I Am Taking A Short Break

So, this realization suddenly hit me: I need to just call it for the month.

The short version of this announcement is: I am taking the rest of June off and Lakeside Cougars is definitely not coming out July 1st. More updates on July 1st. (Dead Freeze should be out soon, though, and I’ll do a proper post about that.)

Longer explanation: We already know the whole song and dance with my anxiety/depression. That being said, I knew at the beginning of the year that burnout was coming. I was just hoping that I was going to be able to get more done before it struck.

Unfortunately, it hit hard in the middle of writing Beneath the Ashes 3, and it had already been hitting before that, but at some point during production of that book, writing became like passing a kidney stone. Finishing a novel under these conditions is…taxing. Heavily. And doing so while also working on other projects can be worse.

I still have a lot to do this year, but my thoughts are like…smoke right now. I can’t hold onto anything for very long, creatively speaking. When I get like this, I usually have to face the fact that I need to just shut down for a while and let the dust settle and get my brain back into place.

I might work on something short, because I am a compulsive writer, but otherwise I’m going to vanish for a bit. (Except for when Dead Freeze comes out.)

Sorry, I imagine this is annoying by now. Actually, I imagine it’s well past annoying. But like Burt Gummer once said: I’m doing what I can with what I got.

Minor Update

TL;DR: Raw VIII is coming out as intended, Our Own Way is delayed for an unknown amount of time, I need to instead write and publish a new book to test how hard Amazon is going to fuck me.

So…

I figured that I should probably say SOMETHING about the whole thing happening with Amazon right now. In truth, I’ve been considering what to say for a long time now. Normally I have a policy of being very open about my work with my readers, but behind the scenes, pretty much every author has been advising every other author to shut the fuck up about this. For a number of reasons.

I’ll say what I can.

Earlier this month, Amazon added some updates to the publishing process and one of those was a mandatory YES/NO question on ‘does the title contain adult content?’. Obviously, this is a fucking ridiculously vague and broad question, and really, it wouldn’t even be a problem except that apparently answering YES cuts your visibility. Which, in turn, cuts your profits.

So far, not a whole lot has actually happened.

There’s a lot of authors that seem to want to just keep going as they have been, but I’m extremely reluctant to do this.

My plans, unfortunately, have changed as a result of this.

For the immediate future, I will write and release Raw VIII, ideally sometime in July, thus wrapping up the Raw series. I will also continue working on Our Own Way 1 until it is completed. However, I am now forced to hold back on the release. Something I really don’t want to do, but the situation is far too unknown right now for a major release. And I was planning on Our Own Way being a major release. And if you fuck up a title’s launch, that’s it, you can’t ever take it back. Fucking up a Book One’s launch isn’t just fucking up that book’s launch, it is permanently fucking up the entire series, because series don’t really pick up in haremlit. For the most part, you can’t really have a shitty launch for a Book One and then pick up the slack with Book Two, it just doesn’t work that way.

This means that my new plan is to write a brand new novel as a sort of test novel. I need to see precisely how much damage answering YES does to a book.

The novel in question will be the first in a trilogy. It is post-apocalyptic and will take place in an underground society. It’ll be sort of along the lines of Monster Girl Inn in terms of balance with making a home life and going out to do action-adventure stuff, just grimmer.

I will hopefully have something further to say on the 1st.

Wish me luck.

Let's Talk About Our Own Way

The time has finally come. It’s time to talk about Our Own Way.

For those of you who do not know what it is, Our Own Way is, at present, a finished haremlit series of 7 novellas about regular people living in a regular city doing regular things. It is 100% real life in the sense that there are no fantasy elements. No paranormal elements, no sci-fi elements, no nothing. Just real life in modern day 2020s America.

I wrote it on a whim July 2021 and wrapped it up in March 2022.

It was about a struggling writer named Gabe hooking up with a more mature, somewhat older woman named Ellen after her life falls apart and she discovers that their brief yet deep friendship from a few years back has resulted in him being the only person she can really trust. As they start falling in love, they decide that society is bullshit and that the only way they’re really going to be happy is to be free of bullshit jobs doling out bullshit wages and go their own way.

It was a really strange project, and a really fun one.

For those who are curious, you can, at present, get all seven episodes for free, today and tomorrow, and the Complete Collection is 99 cents.

I will be taking down this series June 15th.

Looking back on it, I realized that I had something with a lot more potential on my hands. When I first started writing it, I didn’t really think people would be all that interested in it. Consequently, I wrote the story in a serialized format averaging around 20-25,000 words apiece and initially gave it my original pink silhouette cover art, given I can make those myself and fairly easily nowadays. But it started to get some attention, and though it didn’t earn anywhere near as much as my other works, the people who did read it reacted very strongly.

There was an intense sentiment of ‘I didn’t know I needed this’. For a reason that I can guess at, the story really struck a chord with a lot of people.

Once I realized people were actually invested, I began trying to make the works longer and invested in some better, though still simple, cover art. Which is the art it has presently. Near the end, I was getting bogged down with finishing up A Warm Place, continuing Raw, and preparing for Monster Girl Inn. So I wrapped it up a bit quickly and then set it aside, not thinking much more of it.

But then it came back.

I kept getting ideas, and then even more ideas. I realized at some point that I could’ve made entire novels out of the story. And I also realized that a huge portion of the haremlit readership probably missed out on it because of the triple threat I saddled the series with: giving it…untraditional cover art, making it novella-length, and, the big one, putting it in the erotica category. (I now realize that this is basically a death sentence for the majority of all fiction on Amazon.) I also realized that people were still really liking it, and it was being recommended for people looking for a pure slice-of-life experience. Which led me to realizing that could actually be a thing.

I’ve had at least a few authors tell me that my writing of Our Own Way was, if not an opening of the door and paving of the way for haremlit slice-of-life, it at least was a significant step in that direction.

So, eventually, I began realizing I could do for it what I had done for A Warm Place, which was also initially a collection of serialized novellas with a weird concept, and rewrite it as novels.

Since that realization, I’ve been piecing it together, planning it out, and getting some real writing done. As of right now, I’m somewhere over a third finished with the actual writing. I have what I consider to be fucking awesome cover art and I’ve got a decent grasp of the overall story, the characters, where it starts and where it ends, and the many, many things that are going to happen between those two events.

For those of you interested, I’ve posted the first two chapters of the new version right here on my site. The third chapter is here, on my Patreon, if you are a 1$/month Patron. The rest of the chapters will start posting on my Patreon tomorrow for 3$/month Patrons.

I am hoping that sometime in July I will have it ready, and then I intend to put it up for pre-order, since everyone tells me I really need to try that.

It will probably be among the longest books I’ve ever written. A Warm Place 1 came in at 92,000 words and Demoness IV, my longest ever, came in at 102,000 words. I’m hoping to make it my longest book ever, but we’ll see how that turns out. I don’t like to pad my stories unnecessarily just to reach an arbitrary word or page count.

Now I’ve got to get back to work on the book and start planning the final Raw novel and then write them both simultaneously.

My Backlog Part 2 - The Return

Here’s a place I genuinely assumed I’d never be.

We’re approaching the year anniversary of the time I began seriously pondering pulling down my backlog, aka all my old non-haremlit material.

A lot can happen in a year, as we have learned since 2020.

Now that time has passed and I’ve had a chance to see precisely what happens when I take down roughly 85% of my entire library, I don’t really like where it’s left me.

Like everything I do, my decisions are made on a gauge that falls somewhere between Personal on one side and Business on the other. The more time has gone on, and the more I’ve studied the results, and considered it all, the more I’ve felt like I made the wrong choice. Or no, that doesn’t quite feel right. It’s more that I made the choice that made the most sense at the time, but it didn’t really work out the way I had hoped it would.

On the personal side of things, I just kept coming back to this simple fact: I took down 2,500,000 words of content. Two and a half MILLION words that I wrote over the course of years. Functionally gone, given that I would say that the amount of people who visit my site combined with the amount of people who might come across me and investigate further on the other sites (Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, etc.), are less than 2% of the people who come across me on Amazon.

And that just…bothers me. Like, that number kind of haunts me.

Two and a half million words.

Roughly four solid years of work.

An investment of THOUSANDS of dollars, if you consider all the cover art made.

And, on the more practical business side of things, I have definitely felt the impact of those missing titles more than I thought I would. It’s partially due to the fact that I had something of a breakdown in October, and it caused me not only to not publish anything until January, but also to take six months to publish the next book in my most successful series ever. And that six month hiatus did some damage to Raw.

So, an idea came to me in that way that ideas sometimes do. Problems, theories, conditions, all of it can swirl around for weeks or even months in my brain, like a computer running through iteration after iteration, and then suddenly the solution snaps into focus.

I have decided to bring most of my backlog back in the form of collections. They will be 99 cents and in the Kindle Unlimited. Which means I’m going to have to take them back down from everywhere else.

Here’s the thing that might get the attention of those who have read and enjoyed my backlog: I am going to take this opportunity to write brand new material for most of my old stories.

In truth, that was mostly the position I did not think I’d find myself in: writing new material for long-finished stories. I have to admit I’m surprised to discover that I actually am rather interested in this. As of right now, I’ve already begun working on a new short story taking place after all the other short stories for Hellcats, and it’s been…interesting to revisit that series and those characters.

At this moment, I do not know if I will be writing something for every series and story, but I will be making at least an attempt at them all. I may step up to the plate and discover there’s nothing left to be said. Quick example: not sure if I’ll have anything to say for Lay of the Land. But I’ll at least give it a shot.

Here is a look at how it’s going to be divided up.

SCI-FI SHARED UNIVERSE

  • VOL. 01

    • Hellcats + All Bonus Shorts + New Short

    • Exploration + All Bonus Shorts + New Short (Possibly)

    • Alien Harem + All Bonus Shorts + New Short (Possibly)

    • Amazonian’s Love + All Bonus Shorts + New Short

  • VOL. 02

    • Desire + All Bonus Shorts + New Short

    • Blind Date + New Short (Possibly)

    • Like A Sex Toy + New Short

    • Like A Fine Wine + New Epilogue

FANTASY SHARED UNIVERSE

  • Wanderlust + All Bonus Shorts + New Short

  • My Undead Lover + All Bonus Shorts + New Short (Possibly)

  • Royal Lust + All Bonus Shorts + New Short (Possibly)

  • Large & Lovely + New Short

  • Lust & Adventure + All Bonus Shorts + New Short

  • Snakeskin + New Short

  • Lay of the Land + New Short (Possibly)

  • Adventurous + All Bonus Shorts + New Short

PARANORMAL SHARED UNIVERSE

  • Paranormal Passions + All Bonus Shorts + New Short (Possibly)

  • Pink + New Short (Possibly)

  • Roommates With Benefits + New Short (Possibly)

  • Parasexual + All Bonus Shorts + New Short

POST-APOCALYPTIC SHARED UNIVERSE

  • Sex & Survival + All Bonus Shorts + New Epilogue

  • The Pale Redhead + New Short

  • A New World + New Short

So, needless to say, this is all subject to change. And, obviously there’s some oddities in there. I’ll address them all below.

  • Sci-Fi: I originally wanted to make each universe its own Collection, but unfortunately the Sci-Fi Universe proved too big and had to be broken up into two Volumes. Also, you’ll notice Valkyries is missing. The reason for that is because basically I don’t want to fuck with trying to put it on Amazon again. It will remain as a bonus download or a purchase option.

  • Fantasy: Demoness is missing from this because I am going to rewrite it, and making the original Demoness purchasable again seems disingenuous, so it will remain a free download. The same is true for Women of the Wild, given it’s not a great stand-alone title.

  • Paranormal: All but one of those are marked possibly because I’ll be honest, I don’t think I can come up with much of anything for those three. It was a struggle enough doing it last time around. But I think I really should do something for Parasexual.

  • Post-Apocalyptic: I guess the only real thing to point out here is that it isn’t a complete collection because, obviously, Haven is still up, and I can’t just put it up again. So technically it’s not complete but it’s close enough.

Some stand-outs from the new material are Like A Fine Wine and Sex & Survival. I intend for the bonuses to be longer than a simple short, maybe closer to novella, or maybe novelette, although we shall see how it actually turns out. I always wanted to write some sort of follow-up for Sex & Survival, and even once had a fourth novel planned, but ultimately decided against it. And, obviously, it’d be nice to give the Like A Fine Wine group more closure.

So, uh, yeah, that’s everything. Sorry if this seems weird, but I’m hoping it’ll make a lot of people happy, at least, and help offset some of my own problems.

I’m not 100% sure when this will start happening, but almost certainly the Sci-Fi Volume 01 is going to go up in March. I’m having new cover art made for everything. Well…sorta new. I mean, it is new, but I’m having one of my artists recreate already established characters with updated looks and sexier poses.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments.

I Need A Break

So I keep going to a really bad place, mentally and emotionally speaking, and I’ve come to the conclusion that I need an actual, real break for a bit, and then do some ‘light duty’ for awhile after.

An apt metaphor for where I’m at right now is: I’m in a car where something’s wrong and it keeps dying every five miles or so, and I keep having to turn it back on. Technically speaking, I can keep going, just restarting it again and again and again, but the progress I make will be torturously slow.

Or, I can have it towed and take the time to figure out WTF is wrong and fix it, and then drive like a normal person.

The most immediate effect of this is that I won’t be writing Raw V next, or this year. I’ve been attempting to make progress on it for weeks now, over a month, and for some reason it just IS NOT HAPPENING. I’ve made a frighteningly low amount of progress.

I’m positive I’ve made this comparison before, but it feels like that scene in Armageddon where they’ve been drilling the asteroid for hours and they’re supposed to be over 200 feet deep, and they reveal they’ve only managed 58 feet.

At some point, I looked at what I had for Raw V, and thought about how long it’s been since I began ‘working’ on it, and then I thought about how long it’s been since my last release, and then I thought about how long it’s been since the last Raw release, and something sort of just broke?

I think it became too much pressure. This is on top of the normal pressure I already feel from feeling like I’m not writing fast enough, or good enough, and realizing a lot of other authors are pulling WAY far ahead of me apparently with ease.

I’m getting off track. So I’m putting Raw V away for now, and I’m sorry for that. It was a really hard decision, because Raw is, by far, my most popular series. But I have to step away from it or I’m going to lose my mind.

Once I feel like I have both hands back on the wheel again, I’m going to take a shot at writing the final Monster Girl Inn novel, mainly because I’d like to get it wrapped up and just have one series to focus on for the moment.

After that I’ll take another break to reassess where I’m at, and then make another serious go at Raw V. I’d really like to wrap up the Raw series before mid-2023.

At the moment, I’m not sure of anything, though.

I’m going to try and figure stuff out.

Big Giveaway/Sale November 3rd - November 7th

Hey, so I’m doing a big, giant, huge giveaway/sale. I figured it was time for one of those.

If you’re missing some of my titles from your library and have been waiting for an opportunity like this, well, now’s the time to grab them!

Every individual title for Parasexual, Like A Fine Wine, Our Own Way, Haven, and A Warm Place are ALL FREE.

The Complete Collections of all these series are also less than 1$ right now. 99 cents to be specific.

Check out the list of easy links below!

PARASEXUAL

LIKE A FINE WINE

OUR OWN WAY

HAVEN

A WARM PLACE

Horror Harem Update

So doing a horror harem is actually kinda difficult.

For those who have been following along, I’ve made references to wanting to do a horror harem story for years now. The urge to do something with a darker, harder edge has been there for a long time. Maybe even since the beginning.

Although I’ve done a little bit of work here or there in the background, I really didn’t begin seriously working on a horror harem project until this year.

I’ve run into a lot of problems, from just about every angle.

Here’s probably the most immediate, practical problem I’m facing: What should be my first project? I’ve decided to launch a new pen name, since I want some level of division between the cozy comfort I tend to aim for, even in more action-survival stories, and a horror project, but mostly I just want to see what exactly happens when I launch a new name. Supposedly, Amazon favors new names.

But the question becomes, what should be my first impression? Because the first story I write will absolutely be my first impression, and that will, as the saying goes, ‘leave an impression’, whether people realize it or not.

I was hit hard by an idea that was very grim, very miserable. The story basically opens with a suicide, to give you an idea of the tone, and although I still intend on having the comforting parts in between the grimmer parts, (it can’t be all misery all the time), I ultimately backed away from the story because I felt it was too much for a first impression and, more significantly, misrepresentative of the content coming after. Because although future stories under this pen will be horror, this story would probably be as dark as it gets. So if people turned off by this level of misery, but who are still looking for horror harem, get turned away by my initial effort, then they likely won’t give any future efforts a chance, thinking it’ll be more of the same. It goes the other way, too. The people who like it? They’ll probably be let down by the more ‘tame’ series that follow.

That’s just one problem.

What about the cover art? Sexy or scary? Both? How far in either direction? The readership of harem has let me know cover art is EVERYTHING. It’s obvious that some authors absolutely thrive largely because they’re able to drop 2,000$ per cover. I’ve legitimately seen people say “WTF? Why was the story so bad, the cover was so good!” As if the quality of the cover has LITERALLY ANYTHING to do with the ability of the writer.

And then there’s the narrative difficulty. Harem is ultimately a power fantasy. Horror is literally the opposite, a dis-empowerment fantasy. In harem, harem members are never allowed to die or have irreparable harm done to them. In horror, almost everyone dies, usually extremely painfully. Now, I know there’s a way to balance that first problem (a horror harem would be closer to Doom 3 ((yes I finally played it)) than Alien - Isolation or Amnesia - The Dark Descent), and I’m willing to just not kill or torture harem members, but it makes telling the story overall more difficult.

To complicate things even further, it’s become obvious that I’ve been somewhat trying to write my idea of horror harem for a long time now. Some of the ideas I’m coming up with closely resemble Haven or A Warm Place. Basically grim survival in a grim environment. Was Haven horror? Was A Warm Place? Honestly, I can’t say they were. Really, they were more tense than scary. But that’s the kind of story I want to tell: a guy and a group of women fucking, surviving, and fighting monsters. I once joked that if I were going to do a sequel series to A Warm Place, I’d only do it if I got to introduce monsters. Some of the ideas I have closely resemble that, and it’s honestly tempting.

I’d say one of my biggest concerns is people will either say ‘this isn’t really harem’ or ‘this isn’t really horror’. Mostly I’m worried about that second one.

There’s the additional difficulty of trying to find time to do this while also keeping up my works as Misty Vixen, which is already difficult, but that isn’t a new problem.

So…yeah. It’s difficult. That’s the word of the day: difficult.

The first problem I truly need to get past is settling on which one to write. I’ve at least got it narrowed down…sort of.

I’m really tempted to do an idea that would almost go like a video game. To be clear, NOT LitRPG, but almost like a survival-horror or FPS-horror. Something like, a guy deep in a top secret research facility survives an experiment gone wrong and finds survivors (see: hot babes) and tries to escape and survive. So basically like Doom 3 or Half-Life but with a harem.

Another idea that hit me is, how best to explain this…basically a spiritual successor to The Pale Redhead, but as a small harem, in a world that’s a combination of Haven and A Warm Place. That one is also tempting.

I’m also really tempted by a fantasy horror harem. Basically, a lone warrior trying to protect a small refugee camp in the midst of an undead invasion.

And of course there’s my modern day survival-horror harem. Basically, suddenly there’s monsters everywhere and one guy and some hot chicks he finds have to survive in a small, overrun town.

Maybe ‘narrowed down’ isn’t the right phrase.

I have other ideas, as I’ve said I’ve put aside the big space survival-horror thing for now, but those are the contenders.

So yeah, that’s basically the state of things.

My Backlog

My backlog, aka basically everything that isn’t overtly harem, has been weighing on my mind for about two years now. At some point, it occurred to me that perhaps I should remove the bulk of my older work from Amazon, and post it elsewhere. In fact, I actually began this process at one point way back in 2018, but ultimately I was forced to give up on that.

But circumstances have changed. Normally that’s a bad statement, but this time I mean that circumstances have changed for the better. The reason before I ultimately couldn’t do it was because I so desperately needed the money. But now that I’ve enjoyed success with A Warm Place and Raw, and (God willing) with my future harem endeavors, I’m not forced to keep the titles up.

So I imagine the big question is: why do you want to remove a lot of your titles from Amazon?

There’s a list of reasons, and it has been growing. And I’ve finally been pushed over the edge on the matter.

If you’re interested in finding out why this is happening, and also a comprehensive list of titles that will be brought down, SLOWLY, I would like to reiterate, (don’t worry, you have time to grab them if you still want, and they’ll still be available, just not on Amazon), then read on.

  • So let’s just start out with the biggest reason, the one that is motivating me the most to do this. If this was not a factor, I probably wouldn’t be doing this. Amazon cannot be trusted. What I mean by this is: Amazon is far too massive of a company and, consequently, they have automated the shit out of basically everything. And clearly they are doing it more and more as time goes on. Bots, algorithms, WTFever, are running rampant and glitching a lot. Within the past week, they informed me that FOUR of my titles had been found to have copyrighted material in them and that I needed to provide proof that I had permission to publish them. Not even that I owned them myself, THAT I HAD PERMISSION. AS IN, ACCORDING TO AMAZON’S SYSTEM, IT ALREADY CONCLUDED THAT I WAS POSTING MATERIAL THAT DID NOT BELONG TO ME, EVEN THOUGH I LITERALLY WROTE IT MYSELF AND IT HAS NEVER BEEN PUBLISHED ANYWHERE ELSE. Consider all that for a moment. And that is just ONE of the potential issues that an account can be flagged for, and potentially suspended or even terminated for. Now I will give props here and say that with a few exceptions, normally when I respond and an actual human looks at it, they realize it’s an error and fix it immediately. (Though that was not the case here, had to fight a bit this time around.) But Amazon’s huge, what happens if I run into someone who’s in a bad mood? What happens if I run into someone who hates smut? What happens if Amazon automates their system so much that we reach a point that I can’t even reach a real person anymore? It’s heading in that direction. You can see the problem here. Which leads into my next issue.

  • Amazon hates erotica. Despite the fact that it has to be just raking in the cash, Amazon hates erotica, smut, anything with actual sex scenes in it. Which is…like everything I’ve written. Although they’d never admit it publicly, they clearly are irritated by erotica because it causes the most problems and eats into their profits when stupid assholes bitch about it loud enough and cause a controversy. God fucking forbid people enjoy their smut. Amazon has, in their zeal to pretend they’re actually listening to their consumers, gone on a rampage like six times now and wrecked or in some capacity fucked up who knows how many people’s income by mass-deleting books that suddenly don’t comply with their arbitrary new rules and, in some cases, outright terminating author’s accounts. And therein lies my specific problem: I’ve written some stuff that might be seen as questionable. Even though I went out of my way literally every time in every single one of my stories to ensure that consent was asked for and gotten, I’m sure some of the heavier scenes I’ve written (women into being tied down, slapped or choked, dub-con or non-con fantasies), might at some point be considered problematic. Just because something was okay when it was first published doesn’t mean it will remain okay forever. And the biggest problem of all this is Amazon REFUSES to release a list of things that are not okay to write about or depict. We authors have had to fucking guess. Quick example: Apparently, you are not allowed to depict a woman with her hands bound on the cover. A man with his hands bound is fine, but that’s a whole other thing. But as far as I can tell, NOWHERE does it say this. Even though it is a VERY SPECIFIC thing, it’s not a rule that’s been written down anywhere. Shit, how many people have had a title blocked and have no idea why? Because Amazon won’t TELL US. The message is, 99% of the time, some fucking variant of ‘you have violated the content guidelines, now fix it even though we won’t tell you what’s wrong’. It could be fucking ANYTHING. It could literally be nothing, just a glitch. But there’s no difference in the messages, so there’s basically no way to tell. And it’s an old problem, I used to run into this even way back in the mid-2010s. And as we all know, most of my backlog is labeled as erotica. And once you label something as erotica, you can’t unlabel it. Not unless you completely republish it as a new title…which is its own bag of worms, and which I wouldn’t do anyway, because it is erotica, which is why I don’t write straight-up erotica anymore. And so all of this boils down to: about three quarters of my currently live titles are potential landmines that might suddenly become a problem with each day that passes.

  • I AM NO LONGER AN EROTICA AUTHOR. This is something I’ve spoken of a bit already, but basically, just about everything that came before A Warm Place is no longer representative of the work I am now trying to sell. And, in fact, it might actually turn away new prospective readers, or disappoint new readers. It could be harem readers stumbling across my old erotica and deciding I’m not a harem author, or it could be an erotica reader who’s really just looking for straight erotica and becomes disappointed as I drift further and further away from that. I’ve even been drifting away from more sex-heavy works as I’ve learned that there is, shockingly, less overlap between erotica and harem than I realized. And although it might sound surprising, I’m actually happy about this. Believe it or not, I am thrilled to take my foot more off of the erotica pedal after this many years of doing it. I can now write a book that can have as few as three ‘on screen’ sex scenes in it and most of my audience will be okay with that. That blows my mind.

  • IT MAKES SENSE TO LAY THE GROUNDWORK ON OTHER PLATFORMS. A side effect of not being able to trust Amazon is that, as I’ve mentioned in the past, it makes sense to have a backup plan. Having a presence on the 15% of the ebook market that Amazon hasn’t destroyed would be smart. So as I take them down from Amazon, I’ll be posting them elsewhere.

  • Those are the main reasons. Also, at this point, they aren’t really earning much of anything. I think they’re all pretty much ‘read out’, and for the most part the people who are going to read it have done so by now. Now, that being said, I’d like to reiterated that I’ll be making them available on Smashwords and, through that site, whatever other platforms are available like Kobo and Barnes & Noble, etc. I’ll also probably take the time to make them available as Kindle files through my Patreon or, shit, maybe I’ll just throw them up here on the site for free, too. I’d like to reconfirm though that this is for my backlog. All my new stuff will be published on Amazon and in the Kindle Unlimited.

Below is a list of titles that will be removed over the next several months.

  • EXPLORATION

  • MY UNDEAD LOVER

  • THE MISTY VIXEN STARTER PACK

  • DEMONESS SERIES (Note: This is getting removed because of the reboot. If people really want access to the original version, I’ll post it up for free through my site.)

  • HELLCATS TRILOGY

  • WANDERLUST SERIES

  • ROYAL LUST

  • AMAZONIAN’S LOVE

  • ADVENTUROUS

  • PARANORMAL PASSIONS TRILOGY

  • DESIRE SERIES

  • ALIEN HAREM SERIES

  • LUST & ADVENTURE TRILOGY

  • SEX & SURVIVAL TRILOGY

  • VALKYRIES TRILOGY

  • PARASEXUAL SERIES

  • PINK TRILOGY

  • BLIND DATE TRILOGY

  • SNAKESKIN TRILOGY

  • THE PALE REDHEAD TRILOGY

  • LARGE & LOVELY TRILOGY

Here is the final thing I want to say on this: I know it’s possible that there are some people reading this who, for any number of reasons, are missing titles from my library that they may want, and have been waiting for the right time. Well, that time will be coming soon. This month (April) I will be making EVERY SINGLE TITLE THAT I AM GOING TO BE TAKING DOWN FREE FOR SEVERAL DAYS. I will make a separate post about that, with a comprehensive list of links, so be ready for that. It will happen soon.

EDIT: Physical copies will be left intact and available through Amazon, since Amazon doesn’t seem to give a shit about them. And all future Misty Vixen titles will be available as physical paperbacks, too.

Quick Update

Part of being a writer is making decisions on the fly.

Part of being me, evidently, is feeling a compulsion to keep everyone who cares to read in on the loop.

To dispense with the suspense: Our Own Way 7 will be the final installment, and it’ll be longer than the others.

I was having the same trouble I did before, my soft-lock problem, only it was a little different this time. Every day that passes is another day I’m not working on Raw III and at this point I’ve kind of had my fill of both Our Own Way and A Warm Place. I know, not exactly something you want to hear from an author of a series you like, but this happens with basically everything I’ve ever written, so it’s nothing new.

And, I’d like to emphasize this: I REALLY want to work on Raw III. But I need to do it right, with a clear head, which means finishing up these other two series.

The thing I kept coming back to, as I worked on both AWP9 and OOW7, was that I STILL had to write OOW8 even after I finished these two current projects, and it just…it was causing problems in my brain.

Have you ever run into this situation?: You are trying to do something a very specific way, you are just stubbornly dead-set on doing it this one specific way, even though it’s killing you. And then, finally, you, for even just five seconds, entertain the notion of ‘but what if I did it this other way?’, and it’s like a lightbulb with a heavenly chorus going off.

For me, that was insisting on writing two more Our Own Ways instead of one. It was blocking the whole creative pipeline, not just for Our Own Way but for EVERYTHING. But the second I thought ‘what if I wrapped it up on part seven?’, it was like a firework bursting in my head screaming YES. Abruptly, no more clogging. It just felt right.

So, if you were looking forward to two more parts, then I’m sorry. The story itself won’t change, but this way, I won’t have to stretch out scenes to reach an arbitrary wordcount like I might have had to otherwise had I kept forcing myself to do it the other way.

Anyway, I’m progressing nicely with Our Own Way 7, basically just working on it as fast as I can. I want to get it, and The Complete Series, written and out very soon. There is going to be art (nude & clothed) of Sadie, as well as a new, hot side character that makes an appearance in the final installment.

Ideally, I will see you all again soon (within the next seven days) with this.

In the meantime, don’t forget that if you want to read the story in early access, you can do so on my Patreon for 3$/month.

Early Access On Patreon

So I’ve decided to go ahead and give this a shot.

In short, for 3$/month, you will now get access to my stories as I write them. I’ll post them, chapter-by-chapter. There won’t be anything special, basically it’ll just be an extended version of what I already do with the early access to the first two chapters.

Speaking of which, if you’re a 1$/month Patron, you can read the first two chapters of A Warm Place 9 here. Or the first chapter here for free.

And you can read the third chapter here, the first to be posted under the new 3$/month reward tier. (You will get access to this automatically if you are a 5$/month Patron.)

I’m not going to have a set release schedule for this, and honestly that’s my biggest hesitation behind doing this. Before now, I’ve tried to be decently honest about what’s happening behind the scenes, but the only one who knows about it when I lose it and just need however many days off, or I get distracted for however long, is me. The only things readers know is there’s this big, nebulous span of time and then suddenly there’s a book. You won’t have a perfect view of my writing schedule, but you’ll certainly have a clearer picture, and suddenly it’s going to be WAY more embarrassing and guilt-wracking when I suddenly lose it and fall off halfway through the week and don’t get back on the horse until the following week. (This happens a lot, thanks to depression, anxiety, and other unspecified phantom physical health problems, combined with just real life stuff, and writer problems like when I’m stuck on one scene and I just don’t fucking feel like writing this kind of scene right now and I keep trying to do it but just can’t again and again until suddenly I can and I’m over it, but then I know the same exact problem is lurking somewhere in the shadows…)

My long, rambling point is I’m a mess and doing this will inadvertently shine a brighter light on just how much of a mess. But it will also (ideally) strengthen the bridge between myself and you the readers.

So basically, I’ll upload as I can.

If you’re interested in this, here’s my Patreon.

Also, one more note, I will start putting up Our Own Way 7 soon, but the chapters are going to be unedited. Our Own Way should be the only time this happens, because with that series, I’ve ended up taking a different route. Because they are shorter, I just write the whole thing, and then go through and edit afterwards, versus my normal style of editing as I write.

If you do decide to support me this way, then I really appreciate it. Thank you.