This week saw me updating covers. After experimenting, I’d already standardized a clearer format for all the upcoming works. But I was on a roll and fixed the older ones on Bookapy. And with Lazeez’s kind assistance, over here on SOL as well. Fair warning, I’ve decided against updating the original prose unless somebody reports an egregious error. It would take up space in The Yards and, frankly, would require far too much work for little gain.
And The Yards are crammed. This week I completed a novella’s rough draft. It traces the budding relationship between a prominent US politician and her hot male escort neighbor. Great fun to write. After that went into the cooler, I knocked out the final drafts of two other novellas heading your way over the next few months. Which still leaves me tackling a novel rough draft I’d abandoned back in early 2022. Back then, I simply didn’t possess the character design knowledge or word skills to do it justice.
My newest novella, “Molly’s Tales,” went up for sale on Bookapy. Another fun story to write, but beware the tags. Although a romance, it’s dark and deals with youthful MtF transgender discovery, rough sex, and mother-son incest, among others. At first I considered calling it an anthology, but individually the tales are a bit short for my taste. So, boom, it has named chapters.
Here on SOL, the seventh chapter of “The Coach’s Wife” sees Hiram bracing to be fired by Coach and his wife. At their house, he’d clearly overstepped his mandate. And I’ve submitted Chapter 33 of “A Fair Trade.” It’s, uh, whew. Beth, meet Jeri. And, um, Jeri, meet Beth. To say things get steamy is an understatement.
Oh, and back in The Yards, I also ripped apart more horrid words in “The Immortal.” Two chapters are in final editing, while the next four require Frankenstein-level updating. For the curious, once you receive those six chapters, we’ll be at the one-third mark of the first of three books in Jim’s little saga. Yeah, I slaughtered a heckuva lot of innocent wirdz before sharing with ya’ll. Weeee….
So, yeah. The Yards were busy, but things are looking shinier. Once more, my eternal gratitude for those of you kind enough to support me and the site by purchasing works. And if not mine, then any of them. There’s a slew of very talented authors out there.