Ooops, just realized I'm late on posting this! Marriage Training Ch. 3 became available on Friday evening. So far it's getting pretty good reviews =) Since this is a very different story than I'm used to posting that's very encouraging to me!
I definitely have my focus split between Chapter 4 and the next Venus Rising book... I managed to get a lot of work done on both on Friday and I'm going to be doing more this evening. Had a wonderful Easter... my mom did a great job of hiding my Easter basket (don't judge... I'll be pressuring her to hide it for me until I have my own kids... it's fun!) and I'm looking forward to a productive evening!!!
Hope everyone had a great weekend!
A little bit of sin would be heavenly
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Friday, March 29, 2013
I Have Lady Bits
I sometimes wonder how many people read my stories and assume I'm a woman. I don't get comments from them about that so I have no idea, but I get comments on a fairly regular basis from readers who originally assumed I was a man and then checked out my Bio on Literotica or my Blog and realized that I'm a woman. One time, back during the first years that I was writing, I was accused of being a man masquerading as a woman... that person didn't really like whatever story they were commenting on if I recall correctly. They also said I was probably in my 50s.
Considering that back then I was in my early 20s I found it more than a little hilarious.
Yes people, I have real, live lady bits. I know that I've written some fairly dark stories, but back then I was in a fairly dark place. My high school sweetheart and I were constantly having issues and they all pertained to him wanting to date other women before he settled on getting engaged to me. Considering that we'd been together for 5 years and already talking marriage at that point, and he wanted to keep having his cake while he was dating these other girls, it's probably not surprising that I was in a rather dark place when it came to sex and women in general. I've noticed that my more recent stories, even the rough ones, have a lot more romance in them than my old ones... and I think that's because I'm now happily married to someone who has never taken me for granted the way my high school ex did.
Writing has always been an outlet for me, but it's only now that I'm realizing exactly how many of my demons I may have exorcised through my stories for Lit. Although people still tend to think I'm a man. I had someone recently comment on Chapter 9 of Being the Maid that they assumed the author was a man and that I should talk to some other female authors so that I could make my stories more realistic when it came to describing how things are for a woman. I'm still not entirely sure what that commenter was talking about... the only thing I can think of is that Bridget and Garrett had hot passionate sex the night after she played the games with the other three men and in real life I'm pretty sure she would've been way too sore to actually do that. However... it's a fantasy and a story and I made the executive decision not to make them wait another night for her to recover. I'm not even sure if that's what the reader was talking about though.
It made me wonder... Do I not write very well from a female perspective? I mean, I've always joked to my husband that I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body, but truthfully I've always felt pretty in touch with my femininity. I like pink and purple, I love shopping and fruity drinks, sparkles and glitter make me squeal, and I still play dress up whenever I can. Sure I like the rough stuff in my stories, but even though I'm fairly submissive and like hard sex in real life, I consider myself a feminist. Which may sound weird considering how many non-con stories that I write, but honesty I think I'm working through some of my own demons in those as well. In real life... I've been in the Vagina Monologues, I spear-headed a movement to send protest emails to a newspaper in a town where a young girl was being blamed for her own rape, and I do whatever I can to fight for equality. I think that a woman should be able to safely walk naked down any street at midnight. I think that people who try to cover up sexual violence or place blame on the victim should be raped themselves and see how they feel about. If something like what happened to that poor girl in Iowa happened anywhere near me I'd probably be organizing protests outside of the coaches' house for trying to cover things up and outside of the boys houses too. It drives me nuts how many people stand to the side and just let things happen.
I suppose people might feel that I'm actually part of the problem, considering what I write... but the way I see it, it's okay to have dark fantasies. The human psyche is myriad and strange. The important thing is to know where the fantasy ends and reality begins. I placate my own darkness by writing and reading about things that I think should never, ever be done to a human being. I realize that there are dark places inside of me that I don't fully understand and I accept that, and I never, ever act on any of the things that sometimes play out in my head because it would be WRONG. Instead I let some of it dribble out into my writing. Instead, I read other people's non-con and erotic horror stories and play in the fantasy before returning to reality. That's what books and movies are for. And no, I don't blame anyone but the perpetrator for making their own decision to do something in reality that should have never strayed from their fantasy life.
Hmm. I seem to have gotten off topic.
The point is... I'm not entirely sure why people keep thinking I'm a man. It amuses me. It does sometimes make me wonder how many readers assume I'm a girl though. And why. If anyone has some thoughts I'd love comments on this...
In other news, for some reason chapter 3 of Marriage Training is still not out. Won't lie, I was kind of pissed off about that this morning. Seriously... I submitted it what... 4 days ago? 5? I'm not going to look at my previous blog posts to check because if it was 5 then I'll just be even more pissy about it. How long does it take to publish a freaking chapter though?!
Considering that back then I was in my early 20s I found it more than a little hilarious.
Yes people, I have real, live lady bits. I know that I've written some fairly dark stories, but back then I was in a fairly dark place. My high school sweetheart and I were constantly having issues and they all pertained to him wanting to date other women before he settled on getting engaged to me. Considering that we'd been together for 5 years and already talking marriage at that point, and he wanted to keep having his cake while he was dating these other girls, it's probably not surprising that I was in a rather dark place when it came to sex and women in general. I've noticed that my more recent stories, even the rough ones, have a lot more romance in them than my old ones... and I think that's because I'm now happily married to someone who has never taken me for granted the way my high school ex did.
Writing has always been an outlet for me, but it's only now that I'm realizing exactly how many of my demons I may have exorcised through my stories for Lit. Although people still tend to think I'm a man. I had someone recently comment on Chapter 9 of Being the Maid that they assumed the author was a man and that I should talk to some other female authors so that I could make my stories more realistic when it came to describing how things are for a woman. I'm still not entirely sure what that commenter was talking about... the only thing I can think of is that Bridget and Garrett had hot passionate sex the night after she played the games with the other three men and in real life I'm pretty sure she would've been way too sore to actually do that. However... it's a fantasy and a story and I made the executive decision not to make them wait another night for her to recover. I'm not even sure if that's what the reader was talking about though.
It made me wonder... Do I not write very well from a female perspective? I mean, I've always joked to my husband that I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body, but truthfully I've always felt pretty in touch with my femininity. I like pink and purple, I love shopping and fruity drinks, sparkles and glitter make me squeal, and I still play dress up whenever I can. Sure I like the rough stuff in my stories, but even though I'm fairly submissive and like hard sex in real life, I consider myself a feminist. Which may sound weird considering how many non-con stories that I write, but honesty I think I'm working through some of my own demons in those as well. In real life... I've been in the Vagina Monologues, I spear-headed a movement to send protest emails to a newspaper in a town where a young girl was being blamed for her own rape, and I do whatever I can to fight for equality. I think that a woman should be able to safely walk naked down any street at midnight. I think that people who try to cover up sexual violence or place blame on the victim should be raped themselves and see how they feel about. If something like what happened to that poor girl in Iowa happened anywhere near me I'd probably be organizing protests outside of the coaches' house for trying to cover things up and outside of the boys houses too. It drives me nuts how many people stand to the side and just let things happen.
I suppose people might feel that I'm actually part of the problem, considering what I write... but the way I see it, it's okay to have dark fantasies. The human psyche is myriad and strange. The important thing is to know where the fantasy ends and reality begins. I placate my own darkness by writing and reading about things that I think should never, ever be done to a human being. I realize that there are dark places inside of me that I don't fully understand and I accept that, and I never, ever act on any of the things that sometimes play out in my head because it would be WRONG. Instead I let some of it dribble out into my writing. Instead, I read other people's non-con and erotic horror stories and play in the fantasy before returning to reality. That's what books and movies are for. And no, I don't blame anyone but the perpetrator for making their own decision to do something in reality that should have never strayed from their fantasy life.
Hmm. I seem to have gotten off topic.
The point is... I'm not entirely sure why people keep thinking I'm a man. It amuses me. It does sometimes make me wonder how many readers assume I'm a girl though. And why. If anyone has some thoughts I'd love comments on this...
In other news, for some reason chapter 3 of Marriage Training is still not out. Won't lie, I was kind of pissed off about that this morning. Seriously... I submitted it what... 4 days ago? 5? I'm not going to look at my previous blog posts to check because if it was 5 then I'll just be even more pissy about it. How long does it take to publish a freaking chapter though?!
Thursday, March 28, 2013
The Super Sexy Cynsters
Still waiting for Marriage Training to come out... seriously how long does it take? Bah. That's just me being impatient. Again.
Anyway.
Okay... so I've definitely been on a Victorian kick lately, not just with my writing but with my reading. Actually the reading preceded the writing. I started reading some Steampunk romances which led into Victorian romances which lead to the Victorian disciplinary erotica... which in turn led to Domestic Discipline and Being the Maid.
I realized I hadn't done an author review in awhile and that this was the perfect timing to give a shout out to Stephanie Laurens because her latest Cynster novel, And Then She Fell, was released this week.
Anyway.
Okay... so I've definitely been on a Victorian kick lately, not just with my writing but with my reading. Actually the reading preceded the writing. I started reading some Steampunk romances which led into Victorian romances which lead to the Victorian disciplinary erotica... which in turn led to Domestic Discipline and Being the Maid.
I realized I hadn't done an author review in awhile and that this was the perfect timing to give a shout out to Stephanie Laurens because her latest Cynster novel, And Then She Fell, was released this week.
The series starts with Devil's Bride, which is my favorite out of the entire series although there are some other ones that I think are just as good... I just have a particular soft spot for Devil. The man is seriously yummy.
All of them include romance, some hot sex scenes (the slow seduction books are my favorites... I get all hot and bothered and then jump hubby), and some kind of murder/danger mystery. Normally I'm not into the mystery romances, but with Stephanie Laurens I make an exception. Okay, so it's pushing plausibility that every single person in this family would face a murderer / thief / crazy person at some point during their courtships, but who cares as long as it makes for a good story?
Granted, after give or six books some things can get a little cliche, which is why I have my favorites out of the books... the interesting thing for me about the Cynster series is that it's not like the books get worse as you go along. It tends to go book by book, although there wasn't a single one that I disliked... there are just a couple that I have no interest in re-reading. Considering how many books there are in the series, the fact that I'm only not interested in re-reading a COUPLE is pretty impressive. I've also read her entire Bastion series, which were fantastic, and the Black Cobra series, which was definitely her weakest.
The Cynsters are by far the strongest of her books. Their family motto is "To have and to hold" and they mean that in the most possessively sexy, family-oriented way possible. Cynsters accumulate land, money and power. The men are authoritatively alpha male and unrepentant rakes, and it's common lore than only a Cynster woman - meaning their chosen wives - can tame a Cynster male. The Cynsters marry for love. And they tend to choose women who are challenges. Hence the seduction. Oh the yummy, yummy seduction. Stephanie Laurens can make me feel things with nothing more than the unbuttoning of a glove that some authors can't achieve by unbuttoning their characters' pants.
There's non of the BDSM-y stuff, but this is great romance and there's some seriously good sex scenes in the book as well. She's a fantastic writer and the plots are involved and engaging. Even re-reading the books I have a hard time putting them down and I already know what's going to happen! I'm hoping to eventually write some stuff along the same lines as her, although right now I'm way too involved with my BDSM-y stuff, but in the meantime if you want to check out some good Victorian romance she's definitely a good way to go.
Mmmmm Devil Cynster. Right up there with Jericho Barrons from Karen Marie Moning's Darkfever series. And I didn't think that was ever going to be possible. Hotness.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Impatience
You'd think that considering how long it takes me to write a chapter (well, sometimes... sometimes I do it pretty quickly) that I'd be more patient about the time it takes between submission and publication, but I'm just not. I want to know what people think! And also I feel bad that there's any extra wait, especially with something like chapter 3 of Marriage Training considering how long it took me to finish it in the first place. *sigh*
SO.
For those of you wondering about Venus... there was such a long break there where I wasn't able to work on it as much as I would like to that I started feeling like I'd half-forgotten what was going on. So I slowed down on actual writing and went back and started re-reading all three books. Good thing I did too... there were some things that I'd definitely forgotten. I'm almost done with re-reading Venus Desiring (should finish that tonight), at which point I will start focusing my efforts on finishing writing Venus Transcendent. Before this I was focusing mostly on the Victorian stuff because I wanted to get Birching His Bride out and because I hate making people wait too long between Lit chapters. Now I'm going to be focusing 50% on Venus, 30% on Marriage Training and 20% Dealing With Discipline. Will I be able to finish Venus by the end of April?
I'm hopeful but by no means sure.
It has several factors... I'll have a better by mid-April. But I'll shift my focus more to it if I need to, but I have a feeling that it's going to practically write itself. I'm feeling very motivated from my re-read... and also excited because I'm looking forward to wrapping everything up and moving on to the next Stronghold character. I've got the good juju.
I got a fair amount of work done on Marriage Training yesterday too and I've started Dealing With Discipline. Despite it still being busy season I am starting to have more time to write and I cannot tell you how exciting that is for me. It's sooooo nice to be able to get some of what's going in my head out onto paper. The dam hasn't burst yet, but some major trickles are coming through!
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Getting It In
I like puns. One of these days I'm going to write a story full of puns. Mangrove. Pussy willows. I'm still working on that.
But I've got good news! I finally finished and submitted Chapter 3 of Marriage Training! Made me very happy =) It's especially nice because these first three chapters were originally supposed to be the first chapter. As much fun as the examination as I'm super excited to be past it and getting to the meatier parts of the story ;) Although there's still not going to be any actual intercourse for quite a few chapters. It's going to be interesting for me to write this, particularly because of the sexual content without the actual sex.
So, now that I've got that done I'm back to dividing my focus between all of my writings in equal manner (ok, well, with a heavier foot on the Venus books). It feels Soooooo good to be getting back into my groove, I can't even tell you! I'm thrilled that the Domestic Discipline books seem to be getting off to a good start (and I can't wait for the next one), happy that I've finally submitted something to Literotica after such a long stint, and super excited to finish up Venus... aiming for the end of April to finish that off (although it wouldn't surprise me if I ended up running into May. *sigh*)
Hope everyone's having a good weekend!
But I've got good news! I finally finished and submitted Chapter 3 of Marriage Training! Made me very happy =) It's especially nice because these first three chapters were originally supposed to be the first chapter. As much fun as the examination as I'm super excited to be past it and getting to the meatier parts of the story ;) Although there's still not going to be any actual intercourse for quite a few chapters. It's going to be interesting for me to write this, particularly because of the sexual content without the actual sex.
So, now that I've got that done I'm back to dividing my focus between all of my writings in equal manner (ok, well, with a heavier foot on the Venus books). It feels Soooooo good to be getting back into my groove, I can't even tell you! I'm thrilled that the Domestic Discipline books seem to be getting off to a good start (and I can't wait for the next one), happy that I've finally submitted something to Literotica after such a long stint, and super excited to finish up Venus... aiming for the end of April to finish that off (although it wouldn't surprise me if I ended up running into May. *sigh*)
Hope everyone's having a good weekend!
Thursday, March 21, 2013
So Close!
I am so close to being done with chapter 3 of Marriage Training!!! Very excited about that. It's been too long since I've submitted something to Literotica. This week I've had a lot more time to write than usual. I think it's going pretty well although MT is turning out to be a lot longer than I thought it would. Seriously, in my outline the events of the first 3 chapters were supposed to only take up ONE chapter. Ah well. Can't be too sad about that, because I'm pretty happy with the way it's turning out. And I doubt too many people will complain about me writing a long story. Hopefully LOL.
Also, hopefully everyone is enjoying Birching His Bride. I keep looking at the cover. It might be my favorite cover that I've ever created. Might be my favorite book so far too. I do love the Victorian era. So far the two reviews I've gotten have been positive (thanks!) feel free to leave your own ;) They are always greatly appreciated.
Have to say... didn't get any writing done today but I got a BUNCH yesterday. Hopefully will get some more done tomorrow. My goal is to have chapter 3 submitted to Literotica sometime this weekend. Wish me luck!
Also, hopefully everyone is enjoying Birching His Bride. I keep looking at the cover. It might be my favorite cover that I've ever created. Might be my favorite book so far too. I do love the Victorian era. So far the two reviews I've gotten have been positive (thanks!) feel free to leave your own ;) They are always greatly appreciated.
Have to say... didn't get any writing done today but I got a BUNCH yesterday. Hopefully will get some more done tomorrow. My goal is to have chapter 3 submitted to Literotica sometime this weekend. Wish me luck!
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
New Release: Birching His Bride
Especially because a lot of what I've been reading lately has been Regency / Victorian stuff and while I love the romances and I love the domestic discipline and I love the erotica, I really haven't been able to find too many books that have all three things. Okay, I haven't found any books that had all three things in an amount that satisfied me. It kind of makes me feel egotistical to say that but I'm hoping that this offering will help to fill a void that I feel is out there. It's the kind of book that I look for when I'm looking for new stories on my Kindle.
I've definitely fallen in love with the characters and I hope that many of you will check it out and enjoy it (and hopefully leave me a review ;).
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