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The Four Femdom Archetypes

As an exercise and to help me with my own writing, I looked at the many different dominant females in forced feminization literature. Now, eliminating science fiction or magic, there are only so many guys to get a man to do what you want. It is my belief that this all female dominants fall into one of these four categories. This actually sounds like the beginning of a really fun roleplaying game. Who wants to be a Cleric or a Sorcerer when you can be an Ass Kicker or Seductress.

The Seductress: I think Scarlett Johansson's portrayal of the Black Widow falls into this category. It's very popular in Hollywood and in cheap detective novels. Men are led to do some pretty insane things to please a seductress, some men will even shave their legs and let you call them Amy. A lot of the best feminizers growing up with seductresses. They'd bat their eye lashes at some jock and the next thing you knew, he was letting her paint his nails pink. Surprisingly, I haven't really used this type at all in my own writing.

The Charismatic: This is one of the trickiest types because, while a seductress can convince a guy to let her emasculate him, a charismatic can convince her friends and maybe even his friends to help. They do this is by the strength of personality, which makes people want to help them. I think Olivia Pope as played by Kerry Washington on Scandal falls into this group. My character Amanda in Welcome to College is the ultimate charismatic.

The Brain: Her intricate plots render men helpless. She's always one step ahead of her prey and she let's them think they're in control. In fact, she encourages it. Brain's are the best blackmailers because her victims can't outsmart her and come up with a way out of her trap. Alice Morgan in Luther is my current obsession and a definite brain, although a sociopathic one. I wrote Monica as a brain in Summer Reunion and I truly liked writing the scene where William is handcuffed in the kitchen watching his wife drive away with his clothes. I love it when a plan comes together.

The Ass Kicker: You don't need to trick or seduce a man if you can just beat his ass and make him do what you want. Gina Carano is definitely in this camp. Her hotel room fight in Haywire was amazing to watch. Lucy Lawless was this in her prime. Now, a lot of seductresses can fight. I mean the Black Widow goes through Hydra agents like Larry King went through wives, but the difference is I think that fighting Scarlett Johnsson's Black Widow would be fun. She'd put her legs around my neck and throw me to the ground and it might hurt, but what a way to go. On the other hand, I think fighting Gina Carano would leave my with a broken nose, missing teeth, and possible a broken arm. This seems much less fun to me. I think Marisol in Taken by a Girl Gang and Cuckolded by a Girl Gang is this type as is Zelia in The Good, the Bad, and the Sissy.

So what's your favorite type? Did I forget one?

The Girls of Summer

7 books in 14 weeks and readers pick the order by voting on my blog at

http://kyliegable.blogspot.com/

I've been planning out my summer and I have so many ideas racing around in my head in their delicate little strappy sandals that I decided to do something different. On Friday, I will be releasing Taken by The Girl Gang. After that, it's up to my readers.

Taken by the Girl Gang - When a young executive moves into a new neighborhood, he is terrorized by a girl gang determined to feminize and humiliated him.

Calendar Girl - Every year, the girls of Delta Omega raise money by selling a pinup calendar. This year, they’ve picked Steve for their model.

Cuckolded by the Girl Gang - In this sequel, Wesley’s life seems to be falling apart, but who is behind his troubles and work and his disolving marriage?

Hoops - A young basketball star thinks he owns his small Indiana town until the girls of town get sick of his behavior and decide to take matters into their own hands.

Reprogrammed - A computer executive never learned the propeer way to treat the women who work for him. Now a trio of brash interns decide to reprogram him.

The Maske of the Jaguar - A tribute to the great pulp heroes of the 1930s, The Jaguar is a mysterious woman who avenges women everywhere through feminization.

Doubling Down - Competitive sisters take a bet too far, when their mother remarries and their left to spend the summer at home alone with their new stepbrothers.

Help Me Decide

I have to potential books to work on next.

One is a self-contained story called The Good, The Bad, and the Sissy. It's set in the Old West and features a young man who makes the mistake of accosting a bartender whose sister just so happens to be a notorious outlaw who rides with the scariest gang in the territory. She turns him over to the bartender who proceeds to feminize him and turn him into the most popular parlor girl in town.

The other one is a possible multi-parter about a uptight businessman who makes the mistake of running afoul of a local girl gang that hangs out by his bus stop. He soon finds himself feminized and under the girls' power.

That True Story

When I was in college, I was given the rather unique experience of being forcibly feminized by some girls at my college. It started as payback for the horrible sexism that I had learned growing up and brought to college with me.

Now, some people may be wondering how that is possible? My stories deal with that to some degree, but I do have to say while I had no desire to wear dresses before this happened, I was always drawn a bit to powerful women and I did find myself enjoying a lot of what was happening to me.

Because I had rather feminine features and a small stature, I made a decent looking girl. I think this made the girls anxious to see just how far they could take me.

Now, I have said that Welcome to College is based on a true story and it absolutely is. However, it is also a piece of fiction. Things have most definitely been added and details switched around. I think when it comes to writing about humiliation, the most effect writing I do is when I am remembering the humiliation that I actually experienced. The fictional humiliation is never quite as powerful.

A Bad Review for Welcome to College III

I think that WTC3 is the best book that I've done so far. The glowing reactions from my two reviewers confirmed those feelings. Now, I don't mind a bad review, but this one from Jacob Goldenberg really pissed me off.

His review was, "what a sad effort... i felt cheated ...

the story didn't flow... and was so short .. all the books are the same way."

He also gave it exactly 1 star.

Now, he says that all the books are the same way. So I'm to understand that he read them all? Also, how can you complain about the length of a book when that length is made readily apparent before you ever buy it?

I don't mind a harsh review, but there was nothing in that review and now the 5 star that I got elsewhere averages out to only 3 stars.

Welcome to College Book 3

I think this may be the best one of the bunch so far. I have two readers, who I asked to be readers because I really loved their reviews, and they both gave it very good reviews.

The biggest thing I'm struggling with is how to get the book into the hands of people that I know will enjoy it. There are some people whose names I see constantly as reading feminization and I won't be happy until they're reading Welcome to College.

I think the ending of this one will blow some readers away. I don't want to give anything away, but the humiliation gets dialed up a whole lot from book 2. It'll be out by the weekend depending on my schedule.

Goodreads

I have really enjoyed my time here. I've made some new friends and gotten some great reviews of my work. I do believe it has helped me increase sales. It has even increased my output as a writer -- it's easier to write when you know it'll be read and promptly reviewed, but somehow I feel that I'm missing something. I want more opportunities to discuss my writing and my reading.

Pricing

I really like doing the stories by semester and I think I am going to continue putting out the semester books, which will be about 20 pages for $2.99.

However, I will also be putting out the books by year. This will allow me to put out a 40 page book for $2.99, which is a bit more reasonable.

I am also going to do a better proof reading on the first book, make a few revisions and make it a stand alone first chapter for $1 as an introduction to the book.

An Interesting Few Days

With the polar vortex trapping me inside my house in a way even Amanda would have admired, my productivity increased markedly. I have a first draft all done of Welcome to College. I am really proud of the cover, which looks much more like a real book cover than my first one.

1. I have been talking to several women lately with an interest in forced feminization. I've even seen a few on Goodreads. This is fascinating to me as I've always seen this as a 99% male genre. It puts pressure on me to write more well rounded female characters.

2. Pricing - people had a nice workaround today, but it won't work because I'm exclusive with Amazon. I do think I can cut prices very low for a short period of time and that is what I'm going to try next. The first book in any series needs to catch people's attention so that they'll keep reading.

3. As I proofread my second manuscript, I'm starting to think it may be a good idea to proofread the first one more carefully. I don't think I have enough errors to turn off a reader completely, but they are definite blemishes.

Based on a True Story?

One statement I make in my Welcome to College series is that it is based on a true story. I guess the big question that leaves people with is "what parts are true?"

I changed several things to protect my identity as well as the identity of the people who inspired the book. I changed names and I also changed actual events both to protect anonymity and for dramatic purposes.

I received a mixed review on Amazon today and I found it interesting that the review thought my protagonist didn't resist. I probably made him resist more than I actually did. Once the girls had so many incriminating pictures of me, I was terrified of getting exposed.

As I write this series, I am wondering how to approach some things. For instance, I eventually do start to enjoy the process, but I don't want to let the girls know it. I think the girls figured out I was enjoying it at least somewhat, but didn't want me to know that they knew.

So, in review, yes I had some amazing feminizing experiences in college and that is the basis for my work, but you won't read everything that happened and you some events may have been altered for dramatic purposes.