Warning - I just received an email from SpartySam that a 'writer' named Belinda Jacobs copied my story Disparate Housewives and published it under the title Desperate Housewives on Amazon. Thank you SpartySam! I thought this was pretty ballsy, since my story is already on Amazon and has been for five years! I contacted Amazon and have begun getting this fixed. I'm more pissed than anything else at this point. I'll keep you posted.
And now to the real reason I am posting a blog entry…
About ten years ago I wrote a story titled Influence of the House of Incest that was an add-on to the story Curse of the House of Incest by Notlef. The original story, which is unfinished, was about a house that mysteriously affected anybody who visited and caused them to immediately start screwing everybody in their family. My strange and perverse mind sort of liked the premise of the story and I very quickly began writing my add-on. Eventually the original story went off the rails, but I finished my story. Still, for years I have had in mind a complete rewrite of my story, separating it from the original.
This spring, after finishing The War of the Crystals I found myself with some time on my hands. Combined with my retirement in December, I decided I had the time to revisit the story. I came up with a different origin story, a few follow-up tales, and a complete rewrite of my original Influence story. Now it all ties together. This is a totally new story and I will begin posting it by the end of the month. I'll be pulling the original story down shortly, so if you want to read it, you have a small window to do so.
For those who want me to return to writing literature like A Fresh Start and The Grim Reaper I'll remind you why I started writing. I began reading Internet porn about twenty years ago, and my feelings at the time were simple. It was AWFUL! Monkeys with typewriters could write better stuff than the schlock that I was seeing. (I've had email exchanges with authors who were proud and happy that they were able to get a Six on their scores. I don't even read stuff with scores that low! Jeez, can't you even turn on the spell checker?) I wanted to write what I call literate porn. By and large, I think I've succeeded. I didn't plan to become a writer of literature. I simply wanted to write some stuff late at night that would get me warmed up before heading to bed with my wife.
All that being said, I am still planning on writing another book or novella based on the next chapter in the life of the Grim Reaper. He remains one of my favorite characters, and I already have several chapters laid out in my head, and another three or four later chapters planned. I plan to work on this in the near future, but it will be at least another year before I am ready to do anything with it.