Friends and Lovers: Two Erotic Tales is now available for 99c on Kindle! Phew! What a voyage of discovery this self-publishing gig is!
It’s been a busy time over the last couple of months. I had holidays in Alice Springs and went to the 20th Anniversary Conference of the Romance Writers of Australia. I’ve been going every year since 2004 and they get better and better. Bob Mayer’s insights about the publishing business were terrific, but seeing all my writer mates was the best part. More of that in a later post.
This month I also decided to dip my toe into the self-publishing waters with Friends and Lovers: Two Erotic Tales available on Smashwords. The first tale is a previously epublished novella (f/f and m/f) while the second tale is a previously epublished short story (f/f).
Here is the blurb.
Two stories previously published as Playing with Trouble and Ghostly Desires. What do you get when Jake Horsley, Australia’s richest man, marries Chrissy, a hooker forty years his junior? Trouble. Especially when she also loves another woman. Honest and straight forward, Chrissy won’t lie about how she feels about Jen. But Jake isn’t worried. Chrissy is everything he’s always wanted, wild and unconventional. He knows he can’t limit her and doesn’t want to. Trouble however, has other plans. Jake’s son David, appalled by his father’s marriage, plots to hurt Chrissy. Protecting herself and those she loves will challenge everything she’s ever believed about herself and what she’s capable of.
Thea thinks a resident ghost is the perfect addition to the ramshackle mansion she’s inherited from her eccentric uncle. But sexy Judith, a ghost from her past, wants to upset her plans. Thea thinks it’ll be no problem.She’ll just get her into bed and win her over. Judith, however, has other plans . . .
One of the unexpected benefits of losing my whole web site, is the freedom it gives me to do what I like. Am I an erotica writer? A romance writer? Both or neither? I struggle with these definitions a lot and as a result often paralyze my creative self. I also rarely think of myself in other creative pursuits.
Like other writers I berate myself for not achieving what I should achieve, forgetting about the range of other life goals that I seem to sail through. Recently I had my chart read by April Elliot Kent. I have a great interest and love of astrology (everyone needs a little irrationality in their life) and bemoaned my lack of focus, especially when I took five months off paid employment last year. I wanted to complete a full length book, develop a regular exercise regime and become a fabulous, healthy cook. She pointed out that in that five months maybe I was just recovering from the last two years and need to just rest and regroup.
I forgot to tell her I completed a training program in that five months so I now have a teaching qualification and renovated my kitchen.
So focused am I on what I’m not doing (Saturn is a big influence in my chart), I give myself no credit for what I achieve. What do you not give yourself credit for?
As you can see, my website is under renovation. The trials of updating my databases resulted in the disappearance of the whole lot. Ah well, maybe not such a bad thing.
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