The Library of Spanking Fiction: Wellred Weekly


Wellred Weekly
Volume 1, Number 1 : November 1, 2011
 
Articles
Items of interest regarding all things spanking

Interview with the Author: Phil K
Wellred Weekly explores the work of this author.


How did you get started writing spanking fiction?
I started writing spanking stories when I was in my mid-20s - mainly for my own amusement, with no thought of getting them published. But I was a regular reader of Janus, the classic British spanking mag (and later of its sister publications, Februs and Privilege Club) and one day, having read what I felt was a particularly clumsy story in Janus, I thought, "Hell, I could do a lot better than that!" So I wrote a story, 'Blushing Bride', sent it off to them and - rather to my amazement - it was accepted. The pay wasn't exactly generous, but that hardly mattered.

The editor asked if I wanted to use a pseudonym. I thought about it for a moment and decided I couldn't be bothered. So what if people found out? FREELANCE MOVIE CRIT LIKES TO SPANK GIRLS - that wasn't exactly going to make headlines in the gutter press. After all, there were far worse or weirder things someone could like doing than spanking female bottoms. And anyway, anyone who unearthed my secret would presumably have been reading the publication - so they could hardly claim to be holier than thou...

I carried on writing for Janus and its sister mags - and even occasionally figuring in their photoshoots. And around that time I came across an American print mag, Stand Corrected, being published in LA by an outfit called Shadow Lane. The writing was of an overall higher standard than that in Janus. I contacted the editor, Eve Howard, to see if she'd like a story from me. She would - especially since we soon discovered a shared passion for English literature. So I sent her a story about a Shakespearian actress getting spanked, 'Shrewd Treatment'. She liked it, and that was the first of several of my stories and articles for Stand Corrected - including a two-parter on 'Spanking in Literature'. I also sent Eve the first of my literary pastiches: Jane Austen's 'Emma - the Spanking Version'.

Since then I've also had stories posted in several spanking sites; not least, of course, the wonderful Library of Spanking Fiction. And three years ago Nexus, the erotica subsidiary of Virgin Books, published a paperback collection of my stories under the overall title of 'Blushing at Both Ends'. In it I collected several of the stories I'd written for Janus, Stand Corrected, etc, plus a few more - 18 stories in all. It's still selling pretty well; welcome royalty cheques trickle in now and again.

Where do you find inspiration for your stories?
My own overheated imagination, mostly. Now and again I'll come across a situation in a book or a movie that just seems to cry out for a spanking to ensue, so I might use that as a startpoint. Sometimes I'll stick closely to the original, even to the point of aping its style, and when that happens it becomes one of the pastiches I love writing; so far, besides Jane Austen, I've kinkified Charlotte Bronte, Oscar Wilde, Dickens, Aldous Huxley, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Lewis Carroll, Cole Porter and quite a few others. But otherwise I'll often stray a long way from the original, to the point where it's no longer recognisable.

Otherwise the inspiration for a story might be a real-life situation; once, staying in a hotel in Vienna, I glimpsed a pretty chambermaid with a saucy smile, and mused how delicious it would be to invite her to my room for a good long spanking session. That gave rise to my story 'Room Service'. Or it could be just a phrase; hearing an accountant use the professional term 'corrective measures' was enough to spark off the story with that title. Mostly, though, the stories emanate from the depraved depths of my own mind. The problem isn't coming up with ideas; it's finding the time to write them.

When you write, do you ever model any characters after actual people?
Now and then, but not often. In two of my stories - 'Blushing Bride' and 'She's No Angel' - the main female characters are based on ex-girlfriends. But mostly the characters are made up, though of course like most writers I'll borrow traits from people I know.

Do you have a favourite book or story that you've written? A favourite genre?
No favourite genre, I think, unless 'pastiche' is a genre. Of all my stories to date, perhaps my favourites are 'Academic Discipline' - partly because it draws on my own years at Oxford, which I loved - and 'The Pirate's Bride'. In the latter I think I got the detail and the period dialogue pretty well, besides paying homage to all those classic Hollywood swashbucklers where Errol Flynn should surely have put Olivia de Havilland across his knee - but alas never did. I'm quite pleased with 'First Date', too - there's a gentleness and sweetness about it that I like.

What are your views on spanking fan fiction?
An interesting idea in principle, though most of the examples of it that I've read have been fairly inept. And it's not something I've ever yet felt a desire to write - though who knows...?

When writing a longer story, do you plot out the detail in advance, or make it up as you go along?
I usually have a broad idea where it's going to go, but the detail emerges as I write it. It's quite fun surprising myself with what comes up.

Can you name some stories by other spanking authors that you like, and say why
I very much enjoy Grace Brackenridge's stories - especially those highly un-PC ones where a pre-teen or early-teen girl inveigles a stepfather, uncle or similar father-figure into giving her the spankings that she craves. Ruegirl's stories I love, in particular the humorous ones - she writes such superbly funny dialogue. But there are so many authors I like - Rollin, Chard T, Katie B, John Benson - too many to list, really.

Which POV do you tend to write in? Why do you prefer it over other POV's??
Given my own tastes, I write almost exclusively M/F stories, though I'm working on my first F/F story right now. F/M and M/M stories do nothing for me, so I'd never write them. I find the story itself more or less decides whether it needs to be written in the first or third person, and each has its advantages: first-person can be more vivid, but third-person allows me to move around and describe what's happening from the POV of both spanker and spankee. I recently wrote my first story with a female first-person narrator ('Adele's Comeuppance'), and women who've read it have been kind enough to say it reads convincingly.  
12 comments:
TheEnglishMaster said...
Thank you - this is a fascinating account of a long and illustrious career.
2 November 2011 21:46
mati said...
Very interesting. I think that working as a professional writer makes it much easier to reveal your real name. Society seems much more lenient about strange hobbies if artists are involved. And it has one big advantage: If everybody knows your identity it makes it much easier for spankos to find each other - and it gives trust.

I missed a hint on your poetic work. I think your poems belong to the best in this library and I especially love the parodies and pastiches of your songs. I'm still hoping that one day a singer will record "Miss Otis regrets" or "Spanker lane", which I really love.
4 November 2011 14:53
Sebastian said...
Good article on your beginning. Most of what I had read came from the old Victorian novels. Some were published from Grove Press plus many others. I did like the books by Edith Cadavic (her life).
5 November 2011 06:10
sugarmouse said...
And your book is simply delicious!
S
6 November 2011 16:06
anitalynn said...
Hello, Phil K! ;) Thank you for telling more about your self, and giving me more reading material. I just have to go fine "Miss Otis Regrets".
10 November 2011 15:30
billboard said...
Phil, when I first discovered spanking on the internet, my first avenue was photographs. I found ABPES and downloaded many and among them were photos of yourself and some pretty, petite bare-bottomed blonde. She must have been naughty, because you left some "tram lines" on her lovely posterior.

"First Date" is in my list of favourites, but "First Class Training" is probably my most favourite "PhilK" and I heartily recommend it to anyone looking for an enjoyable read.
26 January 2012 03:12
islandcarol said...
You have a wide and varied field of interests and a great variety of experiences in the field. What fun it must be to love the work you do so much, it bubbles up inot every space in your life. I enjoyed getting to know you better.
IC.
26 January 2012 11:52
mrjr58 said...
As another who has written stories about spanking since his early twenties with no thought of publishing them, your interview was sort of the final push, to post one of my stories here. Now that the final part of my first to be "published" serial has been shared, I feel very good about the decision. Just taking a moment to say, thank you, for sharing your own journey from writing for you "own amusement" to publication.
12 March 2012 01:35
sweetbeast said...
We're just waiting for your next book now!
23 April 2012 00:52
barb said...
Hi Phil - I am glad to finally get to know where you great writing inspirations. I am humbled to know you are a professional writer. I am so impressed with your writing and glad you are writing for the library. Thanks so much.
23 January 2013 14:53
smartfulcodger said...
I have taken the opportunity to read every bit of Mr. Kemp's writings available anywhere, because IMHO he is simply the best. What enables him in my book to be exactly that is his superlative admiration for the shapely contours and other outstanding attributes of softness, paleness and smoothness which make for a perfectly 'spankable' feminine derriere, haunting all our dreams; combined with the fascinating personality traits of the delightful creature which that bottom just happens to be attached to. Deduced over my many years of reading his works are the two primary beliefs which in effect define for me his entire outlook on the spanking of attractive women: one, the greatest tragedy which exists in the world today is a pretty feminine bottom that inexplicably has somehow never been spanked. 'What a waste!' he would say. Two, as beautiful as a lady's bottom appears nude in its pristine state, how much lovelier a sight its cheeks are when blushing a fully encompassing deep red hue after having been properly attended to with a couple of hundred hard wallops delivered to it by any firmly capable male hand. It is these two ingredients you are bound to find in nearly every Phil K story or poem.
30 August 2023 15:15
PhilK said...
Huge thanks, SC! Your generous comments are a joy to read!
12 December 2023 10:54

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