Want to See My Best Bits?
Well, you can! Ten bucks in three days!
The first shots in my personal Project 2025 have been loaded and are ready to fire.
Britni’s fourth Amazon book has been compiled, uploaded, submitted, and is in pre-order.
Seventeen salacious and stirring stories, jokes, and poems, it is a smidge under 25 000 words total and will go for ten American - or Australian - bucks. Great value at that price!
Better yet, take out a trial subscription to Kindle Unlimited and read it for nothing at all. That’s an affiliate link for something that won’t cost you a single cent but what the hey.
It’s been a while since I went through the Kindle Direct Publishing process but nothing much has changed. It still guides the user through all the steps, offering extensive error checking and help, and you can take as long as you need.
I took over a day before I had everything uploaded and submitted. A big delay while I worked on the cover art, for example. I wanted something that would evoke the title without being too overtly sex-oriented. Perhaps the whole story is summed up in the facial expression and the highway sign.
I had a bit of fun with it. Not my usual AI image model but I needed something that could handle the necessary text. So often words carefully defined in the prompt get mangled in the image and the whole point of the joke here is in getting the text exactly right. I probably didn’t need the word “SOUTH” but I wanted to convey a sense of things slipping downhill.
That text box at the bottom right hides a bit of awkwardness with the hands. Maybe I can work on the image a little more if I get a little time.
I originally sent this collection off to my editor over three years ago. Three years! Wow, what procrastination.
On my part, that is. He had it back in my hands within a week. One reason why I have dedicated this book to him.
It originally included a fairly long story about a modern visit to an old battlefield and I promised the final chapter in a few days. Still haven’t written it.
That’s an upcoming project, along with another Carrielle Watson story set in France. There are versions of these to be found in Medium, if you look.
I made up the shortfall with a couple of more recent efforts. My story of PTSD and Melbourne cafés - Laneway Coffee - and the story included in a spec fic anthology in 2023 - This is Spärkle Tap - both of which are among my favourites.
I now have to “unpublish” both of these to comply with the Kindle Select requirements. Sorry.
I’m not much of a one for big launch productions - unlike the amazing Scarlet Ibis James - and this project is one for the long haul, anyway. I expect it will find readers as my opus grows.
It’s not really erotica. The closest I get to real sex action is Finding a Frankfurter in Frankfurt, and the ”bad sex” of the title is mostly teasing.
For my erotica project I’m going to have to change gears. Less wordplay, subtlety, and teasing, more “in your face” bits jiggling and grinding. I hope my readers are up for it. Hell, I hope I can handle it. It’s going to be hard.
I promised a cover reveal, and now you’ve got it. The book will be available in ebook and print editions on the third of January
I can make free copies available for review purposes. Just ask nicely!
Right. From now on, I’m fighting a battle. Mostly with my lazy self. I’ve got stories to write!
Britni, marching as to war