All These Roadworks

Erotica entrepreneur ‘All These Roadworks’ is a force to be reckoned with in the world of taboo kinks. With their own self-published works and an online store to boot, they have made a name for themselves by helping other writers explore the depths of erotica through kinks such as non-consent erotica, slavery, and the degradation of women. In this exclusive interview, All These Roadworks will be spilling the beans on what taboo kinks turn them on and how they use their knowledge to help others.

So…Who Is ‘All These Roadworks?’

While the people close to me in life are in on the secret that I write erotica, I’m not quite ready to out myself to the wider world yet! But I’m a cis hetero man, old enough that I’m not young but young enough that I’m not old. I’m polyamorous. I live in Australia with my committed domestic partner, and I have another committed kink-play partner who lives elsewhere. I have a background in media, law, editing and politics. I’m a geek, I’m on the autism spectrum, and I’m loving that I’m making a living from writing erotica!

I write stand-alone stories ranging from microfiction (200 words) up to about 4000 words, plus long-form serial stories of between 5 and 40 chapters, with each chapter generally being 2,000 to 3,000 words. I make the vast majority of it available for free on the internet, and urge readers who enjoy it to show their appreciation with the purchase of the e-book collections or of a membership. All my work features women in a submissive role, usually with men dominant but sometimes with women dominant. The vast majority of it features some level of non-consent, and some level of humiliation/degradation. Other themes that are common in my work include hypno/mind control, bimbofication, incest, office, and orientation kink (lesbians fucking men, straight women fucking girls). I also write what I call “systemic” stories – women dominated or humiliated by the operation of laws or processes, which is a kink for me that I couldn’t find other writers servicing, beyond a sort of “it’s the law that women are property and you can fuck whoever you like” level. Most of my stuff is too taboo for Amazon for one reason or another, but it all fits within what Smashwords is prepared to accept.

What is the unwritten promise you deliver each time you release a book?

An orgasm – or for those who have trouble orgasming, a sexually satisfying experience. If my stuff is remotely your kink, you can put your hand between your legs on the first page and not stop till you’ve found release. Beyond that, I think one of the most satisfying experiences with my work for both readers and for me is discovering new kinks. I often have readers write me saying, “Holy shit, I didn’t think I was into this… but I think maybe I am now?”

What do people get wrong about you?

Look, I’m pretty careful to say this a lot, so I don’t think people DO get it wrong, but I’m always worried that because I write female-submissive noncon and gender degradation that people will think I espouse misogynist opinions in real life. I don’t – it’s my kinks, not my politics – and I feel that what I write gives me a particular responsibility to fight for the rights and dignity of women in real life. 5% of All These Roadworks profits are donated to secular women’s charities in Australia, providing homelessness services, legal advice and financial support to vulnerable women. In addition, I’ve been fairly active in supporting and advancing reforms to our sexual assault laws and the passage of positive consent laws, among other things.

What can you tell me about your latest book? What is it about?

My most recent new book is “The Lakewood Cheerleaders and Erotic Stories”. (STORE LINK) It runs to 63 pages / 20,000 words, and it collects the five-part novella “The Lakewood Cheerleaders”, plus eight shorter one-shot stories. In the Lakewood Cheerleaders, the school cheerleading team accepts a sponsorship from the local brothel to cover a funding shortfall, and soon everything changes for the 18-year-old cheerleaders! It starts with new, slutty uniforms, but soon the girls find themselves on humiliating display for the whole town – and they eventually become the unwilling sexual playthings of the town’s men. It’s been pretty well received – it’s been my second-most-successful launch at this price point in the history of my business (coming second to my office blackmail story “Emma’s Policy”) – so if you’ve got a kink for cheerleaders or (adult) schoolgirls, you should definitely pick this one up

How does this book differ from what you’ve previously written?

I’ve written cheerleader stories before, but this is my first full book on the theme. Also this format of a short novella, plus bonus stories, to make a 60 page book is something I’ve been experimenting with recently, and it seems to be working well. My last release before this – “Bovine Testing” (an office/hucow themed book) – used the same format, and also did well. But more generally, while there’s a LOT of variety in my stories, there’s also a lot that’s the same. People know what they want from my writing, and when something’s been successful, I want to give the readers more like that.

Which character that you’ve created are you most proud of, and where can we find them?

Honestly the character I love *most* is the character of Jillian from my ongoing series “Selling Brielle”, in which Jillian – a married lesbian – forms a secret relationship with a man and starts selling him naked pictures of her wife. Despite the premise, it’s actually got a very sweet D/s romance element to it. Unfortunately it’s unfinished – you can read the existing chapters on my site but there’s no purchasable book to direct you to yet! (Read Here)

My second answer is the character of Jessa, who has a whole book about her, “Jessa Stories”. Jessa is a cruel bisexual women who loves nothing more than corrupting and degrading innocent Christian women. She travels from town to town leading naive Christian girls down a path that ends with them being humiliated sex toys.

What’s the one thing you’d like to improve in regards to your writing process?

I need to finish more long-form stories! At the moment I have more than 25 serial stories that are incomplete, with an audience ready to buy them in book format as soon as they’re done and purchasable! That’s not just a matter of poor discipline. I attract customers to my store by releasing free material online – one story or chapter every single day – and I also have a membership program where members get advance access to all my writing 50 days before it goes live elsewhere, so these long serial stories serve a purpose. But I really would like to be able to sell some of them!

What traits do you add to your characters to make them appealing to the reader?

Most of my stories are written from the point of view of the woman, and one of the things that most distinguishes my writing is the internal monologue in the woman’s head. My writing focuses on the fears, anticipations and rationalisations that go through the protagonist’s head as they encounter progressively more extreme kink scenarios, and follow her path from defiant independent woman to broken, submissive sex slave. Readers often call that out as one of their favourite aspects of my work.

If you had to guess a percentage, how much of your writing is inspired by your own sexual experiences?

Look, I’m very active in the kink scene and I do regular play that includes pure D/s, service play, restraint with chains and cuffs, predicament bondage, impact play (ass/breasts/pussy), face slapping, humiliation, petplay, mindfuck, fearplay, group sex, breast pumping/lactation, erotic hypnosis, and light watersports, so to the extent you see that stuff in my work, there’s some experience behind it (albeit that the hypno in my stories is deliberately unrealistic and not much like real life). Plus I’ve had the chance to see a range of other play that isn’t necessarily my thing, including shibari, flogging, wax, etc. But also I don’t tend to write a *lot* about things I can actually do in real life. Erotica (for me) is about fantasies, not just diarising your actual experience. And it doesn’t *need* to be realistic, if departing from realism makes it hotter. I would definitely say PLEASE don’t take anything from my stories as a guide for how to do something in real life. They’re just fantasies. I’m happy to answer questions about safe real-life kink practices, but I’ll do it in a separate context. My stories are just stories.

What’s the next book you’re working on?

My next scheduled releases are new editions of older books (which gives me a chance to improve the EPUB edition so that it’s compatible with Smashwords). I’ve just released a new edition of my schoolroom anthology “Lessons in Lust”: (Click Here) and later this month I’m doing a new edition of my psychological anthology “Mindfuck”.

My next all-new book is going to be whichever serial story gets finished first. I’m currently anticipating that to be “Tuning Chloe”, which is the story of a stepfather who uses a hypnotic “daughter tuning” process to transform his stepdaughter from brat to slut, one humiliating choice at a time. The most recent chapter is here: (Link)

So who are your inspirations? Who do you recommend to people who like your work?

Well, I currently run the All These Roadworks Partnership Program, which aims to showcase writers whose kinks and quality may appeal to readers of my fiction! I’m lucky enough to get to sell a handful of books by these authors on my site, and currently I’m featuring the works of Tori Hamlin, Nel Symington, Pixie Isobella and Alecta’s Shadow (on Patreon) I also really love the BDSM comics of Erenisch, and some authors who don’t *quite* fit my kinks but who people might want to check out include Lisa X Lopez, who does dark fantasy; Bunny Barrett, who does body mod and hucow stories; Sleepingirl who writes both erotic hypno fiction and expert advice on real-life erotic hypno play; and James Hardcourt who does maledom BDSM.

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