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Yo!
Hope you’ve been having lots of fund this start of summer season! 🍹😎
And, yeah, there’s the World Cup, also! 😅 Insane event, this year! This has been the most exciting round of 64 in… like, ever?
Certainly the most exciting that I can remember. 🤩 Folks on the Cup have been putting up a good show, and I hope they keep turning the heat up until another 𝓬𝓻𝓪𝔃𝔂 final like last year! 🤯
And before you ask, yes, I’m rooting for Argentina. Of course. 🇦🇷🥳
Now, onto business: I’ve had a spat of good news in my life recently, one of which being that business has picked up again, a bit.
Early this year was a crazy and extremely annoying fight with service providers, including getting banned from Amazon and YouTube.
My writing (sadly) got affected along with my mood. Sorry, but that’s can’t be helped. I’m overly sensitive like this.
Regardless, things have started to stabilize, and more venues for income have opened up to me. 😎 My brand continues to evolve (slowly, sure, but it does) and is starting to solidify somewhat.
These past few years have been utterly unpredictable, causing no small amount to annoyance to many of your. Trust me, it’s been annoying as hell to me too, and I’m glad that things are starting to get a little more rational and sensible.
Knock on wood, hope this doesn’t change again, not any time soon.
As part of this “brand consolidation”, I’ve got a ton of small, little changes and quality of life improvements planned for this summer (or beyond if my schedule remains crowded).
These include:
⭐ Updates on all published books: New covers, descriptions, file formats (for download), and better formatting on the book content.
⭐ High-quality paperbacks: Limited offer at first, but I plan to roll it out to all my books when my account is big enough.
⭐ Audiobooks + Adult Video Series: Long-term.
⭐ Expanding sales on book stores: Amazon is out, possibly forever, but other stores like itch.io and Google Play are in!
⭐ Branding fixes: “Beautifying” Patreon and standardizing visuals (posts, banners, etc.)
⭐ Better UX and UI (Patreon): Improving customer service, community relations, and updating the Patreon UX as best as its UI allows me.
⭐ New content: Goofy stuff like film reviews, memes, and the occasional article now and then – stuff that I think will resonate with y’all (Brasiliana is a long-term, deep, and complex project, and won’t feature here too often, not at least until 2028).
⭐ Daily erotic content: One new chapter (or short story) every day.
⭐ Consolidating access: Patreon for all new content + Discord for user interaction. All other websites and social media accounts are “read-only” (I will post there, but interaction is limited).
I think this covers pretty much everything in terms of short terms changes, except for the aforementioned audiobook/webseries plan, which will be (naturally) very time-consuming.
You’ve probably seen some of these coming out already (if you’ve been around here for a while), and you should expect more of these rolling out throughout summer.
Other changes and plans are too long-term to mention here, but please, do keep an eye out for Brasiliana (see more on Discord) when I announce it.
As usual, time is my greatest limitation. I would normally say something like “pls subscribe to help me out make more books” and stuff, but no amount of money can actually buy me more time.
And no, hiring (or recruiting) somebody is, for now, more trouble than it’s worth. 😓
So… yeah. No can do there. I hope you can understand if some of these changes keep going on for the rest of the year (the changes on the books are especially time-consuming given the sheer volume of them!)
This also assumes I won’t get f–d over by 3rd party platforms again, which… pff! Let’s be frank here, it’s almost a guarantee at this point. 😒
That said, I also need to make another thing clear: no more free erotica releases until second notice.
I don’t know how long this freeze will last, but it can be weeks. Maybe months. Years (?????)
This hiatus applies only to free stuff. My regular work on Patreon remains unaffected. Business as usual.
I’m glad my work is improving both in quantity AND in quality, as the writing style is getting shorter, snappier, and much more fun to read! 🥳
One last thing…
I’m eternally grateful to all the people who follow me. Thanks a lot, you mad men.
This whole erotica thing is my way of reaching out to the world while also experiencing a little bit of the pleasure and fantasy I cannot really get in real life.
That I can also make (some) money with it is just, like… real nice. ☺️
Cherry on top, you could say. 😁
I hope I can get attention to my other stuff as time goes by. Attention and interest!
Thanks a lot, again and again, for reaching out, interacting, and buying my stuff.
As wish there were words to express my gratitude to you, as well as my dedication to both you and my works, but there aren’t. I will sound sappy or pushy if I actually try to say them, so I’ll leave y’all with a simple thank you.
Well… 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓴 𝔂𝓸𝓾. 🥰
Back to our regularly-scheduled program, now, we go.
I hope y’all those in Europe aren’t suffering a lot with the heat waves. I keep reading about ugly stuff going on in France, and… welp, I hope you all don’t melt or something.
Buy a nice fan and you’ll be good to go, I guess. Can’t do much about the outdoors, though. If you want to step outside, I guess you’ll just have to suffer. ☠️
[Guess I’ll just die meme]
Thank you very much for your attention, support, and (in the case of what I hope is many, if not all of you) friendship.
I’m really not good at ending announcements like these (or even most of my stories, if I am to be perfectly frank 😓), so I’ll just… up and leave now, okay?
Okay. Cool.
Thanks. And bye.
See ya!