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!