Blast from the past

I was looking over my stats this morning and noticed that I had 2 hits looking for "The Virgin Courtesan."

Wow. Haven't thought about that one in ages.

About four years ago, I was asked to write a short story for a now-defunct publisher. I turned in a historical set in 15th century Venice about…you guessed it…a virgin courtesan. It suffered from bad timing, mostly. I had a great beginning and a great ending, but I had to squish it all into 15K words, so there wasn't much in the middle. You know, the part where the H/h actually form a believable relationship.

Anyway, the contract was only for a year, so I pulled it when the year was up. And hey. Only a couple dozen people ever bought it anyway, so it wasn't like I was depriving folks of some great treasure.

Every once in a while I think about pulling it out and fixing it. Which would take quite a bit of work because, as I said, it had some pretty serious issues. And it's just odd that people are looking for it now.

Oh well. Maybe after the current wip is done. We'll see.