I Wrote a World Run by Dominant Women — Here's Why

Why I'm Writing The Hollowing

I keep coming back to the same question: why has this particular story stayed with me the way it has?

On the surface, The Hollowing is a femdom BDSM series. Ritual, control, chastity, obedience, power exchange — all the charged territory you'd expect. But that's not actually what holds my attention while I'm writing it.

What holds me is what happens when desire becomes a world.

I wanted the prose to do two things at once: feel genuinely erotic and still earn its place as literature. Intimate, strange, sometimes uncomfortable, occasionally beautiful in places that surprise even me. I've started calling the register poetic and profane — gorgeous language wrapped tight around something very physical and very human.

The biggest risk was probably the second-person POV. I know "you" can feel unusual, even alienating, in the wrong hands. But I didn't want readers watching from the doorway. I wanted them pulled into the room — addressed directly, almost ritually, as if the world itself is speaking to them.

The other risk is the premise underneath it all: The Story of O, reversed. Instead of a world built by powerful men around submissive women, The Hollowing imagines a society built by dominant women — elegant, organized, ritualized, and every bit as dangerous as the original.

I don't want this to only appeal to submissive men, though. I want it to reach anyone drawn to power, devotion, transformation, control, and the emotional wreckage surrender leaves behind. I want the women in this world to feel powerful and distinct from each other — not interchangeable dominants, but specific people with specific hungers. And I want Christian's submission to read as more than weakness. I want it to feel like longing, fear, trust, and choice, all knotted together until you can't pull one thread without the others.

So — I'm genuinely curious, if you've read any of it:

• Which characters have caught you so far — Athena, Christian, Elena, Cassandra, Isolde, someone else? What is it about them?

• Is there a character type you'd want to see as this world keeps opening up?

• Does the literary approach work for you, or do you find yourself wanting something more direct and less stylized? I'd genuinely rather know than guess.

• Does the premise land — a dominant society of women, built with the same seriousness O's world was built with?

I have the main arc mapped out, but I'm still building the texture of this world, and I'd rather build it with some sense of what's actually landing for the people reading it.

And to everyone who's read, commented, favorited, or just quietly followed along — thank you. Silent readers count too. But if something in this has stayed with you, I'd love to know what.