Excerpts from The Velvet Basement series. A collection of novels and novellas loosely connected with a Victorian sex shop called The Velvet Basement. The Velvet Basement is located under one of London’s most prestigious bookshops on Bond Street.
Category: THE VELVET BASEMENT SERIES

Weekend Writing Warriors #8sentences
The Weekend Writing Warriors share either 8 sentences over the weekend. Here are mine from the start of a historical novella set in Victorian London called Lily & the Mechanic. In the last few snippets, Lily entered the Bond Street Bookshop and its illicit sexshop underneath. She …

#SexySnippet
#SexySnippets 4th Oct 2014 Every weekend, a group of us sign up at The Nuthouse Scribblers blog and post a sexy snippet: 7 sentences from a work in progress. Here’s mine for the week again from Lily and the Mechanic. It’s a historical …

Weekend Writing Warriors #8sentences
The Weekend Writing Warriors share either 8 sentences over the weekend. Here are mine from the start of a historical novella set in Victorian London called Lily & the Mechanic. In the last few snippets, Lily entered the Bond Street Bookshop and its illicit sexshop underneath. She …

#MySexySaturday & #SexySnippet
#MySexySaturday 20th September & #SexySnippets 21st September 2014 Every weekend, a group of us sign up at My Sexy Saturday and some of us at The Nuthouse Scribblers blog and post a sexy snippet: 7 sentences from a work in progress. Here’s …

Weekend Writing Warriors #8sentences
The Weekend Writing Warriors share either 8 sentences over the weekend. Here are mine from the start of a historical novella set in Victorian London called Lily & the Mechanic. In the last few snippets, Lily entered the Bond Street Bookshop and entered the illicit sexshop underneath. …

#MySexySaturday & #SexySnippet
#MySexySaturday 13th September & #SexySnippets 14th September 2014 Every weekend, a group of us sign up at My Sexy Saturday and some of us at The Nuthouse Scribblers blog and post a sexy snippet: 7 sentences from a work in progress. Here’s …

Weekend Writing Warriors #8sentences
The Weekend Writing Warriors share 8 sentences over the weekend. Here are mine from the start of Lily & the Mechanic a historical novella set in Victorian London. Last week Lily entered the Bond Street Bookshop and arranged to enter …

Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
The Weekend Writing Warriors share 8 sentences over the weekend. Here are mine from the start of Lily & the Mechanic London 1898 The sun had long gone down and the fog was lifting off the city like …
Sunday #SexySnippets
#SexySnippets 24th August 2014 Every Sunday, a group of us sign up at the Nuthouse Scribblers blog and post a sexy snippet: 7 sentences from a work in progress. Here’s mine for the week from, again from Lily and the Mechanic with …
The Veiled Heart
#SexySnippets 17th August 2014 Every Sunday, a group of us sign up at the Nuthouse Scribblers blog and post a sexy snippet: 7 sentences from a work in progress. Here’s mine for the week from The Veiled Heart. “This seduction really isn’t …

The Bound Heart
He was held together by the most fragile of threads, the rituals of his life, of his passion and his mind. She was as shinny and bright as a paring knife. The Bound Heart

The Bound Heart
“Have you been bound before?” His breath ran warm over her shoulder. She shook her head no, there was no trusting her voice. It was taking all her effort to make sure her legs didn’t buckle. There was anticipation …