Cara Bristol got into writing erotic stories after reading the work of erotic romance author Lora Leigh. Bristol was inspired by a sex scene involving spanking in one of Leigh's novels, which piqued her interest in BDSM acts. This led Bristol to write her first erotic novel "Intimate Submission" about a woman so enamored by her boss that she gives into his dominant desires. The novel was published in Black Velvet Seductions' "Spanking Wives" series. Bristol then wrote "Secret Desires" exploring disciplinary spanking further and experimented with ménage relationships. This sparked the idea for her novel "Spanking Melania" about domestic discipline as

1. How Cara Bristol Started Writing Erotic Stories

3. The moment I read this, I wrote fiction, and few sex scenes did end up in my books. However, I never wrote erotic romance, and I never had the idea I will be writing it.

5. I did know before that the people did enjoy this kind of thing, but it never came to my mind how much heroes can get real feel by using this method. Most spanking scenes I have come upon before were rather uninteresting, and didn't really bring any kind of a real impact on the reader and their view.

6. Let's go to the year 2009.

8. And that is how “Intimate Submission” came to be.

9. This probably influenced me to include all these acts into novels and write about the use of sex toys, anal sex and spanking.

10. Intimate Submission started of as a project for fun, but as I was writing it, it started to seem more and more as something I could actually sell. So once done, I needed a publisher who publishes erotic romance. Black Velvet Seductions drew my attention, and the editor, Laurie Sanders, was looking for novellas to put into the “Spanking Wives” series.

12. Well, not really. She wasn't very happy with the ending. However, she did consider the work to have potential, and offered me the chance to rewrite it and make it more in accordance to the needs.

13. Naturally, I did so, and the work became public. It was published in October 2009.

14. Spanking itself in “Intimate Submissions” had mostly erotic cause, but I wanted to make it more of a disciplinary thing, and also wanted to try myself in ménage. That is why “Secret Desires” came out. In “Secret Desires,” I have used punishment as a method for the main female character and male character to interact better and take their relationship further.

16. I did realize that I didn't know enough and assumed too much, so I had to conduct a research. The wide range really wowed me, as I figured out it really runs from the domestic Christian discipline, to porn, and everything in between.

18. This is how all started. Right now, I am thinking about the sequel, but the original deterred me from two works in progress. So, we will see.