land of rain and coffee

sort of at the point where I need to just chill where I am on the weight I’m using at the gym; I think I’m finally pushing myself the way I should have ages ago and now I need to give this a bit of practice before I can get more increases in. also my back is fussy right now, which i think is due to a lot of sitting on the couch last night for video games? so I need to be careful there. still, good times. :3

in the meantime - most of the retailers i’m selling through have delays on their reporting, but AllRomance reports sales pretty much in real time, so I can tell that it made a difference to post last night. Thank you, everyone who bought stories! (If you have thoughts about what genres, kinks, etc., would make you more excited to buy original erotica, hit up my askbox. I think the next thing on my list is f/m/m alien captivity scenario with aphrodisiacs.)

okay. dinner time.

roachpatrol:

cyphercat:

So as a few people know from me talking about it in IRC, etc., I have taken the plunge lately and started self-pubbing erotica. It’s going under a new pen name, to keep it separate from the romantic stuff I’ve been doing as Laylah; the things I’m doing with this name are not about the romantic arc at all, but rather pure erotic shorts — which is a challenge, because I want to world-build, but also in a way really relaxing, because I don’t have to worry about the narrow expectations of the traditional romance genre and there aren’t really any off-limits kinks (just a few that you have to label carefully so that retailers don’t boot you off their sites).

The first two stories I’ve done are available on amazon (for kindle, obvs) and on AllRomanceebooks in .mobi, .epub, and .pdf — they will also take paypal payment (tho I have no idea how they get away with that, given what prudes paypal can be). Barnes & Noble and Kobo are being slower to upload, but they do have the first one: B&N, Kobo - epub format in both places. Theoretically they will eventually be available in the iBookstore also, but Apple hates fun porn so apparently multiple-week delays are common. These first two are m/m and feature humans, but I’m totally going to be branching out from there and doing some hermaphrodite aliens and some contributions to the thriving monster erotica genre. aw yis.

Obviously I am grateful to anyone who is willing and able to cough up a few bucks on my work — this may not be the way my parents hoped I’d make money on my writing, but that’s what pen names are for in the first place.

It’s an adventure trying to get everything together to publish a story by myself. The ebook revolution makes it possible, but it’s still a lot of work — making covers, making sure the formatting is correct for everywhere the story needs to go, doing all the uploads and behind-the-scenes info. And then wondering about visibility — Aleister should probably have his own website. Maybe a mailing list to let interested parties know when new releases come out? I definitely need to sit down at some point and tag the stories on amazon. I like adventures, though. I hope some of you want to come with me on this one. :3

This dude is a great writer and knows what is what when it comes to erotica! You should definitely help a cool guy out and purchase their quality wares. 

daytime rebloge - I promise not to spam about this in the future, guys! I will see about coming up with a way to get notifs of new stuff to people who are interested w/o pestering the rest of you. XD

le-voyage-violet replied to your post: o brave new world that hath such hot smut in it

…Have you noticed that AllRomanceebooks cuts off the summary of “Pulsar” so that it reads “resident sadist Robin is bored and hung”?

…I would love to be able to tell you that was intentional. Let’s all pretend I was that clever. XD

So as a few people know from me talking about it in IRC, etc., I have taken the plunge lately and started self-pubbing erotica. It’s going under a new pen name, to keep it separate from the romantic stuff I’ve been doing as Laylah; the things I’m doing with this name are not about the romantic arc at all, but rather pure erotic shorts — which is a challenge, because I want to world-build, but also in a way really relaxing, because I don’t have to worry about the narrow expectations of the traditional romance genre and there aren’t really any off-limits kinks (just a few that you have to label carefully so that retailers don’t boot you off their sites).

The first two stories I’ve done are available on amazon (for kindle, obvs) and on AllRomanceebooks in .mobi, .epub, and .pdf — they will also take paypal payment (tho I have no idea how they get away with that, given what prudes paypal can be). Barnes & Noble and Kobo are being slower to upload, but they do have the first one: B&N, Kobo - epub format in both places. Theoretically they will eventually be available in the iBookstore also, but Apple hates fun porn so apparently multiple-week delays are common. These first two are m/m and feature humans, but I’m totally going to be branching out from there and doing some hermaphrodite aliens and some contributions to the thriving monster erotica genre. aw yis.

Obviously I am grateful to anyone who is willing and able to cough up a few bucks on my work — this may not be the way my parents hoped I’d make money on my writing, but that’s what pen names are for in the first place.

It’s an adventure trying to get everything together to publish a story by myself. The ebook revolution makes it possible, but it’s still a lot of work — making covers, making sure the formatting is correct for everywhere the story needs to go, doing all the uploads and behind-the-scenes info. And then wondering about visibility — Aleister should probably have his own website. Maybe a mailing list to let interested parties know when new releases come out? I definitely need to sit down at some point and tag the stories on amazon. I like adventures, though. I hope some of you want to come with me on this one. :3

mercurialmalcontent:

Laylah, aka cyphercat here on tumblr, won my auction for the AO3 fundraiser auction! Hir request was, “A take on Dirk/Equius that looks at their actual lack of experience. They both seem to have a lot of awareness of their kinks, but they’ve also never had the chance to do anything about it. So there they are getting kind of poleaxed with the fact that they’ve met somebody who’s hot and has a compatible kink profile and OH NO WHAT DO. Basically a thing where they have to figure out how doing this stuff with a real person is different from looking at porn or fantasizing about things — things getting messy and being awkward, but eventually working out as they fumble their way to a satisfying scene.”

Just my kind of thing. >:)

You spend the hours after you wake up pacing your hive, your stomach threatening to upturn and your bulge threatening to unsheathe. You’re excited to the point that you’re dripping with more than just sweat, yes, but you’re also beyond nervous. Besides what you assume are the usual worries — what if he doesn’t show up, what if he takes one look at your butlerbot and is so unimpressed — there’s also the tiny little fact that you’ve never done any of this before.

At all.

Read it on AO3!

HHFFFFF MY PRECIOUS BABIES

As much as I have enjoyed writing sexgod!top!Dirk, I’ve wanted to see a lot more stuff that looks at this side of him, too — the way that he’s much more awkward around real people than he ever seemed in text. And the way that means both of them have to recalibrate their expectations, mmmff. Go read this story. ;3;

giadriana replied to your post: hfff. I have been doing my best to give myself a…

*sees Bijou mentioned * *sobs quietly and touches screen gently *

<3

Net result of all that sorting: Cobalt/Jade was my favorite even more than I realized, whoops. They’re the closest to having a complete arc (and they have almost 1/3 of the total word count), and because I’m ridiculous that’s making me go WOEZ because I expect the readers to want Liam/Topaz or Jasper more. (and dang, Jasper needs a *lot* of work to get him anywhere near a satisfying narrative arc…)

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