The first chapter of my latest story, “Jackin’ Jill” is live at Literotica!
Give it a read and a vote! The remaining four chapters will post every Tuesday and Friday, Lit queue willing and the crik don’t rise.
It should be live at Storiesonline and Lushstories soon as well. Same release schedule applies, and I’ll link them up once they’re available.
And, the story is now live at SOL.
And finally, the story is live on Lush.
Yeah, it’s been a while.
Anyone who’s followed me for a while knows I go through these dry spells. The story that’s getting ready to post has been in progress for two years. It’s not even anything earth-shattering or deep. It’s just a fun multi-chapter stroker.
It will be posting as LesLumens and I’m aiming for Friday with the first chapter. That means it went into the queue at Lit yesterday and will go into the queue everywhere else on Friday ( assuming it posts to Lit as expected )
Even though the queue at Lush seems to have slowed down significantly, my Gold membership there should keep me at the 24 hour turnaround. Since I can only have one pen name there, it will post under my RR name.
It’s five chapters long, and the goal is to post twice weekly. ( Tuesday and Friday )
Other than that, I’m once again trying to restore my tradition of posting a new story in the Magic of the Wood series for Earth Day. This year’s story is in progress.
A quick, fun tale called Sylph Esteem is up.
It’s part of the Supernatural contest at Lush, so you can do me a favor by voting for it there to get it qualified for the contest Sylph Esteem on Lush
It also just went live at Literotica: Sylph Esteem on Lit
It’s in the queue at SOL, and I’ll link it here once I see it go live.
And here’s the SOL link, although I’d say most people have already found it, considering how well it’s doing there ( currently 15 on the top score list and on the top download list as well )
I just started posting Merchant Princess over at Lushstories ( in my RR name ) after a few previous false starts of having a mod check the content. First chapter is up, and the other five are approved to appear one per day. There are ways you can cheat and read them all now, though 😉 ( similar stories link at the end of the chapters )
To Catch a Merchant Princess on Lush
Had to modify my database and backend utilities to list this one on “my work”, as the link was too long for what I had there *laugh*
I don’t expect it to get many reads, but hope that the few who do take a walk with me in that world on Lush enjoy it as much as I do.
In other news, I’m working on a dark story as Les for the Lit Halloween contest. It’s called “The Man I Used to Be”. Have an idea for a new Laresa story as well. Here’s hoping I have time to write it and that it doesn’t stall on me like the idea I had for Christmas last year did. It’s been a long time since the last Laresa’s World tale.
I just did my first pass through “Friend of the Wood”. Tweaked a few things and added a couple of lines that I’d forgotten ( heralding back to earlier scenes in the story ). The main thing I did was change the ending, though.
When I read it “cold”, it felt too quick to me. I ended up condensing it and alluding that something was going to happen in the future, rather than having it actually happen in the story. It feels much more natural now.
Going to give it a couple of hours, then go back and tweak the scenery a little in a few scenes. I have a habit of centering so much on my characters that I forget about the world around them. I end up having to come back in and build set pieces around them most of the time :p
I actually have an idea for another story in the series — a short one featuring Melinda and Glen. It was inspired by the current contest at Lushstories ( where I post stories under my RR name ) that fits perfectly with those two. If I write it, it will actually be a jump backwards in time from the “now” of Friend of the Wood — probably falling between it and Beauty of the Wood.
It may even be exclusive to Lush. It’s going to be a shorter tale such as those that do well there, and more of a moment in the life than the rest of the stories in the series. If I decide to do that, I’ll probably release an Ebook for it here on my website shortly after publishing at Lush for people who only read on the other sites.
Besides that, there’s always been another story at the edges of Friend of the Wood. I ended up cutting a character out ( other than a brief mention ) and saving what he was all about in a notes file. If I decide to go through with that one, it will begin at the same time as Friend of the Wood, and the ending will be shortly thereafter.
This one would end up as a story on my “Shorts” page. It’s a little more than a moment in the life, but still not quite on par with the depth of most of the stories in the series. Something important is going to happen in the tale if I decide to run with the idea.
It will be like the rest of the stories in the series in that there will be no need to read it to understand later stories, though. The whole series is designed to be stand-alone tales that are enhanced by reading what’s come before.
Going to take a break for a few, then get back to editing.
