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Seasonal Page added.

Just added a new page to the website, allowing you to view all my stories by specific season.  It can be reached via the quick jump menu whenever you’re on the “My Work” page.

Just wasn’t any good way to add another drop-down menu to that page :p

Seasonal Stories

The available seasons/holidays will probably expand in the future.  Once I have two or more stories set on the right day, I’ll create a specific seasonal division for it.

Whenever you view the page now, it automatically displays the most relevant seasonal stories for whenever you open it.  So, right now it starts out showing Valentine’s stories.  Once February is over, it will start showing Earth Day stories.  So on and so forth.

Now I just need to update my backend utilities to easily edit the new seasonal bit.  *laugh*  Shouldn’t be too difficult, but I’m not going to mess with it at this exact moment.  Have some editing to do.

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“Lost” Danica for DL

Anyone who only reads me on Literotica and chose not to sign up for Storiesonline can now read a “lost” Arts Ardane story by downloading it from the download section.

“Sister’s Shadow” is now available in RTF and Kindle .prc

I’m also nearly done with a new Web Short exclusive.  It’s a story about Matthias ( Mindblind and Christi’s oldest son ) taking place at about the same time as SOTM Ch. 4.

I won’t be releasing it until a certain chapter of Lowborn comes out, though.  Reason being that a peripheral character in the new story will be more smile-inducing if you’ve already been introduced to her in a slightly larger role.

Speaking of Lowborn…  If all goes according to my evil plan, the next chapter should be up at Literotica some time after 2 a.m.  Keep your eyes open and your fingers crossed.

I’ll put it in the queue at SOL as soon as I see it post.

EDIT:  Monday night *facepalm*  Don’t know what in the hell I was thinking when I typed that.  Half asleep, I guess.

Should come out some time after the next 2 a.m. 😛

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Adam and Arts Ardane for DL

Two new stories just went up in the Downloads section in both Kindle .prc format and cross-platform .rtf.

“Barren Harvest” from the Arts Ardane series is now available, as is the first in the Adam series, “Adam’s Aunt”.

Adam’s Aunt is using a slightly different build method for multi-chapter stories, which provides better presentation in the ebook.  As with most of my other multi-chapter stories, all the chapters of the story are included in one download, in both available formats.

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Merchant Princess in downloads

Finally got Merchant Princess converted over to Kindle and RTF format, and uploaded to the downloads section.

Both options contain all six chapters in a single download.

The longer multi-chapter stories require a lot more work to convert, because they’re all saved as individual chapter documents, and I have to go back through combining them before converting.  That’s why so many 1-shot stories have been converted to start out with.

The current upload reflects a few minor edits ( I still had a problem with sheath vs. sheathe at the time ) but otherwise is exactly the same as the versions on Literotica and Storiesonline.

( The version on Stories Space, as mentioned earlier, has some minor word-choice editing and an oral scene removed )

Still making my way through the final scene of Lowborn.  I expect that barring unusual circumstances, I’ll be able to announce that the first draft is complete this weekend.  It’s far easier to find ( reasonably ) quiet time when I’m awake enough to visualize and write on the weekend.

I’ll probably do a little work on the “My Worlds” section this weekend as well.  Finishing the Miscellaneous page won’t take but a few minutes, so that will probably get done.  I’ll likely do a couple of behind the scenes tweaks to My Characters, finalizing the database structure and display.  At that point, it’s a matter of adding a dozen or so more characters to start with.

Probably convert a few more stories over for download as well.  I may go with RR or Les stories, just to add some variety.  That and I’m running out of easy to convert Dark stories *laugh*

As I said before, feel free to suggest other ebook formats.  If it’s possible, I’ll add them.  Likewise, if there’s enough call for no-cover/censored cover Kindle versions, I’ll do that as well.

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Downloads section open.

Don’t forget to check out the new Devan shorts, if you missed them ( see previous blog post )

I just opened up the downloads section on the forum, and I’ve uploaded three titles.

What’s in that section right now are Kindle .prc files of “Casting off Convention”, “King Thakkorias”, and “Blackhawk Hall” as well as RTF ( Real Text Format ) versions of all three stories.

Provided I’ve done everything correctly ( *laugh* ) you can download the Kindle versions to your Kindle and carry them with you wherever you go to read at your leisure.  Blackhawk Hall includes all 6 chapters in a single file.  Casting has all three of the chapters from SOL ( It was a single submission at Lit )  Thakkor is a new edit with a couple of updated style changes that I just did last night.

SOL readers already had these options, but I’ve had many Lit readers request portable and offline versions of my stories.  Plus, the cover images are attached to my kindle versions, where the SOL versions don’t have it.

The RTF versions are the same full stories, but in a cross-platform document format that should be readable on just about any computer.  It’s a way you can download the stories and read them at your leisure.

As time moves on, I’ll add more of my stories to this section, until they’re all up there.  New stories won’t appear in the download section for at least a month after release, in order to give them time to perform and draw feedback on the websites where I post.

For the time being, it’s set for a maximum of two downloads at once, and five downloads per day.  I’ll adjust that as necessary for bandwidth/convenience.

Odds are that the really long stories ( Danica, especially ) will be in multiple volumes.  When each part of Danica is around 20k words, that would be one bloody HUGE file.  The whole story will still be downloadable, but it just won’t be a single file.

Eventually, this new section will also provide another means to audition or donate for my LST3Ks.  RejectReality stories will also be added to the download section.

If you have a Kindle reader and don’t mind downloading a couple, grab Casting and Thakkor to compare them, please.  Casting keeps the white space for posting online, while Thakkor eliminates it.  Looking at them, I can’t decide which looks better, and I don’t have an actual device to test them on ( using the download version for PC )  So let me know which you prefer, for future reference.

As mentioned earlier, Thakkor has a new edit with some stylistic changes.  It still has the head-hopping of the original, to maintain that early story flavor *laugh*  This is already up at SOL, has been submitted to Lushstories ( as RR ), and is in the queue at Literotica.

I also edited a seriously embarrassing mistake in Danica 18 where I used a modern turn of phrase “like a broken record” that had to GO!  Thanks to the reader who pointed it out after all these years *laugh*  This edit is already live at SOL, and in the queue at Lit.

I finally got around to putting up a new edit at Lit for Documentary:Cougar as well.  All this does is put in blockquote for the documentary sections, now that blockquote renders correctly on Lit again.

More to come as I finally get over a few bad months and get back to work.  Despite the lateness, I’m still writing on “Friend of the Wood”, which was to be my Earth Day story for this year.  If I can finish it before it gets much later, I’ll post it up despite having missed the contest and Earth Day itself.

Still fighting the last chapter of Lowborn, and struggling for the right opening to SOTM 19, but I am working on them.

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