Lubrican: Blog

If you have been reading my stuff, over the years, then you know I write within a relatively defined genre. You might also know that I reach out, now and again, to try something different. I have done that again and this time I reached waaay out.

I'm posting my first BDSM story. Or maybe it's only domination/submission, since (in my opinion) there are no sadists involved. There might be a masochist in the story.

Basically, I have no freaking idea what this is, but I wanted to write it and I did and I never waste anything that came from my muse.

So here's the deal. This is an experiment. It might be good and it might be garbage. Only those who are legitimately in the BDSM community can make that judgement and since I'm not in that community, I'm just going to post it and let them tell me how I did. It's kind of like when I write from a woman's point of view. I'm not a woman but my female readers (who I try hard to understand) tell me I have done all right at that. I want to understand almost everybody in the world of erotica so that's also what this one is about.

The title is Spanking my Secretary and it's eleven chapters long. It does not (necessarily) have cliffhangers in it, which is also something new for me. I plan on posting a chapter a day.

I get mail fairly often from people who say something along the lines of "I'm not into [what this book is about] but I decided to try it because you wrote it and I'm glad I did." This is not an attempt to toot my own horn (or have them toot it) but rather is just a request that you read a few chapters before you decide it's not for you, especially if BDSM really isn't your thing. It's really not my thing, either, which might sound odd, since I wrote about it, but we should all try to understand each other if at all possible.

Stay safe and thanks for reading.
Bob

I don't know what other authors do when they publish a book at zbookstore.com, but when I do that I always republish about two or three weeks later, so that corrections, additions and edits are there. So, if you purchase one of my books (and THANK YOU VERY MUCH IF YOU DO) then be sure to go back and re-download it a month later. I want you to have the best product possible.

Thanks for reading.

Bob

In my previous blog entry I said I wasn't going to post any new stories soon. Then Andy sent me back the story he'd been working on.

That story, called The Summer of '42 "begins" in December, or at least the diary that plays a central role in the story begins in December, so it just seemed like this was an apropos time to post it. I admit I'm rushing it, a little, so it may not be as polished as I like things to be.

But I've never been patient, once something is "finished" and ready to be posted.

It's ten chapters, so a one week posting schedule is in order. For those who are impatient, like me, I'll publish the whole thing at Bookapy.

That may take another day or so.

Happy Holidays to all, and thanks for reading.
Bob

Alas, the present is not a new story, though I have one with Michelle for proofreading, and another one with Andy for editing. So those will get posted after the new year.

No, the present is a 25% reduction in the price of all my books at Smashwords.com between 18 Dec 20 and New Year's day. Anything you put in your cart between those dates will automatically be discounted 25%.

I want to thank everybody for their support, and for supporting Lazeez so you can read my material here at SOL.

And, of course, thanks for reading.
Bob

A number of people have written about the "new chapter" posted to Any Soldier. It is not a new chapter, however.

Here's what happened.

A reader wrote to me and asked where the epilogue to Any Soldier went. I looked at the SOL copy and the epilogue wasn't there. Chapter Fifteen was the last chapter listed. So I reloaded the epilogue and sent it in, explaining to the moderator that it wasn't really new, just replacing a missing file. I have no idea why it went missing.

This triggered a "new chapter" notification for some reason. I guess that was the moderator's call. So then I got mail with a variety of subjects. Some thanked me for a new chapter, but moaned that they didn't have a premium membership, so could not read this new chapter. Some said it was nice to finally read the end of the story. Others asked why I broke the epilogue out of chapter fifteen, and were there any substantive changes to the story.

Working off of my memory and logic (neither of which is a great idea, in my case) I think this is what happened.

I think the original posting had the epilogue embedded in chapter fifteen. If you downloaded the book when it was first published, then that's probably what you have.

At some later date, I decided the epilogue deserved to be its own chapter, so I broke it out and made it so there was the prologue, fifteen chapters, and the epilogue.

So if you downloaded the book after it had a separate epilogue, then that's what you have.

To my knowledge, there were no changes to the story (other than the inevitable small tweaks I do any time I send in a file)when I broke the epilogue out of chapter fifteen and posted it, or when I re-posted the mysteriously missing epilogue recently.

In any case, if you read the story and there was a wedding in it, you read the whole story. If there was no wedding, then you got caught in that Twilight Zone where there was no epilogue for whatever reason it disappeared.

Clear as mud?

Sorry for the kerfuffle.
Bob