My name is Kitty Thomas and I write what I classify as “dark literary erotica.†I appreciate Remittance Girl giving me the opportunity to talk a little about my recently released ebook, Comfort Food.
Comfort Food is told in first person and is about a woman who is taken prisoner by a very wealthy and attractive man who keeps her locked in a bare cell. As the book takes shape and she begins to get some kind of sense about her captor, the most upsetting part for her is that he won’t speak to her, and then later, that he won’t touch her.
She shouldn’t want him to touch her, but she does. Human beings are social animals, women especially so. Emily Vargas more than most women.
The man who has taken her can’t be classed as a hero, but some readers won’t want to class him a villain either. He’s obviously amoral but there are things about him which keep him from slipping all the way into monster territory. He doesn’t beat or physically harm her. He doesn’t starve her. He doesn’t rape her.
He instead uses her need for communication against her to coerce her and shape her into what he wants, a willing toy for his pleasure and amusement. Though his actions are completely immoral, he isn’t out to “harm†the main character. He doesn’t want to break her to the point that she loses all sense of self. He wants to own her completely and wants her to want the same thing in return.
Readers who like kinky fiction and are comfortable with noncon situations may enjoy Comfort Food, but people who don’t fit these categorizations have read the book and enjoyed it as well. Because beneath the rape fantasy is the metaphor and the question… “How free are you really? Who is your master?â€
Everybody has one. Be it someone who quite literally is holding them captive, or a government who wants to control and monitor increasingly more and more of their lives, or a society who will merely pressure you into thinking their thoughts and doing what “they would do†or “what is proper.â€
Comfort Food invites you to set aside right and wrong temporarily to decide who owns you, and whether or not you’re happy in that arrangement. For some people the answer is no, for some, the answer is yes.
Comfort Food is available at
Barnes and Noble http://tinyurl.com/2w74xkn
Amazon.com (On Sale… the more I sell on Amazon, the more I sell period, since they have the best search and recommendation algorithms.) http://tinyurl.com/25fho4l and Smashwords http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/11364