April Releases and Other Things

For the few, dedicated fans out there, I wanted to bring out a release schedule for the month. Since I can't run a newsletter just yet, this will simply have to do as a replacement for now. I'll probably also use these release schedule posts as an opportunity to briefly ramble about how the past month has been.

April Releases:

Rendezvous (Virtual Me 2) - 6th

A Twisted Pact (Futa/F succubus/mind control short story)- 13th

Hard Shoulder (Futa/F menage/breeding short story) - 20th

The Grove's Gift (Futa/F breeding fantasy erotica short story) - 27th

Notes: Due to a break from writing for the last week caused by an injured hand, I haven't been able to finish the fourth title for April just yet. On the positive side, maintaining a month's backlog of stories has allowed me to keep publishing in spite of being out the game for a good week. It feels like I'm finally doing better now, though. I expect I'll pick up writing again today or tomorrow, and then settle back into my schedule. I'll update this post with the final title for April once it's hammered out. In case anyone cares. :p

In other news, March was my best month ever for sales so far. And contained my best weeks, too. I don't want to gush too much since I know nobody but me really cares, but March more than doubled February's sales. It more than doubled my previous best month's sales, actually. I'll still need to sell 10 times what I did in March to live off this, but this is a great first step. I keep this graph of monthly sales, and after I plugged in March's numbers, everything else just flattened. With some luck, even March's pillar will be flattened before the year is out. :) As it is, though, I'm very satisfied with 80 sales. I doubt April will be quite as strong, but I can hope.

Aphrodax Published!

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Description: Jacqueline thinks she has landed a cushy job directing a drug trial. Little does she realize that the experiments that her subjects go through are soon to be tested on her, when her mysterious employer appears and changes the way the game is played. Soon, Jacqueline is restrained and made to endure concentrated, mind-altering pleasure. Will she even want to return to her old self?

Shady ethics, harsh conditions and betrayal that had all been bubbling under the surface of an otherwise clean operation come to a head in this intense short story when it is revealed far too late what the truth is.

Aphrodax contains over 5000 words of scorching futanari sci-fi erotica, featuring the outwardly controlled but increasingly desperate project leader Jacqueline James, as well as an unknown, irresistible futanari (A woman, except with male equipment between her legs) who intends to make Jacqueline's life much simpler than the career woman wants. Can she do anything against the drug she designed herself? Read on to find out!

Author Notes: This story was written to a story prompt on Darknest, and I ended up liking it so much that I just had to publish it. The positive feedback I received from my first readers makes me fairly certain it'll be well-liked. :)

I Had A Plan Once

Once, I planned to write a post at least once a week for this blog. I picked the regular day and time more or less at random. It was Wednesday, 2:00 PM. Publishing and random ranty posts started to build around that, until I was posting new stuff every other day. Every day, a few times. And you know what? Most of it was complete crap. What do I really have to tell anyone of value? Not a lot, honestly. What works for me may very well not work for others. Besides, what matters in the end is the writing, right?

So I guess some small part of "the plan" is changing again. No more regular posts. Well, except for on Sundays when a new story is released. 

It's not that I have nothing to say. I probably could've had 2 months worth of blog posts scheduled right now if I was still going for that. But really, I feel like I have the basics of the craft figured out, now. I have a decent workflow. I am by no means done learning as a writer, nor will I ever be, but what I need to learn is personal and no one benefits from me writing about it here. No more ranting about wordcounts or random people.

Just my publishing. Whatever I release, and whatever is related to it. I considered talking about sales now and then, but that's really not interesting to anyone but me, either. I mean, I could write a super excited post about last week's sales being super high, highest ever so far, but that's sort of irrelevant for anyone else. So I won't. But I'm still really happy, because the sales -were- great. For me. 23 in one week. That's over 3 a day! That's huge, for me. Then again, my calculations say that I'll need at least 18-20 sales a day to make a living off my self-pub. It's a big step, but the road is long. I won't keep rambling.

Maybe I should do a monthly post about what stories are coming for the month? I'll consider it, at least. Maybe someone out there will appreciate knowing what's coming. I doubt I have people on the edge of their seats for a new Maria N. Lang release, but maybe someone will think "That sounds interesting, I'll totally buy that on the date and help Maria's rankings." 

Anyway. Thank you, readers, for sticking with me. At least you can expect less bullshit now, eh?