I'm pleased to announce that I've finished the first draft of my next novel, 'Dirty Hearts.' Over the next month or so, I will be working to edit this novel into an ebook. Given that it's 238 pages long, I expect this process to be rather laborious.
I do have the cover, synopsis, and author's notes written, so it's simply the editing that's in the way!
Once it's complete, I shall release it along with 'Soldiers of Darkness' (though that story will be free!)
I've also decided to set up a free promotion for 'Doll Factory' during this release, as it's been almost a year since I've run a free promotion.
I don't yet have a release date, but I expect that it may be early next month, depending on how the next couple of weeks go. I have a lot going on, so it's hard to commit to a particular time frame, but once I know more, I'll post it!
Future Works
After thinking about my general trajectory recently, I've decided that I'm self censoring rather a lot to get certain stories published on Amazon. Going forward, I'm going to try and do less of that.
What does this mean?
Since I've discovered Gumroad, my plan is to sell the less censored stuff there (things I don't think Amazon will take, especially nonconsensual fantasies).
Eventually, I will likely remove the free version of Repopulated from this site and start selling it there. That's very likely months away, so there's no rush, but if you'd like to grab a copy of it, you can still download it here for now:
EPUB Version: https://mega.nz/file/82FyAZBQ#6HxwoB_baTQYXASHR5JQm_bZuQNmAZdOkSqZwAslf6Y
ODT Version: https://mega.nz/file/g6lkkRwD#J3FZVBV0U8MF1DDrRSBpgtvZD9g9y_ZTiD551rpRugE
Discord
If you missed my discord link last time, here it is:
https://discord.gg/HfyQS3Rdzd
I post daily progress updates on my server. Feel free to stop by and say hi!
Dirty Hearts Synopsis
"Pink lost her mother and crystal heart squadmates during a disastrous assault on Karroch, a brutal negative space entity that shattered her confidence and stole her memories.
Forced into retirement, she spends her days trying to rebuild her broken life, but the Shadow Queen has sent her dark servant to offer her a deal she can’t refuse.
Soon, she is drawn into the Queen’s world, where servants take up Her ivory mask and rubber uniforms. Corrupted into erotic shadows of their former selves, they are willing to do anything for Her lustful cause.
One by one, her allies fall, becoming dark parodies of their former selves. Pink is forced to return to her old haunts to scrape together a team, but the Queen is hot on her tail, demanding that she fulfill their contract. If she falls and becomes a Dark Chained Heart, nothing will prevent the Queen from perverting the rest of the crystal hearts into Her busty servants.
Indeed, it’s already becoming difficult for her to imagine any other outcome."
Having been writing for six months, I've confirmed what I've read about writing over the years: stability and rhythm are important. It's akin to physical exercise—missing a day or two leads to a downard spirale that is hard to escape.
ReplyDeleteWhat I mean is, the way you write and your productivity over the years have been inspiring. I've been a fan since around 2016, when your "Incubated" scratched an itch that Tabico's "Pierced" had started. Thank you!
In good news, I've finally found a fitting name to put over my future works and have two short stories in their final editing stages! These "vignettes" are meant to be practice pieces: one is about synthetic husks (11k words) and classic everyone's favourite slugs (18k words). Interestingly, a much simpler and more "porny" slug story aims to be around 20k words — with almost no dialogue! It has proven the be a proper practice, evolving and growing. I'm following the principle of focusing less on the act itself and more on the characters and events, a prelude.
In other news, I've written down over 120k+ words of plots, outlines, and random chapters for all the "squicky" stuff I could ever imagine — this process has burned out a lot of synapses... So, the fire has quieted down a bit for a while now... I've almost stopped reading smut, both long and short form. It took me about a month to read "Repopulated". Although, this was the first long-form smut I've read properly, from start to finish, without skipping to the "most interesting" parts. That was an interesting experience, thank you!
I'm glad to hear that I've been inspiring for you! It's unfortunate that Tabico quit the scene, as I had quite hoped that she would finish writing 'Pierced.' I got the sense that there was more to that story, but it likely was never completed. Unfortunately, I doubt we'll see a conclusion now.
DeleteGetting into a writing habit is extremely important, and can be very satisfying. The only problem is the editing, because it can be easy to get drowned in the amount of work that needs to be read.
Trying to stay on top of it is just as important as writing, though I don't allow myself to stop writing when I start editing. I always want something in progress.
Feel free to send along the links to your 'practice' works when you get them published, I'm interested in seeing what you come up with! (Or just post them to my Discord!) There's never enough writers working in the squicky space, in my opinion.
Personally, I write down new ideas when they occur, but I don't generally try to develop them into a story until I'm close to finishing one already. There's always exceptions to that rule, of course, but it is possible to get lost in world building and not have a good story to show for it. I have plenty of discarded ideas that just didn't feel like they'd work.
I'm glad you liked Repopulated! It looks like that work is going to remain free, for now, since Gumroad has banned all NSFW material. I have to figure out how to proceed now... more information in my next post!