Getting to Know Your Butt Week Friends – Assailant’s Greed

#ButtWeek continues with Assailant’s Greed which is free Aug 31st! Here are a few fun facts about this story!

Way before the Tales Series existed, like way way back before then, I noticed there was a call for short erotica stories at a publisher. I read that it was for Sword & Sorcery and got all exited and started right in on a story. This point is so interesting, it gets its own bullet list.

I thought that if I submitted a story to this publisher and it got accepted then I could submit my manuscript and have a better chance.
This was so far back that I wasn’t set on Self-Publishing yet, and still getting rejected again and again for being ‘Way too strange’.
I didn’t read the submission correctly. It wasn’t for sword and sorcery, it was sword & savagery. Magic wasn’t a thing allowed. The short story I had written had a major plot point involving magic, there was no way around it.
I turned magic into ‘Historically accurate clockwork falcons’ and went with it. It was silly, but I loved it.
This publisher got submitted to before the short story happened, I got excited. I followed up with the publisher and got chewed right the fuck out by the submission clerk. Like, right out. I hit a nerve somehow, still don’t know how, and they went bonkers. Super tear a strip off of someone for asking a simple question? That was this publisher. Eventually, the publisher (not the clerk) apologized profusely for the clerk, however – she still rejected me (big surprise there).
This experience soured me to that publisher, and to traditional publishing in general. It was a final nail. I decided to self publish that very night and never looked back.
Oh, were was I going with this? Right, this Tale. Well, that short story I was writing for them, it got forgotten about. Poor thing.


Then! The Tales happened. It dawned on me that I had a 6000 word story tucked away on my computer that was a lot like a Tale, it just needed text boxes and… a few special somethings to make it unique.
The special things were shifter sex and lady dick! Hooray! The forgotten story came back and saw the light of day!
Final fun fact: I still can’t spell Assaliant.

Grab your copy on Amazon! Aug 31st!