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?"

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!

Midweek Update: Published!

The final book in my Robotic Restitution Trilogy, Drone Circus, has been released!

http://mybook.to/DroneCircus
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZHPFGWX
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/987585

"Hive is on the move! What role will Adele play? A cog in the machine? Or something greater?"

I thank everyone who has read my novels, and I do hope I have lived up to your expectations. I've spent over a year working on this trilogy, and there have been plenty of times where I was uncertain whether I would ever finish.

Now that this massive project has been published, the next step is to try and get Drone Metastasis done. I have the outline and the first chapter close to being completed, but as I alluded to in my last post, it will likely be quite some time before I'm finished due to my health.

Here's hoping everything will go smoothly. I'll post on this blog once I have something to report!

 Drop me a line if you have any feedback!

Week End: Dungeon Edition

Desaturated Detente

It looks like the first chapter has been fairly well received, though nobody has made a comment!

There are two more chapters to come, which I will be posting in the next two weeks - I need something to make Wednesdays interesting as we come up through the end of the year!

Up next: Wonder Woman has some fun with Black Shine, and Supergirl is in her crosshairs. More fun heroine bondage to come!

Dampest Dungeon: Flower Progeny

Progress on this story this week has been anemic, to say the least. Perhaps coming down off the success of Desaturated Detente has left me a little listless, but I must press on! Since this should be a shorter story, with any luck it should be done this week, though I won't be posting it until after my run of Desaturated Detente has completed.

To give you a taste of what's coming, let's just say that there's going to be some plant based tomfoolery going on in the dungeon. I have the main introduction scene fleshed out, but it's the interstitial that's kicking my butt. I just need to give it some quality time and it should come out in the wash.

This image by Lerra serves as inspiration. I love the idea of organism forced bondage.

I need to get my butt in gear on this one so I can start work on Drone Metastasis. That story is really what I ought to be working on right now!

Drone Circus: Robotic Restitution

I wish I could say progress was going smoothly on getting the final novel prepared, but of course it's giving me special problems!

Even so, I still managed to get the first chapter edited. With six more weeks to go, the final debut is coming up rather quick!

I had better get down to work on the cover again. I have a draft sketch of what I'd like to see in there, but it's much rougher than previous sketches. I suspect this last image will be the worst in terms of getting something looking acceptable.

Still, I shall prevail and get this all done!