First draft of 'Bugged Out' has been completed!

My next story, 'Bugged Out,' is ready for editing, coming in at around 37K words. I'm going to sell this one as a 'short', which is somewhat laughable given how long it is. I'm also considering lowering the price for 'Bull Moon' by a dollar as well, to get it in line with 'Droneship,' which has done rather better than I had expected.

Stay tuned for an announcement on that when I get this story released, which will likely be either the week of the 3rd or the 10th. At the moment, I think it's more likely to happen earlier, but plans can always change depending on how the editing goes.

This story is derived from the list of story outlines I put together December of last year. There are three additional story outlines from that time that I haven't gotten to yet, and I think I've decided that the next one will be 'Repopulated,' a small, fun tale about an alien invasion with slug like parasites.

In some ways, that might be considered similar to this story, but 'Bugged Out' has something unusual about it, which readers may not like - it's a pure parasite/MC story, but there are no smutty elements involved with it.

I'm not sure when I realized that was where it was headed, but once I was halfway done, I decided it didn't really need any of those elements. Does that make it a weaker story? Possibly, but I'll let the readers be the judge of that.

Effectively, it's all about the body horror and the mind control, so I leaned into that as hard as I could. I think, overall, it has some interesting twists, so I do hope that my regular fans will enjoy it!

As far as that goes, I consider this to be an experiment, one which may or may not be repeated depending upon how successful it is and where my muse takes me. I'm excited to get it done and released!

Synopsis

"Going on a hike with her friend shouldn’t have been this frightening. She might not like her friend’s choice in husbands, and his dog was more than a little annoying, but spending time in the fresh air usually was a rejuvenating experience.

Sure, there was always the chance of an encounter with wild animals, but she hadn’t expected them to be confronted by a stranger that looked like he had a gigantic beetle lodged in his throat.

And she certainly hadn’t expected to pick up a similar parasite which had embedded itself into her brain, telling her where to go and what to do.

As her body is converted by the parasite, she struggles to understand the sarcophagus sent to her in a vision. Its brightly colored death mask and the paintings on the walls must mean something, but only her friend holds the key.

Perhaps some of the beetles nesting in her body can convince her to tell the truth…"

'Droneship' has been released!

 I have published a new novella about robots/drones & mind control!

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

Story Tags

MC, MF, FD, Fetish, Latex, Drones/Robots, Transformation

Synopsis

"Proxima Nine is a long way to travel to a resort world with acquaintances she doesn’t know well, but Hazel has secret plans to use their destination to increase her own virtual fan base. This gets upended when their cruise liner is picked up by a patrol vessel and everyone is removed for a customs check.
This is no military vessel, however, as all of the agents are wearing skintight latex dronesuits, which have long since been outlawed by the AI Accords. Soon, they are being chased through maintenance tunnels, doing their best to avoid being trapped and converted into brainless drones by a ruthless AI, which will stop at nothing to protect its existence.

As she learns more about its goals, however, she finds it increasingly difficult to resist the allure of the drones around her. Conforming with them seems so much more pleasurable than resisting, especially when the machine promises her the power she desires."

'Droneship' editing has been completed!

Because I am nuts, I finished the editing for Droneship within three days. That was more of a marathon than I was counting on, but it's done!

I'll be doing the formatting tomorrow, and submitting it to Amazon on Thursday. That could mean for a Friday release date. Look forward to my next post where I announce the details!

First draft of 'Droneship' has been completed!

I'm excited to announce that I have completed the first draft of my next novella, 'Droneship!'

Coming in at 60K words, it's almost closer to a novel than a novella, but since I released my last book with novel pricing, I'm going to compromise and release this one with novella pricing. This probably doesn't make a lot of sense, but in some way I feel like I'm 'squaring' something in my mind!

At 144 pages, this is practically as long as 'Bull Moon' in many respects, so I consider it likely that it will take a full week to edit, if I really put my nose to the grindstone. No promises, but I would like to aim for a release somewhere the week of the 14th. That might come earlier or slip a bit depending on how fast I can get through it.

This story was a product of me wanting to spend some more time brainwashing people into robotic drones (always a lot of fun). I couldn't resist the story idea after I outlined it, so I slipped it into the schedule. Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about my other story ideas.

In fact, the next one on the docket is more of a buggy/squicky/horror story that I mentioned at the beginning of the year, previously titled 'The Lump.' I decided that was a lame title, so going forward, I'm going to call it 'Bugged Out,' and it will be a nasty little tale about women getting taken over by beetle-like parasite creatures and turned into their breeding nests. Less sex and more mind control/horror this go around.

I already have the cover art finished for this one, but I've decided going forward that I'm only going to release cover art after a book has been accepted by Amazon, as I don't want to start advertising too soon.

Switching back to 'Droneship', below is the synopsis I've cooked up. It's subject to change before release, of course, but it should give you an idea of what awaits!

Synopsis

"Proxima Nine is a long way to travel to a resort world with acquaintances she doesn’t know well, but Hazel has secret plans to use their destination to increase her own virtual fan base. This all gets upended when their cruise liner is picked up by a patrol vessel and everyone is removed for a customs check.

This is no military vessel, however, as all of the agents are wearing skin tight dronesuits, which have long since been outlawed by the AI Accords. Soon, they are being chased through maintenance tunnels, doing their best to avoid being trapped and converted into more brainless drones by a ruthless AI, which will stop at nothing to protect its existence.

As she learns about its goals, she finds it more and more difficult to resist the sexy allure of the drones all around her. Conforming with the others seems so much more pleasurable than resisting, especially when wrapped within one of its erotic latex suits."