Just in Time for Valentine's Day "Temptation And The Gambler" is Now Available on Smashwords*

You can buy this bad baby right now just by clicking here or on the pic.
 

"Temptation and the Gambler is now available on Smashwords for just $2.99! It's a 18K word+ consensual BDSM romance about two crime fighters who meet cute the crime fighter way, then enjoy one another in all sorts of distinctly non crime fighterly ways! HEA and everything! Enjoy a nice kinky romantic fantasy on Valentine's Day! Here's da blurb:

Sarah is a proud feminist who spends her days working at a womens' shelter and her evenings as a counselor at a local hospital for victims of violence, domestic and otherwise. But she is a woman of many layers and secrets. Late in the evening, she becomes Temptation, a costumed vigilante heroine who cruises the alleys of her city looking for the men who wreak destruction on women and delivering to them pain, punishment and sexual humiliation. But that's just one secret of Sarah's, and to her, the least shameful secret. Her truly shameful secret is that she is a sexual submissive who desires nothing more than to submit sexually to a man, to be bound and gagged and used like a sexual animal – if and only if she can find a man who is worthy of her, and if she can overcome her shame over her decidedly non-feminist sexual feelings. Rod is a billionaire, a true alpha male, a born gambler who is not only lucky but smart. Worth several billion dollars from his Wall Street gambles, he now finds no joy in financial gambling, and so gambles with higher stakes – his very life, stealing out into the streets of the city to become the Gambler, a costumed vigilante who stops criminals with nothing but his fists and his courage. Handsome, fit and charismatic, Rod can have any woman he wants, but none of them seems a match for him. His closet full of bondage gear and toys has been used only for prostitutes who know how to play with him and his toys, but don't have what it takes to ignite his heart. Sooner or later, Temptation and the Gambler had to meet. And they did, in a dark alley. The sexual and emotional fireworks will result from that fateful encounter? This novella is just shy of 19,000 words long, and is part of the Basic Income/Morality Laws world.

*Temptation and the Gambler has already been published on Amazon, so if you got it there, don't bother buying it here, it's the same story.

The Billionaire and the Dancing Slave Girl Now On Smashwords

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"The Billionaire and the Dancing Slave Girl" by Pat Powers, known on Amazon as "The Billionaire and the Dancing Slavegirl" by Skyler Kennedy, is now on sale on Smashwords. 

There's an interesting story behind the name change. "Billionaire" is a kinky erotic romance with an HEA (Happily Ever After). I've read that the vast majority of erotic romance readers are women. And that they tended to be suspicious of male writers of erotic romances. So for this story I decided to don a blonde wig and write as Skyler Kennedy, female erotic romance writer and see what happened to sales. Would a female name make up for the lack of the Pat Powers imprimatur?

The answer, sadly, was "no." Sales were poorer than most of my Pat Powers stories. Though the book didn't fall off a cliff economically like my lesbian sexual dimorphism fantasy erotic bdsm romance "Tiny, Big." Which may have been a much tinier niche thant it should have been. Microniches lead to micro sales.

My current WIP is novella length and will very likely go to novel length, so to get something published this month I dusted off "Billionaire" which is a FINE kinky erotic romance with lots of maledom/femsub sexual bondage, as well as an orgy, public nudity and public sex, involving a motorcycle gang. It's a much better story than its sales under the Skyler Kennedy pseudonym would indicate. We'll see how it does on Smashwords. Er, Direct to Digital.

I created new cover art for "Billionaire." My original cover art for the Amazon edition is here:

Check out the veil on that dancing slavegirl!

It's a fine cover, just not as sexy as it could be. The hardest part of it was the veil. The model for the bellydancer's face was bare in the Deposit Photos image. Clothed models often do not care to have their faces visible on erotica novel covers. So I did the logical thing: I went to Second Life and pulled up a veil and made screenshots of it at the angle I needed. Then I pasted on top of the model's face. It took a bit of finicky work to get it to look natural, but when you're a whiz-bang GIMP user like me, no problem.

The only real change to the new cover is the dancer. I wanted someone more naked to take advantage of the greater freedom Smashwords gives to authors with regard to covers. I also wanted a more active, sexy pose. So it was off to Second Life where I ran an appropriately costumed avatar through a few dance animations and took photos of the avatar as it danced. I got quite a few lively images but the one that really stood out is this one:

Very nice in an avatar-ish way.

I liked the exploded hair, the way the arms are lost in the hair, the curvy hips and breasts, and the dynamic pose of the legs. But a lot of the joins in the body, like the inner thighs and especially the left waist were off, and the hair was too angular. So it was off to Leonardo AI, where I was planning to go anyway.

I ran the image above through Leonardo AI's Image to Image program and after several iteration, I got this:

All the problems I had had with the avatar image resolved with the press of a button. Fricking miraculous. 

I ran the Leonardo AI image through a background remover on Deposit Photos and the image above is what resulted. I shrank it and placed it on the Deposit Photos background image of the billionaire and bob's yer uncle, new cover.

The End

Porn Star Sex Slave Now On Sale

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 I’m writing shorter pieces and I think they’re coming out sexier and punchier. And funnier, at times. In this one I’m not doing a lot of socialist propagandizing, though Mr. Master, the sexually dominant serial rapist who’s the male lead is wealthy. His wealth is incidental, though. He’s just the degenerate offspring of a wealthy family who uses the money he’s inherited to enable his serial raping and make it pretty much consequence free.

The female lead, Vera Vanique, is a bondage porn star, a bright and ambitious woman for whom sex is basically transactional. She’s also very good at her job. She likes the sex and the bondage but never lets it (or anything) get in the way of advancing her career. Still she is a basically pleasant and easygoing person and gets along well with people. She just doesn’t have a lot of illusions about human nature.

Mr. Master is prone to elaborate fantasies about the women who are his victims. He’s mentally very different from Vera. Most of the “action” of the story apart from all the rape and sexual bondage arises from the very different perceptions Vera and Mr. Master have about what’s going on.

There’s also a theme of appearance versus reality that contributes to a twist ending that I hope readers will have as much fun with as I did. Can’t say more about that except that the ending, while not the traditional HEA, is a happy ending of sorts. Read it and see. I think you’ll find it sexy, kinky, short, sweet and funny. 

Here's da blurb:

The heart of the serial rapist that bondage porn star Vera Vanique knew only as Mr. Master was set afire when he saw a picture of her posing naked and bound. Her body was so beautiful, her pose so submissive and vulnerable in her helpless bondage. Yet her expression was so defiant, so determined, revealing a spirit that soared far beyond her mundane physical beauty. Mr. Master had seen such women before, in magazines and videos and movies, and godlike being that he was, he recognized the goddess in Vera. And he knew that he had to have her. Making goddesses his own was his special thing in life, the thing that made his wealth and power worthwhile. He set his formidable intellect to the task, and very soon Vera would be enmeshed in his bonds, his to use and play with as was appropriate for the godlike beings that they were. Mr. Master would worship Vera in his own way, a way that other, lesser beings might describe as kidnapping and rape because that was the only way their limited intellects could understand it. But Mr. Master knew it was so much more, even though he called it kidnapping and rape in his own mind at times because he enjoyed glorying in the sheer evil of it, the sense that he was a being that was far beyond ordinary men, beyond good and evil. And if others could only see the simple physicality of his actions, or were overwhelmed by the distinct lack of consensuality involved, they were mere fools. Men had always bound and raped goddesses from time immemorial. It was the ultimate act of worship. And Mr. Master was nothing if not a devoted worshipper of the goddesses he raped. Can Vera survive Mr. Master's worship with her psyche intact? Is the raw defiance in the photo that Mr. Master is so taken with the reflection of an inner goddess that will allow her to transcend the indignities Mr. Master will subject her to as he uses her body as his helpless toy? You're going to have to read this 15,000+ word novelette to find out!

And here's a link to the image that inspired the story, a photo by Jon Mann of model Pure Rebel on DeviantArt.