Update
I have a new story in this month’s Handjobs called “Game Night.” I wrote this one from a pure place of horniness and wanting to turn myself on, which I can’t say happens much when I write anymore. So it may be that it’s a good one. Here’s the description from HJ:
Game Night by Natty Soltesz
Every Friday night is game night at home, but one Friday when it’s just Dad and Son at home, Dad ups the ante by suggesting, “You’ve heard of strip poker, right? What about strip Monopoly?” His son says, “Really?” The boy feels his heart quickening. Dad says, “Why not? When one of us lands on the other’s property, we have to take off a piece of clothing. Whaddaya say?”
I’m still uploading the entirety of my recent book 691 Suburban Dr to the Nifty Archive – the seventh chapter should be up in a couple of days.
My abysmal ebook sales (see comments for clarification here) are starting to get me down. I still plan to become a full-time writer and hope to achieve this goal in the next year and a half. I know it’s going to happen because…I just do. But the question is how, and when I’m going to spend the time focusing on the business end of things.
Because at the moment I am fully focused on the creative end of things. I finished my FIRST NOVEL (Backwoods wasn’t really a novel) – the expansion of My Sister’s Boyfriend Joey – last month, and I’ve now started on another project that is looking good. I’m not sure if it’s another novel or not, but it’s certainly a longer piece of work.
Novels. I’ve been attempting them for years, but somehow this year I just figured it out. I don’t know how to explain it, but I have that same feeling I did when I first started writing stories – like I figured out how to write them and then it was effortless and I just had fun with it, doing different things and exploring styles and modes. I feel like I’m on the same path here with novels or longer stories – I just get it now. I love the thing I’m working on, currently, which is so ridiculous but so fun and I wish I could tell you more but I don’t want to jinx it.
4 Comments
Oct 30, 2013 @ 18:19:24
Is your new novel gonna be available for sale soon? Hope so… Feel terrible about the low ebook sales.. I’ve bought and read them and continue to be a fan so I hope you don’t lose hope!
Oct 31, 2013 @ 13:34:38
Thanks for your support JT! Re: my ebook sales, I’m mostly being dramatic there. I still pull in a nice slice of dough each month from my Amazon sales, and I’m so appreciative of those who have purchased them and who donate money to me. It’s just that I had a big success with Str8 But Curious when it first came out, and it got me really psyched about selling ebooks, and I just haven’t been able to duplicate that success. So I’ve watched my sales dwindle since then, but by no means am I complaining – I’m just determined to sell more and make it my main income, and I know I’m not there yet.
As for the new novel, I still have to rewrite it, so it will be a while before it comes out.
Feb 26, 2014 @ 09:43:31
Keep us updated about the Joey novella. I just checked Amazon (got Horny Str8 Scott, BTW) to see if it was up and will keep checking until I have it…
Feb 26, 2014 @ 11:19:17
Thanks The Steve. I’m almost finished with the second draft. not sure what I’m doing with it just yet, either self-publishing or trying to find a publisher. Rest assured I will be pimping the hell out of it when it is ready!