The word count on the final chapter of Lowborn is up to 4k.  I’m making my way slowly through the sex scene when I’m home, awake, and the place isn’t too loud and distracting to visualize.

This scene is an odd dichonomy, which I’m enjoying, but which also takes a lot more consideration than your average bump and grind.  After all the agonizing over that scene in the last chapter, this is a dawdle, though *laugh*

Another little tidbit is that I’ve added “To Catch a Merchant Princess” to a new site, called Stories Space.  It’s a more family-friendly sister site to Lushstories.  Because of this, I edited a bit of the wording to meet their bar of what’s allowable. ( basically, removed the words cock, clit, pre-cum, and cunt used as a curse )

I also chose to remove the final oral scene at the end of Ch. 05 because the site isn’t really an erotica site, and to get the chapter under 10k words, that was the perfect amount of trimming.

As easy as it was to remove, with perfect transition lines already there in the story, the scene probably should have been edited out from the beginning *laugh*  A little unnecessary sex is acceptable on an erotica site, though.  I also like the depiction of Alicia giving her first blowjob, and how she handles the inevitable conclusion.

I may add a few more things there such as Ride No More, Grandfather Yule ( the next time Christmas rolls around ) Finding Karen ( ditto ) and possibly even the Magic of the Wood series.  Most everything else would lose the proper energy in the sex scenes by softening the language, or is too sex centered to really fit with their model.

Before I’d consider the Wood series, I’d likely go through and do the long considered edit of Steward to improve the flow slightly, making better, more interesting transitions between those early year-jumping scenes.

There could be others that would work, but we’ll see what happens.  So far, MP has very few views ( as in 15-25 ) and the only votes are coming from the moderator who approved the story —  1 Per chapter.  If after the whole series posts it remains that way, I may not bother.  The site has a fraction of the traffic of Lush.

I’m trying to hash out with the moderators whether the story is postable at Lush, but I’m either getting stonewalled, or the moderator I’ve been in contact with has been AFK for a few days.

The story was almost too sexy for one site, and appears that the swordplay and deaths are too much for the other =P  The moderators of both sister sites are a little iffy on the rules of the other, because I’ve been getting suggestions from both directions to try the other site for stories that it’s obvious won’t meet their guidelines *laugh*

Anyway, here’s a link to MP on the new site:

Merchant Princess on Stories Space

Got a quiet moment going on right now, so I’m going to try to get a bit more done on Lowborn.  Only about an hour and a half max ( pushing it ) before I need to crash to survive work tomorrow without being miserable.