Books Melissa Todd is a published author. You can purchase her books in audio, digital and paperback here. Americaned Sex-grief-across-continent Melissa, an English dominatrix, has just lost her mother. But she has also promised to fly to Massachusetts to play the cane-happy headmistress of a girls’ boarding school in a film funded by a wealthy benefactor—and to give a keynote address on birching bare bottoms at a spanking conference in Texas four weeks later. And so, laid low by loss but also caught up in her obligations to colleagues, kinksters, family and creditors, she and her work husband learn to face grief, fear, and American highways while whacking backsides, cavorting with sex workers and visiting the homes of her literary heroes all down the East coast. Stormy Daniels meets Bill Bryson in acclaimed author and world-famous sex worker Melissa Todd’s utterly unpredictable tale of cockroach-ridden apartments, fetishes that you never knew existed and profound personal failings. Tortured by the absence of tea but enchanted by American supermarkets, she sees some of the best and worst that the United States has to offer. Reviews for Americaned: I flew through Americaned the moment I got it. It’s an absolute delight. It’s beautifully constructed, balancing Ms. Todd’s constant movement through chaotic scenes of sex, disastrous Airbnbs, and huge American cars and highways with a stillness of loss at its centre. It’s every bit as funny as her first book, abounding in perversions I’d never even imagined and wild characters whom no one could have made up, but it’s also quite profound in its honesty. Ms. Todd peddles no platitudes, doles out no bromides; the riotous sex scenes come and go but the pain abides, which, in its own peculiar way, is more uplifting than any silly story of redemption. Americaned really is a masterpiece. If you like kinks, chaos, and America but also expect real people, crisp prose, and tight plotting in your reading material, then Americaned is the book for you. Ms. Todd is the thinking person’s dominatrix. The Experiments The Experiments collects her best short stories, often erotic, always poetic. Here nice girls attempt to kill their husbands with cake, and fantasise about their funerals; life models are commanded to stay still, no matter the circumstance; dommes recruit and corrupt their young apprentices. Women’s bodies are canvasses on which they display and demonstrate their dissatisfaction. Reviews for The Experiments Absolutely beautiful prose and a fascinating collection of ideas and subjects. If you enjoy Katherine Mansfield, give these a try. A varied collection, covering everything from Predatory Old Ladies to Beetroot Chutney! Some of the stories are overtly erotic but without being in your face, some are more subtly so, and others are mere windows into worlds and the author’s mind. All of them are well written, dark and to an extent twisted, but that’s the joy of them. Whilst some provide a beginning, a middle and an end, many are mere sketches that allow the reader to let their mind wander and fill in the blanks, showing a level of respect between the author and her audience. Thought provoking, dark, brooding and an utter delight – I look forward to more. Melissa Todd writes with the voice of an angel. An avenging, dry-witted angel. My Body is My Business My Body is My Business was written over ten years, in response to the negative stereotypes that dog sex workers and their clients. It provides an alternative analysis from the inside, from a woman who’s worked in brothels, porn, strip clubs; on web cam, chatlines and film sets. Reviews for My Body is My Business A rare fully transparent no holds barred insight into the world of a top dominatrix told with brilliant wit and intelligent observations. A real ‘eye opener’, informative and educational, it will almost certainly surprise you and probably modify your views about the BDSM scene and sex work in general. An excellent well written entertaining read and an important book for anyone who cares about the way society views and treats sex workers and their clients. If My Body My Business was a sandwich it would be layered with generous servings of kink, oozing with sauce and heavily wrapped in wit and humour. I binge-read this book in 24 hours and loved the author’s style of narrating salacious events in a way that reads as philosophical, detailed, and yet so matter-of-fact. It would also serve as an excellent resource for those who are new to the industry as it contains a lot of helpful advice for those starting out.