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Captive Prince to be published
I am kind of a moron on goodreads so perhaps this is not the sort of thing I'm supposed to be blogging about here? But I don't care because I'm SO EXCITED about this!
Captive Prince by S.U. Pacat (or freece) is going to be published! In ebook format (with sextras) and in paperback (sadly without said sextras).
Check freece's announcement at lj for more information...
I was really excited when I read that. For whatever odd reason, I read very little original slash fiction. As in, next to none. The only original slash book I own is one I randomly bought at a used bookstore and I never read online (because it was one of those pay-for sites, I think).
So this will be the first series I've actually been following online with an author who I think is a wonderful person and who writes an interesting story and where, now that it's going to be published, the very idea of it makes me exceedingly happy-- mostly for the author but also as a reader. I've never read and enjoyed a story online before and gotten to see the transition to print/ebook. So very exciting!
It's funny that I like Captive Prince so much because slavefics are really not my thing generally, and freece also writes with very little emotion/emotional attachment in most of the series which is also not generally my thing. But the story is well done and with the way it has grown over time I've become a definite fan of it.
Of course, this just makes me wish we could get to publishing even more... Honestly, the only reason I even have that on my To Do list is because people have been asking us for years and it's important to me to try to give back to interested readers as much as possible after they've taken so much time out of their lives to give to us by reading our story in the first place. If it had been up to me, ICoS never would have been shared online in the first place (because I didn't think anyone would read it/care), and I most certainly wouldn't think anyone would ever actually want to OWN it. What is this craziness. I don't even understand.
But then, when I think of it from the view of Captive Prince + publishing = me @ 8D!!!!, I do understand lol
Captive Prince by S.U. Pacat (or freece) is going to be published! In ebook format (with sextras) and in paperback (sadly without said sextras).
Check freece's announcement at lj for more information...
I was really excited when I read that. For whatever odd reason, I read very little original slash fiction. As in, next to none. The only original slash book I own is one I randomly bought at a used bookstore and I never read online (because it was one of those pay-for sites, I think).
So this will be the first series I've actually been following online with an author who I think is a wonderful person and who writes an interesting story and where, now that it's going to be published, the very idea of it makes me exceedingly happy-- mostly for the author but also as a reader. I've never read and enjoyed a story online before and gotten to see the transition to print/ebook. So very exciting!
It's funny that I like Captive Prince so much because slavefics are really not my thing generally, and freece also writes with very little emotion/emotional attachment in most of the series which is also not generally my thing. But the story is well done and with the way it has grown over time I've become a definite fan of it.
Of course, this just makes me wish we could get to publishing even more... Honestly, the only reason I even have that on my To Do list is because people have been asking us for years and it's important to me to try to give back to interested readers as much as possible after they've taken so much time out of their lives to give to us by reading our story in the first place. If it had been up to me, ICoS never would have been shared online in the first place (because I didn't think anyone would read it/care), and I most certainly wouldn't think anyone would ever actually want to OWN it. What is this craziness. I don't even understand.
But then, when I think of it from the view of Captive Prince + publishing = me @ 8D!!!!, I do understand lol
Writings
I recently learned that there's a function on GR to add writings to one's profile so I decided I may as well do that for some of the stuff I've done recently.
Check here: http://www.goodreads.com/story/list/8581195-ais or on my profile
Right now I have up Deliverance, written for The Slash Pile's May Anthology travel edition (Wanderlust), and Never Odd or Even, the palindrome story I posted a few months ago.
Excerpts:
Deliverance:
"And what if it wasn't, Reese?" Luke demanded, rounding on the corner as if the man were standing in front of him. "What the fuck then? This could be a distress signal--"
"He taught us better than to use shoddy work like a fucking old alias--"
"Stop being so goddamned hooked on the alias! You just don't want to believe it's him so you're coming up with excuses ahead of time."
"And you do want to believe it's him," Reese snapped back. "If you'd get his dick out of your head for one minute you could think clearly about all this."
"Ha," Luke said harshly. "If you'd get mine out of your head you wouldn't be so fucking biased."
The ringing silence that met that statement caused even Luke to stop and realize what he'd just said. Before he could say anything else, the phone abruptly went dead. Luke looked down at the blank screen and swore aloud.
So much for never bringing that up.
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Never Odd or Even
JJ stared at the offending door in distaste. It wasn't even a nice shade of green. It was some sort of weird hybrid of cucumber and snot. It looked like puke. It was pretty much just puke.
"I got it at a discount," Silis continued proudly.
"Was it free?"
"No, why?"
"Then it wasn't discounted enough."
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NOTES:
I changed some minor things for Deliverance between the anthology edition and the GR edition, mostly because there was one part I'd never liked but I was in a rush and in another country with limited internet at the time of finishing it for the contest so I had to go with it. It's still not perfectly edited but most glaringly huge mistakes should be caught I think.
Both stories are completely unrelated to any other stories. You will find those characters only in those stories.
I'm going to try to make myself write more random oneshots and as I do so, I'll start adding them there so it's all in one place.
Check here: http://www.goodreads.com/story/list/8581195-ais or on my profile
Right now I have up Deliverance, written for The Slash Pile's May Anthology travel edition (Wanderlust), and Never Odd or Even, the palindrome story I posted a few months ago.
Excerpts:
Deliverance:
"And what if it wasn't, Reese?" Luke demanded, rounding on the corner as if the man were standing in front of him. "What the fuck then? This could be a distress signal--"
"He taught us better than to use shoddy work like a fucking old alias--"
"Stop being so goddamned hooked on the alias! You just don't want to believe it's him so you're coming up with excuses ahead of time."
"And you do want to believe it's him," Reese snapped back. "If you'd get his dick out of your head for one minute you could think clearly about all this."
"Ha," Luke said harshly. "If you'd get mine out of your head you wouldn't be so fucking biased."
The ringing silence that met that statement caused even Luke to stop and realize what he'd just said. Before he could say anything else, the phone abruptly went dead. Luke looked down at the blank screen and swore aloud.
So much for never bringing that up.
----------
Never Odd or Even
JJ stared at the offending door in distaste. It wasn't even a nice shade of green. It was some sort of weird hybrid of cucumber and snot. It looked like puke. It was pretty much just puke.
"I got it at a discount," Silis continued proudly.
"Was it free?"
"No, why?"
"Then it wasn't discounted enough."
===============
NOTES:
I changed some minor things for Deliverance between the anthology edition and the GR edition, mostly because there was one part I'd never liked but I was in a rush and in another country with limited internet at the time of finishing it for the contest so I had to go with it. It's still not perfectly edited but most glaringly huge mistakes should be caught I think.
Both stories are completely unrelated to any other stories. You will find those characters only in those stories.
I'm going to try to make myself write more random oneshots and as I do so, I'll start adding them there so it's all in one place.
