It's a landmark of sorts for me. Today, I've posted my fiftieth aroslav story at Stories Online. (That doesn't include seventeen from Wayzgoose and one from J-Hop!) And with the publication of the "Wonders of My World" series on Bookapy this week, I now have thirty-five books available there for you!
Today's story is the rather embarrassing tale of my experiences with strip clubs. Of course, the focus is on one particular strip club I encountered in Los Angeles, but I had to bring other experiences in as well, remembered from the deep and murky depths of my imagined past. As the subtitle says, "Based on the true story of Aroslav's erotic journey around America as told to Devon Layne." In other words, it's the memoir of the avatar of the pseudonym of the alter ego of the author. If you can parse that, you'll know exactly how much to believe!
And in other news
The year-end holidays are upon us, and I'm headed to Seattle Monday to celebrate Yule (the winter solstice) with my family and friends. My daughter is keeping the family tradition alive by hosting the dinner at her mother's house. It's the first time for her new husband to be exposed to the depth of our pagan rituals. It's the best holiday of my year. Joyous Yule!
Of course, if you are celebrating Diwali, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanza, Krampus Night, La Posadas, New Year's Eve, St. Lucia Day, St. Nicholas Day, Boxing Day, Ganna, or Makar Sankranti, I wish you a very happy holiday season as well!
I've been writing (surprise, surprise). In November I wrote an entire 150,000-word first draft of Bob's Memoir: 4000 Years as a Free Demon. What a rush! Now I'm piecing it together in a rewrite and discovering how much I left out in my rush to finish the story. The first part has gone to my editors and I'm thinking a possible March or April release.
I've also been doing a final read-through of Team Manager COACH! to prepare it for its February 1 release here on SOL. And I'm managing to get three or four chapters a week written on volume four: Team Manager CHAMP! At the moment, I'm figuring CHAMP! will be the last volume in that series, but my editors have learned long ago to expect that anything I write is going to be longer than I said it would be. We'll wait for the verdict on that one. It's scheduled to start in mid-June.
And there are other projects I'm trying to get back to, but even with the long nights, there is a limited number of hours in a day. I'm writing as fast as I can!
Oh, and January will see another "Wonders of My World" story!
Enjoy!