Story Ideas Are Everywhere

Here's another great story idea from a photo:

As she sat on the park bench with her lover, she fantasized about being his slavegirl for real, in public, and the force of her fantasies were so strong that for a moment they bridged the temporal gap between her world and Collar World, and for a few minutes a naked slavegirl knelt beside her bench, and another naked slavegirl shopped for her Master in a shop that faded into nothingness as it approached the street.

Story ideas are easy. Figuring out which ones are worth writing up is hard. And nascent ideas like this, they sometimes are converted into scenes in longer works. This is one of the chief pleasures of writing, of looking at the world as a source of inspiration rather than just a series of occurrences.

And you know what ELSE is everywhere?

Getting Inspired, The Fun Way

I never know where the inspiration for an erotic short will come from. But often, it's an evocative photo that pushes it well beyond just an image of a specific person, place or event.  It's a photo that somehow implies relationships between the people pictured, or a world beyond the scene pictured.

Many porn images and in particular kinky porn images do that to some extent or another, evoking another, sexier world than most of us live in. Here are a couple of examples:

“She crouched on the bed, legs spread wide, naked, alert to the least signal from the one who held her leash. How odd that her gender studies degree from Bryn Mawr had led her exactly, precisely, to this moment, this situation. She was furious and ashamed that she was in this situation, but she couldn't stop it, couldn't say the safeword that would end it.”

It's mostly the expression on the woman's face that does it here. She has a wry, rueful expression, as if she is thinkng about how she got in that situation. So my mind easily generates a story about how it happened. Might be a good story idea, might not, but definitely worth considering.

This is a photo that has a great story in it. I don't know where it came from or who took it, but it's wonderful work. It shows two women, one standing, one kneeling. The standing woman is wearing a dress that goes down to her ankles. She's standing next to a trellis of some sort, hanging onto it with one hand as if for balance. One leg is slightly extended and she's wearing ballet slippers. Her foot is raised and resting on the tip of her toes, in the position ballet dancers call "en pointe." She's looking off to her left, outside the frame of the image. Her hair is swept up, her expression is calculating and thoughtful, perhaps a bit of lust or avarice in there, too -- some kind of desire, in any event. And definitely some apprehension, too.

Behind her some tree limbs partially obscure some lighted orange globes, along with some geometrical webbing of some sort. In front of one of the globes four butterflies are suspended in the air, wings fully extended, looking kind of artificial.

It's all very proper, the sort of thing that could hang in a ballet school hallway without raising an eyebrow -- except for the other woman, of course. She is stark naked except for a large string of beads around her neck. She kneels to the standing woman's right, and she's looking off to the left as well, probably at the same thing the standing woman is looking at. Her expression is a welcoming smile. And she's holding her hands behind her back as if bound, which in conjunction with the kneeling emphasizes her large breasts even more.

Furthermore, she has nice curvy hips and a nice round butt which is emphasized by the way her butt sticks out as she kneels, undoubtedly more than it needs to.

What are these two looking at? We don't know, but we can guess, and what we'd guess is, a man. A man they both find intriguing and attractive. And their bodies both express their attraction in different ways. The standing woman is calculating, apprehensive, yet that en pointe foot suggests she's ready to pivot to her left at any moment. Or to the right.

The kneeling woman is much more open in her response, the welcoming smile and outthrust butt say it all. She wants a piece of whatever or whoever she's looking at to the left, and she wants that piece inside her body.

Also of considerable interest is the relationship between the two women. Their physical closeness implies personal closeness as well. Mistress and slavegirl might be a good guess. Friends whose lives have diverged greatly, but who remain friends is another one. Also, they might both be one and the same woman, the kneeling woman a visual expression of her libido as she looks at the man, the standing woman an expression of her conscious mind with its calculation.

There are other interesting questions, too. Like, the background suggests a party of some sort. But at what sort of party do you bring a naked slavegirl? (Answer: a FUN party!) Or maybe it's a theatrical production and they're onstage. What sort of production? Well, one that involves nudity, that's for sure. Rules a lot of stuff right out, though as I recall the BBC did some nekkid Shakespeare.

There's also something a little racial going on. The kneeling woman has broad cheeks and a snub nose, she doesn't look all that Caucasian. The standing woman looks very Caucasian. Is this supposed to be the American South slavery, stylized? Or is it Slavery involving the Middle East or Asia? It's hard to say, once again, there's nothing that really spells it out for me.

I found this piece of artwork on the virtual wall of a virtual tavern in Second Life Gor, years ago. I have no idea where it originates. I did some research but it came up blank. There is a name underneath the image, ANGELa Blank, and there is a German photogrpaher named Angela Blank, but I can't link the two.

There may be a prosaic answer to these questions, I don't know. But I do know that answering the questions leads to some interesting story ideas. What do you think? I'm not sure which story I want to write, if any. Could I write a story worthy of this image? I'm not sure.

Might be fun to try, though.

(I found this piece of artwork on the virtual wall of a virtual tavern in Second Life Gor, years ago. I have no idea where it originates. I did some research but it came up blank. There is a name underneath the image, ANGELa Blank, and there is a German photographer named Angela Blank, but I can't link the two. Doesn't matter – the mystery only makes the image more intriguing.)

The Visitor From Incel World: Questions for Beta Readers

I've had The Visitor from Incel World posted to Wattpad for about a week and I've had almost 50 reads. Yay!

And 0 feedback from beta readers. Boo!

In thinking about why this might be so, it occurred to me that it would be intelligent of me to have some specific questions for beta readers to answer. So I made up a list of eight questions. Well, each question has sub-questions, but I don't expect every beta reader to answer every question, they're mostly just to jog readers' memories and to let them know what information I'll find useful, and change the story for.


Here are those questions, and here's the link to "The Visitor from Incel World" in case you want to give it a read.
1. General impression -- was the book a fast read? Was it a slog? Did you like it? Was it a fun read or did it bore you? That kind of thing.
2. Pacing. Did some sections just zip along, while others were a slog? If so, which sections were a slog?
3. Plot: do you feel the story resolved itself nicely? Were any major plot points left hanging other than those that were obviously intentionally left hanging? (Writing the sequel right now!) Were there any cases of idiot plot, where the plot will only work if someone does something really stupid?
4. Characters -- were the characters appealing and interesting? Were they realistic? Did they do some things that were obviously stupid and/or out of character?
5. Setting -- Was Collar World interesting? Did you wind up wanting to know more about it? Did everything seem consistent?
6. Craftsmanship -- Were there enough spelling or grammar errors to annoy you or make some passages difficult to read? Were there any particularities of style, such as using “slavegirl” instead of “slave girl” that were an issue for you?
7. Humor -- were the parts that were supposed to be funny actually funny? Did the humor make you laugh or at least smile? Was it out of place in some scenes? Did it detract from the dramatic tension of the story?
8. Sex -- Collar World is a very different place, sexually, where everyone is kinky and has no problem with public nudity or public sex. I tried to keep it from being too “in your face” but I also wanted to give Ariana something to react to. I also wanted it to give an otherworldly feel to Collar World. Did you generally find this successful? Or unsuccessful? Were there any aspects of the sexiness that you liked/disliked?

Thanks for reading “The Visitor from Incel World.” I hope you enjoyed it, and thanks for any input you can provide. We all want better books out there, you might be the one whose comment makes a difference in this case.

Meanwhile, here's lovely Emma Hart in a Gorean slave position known as “nadu.” Now some say  that in nadu the palms should be facing upward, but personally, I could care less. Either way, it's Yowzahville!

How Do You Deal With An Idiot Thief In A Basic Income World?

One of the problems of looking at a future post-scarcity society with free housing, food, clothing, transportation and medical care for everyone is: what do you do with the incorrigibles who can't manage to lead a decent life even under those conditions?

I answered that question and got in some sex slavery content in Katie: Pet Shop Girls #1.. (And yes, it's a freebie.) All you have to do to live a very pleasant life in Katie's Basic Income world is don't commit violent acts against others and don't steal things. If you can manage that, you're golden.

Katie is a nice girl, but she's got no morals and she's dumb as a rock. She gets every toy and bit of clothing she could want from her personal 3D printer, all she has to do is pay the gnerally very minimal price for the design and then print out whatever she likes.

There are luxury, non-printed, items though. They are handmade one of a kind stuff. Generally poor but pretty girls like Katie get such things as gifts from Basic Income boys that date them, in the hopes that they'll get laid, which … they often do.  But Katie sees a nice dress her friend gets from a boy, and envies it, and steal it, because she's just that dumb. And as we all know from the legend of Florida Man, there is just no limit on human dumbness.

Well what do you do to punish a Basic Income person who is used to having just a room to live in? Logically, you take away their 3D printer so no toys for a while. But I decided to go one better and have the punishment be having your mind reworked by an AI so you can't steal/commit violence any more. It's a scary thing, because although you come out of it unharmed, you just aren't who you were before you had the surgery. You CAN'T steal or commit violence.

But pretty girls like Katie have another option, they can volunteer to be Pet Shop girls, basically sex slaves for wealthier people (like the very small percentage of people who have actual jobs instead of just gigs).

Since Katie volunteers for it, it's not EXACTLY slavery, but since her only other option is not being Katie any more thanks to psycho-surgery, it's got a definite sex slavery vibe going, especially thanks to all the sexual bondage scenes I wrote for it.

It's another freebie, designed to get you interested in Nataly, the Violent Virgin, which I think is one of my better works. And both are far too hot for Amazon.

I've run this photo before on my subreddit but  on my blog, not so much. And I love this photo -- look at that eleoquent body language. She's tied up to a fare-the-well and sucking that guy's cock, but look at how relaxed her hands are in her bonds. She is completely comfortable right where she is, and she's completely comfortable doing what she's doing. Look at how relaxed her face is. She trusts her use Master and there is no place she'd rather be, nothing else she'd rather be doing. She is truly in the moment. Wonderful image.

Dammit, I've Written Sci-Cli Fiction

So there's this new thing going around, climate-change science fiction, called Sci-Cli by some, god help them.

The idea is that climate change is going to fuck us up so thoroughly that science fiction writers HAVE to write about it. Judging by the way climate scientists are running around screaming about it like their hair is on fire, it's gonna be HUGE. I mean, the coral reefs are already dying out RIGHT NOW. Not someday, not in the future, right fucking NOW.

Unfortunately, in my experience science fiction that's written to further a cause is pretty awful stuff. It's not that SF can't have opinions about the future, or that it can't advocate for this or that, but the story has got to rule.

Utopia, for example, started out as the name of a science fiction novel written by Thomas More in 1516. It was about wonderful people who lived on a great fictional island and it's described as being similar to life in some religious monasteries, so you know it was one rockin' read! Well, for 1516, maybe. I think by modern standards, reading it is probably a lot like having dental work without anesthesia. Certainly, that's what reading most advocacy SF is like.

So advocacy SF, utopian or dystopian or somewhere in between, sucks. This is known. But thing is, climate change is happening now. I mean, back in the 1950s and 60s if you were writing about computers based on this nifty thing called a transistor that would someday give you the power to do differential equations with a device the size of a home refrigerator that weighed only half a ton, well you're writing SF, son. You're ahead of the curve.

But if you're writing about personal computers on a fucking Commodore-64 in the mid-80s, you're not doing SF, you're just fucking around. You are behind the curve, buddy.

And that's the thing, the coral reefs ARE dying off, right now. Scientists are coming up with panicky attempts to save them and even the morons that run governments are giving them money to give it a try, because coral reefs are worth fucking money. If you're not including climate change in your stories of the future, you're fucking up. You are behind the curve.

Even if you want to have things be about the same a century from now, you have to at least do some hand-waving to explain why your grandkids aren't living in underground silos trying to stretch a small bar of wobbly tofu into a meal and cursing the memory of their grandparents who couldn't be bothered to deal with climate change when it would have been doable. You have to say “The atmo-stabilizer plants cured the atmosphere and made everything good in 2065, to everyone's great relief” or something along those lines.

Thing is, I'm already writing sci-cli (god I hate that term, I hope it never catches on). In my sequel to “Visitor from Incel World” the people from Collar World have figured out how to open crosstime gateways to Incel World, and they're just fucking horrified at what they find, and I'm not just talking about all the vanilla sex. They figure our world has maybe a century before things really go to shit, with plenty of unpleasantness along the way that could accelerate things. They think we're violent (because of all the wars, you know) and we're run by corrupt thugs (because current events).

So I'm doing my part, so there! No grandkids swearing over their tofu at me!

Here'a a pic of three bondage models doing their part to combat climate change, portraying female horseshoe crabs so confused by global warming that they are mating with one another instead of males.

My Fantasy Fuel Novel, “Slavegirls of Outer Space," Available for Free

So a decade or so ago, I came across the movie Slavegirls From Beyond Infinity. I did and still do consider the first 15 minutes of the movie the finest sexy scifi B movie ever made. Unfortunately, after that first 15 minutes it very quickly devolved into a tepid remake of “The Most Dangerous Game” whose only strong point was two pretty good B-movie actresses running around in skimpy leather bikinis, which, sadly, still leaves it as a top-level sexy scifi B movie even if the story is really old shit. I mean, almost a century old (first published in 1924) and has been remade time and time again in many formats, each more boring than the next.

I was so pissed off over the loss of what started out to be a GREAT movie that I did want any writer of erotic SF would do: I wrote a book based on those first 15 minutes, extending the rest of the story logically from the beginning, which involved an escape from a cargo hold on an interstellar slave ship.

Thus was Slave Girls of Outer Space written, to be the story that “Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity” SHOULD have been. The short blurb sums it up nicely:

 Join Dita and Maria, two hot, sexy escaped slave girls, as they romp through a galaxy filled with competing interstellar empires, artificial intelligences, aliens, space pirates, hair's-breadth escapes, space battles featuring starships firing ravening bolts of utter destruction, and hot sexy men. It's just plain fun, like watching a 1980s sexy SF B-movie, minus the stupid, plus the kink!

The first version of this story I wrote was a full-on erotic science ficiton story, with graphic sex scenes and everything. But while I was wirting it, somebody reported a ton of my books to Amazon as being too rapey for Amazon, which was really cracking down on the kink stuff, and about half a dozen of my books got banned and I got sent a letter saying I was a hairs-breadth away from being banned from Amazon.

So I rewrote the book, going back in and removing all the graphic sex scenes, leaving in the fantasy fuel because damn, anything entitled “Slave Girls of Outer Space” HAS to have fantasy fuel. But when I tried to post the story of Amazon it stalled and would not publish. It didn't get banned, it just got stuck in the works, and since I was a hairs-breadth away from being banned, I decided to take the hint and posted it to Smashwords instead.

The book is a freebie, so feel free to check it out. If you like it, there's a full length novel version with erotica available for just $4.99. Either way, enjoy!

Here's some fantasy fuel of a different sort:

Sex Slavery Fantasy Fuel: In Praise of John Norman

The difference between erotica and sexy non-erotica, I've discovered, is  this: erotica provides graphic descriptions of sex acts designed to get the reader off. Mainstream sexy fiction provides fantasy fuel only. No graphic descriptions of sex acts to get you off, but plenty of erotic events, briefly described and plenty of erotic situations that let the reader create their own graphic sexual fantasies, something we as yet don't have the technology to prevent, thank God.

And the person who did this better than ANYONE for the kink community is John Norman, whose Gor novels are, IMHO, works of genius, smoothly combining sex slavery fantasy fuel with science fantasy sword and sandal stories. He was the only one to see how smoothly and easily this could be done, and kind of still is, since nobody has really followed in his footsteps.

He clearly loved heroic fantasy and made solid heroic fantasy stories in his novels, but he also included sex slavery fantasy fuel like nobody else did, and that includes Filthy Philip Jose Farmer and Randy Andy Offutt!

(Norman does have a way of having his characters pause regularly to drone on and on and on about women's rightful place in natures as men's slaves, which has earned him a lot of enmity among feminists. My advice is, skip those parts when they start up, the books are much shorter and more fun to read without them. With them, they are almost unreadable. Makes all the difference in the world.)

When Norman's books debuted with Ballantine Books back in 1964, they were so heavily edited that no one really knew what he was up to. They got accepted as just the usual heroic fantasy Conan knock-offs, ho-hum. Norman got sick of this and moved to DAW books after publishing half a dozen or so books with Ballantine. Freed from the constraints of Ballantine Books, the books grew longer and more sex slavery fantasy fuel filled, and also a lot more popular. They're still going strong on Amazon with the most current book in the series being number 35, Quarry of Gor.

This was WAY before the explosion of erotic ebooks created kinky epics, it was before COMPUTERS, much less ebooks. It was practically prehistoric. Point is, Donald A. Wollheim, the head of DAW books, said that John Norman was outselling all is his other fantasy authors COMBINED sometime back in the 70s or 80s.

And there was a lot of evidence that Norman's readers were primarily female. It was really hard to get good numbers here, because of course, most books were being bought in bookstores, and the clerks had no incentive to keep track (though some DID report attempting to shame buyers of Gor novels).

Still, given what we know about the ebook market, it would make sense. Also, an insider at Linden Labs, the people who created the Second Life virtual world, where Gorean roleplay is and was a big thing, reported that about two thirds of Gorean roleplayers had female names on their credit cards.

So, there's that. And the reason I stress that so many Gor novel readers are female is to make the point that people who are trying to suppress books like the Gor novels and erotica in general are suppressing, not big nasty male proto-rapists, but women who like the submissive sex roleplay. (Some dom males like myself like them, too, but we're surprisingly sophisticated in our tastes, so there – neener-neener!)

Of the Gor novels, my favorite is Dancer of Gor. It is atypical, written from the POV of an Earth librarian captured by Goreans and trained to be a paga slut dancer. (Most Gor novels are written in omniscient POV, or first person, with a male protagonist.) It has a slave girl auction scene that is four chapters long and IMHO sets the standards for kinky slavegirl auction scenes, period. It also has a scene in which the protagonists' virginity is auctioned off by the paga tavern that owns her, to 17 lucky winners, who all get to fuck her that night while she's chained in an alcove and hooded so she can't see who fucks her first.

Fantasy fuel? You bet!

Skilled artists like Deviant Art's Necrella are still inspired by the Gor series. Here's a wagon people image.

Fantasy Fuel

RAAAAAAAAAAPE! (Trigger Warning, you betcha!)

You've often heard me complain about the censorship on Amazon. They won't let you do rape fantasies.

But Amazon isn't the only distributor out there. Smashwords gives CONSIDERABLY more freedom to their writers. They still can't allow books that out and out proselytize about how great real life rape is – no one can, the credit card companies won't process payments for publishers who promote rape as a lifestyle.

Smashwords does allow rape fantasies, however. People have fantasies about rape all the time. As I endlessly delight in pointing out, a lot of the old-time romance novels (B.E. – Before Erotica) were chock full of rape fantasy fuel, with pirates abducting innocent women, Arabs abducting innocent women, gangsters abducting innocent women, and in the case of gay romances, women abducting innocent women. And raping them. It was always implied, sometimes alluded to, and sometimes even described, though generally in the least descriptive terms possible.

But we're not supposed to notice that women have rape fantasies, or even allude to it!

When I first started writing, I was writing sexual bondage fantasies, about women getting tied up and having sex. The logical narrative for that was that somebody grabs a girl and ties her up, probably a pirate or something.

And my first big hit as a writer was “Riverbeast” a novel about a river pirate who kidnaps the daughter of a merchant who does the river pirate wrong. And yes, the full Riverbeast saga is onSmashwords and you can buy it right now. Hell, you can read the first part of the story forfree which has a very nice bit of fantasy fuel when the pirates capture and rape the protagonist and four of her comely young female friends.

Even better, there's the President Slavegirl saga. One of the themes you see in a lot of the old romances was The Fall From Grace, wherein a highfalutin', high born lady is brought low by Fate, or Circumstances, generally in the form of some grubby low class guy who kidnaps her and teaches her The Meaning Of Life the hard, tied-up way.

President Slavegirl is the ultimate Fall from Grace, with a former President of the United States who has stretched the powers of the Presidency so far it would make Donald Trump boggle stripped of her civil rights by the courts and then kidnapped and enslaved by her enemies. She gets tied up and has sex a lot, and she's a freaking prude and a half (that's how she made so many enemies, she put everybody who likes sex in jail, or tried to.) Another novel of mine on sale on Smashwords. And yes, there is a free sample of the first book in the series, “The Homouth” and yes, the former President of the United States of America gets tied up and used thoroughly in it.

That ought to be enough for today, I have a lot to say on this topic, but a blog gives me the latitude to take my time. In my next post, I'll tell you about a popular fantasy author whose books are incredible slave rape fantasy fuel.

I wonder what the fantasy is here?

Beta Readers Wanted for "The Visitor From Incel World"

Or, “Stop me before I fuck up again!” *The Visitor from Incel World* is completed and is now ready for beta readers. A beta reader is somebody who reads an author's book before it is published and lets them know about any problems they find.

Generally it's something more specific than “This book sucks!” more like, “The section was kinda dull” or “Why the fuck did the hero do THAT?” Or, “I completely lost my suspension of disbelief when X happened” or “that bit that was supposed to be funny was not really funny.”

I'm sure you've read a book or watched a movie or TV show and had these kinds of thoughts – well, here's your chance to make them count, to actually help the author to solve the problem before it goes to print.

If you are interested in beta reading, it's very easy: I have the current version of “Visitor from Incel World” published here on Wattpad. Just go there, read the story, and tell me what you think, either commenting here on this subreddit or via direct message, however works for you.

And don't worry about hurting my feelers with any comments or criticisms. I worked as an editor for over a decade. I'm not thin-skinned. Thick and leathery would probably be a better description.

In the meantime, here's Christina Carter getting all misty-eyed because she is tied up and has a vibrator pressed into her pussy:

Achieving Differentness That Has An Internal Logic Of Its Own

It seems like only yesterday t hat I asked readers of this blog or whatever the hell it is to think about what a society where women didn't get raped or sexually harassed any more often than they get eaten by alligators or sharks. And that's because it WAS only yesterday.

My feeling is that under such circumstances women would be a lot more open, relaxed and easygoing around men. That's because rape and sexual harassment wouldn't be a commonplace issue. Most women, even if they haven't been raped or sexually harassed, have close friends and/or relatives who have. They know it's out there, it can happen to them, very easily. That's why women are cautious around men in our culture, especially around men they don't know well. Women are always vetting men, because they HAVE to, for their own safety. Most men aren't inclined to rape or sexually harass women out of the blue, but enough men ARE inclined to do so, to cast a pall of suspicion on all the rest of men.

What if this were not the case, though? What if men simply were not interested in raping and sexually harassing women, in a society where birth control was safe, effective and readily available?

You know the answer, it's obvious. Women would be a lot more open and relaxed around men, more sexually open, too, and more sexually active. How open? It's hard to say, because nothing like this exists in any earth culture or subculture that I know of. Some subcultures are more sexually open than others – imagine the gulf of sexual expectations and experience between the child of a Hollywood movie star and the child of a poor Christian fundamentalist – but the widespread nature of sexual harassment and rape is like a wind that blows everywhere, no matter what the local weather.

I think though, that if women didn't have to worry about being assaulted, it would manifest itself at a very fundamental level, at the body language level. It would be kind of the way women act around their gay male friends, but with one important difference – there would always be the chance that she might wind up having sex with a straight male friend. The difference is, if she did, it would be consensual sex that she wanted, so a fun, positive experience.

Under these circumstances, straight women would think of straight men as being … like candy. A fun, good thing. The powerful effect of sexual desire would still be there to attract women to men as well. There would probably be a lot more of what we now call “promiscuity” but which would simply be normal sexual attraction acting in an atmosphere of safety and openness.

People from such a culture, if they were transplanted to Earth, would be noticeable. Their body language alone would give them away, without engaging in any promiscuous behavior at all.

Now let's think about the men from such a world. What would they be like? Suppose you knew, as a practical matter, that if you want to get laid you can do so easily, anytime, without spending a lot of money or going to a lot of effort. You could go out to a bar or nightclub and meet a woman who wanted to have sex as much as you did, one among many such women. How would that change things? How would you feel if a woman from our current world were to come along and just assume you were sex-starved and would rape her if you had the chance?

You'd feel insulted. Why would you rape this woman when you could fuck a woman who liked you and you liked, very easily? You're not some damn scummy rapist, you're a fun, sexy guy, all the girls you hang out with think so. You like women. Why would a woman assume such a thing about you? Yeah, it's insulting, makes you feel like less of man than you are. Your response to such a woman would probably be massive disinterest. Why would you want to put up with that shit?

Men from such a world would be noticeably different from Earth men, too. Much less … anxious, as it were.

So that's how I write the characters from Collar World. When Ariana Hufflepuff comes to Collar World and accuses people of wanting to rape her, there is much rolling of eyes. No one wants to have sex with her, much less rape her, because she's clearly got mental problems, from their point of view.

Thought experiments like this are what makes alternate world stories interesting to me. I try to create a real culture that has believable people in it that are just different from us, because their background is different from ours. That allows me to write stories that have punch, and that surprise readers with their differentness, but a differentness that somehow makes sense, that has an internal logic of its own. That's the goal, anyway.

 Gratuitous toy use!

What if there was no rape or sexual harassment -- the Dinosaur Conundrum!

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Portraying Socially More Advanced Societies

Suppose you traveled forward in time and visited a future Earth where human society was more evolved than ours. What would such a society be like?

This question has been answered in books, movies and television shows set in the future, and the answer is very clear: people in more advanced societies wear togas, talk a lot but don't ever use contractions or slang, and view both violence and sex as animal behavior. In short, they're basically a Victorian Englishwoman's idea of ladies and gentlemen, dressed in togas.

In creating Collar World, I came up with a different answer, encapsulated by Ariana Hufflepuff's observation that she felt that she “had wandered into a summer camp that thought it was a city.”

Of course, she was on a college campus, which does have a summer camp feel compared to most urban environments, especially the older ones. People do a lot more walking and riding of bikes on college campuses. They're also more relaxed generally.

I suspect the cities of the future will be similarly more relaxed and casual. People will not be expressing social status through clothing, and will exist at a generally lower level of anxiety, because their societies will be healthier. They will not be worried about staying fed, clothed and sheltered, that would be something everyone gets for being human in a  post-scarcity society.

Women would be more relaxed around men, because rape, sexual harrassment and violence against women would be almost nonexistent. In “Conquest of Incel World” my Nero Wolfe character notes the way this difference between the women of Incel World (i.e., Earth) and Collar World: “When a man shows up, their assholes pucker up so tight you can hear it.” Whereas Moxie Maven, the Archie Goodwin character and a free-use girl, thinks men are “like candy.”

That's why the men of Earth are so attracted to the women of Collar World – the Collar World women have a much more friendly and open attitude toward men generally because they aren't worried about being attacked, sexually or otherwise, by them. Earth men are like the Victorian sailors who discovered the women of Polynesia would have sex with them without having to be raped, tricked, drugged, married or even given money … they liked men and sex! Of course they went wild for them, in many cases jumping ship and taking up life on the islands. They knew a good thing when they saw it. I mean, rum, sodomy and the lash are all right, but are no substitute for a healthy sex life, especially if you are on the receiving end of all the lashing and sdomizing.

Earth people just gravitate toward Collar World people because they seem so nice … because they ARE so nice, coming from a healthier culture.

That's my approach. Let good mental health be the hallmark of the more advanced culture, and let your characters interact accordingly.

Collar World Is The Fetish Fuel Future

So this is the definition of a fetish fuel future from TV Tropes:

>Any fictional setting where the sexual kinks of the author are considered normal by society.


Well, in Collar World everyone considers maledom/femsub sex slavery to be absolutely normal. So, got me, Collar World fills that bill. But I think where Collar World may differ from your garden variety fetish fuel future is that I play with it, parodying Earth normal sexual institutions with their Collar World equivalents.

For example, on Collar World, instead of marriage, we have a Personal Collaring, either done privately or in a big public ceremony with a Worst Man to have a fake sword fight with the groom as he claims his bride as she kneels shackled at the Auction Post while the moms cry and the dads comfort them.

Or instead of elopement, a young man kidnaps the apple of his eye when she turns 18, hooding her and binding her and taking her to the nearest police kiosk to register it as a collaring so no one will think it's a kidnapping, followed by several days or weeks of balls-to-the-wall sex.

Or there's the tradition of Scary Aunts and Crazy Uncles. In traditional Deep Southern Gothic culture, they used to lock up unmarriageable aunts and uncles in the attic to keep them from being a social embarrassment. But on Collar World, crazy aunts are enslaved to scary uncles, with the hope that they'd hit it off sexually and sane each other up, killing two birds with one stone, as it were.

And of course, there are all sorts of collars on Collar World, not just personal collars for the marrying sort, but free use collars for the promiscuous, business collars for the corporate go-getters and asexual collars for those who don't want to be bothered. Fitting in on Collar World is mostly a matter of finding a collar that fits comfortably on a woman's neck.

Collar World was originally conceived by me as a thought experiment. Kink exists in our society in contrast to vanilla sex, i.e., “normal” sex. But what if kink was the norm? What kind of world might you have?

Well, you could look at such a world as a utopian ideal, which is what I suspect most fetish fuel futures are.  But you could also look at it as a fun way to parody our Earth institutions.

And that's what Collar World is.

And on a completely gratuitous note, here are two Collar World slavegirls so poor they are reduced to sharing a single ballgag between them. Poor things!

How Incel World Got Its Name

“Incel World” is what the inhabitants of an alternate world timeline call our world in my book “The Visitor from Incel World.” It's the story of a gender studies grad student who gets caught in an accident at a physics lab and winds up transported to an alternate timeline.

The inhabitants of that timeline call it “Earth” but to us, it's known as “Collar World” due to all the women there being willing sex slaves to the men. Basically, most people in Collar World are into BDSM, specifically, the maledom/femsub variety. There are dominant women and submissive men and gay and lesbian pairings as well, and they are accepted, they're just less common than the hetero maledom/femsub pairings.

In fact, most young adults don't pair up early, they spend years engaging in the “free use” lifestyle, which involves lots of promiscuous sex, called a free-use collar, because women engaged in it wear a “free use” collar that encourages others to have sex with them.

Now, incels don't dominate our world the way collaring dominates Collar World. We got the moniker “Incel World” because the Visitor from Incel World, one Ariana Hufflepuff, was a gender studies major and hence more focused on incels than most people are. Her descriptions of incels made them seem more important to our world than they really are, and more dangerous, too.

And in a world where near-universal promiscuity among young adults is the accepted norm, the whole Incel phenomenon would seem a lot more strange and exotic than it does to us, and it does seem strange and exotic to many of us. It's an inaccurate name that kind of stuck, in part because, even though it's inaccurate, it does express the uneasiness that Collar World residents have for Incel World residents.

(The official designation of our world on Collar World is Earth 2. The official designation of Collar World on our world is Earth 2. It's a rare case of the official designation being a lot more confusing than the unofficial designation, and another reason everyone uses the unofficial desiginations.)

The people on Collar World, a pragmatic matriarchy that hasn't experienced war in centuries, regard the people on Incel World as violent, sexually starved (and often physically starved) rapists and murderers, thanks to Ariana's vivid (and distressingly accurate) descriptions of our world. I can't say I blame them!

There's a lot of fun to be had via misunderstandings when you are dealing with alternate world themes.

In other, completely gratuitous news, on Collar World if there is no one around to play with her breasts, a free use slavegirl is willing to take things into her own hands … and mouth.

The Road to Aquibonya is still on sale!

"The Road to Aquibonya" Now on Amazon

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Or you can visit my International Bookstore links and find ALL of my books.

I've written another erotica short with an actual plot. When will I learn? But I did include a helluva sex scene. To wit:

People tried to warn the mage Crom Agnon when he bought a dozen Immortal slave girls at the Immortal Gardens slave auction and headed out of town on the Vanyita Trail the next day.

They told him that between the outlaws and the supernatural creatures that infested the woodlands around the trail, and most of all the dozen Immortal slave girls, that he would not survive to see the next day.

But Crom Agnon was no ordinary mage, and he had bought a dozen of the hottest, kinkiest, most dangerous slave girls known to man for a reason. Well, two reasons. One was exactly the reason you'd expect a man to have for buying hot, kinky slave girls. The other, almost rational reason was related to his plan to journey to a remote town in neighboring Aquibonya, where he would face one of the most fearsome supernatural entities known to mankind -- if he lived to get there.

Note: this story contains a sex scene that is almost 10,000 words long. Sex addiction, blindness and hairy palms are NOT the responsibility of the author or the publisher. Also, this story has been infested with humor. You have been warned! You may take such warnings lightly, but being sex addicted, blind, hairy-palmed and laughing your a** off is no way to go through life.

This story is 26,000 words long and exists outside any known universe.

Now go forth, my minions, and buy this book! There are almost 30,000 subscribers on my Reddit.com subreddit! If only HALF of them buy this book, that means I get ... lessee, carry the 2, divide by 7.348, multiply by -1.45 ... LEBENTY MILLION DOLLARS!?! Go forth, my minions! Buy! Buy! Buy! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Plotting and World-Builiding are Interlinked And Can Help Avoid Cliches

Breaking News! "Road to Aquibonya" has been published on Amazon! It has already passed review and is being distirbute it on their sites, which can take hours. So ... maybe semi-breaking news ....


The Immortal slavegirls in “The Road to Aquibonya” are a great example of how plotting and world-building are interlinked, or can be interlinked, and how good world-building can help you enjoy cliched writing.

My original concept was to have a slavegirl who was magically cursed to be immortal and young, and to make any man she fucks revert to being physically 26years of age every time he fucks her. She's a practical source of immortality, so long as her owner keeps fucking her. Talk about a stable relationship.

But over time, as her qualities become known in the world, such a woman would inevitably become a commodity. She would be very attractive to rich and powerful men, who would probably do a lot of vile and despicable things, such as killing other rich and powerful men, to get their hands on her. And of course they'd keep her in chains once they got her, because they wouldn't want her to escape, and more to the point, would not want her stolen.

This implies a long and unhappy history for said Immortal slavegirl, kept in chains and raped a lot, because of course said rich and powerful men wouldn't care if she wanted to be fucked or not. That's why it's a curse.

Problem is, what we have there, despite the sexual element, is a pure MacGuffin plot, with the Immortal slavegirl serving as the MacGuffin that the good guy, the bad guy and everyone else wants to obtain/control. The story kind of writes itself, a pure damsel in distress line, and that's the problem. The stories that write themselves get written a lot, and are generally cliched and trite and dull because chances are, the reader has already read the story, or something much like it.

Then I thought, why not have a whole race of Immortal slavegirls? Instead of having just one rare slavegirl, have them be commonplace. Why not make them a part of their world, an element of society? They would be commodity, but a common commodity, hence not the MacGuffin that a single Immortal slavegirl would be. There would probably be an active trade in them.

I liked this because it led to some interesting world-building. How would having slavegirls that could make you immortal be a commonplace thing affect people and the nations around them? Especially if there were some places that had a lot more of them than others?

But with commonplace slavegirls that could make you immortal, and who really liked having sex, especially kinky sex … didn't just accept their lot in life as slavegirls, but absolutely loved it … I'd lose a lot of the dramatic tension I'd had with the single MacGuffin slavegirl. I had created the basis for an EXCELLENT party and an interesting world, but not much conflict.

Eventually, I figured that I could solve that problem by having a SORT of penalty element to their nature: make the slavegirls half succubi – hence their magical immortality power  – who have to be fucked every day before midnight or they turn into full succubi and they kill you by fucking you to death – yes, it's death by snu-snu! Even better, the slavegirl has to have an orgasm or she goes full succubus. It would make for a certain amount of difficulty in distributing them.

 This might not a problem with a single Immortal slavegirl, but what if you had a dozen of them?

Well that brings the dramatic tension right back into the story, and in an original way, I think. World-building avoids cliched plotting, for the win!

Here's a pic of one Immortal slavegirl tormenting another, because of course you can have the girls warm one another up before you get around to personally fuckng them.


A scene from Sunstone by Shiniez

 Check out Sunstone it's very well written and beautifully illustrated.

I Know Why The Buffalo Are Exploding

I have so much fun writing. But when I read the posts in the r/writing and r/scifiwriting subreddits on Reddit.com, and so many of them are about all the stress and unhappiness people go through when writing, I have to wonder.

For example, I am really enjoying putting my hot female Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin characters through the wringer in “Conquest of Incel World.” In the Rex Stout novels, Nero Wolfe really hates driving (or being driven, he can't drive) in cars, being certain that the car will crash momentarily. Archie is of course a very capable driver, the only one Wolfe trusts, and enjoys Wolfe's discomfiture enormously.

Well I decided that Nitro Wilde, my Nero Wolfe prototype, should also have a terror of being driven. And so should Moxie Maven, my Archie Goodwin character, because on Collar World self-driving cars are the norm, and accidents are exceedingly rare. They're both terrified when they wind up in a car driven by a human, what's even worse, a car driven by a human in heavy traffic made up of cars and trucks driven by humans. Moxie is much less terrified than Nitro, but she feels it, and for this reason is sympathetic with Nitro's terror, rather than simply enjoying it as Archie does with Nero.

(Well, also, Moxie and Nitro are women, who tend to be more empathetic than men.)

As a long-time voracious reader, it's pure pleasure to get in there and really fuck with favorite characters like Archie Goodwin and Nero Wolfe. And doing it in a way that many Nero Wolfe fans would find deeply distressing, well that's just icing on the cake! How can you not enjoy that?


When I read other authors whining about how HARD it is to write and edit, I just have to roll my eyes. Get in there and have some FUN with what you're doing, maybe your readers will have fun with it, too.

Then again, sometimes I wonder if I'm like the Ed Wood character in the movie “Ed Wood.” Ed clearly loved his job, every bit of it, he enjoyed filmmaking, even though he was objectively just awful at it. Maybe when I write my stories, I'm like Ed, looking at random film clips and exclaiming: “The buffalo are exploding, and no one knows why!”

Or maybe I'm the one who knows why the buffalo are exploding.

In a totally unrelated note, yes, some fairly nerdy, geeky things go on at science fiction coventions. But there is also this:

 This was clearly just a shot taken in a con hallway where two Slave Leias are warming up the boys. That's bringing the sexy!

Dodging Pitfalls On The Road to Aquibonya

I have finished the cover art for my erotic gamelit harem fantasy adventure, “The Road to Aquibonya.” It was initially conceived as a fantasy about a slavegirl who could give any owner who fucked her immortal youth by returning him to age 26. (That's roughly the point at which your brain stops developing, generally considered the attainment of full physical maturity. Mental maturity is a different matter – demonstrably, many never attain it.)

I eventually decided it would be more interesting and fun to have an entire race of slavegirls who could bestow this benefit on their owners. A single slavegirl who can do this is just a MacGuffun. A whole race of slavegirls who can do this are a commodity! I play with this idea a bit and also introduce a potential penalty clause for owning such girls into the story. You can read it to find out what it is. Let's just say it keeps our male protagonist busy.

The male protagonist is another bit of characterization where I play off a favorite character. In this case, it's the typical Roger Zelazny protagonist – very capable, very powerful, sometimes an actual god, but male but also very human and very much a worldly-wise smartass. He was a refreshing change from the usual windbags you got in fantasy stories back in the day.

The real challenge with writing a Zelazny style protagonist is capturing the combination of power and smartassitude without creating a Marty Stu. I'm not saying Zelazny's protagonists are Marty Stus, Zelazny had a way of making them relatable without nerfing them, but for us mere mortal writers, it's difficult. I gave it a shot, with some surprises about the character as the story develops.

I guess you'll have to read it to discover those surprises. I plan to have it out early this week, mid-week at the latest. Meanwhile, it's full charge on finishing “Conquest of Incel World” and marketing “The Visitor from Incel World.”

In the meantime, here's Rebecca Couch giving a Master her full attention.

"Conquest of Incel World" Goes Nero Wolfe!

 Here are some lead characters from Disney's “Frozen” in what I assume is some alternate world.


I'm getting back on the track of “Conquest of Incel World” the exciting sequel to “The Visitor From Incel World.” I'm enjoying this one a lot because I had some fun with the main characters.

I've long been a fan of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels, you see. Stout was an incredible writer. His prose style was smooth as silk. He got away with a lot of flaws in plotting because his books were a pleasure to read and his characters were some of the most engaging people in fiction.

Chief among those is Archie Goodwin, assistant and chief flunkie to the great detective Nero Wolfe. It's an open secret that Archie is the real appeal of the Nero Wolfe novels. He's the everyman through which we see Wolfe and the parade of familiar and fantastic characters that move through Wolfe's office in the course of a story. Goodwin is smart, sharp and would undoubtedly be a successful detective on his own if he wasn't in thrall to Wolfe's genius. He also has a cynical appreciation of Wolfe's flaws, because in addition to being a genius, Wolfe is lazy. Really fucking lazy, like “won't work until he's about to get thrown out of his comfy New York City brownstone” lazy. And Archie understands that perhaps his most important job is prodding Wolfe into working when he needs to. Goodwin understand that he's definitely a second banana intellectually to Wolfe (along with practically everyone else) but that he has qualities that Wolfe needs to be successful.

Well I think that with just a LITTLE bit of tweaking, Archie would make an EXCELLENT bratty slavegirl. His gender would have to change, but that attitude: perfect! Respect combined with cynical knowledge of the Master's flaws. Or in this case, Mistresses' flaws. Because of course Wolfe's gender has to change, too.

Except that I thought I'd make Wolfe asexual. In the Rex Stout novels, Wolfe is heterosexual but celibate by choice, fearing the effects that sexual passion has on him. (Wolfe's got a bit of a control dysfunction, too, I kept that for my version.)

At this point you may think my approach to characterization may be very similar to Jerry Lewis' approach to sculpture in The Bellboy. And I can't blame you. But I had fun with it, and I created a couple of interesting characters in Moxie Maven (aka Archie Goodwin) and Nitro Wilde (Nero Wolfe). Moxie is Nitro's slavegirl, but it's strictly a business collar, as Nitro is asexual. Moxie would fuck Nitro in a heartbeat, but she's not dying to have sex with Nitro, she's just a free use girl at heart, hence will do anyone she can hook up with. Just like Archie Goodwin, she's promiscuous, but she's got good taste.

Oh, there's also a plot about the invasion and conquest of Incel World, as it's known on Collar World (or Earth as we call it) mixed in there. And Moxie and Nitro will be squaring off with a team of agents from the CIA's Exceptional Cases Department, Felix Munger and Diana Stark. They do mostly paranormal casework, and they get called in on the Collar World (as Moxie and Nitro's timeline is called on our Earth) because although it's not strictly speaking paranormal, it is WEIRD, and Munger and Stark know their weird.

(And if you are thinking that Munger and Stark sound a lot like a certain Mulder and Scully … bingo!)

So, yes, I'm having great fun with my characters. Hopefully, readers will, too.

The Case For Truth-Telling In Marketing

Here's the cover of The Visitor from Incel World. Notice anything different about it?


The byline is different, it's written by Barry Anderson, not Pat Powers. I'm using a pseudonym for this one. {Well, a DIFFERENT pseudonym. Pat Powers is not my real name, either, though as much as I've written under that name, it kind of FEELS like my real name, sometimes.)

There's a reason I'm using a pseudonym for the book, and that reason is the Amazon Algorithm, the mighty piece of software that sorts books for Amazon. Because I've written erotica as Pat Powers, if I use the name Pat Powers, the algorithm will categorize my book as erotica. And erotica books don't show up on searches as readily as non-erotica books do. So there's a distinctive advantage to having a book identified as not being erotica.

Especially when it ISN'T erotica, and “The Visitor from Incel World” isn't erotica, it's straight-up SF comedy, though being set in Collar World, it has plenty of fetish fuel and could be classified as a fetish fuel future.

I have what I call my “Birds of Prey” theory of marketing for my work. It's based on the rapid demise of the much-ballyhooed TV series Birds of Prey an early attempt to get the superhero genre started in TV. Birds of Prey was heavily advertised as being about the adventures of a trio of young, hot, sexy superheroines. There were shots of one of them writhing suggestively in the promos.

It worked, the premiere episode of Birds of Prey had excellent numbers, the best the Warner Brothers had ever had for the 18-35 year old male demographic. What it DIDN'T have was hot, sexy young superheroines. There was a trio of superheroines but they dressed dowdily in form-concealing cloaks and such, and they spent most of their time moping about what a bummer being a superheroine was. As a result, ratings for the show dropped precipitously, and it barely lasted a single season.

As soon as guys saw the first couple of shows they knew they were being hosed by the ads and they abandoned the series in droves.

I drew an important lesson from that: when you market a product as having quality A or quality B, you need to DELIVER on that quality in your product. If you don't, no matter how good your marketing, people will stop watching/reading/drinking/whatever it. What's more, they'll thereafter be deeply suspicious of anything you produce, because  they will remember how you hosed them that one time.

It's not just a VIRTUE thing to deliver on the qualities you market in a product (though of course it IS virtuous to tell the truth) but a matter of good business practice. True, your product may not sell if people don't like it, but that's got nothing to do with marketing.

You can tell Amazon whether or not your work is erotica when you publish it, by putting it in the erotica category. I have done that for all my Pat Powers books, because they are. But Amazon's Algorithm will also throw your book into the erotica bin (which means it won't show up in non-adult searches) if it THINKS your book is erotica, based on a number of factors. And one of them is the author name. An author like Pat Powers who writes erotica will be presumed to be writing another erotica book.

Hence, “The Visitor from Incel World” is written by Barry Anderson, a pseudonym that I developed just for my SF books that aren't erotica.

I was also planning on saying in my promotional copy for the book that it is not erotica. But I can't do that, because the Amazon Algorithm looks at your cover copy, keywords and promo copy and if it contains the word “erotica” your book gets classified as erotica.

Sigh.

And it doesn't stop there. “The Visitor from Incel World” is or rather, should be, the fifth book in the Collar World series, since it is set mostly on Collar World. But it can't be, because all the other books in the Collar World series are erotica and the Amazon Algorithm ... sigh.

I can at least tell the truth in non-Amazon venues, such as this one. But Jeebus, this is annoying, having to get around a silly algorithm based on ridiculous prudishness about sex.


Here's a bondage model who is really delivering on the hot and sexy. Enjoy!

I keep getting surprised by my own writing (with gratuitous bondage)

Heidi all grown up and all tied up.
So, what was the strange thing that happened when I wrote “The Visitor from Incel World”? My initial thought had been that this would heighten the contrast with Collar World, and make Collar World's nature more vivid to readers. And some of that definitely happened, in ways that surprised me, and I'm the writer, dammit! I keep being surprised by my own writing. My subconscious is clearly actively involved in writing my stories.

In this case, I wrote a line, “It's like living in a summer camp that thinks it's a city” which is the Visitor's reaction to the way people on Collar World conduct themselves. They're much more mellow and relaxed and open than Earth people, because their sexual needs are fully met, and they have every reason to believe that their needs will be met in the future. There's none of the sex anxiety (the equivalent of “food anxiety”) that we have on Earth, because they live in a sex positive society.

I had never thought out that people in a sex positive society might conduct themselves in a more relaxed and open way, and that this might be the first thing that a visitor from our world would notice, after they got over the public nudity and the public sex, of course.

But that's not the weird thing that happened.

The weird thing that happened was that the real focus of “The Visitor from Incel World” was on how the people of Collar World reacted to what Ariana Hufflepuff, the visitor from Incel World, said about Earth, and what her behavior and attitudes implied about Earth. She's a women's studies grad student at a New England women's college, so she's a bit of an unreliable narrator in certain respects, which is how Earth gets the name “Incel World” on Collar World. (By the way, what do the occupants of Collar World call their planet? Earth, of course.)
And the response of the Collar World residents to what they discover about Earth is what turns out to drive the story and leads directly to the creation of a sequel, not Ariana's response to what she sees on Collar World. I had not expected that.

"Incel World" explained, with random bondage image

Patty cake as played on Collar World.


“Road to Aquibonya” is finished and will be working on editing it today. This may seem amazing to you, but I proofread my stories three times before I publish them. Yes, and still mistakes get through. Sigh. But not nearly as many as used to get through.

Once I get through with editing “Road to Aquibonya in a day or two, it will be time to return to writing “Conquest of Incel World,” the non-awaited sequel to “Visitor from Incel World.” “Conquest of Incel World,” is non-awaited because I haven't published “Visitor” yet, so how could people be waiting for the sequel when they haven't read the original?

I'm eager to get cranking on “Conquest” though, but more about that later. I should probably explain what “Incel World” is. “Incel World” is what the inhabitants of Collar World call Earth … us, in short. They call Earth “Incel World” because their only contact with Earth has been through a feminist graduate student from a New England women's college, and so their understanding of Earth is filtered through her biases and perceptions.

You see, the Collar World books were the product of a thought experiment, which was initiated after some online discussions in the Sex Positive discussion group on Reddit, where I observed that real sex positivism was hard to even conceive of, because being raised in our current sex-negative culture, we all feel that strain of sex-negativism even when we strive to be sex-positive. It's like a constant cold wind blowing in from offshore, that you constantly have to lean against whenever you go outside. You get used to it, maybe you don't really feel it, but it's there, always.

So I thought about what it might be like to live in a world where everyone was kinky and sex-positive, and thus was born Collar World. I've got four stories published set in Collar World, an alternate world where everyone is kinky and sex positive and having a very good time, thankyewverymuch.

But after writing four stories set in Collar World, all of them erotica with strong science fiction themes, it occurred to me that much of the effect of Collar World was being lost because everyone took all the very strange goings-on for granted. If I wanted to get the contrast between Collar World and Earth as we know it to the max, I needed to bring in a character who could see Collar World through Earth eyes.

And thus was born “The Visitor from Incel World.” But when I wrote the story, something strange happened. I'll save that for tomorrow, though. Enough blathering for today.

Is "Road to Aquibonya" a gamelit harem fantasy adventure?" (with non-random slavegirl image)

I pretty much finished the first draft of *Road to Aquibonya* yesterday. Just go a couple hundred words, maybe a thousand at most, to go on it. I never know exactly how long I have to go because I'm what writers call a "pantser" not an outliner. (A "pantser" is a writer who writes "by the seat of his (or her) pants" rather than doing an outline of the story and following the outline.) I actually do outlines of my novel length stuff, or stuff that looks like it will go novel length, nowadays, as it has certain advantages in plotting, but I'm still enough of a pantser that any outline I create changes as the work in progress progresses.

I have noticed that a lot of stories on Amazon are bieng sold as “gamelit harem” stories, or “gamelit reverse harem” stories. I am confident that Road to Aquibonya fills the bill as far as being a harem fantasy adventure erotica” story because damn: one magical guy, 13 half-succubus slavegirls, magical battles left and right, 8000-word sex scene, what the HELL else would it be?

But … is it gamelit? “Gamelit” seems fairly broadly defined: it is a story whose format fits fairly well with various tabletop and video games. Like Dungeons & Dragons and World of Warcraft. I'm not sure EXACTLY what this means, that's the issue. I feel that my story's mythology fits fairly well into D&D and WoW, but it doesn't have exactly the same mechanics as WoW or D&D. But my character does collect mana throughout the story in order to have a shot at winning the battle with the Big Boss at the end …

..what the hell. It IS a gamelit story. Whaddya know. Sometimes just asking a question gets you your answer.

OK, here's a non-random bondage image. I say non-random because I picked it  for this portion so I could write about it a bit. It's just a pic of a naked woman wearing a collar, lying on her back on a bed. Take a look at it:



I find it a fascinating image. She lies on a bed with the spread down, naked, a collar around her neck. She is giving contrasting signals with her body. Her knees are wide apart, allowing the viewer to easily see her pussy, but her feet are held together. Her hands are clasped together, but they're not being used to shield her body, she's resting on them.

Her eyes confront the viewer directly, almost challengingly. Her nakedness and her posture on the bed indicate that she is there for the viewer's pleasure. But her expression indicates that she is not necessarily comfortable there. She might be a new slavegirl, not yet fully accustomed to obedience.

But that steel collar around her neck is the capper. It, along with the fact that she is lying there naked with her knees spread apart before you, tells you that however she feels about what is ordered, she will obey. If you tell her to roll over and spread her butt cheeks apart and wait for whatever enters, she will do that. If you tell her to suck your cock, she will do that. She is a slave, whether she likes it or not, and she knows it, however she feels about it.

That's some really nice storytelling. Kudoes to the photographer and the model for creating such an evocative image. I may be reading more into it than is really there, but I honestly don't think so.

So What Have I Done For Me Lately?

Random bondage image!

So, currently I'm writing a story called "The Road To Aquibonya" which is a fantasy piece about a merchant who buys a dozen slavegirls who are half succubi in magic-enshrouded Callipygia to sell in a distant city in Aquibonya, a less magical (but not entirely unmagical) place.

The story looks like it's going to run about 30,000 words, and it contains a single sex scene that is 8000 words long. Now that's value for your money!

It was conceived of as a quickie story I could, ahem, pump out while I worked on marketing "The Visitor from Incel World," a novel-length story I've written in the Collar World series that is not erotica.

You see, it turns out that for non-erotica, you can't just write them and set them out there and let people read them. You have to market them, which is distressingly like work.

What's more, I have no idea HOW to market non-erotica, never having done so before. So I've been reading about that. Unfortunately, much of the information that's out there is clearly bullshit. It falls under the heading of sales blather, and there is a shitload of that stuff. I remember watching a video of a guy saying “When you have a potential reader interested, he is invested!” and staring at the camera significantly, as if that meant something.

But one bit of advice I did encounter that seems to make good sense is “Tell your readers about what you're working on to maintain their interest.”

This makes sense, and it also strikes me as a natural and direct way of marketing, just tell people what's up, let them figure out what they want to do.

So I'll tyr to post something every day and let you know what's up, and you can be interested or not, it's your call. Works for me.