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Inspiration: Swapship Troopers

You probably already guessed that Swapship Troopers was inspired by Starship Troopers. However, despite being pretty consistently in the book-is-better-than-the-movie camp, I actually drew more from the 1997 Paul Verhoeven movie than the 1959 Robert Heinlein novel. Heinlein was a master of science fiction, but his ideology is hard for me to swallow at times. The novel glorifies violence, conformity, militarism, and xenophobia. The film, on the other hand, ridicules all these things. In a way, the movie Starship Troopers is less an adaptation and more of a satire. So I guess that makes my book a parody of a satire of a novel.

[image error]You know you’re hot if you dress like a Nazi and still look hot.

Another major thing the movie has is Dizzy Flores (actually, Dizzy is in the novel, too, but she’s a guy). Dizzy has had a crush on the main character, Johnny Rico, since high school. She’s the girl the he is Meant To Be With but he isn’t because his head is to too far up Denise Richards’ ass. Dizzy gets herself transferred to Johnny’s platoon to be near him. Eventually Rico notices she’s a babe and they become In Love.

In one particular scene, Johnny’s platoon throw themselves a party to celebrate winning a battle. Michael Ironside rolls out the beer and busts open a crate of musical instruments. The whole platoon proceeds to get down. Johnny, in particular, proceeds to get down on Dizzy.

That got me to thinking, doesn’t that seem a little unfair? I mean, a cold beer is a fine treat for a soldier in a war zone, but if my buddy Johnny is back in his tent banging some auburn-haired beauty I might feel like I got the shit end of that deal no matter how cold the beer is. If Michael Ironside really wanted to give his soldiers the best, he would bring enough pussy for the whole class.

How could they do that, though? They can’t go around raping and pillaging the natives, because the natives are giant bugs. Now that could be a story, I thought to myself. We’re already talking about space ships, aliens, and a futuristic fascist distopia. A mysterious wonder drug to turn men into women would fit right into that setting. Half the soldiers would become women and nobody has to sleep alone.

That creates all kinds of possibilities! What would happen if one of the men happened to turn into an incredible babe? What if one of the men enjoyed being a women? What if two soldiers developed feelings for each other?

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Cover Art 2: Swapship Troopers

Yep, Swapship Troopers isn’t even released yet and I’ve already redone the book cover! Actually this is something I planned for when I originally designed the cover — I just didn’t plan on doing it so soon. I always expected Amazon would flag this cover for ADULT content someday. After all, it displayed *gasp* the inner curve of a woman’s breasts!

Maybe I was just being unrealistic when I submitted the original cover. Amazon’s content guideline literally defines offensive content as “about what you would expect.” Personally, I would expect a reasonable person to be able to look at a human body and not get offended. Obviously when Amazon says what you would expect, they’re not talking to me.

[image error]Nope, no boobs here. Move it along. Nothing to see.

At any rate, when I first made the drawing in inkscape I drew a t-shirt on a separate layer. When I was banned, I just turned that layer on and, viola, new book cover. The shirt is interesting in that it uses an actual swath of grey cotton heather as the pattern. I considered a logo for the shirt — like a Marine eagle-globe-anchor or something — but, lets face it, anything on the front of that shirt is going to be so distorted as to be unrecognizable.

Swapship Troopers is still releasing on January 19 for Amazon Kindle!

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Bambi Quim’s review of Swapship Troopers

Okay, I know the title makes it appear that this is a political post, but bear with me. I am not going to discuss our current political climate; I am going to review Walker Long’s upcoming work, Swapship Troopers: Swapship Troopers is available for pre-order on Amazon, slated for release on Thursday, January 19. I had […]

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Excertp: Quantrill Explores [NSFW]

Here’s an excerpt from my new novel, Swapship Troopers. Watch out! It gets a little sexy! In this scene, half of Private Arlon Quantrill’s Marine platoon has been given a drug to turn them into women. The other half of the platoon is currently taking advantage of that fact. Quantrill, has been given the drug, but his Lieutenant assigns him to guard duty…

He also heard a lot of noises coming from the PECS below.There was moaning, heavy breathing, and excited cries in male and female voices. Quantrill wasn’t sure if he should feel relieved or disappointed to be missing out. From the sound of it, the platoon was definitely having fun. A lot of fun. The kind of fun that Quantrill hadn’t had in a long, long time.

On the other hand, he wasn’t too crazy about the idea of having sex with a man. It seemed a little gross, frankly. His platoon mates were all good Marines and fine individuals, but he had no interest in getting to know them that way. Besides, he wasn’t at all sure how to act as a woman. He would probably just make a fool of himself trying.

He should be relieved, Quantrill decided. That was not the kindof memory he wanted to look back on in his old age – assuming hemade it to old age. As his patrol dragged on, however, he started tohave second thoughts. The ecstatic moaning coming from camp was hard to ignore. It was like a chorus of sex sounds – one tent would take a break and then another would start up again.His body didn’t share his squeamishness about man-sex either. 

Parts of his anatomy that had never been there before were warming up in a hurry. As he walked along his patrol, the place between his legs became increasingly hot and moist. Feeling the response of his new female body only made the situation more arousing. Soon his nipples were standing out firm and erect, rubbing against the fabric of his tightly stretched t-shirt as his body swayed and jiggled with every step.

Maybe he was disappointed after all. Exploring a female body had always been delightful. Exploring a female body from the inside might be even better. Either way it didn’t matter, of course. It was too late. All the troopers had paired off and he was left with nothing to do but pace the perimeter of the camp with soggy boxers.

On the other hand, those female body parts were right there –not even an arm’s reach away. He hadn’t been this close to a pussy in more than a year. It would be a shame to waste the opportunity. Quantrill turned his back to the camp and slowly slid his free hand down the front of his fatigue pants.

He knew what to expect down there – Quantrill wasn’t stupid –but it was still a shock when he found his penis completely gone. Hehad gotten used to it being there over the years. Even so, his shock lasted only a moment, because his fingers soon found something else. Thick, puffy outer labia – soft, squishy, and hot with increased circulation. They felt delightful under his probing fingers. Even more, it felt exquisite to run his fingertips over the sensitive skin.

With an eager grin, he slipped a finger in between the engorged lips and plunged into hot wetness. His inner lips parted like the petalsof a delicate flower, sending waves of heat and pleasure through his body. Quantrill wasn’t ready for the intensity of the sensations – his knees felt weak and his heart raced.

“Mmmmm,” he moaned in his new soft, high-pitched voice. The night had been full of moans and cries of pleasure, but his own involuntary squeal sounded much louder to his ears. The sound jerked Quantrill out of his reverie. What was he doing? He was on duty! He had a responsibility to his platoon and to Lieutenant Hardaway to keep watch. He couldn’t let them down by finger banging himself while on patrol!

Quantrill yanked his hand out of his pants and turned to march along the perimeter. He stood up straight and scanned the surrounding area. From the outside he looked like a perfect Marine –at least he would have if not for the enormous breasts and full hips. Inside, however, he was quivering with excitement. His heart rate was off the chart. Quantrill was glad he wasn’t hooked up to the vital monitoring in his armor. One look at his heart rate and adrenaline levels would have made it clear what he was up to.

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Cover Art: Swapship Troopers

I am absolutely thrilled with how the Swapship Troopers cover came out. It’s such an improvement over my previous covers. I’m still drawing in Inkscape, but I’ve learned some new digital techniques like blurs and color gradients that give a much more realistic texture.

For example, look at her tits. I mean, really, look at them! First I put down a radial gradient with a light skin tone in the center fading to a darker skin tone on the edges. Then I added a spot of almost pure white near the lightest point as a specular highlight. I blurred the shit out of that white spot until it blended almost seamlessly into the skin tones. That really worked to define the round shape and give the drawing depth. Her tits really pop.

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The same is true for putting down a dark shape and blurring that to make indistinct shadows. And then you can take a shadow and a highlight right next to each other to make a wrinkle, like those in her pants.

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Speaking of her pants, the camouflage design wasn’t drawn onto the pants. Instead I took a big square with the futuristic hex camo and made it into an Inkscape pattern. Then that pattern could be used to fill in any closed shape. I tried out quite a few camouflage patterns before settling on this one.

Her hair was a challenge, but it was important for me to get it right. I’ve come across many stories where a man turns into a woman and suddenly has long, beautiful hair. That just doesn’t seem right to me. Long hair isn’t inherently part of being a woman. I mean, men don’t have short hair because they’re men — they have short hair because they get it cut off. I decided for my gender swap story, the female would have the same hairdo as the male. Only features dictated by biology would change.

This also gave me the chance to make the cover image extra distinctive by having a hot girl with a buzz cut — how often do you see that, right? I love having a cover image that stands out a little bit.

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It was difficult, though, to get the right level of transparency in the hair. Too much transparency and she looked like she had mange. Too little transparency and she looked like she was wearing a stocking cap. And I certainly wasn’t interested in sitting down and drawing every #$&%@ strand of hair. I finally settled on using a solid mousy brown color with triangle shapes cut out. Add a touch of blur and – viola! – buzz cut.

The title was actually really easy. Most of the text (“wapship roopers”) was just regular italic text. The big S and T were hand drawn, but I used a movie poster as a guide. The text is filled in with a gradient from light to darker blue. The outline of the text has a more extreme gradient  to make it look extra shiny.

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Excerpt: Ray Gives it a Try [NSFW]

This is a short excerpt from  my story The Right Gift at the Wrong Door. This piece contains explicit sexual content. Lucky you! As the scene opens, Ray’s wife has been hounding him to try pegging. Ray is reluctant, but one night when he’s home alone he decides to give the dildo a try…

Again lying on his stomach, Ray reached behind and slid the tip of the dildo down his crack. Slick with lube, the point of the cock easily slipped into him. Nonetheless, it got thicker in a hurry and, although Ray was moving much more slowly this time, he soon felt too much pain to continue.

He set the dildo aside and noticed that his hand was covered in the slippery lubricant. Why not start small, he thought. With index finger extended, he reached back again and slid the slippery digit down his ass crack. When his fingertip reached the soft, sensitive flesh of his sphincter he pushed it inside. It entered easily, but he could feel the tight muscles grip his finger all around. Could he open wider?

His middle finger was also coated with lubricant, so he pushed that inside as well. There was a disagreeable strain as his asshole stretched to accommodate the additional finger, but he took several deep breaths and held his hand steady. Ray closed his eyes and focused on relaxing his tense muscles.

He felt utterly daring! His whole life he had been the same quiet, dull Ray Boden. He didn’t know what he was now – naked on the sofa with two fingers up his ass – but it was not dull. Even better, the pain had eased and he was fitting two fingers easily. Maybe the purple monster was going to fit after all!

With a slurp, he pulled out of himself and grabbed the dildo. Ray slowly worked the big shaft into his crevice. He paused with just the tip splitting his asshole and forced his tense muscles to relax. “Easy does it,” he panted.

When he felt some of the tension release he gently eased the dildo forward. He felt a twinge of pain as the thickest part of the big cock head stretched his sphincter, but with a small lurch the head was inside and the pain was gone. He felt a tremendous fullness that was uncomfortable, but not necessarily painful.

Mostly he felt a sense of accomplishment. He hadn’t really believed it was possible, but that oversized purple dick was actually inside his asshole! It wasn’t something he was going to post to Facebook, but it was a small personal victory all the same.

He gently applied more pressure and the dildo easily slipped deeper. Three, then four inches disappeared into his ass. He met almost no resistance as he slowly pulled it back out, until the fat head started to apply pressure to his tight sphincter. It seemed like it was going to hurt more coming out than it did going in. Might as well leave it in there, he decided and rocked his hips to accept the cock deeper into him.

Ray felt a thrill of pleasure as his own cock, which was pinned underneath of him, rubbed against the soft fabric of the sofa. He rocked his hips back and forth to grind his sensitive erection into the cushions. At the same time, his asshole slid up and down on the thick rod in his hand. His breath became ragged and he knew he was going to cum soon.

Suddenly there was a knock at the door! Shit! Ray yanked the dildo out of his ass and tried to stand up. Ouch! It did hurt more coming out! He didn’t have much time to brood over the pain, however, because his feet tangled in the Dockers around his ankles and he fell sprawling to the floor.

Swearing under his breath, Ray pulled up his pants and scrambled to his feet. He found the dropped dildo and sprinted to the kitchen. There he crawled under the table to grab the Bargain Jungle box, threw the sex toy box and the purple penis inside, and looked around frantically for somewhere to stash them. Finally he settled on the oven and shoved the box inside and closed the door with a slam.

He hurried to the front door and threw it open, too late realizing that the bottle of Slick Bitch Anal Lube was still sitting on the coffee table in his living room. Dammit! He’d just have to hope the visitor didn’t notice.

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Cover Art: The Right Gift at the Wrong Door

The story The Right Gift at the Wrong Door centers around a strapon given as a Christmas gift (because it is better to give than to receive). I figured a wrapped gift on the cover would make sense. But I also want to get across that this is a story about sex — wouldn’t want any misunderstandings on that point. It occurred to me that it would be fun if the gift-wrap had a kinky pattern. The sort of thing you might not see the first time you look. Then you look closer and say, “What the fuck?” What a great joke!

So I downloaded a free clipart pic of a festive looking present and started reworking the wrapping paper. Instead of snowflakes and reindeer, I wanted the silhouette of a nude woman with a big cock. My first idea was to do a version of the famous “mudflap girl” but with a dick. That turned out awesome, but didn’t fit on the box very well. Back to the drawing board! (although the hung mudflap girl did end up inspiring a whole other story).

The shape of the box would work better with a standing girl, so I focused on that. I tried a few options before settling on this cute, casual pose. Then I skewed the silhouette to fit the various sides of the box and overlayed it on the picture with 25% transparency on the bright sides and 40% percent transparency on the shadowy sides.

March of the sugar cock fairies

The rest is just Oldchristmas font and holly clipart. Merry Christmas!

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Inspiration: Amanda Baker Shakes Her Moneymaker

This story was inspired by the Patient Lee Radio Challenge. PL is a well-known author of Erotic Realism. That’s not a genre I work in very often (I can handle the erotic, it’s the reality that trips me up) but can be powerful when done well.

Anyway the idea is you turn on your radio and write a story inspired by the first song that plays. I think the origin of the challenge was Patient’s own story Gay Greenhorn (which if you haven’t read, you should) and how it was inspired by the song Midnight Train to Georgia. It’s the sort of exercise that shows off the creativity and ingenuity of a writer, so I wasn’t sure I could pull it off. But then one night I got in my car and heard Shake Your Moneymaker by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band playing on the radio.

I told myself, “If you can’t write an erotic story inspired by a song about ass shaking you need to hang up your keyboard.”

The term moneymaker makes me think of strip clubs and men stuffing dollar bills in g-strings. Including an exotic dancer was an obvious choice, but I didn’t want to be too obvious. I mean, a story about a professional stripper shaking her booty — where’s the drama in that? It would be much more fun if someone unexpected got up on stage.

So I started to think of ways to guilt trip a straight-laced, shy woman into a nude dance (not that I’ve ever done that IRL). One thing about straight-laced women — they value personal responsibility. Strippers and bachelor parties go together like peanut butter and jelly (at least in erotic fiction), so I envisioned our heroine feeling responsible for the success of an important bachelor party event.

The party planner idea made a lot of sense here, but I also wanted the woman to be in a somewhat more vulnerable position — desperation is also a strong motivator. So I thought maybe she’s a not particularly successful party planner and got this job as a personal favor from the groom-to-be.

Then you have a personal relationship between the bachelor and the stripper. That creates many possibilities for additional naughtiness. Taboo can be super fun, am I right? I decided step-brother and sister made the most sense from an age standpoint and ran with that.

But even with the taboo I felt the story needed something. It was a little flat (not round and perky the way I like). I decided to play with this idea of breaking boundaries with someone you trust and went into a little spanking kink at the end. I like how that hits (pun intended) on the butt theme once again, too.

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Release Day After-Party — Bambi Quim

Release day was October 12! You can now purchase Paranormal Dating on Amazon for $2.99, or read it free of charge if you have Kindle Unlimited. Paranormal Dating is a short story anthology comprised of tales that are simultaneously horror, romance, and erotica. Please let me know your thoughts, and write a review if […]

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