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); and Flames of Passion: Handbook of Erotic Fire Play (2006 with David
Walker), and Squirms, Screams, and Squirts, a Guide to Extraordinary Sex (2007). 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.