I’ve been writing for about five years now.
Technically speaking, I released my very first title, Hellcats: Six Foot Ten, on September 23, 2014. And I managed to release a handful of other titles before the end of the year, but I don’t really consider my ‘career’, inasmuch as I can call this clusterfuck a career, started until the beginning of 2015. It is now January 1st, 2020, which means I’ve been at this with mostly unbroken consistency for five long years.
What have I managed to do in those five years?
Well, I managed to write…
3 novellas
8 short stories
41 novels
2 collections
Over a dozen other shorts in the form of bonus content that I don’t otherwise count.
Roughly 6 novels as Crystal Candy.
That’s over like 2,000,000 words. When I look back at everything that’s happened over the past half-decade, I largely feel two things.
The first is that I’m amazed it’s worked out as well as it has.
The second is…am I fucking ever going to get stability and consistency? (Personally and professionally speaking.)
Although 2019 was not as bad as 2018, I still feel like it had more downs than ups, and that I’ve largely just been trying to recover from the damage that was done in 2018. (More went on behind the scenes than I let on.)
But now the decade is over, and a new decade has begun, and for the last portion of the year, I felt like I have finally, finally begun getting my shit back together. Like a prologue of the year to come. With this in mind, let’s take a look ahead at what I intend to bring you in 2020.
HAVEN. 2020 is going to be, largely, the year of Haven. My primary focus is going to be writing this series. Besides it being my strongest seller, I have a really good idea of where I want to go with it, where I want it to end, and how to get there. At present, I’m looking at there being nine novels, but that could change, so don’t set your hearts on that number. There’s a lot to do: places to explore, monsters and assholes to fight and kill, relationships to develop, people to save, things to build. I don’t know if it will be possible to finish Haven within the next twelve months, but I am intending to try.
QUICKIES. So, I’ve talked about this before, and I’m going ahead with it. In short, the Quickies will be collections of short stories that have been written to serve as bonus content to spruce up my collected works. I think it’s pretty reasonable to not want to repurchase those titles for 10$ just to get your hands on a few short stories, and I want to give people a chance to buy just the short stories if they’ve already read the works in question. This will also give me a chance to write brand new, exclusive material for series that I have long since finished. So here’s how it will work. Each Quickies collection will collect all existing bonus content relating to at least two series and/or titles, usually more. It really depends on just how much there is. They will cost 2.99$, and will not be enrolled in the KU, unfortunately, because I’m not sure about Amazon’s policy for re-publishing shit and I just don’t want to invoke their wrath on accident. To give you an example, I’ll tell you the specifics of the first one. Quickies #1 will have every bonus short ever written relating to Hellcats and to Exploration. It will also have two completely original short stories, one related to Hellcats, one related to Exploration, never before seen and exclusive to these collections. I’ll be creating one brand new short story for nearly every title I have ever written, including The Misty Vixen Starter Pack and the Freebies, so if you’ve had something you’ve been wanting to see how it turned out, keep an eye out for these. If you have any questions, please ask.
SCIENCE FICTION. I plan on bouncing back and forth between projects, given that I had adopted a strategy of working on two projects simultaneously, and it’s worked out well so far. Basically, I write 4,000 words a day for my main project, and 1,000 words a day for my next project. As a result, by the time I’ve wrapped up my primary project, I’m already a quarter to a third done with my secondary project! I’m hoping this will accelerate my publishing schedule. And because I don’t want to burn out, I’ll be working on something that isn’t Haven in between writing Haven novels. After getting a few things I need to get written and published out of the way, I intend to turn my attention to something in my Sci-Fi Universe. I’m not yet sure what that will be, though I have a strong contender. Mainly, I want to do this because I miss Sci-Fi. I haven’t written a single Sci-Fi thing for just over two years at this point!
Okay, now, this is the part where I get long-winded and run over everything in all four of my shared universes. If you don’t care, feel free to skip. But if you’re interested in a sort of sneak peek at where I am right now with my stories and universes and ideas, then keep reading and hopefully be wowed!
PARANORMAL UNIVERSE
PARANORMAL PASSIONS: Done except for a Quickie exclusive short.
PARASEXUAL: Done except for a Quickie exclusive short.
PINK: Done except for a Quickie exclusive short.
ROOMMATES WITH BENEFITS (THE MISTY VIXEN STARTER PACK): Done except for a Quickie exclusive short.
FANTASY UNIVERSE
WANDERLUST: Done except for a Quickie exclusive short.
MY UNDEAD LOVER: Done except for a Quickie exclusive short.
LUST & ADVENTURE: I intend to write one more novel and a Quickie short.
LARGE & LOVELY: Done except for a Quickie exclusive short.
LAY OF THE LAND (THE MISTY VIXEN STARTER PACK): Done except for a Quickie exclusive short.
SNAKESKIN: Done except for a Quickie exclusive short.
ROYAL LUST: Done except for a Quickie exclusive short. Though I do intend to use the characters in future series extensively.
ADVENTUROUS: This will be a full-blown series. Not sure when I’ll get to work on it.
WOMEN OF THE WILD: This will also be a full-blown series. After I’ve written Haven and something Sci-Fi, I will likely make this my priority.
UNTITLED FREE INCEST STORY: The next free, website-exclusive story (series?) I intend to write, is about a deeply loving relationship between a young man and his beautiful mature mother. I hope to get to this in 2020.
POST-APOCALYPTIC UNIVERSE
SEX & SURVIVAL: I’ve finally decided, done except for a Quickie exclusive short.
THE PALE REDHEAD: Done except for a Quickie exclusive short.
A NEW WORLD (THE MISTY VIXEN STARTER PACK): Done except for a Quickie exclusive short.
HAVEN: I intend to finish this series this year.
UNTITLED SERIES: I’ve mentioned this before. It’s kind of similar to Haven, in that it has base-building elements and a harem of women, but it hits a particular fetish really, really hard and I think a lot of people will really like it. I know I will. No idea how long this series will be, but surely not longer than Haven. And unless something changes, I may put this universe to sleep after this series for a long while. We’ll see.
SCIENCE FICTION UNIVERSE
HELLCATS: Done except for a Quickie exclusive short.
EXPLORATION: Done except for a Quickie exclusive short.
ALIEN HAREM: Done except for a Quickie exclusive short.
AMAZONIAN’S LOVE: Done except for a Quickie exclusive short.
VALKYRIES: Done except for a Quickie exclusive short. Also, I need to get a Kindle version of this available somehow. May make it available through the website, may make it a reward for 1$/month tier Patrons. Not sure yet.
BLIND DATE: Done except for a Quickie exclusive short.
DESIRE: Done except for a Quickie exclusive short.
LIKE A SEX TOY (THE MISTY VIXEN STARTER PACK): I know I mentioned earlier that I was going to rework this into the beginning of a new series, and although I do intend to write that new series still, I’m just going to use original characters instead of trying to maneuver this into something else. So, done except for a Quickie exclusive short.
KYRA’S GAME: Gonna wrap this up soon.
WILD DISCOVERY: I’ve spoken of this in the past. This may be the one I settle on to write, but I’m not so sure. It features more hardcore survival. The way I write stories has changed significantly since I originally envisioned this and sketched a few plans, so it needs to be reworked.
UNTITLED SERIES: This one is the likeliest candidate to get written next. It’s in the vein of Hellcats and Valkyries, just much better paced and written. Kind of like how Parasexual was basically an idealized Paranormal Passions. Looking forward to this one.
UNTITLED SERIES: Another one that hits a particular kink particularly hard. This one will definitely be slice-of-live versus out in the wild survival. One of my newer ideas. Still not sure if I can make it work. If I do, it’ll likely be shorter stuff, maybe 30-40,000 word titles.
UNTITLED SERIES: Have you ever heard of hurt-comfort? From what I gather, it’s a genre that’s about really miserable, unhappy people comforting each other. That’s what this series is about. Imagine Paranormal Passions, but in a sci-fi setting, and more coherent, and more unhappy, with each character getting their own, unique damage! Sounds fun, I’m sure. This idea hit me really hard, and it would be more a work of passion than anything else. I’m admittedly a little scared to tackle this one, because I get worried about fucking it up.
And that’s it. That’s everything. Well, not EVERYTHING, but that’s just about everything I’ve got for Misty Vixen for the foreseeable future. Obviously, I’ve got a lot left to write. And I have WAY more ideas for other pennames. Speaking of that, you’re probably wondering about Crystal Candy. Well, I’m sorry to say that I’m keeping her retired for the moment. I still certainly have ideas that I don’t think would fit anywhere else, but my work with Misty Vixen is just too important, and any spare time I do have is being used to gear up for far bigger plans that I have for the future…