My new story, “Closer,” out today in the Love Notes Anthology was a fun story to write due to the theme – sex and music. I got the idea for this one after watching a documentary about female porn stars. I always wondered how women rationalized going into that line of work.

One of the ways is to create an alter ego. One of the women in the documentary described her ritual to transform herself from plain Jane from Anytown, USA into “Janie Juggs,” her character or alter ego, the porn star. The ritual was mostly concerned with cosmetics. When the make up was off, she was Jane. When the make up was on, Janie was on the loose.

I know some folks in the BDSM community. I know this type of ritual applies to the club scene as well. By day, the folks who frequently BDSM clubs are respectable, upstanding citizens. Accountants, lawyers…types the average person might not suspect of being involved in so called “deviant” behavior. But when they go to the club, they dress up in costumes, and might be known there by another name.

I decided to apply the concept of this kind of transformation to someone who might frequent the club scene. If you want to get the full affect of the experience I hoped readers would have, you want want to give the songs referenced in the story a listen, too.

I hope you enjoy it and would love to hear whether or not it “worked” for you.

Brandi