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Chapter 5 of "A Land Beyond" has been submitted to the moderators. Keep an eye out for it, and be sure to drop me your feedback!

"A Land Beyond" is now an illustrated story. I have added 1-3 images per chapter.

I am still working on chapter 5, which I hope to have up soon.

I have found a pair of artists on Fiverr dot com whom I have been working with to collect a series of illustrations for "A Land Beyond." Sketoverr has been bringing me some beautiful scene illustrations, and hemaris has been providing me with my detailed creature and character images. I expect to have the images I need to update the story with illustrated versions of the current four chapters by the end of the week.

A fifth chapter of the story is also well underway, which will only see the light of day once I have the images I want for that one too.

After an extended sabbatical, I'm finally getting back on track with "A Land Beyond," and in fact I'm starting to think it would be cool to have it illustrated. I think the world of Azakos and its inhabitants deserve to have a visual representation, and so I'm putting a shout out to any artists out there who would like to contribute their work to the story. If you're interested, show me samples of your work, particularly if they showcase your ability to depict strong nude characters without making them erotic (in most cases.)

Breathe a sigh of relief... I have (AT LAST!) submitted another chapter of "Nude Planet." I know it took me forever; all I can say is I am an easily distracted author with a lot of projects in front of me that I'm trying to juggle at the same time. So, on that note, for those who are still waiting for the next chapter of "A Land Beyond," don't worry, I'm still working on that too.

Now I'm going to put something out there that has been on my mind for a long time: I've been thinking for quite some time about expanding "Nude Planet" into an open universe, similar to "Naked in School." I may soon expand the title of my current story to "Nude Planet: Kasha" in order to set it apart from stories in the universe to come.

The idea at work is that the planet Lupina has many different provinces, each with their own social rules and customs, which means that any author who wanted to write a Nude Planet story could set their own rules. Do you not like the idea of a cloth wrap being the only item of clothing available to choose from? Come up with your own dress (or undress) code. Maybe you'd like to write from a province where people where certain items for certain occasions and are nude the rest of the time. Maybe you'd like to write about a province where men where some form of clothing while women go nude, or vice-versa. Or maybe you'd like to write about a province that is just completely clothes-free altogether. The choices are yours!

I would like to ask that prospective authors try their best to adhere to the technology I've established in this story: macrolinks, holographic image screens, methods of transportation, etc. But otherwise, if you've got an idea for a story about a naked-is-the-norm, sexually open society, and you think the planet of Lupina is the place to put it, then let me know, and I'll happily open my world up for you. Perhaps we can turn what began as just a quirky little idea I had into something big.