August was nowhere near as exciting as July was. Sort of a gift and a curse kind of situation.
I had hoped to arrive here with Our Own Way 2 in hand, and if sleep problems and frankly shockingly potent depression hadn’t struck, I would be. But that’s the way life goes sometimes. Or my life at least.
Anyway, the good news, a few things came out at least.
For those curious, the Monster Girl Inn Trilogy audio does include Time Together. Now that we’re beginning to transition into Collections, as far as I know, they should have the bonus content recorded for all of them going forward.
As for Snowed In, I originally wrote this earlier in the year for a different project that ultimately fell through, so I opted to get some cover art made and post it. I’ve always been kind of curious about posting little follow-up shorts to finished series, but I have to admit that I was kind of surprised by the poor response to this title. I knew it wasn’t going to be a bestseller but man were the sales abysmal. I haven’t even gotten out of the red for the cover art yet. I don’t really regret writing it because now it’s there and it’ll always be there for those who want to look, and I know it’ll make some people happy, but it’s made me reconsider returning to any of my series beyond basically any capacity but a passion project.
On that note, I’ve begun the process of resurrecting my backlog yet again. Here’s a quick list of what’s back up.
SEX & SURVIVAL TRILOGY
LIKE A FINE WINE SERIES
ALIEN HAREM DUOLOGY
DESIRE SERIES (New 9,900 word epilogue)
EXPLORATION
AMAZONIAN’S LOVE
Except for Desire, there’s little that has changed. I’ve remade all the cover art to be more in keeping with my current aesthetic and everything has been reformatted to be much more readable (smaller paragraphs, shorter chapters). Also, Exploration & Amazonian’s Love now have the bonus content paired with them. I figured it’s the best way to handle it. Also, just in case you missed it, I wrote a 13,000 Epilogue for Like A Fine Wine that is now packaged with The Complete Series.
For now, the only thing left coming is Hellcats and Blind Date. Blind Date won’t change, but I’m still intending to release Hellcats 4, which will be a blend of the bonus content I wrote for it over the years and new content written to serve as connective tissue between the shorts. How it will play out, functionally speaking, is sort of like Time Together. You’ll see roughly a year of time after the end of Hellcats 3 pass in chunks and it’ll show their life coming together. If you’re wondering why am I bothering with this after what I just said about Snowed In? Three reasons that sort of blend together: part passion, part long-term investment, part aesthetic. To me, one novel is more appealing than 9 short stories, at least in this regard. The Life, the most recently written story, will still remain a bonus epilogue packaged with The Complete Series.
I won’t be able to post much else until near the end of this month, and that’ll be from the Fantasy Universe. I’m still intending to do a Wanderlust V and a Lust & Adventure IV. I’ve got a bit more invested in the Fantasy Universe, as I still intend to do a big epic rewrite of Demoness in the future.
The rest of the content will get posted sometime in October and then I’ll be done with all the reposting.
Okay, next thing.
Dead Drift. This is the project I was mentioning with Lara X. Lust. For the record, no, this is not the Sci-Fi/Horror project I’ve been referencing. This is completely new content, independent of anything I’ve ever spoken of before. In short, this kind of just happened. I had a heavy hand in plotting and writing it. A new episode should be coming out once a week, I believe over the weekend, until completion. You can check out this page for direct information on what’s out.
To clarify, it is haremlit. It’s basically about survival in a post-apocalyptic galaxy where undead monsters are everywhere.
Now, finally, we’ll wrap up with the most pertinent data, which I of course have placed here at the end.
OUR OWN WAY: This should be done relatively soon. I’ve been pushing through this as fast as I can, but these stories are longer than anything else I’ve written. From where it stands now, there’s a decent chance Our Own Way 2 will actually be longer than the first one. Also, as part of an experiment, I’m going to be bumping the price to 5.99$ for both titles. In truth, I don’t expect this to do too much, given people tend to read everything I write through the KU, (which is totally cool), but I’m beginning to suspect that people aren’t taking 4.99$ titles seriously. I know it sounds ridiculous and I wish I didn’t have to fuck with this kind of shit. I just want to write stories and sell them to people, easy as that, but unfortunately I, like Robert Rodriguez, am a ‘one person mariachi band’. (Mostly, obviously I’m grateful to my artists.) After Our Own Way 2 is wrapped up, I think I need to take a little break before getting started on Our Own Way 3. I don’t want to go too fast and screw up the writing.
UNDERGROUND POST-APOCALYPTIC STORY: Still working on this one in the background, but I will begin posting it to my Patreon this month. Once Our Own Way 2 is finished, this is going to get primary focus until it’s done. Unlike my other titles, though, I’m not sure when this one will come out. That’s going to be up to Royal Guard.
GOBLIN GIRLS: Okay, so…the Amazon problem seems to have largely smoothed itself out. Behind the scenes, they made a change that really took the pressure off. This is good. It means I can reassess all my plans. Again. Which I have done. (I still don’t trust Amazon at all, though). I’ve never really been what you can call a trend-chaser, mostly because the things that end up getting really popular are not things that I care about or, in some cases, could even see myself writing about. That being said, it’s very obvious that goblin girls are the next big thing. Everyone wants them, and I know for a fact that there’s like half a dozen authors in the haremlit field jumping on the goblin girl bandwagon. Several people have encouraged me to do the same and initially I was reluctant. But some time passed and an idea finally came to me. I’ll be working on the first book in the background and if we are very lucky, I will have it out next month. What I can say about it now is it takes place in a fantasy setting and it will involve adventuring, surviving, and the breeding of horny goblin girls.
Basically everything else will have to wait while I deal with these three.
And that’s it.