Books! We got books!
First, though, a note of appreciation: Careful won second place in the Golden Clitorides "Best BDSM Story" category, and I'm super grateful to everyone who read it and voted. I'm blown away by the fact that Careful's rating is up over a 7.5 (on 150 votes!) and the short is edging close to an 8.0. If you rated it, thank you, and if you haven't read it yet, give it a chance (and a rating and/or a comment). I'm pretty proud of it.
I'm in the midst of finishing up a new story in the Two Vines universe (now known as the Archives of The Order). It's about 75% done and needs some editing, but I'm hoping to finish it up in August. It'll serve as the anchor story for an e-book collecting all four stories, which ought to make an appearance some time in September.
In the meanwhile I'm also working on EPUB formatting (and making covers) for the other stories in that series. The individual books will be cheap, partially because I don't think you should pay a lot for a 5k word story, but also to make it easy for anyone who doesn't want to pay for one of the longer books (Careful or the new Order collection) to throw me a buck or two.
But regardless of whether you choose to toss me a few bucks or not, I appreciate all of you who read my stories. Writing has been a great source of escapism as well as a chance to flex my artistic muscles over the last 6–9 months, and without readers it's pretty pointless. So, thanks.
— chuck