A Very Merry Christmas Update - The Rubber Order: Sanctification

I just finished the cover of my next story today - 'The Rubber Order: Sanctification.' You can see it below!

This will be the second entry in 'The Rubber Order' universe, sharing elements from my first 'Rubber Order' novella. None of the same characters will be shared, however, and this is a standalone entry in that universe, so it's not necessary to read the first story to understand this one.

I've struggled a bit with this story so far, as it's definitively not going to be a stroke story. It will be chock full of fetish elements and bondage, but at its heart, it's a thriller, through and through, dabbling a little bit on the horror side of things.

I'm not even certain at this point whether fans of the first novella will like this one, but I'm not going to change directions now!

This go around, the main character will be a failed rubber nun trainee, whose husband accidentally died during rubber bondage training. The events are going to be pretty brutal - this time I'm not holding back any punches.

So far, this story is at about ~34K in, and there are about 3-ish more large scenes to go. That means this will likely also end up novella length like the first one, which pegs it at around a late January release. No promises, of course, but I doubt it should take much longer than that.

After this project is wrapped, I don't have a definite direction to move in, but I have some shorter story ideas down that I would like to take for a drive. Whether those turn into an anthology or something else, I'm not sure as of yet.

What I do know is that I would like to delve back into some hard core squicky stuff - insect parasites, alien monsters, that sort of thing. For fans of erotic horror, these shorts will hopefully scratch that itch. 

It just remains to be seen whether I can come up with enough fun plots! I already have one that will work for sure, but I'm not so certain about the others yet.

I'll reveal more about these ideas once I'm closer to the release of this novella, so stay tuned around the same time next month.

In the meantime, a very Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! Have a Happy New Year!

'Doll Factory' has been released!

My latest novel, 'Doll Factory,' is now available on Amazon and KDP!

Here's the link:

Doll Factory - Kindle edition by Waters, Caroline. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Story Tags

MC (Mind Control), MF (Male/Female Sex), FF (Female/Female Sex), FD (Female Dominant), FT (Fetish), Bondage, Rubber, Transformation, Doll

This is primarily a lesbian fic, though there are a handful of sex scenes between a married couple intermixed. There are a lot of rubbery bondage/conversion scenes involved, if you're into that!

Synopsis

"As a SERIOUS person, nobody has been able to find a way to treat Hannah’s depression. Desperate to be HAPPY and find her Mistress, she submits herself to an experimental protocol to change herself into a rubber coated DOLL.

As she rediscovers her sexuality with another female DOLL, she struggles to reconcile the various forces that are vying to bring her under their thumb. While being a DOLL may be sublime, deciding how and where she should submit is not so simple.

If she chooses wrong, she might very well become a weapon used to take down all of HAPPY society, including her prospective Mistress.

That fate may already be impossible to avoid, as the DOLLs are reproducing rapidly. The day of DOLLs may soon be upon us."

Doll Factory - Late November Update

Today I finished the first draft of my next novel - 'Doll Factory.' It ran on longer than I had anticipated, landing somewhere around 91K words.

Unfortunately, this means it's going to take longer to edit than it otherwise would. I'm not exactly certain when I'll be able to get through it, but I can promise that it will be released before the end of the year.

I ended up writing a second version of the author's notes and synopsis because I wasn't certain I liked what I had so far. I'll have to determine which version I like the best before release (or perhaps combine the two!)

There will be plenty of bondage predicaments and DOLL conversions to be had when I'm done, so please look forward to it!

Here's a preview of the cover to tide you over until then:

Upcoming Projects

I've looked through my list of story ideas, and I think it's finally time to write the next entry in 'The Rubber Order' series. I've been wanting to re-visit my world of rubber nuns for a while, and I think this is a good opportunity to do so.

This won't be a true sequel, but it will be set in the same universe as my initial novella. I suspect that this one may turn out to be novel length, and if that's true, it's very likely I won't be done with it until sometime in February, at the soonest.

Something to look forward to in 2023!

My next blog update should be when I release 'Doll Factory,' so stay tuned for that!

'Hot Pressed' has been released!

I'm pleased to announce that my first non-erotic fantasy novel, 'Hot Pressed,' has finally been released for publication! (If you're interested in 'Doll Factory,' that one is still being written, I'll have a short update on it at the bottom).

Hot Pressed - Kindle edition by Stockton, James Reed. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

I've released the book under a different pen name, so as to properly separate my different offerings, as I do eventually plan on writing more mainstream novels in the future. Never fear, however, I don't have any plans on deserting my erotic offerings... they are simply different projects, and I never quite know which story idea will be more compelling to work on, or where they might fit in. Today I might be writing more erotica, but in the future I might write more sci-fi and fantasy, depending on what I feel like.

It's been a long journey to get to this point, as the genesis of the idea for this novel came around 2016. At that time, I wrote about 30-40K words, but there it stalled for quite some time. I only picked it up again in 2021, working on it at the same time as 'The Rubber Order', and I believe it was finished a few months after that novella released.

It then languished in editing for another year before I finally had the opportunity to pick it up again recently and get it finished. Significant work needed to be done to create a paperback, as I've never put one of those together (I have notes on this process that I might release as a separate blog post at another time).

Now, it's finally here, my debut novel! Let's dive right in to the details!

Story Tags

MC (Light Mind Control), Snakes, Gods/Goddesses, Steampunk, Airship, Transformation, Masks

Synopsis

"Namzu’s solitary life as a spy ended when a Remenkhemi airship visited the dusty streets of Subartu. The mysterious men and women they sent to find new soldiers to bolster their nation wore metallic animal masks that represented their gods.

Soon after stealing a set of armlets from them, a regal snake goddess took up residence in her head, demanding her loyalty in exchange for information about her past. Worse, she finds that the goddess’ power is changing her, making her more snakelike with every passing moment.

Escaping the city with the King’s guard in hot pursuit, she finds herself mixed up in the power struggles of gods and men alike. Remenkhemi needs a new heir, and her heritage lands her directly in line for the throne.

There are those who seek to use her, including the goddess. It will take all of her wits to navigate the narrow path between faith and family, lest she lose everything she holds dear."

Doll Factory

I did promise a short update on this story, didn't I?

Well, there's not too much to report beyond the fact that it's well into writing. Currently sitting at 65K words, I know for certain that it will be another novel.

It's shaping up pretty well so far, though I've hit a bit of a doldrums with my writing. I think it'll get better once I figure out how to close out the current scene.

The question is, how much more remains? There's about one to two and a half more major scenes to write, then an epilogue. I'm guessing roughly that's going to be 80K max?

That would put completion at around two weeks from now, at which point it will go into editing. I'm guessing a late November release at this point unless something changes on my schedule.

I'm currently posting here monthly, so I'll post an update next month with the progress - or, with any luck, with a release post! Cheers!

'Trancemaker' has been released!

I'm pleased to announce that my latest novel, 'Trancemaker,' is now available on Amazon KDP!

You can find it here:

Trancemaker - Kindle edition by Waters, Caroline. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Story Tags

MC (Mind Control), MD (Male dominant), MF (Male/Female Sex), BD (Bondage), DS (Dominance/Submission), FT (Fetish), Fantasy, Fae, Transformation

Synopsis

"Kai quit her high-powered job as a lawyer to become a full-time live-in slave for her Master. However, she doesn’t remember how she acquired this Master, and she still isn’t certain why a tattoo is being inscribed on her belly around a ruby red gem.

Her cybergothic friend might help her to discover these answers, but there’s a cost - she’ll be required to visit her club and be dressed as a goth herself. That is the only way she’ll be accepted by the resident Pathwalker and shown her possible futures.

The fae's help does not guarantee success, but failure will ensure that she becomes a jewel slave to a fae lord.

Embracing her new gothic style and potential elf suitor might be the only way for her to navigate the shadowy paranormal world which mirrors our own."

Trancemaker Update V3 and Doll Factory Mk 1!

It hasn't been a month since my last post, but there's a fair bit to show off, so here we go!

Trancemaker

As I mentioned last time, I wasn't satisfied with my cover for 'Trancemaker,' so I've given it another shot, replacing the background and font. An icy background didn't make sense given the fiery themes contained within the novel. Now, at least, it's more neutral and fits the aesthetic without seeming incredibly out of place. I'm happier with it now, so this will likely be the final version:

I'm currently 15 pages into editing this novel, and at ~175 pages total, using an estimate of 5 pages/day, that puts the release for this book sometime around early October. This release date may shift as I continue working on it, but I think that's a reasonable deadline.

Given the gothic themes, an October release would fit, but I have enough ongoing projects that I just want it done! The perils of writing too many things!

Doll Factory

From the (very) limited input I've received, I've begun work on my next story, 'Doll Factory.' It has already breached ~14K words, and appears set to become a novella based on the current outline (unless something significantly changes like it did with Trancemaker!)

This one will have a lot more lesbian elements to it, though there is certainly also going to be some vanilla sex contained within it as well (I'm already in the middle of writing that scene!)

Additionally, I've also put together a cover for this novella, which I am fairly pleased with:

I've just written a synopsis as well (see below). It's time for the rubber dolls to shine!

Doll Factory Synopsis

As a SERIOUS person, nobody has been able to find a way to treat Hannah’s depression. Desperate to be HAPPY, she submits herself to an experimental protocol to change herself into a rubber coated DOLL.

With her new DOLL companions, safe in her faceless rubber shell, she is slated to serve her Mistress in HAPPY society, sealed away from the ravages of the SERIOUS virus.

While she would be quite happy with this existence, one of the developers of the process has plans to solve the SERIOUS problem entirely - plans that will require her to acquire and create far more rubber DOLLs.

As the factory churns to life, the day of the DOLLs will soon be upon us.

Trancemaker Update V2

I thought I'd jot down a quick note now that I know how things are shaping up with Trancemaker. I originally thought that this would be a novella, but the muse does what it wants, and now it's at about 67K words/162 pages.

In theory, this is where I'd stop, as I've just finished writing the epilogue, but a few days ago I had an exciting/hot idea for a post epilogue sequence, and since I'm so close to novel length, I don't see any reason not to include it.

Besides, I think it will round out the book and give it that extra oomph it so much deserves to have.

At any rate, that means this 'novella' has now been promoted to novel length. As a result, that means the next story will be pushed out a bit while I work through the final ending for this piece. The release for 'Trancemaker' will likely be late September at the soonest.

Additionally, I've decided I don't like the font I selected for the cover, so I'm going to have to go through that process again until I find something I like better. That shouldn't slow down the release any, but it's yet another thing on the TO-DO list!

After taking an informal poll (of the two people who responded to me) on the mind control story literature discord, I'm currently thinking my next project will be 'Doll Factory,' a delightful little tale of mind controlled women being turned into rubber drones so that they can be altered enough to fit into HAPPY society. I just hope this one doesn't sprout legs and turn into a novel, too!

The good news there is that I have enough left over stock photos from DepositPhotos that I should be set for the near future. I thoroughly dislike the requirement that you either pay monthly, or buy 100 photos which need to be downloaded in the span of a year before the download license expires.

There was also the hard sell about half way into the subscription where they try to get you to upgrade to a more expensive plan, which really stuck in my craw. Fortunately, that forced me to go find a set of interesting photos to use at the beginning of the year, so I should have plenty for the near future.

I must confess I far more enjoy the process of isolating and blending photos together than I do trying to find them. I always find it a drag to search through pages and pages of dreck to find that one diamond in the rough. Ah well, that's one of the perils of doing it all yourself, I suppose!

Trancemaker Update

There isn't a significant amount to report at the moment, but I figured I'd jot out something quick so that everyone will know that I'm still making progress!!

Trancemaker has made it to around ~58,000 words now, which means it's flirting with novel length. However, I am very close to finishing up the last scene, which leaves only an epilogue to complete.

That means I should be done with the first draft by the end of next week, and then it will go into editing. I know by now not to promise any timelines in particular for editing, but I tend to do more than I intend once I get into a groove, so it seems likely the novella will be released mid-September.

Once that has been completed, I have two stories fully plotted, and I haven't decided which one to work on next - 'The Rubber Order: Sanctification,' which has been on the back burner longer than I'd like and involves rubber nuns, or 'Doll Factory,' which involves a large amount of latex dolls/dollification.

Yes, both stories are going to have heavy rubber this go around. Maybe I'm rubber banding back to old habits after trying to write something a bit more tame? (Joke intended!)

At any rate, those are the two ideas on my pile. If anyone has a preference, feel free to comment below!

These things are always subject to change, of course, in case I get an even better idea between now and then, but there's no way to predict that! And I'm starting to run out of time... !

Containment Restrospective, and future plans!

It's been a week since I've released 'Containment,' so this seems like a good time to do a short retrospective based on the reception it's gotten so far, as well as to talk about my future plans.

In general, 'Containment' has been doing quite good in sales, but 'Sky Trained' has exceeded my expectations. Of course, 'Sky Trained' has been released for longer, so that doesn't really mean much.

I haven't gotten any feedback on either novel, so pretty much all I have to go on is sales to tell me what people are enjoying. If anybody has anything they really like in particular, do let me know, as it's the only way I have of knowing what part people enjoyed the most! Otherwise, I'm just muddling around in the dark here.

Pricing

After seeing how it's been going for my new novels, I'm confident in saying that I'll be pricing my stories in this way going forward:

$2.99 - Shorts, anything less than 30K words

$3.99 - Novellas, anything between 30K-70Kish words

$4.99 - Novels, anything longer than 70K words

That seems fair, given the relative amount of work I have to put in to get these released.

If I had to make a time estimate, it takes a minimum of an hour to produce 1K words, and to be more realistic, on most days, I would say it's about two.

For editing, I can get through about 10 pages per hour, if I'm not working quickly. During editing, I read everything aloud to ensure that it sounds more or less natural, and to ensure that I catch as many mistakes as possible.

Assuming a 70K word novel, that's about 140 hours for writing, and about 18 hours for editing. Once you calculate out how much a novel of that length can make, you're definitely not hitting minimum wage.

Of course, I'm not doing this to get rich, but it's getting more and more obvious that I won't be able to quit my day job to concentrate solely on this.

I will say that the advice 'release often' is definitely the way to go, and I suspect that I would generally do better if I could release more shorts. It's unfortunate that I tend to be so wordy, but my stories simply tend to spiral out of control when I'm working on them. I can't help it!

Oh well. But I'll definitely produce a short at some point, see if I don't!

Trancemaker

My next story is titled 'Trancemaker,' which I'm packing full of gothic goodness.

Cybergoths, leather, neon lights, lipstick, nail polish, the whole shebang.

Never mind the fact that I've never belonged to a gothic subculture or dressed as one. I simply find the work that goes into it and the end product to be super hot.

Because I'm writing for fetish purposes, I'm sure to get everything wrong about these subcultures, but I do hope I'll at least produce an entertaining story!

Mixed into this stew is a good jolt of paranormal romance and fae lords etc, with a lot of slavery and fun brainwashing. I'm fairly pleased with some of the hot scenes I've written so far, and there's quite a few more to go.

This currently sits at 25K words, and I'm estimating there's at least 4 large scenes left to write. If I had to guess, that will make this novella length, almost certainly coming in around 40-50K. I doubt it will be a novel, as the plot simply isn't that intricate. Unless something very cool occurs to me, I suspect this guesstimate will be fairly accurate.

Here's the cover for this novella, which I've already finished:

I also just made an attempt at putting together a synopsis, which of course is subject to change between now and release:

"Kai quit her high powered job as a lawyer to become a full time live-in slave for her Master. However, she doesn’t remember how she acquired this Master, and she still isn’t sure what the purpose of the tattoo being inscribed on her belly is for.

Her cybergothic friend might help her to discover these answers, but there’s a cost - she’ll be required to visit her club and be dressed as a goth herself. That is the only way she’ll be accepted by the Pathwalker and shown her possible futures.

The difficult path does not guarantee success, but failure will ensure that she becomes a jewel slave to one of the fae.

Embracing her new gothic style might be the only way for her to navigate the shadowy paranormal world which mirrors our own."

The Future

After Trancemaker is edited and released (likely late August or sometime in September), there are a couple of options. I'd really like to fit in another short before I start something else, but I currently only have vague ideas on that front. If nothing comes to me, I'll likely start work on 'The Rubber Order: Sanctification,' as I've finally jotted down an outline for that story.

With what I have plotted, it will be significantly darker than the first novella, and it's likely to turn into a novel on me, but we shall see. I'm sure there's some fans out there that wouldn't mind if I wrote more rubbery goodness, and believe me, it will happen. It's only a matter of when.

See you next time! Half Shim, signing off!

'Containment' is now live!

I'm pleased to announce that my newest novel, 'Containment,' has just been released on Amazon!

Rubbery gas mask wearing smoke demons and silvery hive drones abound in this latest outing, with loads of sex and fun transformation scenes. If that's your cup of tea, why not check it out?

Containment - Kindle edition by Waters, Caroline. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

I've been very hard at work on getting this put together lately, and I finished the editing far faster than I  had thought possible!

Please enjoy, and I'll post again another time with news about my next project... but don't expect a month between releases on that one - it just happened to line up that way this time! Cheers!

Raven’s rock band is down on its luck, and seemingly about to split up, until she discovers the extra dimensional entity hiding in her father’s bass guitar. Now, she’s having fun rocking out with her bandmates, but they’ve all been turned into IT’s glossy black rubber smoke demons!

Wendy works for an organization trying to keep IT's transformed Things out of our dimension, but she’s run into a bit of a snag - they’ve recently captured an AI core, which is dead set on converting her and her coworkers into sex starved Hive drones!

In a brutal battle for control of the city and each other’s hearts and minds, if either of them wins, everyone loses!

Sky Trained Retrospective, Looking Ahead to 'Containment'

Sky Trained

The rush of releasing something new is already starting to fade, as it does, though so far I am quite pleased with how 'Sky Trained' has done. It has more or less matched 'The Rubber Order' in terms of sales, making it one of my best sellers (which doesn't say much, as to be quite honest, I'm not exactly going to show up on the New York Time's bestseller list).

Be that as it may, I'm quite pleased with the small niche it has found. It's not wildly successful to the point that I'd try to run out and write a sequel, but at least it's helping me to get a better feel for what sort of thing people are interested in reading in this little niche of ours.

For those who have picked it up, I do hope that you are enjoying it!

Containment

Work has quietly continued on my next story, which currently weights in at 69K words. I am writing the final chapter, after which I have a short epilogue to tack on (and author notes, of course), and then it will be done. I fully expect that to happen within the next week, after which it will go into editing.

Since it's a shorter novel than Sky Trained, a super rough estimate is that it will be released at some point in August.

I don't have any plans for the next writing project yet, though it's likely to either be a short, or a sequel of some kind to 'The Rubber Order.' I'm not planning on using the same characters again, per se, but I will be writing in the same universe.

In the meantime, to whet your appetite, here's a synopsis I recently finished writing for Containment:

"Raven’s rock band is down on its luck, and seemingly about to split up, until she discovers the extra dimensional entity hiding in her father’s bass guitar. Now, she’s having fun rocking out with her bandmates, but they’ve all been turned into a matching set of IT’s glossy black rubber smoke demons!

Wendy works for an organization trying to keep IT’s transformed Things out of our dimension, but she’s run into a bit of a snag - they’ve recently captured an AI core, which is dead set on converting her and everyone around her into sex starved Hive drones.

In a brutal battle for control of the city and each other’s hearts and minds, if either of them wins, everyone loses!"

'Sky Trained' is now live!

 It's been a long time coming, but finally my extensive novel about hucows, ponygirls, and superheroes and villains has been released!

You can find it on Amazon here: Amazon.com: Sky Trained eBook : Waters, Caroline

I've raised the price for this book by a dollar since it's so freaking... long, but there is a possibly I will reduce it at some unspecified point in the future. I'm pretty pleased with this one, so I believe it merits the price increase - especially since it isn't a novella.

I've poured far too many hours into bringing this to life, and I do hope it scratches the itch for some of you!

"Allison thought that she had won the trip of a lifetime when her and her college friends were handed sweepstakes tickets to a tropical island. Her impression soured immediately upon arrival when she discovered that all the visitors were being trained to become latex clad cow women and ponygirls. Worse, her best friend knew this, and was already well on her way towards becoming a prime milker!

Rebecca traveled to the island for a far different purpose. Belonging to the hero agency Blue Stars, she is gathering intel to shut down Mistress Moon's villainous milking operation.

Neither of them know how their special powers will react when faced with Mistress' creamy delights. If they are not careful, they may both end up becoming happy cows in the island’s dairy!"

End Of May Update: Sky Trained + Containment

May is almost over, with summer fast approaching. I think that this is an excellent time to discuss where I'm at with my current projects, though I have no covers to reveal this time, sadly.

I do hope the small number of people who have read 'Transference' have enjoyed themselves. I've heard nothing so far about that release, one way or the other, so it's quite difficult to know what the market is looking for. I suppose I shall have to keep writing stories with different plots to get a sense of what people want in their longer form smut.

Sky Trained

I'm still in the middle of editing Sky Trained, almost literally, at 156/321 pages. At an average rate of 5 pages/day, this process should be complete at the end of June, giving this novel a release date somewhere near the beginning of July.

Depending on how well how the process goes, this may be done a little sooner.

I will say the story is turning out to be fairly fun, and I do hope to get it into everyone's hands as soon as possible. There's a lot of cow milking that's going to happen.

Containment

This story, at 43 K+ words, is starting to turn into a novel. I have a vague idea of where I'm going with it, and I'd like to keep it under 80K words if I can. If that's possible, I might be able to start the editing process for it at the end of June, at about the same time I release Sky Trained.

Just in time to start a new editing cycle! Oh joy!

I haven't given the next project too much thought yet, but it's likely to either be something shorter, or the next installment of the Rubber Order, which is very unlikely to be short.

I like the idea of writing a short, but none of the ideas I've had so far have turned out to be short. Oh dear.

So - nothing too much to report, really, except that I've been working diligently! Cheers!

Sky Trained Editing + Containment

Sky Trained

I've started the editing process for Sky Trained, and it's clear there's no way I'm going to be able to keep the pace I was using while editing Transference without horribly drying out my eyes. As such, I've halved the pace in an attempt to keep my sanity.

At the moment, that means I'm reading about 5 pages a day, which is a little unfortunate, because I expect that means I won't have this done being edited for at least two months. Bummer!

While that will push out my schedule quite a bit, at least it's happening, right? Currently, I'm 20 pages in out of 324, so it's definitely going to be a ride.

That said, there isn't much more to report here. I'll keep plugging away at it and hopefully I'll have good news to share about this (or a release!) eventually.

Containment

I've continued writing this tale, but it still doesn't really have an outline - just a rather vague idea of having two titanic forces clashing against each other. I think that actually is going to work, given the scope of this story is fairly small.

'Small' is a relative term for me, however, as I've already hit 20K words on this one, and I expect it to take at least around another 20 K more to finish it out. It's pretty likely that this will be another novella.

The good news is that I already have the cover done:

What do you think? I'm really quite proud of the result. This took quite a bit of editing, and I added the smoke effects myself with the help of some free paintbrushes in Gimp.

Anyway, there's going to be plenty more latex fun on this one when it's complete.

Of course, that means I'll have ANOTHER huge amount of text to edit before it can be released, but that's just the way it goes with authors, I suppose!

My updates from here on out might be a little sporadic, as I won't really have anything to share until I finish the first draft of Containment or I finish editing Sky Trained. I suspect Containment will be done first, but we shall see!

Rubberily yours, Half Shim

Sky Trained Update + The Future

I do hope that those of you who picked up Transference are enjoying it!

Now that it has been released, and the Robotic Restitution changes are in my rear mirror, it's time to look at what's next!

Sky Trained

As of Saturday, 4/23, I have the first draft of Sky Trained completed. It weighs in at a whopping 134,334 words, which I will have to read aloud to edit. (That seems like a bit of a daunting prospect!)

At 320 pages, reading 10 pages a day, that would take me a little over a solid month to do.

Yes, I'm planning on doing it at some point, but no, I'm not sure when I'm going to start that yet. At the moment, I'm in 'recovery' mode, trying to de-stress. This is my 'fun' hobby - it's not supposed to be a second job! (It definitely doesn't pay well enough to be a second job!)

I also know I don't have enough chapter breaks, so that will have to be fixed, too, before I can even consider getting it into an e-book format.

Worse, this is almost at the length where I should really consider splitting it into TWO novels... which leaves me with these options:

1. Do the split. Requires a good splitting location, and a second cover. Plus all the baloney that goes with creating two e-books.
1. Pros: The first half of the story can be released earlier while I'm working on editing the second half.
2. Cons: If I mess up in the first half while editing, that makes the second half more difficult to edit as I can't change details in the first half. Also, I would need to make a second cover and setup a series.
2. Raise the price, from the usual $3.99 to $4.99.
1. At double the content, in theory this is justifiable, but I suspect at that level, most people would simply give the book a miss. I'm currently in the solid 'NO' category with this idea.
3. Suck it up and release it as one, gigantic novel.
1. This seems like the most likely option at this point.

Ah, the fun parts of being an author. If anyone has an opinion on the above options, I'm willing to entertain them.

If I DO go with option three, I would expect the book to be released sometime in June. There's simply too much to get through to ask for anything sooner. I suppose this is on me for not writing and editing something shorter.

Containment

Since 'Sky Trained' has been finished, I've been scrounging around for another story to work on. I'm pleased to announce that I've started a new project, called 'Containment,' which involves latex clad rock band members, mind control via dark otherworldly smoke entities, an AI hive mind, and an organization tasked with keeping the world safe from interdimensional monsters.

I'm honestly not sure where this one is gonna go, because I started it without an outline (foolish me). I know how I want it to end, so I'm hoping that will be enough to get me working on a proper outline... eventually.

In the mean time, I'm going to keep writing this thing and see where it goes!

In theory, that should be exciting, but after coming off Sky Trained, I'm just hoping that this isn't going to turn into another two novels that should really be one novel.

Anyway, cheers, and at this rate, my next update will probably be in a month! Hopefully I have gotten a lot done by then!

Drone Envy is now free to read!

I am pleased to announce that I have finished updating the covers for the books of my original 'Robotic Restitution' series on both Smashwords and Amazon: 'Drone Envy,' 'Drone Shuffle,' and 'Drone Circus.'

In celebration, I have reduced the price on Smashwords for 'Drone Envy' permanently to FREE and on Amazon to one dollar (Amazon doesn't allow you to reduce the price any lower - though I certainly will NOT complain if somebody price matches this to the Smashwords price of 'free').

Drone Envy

Smashwords: Smashwords – Drone Envy – a book by Caroline Waters

Amazon: Drone Envy: Robotic Restitution Book One - Kindle edition by Waters, Caroline. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

"Adele is sent to visit her Aunt Clara by her father, the ruthless Emperor of the Frysian empire, in order to remove her from the public eye while peace talks occur. Treachery is afoot, however, and she sails straight into danger.

She is captured along with three other unfortunate crew members and subjected to sinister manipulations by their robotic captors. Can she hold out without giving in to the demands of Hive, or will she become yet another Hive Drone? What other underhanded machinations of her father will she discover along the way?

Old memories, a long lost girlfriend, and strange experiments. Adele has much more to lose than just her heart."

If you are interested in the sequels, they are available as well!

Drone Shuffle

Smashwords: Smashwords – Drone Shuffle – a book by Caroline Waters

Amazon: Drone Shuffle: Robotic Restitution Book 2 - Kindle edition by Waters, Caroline. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

"Adele has been ransomed and sent back to her father. However, nothing is as it should be. Her memories locked away, she cannot remember the ordeal she has suffered at the hands of her captors or the blossoming romance she had only begun to understand.

Worse, a corrupting intelligence has been implanted into her mind, fracturing it into a desolate landscape with multiple warring personas. Which persona will come out on top? Will anything be left of her original personality after the dust has settled? And will she ever remember the Drone that she loves?"

Drone Circus

Smashwords: Smashwords – Drone Circus – a book by Caroline Waters

Amazon: Drone Circus: Robotic Restitution Book Three - Kindle edition by Waters, Caroline. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

"Now of one mind, Adele has the strength to face what is asked of her. Will she be able to satisfy Hive’s demands, or will her newly reconstructed persona crumble under the stress? With more Drones to deal with than ever before, how will she juggle each of her new companions to keep them all satisfied while fulfilling her duties as Director?

With Hive spreading, can anyone in the empire stop the invasion? Will anyone want to?"

Transference has been released!

I'm very pleased to announce that Transference has been accepted for release on Amazon's KDP and Kindle Unlimited:

Transference - Kindle edition by Waters, Caroline. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Synopsis

Chloe wakes to find that her consciousness has been downloaded into a rubbery, blue, synthetic body. Together, with her lover Sakura, who has also been turned into a gynoid, they try to discover why they have been dressed in glossy black latex and let loose among a population of identical robotic drones.

They discover, to their horror, that their new bodies have been built to be futanari sex bots in the image of their alien Mistress. Ruled by their desires, it seems increasingly unlikely that they will be able to escape Her machinations, or each other - if they can even remember how to do so.

Up Ahead

I should have more news on my other projects soonish, but I'm waiting for some things to be finalized first... stay tuned!

April Update: Transference, Sky Trained, and more!

Transference

Weighing in at around 42,000 words, my tale about sexy futa robot drones finally has a completed first draft. For a story I was intending to only be around 15K, this one certainly got away from me, as most of my works tend to!

I've just finished writing the author's notes, so the next big chore is the proofreading/editing.

I was able to churn through 'Vanished' in about a week, but I'm not certain I want to push that hard for this one. Certainly, though, I don't wish for it to take another month before I release.

I'm not sure what Amazon's policies are around sexy robots with metallic dicks, so we'll see whether or not my synopsis gets approved for publication.

Anyway, I'll post here when/if I get this novella released, which I expect will be in a few weeks.

Sky Trained

In the meantime, this behemoth of a novel has reached about 120K now. Fortunately, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and I believe that there's only about 1 1/2 more scenes to write until the end. I expect that won't take more than 5 K, which puts the first draft within reach by the end of the week.

Unfortunately, that means I have an incredible amount of writing to edit, which is liable to take a LOT longer to get through. Imagine having about 170K words to read and edit ahead of you, and then you'll begin to understand my pain.

It must be done to get to release, however, so that's all there is to it. May-ish sounds like a good release time frame for this one at my current rate of progress.

Re-covers of Drone Shuffle/Drone Circus

Mid last month I also worked through new covers for Book 2/Book 3 of Robotic Restitution. Here they are:

Eventually, I'm planning on re-releasing these books with these new covers, at which point I'm planning on making book one completely free (on both Smashwords and Amazon).

At one point, I vaguely thought about putting them together into one big omnibus, but as time goes by that sounds less and less appealing. I think this will be a suitable place to put them permanently. As my first works, they're not good, but they're not bad either. I'm proud of what I've managed to accomplish so far.

The Future

I'm not going to completely stop my writing while I'm editing, so in the meantime I'll also have to come up with something else to work on. I don't have anything planned at the moment, but I figure what I'll do this time (for fun) is to trawl through my collection of stock photos and come up with a story that fits them. It could be fun! (And also a lot more work!)

I also want to get back to the Rubber Order universe this year, but I don't really have a plot put together yet. Plans are subject to change (TM).

I am committed to making this year a year of publishing multiple works, so stay tuned! There will be more to come!

Sky Trained & Transference - Plus Working on Updated Covers!

It's been over a month, so this seems like a good time for an update! I haven't been slacking off, I assure you!

Sky Trained

I'm up to ~90,000 words on this book now, and I suspect it will take another 20K to complete. That's almost TOO long, but I want to tell the story properly. I'm currently not planning on splitting this into two books, but let's see how I feel after I finish editing this beast.

I'm still putting in ~1,000 words a day on this novel, so I'm hoping the first draft might be finished around the end of this month. No promises!

Transference

A couple weeks back I had a great story idea. One which I thought I would start working on after I finished Sky Trained. Well, I'm a little crazy, so I decided that I'd start writing it concurrently with Sky Trained, at a goal of ~1,000 words a day, as well.

So far, it's been two weeks, and I'm keeping up. I really don't know how I'm doing it, but it's happening some how.

Unfortunately, this 'short' story has already bloomed into a 14,000 word behemoth, and I'm expecting it might need another 10K to finish.

That means it's likely I will release 'Transference' before Sky Trained, if I can keep up the current pace. Work on this story only happens if I feel like I can do it each day, so it's not a hard goal (but I'm just lying to myself, I'm totally going to do it).

Anyway, that means a new, weird story about robot drones is coming to Amazon, possibly by the end of the month. I already have a cover made up for it!

Does it look good to you?

Here's a preliminary synopsis. I'm probably going to rework it before release, but it should at least give a taste of what I'm trying to accomplish with this story:

"Chloe wakes up to discover that her consciousness has been implanted in a rubbery blue synthetic body. Together, with her lover Sakura, who has also been turned into a gynoid, they try to figure out why they have been dressed in black latex and let loose among a population of unintelligent drones.

Lost in a sea of androids, will their love survive the mysterious intelligence orchestrating these events? How real can love be when your entire existence has been programmed for you?"

Robotic Restitution Re-Covers

My original trilogy is more or less done in terms of sales, so I'm thinking I may want to do something with it to make it look more polished.

I won't call myself an artist by any means, but now that I've gotten confident with my editing skills, I'm working on putting together new covers for this series. I want my entire library to look as professional as I can accomplish, and my original cover attempts were amateurish at best.

Once I've finished, I may put together an omnibus, but at the very least, I'm planning on making the first book free.

Here's the first cover as a preview of what I'm trying to do!

I think it looks way better, but that's just me!

Sayonara for now, and maybe I'll put together another update next month with an actual announcement of a release!!!

'Sky Trained': Update 2

It's been about a month since I announced my next project, so I thought it would be a good time to check in.

So far, 'Sky Trained' is around 54,000 words, with about 13 scenes left to write. That being the case, I think it's very likely that this will turn out to be about a 100,000 word novel, since I haven't quite hit the third act of the book just yet. At my current rate of writing around 1,000 words a day, that puts the first draft as being completed near the end of March.

I certainly won't promise anything sooner, since a novel of that length will take a considerable amount of time to edit. Also, I'll need to figure out the next story to work on at the same time, which means there's probably going to be some wiggle room needed. If I had to make a complete off the cuff guess, I imagine it will probably be published sometime late April.

This will prove to be a bit of an issue, as I want to publish more than one story this year, but I can't really help where my muse is taking me. This one's gonna be a long one. That's just the way it is!

I will say that there's going to be a tad less sex in this one than in my other KDP works, as this story has 'fatter legs,' and a slower burn. Hopefully there are still people out there who will enjoy it!

You know what? Since I don't have a synopsis for this novel yet, I might as well take a stab at writing one here so you can get a taste of what this story is going to be all about!

Sky Trained Synopsis

Allison thought she had won a trip of a lifetime when both her and her college friends were handed sweepstakes tickets to a tropical island. Her impression soured immediately upon arrival when she discovered that all visitors were being trained to become latex clad cow women and pony girls. Worse, her best friend knew this, and was already well on her way towards becoming a prime milker!

Rebecca traveled to the island for far different reasons - belonging to the secret hero agency Blue Stars, she is working to unravel the strange transformations the island staff are wreaking on the unsuspecting students.

Neither of them understand the insidious methods which will be brought to bear to bring them both to heel. Isolated, with the appropriate training, they may both yet end up becoming new cows in the island's dairy.

Upcoming Project: 'Sky Trained'

Hello there! I hope you all had an excellent Christmas and a Happy New Year! Welcome to 2022!

Headed into the future, my New Year's goal is to work hard to finish more works and get published on Amazon more often. To achieve this goal, I am still keeping up with my 1000K words a day goal. I am currently around ~15K into a new work titled 'Sky Trained.'

More excitingly, I've been working on the cover for this story the past three days, and I already have it completed! (See Below)

I haven't yet written the synopsis for 'Sky Trained,' and I'm also not yet sure whether it will be novella or novel length. I won't know until I get close to the end!

What I do know is that this story is going back towards my roots. There will be a lot of mind control, milking, human cattle, pony girls, superheroes, villains, political skullduggery, and plenty of sexy fun times.

I can't promise a release date right now, as if this turns out to be novel length, the editing is sure to be a bear. Just know that I am committed to continuing my current pace of work, which at 1K/day means I would potentially hit novel length around 55 days from now (if we go with a standard novel length of 70,000 words). If it turns out to be longer, it will, of course, take more time to write!

I think any fans of my past work will enjoy this one, but we shall see! Good luck with your New Year's resolutions!