I received a lovely anonymous feedback email through Literotica today, which was both heartening and frustrating at the same time. I love hearing from my readers, and of course it fluffed me right up to see praise for my work, and yet I always wish I could thank people for taking the time to comment and when it’s anonymous, of course I can’t. So to whomever left this in my inbox today, thank you ever so much:
That email got me thinking, though. An author friend of mine (Sophie Kisker, whose BDSM novel, An Odyssey of Submission: Finding Home Book One, has just arrived on Amazon), was suggesting to me in a recent email that I should get on with publishing The Devil’s Luck. Add this to some other comments I’ve received about publishing over the past few months, and I thought I’d just put something up on the blog so ya’ll can know where I stand in that regard.
I do intend to publish. Four Bodies, One Van, No Names, originally on Literotica, and now on Amazon in the anthology The More The Merrier, was me dipping my first toe into the waters. There is, in fact, a plan for my other stuff, I swear.
Everything that’s currently on Literotica (as of this moment, The Eighth House, The Devil’s Luck, The Fall of Rowland Graves, and The Maid and the Cook) will eventually be published as ebooks on Amazon. I might also do Smashwords and/or AllRomanceEbooks, but I need to investigate their restrictions, as there are scenes of non-consent in The Devil’s Luck, and I know some sites have rules prohibiting that sort of content. When said publishing happens, those stories will probably have to come down from Lit.
Currently in the works is another short piece, Six of One, (teaser blurb to come!) which is meant for yet another anthology with the wonderful authors of The Erotic Collective. We’re aiming for a February release, so more news to follow on that.
On the shelf right behind Six of One, is An Emperor for the Eclipse (working title), which I will take up again as soon as I’m done with the other. Emperor is a fantasy novel that I’m sure I’ll put on Lit for all you wonderful people to have the first crack at for free, but it is ultimately meant for publishing. If you know me by now, you know I write a whole story before putting any of it up for public view, rather than releasing chapters as I go, so I can tell you now it’s going to be a few months before you see anything of Emperor. I can only imagine that it’ll be a longer story than The Devil’s Luck by a good deal, and I’ve never written fantasy before where I’ll have to build a world from scratch, so as you can imagine, it’ll take some time.
The future after that? Well, there’s a Devil’s Luck sequel (The Merry Widow) that’s going to happen. We need to spend some time in Benjamin Till’s head, and there are more ship battles and lust in the stateroom that need to happen. Some new characters are coming your way, and things are going to get shaken up!
I really enjoyed the world of mythology, so I’ve planned two companion stories to The Eighth House: not about Hades and Persephone, though the Lord and Lady of the Dead I’m sure will get a mention. These two will be about some other familiar faces in the Greek myths, and like The Eighth House, there’ll be some odd twists on tradition. Those I mean to publish as some sort of Gods and Monsters trilogy, though I’m sure that name is taken.
Now here I don’t know what order I’m doing things in, but I also have a fairly well-developed dystopian future/vampire/sci-fi novel in the pipeline. And there’s still one of my older ideas that’s been shelved for a while about an early 20th century whorehouse that’s meant to span several decades.
So believe me when I say: I have lots of good things brewing, and every intention of publishing. But much like our dear Edmund Blackburn (don’t we write ourselves a little bit into all of our characters?), I’ve made a plan and I’m going to stick to it, by crackie! But now you know where I’m headed, and I hope to see you around for the trip there.
Stay dirty, my friends!
~ Eris
