress Isabella looked at the hapless slave and turned to her second.
“Mmm, I am a little surprised, Rose,’ she said. “Not quite your usual taste…”
Mistress Rose shrugged, “You know that I just love breaking in a pony for my own use occasionally, this piece of livestock would be a challenge!”
“As you like, have her taken to your villa, but I’d have thought that another Stallion would have been more your choice…”
The slave shuddered as Mistress Rose turned to her and stroked casually from breast to groin.
“I think that she’s really sweet, perfect to amuse myself with as long as she learns obedience quickly. Anyway, I have a special fate for this little slut.”
“You are incorrigible,” laughed Mistress Isabella. “The other stallions of yours will soon ruin this one!”
Mistress Rose smiled agreeably and stroked the cheek of her new acquisition. Her lips pouted and she blew a little kiss before allowing her hand to wander over the cringing filly’s breasts, settling on a nipple and teasing a little.
“Look how responsive the slut is, she loves it,” she laughed. “Ripe for a little practice with the whip, then a little time spent training her and she’ll be between the shafts of my carriage. Attending to the needs of my other mounts, perhaps she’ll be suitable for a little intimate entertainment. Then, back between the shafts, running as if her life depended on it… I’ll have to think of something special.”
“Her life probably will depend on total obedience, knowing you, Rose!” said Mistress Isabella. “What you do with them all is your own business! Now then, where were we?”
“Four geldings are required for the farms and female stock is on the list as well. Mares to cover as well as to breed,” said Mistress Rose as they walked on down the line.
Sally heard the voice of Mistress Isabella as she decided which of the slaves to geld, her eyes on Mistress Rose who slyly winked at her as she turned to follow Mistress Isabella.
As all of the livestock were fettered and taken to their new places, Sally found herself waiting alone in the piazza as if forgotten. A harnessed pair trotted by, the carriage clattering behind and several of the paying guests stopped to inspect and tease her before moving on. It was only after an hour of tense waiting that Mistress Rose strolled back to the lonely figure that she had chosen.
“Still waiting Sally? My, you look quite anxious!”
She strolled around the slave and tapped her with her crop.
“Pony, gelding or filly?” she asked. “I have not decided, so perhaps you have an opinion?”
Sally felt her eyes fill with tears. One broke and tricked, cold, down her cheek as she dared to speak.
“Filly Mistress?”
Mistress Rose shook her head. “No, no, no, I don’t think so! What I have in mind for you is something special, something that will perfectly match your persona. Something that I will be tempted to use and play with, something that will really scare the horses. Can you guess the modifications that I have decided upon for you?”
Sally dared not speak and shook her head in puzzlement.
“Don’t you think that I have read what you wrote?” asked Mistress Rose with a sly grin. “They are required reading in the classes in Crimson! You are going to become my little futanari pony! Ready to be tormented and driven to distraction. You will be trained to fuck and fuck, day and night, given a never-ending lust that can only be calmed for a moment… and, when you are drained, milked of every drop, then you will discover what it is to be mounted by one of my stallions, or both of them, at my whim!”
Mistress Rose touched Sally’s lips with her finger.
“Open wide…”
Sally opened her lips and her new owner inspected with a shrug.
“Perfect, you will be ideal for them both!”
A tap on the chin and Sally was permitted to close her mouth.
“You’ll learn what it takes to please me and what it is to become my intimate slut… I am not always this affable, and you will learn that pain is my personal pleasure.”
Mistress Rose laughed.
“Excited, I see, longing to make my dreams come true?”
The pony slave felt herself shaking, but she did not know if it was terror or affection for her Mistress that filled her to the brim.
“A few weeks in White and you will be ready for my personal use,” laughed Mistress Rose. “That cock of yours will be so impressive…”
She took the rein that draped from the collar and hitched Sally to the back of her carriage before mounting and turning to smile down at her leashed property.
“Of course, you’ll learn perfect dressage as well… when I take you up the show in Santa Fe, you will be entered in the novice class dressage! I intend to train you myself. You’d better take a rosette, my dear. When my personal rose is branded on your sweet ass there will be no forgiveness at all if you disappoint me!”
Mistress Rose turned and took up her riding whip and, with a clatter of iron rims on wood, the slave began to run.
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Miss Irene Clearmont writes Female Domination erotica - love and obsession, fetish and lust, immoral and debauched, engaging and occasionally pushing the limits of the reader's imagination. She covers the whole spectrum from sweet to spice in a series of novels and collections of short stories. She may not be to everyone's taste, but she is never boring!
http://www.MissIreneClearmont.com@MissClearmonthttps://FemDomCave.com© 2019 Bending the Bookshelf All Rights Reserved

Gambling on Gender: Now Available!

As I was compiling my Vintage Tanya Tales collection, I came across a handful of unfinished stories that I loved, that I wanted to share with the world, but which simply were not ready. One of my favorites was a frantic little body-swapping tale set in a casino, where women winning jackpots trigger a body-swap with a young crossdresser who leaps from horror to ecstasy and back again.

I loved the concept, but there was no clear reason for it to happen . . . and, worse for readers, no hope of a resolution. Part of that was deliberate - sort of an erotic homage to Quantum Leap's infamous refusal to bring Sam home - but I knew readers would demand answers.

So, I set it aside to work on an old sci-fi alien abduction story instead, but when that hit a brick wall I started toying with the casino. At first, it was just copy editing, and then it became fleshing out the scenes, and then . . . well, a simple name brought it all together. It's still deliberately not a perfect, tidy, all-your-questions-answered ending - I want the reader to have some imaginary sway over what happens next - but it suddenly felt complete.

And so, in what was probably my fasted turnaround ever from unfinished to published,  Gambling on Gender: an erotic gender swap tale is now available!

During a fateful trip to the Casino, a young crossdresser offends the wrong woman and finds himself cursed, inexplicably trapped in a seemingly endless series of winning jackpots.

Gender-swap jackpots!

Every time the sirens goes off, he finds himself swapped from one woman's body to another – young, old, ugly, beautiful, lonely, married, sad, happy, fighting, fondled. It’s going to be a long, grueling ordeal, one that will teach him more about femininity than he ever dreamed of knowing.

If he’s lucky, he may just make amends.

And, just maybe, find happiness.

"Gambling on Gender" is an erotic gender swap tale. It is 7,500 words of crossdressing, gender-swaps, sexual discoveries, and dreams come true.




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The Vintage Tanya Tales Collection is Now Available!

Several months ago, I had the pleasure of introducing (re-introducing, for some old fans and friends) the first of my Vintage Tanya Tales. These are stories from half a lifetime and a whole other life ago that I have chosen to revisit, to reclaim my history, and to share with a whole new community of family and friends.

If you have been curious about the stories, there has never been a better time to satisfy that curiosity! I have collected the first 4 stories into the Vintage Tanya Tales Collection, giving each of them a loving polish in the process, and I have included an exclusive bonus 5th story that is not available anywhere else.

Best of all, for those of you have been asking, the collection is available on Kindle Unlimited!


The Vintage Tanya Tales are standalone stories from half a lifetime and a whole other life ago - updated, expanded, and edited for a new generation. Included in the Collection are:

1. "Fetish Immersion" - a tale of female domination, forced feminization, hypnosis, and sissy submission
2. "Inside Job" - a story of body swapping, sexual exploration, and - just possibly - the chance for love
3. "Suburban Sissy" - a story of female domination, forced feminization, chastity, and sissy submission
4. "The Price of Purloined Panties" - a tale of crossdressing, futanari domination, gender transformation, and neighborly love

And an exclusive bonus story, not available anywhere else:

5. "Futaglamazon" - a story of crossdressing, gender transformation, and futanari domination

Together, the 5 stories of this specially discounted Collection are over 48,000 words of transgender, futa, and femdom erotica. Each story has been carefully edited and polished, and the entire collection has been specially formatted for easier reading.


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Make Him Fit: Taken, Trained and Transformed - The Video Promo!

As you may know (since you lovely people have made it my best-selling title ever!), last month I released Make Him Fit: Taken, Trained and Transformed through Candy Apple Press . It marked a return for me to the realm of forced feminization and it was a ton of fun to write.
If you somehow missed the news, Mistress DJ has put together a fabulous promotional video for it.


If you are so inclined, you can buy a copy here - and, should you feel the urge, a review would be fantastic!© 2019 Bending the Bookshelf All Rights Reserved

Vintage Tanya Tales #4 is Now Available!

Two months ago I had the pleasure of introducing (re-introducing, for some old fans and friends) Fetish Immersion, the first of my Vintage Tanya Tales. The first story I ever published, half a lifetime and a whole other life ago, it is a forced feminization and role-reversal story with a rather dark soul. That was followed by  Inside Job: From Taking Care to Taking Over , my first body swap story, and Suburban Sissy: Coaxed from the Closet, a more traditional story of female domination and forced feminization.

That brings us to The Price of Purloined Panties , my fourth Vintage Tanya Tale and my first story of futanari domination and gender transformation.

The original draft was a problematic story for me to revisit, one that had been written at a very low point in my life, and one that explored some very taboo themes I am no longer comfortable with.

I read it over twice and considered skipping it as part of the Vintage Tanya Tales project, which is why it has taken so long for this one to be released. There were aspects of it I liked, emotions I felt needed to be addressed, and scenes that I didn’t want to lose, but I needed to find my way back into the story - and I did that with an entirely new opening scene (and some fun Easter Egg tributes to Reed James, the master of futanari).

It’s funny what a stolen pair of panties can do to transform a story! 

As with the first three Vintage Tanya Tales, what I feared was going to be a total rewrite became, instead, a more careful revision, adjusting roles and genders accordingly. Enjoy!

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Announcing Make Him Fit - Forced Feminization Erotica

Exciting news today as I join the ranks of Kylie Gable's Candy Apple Press , home to such female domination and forced feminization authors as Claudia Acosta, Mindi Harris, Pamela Harlow, and Diane Callaway. I am so happy (and humbled) to be joining the family, and hugely excited to share with you my Candy Apple Press debut!
Make Him Fit: Taken, Trained and Transformed is a 22,000 word erotic tale of female domination, forced feminization, chastity, and sissy submission.

Brian is an arrogant, rude young man who objectifies the women around him – or, in his eyes, beneath him. Nowhere is that more obvious than at the gym, where he openly drools over beautifully toned bodies and secretly captures workout footage for his amateur porn channel. Tired of his antics, a small group of victimized women reaches out to Diana, a professional trainer. With their encouragement, she will break him, blackmail him, and make him fit the model of what an obedient male should be.

Humiliated, emasculated, and thoroughly dominated by the women around him, Brian fights to retain something of his manhood. He continues to challenge them, to test how far he can push back, until a beautiful plus-sized dominatrix steps in to transform beta male punishment into sissy self-improvement. 

How far will he let them push him, and who will he be when it all ends?

And, just to add a little extra flair to things, in addition to Kylie Gable's editorial direction, M.C. Questgend (a good friend and fabulous author) provided some valuable insights that helped bring it all together. I think you'll agree, the pair of them put this over the top!

Make Him Fit is now available.

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