Send us a Text Message.Episode 445: Writing Taboo Tales & the Kinky Written Arts of Arousal with Author All These Roadworks. Welcoming All These Roadworks (ATR) to the podcast!Author provided bio:All These Roadworks is a creator of hardcore female-submissive erotic fiction.  Based in Australia, he's been writing erotic fiction for more than a decade, and selling it since 2019.  Today, operating from AllTheseRoadworks.com, he makes a full-time living selling stories of debauched degradation and twisted taboos.  His stories represent his kinks, not his politics, and he's active in promoting respect, equity, and positive enthusiastic consent in the real world.Visit the website for FREE stories, paid ebooks. memberships and more!www.AllTheseRoadworks.comBuy his books through Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/profile/view/AllTheseRoadworksSpecial note! 5% of all ATR profits are donated to registered secular women's charities.Enjoy listening to a candid writer's chat with ATR, who is an Australian author and master of dark erotica, fetish topics, and forbidden fantasies. This writer specializes in hardcore female submissive erotic fiction and the darker elements of interactions between people, power exchange, and kink. With over a decade of writing experience and a full-time career crafting tales, ATR stands out in the written word landscape with erotic stories that sizzle with intensity and push the boundaries of desire.Chat about writing: ATR opens up about his creative process, the intersection of fantasy and reality, and the role of consent. Other topics in the discussion include submissive females in fiction, bdsm, consent in erotica, consent in real life, writing on taboo topics, self publishing, the online erotica writing community, polyamory, kinks, content monetization challenges and options in writing and publishing erotica, tidbits on the kink scene in Australia and plus his personal kinks and life.Episode Quotes from ATR:"My stories represent my kinks, not my politics.""The best part of the writing process is when I've got a blazing hot idea that is consuming me, that just has to get out on paper.""Stop trying to make it good. Stop trying to write a good book. Just write a book.""You need to find your audience and care about them. Not pleasing randos."Episode Quotes from Ruan: "If it's not a fuck yes, it's a no."Podcast host Ruan Willow's Books:Ruan's latest releases: 5 Hotwife Stories the Itty Bitty Vixen Collection in Audiobook https://books.ruanwillowauthor.com/sharingtheittybittyvixenaudiobookWicked & Spicy Short Stories Erotic horror & magic: https://books.ruanwillowauthor.com/wickedandspicytalesRuan's erotica books and audiobooks: http://books.ruanwillowauthor.com/Hotwife: https Support the Show.Subscribe for exclusive episodes: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1599808/subscribeSign up for Ruan's newsletters: https://subscribepage.io/ruanwillowhttps://linktr.ee/RuanWillowRuan's a Manscaped Ambassador get 20% OFF+Free Shipping with promo code RUAN at https://www.manscaped.com/