The Companion – Who, What, Where, When and Why

MOVING TO – http://www.msknight.co.uk

This book was put together with the aim of opening your eyes to the world that is right under your nose; but you never see. Written by a real life submissive, who knows how things really tick; how kinky people live alongside everyone else and are never seen and rarely heard.

The plot and characters, (written before Shades was even a twinkle in the Twilight!) have been created to demonstrate some of the real emotions and activities that make up BDSM relationships in our modern day society.

New author site coming soon… http://msknight.co.uk … with some material already behind the + at the top left.

REVIEW of “The Companion” – 4/5 – by A Daniels – author of Being Together, Being Alone and Always Together, Never Alone. When I started reading The Companion I had absolutely no idea what to expect. An explicit sexual adventure? Something to open my ‘vanilla’ eyes? Something horrifying? Something sensual? What I got was a beautiful story of one women and her struggle through life; I lived her frustration with being unfufilled in so many aspects of her life, the every day battles she fought and lost, her directionless wandering on a quest for meaning. I admit, I am totally unaware of what goes on in a sub/dom relationship and the world of ‘the scene’. It was fascinating to learn, along with Susan, how these relationships are formed, nurtured, maintained and broken. The story is pitched at just the right level, enough explained so the story flows and gives an understanding of the imagery. Well worth reading the notes at the front of the book before starting; it was initially written as a screenplay and I feel this is shown in a few places where the writing feels a little like stage directions but not necessarily a bad thing, it can help establish mood and a clever device to introduce characters. I do feel there could have been so much more written in this story, I became absorbed in the trust between L and Mark and would have loved to have heard more about L’s training and how their relationship grew. The story had me gripped and I just wanted to know more and more about L and Mark; they are completely engaging as characters and I felt myself cheer with triumph and groan in frustration at them both throughout the book. I would recommend the book for anyone with an interest in BDSM but not looking for a quick thrill, there is a love story within the pages of the book and although it’s an education to learn so much about their lifestyle, it’s more of an honour to share in their love story.

In 2002 I put my BDSM life on the internet. In 2005 a chance prod from an ex-colleague resulted in Ben and myself getting together. We sat on his sofas; I wrote a chapter in book format, he converted it to film script while I wrote the next. “The Companion” was born in one weekend. Finally registered with the WGAW #1300267 it went to script reading services and publicity started.

It was written with the aim of introducing vanilla people to the truth of consensual BDSM relationships; as I have lived it.

After years of no one wanting to read it, I translated the script in to a book format and it drew the following comments, among others, from the people that checked the book before publication…
– “Stands up well against the ones I do buy – is longer and better crafted than many.”
– “From that moment your book pulled me inside the story and I couldn’t stop reading. It’s excellent!!!”
– “And finally, FINALLY, a book about BDSM that isn’t all fantasy and 50 shades style crap, but really relates the feelings behind it all and allows people to understand! You have no clue how much I love you for writing this one.”
– “Just finished the book and what an emotional ride, I recognised much in it from my own experiences, the beauty and depth and it brought tears to my eyes, plus left me smiling. Well done.”
– Another colleague reported that she found some scenes emotionally difficult, but that she was glad that she read it.

UK Literary Censorship …

For those of you in the UK who have been living under a rock lately, there has been a new raft of legislation pushed through parliament that pertains to various sex acts in media. The bodies behind this included the BBFC and the Police (they didn’t say which arm, but that will come in to play later)

Now, in case you start to ask what that has got to do with you, I bring you to mind of events that were kicked off in 2010.

1 – Kent police bring obscenity charge over online chat
“The idea that a conversation – albeit one embodied in text chat – can be considered to be “published” would be fairly radical. The Kent case could ultimately be more significant than last year’s controversial prosecution in respect of Girls (Scream) Aloud.”
2 – Mucky private chat could be illegal soon
“Kent Police are in the process of using the Obscene Publications Act as a means to prosecute an individual, Gavin Smith, of Swanscombe for publishing obscenity in respect of a log of a private online chat he had with another individual.”
3 – ‘Pervy’ private chat case springs back into life
“The issue, described by one legal commenter as “the most significant obscenity case so far this century”, centres on a prosecution originally brought in May of this year against Gavin Smith, of Swanscombe, whose log of a private online chat he had with another individual was deemed by Kent Police to be obscene.”

The long story short is that Kent Police attempted to get the Obscene Publications Act applied to private text chatroom messages between consenting adults.

If this had succeeded, the implications for the printed word would have been very, very serious.

For the uninitiated, this is a brief history of what happened with the attempt to prosecute Lady Chatterley’s Lover under the Obscene Publications Act.

What is happening here is a merger of two things. In the first, the goal posts have been moved in order to catch material that was previously legal and it was done under the radar; certainly I didn’t know about it until it was signed, sealed and delivered. The second, as recent history has shown, Kent Police, at least, are publicly known to have written material in their sights and the police were also involved in driving the recent change in the law.

Be warned … the world of erotic literature could wake up one morning to find good chunks of itself in deep, deep trouble. I mean, if some of these new rules applied to literary works, you wouldn’t be able to write about female ejaculation for a start.

I’ve already written to my MP and given him a piece of my mind. I suggest you do too, before they widen their remit and succeed in this century, where they failed in the last.

So get up to speed and speak up now … before the next person censored, is YOU … because this is a very real possibility.