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Oct. 16th, 2023 10:35 am
Get ready for November
NaNoWriMo approaches, and I have just one question for you: What if The Noid was SEXY!?
Hear me out first, I swear I'm not nuts!
As those of you who've browsed my content on TikTok have probably already seen, I've been a bit preoccupied with The Noid for the past few months. And, as my gremlin brain often does, I ended up asking myself the question: "What if there was a sexy version of this?" I presume this train of thought is how a lot of women's Halloween costumes come around, but I'm not thinking scarlet bunny girls, I'm thinking macho kemonomimi men.
I tried to brush off the idea the moment it came into my head but unfortunately my thoughts drifted back to a conversation I'd had with another creative. She'd bemoaned that in smutty stories with fantastical height gaps, the larger character is always the more dominant one. She then gave me a couple of loose scenarios where only a smaller character would fit the dom role, and I had to admit, it was a tantalizing--and seldom seen!--trope to play with.
And so I set myself to the challenge of making a Noid-ish character who's also smoking hot. It's proved to be very difficult, but I think I'm onto something.
I don't want to give away many details yet for this particular project, because most of it is still up in the air and I'm not even sure I won't get bored and leave it unfinished, but his name is Screwy, he's a six-inch-tall beefcake who never wears a shirt, and he HATES pizza. Oh, and he's killed at least ten humans. I feel this last factoid needs a disclaimer that I'm not riffing on the Kenneth Lamar Noid hostage tragedy. Screwy is a gremlin, so, for better or worse, he's brought down some fighter planes.
Fun fact: the original Noid concept art depicts him as a
more traditional gremlin with a bomber pilot outfit and tiny weapons!
Speaking of NaNoWriMo, I'd like to get back to the superhero book I started last year sooner rather than later. Meanny and the Dust Bunnies feature pretty heavily on the Goodies section of my site with no book to pair them with and I think that's a shame! Maybe I'll bang out some paragraphs today to get myself back into the writing habit.
And hopefully I'll be able to keep up a blogging habit for the rest of this month, too!
Hear me out first, I swear I'm not nuts!
I tried to brush off the idea the moment it came into my head but unfortunately my thoughts drifted back to a conversation I'd had with another creative. She'd bemoaned that in smutty stories with fantastical height gaps, the larger character is always the more dominant one. She then gave me a couple of loose scenarios where only a smaller character would fit the dom role, and I had to admit, it was a tantalizing--and seldom seen!--trope to play with.
And so I set myself to the challenge of making a Noid-ish character who's also smoking hot. It's proved to be very difficult, but I think I'm onto something.
I don't want to give away many details yet for this particular project, because most of it is still up in the air and I'm not even sure I won't get bored and leave it unfinished, but his name is Screwy, he's a six-inch-tall beefcake who never wears a shirt, and he HATES pizza. Oh, and he's killed at least ten humans. I feel this last factoid needs a disclaimer that I'm not riffing on the Kenneth Lamar Noid hostage tragedy. Screwy is a gremlin, so, for better or worse, he's brought down some fighter planes.
Fun fact: the original Noid concept art depicts him as a
more traditional gremlin with a bomber pilot outfit and tiny weapons!
Speaking of NaNoWriMo, I'd like to get back to the superhero book I started last year sooner rather than later. Meanny and the Dust Bunnies feature pretty heavily on the Goodies section of my site with no book to pair them with and I think that's a shame! Maybe I'll bang out some paragraphs today to get myself back into the writing habit.
And hopefully I'll be able to keep up a blogging habit for the rest of this month, too!
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Hey, Dreamwidth! It's good to be back, even though I'm pretty sure nobody's reading this stuff. This is just a quick entry with no fancy GIFs because I wanted to make sure I still looked active.
Imagine my delight when I was able to drum up 11 ARC READERS this month for Fated Maids and the Royal Slug! I realize this is small potatoes compared to other ARC teams in the three figures, but honestly, I'm surprised I have a team at all, especially considering the book itself got insta-dungeoned due to Amazon's new, stricter rules for hiding adult content. Word from the wise, you must have "view adult content" enabled AND be searching specifically in the Kindle eBooks category in order to find steamy books nowadays. Yes, I expect Amazon will be receiving a lot of pushback for this.
Over the last week or so the reviews have begun to roll in, and I couldn't be happier with the love that's already being shown for my humble little book about maids with big boobs. I'll admit that I keep refreshing my email at times hoping that another will have appeared. It's not just about getting praise and inflating your own ego, it's about knowing someone not only took the time to read through your entire book and ended up loving it. It makes you feel like you did a good job and that maybe you've got a shot at this author thing after all. At least, that's how I see it.
I also set my book preorder price to 99 cents in hopes of getting a bit of pocket money. Sadly, TikTok has not decided to open its collective wallet for me. This is partly because I haven't been making TikTok videos, I presume.
In any case, for those of you who are browsing blog entries today, you can find my book at tinyurl.com/FATEDMAIDS
Imagine my delight when I was able to drum up 11 ARC READERS this month for Fated Maids and the Royal Slug! I realize this is small potatoes compared to other ARC teams in the three figures, but honestly, I'm surprised I have a team at all, especially considering the book itself got insta-dungeoned due to Amazon's new, stricter rules for hiding adult content. Word from the wise, you must have "view adult content" enabled AND be searching specifically in the Kindle eBooks category in order to find steamy books nowadays. Yes, I expect Amazon will be receiving a lot of pushback for this.
Over the last week or so the reviews have begun to roll in, and I couldn't be happier with the love that's already being shown for my humble little book about maids with big boobs. I'll admit that I keep refreshing my email at times hoping that another will have appeared. It's not just about getting praise and inflating your own ego, it's about knowing someone not only took the time to read through your entire book and ended up loving it. It makes you feel like you did a good job and that maybe you've got a shot at this author thing after all. At least, that's how I see it.
I also set my book preorder price to 99 cents in hopes of getting a bit of pocket money. Sadly, TikTok has not decided to open its collective wallet for me. This is partly because I haven't been making TikTok videos, I presume.
In any case, for those of you who are browsing blog entries today, you can find my book at tinyurl.com/FATEDMAIDS
