This is my first blog entry, because I've mostly been communicating with fans of my story in the comments. But the last chapter was posted so long ago that nobody's going to read that. So now I blog.
Anyway, I went on vacation for a family wedding (not my own), but while I was out of town, another family member, who I used to be very close to, died unexpectedly and brutally. So I took some time off work. Since I got back, I just hadn't been in the mood to write until just recently.
This week, though, I have written an entire chapter, and it's a long one. Well, I've almost written it. It still needs an end scene and some fleshing out, but it's 85, maybe 90% done.
It's going to be chapter 8 or 9, once I get all the intervening chapters written, but who knows when that will be? Not I. I still haven't finished chapter 3. (I re-titled my chapters to indicate that)
Here's the thing, though. The new chapter takes place around a poker table, and I am... an amateur at best. Therefore, I am looking for a couple of beta readers who can tell me how badly and where I screwed up the gameplay. Of course, nothing is free, right? So if you beta read this chapter for me and give me some good feedback, I'll give you early access to the next part that I'll be posting--the third draft of Chapter 4.3: Amanda's Afterparty. Hell, I'll let you have it if you give me bad feedback.
I actually wrote it before I left, but only today realized that I never posted it. One more draft and it's good to go.
If you're interested, and know Texas Hold'em, send me your gmail address, and I'll share the second draft of what is provisionally titled Chapter 8: Poker Night.
In other news, I am only back for four or five weeks, because after that, I have another wedding to attend: mine. Don't tell her about my stories, though, eh?*
*(Just kidding, she knows I write smut for fun and supports me in it, even if I have asked her not to read my stories.)