Sunday, October 12, 2014

Memories & Kisses

So one of my fellow Yellow Silk Dreams authors has released a new book this weekend, if you're looking for something to read.  Muffy Wilson's Memories and Kisses is available for sale in a LOT of places!:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/author/muffywilson
 
Memories & Kisses has three stories of old loves remembered; a grieving woman rescued from the sea, two childhood friends growing old friendship into passionate loving, and two long separated teenagers finding that time has mellowed them both and maturity has brought a passionate intensity they had never imagined. All three stories are of rekindled love that survived decades of longing and is now ready to burst into flame. 
 
I won't lie, I copied that all directly from her blog post about it, which you should check out because she has a lot more information about the book if you want to know more about it before you buy. =)
 
What's going on with me this weekend?  From Terra Ch. 11 just came out on Literotica!  As I said (because some people have already asked), Lord Plath isn't back yet... but he will be for Chapter 12 =)  And hopefully I'll get The Venus School all prepped for it's re-release so that my next release blog will be about my own book! =D

Friday, October 10, 2014

Re-Vamping Venus

YAY!

So, I've been getting some help with my earlier books... The Venus Rising Quartet being the major ones at the moment.  A wonderful woman is editing them as I write this, and she's already finished two of them, so I've just gotta go through and make all the changes and get them formatted and then I'm going to slowly start re-releasing them.  I was thinking about trying to do them all at once, but I think it's best if I just get t hem out there as fast as I can.

The other cool thing is that they're going to have new covers!  RaineyCloud9, who has started doing my covers ever since Stronghold, has re-done the Venus covers and they are soooooooo pretty it slays me.  For an example, here's the new cover for The Venus School:

Freaking love it!  So thanks to these two fabulous women, we're going to have some updated / redone Venus Rising Quartet soon.  I'm hoping to get The Venus School uploaded to Amazon by Sunday so that it'll be out as early as Monday.  For those of you who already own it, don't worry, there's no need to repurchase.  I think the new version should be automatically downloaded to your reading device, as long as you have the old version still on there.  If no, then (I know for Amazon) you can delete it from your device, go to the website, go to "Manage Content and Devices," search for The Venus School and re-download it, and that will get you the new version (once it's out).  I'll make an announcement once it's available on all the markets.

I'm also going to be taking this opportunity to get books 3&4 out in paperback =)  Which, again, more formatting.  ACK! lol.  Worth it though.  Once they're all out in paperback, I'll probably hold some kind of contest for getting the autographed set.

Also this weekend, keep an eye out... I submitted Chapter 11 of From Terra last night, so hopefully it'll be out sometime this weekend or early next week =)  No, Lord Plath hasn't returned... yet... but I think the chapter's a lot of fun anyway.  And he'll be back in Ch. 12!

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Almost Forgot...

So between being busy and being sick, I almost forgot I have a blog! LOL

Bad Angel.

Plus, I've been taking a bit of a break from doing anything mentally taxing now that Claiming His Wife is out.  Of course I've been doing a little bit of writing, but definitely not at the rate I was doing to get that book out on time.  I needed a bit of a mental break.

I have gotten started on Mastering Lexie though.  I'm almost done with the second chapter and it's already more than 15K words.  Woot!  So that's something.  I always have a bit of a slow ramp up before my writing pace really picks up at the beginning of a book.  I think it's because everything's still kind of percolating in my head and the characters are still developing.   The second half of a book always comes out of me MUCH faster than the first half.

Especially this book, because I'm dealing with a cliche subject (best friend's little sister romance) and I don't want it to be cliche.  Or, at least, not too cliche, although some are hard to avoid.  That's one of my big things though, is I'll read books that deal with these kinds of subjects and I get super annoyed about the cliches that are used.  Like, whenever there's a guy who digs his best friend's little sister, she's always super innocent / naive / likely either a virgin or has never been with a guy that actually managed to make her orgasm, and he's always a super experienced player who is trying to resist temptation because he doesn't actually think he's good enough for her and knows his friend also doesn't think he's good enough for her.

So going into Mastering Lexie, I already know that Lexie is not a virgin.  She's had good sex before. She's definitely not innocent although she might be just a little bit naive.  And while she's inexperienced when it comes to BDSM, she has experimented a bit with her previous boyfriends.  Patrick is definitely not a player.  He doesn't flaunt other women in front of her and hurt her feelings / use women to try and replace her.  He's a good guy and he wants a relationship.  He's just not sure he can have one with her, and it's not because he thinks he's not good enough for her.  Although I won't get into the reasons on here, because I don't want to give away too much of the book =)

But yeah.  One of the things that I love about writing is "fixing" the things about other books that bother me LOL.   I want my characters to be realistic.  Andrew's really the only player character that I have, and that's going to cause some trouble for him eventually.  I'm really not into the whole "players are sexy" and the idea that the right woman will make them change.  It'll be interesting.  Personally, I'm looking forward to seeing him get schooled a bit, although that's not going to happen for a while.  But that's a tease to look forward to!

Anyway.  That's what's going on with me!  Fairly immersed in the Stronghold world right now.  I'm also doing a little bit of work on the Marriage Training book.  I might be changing the name of it just to differentiate it from the Lit story.  We'll see.  And I'm working on getting the Venus Rising Quartet edited so that it can be re-released with new covers (thanks to RaineyCloud9 who has done some gorgeous work on them!).

Monday, September 29, 2014

From Terra Ch. 10

Alrighty!  From Terra Ch. 10 is now out on Literotica =)  I'm having fun getting creative with the alien clients and stuff.  Don't worry, Lord Plath will be back eventually, but in the meantime there's going to be others! 

Thank you soooooooooooo much to everyone who has already left reviews for Claiming His Wife!  It seems like people are enjoying the wrap up which makes me feel good =)  I still kind of can't believe it's over, but it also feels REALLY good to have completed my first quartet that was completely stand alone and had nothing to do with anything on Literotica!  Check out the blog post below if you need a link to it for Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Smashwords. 

Anyway... not much else to talk about at the moment honestly.  I'm feeling utterly exhausted.  I don't know why but I've been having major trouble sleeping lately.  I've been doing a lot of reading, which doesn't help, because I have trouble falling asleep unless I finish the book.  And god forbid that the book be part of a series! LOL.

Gonna be working hard on Mastering Lexie this week, as well as From Terra.

The next projects I have coming up (other than ML) are:

the book version of Marriage Training

releasing edited versions of the Venus Rising Quartet with new covers

a new Dark Angel book - futuristic and fetish-based (human cow fetish)

So that's what's going on with me now that DD is done!!! 

Friday, September 26, 2014

Happy Release Day! - Claiming His Wife

This is the fourth and final book in the Domestic Discipline Quartet.

Alex has made a lot of mistakes, but he is determined to reconcile with his estranged wife, Grace. He's willing to put their past problems where he thinks they belong - in the past - but insults and disrespect will be met with discipline. He's seen the marriages his friends have, and decided to take a page from their books. Unfortunately for him, Grace is not so willing to let go of past hurts, although she has no choice but to go with him when he basically kidnaps her and takes her to Bath. At least her friends are there for moral support, while she does her best to discover exactly why her husband is so intent on reconciliation rather than divorce.

Hugh and Irene are blissfully happy, having declared their love for each other, but they seem to be the only ones. Eleanor is pregnant and worried that her condition will mean the end of overt affection and desire from her husband - especially as he hasn't declared any kind of finer feelings for her. She thinks Edwin doesn't realize she's with child, and worries over how to prod a declaration from him. Meanwhile, everyone is gathered in Bath for Wesley's wedding to the brazen and rebellious Cynthia.

When these four women get together, it's no wonder that both trouble and bright red bottoms loom on the horizon. Each of their husbands is bound and determined to claim and tame his willful wife.

This books contains adult situations, including spankings, whippings, backdoor play, and explicit scenes. Rated sizzling!
 
 
 
Claiming His Wife is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords =)  YAY!  I hope you enjoy it!  If you have a minute once you finish reading, reviews are ALWAYS much appreciated!  I read all of them.  And this is my first ever full series that has absolutely no connection to Literotica, so it's kind of special to me =)

Sunday, September 21, 2014

From Terra Ch. 9

Now that I'm done with Claiming His Wife (other than editing), I managed to finish the next chapter of From Terra =) It was fun getting back to Chryssa.  Especially because that storyline is a lot more restful on my brain, since it's not very complicated at all! LOL. 

Otherwise... just getting down on the editing so that Claiming His Wife will be out on Friday September 26 =)

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Announcements

Claiming His Wife is done and has entered the editing phase.  Thanks to the contest I held last month, I have more feedback from beta readers than ever before, so I think the editing / revising is going to take me a bit longer than usual.  I'm setting September 26, 2014 as the release date.  One of these days, I'm going to figure out how to make books available for pre-order on Amazon.  *sigh*

Another chapter of From Terra has been finished and will be submitted tonight.  I know it's been a while, that's because 99% of my focus has been on Claiming His Wife.

Next up on the docket is Mastering Lexie.  Soooo excited about this one, but also feeling the pressure because I know a lot of people have been anticipating the showdown between Patrick and Lexie and I really want to, at the very least, meet those expectations.  I'm really excited about it.

I've definitively decided on the order for the Stronghold books following Mastering Lexie.

3.5 - Leigh's Novella - Broken
4 - Jared's book - Breaking the Chain
4.5 - Angel & Adam's novella - Surprising the Sub
5 - Andrew's book - Bound to the Past
5.5 - Jessica, Justin & Chris novella - Three Vows
6 - Michael's book
7 - Olivia's book

It's possible Rick & Maria will also get a novella, in between Michael & Olivia, but I haven't decided yet.  I'm not sure what I'd write for them, so that's still up in the air.  However... release dates?  I'm not sure.  I'd like to get out Mastering Lexie a bit before Christmas.  Broken I'm going to be aiming for March.

In between those will be Marriage Training (yay, gonna finish writing the book version!) around Valentine's Day.  If you've read the Literotica version than you know the basic story line, but I'm going to go a bit more in depth with some of the other characters that Vivian interacts with, like the other school girls.  She's got a best friend.  There's also some stuff going on behind the scenes with Honoria and Doctor Banks, which I didn't get into during the Literotica story.  There will also be a lot more of Gabriel's family and seeing him at home while Vivian's in training.  Probably the biggest thing will be the chapters that I'm putting at the end, which will continue the story past their wedding and into their home.  Not too many chapters, but a few =)

I might go straight into the Society of Sin series, which will be set in Gabriel's world, although the stories will revolve around relationships that are already set by the time Marriage Training starts.  That of his step-mother and his sisters.  However, there's also a quartet that I want to write for my Dark Angel penname that I've started to work on a bit and I might take a break from the Victorian era and write those first.  They're going to be fetish books - breast milk, age play, puppy play and pony play.  I've been wanting to do more with Dark Angel and just haven't really had the time.  This quartet will be set in the future, so it might be a nice break from the Victorian age for a bit.

So yeah.  I think that's all the announcements that I have at the moment!  Looking forward to next Friday and finally releasing Claiming His Wife!