Preorders, Patreon, Prewriting!

Hello, everyone!

I hope you’ve all had a good week! Before we get too far I’d like to first let you all know about this week’s release, and what I’m testing with releases moving ahead. Up this week, as I’m sure you all expected, is The Argentum Project Volume 10: A One Way Ticket to Lust!

The Argentum Project Volume 10: A One Way Ticket To Lust
The Argentum Project Volume 10: A One Way Ticket To Lust

You can get this on Smashwords, or Amazon!

At the same time, Volume 11: Arrival is also up for preorder! If you buy it now, on Smashwords or Amazon, you get it the moment it comes out! That’s some good convenience, right? Buy it now, and in a week you get to read the story without worrying about it. Of course, next week I’ll do the same for that release, and so on.

That’s the plan, anyway! If this works out, I imagine it could make everyone’s lives a lot easier, including mine. Worrying about pushing the button on Amazon is just… not pleasant, y’know?

Feel free to tell me if you like this, dislike this, etc! I’m always trying to learn how to do this better. I promise, all I’ll do is thank you for reaching out!

Speaking of Patreon however, I’ve unfortunately heard of yet another content creator in my niche who is being warned of their stuff being taken down. We’ll see where that goes, but if my Patreon vanishes? All you’ll need to do is head to this space to get an update about any alternatives I throw together.

Patreon used to make a point about respecting literature, but it seems it only does if it’s a certain “level” of fiction. I’m really tired of fiction like Game of Thrones masturbating to death and misery, but fetish porn? That’s tooooo far!

Reforming that aspect of our society will take a lot of conscious effort, and I do hope for that. Unfortunately, for now… that seems like a bit of a pipe dream.

A lot of what I’ve been doing this week has been prewriting for various future projects. Silver Girl won’t end after The Argentum Project, and I’m already planning for far into that future so I never hit a random, nasty stopping point. While names are all subject to change, naturally, a lot of progress has been made!

If you missed my AMA you missed out on a LOT of fun! There’s still the logs, though! If you head over to The Madam Kistulot’s Domain, my discord server, you can read it now! Modren, the writer of Whiteout, even made it a crossover event! You should read that, because Modren and I may, if all goes well, be working on a future project together that makes me all kinds of exciting!

I’ve also been rereading through a friend’s older writing. Omega Girl and Silver Girl were never very solidly interlinked in a lot of ways–more like the way Superman and Spider-Man were suddenly in the same world and share continuity/etc without a lot of that bleeding over beyond their crossover books–but I intend on having Lacie Ann show up in a future story, too. I’m only not linking to J. Darksong’s works because the other night when I mentioned these plans last, he bemoaned them needing a rewrite and I don’t want to embarrass anyone.

Other good stories I’ve read recently? I haven’t mentioned Skaetlett here nearly enough I think, which is my bad entirely. They do some amazing work, and I recently read my way through How To Pay Your College Loans, which you should check out if the concept of a woman selling herself into slavery to pay off her loans appeals to you. It’s a lot of fun!

Skaetlett, Modren, and frequently-mentioned Doctor D. and Callie are all going to be at Virtual Charmed this year! They’ll be discussing writing erotica from a hypnokink perspective! Sign up here to hop aboard that!

What else is there to discuss? OH! Hypnotic Harlequin, a writer I’ve enjoyed for some time, has a new story you should check out! Dating Doctor Danger is incredibly sexy, and fun, and full of possibilities my mind will be wandering around for awhile. You’ll want to read this one!

Hrm. That’s a lot from me this week, huh?

More coming from me this weekend. Simon already has my latest release in his inbox!

For now, take care of yourselves… and each other!

December, Gift of the Sale, and More!

Hello, everyone!

2020 has been one hell of a long year, and yet somehow I still can’t believe it’s almost over. How does that even work? I don’t know, but 2020 sure is a land of contrasts, huh?

To begin with, this week saw the release of The Argentum Project Volume 8: Identity Crisis. The series is really heating up, so you should grab your copy today!

The Argentum Project Volume 8: Identity Crisis
The Argentum Project Volume 8: Identity Crisis

Available on Amazon and Smashwords!

The Argentum Project introduces one of my favorite characters in the entire larger Midas City setting: Aureus. Volume 8 begins to show just why I adore her so much. You should read to find out!

And if you want more reading? I have another recommendation:

Gift of the Sale: Gift of the Sorceress and Wanna Bet are both 50% off for the month of December!

Head to Smashwords, drop by the Tomes of Modern Magic series page, use the coupon code VY48S at checkout, and save 50% on either of them or both! It lasts until January 1st! Wanna Bet is a fun, sexy story with a fun gambling theme based around a chance encounter. Gift of the Sorceress is a sexy Yule story! You should check these out while they’re on sale!

Want more to read? I have a few more recommendations. For one… Did you know you can get Modren’s Whiteout in paperback form now? There’s an extra chapter in there, AND a thanks to me! So you should check it out! I have my copy!

Pick it up in paperback here on blurb, or here for ebook on itch.io!

Not only that, but have I mentioned The Kat Came Back recently? It’s a hell of a story, and it’s been keeping me constantly on the edge of my seat. Read it!

Doctor D. also updated It Rings for Thee recently, and if you haven’t been reading that, why not? It’s got brilliant world building, prose that frankly puts mine to shame… you should be jumping on this right now!

Don’t forget that I’m running an AMA on my Discord server, The Madam Kistulot’s Domain, on the 11th! Soon the channel there will have a link to a list of events for a recap of tAoSG, as it will be specifically about that book as more people have had a chance to read it than the rest, and I want to see if my fans will get a kick out of it! You’ll be able to ask the Chronos crew questions if you have them, too!

I feel like I should have a lot more to say here, but that already is a fair bit, huh? I hope you all have a great end to what has likely been a very stressful year. Take care of yourselves and each other.

Until next week!

Story recommendations and anachronistic thoughts

Hello everyone!

I hope that today finds you well. I’m currently in a somewhat… precarious situation at the moment. If things get a little bit worse then there is a very real chance I could be forced to evacuate. I live in Oregon and well…

There are a lot of fires everywhere, the air is basically smoke, and my windows all are glowing a bright and vibrant yellow!

I have no way of knowing what will be coming next, but I’ll be doing my best to not let it affect me any more than it needs to. If it does, I should still be able to blog on the go, though productivity may be… thoroughly affected.

That said, I want to provide some positivity here if I can, so my first topic today? Stories you should read, and can read, right now!

It Rings for Thee by Doctor D. is a story I’ve recommended to anyone who cares to listen, and it’s so close to its conclusion! Even still, we’re getting more lore, more hot twisted flavors of fun… A story of corruption, and twisted wrongness, if you aren’t reading this story you’re doing yourself a disservice!

Saturday Morning Cartoon by Doctor D. is another delightfully twisted story from the brilliant genius who brought you It Rings for Thee! This time the world is post-magical girl, or post-apoc magical girl? I Recommend this one as much for the fun take on the genre as the sexy prose and the fun situations. This one is just starting, so get in on it now!

Tasmania by PlanetSurf is a story I loved from the start, and now that it’s found its stride I love it even more. It had a lot to set up so this newly released second installment could be so sexy… and it is! It is a delight. The darker directions it aims towards are so fun, too! I can’t wait to see what happens next, and I think you’ll be as hooked if you give it a glance.

Trigger-Happy Girl Hunt by Modren is in some ways the polar opposite of the previously recommended stories. It’s a lot more care-free, a lot sillier… but it’s in a fun way! And frankly, if you think about it beyond how it’s framed, it’s still dark in fun ways… but it’s FUN and goofy and you should be able to enjoy this even if you’re in the mood for lighter fare than I am as of late!

Bourgeoisie Corruption by Skaetlett is similarly dark, but fun in a different sort of way. Written by someone who understands the socioeconomic stratification we’re dealing with right now, this story is about a punk being turned bougie… but it’s not offensive like that might sound. It’s sexy, and twisted, but it’s hot and really shows an understanding of WHY it’s hot. Read this story!

That’s all for my recommendations, I think!

I’ve been revising stories from 2007 as of late, and it’s been a trip to look back and see how the world has changed. Cellphones were already growing in popularity back then, but they were still a sort of bonus as opposed to a necessity. Smart phones weren’t a thing at all–not like they are now at any rate!

If you wanted to search something on the go, you called someone in front of a computer. If you didn’t have a cell phone you sought out a payphone, and now-a-days most of those are just hollow shells! Wireless phones are still a thing, but they used to be neat with the assumption that by default, phones were wired. You’d sometimes get someone else’s conversation cutting in, and it was a bit of a trip.

Why do I bring these up? Well, these could all very much play a role in how the stories we tell and enjoy are written. Like horror movies, cell phones let you call for help. Batteries can run out, signals can drop, but they’re a constant element now and that can stretch believably if it happens too often without a character’s traits suiting this kind of mistake. Heck, pay phones as a mind control device was I believe an underdog episode? Not a cartoon I saw much. You’re unlikely to accidentally get someone else’s hypnotic call cutting into yours…

In a modern story, anyway.

As I update the Silver Girl series, various anachronisms have been left intact. There’s a VCR in a fancy hotel. Sarah gets her first cellphone, as an adult, during the series. At that point she’s nearly twenty five years old.

It’s a fun thing to stop and consider how stories would be different twenty years ago, ten years ago…

Writing 90’s mind control period pieces should not appeal to me.

Well, that’s me for now! If you’d like to support my work more than by buying my ebook releases, you can also support my patreon! I have a discord for fans to chat with each other, and a discord I administrate for fans of all flavors of mind control! Feel free to drop by!

For now, take care of yourselves and each other.

Please wear a mask, and watch out for local wildfires!

Black Lives Matter

Hello, everyone!

This post is late because I was too loaded on Percocet due to a recent bit of dental surgery to figure out how to log on using my laptop. Now that I’m a bit more healed up, my desktop is much easier to use.

That said, this post is less about me and more about drawing attention to an important topic: racism in the Erotic Mind Control community. I typed up a long tweet thread that you can read here, and I would strongly recommend you take a look at that.

Please give that a look, as I feel it goes into some very important depth and I couldn’t recapture it a second time.

As of now I’ve still yet to year back from Simon. That feels reasonable, given what a big deal this is…

But also a new discord has sprung up, beyond the MCL discord, to work on a community project from the ground up to create an alternative to the EMCSA. I still want to fix the issues at MCStories if possible for many, many reasons, but things are on the move to not simply be patient and wait for things to happen.

It’s not my project, but I support it even if I’m not skilled enough to provide much technical assistance.

Still, racism is a major issue in our community. It’s a major issue in a lot of communities. If you have a voice that people will listen to, I feel it’s your responsibility to use it to speak up and make things better.

Too long I was silent, and I know others have been as well? But personal responsibility here is key. This isn’t about shaming anyone else. This is about standing up, saying this is important, and trying to help counter it where I can. I’ve had a lot of BIPOC reach out to me, further educating me about their experiences since I made that series of posts. It’s been enlightening, but none of them needed to tell me these things for me to be able to see there was an issue that needed sorted out. That isn’t to say their words haven’t helped me figure out more about this issue, but none of them deserved me being silent until now. There was enough that I understood just fine.

Support BIPOC authors in our community, be they writers, readers, models, artists… anything.

I’ve mentioned them both before, but hey, if you haven’t read the works of Doctor D. orĀ  J. Darksong you may benefit from taking a look and seeing if anything they’ve written is up your alley. Follow the tweets of Ari who makes microfiction and is generally great. Check out the work of Brooke Pom over on her Patreon!

The community might look very white from who is highlighted, and what content we’ve ignored in the past, but it is NOT white, and we can do better to make these voices feel safe, welcome, and visible.

I hope you’ll join me in this task.

Until next week, when hopefully I have more to report on my own writing, I hope you’ll take good care of yourselves… and each other.