AI Art Fix-Up: Before And After

After.

Before.

When I was preparing my image files for my Deviant Art site, I came across quite a few images that would have worked for the site, but they needed a bit of work, so I put them in a folder called "Easily Fixable" as I sorted.  The "before" pic is from my Easily Fixable folder as is. I used an SL avatar in a submission pose and then ran it through Civitai asking for a picture of a busy city street with her on it, along with other people walking around. I was hoping for something a little more paved, but this was still an intriguing image.

The first difference between the before and after pics is that the "after" pic looks a lot brighter. The colors seem to pop more. This is not unusual with AI art: it gets the dynamic range of the colors in an image wrong. Fortunately, it's a very easy fix in GIMP.

Then there's the ropes and straps hanging down between her legs. They don't make any sense visually, they don't connect with the rest of the figure in any logical way, so I replace them with background art, a little more troublesome than changing the lighting with a slider, but not difficult really. Note: I did leave in the plastic vibrator controller underneath her. Adds a nice "vibe" to the pic!

There was also the little square thing atop her butt. It looks like maybe it's the end of a dildo, but it's at the wrong angle for a dildo. It looks more like the top of a periscope. Well whatever it was, it looked like the visual equivalent of noise, so out it went. I replaced it with background art, much more easily than the leather straps between her legs.

Finally, there was one little thing. A finger, to be exact. The figure's right had was gifted with an extra finger by Civitai. This was by far the trickiest fix. I had to create a new outline of the wrist, extend the ropes around her wrist, and merge them with the background. Fortunately there were a lot of shadows, and those shadows, they do hide a lot of sins.

Counter Sale

Being sold as a countertop item in a tiny convenience store SEEMED exciting and kinky, but she had a counterintuitive feeling she might get a yeast infection from the counter culture, because it was so counter-productive. But she did it anyway, because it made good cover for her, for she was a counterspy.

Image source: It's Karmen Karma from the Kink.com video 30756 "My Girl Lollipop" also starring Mark Davis and The Guys.

Club Rape Is My Filthiest Sexual Bondage Rape Fest

 

You can get your very own copy of Prison Bitch 2: Club Rape right here!

Rich Bitch, Prison Bitch, the first book in the Prison Bitch series, had too much plot for an erotica novel. I had to get fancy with the timelines to keep the story sexy, bringing the sexual bondage and rape elements forward and running them in counterpoint to the story of a rich girl who’s set up to take a very public fall for a bank’s pump and dump scheme and goes to jail for it.

But at the start of Prison Bitch 2, our protagonist Kimberly Halstead is fully ensconced in Brookhaven Prison, and she’s already a sex slave in Club Rape. And she remains a sex slave in Club Rape’s harem for the entire length of the novel, giving me the opportunity to write about the goings-on at Club Rape at length. I detail not just all the sexual bondage and rape that Kim experiences, but also the sexual bondage and rape that the other sex slave inmates experienced in Club Rape.

That’s a LOT of sex scenes. Which is exactly what I wanted. I used two main techniques to keep them fresh and evolving over the course of the story. 1) I put Kim through some emotional and sexual changes over the course of the novel and 2) I used the fact that the guard’s sex harem dungeon had to be easily and quickly convertible to an institutional employee break lounge in case there was a surprise inspection of the facilities by some high-up prison official or politician, or even worse, some goody-two-shoes organization. Fortunately the guards have had years to come up with imaginative ways to turn innocent-looking prison furniture and fixtures into very naughty sexual bondage toys. Some of them were as simple as ornate curves and curlicues and holes carved into the furniture that served as excellent tying-off points for various bondage sex positions. Others were things like ceiling-mounted fixtures that looked like garage door openers, and functioned a lot like garage door openers, but were not being used as garage door openers. (Cue ominous sexy music.)

The cover art, for those who like that sort of thing.

With that kind of set-up I was able to write an awful lot of sexual bondage rape scenes. That provided plenty of taboo erotica content, but it also served more writerly purposes. When mainstream writers have a character who’s a captive or a slave the sexual elements are either ignored or glossed over. The most famous example being Slave Leia from Star Wars, captured by a gangster and forced to wear a slave collar and chain and the infamous metal bikini before Jabba and his henchmen, but otherwise unmolested, so far as we know.

(Fans of both sexes had a field day with “so far as we know” of course. Google “slave leia porn” and watch out for the avalanche!)

I, being an erotica writer, have carte blanche to write about the sex as much as I want, which gives me the ability to really convey just how much sex Kim experiences, and how intense that sex is. Readers get a much clearer idea of just how thoroughly and frequently fucked Kim and the other inmate sex slaves are. The drama and intensity and raunchiness of sex slavery isn’t watered down or ignored entirely, and that, IMHO, makes for a dramatically better story, no matter how over the top raunchy and frequent all the sex scenes are.

What I’m saying is that I had a lot of imaginative fun writing Club Rape but that I also think I wrote a pretty good story. And that I hope and believe that readers will have a lot of fun reading it.

"The Slave Girl Diet" Now Available on Smashwords

   You can buy “The Slave Girl Diet” here.

First off, let me give you the blurb for my new book, “The Slave Girl Diet.” Then I want to do some bragging. I came up with some neat ideas for this book, and I want to brag about them, and where better than my blog, and, well, all over social media?

“Earth business tycoon and renowned chef Chloe goes through a crosstime gate to take the slave girl diet in a Collar World kennel. Will the constant public nudity, bondage and sex turn her into just another submissive, mindless slave girl drooling for sexual bondage use? More importantly, will it get the weight off and keep it off? Read this 66,000 word erotic SF novel and find out!”

OK, you’ve got the picture. But what you don’t have is the fiendish plot hook I came up with to compel Chloe to go to Collar World to diet. I first proposed that in the future, Earth and Collar World come up with medical tech that allows people to de-age their bodies: that is, their 70 year old bodies can transform back into 20 year old bodies, leaving all the infirmaries and illnesses of old age behind. Wonderful!

But there is one fiendish catch. Any weight you may have picked up on your journey through life doesn’t go away. It stays with you. If you are overweight when you take the de-aging treatment, you are young, vital and... overweight. And since the de-aging tech can be used repeatedly, you face the prospect of hundreds, perhaps thousands of years of life being overweight.

This would, I believe, create some very, very motivated dieters. And is, if I may say so myself, is a deliciously imaginative use of SF tropes. Because the old de-aging tech has been used again and again, but never in this way. Bwahahahahahaha!

(Not giving away any spoilers here, you find all this out in the first chapter.)

And it just so happens that Collar World has developed a dieting technique that gets the weight off and keeps it off. For years… possibly forever. No one knows, as de-aging tech is as new to Collar World as it is to Earth. But every woman who’s gone through the diet has kept the weight off since returning to Earth.

And of course the diet involves lots and lots and lots of bondage and sex and maledom/femsub behavior. The slave girl diet kennels are full of fit Masters determined to help those slave girls reach those weight goals – like it or not! And hence there is a ton of erotica.

I wanted people to see Chloe as a person, not as an instance of “overweight” so I did two things. First, I wrote the story entirely in first person perspective… Chloe’s perspective. So the reader is not looking at Chloe from the outside, they are looking out at the world through her eyes. And Chloe, while she is aware that she is overweight, does not see herself as overweight. And so the reader hopefully will see her as a person and not just an instance of “overweight.”

Along those same lines, in Collar World obese people are rare. Collar World natives lead a much healthier lifestyle than Earth people do, and effective dieting techniques have been developed to help the relatively few obese people lose weight and keep it off. As a result, they don’t do fat shaming. The concept wouldn’t occur to them, it’s not part of their culture. They would feel that a person who is overweight has a health problem, like having the measles or psoriasis or whatever. They know an overweight person has a problem, but they don’t assume it’s because of a moral failure on the overweight person’s part.

It makes for an interesting story, combined with the other plot twists. At least that’s my hope. Buy the novel and find out for yourself.

How the Cover for "The Slave Girl Diet" Was Designed, or "Hire an ARTIST!"

Do you live in a city, a county, or a state that has an official seal? You know, that bit of artwork set in a circle that serves as the official image of that community? Often you’ll find the seal on envelopes mailed out to you, the citizen, or on letterhead from said city or county informing of you such inviting events as Ogdenville Salutes Soybeans Days.

Have you ever looked at one of those suckers? I mean, really looked at it? Chances are if it’s a letterhead it’s nothing more than a series of black squiggles in a circle that you can barely make out as anything at all. That’s because the original design was printed out on 8 ½” x 11” pieces of paper and almost filled them. Nobody thought about what it would look like at ½ inches tall on a letterhead. Not that they would have cared if they had. The seal was probably designed by a committee, most of them political types who don’t know a thing about art and don’t care either.

All they know is, they want their art on the image. And by their art they mean whatever bee is in their bonnet. Commissioner A wants a sheaf of wheat to symbolize the heroic farmers who fed their community. And Commissioner B wants a freighter for the sailors, and Commissioner C wants a church, and Commissioner D wants a factory for the capitalists, and Commissioner E wants a pick and shovel for the miners, and commissioner F just wants great tracts of land and Commissioner G wants railroad cars and so they sit down and work their differences up and after much screaming, fighting and bloodshed, they come up with a compromise that includes every last thing that every Commissioner wants in a confused jumble which takes some looking to figure out at full-page printout size.

And what you get is something like the official seal of Allegany County, Maryland, as seen below in 5”x5” size or something like it (I have no control over what size screen you’re reading this piece on).

(I have no idea what the target circles next to the house are all about. Maybe bowhunting or something.)

And when this seal is printed on an envelope, say at two inch size, it’ll look much more confusing, I mean you have to work hard to figure out what you’re looking at is supposed to represent:

And when it’s reduced to one inch to go on an envelope or a letterhead, the size at which most people will arguably see it, it gets downright indecipherable:

(Disclaimer: the Allegany seal, while definitely a poorly done seal, is hardly unique, I could have pulled up hundreds that were just as bad or worse if I had wanted to. I have no animus toward Allegany County or its people. I just picked this one because it illustrated my point nicely.)

The way to avoid this kind of problem is to design a seal that has a simple, pleasing design that can be scaled to various sizes and still look great. A very nice example here, the seal of Pinellas County, Florida, at 4x5 inches:

And it scales to 1x1.5 very nicely:

It look good at any size and gives the city a unique visual image. That’s all that you need to ask of any seal. It also says “sunshine and water” pretty good too, which is definitely gravy, county identity-wise.

My point here isn’t to make fun of politicians in committees trying to be artists when they are not, rewarding though that is. My point is that politicians and writers and editors do not have the mental tools to create good art. They think entirely in terms of images of various persons/plants/buildings/whatever that to their minds symbolize the place they’re trying to create an image for. And they don’t care much about the image’s visual appeal, nor do they think about how it might scale. Nor do they think about other aspects the image might convey.

And that’s not how you do good design. Politicians, bureaucrats, writers and editors don’t have the mental toolkit to do a good job of creating a visual design.

You need artists for that, people whose visual cortex knows what it’s doing and who have been trained, through schooling or experience (mostly schooling) to understand how to create successful commercial images.

Now I’m a writer who creates his own covers, partly from vanity but mostly because I can’t afford to pay artists decent wages. But I have this much going for me: I know I’m not qualified here. So the first thing I do when I go about designing a cover is let my stupid writer brain come up with whatever it likes.

In the case of the cover for “The Slave Girl Diet” I had already come across just the image I wanted for the cover. It was this piece of art:

It’s a still from Device Bondage’s great video “Athletic MILF Fuck Toy Cherie Deville Punished in Bondage and Sybian!!” And it beautifully expresses the emotional intensity of a woman being fucked senseless while bound and gagged on a relentless sybian fucking machine, and dreaming of cakes and pies and whatnot and drooling all over herself for a variety of reasons as a result. It would have been PERFECT for the cover, except for a few minor considerations.

Mostly, for example, that Kink.com holds the copyright on the image and I’d have to make arrangements with Kink.com to get their permission to use the image commercially, which would probably have involved a transfer of funds from my bank account to theirs that would be greater than the likely sales the book will generate. Probably MUCH greater.

In addition, I would have to generate artwork to cover Cherie’s naughty bits, which are on glorious display here. And because it’s a photo the artwork would have to be photographic, too, which means difficult to do well, much more difficult than the usual white panties and bra I have done on several illustrated covers.

In further addition, the books main character is supposed to be very overweight, and a careful examination of Cherie’s body will show that she is a marvelously trim and fit physical specimen. Look at those abs! So I would have to artistically adjust Cherie’s contours to make her look in need of a diet, and that would pretty much entail drawing her from scratch. I wanted the image so bad I spent an hour or so playing with various GIMP filters to see if I could come up with outline art that I could use as the basis for a drawing that might somehow resemble Cherie and capture her expression and pose, but after that hour I was pretty sure that I was looking at days of work with no guarantee of success, so I very sensibly shelved that idea. (But it would have been such a great cover, if only…)

Next I went to Deposit Photos, my preferred source of legal photo images I can use for covers (because I pay for them.) I didn’t have any clear ideas, so I just typed “woman diet” into the search engine to see what I could find.

But at this point, I did do something smart. I realized that even if an image didn’t work for me as is, many of them might contain visual ideas I could borrow, or “steal” if you want to be accurate about it. So I kept my brain open as I looked at the images, which took major effort.

Interestingly, bondage images were present. There were images of (clothed) women with their wrists bound by measuring tape, and gagged by measuring tape. And I would have used them, if the images had said anything other than “diet” which is all they said. The book is erotica, after all.

But I did find several other ideas that might be worth borrowing. There were a TON of diet images available. But in the end, I only chose one, and I didn’t steal it, either: I bought it fair and square. It was this one:

It’s very spot-on of course, and not at all erotic. But what if there was a naked woman in bondage looking at all this art? Much better! So I went to Second Life and got out one of my avvies and posed her a bit (you may recognize her from “Junie Jamieson, Captured By Gangsters” book) and got this image:

which was pretty much what I was thinking of. (The gray background is my equivalent of a green screen.) Now just combine that image with all those hands offering tempting treats and I’d have a great cover.

Well, not really. There was more ground to cover. But before I got on that ground, I took a little detour. They have very easy ways of customizing avatars using slider bars in Second Life, including controlling how thin or fat the avatar looks. I could make a fat version of my thin Chloe avvie. And after a little playing with the slider, I had exactly that:

And that’s when I had my great idea: if I superimposed the thin Chloe image over the fat Chloe image I could have a cover that said “dieting” and “nudity” both at the same time. So I gave it a shot: ta-da!

Unfortunately, it’s not a very attractive image. It’s visually confusing and hard to figure out. Looking at it, I realized I was once again making the classic non-artist mistake of trying to get a literal visual representation of an idea and thinking it will brilliantly illustrate the idea and look good as well. That just isn’t true, as any number of city and county and state seals convincingly demonstrate, but it’s just the way non-artists’ brains work.

So, back to the drawing board, or more accurately, back to the gray screen. I decided to once again borrow from the ideas of artists. So I bought a couple of sex toys on the Second Life market and started looking at the animations the sex toys put my avatar through. This was a long, arduous process, because Second Life is 3D and what you see in an animation depends on what angle you’re looking at the animation from, then taking a pic when you find something that is potentially interesting.

Fortunately, SL has excellent camera controls that let you look at things from a wide variety of angles very easily. Unfortunately, if you accidentally click on the wrong thing as you’re whizzing around with your camera, which is very easy to do, the whole set up can go to hell, with the camera out of position and/or the avatar out of position. And if you want to make a change in clothing or hair or avatar or anything, that can be time-consuming as well.

Most images you get are just kinda “meh” but you also get some very wrong ones:

But it can be worth it. Because in the process of just taking pics to see what looks good, I got this:

And this image was so much better than anything I could have come up by thinking about how visual images might represent the ideas of dieting and sex slave. It’s a still from an animation showing the avatar squirming in ecstasy atop the sybian. It’s one of several that would made an excellent image for the cover. Because the sight of the slightly thick body squirming in ecstasy also looks like a visualization of longing.

And if you just happened to have an image of a bunch of hands offering a visual treat surrounding that naked, writhing image of longing, you just might have a pretty good piece of cover art.

So I had two elements, but I knew from looking at the original diet art that I didn’t want a flat background. Something a little richer would be better. So it was back to Deposit Photos where I looked for a variety of backgrounds using simple search terms: green background, blue background, pink background, etc. And pink background turned out to be the winner. I found a series of images that involved pink paint dropped into water, photographed at high speed. They struck me as pure visual metaphors for orgasm. I’m confident about that because I wasn’t really looking for visual metaphors for orgasm, I just looked at these images and said “Oh… that’s it.” I won’t place the image that I picked out on this page because it’s quite large (see: background art) and it wouldn’t tell you a lot. I’ll just lay the finished cover down, I think you’ll see what I saw:

I think that’s a respectable cover. But here’s the thing: I’m pretty sure any pro artist could have come up with a cover that is just as good or better, and could have done it in less time and with a lot less effort because they wouldn’t have gone down all the dead ends I did. They would probably have come up with much better ideas than mine.

I could be wrong, but I don’t think I am. At the very least, a skilled artist could have created an original artwork based on the original Cherie Deville image from Kink and made her heavier and (just a teensy bit) more clothed and also not Kink’s intellectual property. And that would have been fine.

The only thing an artist can’t do, is do it cheaper. And I wouldn’t want an artist to do my covers for free. The whole point of this post is to say, “Artists are absolutely worth the money.” If and when I get the money to buy cover art, artists will be getting my money. I’ll pay it... gladly. It took me two days to create that cover art. I could use that time.

"The Naked Jungle" Now Available on Smashwords

 

Click here to get the novel on Smashwords in Kindle, Nook and other formats!

Honey Trapp is a natural born submissive, a beautiful party girl who loves doing every kinky, sexy thing that sexy dominant men, including the world’s richest and most powerful men, want her to do. She’s also an agent of the Initiative, a shadowy worldwide secret organization devoted to forcing the world’s governments to combat climate change before it destroys human civilization.

The Initiative offers Honey a long-term assignment that involves three months’ training in the slave kennels of the Bascom Agency, the world’s finest supplier of slavegirls-for-hire to the wealthy and powerful. Honey jumps at the chance to be trained in the closest thing there is to a real slave training school, because it’s sexy fun and great cover for any female spy.

But Bascom’s training regimen is rigorous. The lessons are long and hard and thrust deep into Honey’s psyche and elsewhere The bondage is strict and the sex is raunchy. Can Honey survive and enjoy the many and varied, often arousing training sessions she endures in the Bascom slave training pens? And will Honey survive her first assignment as the personal love slave of the Generalissimo, the dictator of the tiny nation of Las Miserabil in South America? The mighty fossil energy giant Globoil, Inc., is the major source of income for Las Miserabil, and hence, the major source of power for the Generalissimo. And when Globoil’s drill rig wastes pollute the water source of the Arapunga tribe that lives in Las Miserabil’s interior, leaving them sick and dying, no one in power cares – but the Initiative cares.

As an agent of the Initiative Honey will do every sexy submissive thing she can do to help put an end to Globoil’s pollution -- but will it be enough?

This novel is over 40,000 words long.

"Attack of the 100 Foot Virgin" Now On Smashwords

 

Get the Smashwords version of "Attack of the 100 Foot Virgin here!

(On the left we have the Amazon cover, on the right we have the Smashwords cover. We’ll be referencing the cover art shortly, but go ahead and look if you want to.)

“Attack of the 100-Foot Virgin” is the third book in the Jinkie Jenkins Adventures. I’m moving it to Smashwords and in doing so I edited it a bit, finding a few typos and so forth. It’s still the same story, just cleaned up a bit.

However, I did make a few text changes for editorial reasons, and I did that as a direct result of a keyword research I did. I was unhappy with the keywords I used on Amazon and tried to think up a few more. The scene on the cover involves the protagonist being sold at a slave auction in a city square, stark naked and in bondage, of course. To help prospective customers see the merchandise, cambots project a hundred foot tall image of her (hence our title). There are also a lot of other elements to the scene, and though no actual flying saucers, there’s stuff that’s pretty close. And of course there’s a frightened crowd.

Naturally, our virginal heroine finds it exquisitely humiliating to be paraded about naked, her every feature gigantic and clearly visible to the crowd in the square. And yet, I never researched the keyword “humiliation.” So I did, and I hit a goldmine. On Amazon, I got over 20,000 hits on the Kindle Store for books with the keyword “humiliation.” That’s HUGE. But I figured that a lot of hits might come from non-sexy books with that keyword. So I did a search for the phrase “humiliation erotica” and got over 20,000 hits. Which means of course that practically every book that had “humiliation” as a keyword is erotica. 

It’s a HUGE niche.

Well I was all over that and tried all sorts of phrases and variations of the “humiliation” keyword. And I also rewrote a few scenes to heighten Jinkie’s humiliations.

I also redid the cover, as you see up top. The old cover was just brain-dead. Zeroing in the scene with giant Jinkie in the square was a no-brainer. And I went to considerable effort to get an image of her looking gigantic in a city, poised to wreak havoc, with a ballgag in her mouth and cuffs on her wrists.  Which worked out fine as far as it went, but it didn’t go nearly far enough. 

When I looked at the cover for Smashwords, I knew it could be improved, and it was kind of obvious how. The sky, that freaking gray sky was empty and dull. It did nothing. I realized that when I had created the original image, I had been unconsciously (i.e., stupidly) emulating the promo art for “Attack of the 50-foot Woman.” My image is more or less static except for the woman. But in the promo poster, things are happening: cars and trucks are crashing and falling of elevated roadways, people are fleeing in terror, she’s got a car in her hand, it’s got it going on (except, that, like my art, the sky contains nothing but text).

I knew I wanted a pulp kinda cover, so I went in and actioned things up. I put in flying saucers, a dramatic bloody red sky with giant moon/planet, and people running in terror. All of it clip art, mind you, and not particularly UNIFIED clip art in terms of technique. The base art from both cover versions is 3-D virtual world art from Second Life. The people running in the foreground are 2D pen and ink with watercolor comic art. The spaceships are 3D graphics and go fairly nicely with the Second Life art, though their shading is better. And the sky in the background is a photo. I used a filter to give the Second Life art, especially Jinkie, to work better with the cartoon figures in the foreground, but overall, given my limitations (I’m not an artist) I thought I improved it a lot.

(That said, an artist undoubtedly would have done a MUCH better job than I did, starting with giving the image a graphically unified look, and continuing with doing a better job of designing the image, and beyond that doing a better job of implementing the design. A really good artist would come up with a cover concept that would put mine to shame. For example, see the cover to "Adventures of Bondor Woman" which was done by a real artist. When and if my books ever start making decent money – ahem, I mean more decent than the millions they already make – no one will be happier to pay artists to do the covers than me.)

Still, I think the cover is fairly effective at saying, “Here be funny, sexy science fiction.” And I’ve seen pro covers that were … much worse about visually suggesting the book’s contents.

Anyway, that’s enough nattering. Here’s da blurb:

Oh, noes! Interstellar sex reporter Jinkie Jenkins has been kidnapped! What happened to her?

Well we can't tell all, not in this blurb anyway. But in the writhing mass of science fiction adventure, hilarity and kinky sex slave fun that some call “Attack of the 100-Foot Virgin” we DO tell all.

And in this blurb, there are some things we CAN say. We can tell you that on Alderan, Jinkie is now known as “The Riotess of Cyzlyk City” and is wanted by the authorities there on numerous charges. We can tell you that Marty Stu the “non-sentient” glow ball bot becomes a Forest Management Services bot and is eaten a couple of times. That the Mayor of Cyzlyk City comes to believe that a distant city called "France" has declared war on Cyzlyk City, for perfectly good and sufficient Jinkie-related reasons. And we can't tell you why Jinkie HATES being a hundred-foot-tall virgin in the middle of Cyzlyk City square. Wait a minute, we can: it's because she's naked and in bondage, and like, totally humiliated. We just can't tell you why that happens, or why Jinkie is naked. But it's perfectly rational... on Alderan.

We also can't tell you why the Rebellion, the mercs, Grab Ass, John Quill, the Borkistanis and the Cyzlyk City copbots all want to get their hands on Jinkie and hotmeat, or why Marty Stu got defenestrated. We can't tell you hotmeat's former name, or Marty Stu and the Interstellar Inquirer's fates.

You'll just have to read the book to find out, you ridiculously silly human, you.

This novel is over 55,000 words long and we can tell you that it may well be the funniest thing Pat Powers has ever written. Especially that one scene. No, we can't tell you what it is. You'll know.

Three Tavern Slaves, A Bundle of Stories for Labor Day (And You Thought Your Job Sucked!)

You can buy it here for just 3.99!

It's Moira the Yard Sale Slut, Jessica the Virgin and Mia the Contortionist, all in one very bendy, very lengthy (over 100,000 words) volume. Have a great Labor Day, and remember, workers of the world, unite!

Da blurb:

"Tavern Sluts" is the adventures of three women who serve as waitresses in the Smiling Slut Tavern, a very different sort of tavern where the waitresses’ sexual use is on the menu along with the food and drink. This collection includes “Yard Sale Slut: The Novel,” “Jessica’s Virgin Auction” and “Mia the Contortionist.” All of these stories, available separately on Smashwords, are now in one tasty package!

We start with Moira, an orphan who's at one of the may low points in her life. Moira begins her story bound, gagged and naked, a slave being sold along with various other knickknacks and whatnots by her owners, the Grayson family, at their yard sale.

The slavers who’d bought her and broken her to slavery had been more than evil enough, with all the rape and whipping and whoring of her, but this was just humiliating. Sold, raped and now … discounted.

When she's bought by a local slut tavern owner, Moira figures it's just another humiliation in the long sequence of humiliations she had endured. But the Smiling Slut Tavern, Moira's new owner, has some surprises in store for her. She had no idea she'd fall in love! And she was unprepared for Sky, the First Girl, whose mysterious psychic powers take Moira's life in a whole new direction.

The next time we visit the Smiling Slut Tavern, more than a century has passed. Technology has given men and women ways of expanding sexual pleasure greatly. But technology has potential for misuse, too, and Jessica of “Jessica's Virgin Auction” is a prime example. Her parents, deeply religious and socially conservative, put a watcherball on her, a tiny flying camera that could deliver electric shocks. It was commonly used to protect children. Most parents turned the watcherballs off when their kids were safe at home.

But Jessica's parents never turned her watcherball off. The watcherball was always right there to give her tiny electric shocks if it sensed her sexuality budding.

As a result, Jessica's sexuality is a mysterious unknown territory that she is desperate to explore in the most extreme way possible. And there's no more extreme method that Jessica knows of than to become a tavern slut.

Which is how, shortly after her 18th birhday, Jessica winds up naked, bound and gagged in an alcove at the Smiling Slut Tavern, the living prize in a virgin auction, waiting eagerly for the first of ten lucky men who will have her that night.

What Jessica doesn't know is that her auction will be the spark that sets off fireworks throughout the tavern, and which will put the Smiling Slut Tavern on the map as one of the most exciting slut taverns ever and make her name forever famous!

Finally, we have Mia. Mia, like most women of her times, enjoys the dating scene as it has evolved under basic income. Mia's problem is that she likes having sex with the guys all too much. Women are supposed to string the guys along, releasing the kitty from the bag bit by bit, never emptying it. But athletic, vital, sensuous Mia had a tendency to empty the bag on the very first date.

Tavern sluts get to empty the bag all day long, every day. But Mia can't become a tavern slut because tavern sluts are the enemies of regular women, always on offer along with all the other items on the menu, making it so much harder for regular women to string the men along. How could she maintain her friendships with regular women when she was in the enemy camp?

These three stories have already been published separately on Smashwords. If you've already bought them, you won't find anything new here. If you haven't bought them, give the stories a try. You'll be glad you did!

These three stories together are over 100,000 words long, and are part of the Basic Income universe, although as noted, Moira's story precedes the advent of Basic Income.

Mall of Shame Now Shamefully Available on Smashwords

Mall Of Shame is a novella, costs $1.99, and you can buy it here. Available in Kindle, Nook, epub and other formats.

This story is just about entirely sexual bondage porn. From beginning to end, it’s almost all either naked people tied up and being sexually molested in public or people being stripped and tied up in preparation for being sexually molested in public. It’s one of the pieces of writing I’ve done as well.

And the sexual bondage is not consensual, it’s not consensual AT ALL. While nobody’s parts get put inside or rubbed against anyone else’s parts (though dildo wands figure heavily in the story, and there’s a butthook) so there’s no RAPE, per se. But … there’s orgasms aplenty.

If that doesn’t leave you wanting to get the novella, I just don’t know what will.

Like a lot of my stories, “Mall of Shame” was inspired by an image, specifically the image to be found in this link (totes NSFW).

 When I saw it, I was amazed at its emotional power. The model was conveying shame and humiliation so wonderfully, while methodically pumping that dildo pole in and out of her pussy with some wonderfully smooth hip motions. There was a story there somewhere, a really good one.

And when I had thought about that scene occurring in the public area of a mall, I had my story. Writing it was smooth as silk. It worked wonderfully in my Basic Income world, set just a little bit in the future when AI-driven automation is just starting to turn the screws on the Managerial Professional Class. (More on that in another post on the Pat Powers subreddit).

So give the story a read, I think you’ll find it engaging and totally sexual bondage-licious!