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Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:56 |
So here's Bonus Scene #2, in which we go back to the middle of the story and insert some extra action. Lady Fox asked for some hot MFM fucking, so here we are. Plus I wanted to give Belial a kind of SPOILERS last hurrah, since he won't be back for the next book for obvious reasons. Sorry if you were hoping he wasn't actually dead, because SPOILERS he is intended to be most completely SPOILERS dead.
It's funny, I originally was intending to kill him off at the end of the first book, as he was conceived as being the kind of "Ultimate Pirate Archetype" guy, but then his backstory filled in and I ended up liking him. The end of that book saw me killing so many characters off that I just thought I should find a way to keep one alive, and that became one of my favorite things about the end of that book - the scene where Eden beats him and then pulls out the whole 'swear faith to be and you shall have mercy'.
That said, it was hard to keep him around when he was so competent and dangerous and not have him just take over the narrative. I eventually found the answer in his history: Belial was always just looking for a leader worthy of his sword, and he found one in Eden.
Anyway, here he is one more time in all his pirat-ey glory. Check him out.
Also: no donations for two days oh gods I am freaking.
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Sunday, 16 June 2013 23:20 |
It occurred to me towards the end of the book that I had four female pirate captains, five if you count Zenobia, and when I realized that I knew I HAD to do an all-girl orgy scene. I generally eschew scenes that are all one gender or another, but this time I felt like adding even one guy would be a weird kind of tokenism - like, it's not really sex unless there's a dick in it, which is so not what I wanted it to be about. This one includes two of our guest stars, who signed up for walk-ons and got a bit more than they bargained for. I wanted to get Zenobia's pterodactyl wrangler in there too, but I already had five people to deal with and I didn't want this to get too out of hand. So: I hope Captains Rain and Kalli are not offended at being included in the grope-fest.
We are at 39.6%, with literally just $12 more to make it to 40% even, but then there's just $312 more to make it to 50%, and with 18 days left that would be fantastic. Head on over and donate! Or if you already have, spread the link around and help us get the word out!
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Thursday, 13 June 2013 22:18 |
So that's it, the last chapter. This marks the end of the posting of Queen of the Sky Frontier. Next week will be bonus scenes, and then after a short break we will commence with Throne of the Depths. All the while I will still be working on Imperial Blood because damn, that is an awesome story and I feel a tremendous drive to get it right.
Ending a story is harder than beginning it, because while openings are hard, you know if you screwed it up and you can fix it pretty fast. Once you get to an ending you have kind of painted yourself into the corner, and changing course at a late point can be hard, if not impossible. I plan extensively beforehand, but the end of a novel remains somewhat fluid if you are an author who cares about getting to the emotional truth of a story. Sometimes what seems easy in an outline simply will not play on the page when you actually get to it. Sometimes no matter what you do a certain moment or dynamic will not work, and so you have to leave some wiggle room for yourself, and not lock things in too tightly. I'm great at action choreography, but emotional choreography is still something I'm learning on.
All that is to say that I hope you like the final chapter. This book is a middle chapter, and so it's impossible to sew up all the elements into a nice neat package. But the story needs to come to an emotional resting point. Azrael's story, and its intertwining with Eden's, has to come to something we can take as an ending for now. Let's see... Throne of the Depths will run until the end of October. Imperial Blood will be from November until February or so. Then it will be Masks & Madams from March through June, so I'll likely be starting on The Graveyard of Empires right around this time next year. Then I'll have written a steampunk airship pirate wild west porn trilogy - I don't think anyone else can say that.
And don't forget we're still flogging the Throne of the Depths campaign, because all of this is based on us being able to pay bills while we do all this crap. So go donate!
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