Writing is a solitary profession. I often don’t leave my house for days at a time in order to concentrate on my work. Social media allows much more interaction between authors and their readers than in times past, but we still work in isolation.
That’s why reviews and reader comments are so important. They let us know that someone is paying attention. And, positive reviews and comments can make any day brighter.
Today, Brenda Thatcher, Co-Owner Mystique Books, made my day. She loved Dommemoir and gave it her highest rating: Five Mystique Moons (Cosmic) and Class Five sensuality (Raging Carnality). You can read her review at Mystique Books. Thanks Brenda!
Once again I have work nominated in the Preditors & Editors readers poll. I would very much appreciate your support. Please vote for Dommemoir in the Erotica Novel category; “Benjamin” in the Romance Short Story category; and “Your Collar” in the Poem category (search for my name on each page).
Votes must be entered by midnight of 14 January (GMT). You need to give your e-mail address to vote, but it won’t be used for anything except verification. You’ll receive return e-mails (one per vote) that require you to click on links for your votes to count.
Thanks very much.
Genia Stevens of SistersTalk Radio interviewed me this evening. We had a delightful conversation covering everything from BDSM misconceptions to feminist pornography. If you missed it, you can listen in at: SistersTalk Radio
I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy, prosperous, and healthy New Year. However you celebrate, enjoy and stay safe.
Last week I had an opportunity, along with Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart!, and Elihu, a male submissive, to discuss “Female Domination, Male Submission” on The Date Smarter Not Harder Relationships Talk Show.
Our marvelous host, Deborrah Cooper, aka Ms. HeartBeat, asked insightful questions. I very much enjoyed talking with her, Melissa, and Elihu. If you missed the show, you can still catch it at Ask HeartBeat.
Next week, you can listen to me on SistersTalk Radio, hosted by Genia Stevens.
Well, I did it. More than 100,000 words written in one month. Now I have even more work to do revising and polishing what I wrote.
In the meantime, don’t forget that personally autographed books make wonderful gifts for the special kinky someone in your life. You can purchase them from me via PayPal. My limited edition poetry book, Pain of Love, is only available through my website and is free to anyone who purchases three novels. See the Shop page on my website for details.
If I haven’t answered your e-mail or otherwise acknowledged online communication, I’m not ignoring you, I’m just immersed in National Novel Writing Month to the exclusion of almost everything else.
Three weeks in and my accumulated total so far is more than 73,000 words. I very much appreciate those following along on Twitter and Facebook who cheer me on. One more week and 27,000 word to go.
I wrote more than 50,000 words of fiction in the first 15 days of National Novel Writing Month. And I’m actually looking forward to the next 15 days.
The goal I’ve set may be crazy and demanding, but I still enjoy writing stories, even when forcing myself to churn words out at a rate of about 3,500 a day (which for some, I’m sure, is low productivity).
Time to change gears from fantasy/romance to mystery/thriller.
I have completed a quarter of my 100,000-word National Novel Writing Month goal.
I’ve drafted almost 26,000 words of the first novel, a fantasy romance which I’m writing under a different name, in eight days. I’ve had a few setbacks, so I’m about 800 words behind where I should be now. But if nothing else goes wrong, I don’t think I’ll have trouble catching up.
I’ve participated in (and completed) National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) twice now. The first time the draft became the two novels Broken and Shattered, published last year. The second time I drafted Playing with Dolls which has yet to find a publisher. (But then, I wrote Dommemoir before Broken and Shattered and it found a publisher this year.)
Sometimes life happens while you’re making other plans. For many reasons (editing, promoting, personal developments, etc.), I haven’t had as much time to devote to producing new material as I would like. I very much want to draft out my next novel – a mystery/thriller that has festered in the back of my mind for many years and finally started demanding my attention last year. But I also would like to draft out a fantasy romance novel that I am writing in collaboration with my submissive, Patrick. I had hoped to have that draft finished before he went back to school in September.
As I mentioned, life happens. So, I’m going to try to do NaNoWriMo, twice. I have signed up as I.G. Frederick to draft the thriller (although that may eventually get published under a different pseudonym). I also have signed up under another name to write the first draft of the fantasy novel from Patrick’s outline. I am committing to writing 100,000 words of fiction in the next 30 days. Needless to say, I won’t be doing much else.
I’ve cleared my calendar, I’ve weaned my Twitter feed, I’ve trimmed my subscriptions. I will post my progress weekly and tweet my word counts daily. Wish me luck.
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