Self-Publishing Year in Review: 2015
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dessaluxI published 9 ebooks this year--three short stories, three novelettes, one novella, and one short-ish novel. All are currently available exclusively on Amazon.
Taught to Take It - Jason, a student at St. Sebastian's College of Erotic Education, wants some extra tutoring from his favorite teacher!
The Freshman Gets Filled - Christophe, a student at St. Sebastian's College of Erotic Education, is having his first gangbang tutorial today!
These were definitely just me going "okay so... e-publishing kinky porn, huh? that's a thing? I like kinky porn, I can write that. here! kinky pwp! fantasy sex training college! whee!"
The Sheriff and the Shifter - Small town SheriffJohn Stilinski Ray Prescott picks up local sad orphan werewolf Derek Hale Tom London off the side of the road and takes him somewhere quiet to have a drink. And... more than a drink. (Additional tags: Daddy Kink, Blankets, Cuddling)
Then I was like, oh, RELATIONSHIPS, YEAH, HEY I CAN WRITE MY SERIAL-NUMBERS-FILED-OFF-SHERIFF/DEREK-DADDY-KINK-FIC! I, uh, was definitely writing this like fic, in that it's still basically just a very long PWP but also I was trying to do feelings? And I was all "it's okay, it's a series! I'm going somewhere! ...with another PWP!"
You Get What You Need - Second verse, same as the first except it'sDerek Tom POV! (Additional tags: Daddy Kink, Like a Lot of Daddy Kink, Semi-Public Kink)
Then I learned that, even if you are crystal clear about the lack of actual parental relationship, you can still get banned from a whole bunch of sales channels for using the word "daddy" too much. Oops.
Also, see me being super lazy about cover design because I hate doing my own covers!
Spring Break Seduction - Jason (from "Taught to Take It") goes on spring break from fantasy sex training college to... have sex with an older guy! WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED.
So I was nearly done with this one and discovered that, haha, APPARENTLY QUASI-INCEST IS A PROBLEM? and hastily changed Jason's stepbrother into his... vague... older... friend...? Uh. Yeah. This story has suffered a lot from not being quite one thing or the other, sales-wise, but... learning experience, I guess?
Also, the first time I asked someone to help me out with cover design! :D
Meeting the Wolf - Ray/Tom Daddy Kink Shenanigans Part 3! Now out at the carriage house that's all that remains of the burned-down family home! I swear there's a plot here somewhere!
YET MORE SHERIFF/DEREK! And then I ran out of steam on the whole Sheriff/Derek thing because there was gonna be PLOT and WHAT WAS I EVEN DOING and I went off to do other stuff during the summer and absorb some lessons from other people doing the e-published romance things about, like "coherent plot structure at novella length" and "writing a decently hooky blurb" and then...
The Omega's Bodyguard - Sparks fly when a protective alpha meets an omega in danger, but there's a catch: this omega is still human, and doesn't know what he could become with a bite from the right wolf.
This was legit just me piling up ridiculous gay romance tropes until I had this mountain of gooey marshmallow trope deliciousness. WHAT IF NATE WAS A TWINKY CIVILIAN WHO NEEDS PROTECTION FROM A STALKER? AND HIS BODYGUARD IS BRAD?? AND BRAD IS ALSO A WEREWOLF??? AND HIS STALKER IS A WEREWOLF? AND HE'S STALKING NATE BECAUSE NATE IS A ~SECRET LATENT OMEGA WEREWOLF~??????? AND A VIRGIN!!! YESSSS PERFECT.
And, uh, also me finally deciding to fess up about my secret identity now that I have mastered... plot structure? writing at novella length for money? ridiculous romance novel blurbs? idk. It turned out okay, though!! :D
Also, first time I just paid someone else to make a cover!! So I didn't have to do ANYTHING WITH IT! :D :D :D
The Omega's Pack - Rusty and Sam are now alpha and omega werewolf mates, forming a pack along with Mike. Every night brings the new pack closer to the full moon and Sam's first omega heat, but there's still someone missing...
WOOOO SEQUEL. So of course it took me 60,000 words to get to the heat gangbang which was the thing I was aiming at the whole time, and 30,000 words to get to the wallowy PTSD hurt/comfort, but it turns out Mike is important! And I needed to write a whole bunch about him! And threesomes! And ... swimming! And baking! And Rusty's parents! :D???
This has ALSO turned out pretty okay! :D :D :D :D
And stay tuned for 2016! (Spoiler: more werewolves. more gangbangs. roughly the same amount of plot.)
Taught to Take It - Jason, a student at St. Sebastian's College of Erotic Education, wants some extra tutoring from his favorite teacher!
The Freshman Gets Filled - Christophe, a student at St. Sebastian's College of Erotic Education, is having his first gangbang tutorial today!
These were definitely just me going "okay so... e-publishing kinky porn, huh? that's a thing? I like kinky porn, I can write that. here! kinky pwp! fantasy sex training college! whee!"
The Sheriff and the Shifter - Small town Sheriff
Then I was like, oh, RELATIONSHIPS, YEAH, HEY I CAN WRITE MY SERIAL-NUMBERS-FILED-OFF-SHERIFF/DEREK-DADDY-KINK-FIC! I, uh, was definitely writing this like fic, in that it's still basically just a very long PWP but also I was trying to do feelings? And I was all "it's okay, it's a series! I'm going somewhere! ...with another PWP!"
You Get What You Need - Second verse, same as the first except it's
Then I learned that, even if you are crystal clear about the lack of actual parental relationship, you can still get banned from a whole bunch of sales channels for using the word "daddy" too much. Oops.
Also, see me being super lazy about cover design because I hate doing my own covers!
Spring Break Seduction - Jason (from "Taught to Take It") goes on spring break from fantasy sex training college to... have sex with an older guy! WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED.
So I was nearly done with this one and discovered that, haha, APPARENTLY QUASI-INCEST IS A PROBLEM? and hastily changed Jason's stepbrother into his... vague... older... friend...? Uh. Yeah. This story has suffered a lot from not being quite one thing or the other, sales-wise, but... learning experience, I guess?
Also, the first time I asked someone to help me out with cover design! :D
Meeting the Wolf - Ray/Tom Daddy Kink Shenanigans Part 3! Now out at the carriage house that's all that remains of the burned-down family home! I swear there's a plot here somewhere!
YET MORE SHERIFF/DEREK! And then I ran out of steam on the whole Sheriff/Derek thing because there was gonna be PLOT and WHAT WAS I EVEN DOING and I went off to do other stuff during the summer and absorb some lessons from other people doing the e-published romance things about, like "coherent plot structure at novella length" and "writing a decently hooky blurb" and then...
The Omega's Bodyguard - Sparks fly when a protective alpha meets an omega in danger, but there's a catch: this omega is still human, and doesn't know what he could become with a bite from the right wolf.
This was legit just me piling up ridiculous gay romance tropes until I had this mountain of gooey marshmallow trope deliciousness. WHAT IF NATE WAS A TWINKY CIVILIAN WHO NEEDS PROTECTION FROM A STALKER? AND HIS BODYGUARD IS BRAD?? AND BRAD IS ALSO A WEREWOLF??? AND HIS STALKER IS A WEREWOLF? AND HE'S STALKING NATE BECAUSE NATE IS A ~SECRET LATENT OMEGA WEREWOLF~??????? AND A VIRGIN!!! YESSSS PERFECT.
And, uh, also me finally deciding to fess up about my secret identity now that I have mastered... plot structure? writing at novella length for money? ridiculous romance novel blurbs? idk. It turned out okay, though!! :D
Also, first time I just paid someone else to make a cover!! So I didn't have to do ANYTHING WITH IT! :D :D :D
The Omega's Pack - Rusty and Sam are now alpha and omega werewolf mates, forming a pack along with Mike. Every night brings the new pack closer to the full moon and Sam's first omega heat, but there's still someone missing...
WOOOO SEQUEL. So of course it took me 60,000 words to get to the heat gangbang which was the thing I was aiming at the whole time, and 30,000 words to get to the wallowy PTSD hurt/comfort, but it turns out Mike is important! And I needed to write a whole bunch about him! And threesomes! And ... swimming! And baking! And Rusty's parents! :D???
This has ALSO turned out pretty okay! :D :D :D :D
And stay tuned for 2016! (Spoiler: more werewolves. more gangbangs. roughly the same amount of plot.)
