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No, it's not a new story. Just this blog post. I've spent a week in the shadows of the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo. In other words, immersed in porn. With my six associates, we explored new products, hot DVDs, seminars on Social Media use and techniques, managing adult businesses, and legal issues in producing (and getting paid for) adult content. I gave away a few books to fans who recognized me. Oh. And we hugged a lot of models, actresses, and cam girls.

I suppose that is what everyone is most interested in. So, I took lots of pictures and have created a private webpage to share them with you and my patrons. You'll find all the dirty little pictures at www.devonlayne.com/avnx/.

But I thought I'd share a few anecdotes from the expo.

1. We made arrangements for Loralay Katz to start her porn career with fledgling actress Cheyenne on Saturday. Mark had everything set and ready to roll, tested the camera angles, tested the sound, and had a script/storyline prepared. Cheyenne called at 1:00 before the 2:00 shoot and said she was sick and couldn't make it. Cancelled. I don't doubt that she was sick. Late nights and too much alcohol will do that to you.

2. On a casual stroll through the exhibits when Mike and Sue got to town Wednesday, I stopped for a pleasant conversation with AlluringAli25 (check out ManyVids or IWantVids). This cutie got my engines revving as much with her talk as with her sexy look.

During our conversation she read my badge and asked about what I write. She got pretty enthused but qualified it by saying she only liked to read paper books. "Can you say 'Author Devon Layne'?" I asked. She repeated it. I pulled a copy of Art Something out of my bag, autographed it, and handed it to her.

"You're giving me a book???" she exclaimed. "You can so touch my tits!" That was an offer I wasn't about to refuse.

I caught up with her again Saturday and said that in the excitement I failed to get a picture and could she pose. "Yes, and for a tip, I'll take my top off before you start squeezing." I have some very pleasant memories now and photographic proof to keep me reminded.

3. When my daughter visited me a month ago, we talked about where I was going with my writing and why I was coming to Vegas. I mentioned wanting to provide storylines and even scripts for a new breed of adult video (or old-going back to when porn usually had a storyline instead of all this gonzo shit). I mentioned wanting to work with Bree Mills. "Dad, Bree Mills only works with women," my daughter responded. "You know about Bree?" I asked. "Well, yeah!"

On Thursday, I related the story to Bree, whom I have known in passing for two years. She immediately grabbed a T-shirt that said "I like girls who like girls" for me to send to my daughter. She also said that she was interested in hearing a story concept from me and gave me the site address to submit to. In case you don't know her, by the way, Bree is one of the top director/producers in the business today with 35 award nominations under her belt. She founded Girlsway Films and is now a principal in AdultTime.

4. "You have actual stories that we could film?" asked a producer I'd never heard of Tuesday night. "We need stories!" Well we exchanged cards and information. Could be a good reason to visit Columbia where the guy is located.

5. Parties were not as exciting this year as in the past. Seemed like a very mellow crowd who were mostly engaged in going to private parties.

Until Friday night's White Party. We all got dressed up. The women looked sexy and the men looked good. I, of course, have an entire white outfit that I put together for this, including a white plantation hat. I'm sporting a very full (white) beard these days and tucked a cigar between my teeth before making a tour around the party.

I started getting stopped by random strangers asking to have their picture taken with me! Once is a fluke. A dozen times is something else. And when Mike and I went out to the patio where there was a fire going and we could light our cigars, the people (mostly female but some men as well) kept coming up to get their pictures with me. Several made sure that they were in very close contact. I think I handled more female flesh that night than I have in the past five years!

About 2:00 a.m. we went down to the bar in the middle of the casino to have a drink and smoke another cigar. A guy came from across the casino to shake my hand and say he just had to come and tell me how I rocked that outfit. "Did you know you look like that actor in Jurassic Park?" he asked. Well, shit! Was that why I was getting hit on so often? Fifteen minutes later another random stranger, not even there for AVN, walked up to me and asked if anyone had told me I looked like the owner of Jurassic Park. He also said I rocked the look much better than the guy in the movie.

6. Lest I get a big head about it, I stopped at a grocery store Saturday dressed all in black, including black leather Stetson, and a vest. A random dude in the grocery store stopped and pointed at me. "ZZ Top!" he yelled. I think the Jurassic Park cosplay was much better.

7. And finally, at the Adult Novelty Expo, I was introduced to a fairly new alternative to Viagra in the form of a spray that you spritz under your tongue. I talked to the vendor and plan to try the stuff to see if it works. He said that if I included it as a major story element sometime, he'd see I got a lifetime supply. (Probably doesn't figure I've got that long to go!)

I guess that sums up the high points of this year's expo. Don't forget that you can see the photos from the show with me hugging and fondling a lot of girls (hand sanitizer is your friend) at devonlayne.com/avnx.

Enjoy!

I've made it to Las Vegas and am settled into a nice condo a mile from the Hard Rock Hotel and Convention Center where the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo starts today. My volunteer staff (Can you believe six people have come to help promote my books?) will be wandering the show, talking to models, and working to record the experience as we immerse ourselves in porn. I mean erotic art.

This is seriously tough work. Do you know how difficult it is for a writer to make every character unique and memorable? What do her breasts look like? How big are her nipples? How sensitive? Are they soft or artificially hardened? What scent is she wearing? What do her legs feel like? What do her lips taste like? I'm here at AVN doing primary research for my stories!

And I feel bad that you can't be here as one of my volunteers. Our all-access Industry passes get us into all the seminars like "Premium Platforms: Finding the Next Level of Social Media Marketing", and "From the Bedroom to the Boardroom - Bella French's Path to ManyVids CEO", and "What's the Big Idea? The First Annual Disruptors' Panel".

The show floor includes hundreds of products, talent, and services booths with opportunity to make contact with favorite stars. Yes, I plan to get a hug from Molly Stewart, Kendra Cole, Fallon West, and others. They are here and waiting!

The Adult Novelty Expo-our all-access pass gets us in there, as well-will feature some surprising toys, costumes, sexual aids, and other products that might surprise you. Do you need a pussy-beard? There's a vendor that sells a paste on bush for those who are shaved but want a little hair for the party. Are you in the market for a playroom swing set? One that you can strap your lover into and swing into her? Need new ropes? Any of our five hundred different dildo and vibrator models? I'll be carefully checking out those exhibits, too.

The real work is at the parties. Last night we attended an informal welcome party for the trade and engaged in a lengthy conversation with managers of a Cam Studio, Foxy Dreams, in Columbia who are interested in adapting my books and short stories into fantasy scripts. Yes? Who wants to see Art Étrange drape a model in his studio and have his way with her? I thought so. Tonight, we'll be at the Girlfriends Films 18th anniversary party and will be looking for more contacts.

It seems a shame you aren't here.

So, I'm making it possible for you to attend vicariously. I've opened a private photo display for my few thousand closest friends to see what I see each day of the expo. I'll upload new photos early every day (Pacific Time) and you can tune in to see them. The Pre-Show Registration Day photos are already up. It sets the stage for what we're doing here, but won't get into the real fun stuff until tomorrow. Bookmark the page and come back each day this week.

http://devonlayne.com/avnx/

Send me email if there are things or people you are especially interested in seeing and I'll try to get a photo. Let's party!

Tomorrow, my new do-over, Double Take, starts posting here on SOL. I'm very excited about it. Book 1 of 47 chapters is written, edited (thanks to Pixel the Cat and Old Rotorhead), and ready to upload for posting every three days. I'll upload the whole book in advance so you don't have to worry about me croaking and leaving it unfinished. I'm already sixteen chapters into Book 2 and I'm having a blast writing this adventure.

This story is a little lighter than some of my epics. Of course, there is teenage angst because there are teenagers. This has far more to do with an eighty-year-old in high school and dealing with a world that is not at all what he remembered.

Sex and the Single Freshman. I struggle with coding my stories for sex content with every story I write. I received a number of emails from people who said they got tired of all the sex in Living Next Door to Heaven. Another batch of readers wrote that the code 'Some Sex' was inappropriate because there was no sex at all in the first three and a half books of LNDtH. One went so far as to complain that I must not have much experience with sex if I thought what these kids were doing was still sex without penetration.

I think Double Take has slightly more sex in it than the early books of LNDtH. Let's face it: Why would an old man want to go back to his fourteen-year-old body if it wasn't to fuck fourteen-year-old girls? At the same time, I think the 'Much Sex' code paints an expectation of 'real' sex in every chapter. And there isn't. So, I'll code this story once again as 'Some Sex' and when asked how much sex there is in the story, I'll just say "Enough.'

What's it about? I gave the very short blurb for the story in my blog post on Christmas. Here is the long synopsis:

In a classic erotic do-over, an old man gets hit by lightning, sucked into a wormhole, abducted by aliens, shot, electrocuted, caught in a terrorist attack, trapped in a fusion explosion, or otherwise meets his demise. In the instant before death, he is granted his wish to do his life over again, correcting the mistakes he made. He (almost always male) is returned to his fourteen-year-old body complete with all his memories of growing up the first time and near Wikipedic knowledge of everything that happened in his life.

Armed with this knowledge, he can correct his own life errors, become fabulously wealthy by either betting on obscure sporting events or the correct stocks or by stealing a later invention and introducing it early. His great experience and accumulated wisdom allow him to correct political errors of the past, eliminating terror attacks, stopping wars, improving border security, and holding down inflation. And let us not forget that this old man can now apply his accumulated knowledge of women to seduce all the fourteen-year-old girls he wants to because he's really only fourteen again.

Jacob Hopkins is one such old man. Life was good. It just wasn't long enough. At eighty years old, he is dying and wants to regain to his youth. He has no burning desire to change the world. He just isn't ready to die. And someone has decided that's okay.

But Jacob is in for a major surprise. His new life is in an alternate reality. Things just aren't the way he remembered. People aren't who he remembered them to be. And there is nothing he can do to change history. It's already past.

Starting tomorrow: January 11, 2019.

Here's my mad idea. As usual, I won't turn on voting until ten or eleven chapters into the story so people have enough material to make a judgment about what they are voting for. Let's say at the end of Part I: Transmogrification. That's eleven chapters.

I will, however, turn on public comments. And I plan to use them differently than in the past. Usually, I refrain from participating in the comments unless I am asked, as the author, a specific question in comments. Then I'm happy to jump in and respond. But I don't use the comment section to argue my points or to defend what I've written. I've written what I've written. Like it or not. That's what it is. Me mansplaining it isn't going to change the story.

I want to try something a little different this time, though. I'm going to try participating in the comments as Jacob, the main character. I always enjoy role-playing and my characters like to jump into my head at odd times anyway, so I'll occasionally post something at the end of a chapter from Jacob's perspective and respond to comments as if I were Jacob.

This great experiment might last all of ten minutes. Or it might be something I keep going through the whole story. We'll see.

Now here's the real question: How much am I going to cry through this story?

I know that I often have highly emotional scenes in my stories. Just having re-read and suffered with you through Living Next Door to Heaven 3: What Were They Thinking? I wept at reliving some of the horrid events of the original series. I'm not ready to utterly drain myself emotionally this time. I won't say there won't be sad parts or moving parts, but I'm not planning to kill off major beloved characters, break people's hearts, or send anyone into the depths of depression.

So, try to keep my spirits up and keep me happy for the next year or so, okay? I'll try not to transfer any of that into my story.

One way for you to acknowledge your appreciation for authors is to nominate favorite stories for Clitorides Awards. I say this on behalf of all authors, not just myself. If you've especially enjoyed a story that has sex in it and was concluded in 2018, nominate it for a Clitorides Award at https://clitoridesawards.org/nominate.php. Use your same log-in as for SOL. Some of your favorite authors' stories have already been nominated. G Younger, Michael Loucks, Oyster50, Al Steiner, Lubrican, rlfj, and new author ProfessorC. But the number of nominations is what gets a story into the finals when they are announced in March. Get on there and nominate!

I have completed three stories on SOL this year that are eligible for nomination. The Props Master Prequel: Behind the Ivory Veil, Drawing on the Dark Side of the Brain, and Living Next Door to Heaven 3: What Were They Thinking? Please do not nominate any of the three stories posted my alter ego, Wayzgoose. I appreciate your support, but those stories are 'No Sex' stories and are ineligible.

Thank you all for your continued support, your email messages, and comments. As many authors have affirmed in the past, your comments and email are all the compensation we get.

Enjoy Double Take!

I'm a little late posting my season's greetings. I'm hoping that whatever winter holiday you celebrate, it is a joyous occasion, and that if you don't celebrate a winter holiday, you have a joyful winter season anyway. I certainly am. Sitting out beside my fire in Quartzsite, AZ and enjoying a PDR 1878 Capa Oscura cigar to cap off the day.

And here is some other good news. I've received all 47 chapters of Double Take Book 1 back from my fine editors, Pixel the Cat and Old Rotorhead. Without them, my works would not be as clean as they are and I thank them loudly. Having all the chapters in hand and having finished formatting them this morning, I've scheduled the first two chapters to post here on SOL on January 11. From then on, the chapters will post every three days, concluding Memorial Day weekend. If all continues to go well, by the time this one finishes, I'll have Book 2 ready to post without an interruption. Here's the blurb:

Life was good. It just wasn't long enough. Eighty-year-old Jacob Hopkins is dying and wishes to return to his fourteen-year-old body. He has no burning desire to change the world. He just isn't ready to die. And someone has decided that's okay. But Jacob is in for a major surprise. His new life is within a new reality. Things just aren't exactly the way he remembered.

There will be a new story from Wayzgoose in the New Year, as well, but I'll let my alter ego tell about that in his New Year's Day post.

[edit] And just so you know, Living Next Door to Heaven 3: What Were They Thinking will conclude on Friday, December 28. Hope you've enjoyed this tale.

My daughter visited for six days over Solstice and we spent our holiday exploring Cabeza Prieta Wilderness. If you look that up on a map, you'll see that you can't get there from here. After watching the 15-minute required video about all the ways you can die in the Wilderness, we were granted back-country passes to cross the Barry M. Goldwater Military Range to get to the Wildlife Preserve and spent the day 4-wheeling in my very scratched up truck.

If you'd like to read more of the story and see some pictures of the adventure, you can find them on my First Exit blog at http://firstexit0.blogspot.com/2018/12/into-wilderness.html. Not satisfied with trying to kill me in my truck, my daughter led me on a hike two days later to a mountain canyon where the only native California Palms in Arizona grow. And after the hike, we had to take pictures from about half or three-quarters of a mile away.

All told, we had a great time and she did not succeed in receiving her meagre inheritance.

In a few days, my friend Mark will be joining me here in Quartzsite and January 23 will find us in Las Vegas for the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo. I'll open a private section on my website to post pictures from the Expo for your prurient entertainment. Mark and his girlfriend will be two of the six friends that accompany me as my entourage to the show. Maybe this will be the year I find a distributor for my books in the adult industry. Or maybe I'll land a deal to write a movie script. I'm sure I can come up with some dialog that is better than "Uh. Uhh! Harder! Faster!"

Aside from that, I'll be showing (and hopefully selling) my books during January at the Readers' Oasis Bookstore in Quartzsite, famous for its "naked owner". Yes, this guy runs around the store and outdoor area wearing nothing but a cock sock. Seems like the right market for my books!

So, that's the news from my winter haven in Southern Arizona. Happy Jollydaze!

I'm a little late posting my season's greetings. I'm hoping that whatever winter holiday you celebrate, it is a joyous occasion, and that if you don't celebrate a winter holiday, you have a joyful winter season anyway. I certainly am. Sitting out beside my fire in Quartzsite, AZ and enjoying a PDR 1878 Capa Oscura cigar to cap off the day.

And here is some other good news. I've received all 47 chapters of Double Take Book 1 back from my fine editors, Pixel the Cat and Old Rotorhead. Without them, my works would not be as clean as they are and I thank them loudly. Having all the chapters in hand and having finished formatting them this morning, I've scheduled the first two chapters to post here on SOL on January 11. From then on, the chapters will post every three days, concluding Memorial Day weekend. If all continues to go well, by the time this one finishes, I'll have Book 2 ready to post without an interruption. Here's the blurb:

Life was good. It just wasn't long enough. Eighty-year-old Jacob Hopkins is dying and wishes to return to his fourteen-year-old body. He has no burning desire to change the world. He just isn't ready to die. And someone has decided that's okay. But Jacob is in for a major surprise. His new life is within a new reality. Things just aren't exactly the way he remembered.

There will be a new story from Wayzgoose in the New Year, as well, but I'll let my alter ego tell about that in his New Year's Day post.

My daughter visited for six days over Solstice and we spent our holiday exploring Cabeza Prieta Wilderness. If you look that up on a map, you'll see that you can't get there from here. After watching the 15-minute required video about all the ways you can die in the Wilderness, we were granted back-country passes to cross the Barry M. Goldwater Military Range to get to the Wildlife Preserve and spent the day 4-wheeling in my very scratched up truck.

If you'd like to read more of the story and see some pictures of the adventure, you can find them on my First Exit blog at http://firstexit0.blogspot.com/2018/12/into-wilderness.html. Not satisfied with trying to kill me in my truck, my daughter led me on a hike two days later to a mountain canyon where the only native California Palms in Arizona grow. And after the hike, we had to take pictures from about half or three-quarters of a mile away.

All told, we had a great time and she did not succeed in receiving her meagre inheritance.

In a few days, my friend Mark will be joining me here in Quartzsite and January 23 will find us in Las Vegas for the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo. I'll open a private section on my website to post pictures from the Expo for your prurient entertainment. Mark and his girlfriend will be two of the six friends that accompany me as my entourage to the show. Maybe this will be the year I find a distributor for my books in the adult industry. Or maybe I'll land a deal to write a movie script. I'm sure I can come up with some dialog that is better than "Uh. Uhh! Harder! Faster!"

Aside from that, I'll be showing (and hopefully selling) my books during January at the Readers' Oasis Bookstore in Quartzsite, famous for its "naked owner". Yes, this guy runs around the store and outdoor area wearing nothing but a cock sock. Seems like the right market for my books!

So, that's the news from my winter haven in Southern Arizona. Happy Jollydaze!