The Author of "Screw the Roses, Give Me The Thorns",
Molly Devon- 2011 Keynote Speaker

Molly Devon is an author, artist, publisher, and leatherwoman living in Connecticut. She has attended Yale, Penn State, and a small liberal arts college who will remain nameless by request; acquiring degrees in Behavioral Science and Visual Arts.

Since the untimely passing in 1996 of her former Master and partner, Philip Miller, much of Devon's time is occupied by the continued operation of their publishing company, Mystic Rose Books, Inc.

Philip and Molly met in 1991 at the Dressing For Pleasure Gala. Though they often used their domness and subness as a literary device in Screw the Roses, Send me the Thorns, their writing was most often interactive, bouncing pieces back and forth until both were satisfied. The book is now in its twenty-third printing.

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Change, The only constant in life. How do we adapt our leather traditions to a changing world.