A free ebook to kick off the new year…

Bella Wong is a young lesbian moving to the Bronx, where she hopes to meet hot older women. She’s in luck, because her neighbor Edwina Sullen is the prettiest and coolest older woman Bella’s ever seen. No, she’s really cool, like room temperature. And she’s really old, like 218.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/35481

My Gay Sparkly Vampire romance is my 2010 NoNoWriMo entry, and at 56k it should be a short read. I hope you’ll check out my parody, and if you do, please considered leaving a review or a rating at Smashwords, where the book is hosted. Thanks in advance for the brave reviewers who accept the challenge, and happy new year to everyone!

2011, the end of free fiction…

So, we’re looking at the end of 2010, and it’s time for me to announce some major changes to my upcoming serial fiction. This will affect both my blog and my web site. The order of stories in the queue should remain close to the same as I’ve outlined in previous posts, but starting in 2011 I will be dropping the free serials. So the first paid serial will be Confessions of a Zombie Lover, the sequel to this year’s first dark fantasy entry, Zombie Punter.

There will still be links to new chapters of my serial fiction coming, but instead of posting the text here, I’ll post a link to the chapter on Smashwords. A free preview of the first few lines will be available for every chapter, but readers will have to buy the rest. I decided on Smashwords because you can get a file for every ereader DRM-free. So no matter how you prefer to get your fiction fix on, they will cover you. Also, you buy once, and you have access to all the file formats. Even if you switch machines or readers, you will always have access to all the files. They’re a good indie store, and I’m hopeful to send more of my Kindle and Nook readers their way instead of to Amazon or B&N.

A major change in my policy will be requiring a minimum number of buyers to be met per chapter before I release the next chapter. (If a chapter unlocked on the same day it’s released, I suppose I might wait a day or two before posting the next part.) I didn’t want to give up my regular schedule or hold my work for a ransom, but I’m doing this for two reasons. First, I need to make enough money from my writing in 2011 to earn something closer to a part-time tech job. So that means turning more casual readers into regular customers. Second, this encourages regular readers to spread the word on stories and become vocal fans. If I’ve set a 50 sale minimum, and the sales hang at 45, it’s in the reader’s best interest to talk about the book and interest other readers. These stories were completed long before I posted them, so if a book dies after one or two chapters, it’s because the readers decided not to support the project, not because I ran out of stuff to post. (And if that happens, I suppose I’ll stop asking after two months and try another title, if no titles are completed in 2011, I’ll just quit writing serial fiction. I may also look more seriously at alcoholism as a hobby instead of writing)

Belfire Press is publishing Adopting a Sex Doll!

Although I mentioned this news on Twitter a few times, I held off on making a blog post until after the official announcement came out from the publisher. Today, Belfire Press announced that they will be publishing my sci-fi story, Adopting a Sex Doll, with a release date of 12/20/10.You can find the announcement and details of other new Belfire Press releases here.

Belfire also posted another announcement here, and my name pops up there too. As the current copy editor steps down to work on other projects, Tracy DeVore and I will both be brought in to work as copy editors.

I’m very excited to be joining the Belfire team, both as an author and as a copy editor. This will not be my first copy editing job, but it will be my first job working with fiction from other writers. If I hadn’t accidentally killed my iPod today, I would totally be dancing in celebration. But I am still bouncing in my seat. ^_^