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So, this is my first-of-the-month update. Royal Indiscretion is being a pain. I have some good dialogue written for when two protagonists actually start talking to each other, but right now it’s hard to force them into the same space without making them out of character. I often introduce a new character, but adding in the sober sponsor Nick doesn’t really help. Someone may get hurt soon. That often forces people to talk.

The Witness is on a short break because I have too many plots going at once, and I needed to choose Royal Indiscretion or The Witness Wears a Puppy Tail. Doing both was hurting my head. Too many voices up there at once, ya know. 

Saddled is going hot and strong. While this started as pretty strictly pony kink, it is quickly developing one hell of a plot. When I’m done, I think I may send this over to MLR Press. However, I have to get John out of danger, navigate the relationship problems between John and Clive, save momma, deal with a drug addicted brother, and figure out how to get two stubborn alpha males to admit they’re in love. Yeah, I got a ways to go. 

But as usual, my muse is always tempting me with new thoughts. Once Saddled is done, I’m thinking about two options. 

Earth Fathers are Weird focuses on a pilot who took to the skies to fight off an alien invasion—or what Earth thought was an invasion. It was actually the equivalent of a high speed chase that spilled into undeveloped space. When his jet was shot, the alien authorities scooped him up to prevent his death. And when the chase was over, he was dropped at a very nice interplanetary port. The computers can mostly translate English. Sort of. And he can interface enough to see how much a ship would charge him to take him back to Earth. If he took a job helping refine the translator function, he could afford a ticket in roughly three hundred years. A job entry for what he thought was a nanny could get him home in seven to eight years. He might have mistranslated “nanny,” though.

Loyalty Betrayed is about a covert ops specialist. He’s run his own team for nearly a decade and had an on-again, off-again relationship with the team interrogator/psychologist. However, he is beginning to fear that their team is being misused in the worst ways. When he gets a warning to get out, he runs without looking back. However, he’s not willing to leave his lover. And even if he did, the man knows him well enough to act as birddog for the government agents trailing him. So our hero makes a horrible choice out of a desire to avoid an even worse one. When his friend comes for him, he knows the government will send killers to finish the job. So he sets a trap, grabs his lover, and decides to use what he learned about psychology and brainwashing to tie his lover’s allegiance to him.  Only then will he feel safe to unravel the conspiracies working to turn his government against him.

So, that’s me. Oh, and I am an amateur with book covers, so if anyone has feedback (especially anyone with the actual experience or expertise I lack), I would greatly appreciate it.