Biographic Information

Robert (Bob) Rubel is the editor of Power Exchange Magazine: An Alternative Lifestyle Publication. He is also the author of a number of books, including: * Master/slave Relations: Handbook of Theory and Practice (2006) * Protocol Handbook for the Leather slave (2006) * Flames of Passion: Handbook of Erotic Fire Play   (2006 with David Walker) * Squirms, Screams, and Squirts, a Guide to Extraordinary Sex (2007) * Master/slave Relations: Communications 401: The Advanced Course (2008) * Master/slave Relations: Solutions 401: Living in Harmony (2008) He has served on the boards of two of his local BDSM clubs and served for two years as part of the Leadership Core of the Austin Mentors Program where he taught fire play and Master/slave relations. Bob presents, judges, and sells his books widely throughout the year. He participated in 13 such events in 2007. He lives in a 24/7 Master/slave structure with his partner mindi, near Austin, Texas.

Mindi is the partner of Bob Rubel. In addition to having served as Bob's demo subject and co-presenter for numerous seminars on such topics as fire-play, sexual techniques, M/s relations, and Leather protocols, she also the subject of Protocols for the Female slave: Handbook of Theory and Practice, and its companion book, Protocol Handbook for the Leather Slave: Theory and Practice. These books began as her personal slave manual. Bob's book Master/slave Relations: Handbook of Theory and Practice documents the planning procedures she and her Master went through to create the stable M/s relationship that they currently enjoy. An RN/paralegal by training, Mindi provides invaluable help editing the many books that Bob writes. She also edits articles for Power Exchange Magazine, for which she serves as Assistant to the Editor. Mindi, Bob, and Karen Martin (author of How to Capture a Mistress) have for years lived as a Leather Family.