Random thoughts on what I’m working on, why I wrote what I did, what I think about life, and maybe what I had for breakfast… if I’m in a chatty mood.
This could probably be part of a series: how to write male heroes in erotica that’s directed at men. I certainly have plenty of opinions on it, but I’m not feeling quite as ambitious this Sunday evening, so I’ll focus on one particular tip to…
Erotica is not erotic romance. This isn’t meant to be a semantics debate and I don’t want to delve too heavily into their definitions. Readers view these things as different — so much so that All Romance Ebooks has decided to split their catalog into…
Over the weekend, I redesigned Lucy V. Morgan’s website. Check it out if you want some highly entertaining blog entries, giveaway opportunities for her upcoming novel, Chairman of the Whored (definitely pre-order this if you’re a fan of erotica; it’s spicy), and other goodies.
My experience “designing” a Blogger website was an interesting one. When I discovered that the templates were all gathered into one, honking file (this includes the CSS and the javascript — jquery libraries and all), I decided to actually apply a pre-existing template to it and then design around that. She wanted clean, elegant, yet sexy (and a bit quirky) and I think it was successful.
Credit where credit is due:
If you’re not aware already, there have been a number of cases documenting piracy and plagiarism on the the Amazon marketplace (and probably iBookstore and Barnes & Noble, although I haven’t read specifics on that). My wife sent me an article the other day from…
My cover art portfolio is getting to the point where I need to consider just that: an actual portfolio. Here’s the latest. Pretty sexy little short, too.
After her reckless behavior in the first Her Other Husband story, “A Snap Decision,” Kelly can’t get her longtime friend Danny off her mind. She’s confused that she doesn’t feel guilty for cheating on her husband, and her confusion grows when she realizes she wants to be with Danny again. After a hot sexting session gets her primed, Kelly agrees to meet Danny late one Friday night for an encounter in one of their childhood haunts, the backyard treehouse!
The short story, “Kissing in a Tree,” is the second in Kirsten McCurran’s “Her Other Husband” series. It’s naughty. It’s dirty. It’s quick. And it’s only .99. Oh, and it has a kick ass cover, designed by yours truly. It’s available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble, so pick one up for your Kindle or Nook.
I know for a fact that there will be one more in this series.
“I lift things up and put them down.” If you haven’t seen that commercial, watch it, you’ll laugh. That’s me, in a nutshell. Well, not physically me — substitute weights for stories and muscles for, erm, writing ability? (My analogy breaks a little, but screw…
I don’t normally do resolutions, but I’m feeling inspired and I’ve learned long ago that when I’m inspired to just go with it. So set down your bottle of champagne and shake away the hangover. Here’s a hopefully realistic list of things I’m going to accomplish in 2012:
Good luck to me! Anyone else have some resolutions they’d like to share?
When writing a story, I find that I often feel like a juggler: characters, plots, twists, intricacies, I have to keep track of them all as they rise and fall. This is my process. It’s not the best process in the world, but it works for me, most of the time. It lets me stay organic while still dealing with outlines. It lets me write in a non-linear fashion if need be while still keeping things consistent.
Thing is, I can’t write like that with multiple stories going on at once, which is where I am currently. And even more to the point, I can’t write like a juggler when I feel like so much of my life is being juggled. My wife and I are moving out to the burbs (yup, the kid is just about a year, so the timeline fits, right?), my job has gotten remained crazy. Things keep going wrong in the place we’re selling. Oh yeah, and it’s the holidays.
In order for the juggling act to be successful, you need to be focused. A lot of details are being kept in your head and as soon as something comes in to distract it, something is bound to fall. I feel like stories are falling around me all the time. I’ve got this really great angel story for the holidays, I’ve got my voyeur story for Ellora’s erotica for men line, I’ve got a nice collaborative story ready for editing from a new author-friend, and then a handful of near completed works that I want to get to. And they’re all lying around me in a sad clutter.
Well, it’s time to start picking things up again. Hopefully by the new year, things will have calmed down more and you’ll see new things from me!
While life may be preventing me from doing much of my own writing (either creatively or on this blog), my e-cover portfolio continues to grow. Jake Marlow, an author I’ve had the pleasure of working with over the past few years, has released a new novella entitled Sex Equity, a twist on the Indecent Proposal storyline. What if Robert Redford had a hot wife he wanted to see Demi Moore get it on with, instead of himself? Intrigued? Then pick this up. It’s only $1.49 and worth every penny.
Amazon’s description:
Molly has been fending off the advances of her sexy, wealthy client Jonah Mitchell forever, but when she and her husband, Eric, find their dream house and it’s way out of their price range, Molly gives Jonah’s offers a second thought. He claims all he wants is to watch Molly with his Nordic goddess wife, Cerina. Molly asks just how much Jonah would pay for his show and a devil’s bargain is struck. But can Molly trust Jonah to keep his “hands off” promise, or will Molly come to regret her decision?
Where to buy:
There’s a little truth in every bit of fiction. When we authors share our stories, we’re sharing a little bit of ourselves. Lucy V. Morgan, whose novella Beautiful Mess is now available [Kindle link, more at the bottom], volunteers a little more in this guest…
