Candi Kay's Blog, page 13

2014 & Looking Ahead

2014 has been a great year for me with my writing. What started as a quick story being written to get another one out of my head (seriously) turned into my first published work. My writing didn't start in 2014. There's never been a time in my life when I wasn't carrying around a notebook and pen, and later, a laptop with a good Word program on it. But I never shared anything I'd written with anyone, even those closest to me. Hell, I had gotten extremely close to my best friend in the world be...

New Release & Huge Shout Outs

A lot of you already know that my new kinky short, Willy the Kinky Elf & His Bad-Ass Reindeer, was published a few days ago. The story, affectionately dubbed Wanky Willy by my good friend, has done extremely well - better than I ever could have imagined - in the first few days. It even got as high as #57 on Amazon's Gay Erotica Top 100 of paid books for a little while. I don't know if you guys know how much that meant to me.

Before I go any further and list details about Willy's story...

Real Life, Updates, Upcoming Christmas Short

I've been slow to update my blog in the past, but I've really been bad lately. There are reasons that don't just have to do with writing. I'm not one to discuss personal stuff here, and I won't be going into detail, but suffice it to say that things have been a bit crazy these past few weeks. 

I am heavily into editing Saving Travis and a new Christmas short, Willy the Kinky Elf & His Bad-Ass Reindeer. Travis will be published (hopefully) mid to late December. Willy sho...

Being Karen (Taking Lance, #2.5) Now Live on Amazon

Still relatively new to self-publishing and very new to publishing strictly on Amazon, I was totally unaware that you can't publish a book as free right off the bat on Amazon. After more than a bit of cursing on my part and threatening to forget about Being Karen all together as a result, I finally decided to go with it and put .99 (U.S.) as a price tag for publication. The short story (at almost 14,000 words) is almost the equivalent of Taking Lance, but I had hoped to be able...

A Huge Thank You!

It's fairly common knowledge that I'm not all that great with self-promotion. I have blogged about this in the past. It's not that I'm not extremely proud of my stories because I am. It's the fact that while I may not be new to writing, I am extremely new to putting my words out there for all to see. I'm amazed daily that people actually want to read what I write. Nothing thrills me more than getting a message from someone saying they read one of my short stories and enjoyed it. That's what k...

Saving Travis Blurb & Excerpt (Taking Lance #3)

I finally typed THE END on Saving Travis, #3 in the Taking Lance series. It was a long time coming so I was thrilled to finally get the story where I wanted it. I have a bit of self-editing to do before I send it to my editor, but the first draft is officially done.  Being Karen , a freebie I blogged about a few weeks ago that reintroduces Travis, will be released shortly before Saving Travis.



I don't have a cover yet, but I thought I'd throw the blurb out there and a qu...

Upcoming Blog Appearance & Giveaway and a Huge Congratulations

Once again I've allowed two weeks to go by in between posts. Life has been crazy and I've been really busy outside of my writing. The last couple of weeks have been a blur, as was last weekend. I'm finally able to slow down for a bit, though I really shouldn't.


I got a new story back from my editor last week and all I can say is this - Thank God I have a great editor! Seriously. I thought the story was okay. Not great, but okay. I was in love with a specific character, and well, she wasn't. :(...

Upcoming Short Story: Blurb, Excerpt and Cover

Update 11/06/2014 - Still new to self-publishing, I had no idea that you can't add a book as a freebie on Amazon. I wish to keep all books in the series together, so I was forced to put a price tag on it for publication. It will be sold for .99 (U.S.). When I'm able, I'll do a free promotion for a few days on Amazon. It will, once it goes through the publication process, be free to Kindle Unlimited users immediately.

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I wanted to give you a small taste of my upcoming Amazon short, Being...

Upcoming Freebie: Blurb, Excerpt and Cover

I wanted to give you a small taste of my upcoming Amazon freebie, Being Karen. Being Karen is listed as  #2.5 of the Taking Lance series, but you don't have to read the others to get Karen's story. She was only in Keeping Lance for a few pages but she made an impact, so I had to give her more page time. Fair warning, it's not much more than sex, sex, and a little more sex. Karen doesn't discriminate when it comes to her sex partners. She'll do anybody....

This and That (#2)

It's been a couple of weeks since I've typed an update on here and I apologize for that. Between almost constant internet issues and real life, I've not been able to before now. I hope everyone is doing well.



A few updates -




Taking Lance and Keeping Lance are both now strictly on Amazon. I hated removing them from other e-tailers, but I had to do what was best for me. If you are enrolled in the Kindle Unlimited program, both of my stories are available for download as part of it. I hope you'll...