Belle

I have been writing and selling erotic romance for eleven years under the pseudonyms Barrie Abalard, Miss Lee, and Belle. As of early 2007, I've sold over seventy short stories and seven short novels. Loose-Id, Amber Quill Press, and Discipline and Desire carry my work. Triskelion Publishing will publish my short novel, Sex and the Ex, in June, 2007.

 

When I lived in Boston, I was a jack-of-all-trades, mastering two: radio personality and technical writer/online help designer. I also did short stints as a taxi driver, clerical chartist for the Federal Reserve Bank, and temporary office worker for half a dozen companies. However, fiction writing is my first and longest-lived love. (If you can say that three times fast, you, too, might have a career in radio.)

 

I read widely, adoring a good story with quirky characters. Besides reading, I enjoy being around horses and cats, singing, creating new recipes (you can find out more about one of my recipe booklets at www.greatvegetarianrecipes.com), taking solitary road trips, and hanging with friends. I confess to being hopelessly addicted to the wonderfully-over-the-top television shows Boston Legal, House, Men in Trees, Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, and 24. I write comic romance under my real name, and my first release, Cover Me, is now available. ( http://www.amberquillpress.com/CoverMe.html)

 

I'm married with a grown child. All three of us live in one of the Middle Atlantic states, along with two persnickety, high-maintenance cats. I believe that a woman should have a past that's juicy enough to enjoy retelling in her old age. Not that I'm going to tell it here, mind you, and not that I'm old…

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Red Hot Mama
Chapter One

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 Love on the Air
 by Belle, writing as Barrie Abalard

Anne Bailey is recovering from twenty-plus years of unhappy marriage to Harold Leibovich, the man whom she’d thought was her soul mate back at MIT. After Anne relocates from Boston to work at Georgia station WTPD as its program director, she finds plenty of spanking, submission, and sex with software guru Ron Gibbs, a man with a sad romance in his past. But fellow employee Warren Clay, WTPD’s funny, brilliant chief engineer, manages to work his way into Anne’s heart, even though loving him means one of them will have to work elsewhere. Will Anne choose Warren (who has his own secret past), Ron, or Harold, the ex who shows up on her doorstep with a proposition?

 The Future of Spanking
 by Belle, writing as Barrie Abalard

Ever dreamed about residing in a domestic discipline community? Or about living in a world where spanking lessons are offered when you apply for a marriage license? Maybe you’ve fantasized about losing weight or gaining good study habits via spankings. Or, perhaps you’ve wished that wrongdoing corporate executives would be punished using an old-fashioned but highly effective method. These flights of the imagination, and more, are explored in this compilation of hot short stories by Barrie Abalard. Barrie writes as Belle on the web site www.disciplineanddesire.com, where the stories first appeared. Curl up with The Future of Spanking: Sexy Stories of Possibilities and let your dreams—and wildest fantasies—run wild!

The Baker's Man
 by Belle, writing as Barrie Abalard
Lena Korhonen and her sister Annie are making it as caterers after years of hard work, when rival caterer Jackson Portsmouth appears, threatening their livelihood—and Lena's heart. They’re thrown together when Annie is injured, and Lena's cantankerousness requires Jackson to spank her—more than once—to bring her around. Well-matched in many respects, the two fall in love with each other when they work a job together. An overheard phone message after a night with Jackson convinces Lena she's put her trust in the wrong man—again—so she backs out of a catering job she was supposed to work with him. Then someone sabotages Jackson, jeopardizing his reputation and career, forcing Lena to decide whether she’ll obey her heart and stand with him. Only now, Jackson wants nothing to do with her. Will these two stubborn people, made for each other, ever combine their hearts and lives and find a spanking-ever-after happiness? Read "The Baker's Man" and find out!