Thursday, July 29, 2021

Putting the Work in Jessbaby's Workshop

 So as I continue to spend much of my free time reading and learning more about the strange niche of the publishing world I'm thinking of jumping into, I figure I should use this blog for occasional updates. And just so you have reason to come back, I'll make recommendations as I read things that don't suck. 

So as a first update, I am certain now that I'm going to at least try to get some real paid books going. They will have what you might expect, maybe a little more vanilla but still playing to my strengths and trying to make the characters three dimensional. I've started a story and I've made an outline of where it's going to go. One of the things many agree on is that stories should be viewed of as installments, because the real money is in bundles. So I'm planning for bundles from the start and hopefully if I find the character don't take me in too much of another direction as I write them (something Zainab very much did for example, she was originally supposed to be an eventual villain! Can you even imagine that now?). 

The series is going to be more grounded, (no wizardy techno-chips or slave contracts) but still have plenty of escapist and unusual fun. I have most of the core of the main character but I'll go into detail in another post, which I'm going to try to do at least every other week at minimum.

But like I promised, I'm reading so much now that I do run across good works I want to share so I will. Each post I will pick one story that I have at minimum partially read (so sue me, I start more than I finish) Also want to add, on top of this becoming a repeating thing it will never be paid promotion:

The Farmer by Ashley Zacharias


It may have one of the more captivating openers I've ever read. And until July 31st it is 100% free. The basic premise, and I do not want to give much away as that's a lot of the magic, but a mystery woman volunteers to be the sex slave of some random person, knowing the risks of doing that and getting very turned on by those risks. The author's writing is very good at conveying emotion and has moments of comic surrealism very well. This is a hefty 58k word full novel length and is only book one of a four book set, meaning it can take its time going wherever it wants to go.

With that I sign off and enjoy the weekend.

4 comments:

  1. I recommend "Female, Recreational" by Badger Therese!

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  2. Zainab at first had a relatively egoistic attitude but I didn't see villainy. Roguish assholness maybe.

    Before you start another long story, could you please give closure to the bound friends saga? Five or six paragraphs should be enough. Also you could post whatever there is already written, to not let it go to waste.

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  3. Love your writing, cant wait to see what you publish next, paid or otherwise

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  4. With so much time and effort put into the world of Bound Friends I would love to see more stories set in such a beautifully crafted universe. Perhaps a Penal Contract worker at an Olsen Resort? Maybe a lost backpacker discovers Lea's cabin and accidentally activates Hannah. Or a writer violates her contract by missing a deadline and becomes her publisher's personal slave...

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