K.M. Frontain's Blog, page 23
September 11, 2012
My tweets
Mon, 16:56
: I have The Pearl up on Amazon. It's doing better in the UK. I have a question on my latest blog post, though. http://t.co/2Ll5cUC6
Mon, 16:57
: #freebook The Icicle, content warning: erotica with some #lgbt https://t.co/ZK0ItKgv
Mon, 23:31
: I just left an review for a recent purchase. @wl552 is one of the authors. I like the name of this publishing outfit. https://t.co/qxaYHoB4
Mon, 23:35
: And now, I really do have to catch up on older purchases on Smashwords. I'll be reading them in between my latest weeding of the epic.
Tue, 12:00
: And here's my daily #freebook !!! Free books actually. Content warning: some violence, #lgbt #glbtq and sex scenes. https://t.co/BOCD5Uh8
September 10, 2012
The Pearl is up on Amazon.
And so, this is now up on Amazon. I've had sales, strangely more in the U.K, which is unusual.
Linkies:
Amazon U.S.
Amazon U.K.
Btw, I've been adulted filtered out of my very own author page on Amazon U.K. I can't see my own books. Anyone know how to fix this? Edit: discovered the problem only occurs on Google Chrome for the Amazon UK site, but not on Firefox. Weirdness.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/K.M.-Frontain-/e/B006G6Z3OU
Oh, and in case you prefer, here is the Smashwords link.
My tweets
Sun, 17:09
: Monster headache. Still worked�. Fixed a few minor flubs in The Pearl and reloaded file. https://t.co/CtY0PHpu
Sun, 17:09
: Setting up the Lulu and Kindle versions now. Monster, monster headache.
Sun, 17:10
: Real headache. Not happy. Woke up with it. </ul
September 8, 2012
My tweets
Sat, 02:56
: Just got The Pearl up on Smashwords, and now I'm going to bed. https://t.co/CtY0PHpu
September 6, 2012
My tweets
Wed, 23:46
: My prospective cover for The Pearl, a 2007 novel that I intend to put up on Smashwords soon. Yaoi inspired story. http://t.co/Edor7ssV
September 5, 2012
My tweets
Tue, 20:32
: The Icicle has had nearly 100 downloads since uploading it last night. https://t.co/ZK0ItKgv #freebook #erotica comedy romance
Wed, 08:57
: Warning: ramble http://t.co/oHPk0hIM
Warning: ramble
To be honest, I'm tired of editing, but I know I have to finish. I've decided to do a colour skim: all problematic weed words have been replaced with coloured versions so I can spot them as I skim down the pages. I'm that tired of editing that finding every single incident using the find function has deflated my brain.
I have a full three weeks of kennel work this month tiring me out too. Dogs... Sometimes I know I don't like dogs. That dog shaming website is doing a service to all humans everywhere, giving them fair warning of the manipulative workings of the dog mind. Yeah, and we bred them that way, from way back. They're smart all right, smart at figuring how to make humans give up that cookie, make space on the bed, ignore the yellowed couch that a dirty butt keeps rubbing until it stinks to high heaven. Highly recommended: read the dog shaming blog before ever buying a dog, or work at a kennel for a week. You'll either realize you really like dogs or that you don't like dogs at all.
I always say this to my kids: if you can't handle the shit, don't buy the animal.
Dogs shit to annoy you. They'll shit right where they need to walk to leave a cage, jump on it, spread the shit all over the walls and cage links, all because you let another dog get out the door to the dog runs first.
My best friend in the kennel is not a dog. It's a whisk and metal dust pan, for scooping up those shits fast before stomping occurs. Manipulative dog remains in the cage until it's his turn out the door with the others, because otherwise, he just keeps stomping.
Dirty job, yep. Expect shit. Expect splashed shit. Expect excited dogs to jump on you with shitty paws. Kill if anyone is in the shower when you're due home after working in the kennel.
I'm a little grumpy this morning. It's not entirely because of needing to go clean dog shit, which I'm about to do. This entire review scandal pissed me off too. I struggle enough as a writer as it is without dishonest authors making me look bad for having decent reviews when it took so long to get any readers to leave them.
Anyhow, it's off to the dogs. Funny, but they like me for some reason. Can't figure why. I should stop patting them, I suppose. Then they'll stop jumping on my legs, the little poops.
Edit: Link, for what it's worth. Might save you from having a dog.
http://dog-shaming.com/
I have a full three weeks of kennel work this month tiring me out too. Dogs... Sometimes I know I don't like dogs. That dog shaming website is doing a service to all humans everywhere, giving them fair warning of the manipulative workings of the dog mind. Yeah, and we bred them that way, from way back. They're smart all right, smart at figuring how to make humans give up that cookie, make space on the bed, ignore the yellowed couch that a dirty butt keeps rubbing until it stinks to high heaven. Highly recommended: read the dog shaming blog before ever buying a dog, or work at a kennel for a week. You'll either realize you really like dogs or that you don't like dogs at all.
I always say this to my kids: if you can't handle the shit, don't buy the animal.
Dogs shit to annoy you. They'll shit right where they need to walk to leave a cage, jump on it, spread the shit all over the walls and cage links, all because you let another dog get out the door to the dog runs first.
My best friend in the kennel is not a dog. It's a whisk and metal dust pan, for scooping up those shits fast before stomping occurs. Manipulative dog remains in the cage until it's his turn out the door with the others, because otherwise, he just keeps stomping.
Dirty job, yep. Expect shit. Expect splashed shit. Expect excited dogs to jump on you with shitty paws. Kill if anyone is in the shower when you're due home after working in the kennel.
I'm a little grumpy this morning. It's not entirely because of needing to go clean dog shit, which I'm about to do. This entire review scandal pissed me off too. I struggle enough as a writer as it is without dishonest authors making me look bad for having decent reviews when it took so long to get any readers to leave them.
Anyhow, it's off to the dogs. Funny, but they like me for some reason. Can't figure why. I should stop patting them, I suppose. Then they'll stop jumping on my legs, the little poops.
Edit: Link, for what it's worth. Might save you from having a dog.
http://dog-shaming.com/
September 3, 2012
My tweets
Sun, 15:01
: Oookaay, so some people call this incest http://t.co/oKSZBDYE
Sun, 18:34
: Aaah! Aaah! Aaah! My photo editor shut suddenly while I was making a cover and I lost all the editing.
Sun, 18:34
: Tantrum rampage! Break keyboard! Smash screen! Eat mouse!
Sun, 18:34
: Go to dentist, fix teeth.
Sun, 22:15
: The Icicle is up on Smashwords http://t.co/rygNYrCF
Sun, 22:16
: #freebook #erotica #glbtq #elves #fairy tales https://t.co/ZK0ItKgv
September 2, 2012
The Icicle is up on Smashwords
Ok, so this story is up on Smashwords now. Read the content warning before deciding to download. I write twisty stories. Feedback on cover appreciated. The red nude may be too faint.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/226576
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/226576
Oookaay, so some people call this incest
This is weird. I honestly think people are really twisted to even think this way, but some people think sexual relations between step-siblings is incest. We're talking no blood relation, people who may not have met until they were almost adults or actual adults to begin with. Just because their parents married, now it's incest? No! I mean...no! It's not.
How did this blog topic come about? I recently discovered that my short story The Icicle is now back in my hands. The anthology, In the Gloaming, was unpublished some time back and I didn't notice. So I started re-reading my story, thinking to shove it up on Smashwords for free, and then I recalled something about Paypal fussiness back in February, something about pseudo-incest.
Frowning, I looked this up and discovered, oh, no! My story has it!
WTF? It's not incest!
Ok, I'm Canadian, and it's not incest in Canada. Not. Not at all. I certainly hope no one writing the laws here even thought of it in that rather pornographic fashion. And it gives me a disgusted goosebump reaction to think that people do, because when I wrote this story, it wasn't about incest. It was about a pair of young people shoved together by the actions of single parents with no regard to how their teen-aged children would feel, as teens and later as adults. I never once considered the story incest as I wrote it, because it's not!
So anyhow, now I must place a warning on the book page that it has pseudo incest (whiny mocking voice in my head as I write that).
Hell. How many more things are going to whack me in the face? Earlier this year, I was surprised to discover Japan culture has a thing for squid erotica. I had actually written the beginnings of an SF novel concerning a squid invasion well before discovering this. Years before. It's called Crypsids. Yeah, the squids are perverts, more like beings with a very low tolerance of their own hormonal reactions. But the scenes with sex weren't meant to be erotic. Just weird.
Confession: I started writing male male fiction before knowing it had a genre, a following, that other women liked to read and write it. I know, I know. I grew up oblivious. And no! Male male fiction is not weird. It's cute. Sexy. Interesting. Necessary to awaken certain oblivious persons to the truth--that love is love, regardless of the gender of the pair of lovers.
Anyhow, just rechecked Smashwords rules and apparently I can publish The Icicle over there. I will put up a warning and also an opinion that it is not an incest story. Never was intended as such. Just intended to show human complication and that love happens despite it.
How did this blog topic come about? I recently discovered that my short story The Icicle is now back in my hands. The anthology, In the Gloaming, was unpublished some time back and I didn't notice. So I started re-reading my story, thinking to shove it up on Smashwords for free, and then I recalled something about Paypal fussiness back in February, something about pseudo-incest.
Frowning, I looked this up and discovered, oh, no! My story has it!
WTF? It's not incest!
Ok, I'm Canadian, and it's not incest in Canada. Not. Not at all. I certainly hope no one writing the laws here even thought of it in that rather pornographic fashion. And it gives me a disgusted goosebump reaction to think that people do, because when I wrote this story, it wasn't about incest. It was about a pair of young people shoved together by the actions of single parents with no regard to how their teen-aged children would feel, as teens and later as adults. I never once considered the story incest as I wrote it, because it's not!
So anyhow, now I must place a warning on the book page that it has pseudo incest (whiny mocking voice in my head as I write that).
Hell. How many more things are going to whack me in the face? Earlier this year, I was surprised to discover Japan culture has a thing for squid erotica. I had actually written the beginnings of an SF novel concerning a squid invasion well before discovering this. Years before. It's called Crypsids. Yeah, the squids are perverts, more like beings with a very low tolerance of their own hormonal reactions. But the scenes with sex weren't meant to be erotic. Just weird.
Confession: I started writing male male fiction before knowing it had a genre, a following, that other women liked to read and write it. I know, I know. I grew up oblivious. And no! Male male fiction is not weird. It's cute. Sexy. Interesting. Necessary to awaken certain oblivious persons to the truth--that love is love, regardless of the gender of the pair of lovers.
Anyhow, just rechecked Smashwords rules and apparently I can publish The Icicle over there. I will put up a warning and also an opinion that it is not an incest story. Never was intended as such. Just intended to show human complication and that love happens despite it.
