Mark your calendars! Some time between Midnight and 2 am EDT on the morning of Monday, May 20, 2013 (or overnight from Sunday May 19, 2013 depending on how you want to look at it), I will be interviewed about my writings and inspirations on the Radio of Horror show on 91.3 FM in Worcester, MA(or streaming everywhere).
Mark Your Calendars!
Two things
My author profile over at Erotica For All is now live! I’ve had a link over to Erotica For All on my links page for a while now. Now they link back to me!
I’ve also submitted my first ebook, Paradise, Lust, over to All Romance Ebooks. It’s not yet live on that site, but once it is, I plan on backfilling all 21 of my currently-published ebooks to that site as well. (Maybe it’ll be 22 by then. I’m already hard at work on my next ebook…) I’ll also update my links page with a link to that site as well…
And there’s one more bit of news that I’ll be blogging everywhere later on this week. And it’s pretty big…
A few things…
The other day, I published my 20th ebook Petal Power (amazon, smashwords, kobo, Barnes & Noble) and I’m pleased with the way it came out. I’m already hard at work on my 21st, but I couldn’t let the 20th one go by without a little mention so, things is looking good! :)
iTunes has started to get more and more of my books up there, published through Smashwords. As of right now, seven of my books are available for download through there (for some reason, Paradise Lust appears there twice.)
My last entry (before this one) was a flash story called “Start Me Up and Never Stop,” which I wrote for a challenge at the MC Garden. I like the way it came out. The last time I wrote a flash story for a challenge at the MC Garden, it was called You Only Are What You Believe, and I later recorded myself reading it. I’m considering doing that for this one too, if I can make the time.
A couple of weeks ago, I published Korea Counseling on the EMCSA. While I don’t know what my long-term plans are with regard to the EMCSA, I know that I’m going to publish at least two more stories there: Under the Milky Way and The Xyloporn and Fuckenspiel Society. Getting those two up on the EMCSA will mean that I’ve got at least one story on the archive that begins with each letter of the alphabet. After that, I’ll occasionally publish on the EMCSA, but for the most part, it’ll be ebooks instead. (My non-story, Last Will and Testicle, probably will end up on the EMCSA rather than in an ebook…)
So let’s just see what happens from here! Don’t forget to “like” me on Facebook (facebook.com/JoeMudak) or follow me on Twitter (@JoeMudak)!
Start Me Up and Never Stop
Ken raced into the studio. The other members of the band turned their heads at the sound of him arriving.
Larry put down his drumsticks and said, teasingly, “Do you have a hall pass?”
Ken chuckled and lifted a small box in the air. “Will this do?”
Dave squinted at the box. “Is that what I think it is?”
Nate punched Dave in the shoulder. “He did say he was going to get it… My question is: do we need to test it out?”
Ken nodded his head and said, “That’s probably a good idea. Should we do it via a demo or just ask a few people to listen to us perform?”
“Which’ll be easier to set up?” asked Nate.
“Probably recording the demo,” said Ken. “I mean, all we have to do is attach the box to the mixer and it’ll work its magic throughout the recording. If we ask a few people to listen to us perform, we’d need to get it on an amp, make sure that it doesn’t interfere with anything else, and all that other stuff. Not to mention a place to perform it. With the recording, we can ask people to listen to it on their own terms.”
“So let’s set it up. What song should we do?” said Dave.
“I vote we do a cover,” said Larry.
“You always want to do a cover,” said Nate.
“Yeah, but maybe this time we should,” said Ken. “Something people know might make for a better test of the device.”
Dave chimed in. “Then let’s not let Larry recommend the cover. I mean, he’s the one who said we should do a cover of fucking ‘Convenient,’ by George Hrab —”
“That’s a great song!” interrupted Larry.
“And I’m not saying it’s not. I love that song, actually. But nobody knows the goddamn song. And when nobody knows it, it won’t make a difference to our listeners whether it’s our own, or if we co-opted it from someone else. If we want to do a cover to test the device, let’s make it one someone who doesn’t have unlimited access to your music library might know…”
Dave sighed but said, “So what should we do?”
There was a brief silence, which Ken broke by suggesting, “How about we do something by the Stones? Maybe ‘Gimme Shelter’?”
Nate said, “How about something that won’t require backup singers? I like the idea of doing something by the Stones, though. How about ‘Start Me Up’?”
Ken said, “Works for me.”
Dave said, “Me too.”
Larry looked at Ken and said, “I guess that makes it anonymous. How do we set it up?”
“Let me show you.”
*****
The band finished their recording session and started packing up their gear, the digital recording from the session on a hard drive that Ken kept with the rest of the band’s equipment. He looked at the other members of the group and said, “Let me put ‘Start Me Up’ on flash drives for everyone.”
As he handed out the copies of the song to the rest of the members of the band, Larry said, “Do you think it’s really going to work?”
“Only one way to find out, huh, guys?” said Nate.
“Exactly!” said Ken. “Let’s meet up tomorrow for breakfast to compare stories about how it works, okay?”
Larry said, “All right.”
Nate glanced down at his watch as he took his own flash drive. “Oh, fuck! I’ve got a study session in, like, ten minutes on the other side of campus. Tammy hates it when I’m late, too. I can’t let her down ‘cause that’d mean I might get kicked out of school… I’ll talk to you guys later.”
Nate sprinted to the door, with the only thing preventing him from running out being his concern for damaging his guitar case.
*****
Tammy was already in the library when Nate found her sitting at a desk, thumbing her way through a copy of her astronomy text. He took a minute to catch his breath and said, “Sorry I’m a little late.”
“That’s all right. I wasn’t waiting too long,” said Tammy. “D’you mind if I ask why you’re late?” she pointed at his guitar case and rolled her eyes.
“It’s no big secret. Our recording session went a little long. I’m really pleased with what we managed to do…”
“How much did you end up recording?”
“We got through five songs. One of them we did so quickly, it’s already fully mixed and ready to be played. Wanna hear it?”
“Maybe after our study session, okay? Is it anything I might know?”
“Yeah, we did a cover of ‘Start Me Up,’ by the Rolling Stones.”
“I know that song! It’s … it’s a pretty good song…”
“And I think it came out pretty good. I’d love to hear someone else’s opinion…”
“My opinion is that you’ll never be able to do something as well as Mick and Keith did.”
“We’ll see, Tammy. We’ll see.” He paused for a moment and said, “So… What’re we going to study today?”
“Let’s talk about red shifts and measuring the way orbiting planets make stars wobble.”
*****
Once Tammy and Nate finished their astronomy work, Nate held up his thumb drive. “Ready to give it a listen?”
She sighed and said, “Sure…”
“Probably better off using headphones so we don’t disturb anyone else in the library,” he suggested. “Do you need a pair?”
“If you don’t mind…”
He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small pair of earbuds. She took them, disentangled the wires, and plugged the end into the side of her laptop while he connected the flash drive.
“Let’s get this over with,” she said as she tapped a few spots on her computer and inserted the headphones into her ears.
He watched her as she listened to the song. If the subliminal messaging created by Ken’s device worked, all he’d need to do is say the name of his band and, well… She’ll behave in a very un-Tammy-like manner. Apart from a slight smile forming across her face, he couldn’t tell if it was working.
When the song ended, Tammy took out the earphones and handed them back to Nate. “That was pretty good!”
“Thanks.”
“I may have underestimated you. I think Mick and Keith would be pleased. What was the name of your band again?”
He smiled at the fact that he wouldn’t need to find a way of working this information into the conversation. “The Four Man Trio.”
“Oh!” Tammy started to shift in her seat, crossing and undressing her legs rapidly, and occasionally tugging at the collar of her blouse. “Um. Yeah. Heh heh. So, is it really warm in here, or is it just you?”
*****
The following morning, the members of the Four Man Trio met for breakfast in the Student Union building. As they sat down together at a table, Larry looked at Ken and said, “Looks like your thing worked perfectly!”
Nate nodded and said, “I agree.”
Dave said, “How’d you guys work the name of the band into your conversation? I didn’t use mine with Emily because I didn’t want to just spout out the name of the band.”
Ken said, “I invited Beth to a future Four Man Trio gig…”
“You nailed Beth Hooper? Sweet!” remarked Nate. “Tammy just asked me the name of the band, so I told her.”
Larry said, “I just told Amelia how much fun the group has tog….” His voice trailed off as the piped-in music started to play their version of the opening track to The Rolling Stones’ classic [i]Tattoo You[/i] album.
Dave’s eyes widened. “Is this the campus radio station?”
Nate said, “Must be…”
Ken said, “Well, ummmm… I don’t think anything’s going to happen unless they say the band name within two minutes after the song ends.”
Larry said, “And if they do?”
Ken chuckled and said, “It probably won’t take much before they track a very public orgy back to us.”
“Should we get out of here, just in case?” asked Dave.
Larry said, “Probably not a bad idea.”
The four young men started to clean up the table and leave the Student Union building.
They were nearly out the door and in the campus quadrangle, when the song ended and the DJ came over the speaker system. “You’re listening to KMPS, your university station! I’d like to thank Miss Tammy Moyer for sending us this great version of the Rolling Stones’ classic ‘Start Me Up’, performed by our very own Four Man Trio!”
The four band mates looked at each other and said, in unison, “Fuck!”
Ebook publishing news
So I’ve now been publishing ebooks for about two months and I’m having fun doing what I’ve been doing. Earlier today, I finally set up an author profile page on Amazon.com; this blog is among those that link to it. I’ll probably build on it in the future but it’s good to have a single source for all of my stuff. My links page already links to that page, rather than a standard search for my ebooks.
Earlier today, I took a story that I had written for a contest over at the MC Forum, and published it as an ebook, bypassing posting it to the EMCSA. That was called How Stella Got Her Groove when I wrote it last June for daja’s writing event (and won it). As an ebook, it’s called Superior Room Service.
I am not giving up on posting my stories to the EMCSA. I just felt that this story needed to go straight to ebooks. Here’s hoping I made the right choice… Here are the links to the story on all four sites where I publish directly:
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Smashwords
Kobo
Enjoy it! It’s very hot! (Daja’s exact words when she closed out the June 2012 event were: “What a way to end the contest… definitely one of the best MC stories i’ve ever read. I’d love to see continuing adventures of Stella, or something more with the MC resorts…”
Next on the docket for publication as an ebook? Not tellin’, but it’s a reworking of one of my older stories…..
Streaking
So the results have been posted for king_wesley’s writing contest from last month, in which we each drew different kinds of games (I chose both a video game and a board game, getting Castlevania and Snakes and Ladders).
My Snakes and Ladders story — entitled Rape Suzette came in dead last out of seven entries, due to the fact that the host was majorly turned off by, well, the rape. I can’t blame him for that. It’s how I felt about Fragments from the Violet Hour, by Bad Penny. I probably wouldn’t have had a story for this game had I not read the Wikipedia entry for that game. Metaphorically, the snakes (or chutes as they’re called in America) represent those things that can get in your way if you’re not careful as you advance through, well, the game and your life. So a bunch of coworkers who arrange an assault on one of their colleagues as she advances in the corporate hierarchy… I don’t fault anyone for being turned off by it. Had I not written it, I’d probably be turned off by it too…
My Castlevania story, on the other hand, took home first place in the contest. I called it The Race to Erase Lace with a Mace in the Face of Grace. It reads kind of like the original video game, which I distinctly remember buying when I was a kid and then beating it within one day.
So that was a fun contest.
This month, the contest is to write an erotic mind control story that defies at least one of three definitions of an erotic mind control story. (Which is to say, either something that’s not a story, something that doesn’t really use mind control, or something that uses mind control but not to be erotic…) I’ve already written a non-story story by having it be the last will and testament to a mind controller. (Called Last Will and Testicle.) I’m working on a second story, tentatively called A Day in the Wife. I’m nearly done my first draft and hope to have it posted within the next day or two.
So here’s my current backlog of stories:
- The Just-Ass League, from coolmind’s August 2012 writing contest
- Korea Counseling, from Chrystal Wynd’s September 2012 writing contest
- Under the Milky Way, from Chrystal Wynd’s September 2012 writing contest
- The Xyloporn and Fuckenspiel Society, from BlueLyric’s October 2012 writing contest
- Binders Full of Women, from bsinclair’s November 2012 writing contest
- Sweet Creams are Made of This from Mr Scade’s December 2012 writing contest
- The Diccolo, from CactusJuggler’s January 2013 writing contest
- The Race to Erase Lace with a Mace in the Face of Grace, from king_wesley’s February 2013 writing contest
- Rape Suzette, from king_wesley’s February 2013 writing contest
- Last Will and Testicle, from Midori Konton’s March 2013 writing contest
A lot at once
First off, this week (March 3 - 9, 2013) is Read an E-Book Week. In honor of this event, I am offering one of my best-received ebooks for free over at Smashwords. Specifically, Voices Trapped in Yearning is yours for the taking. Just enter coupon code RW100 at checkout and it’s yours.
Next… I didn’t talk about last month’s contest at the MC Forum. There were six sub-contests in the month. The “big” contest was to write a story based upon either a video game or a board/playground game. The ticker is that you didn’t have a choice in which game to base it on. I sent a letter and a number as a choice to the host (king_wesley, who likes to do this kind of thing) and he sent me back the video game and the board game that corresponded with the letter and number I had chosen. I wrote The Race to Erase Lace with a Mace in the Face of Grace based upon the video game and Rape Suzette based upon the board game. I’m not going to reveal the board game or the video game I was assigned. Yet…
The smaller contests were to write either standard flash fiction or “micro-flashes” based upon a video game or a board game of your choice. (A micro flash would be less than 100 words). I wrote one for each. The night the contest launched. Here they are:
Based upon Ms. Pac-Man
The pretty girl with the bow in her hair, after eating a magic hypnotic pill, begged the guy in the red ghost-sheet, “Eat me!”
Based upon Snakes and Ladders
I had no direction before I met mistress. She gave me a card that took my mind and made me hers. She told me to bring a ladder to her balcony. I hope to show her my snake.
This month’s contest is to write an erotic MC story that breaks one of these three items that define an erotic MC story: 1) A narrative 2) That has at least one character who gets mind-controlled 3) And that mind control is to get sex, or sexual in nature, or otherwise sexualized/eroticized. Interestingly, the host arranged the three based upon his opinion of what is easiest to hardest to break. I disagree. I think 3 is easier than 1 or 2 to write. I’ve got ideas as to how to break each, so we’ll see how it plays out…
Now on your iPad!
As I publish my ebooks on Smashwords, my books eventually get forwarded to other distribution sites. One such site, is Apple’s iTunes Store, which can be accessed either from this hyperlink, or through their computer application iTunes, or, from an iOS device, the iBooks app.
I’m pleased to report that one of my ebooks, Piece of Ass from a Hole in the Ground, is now available for download from iTunes.
Enjoy!
One Size Fits All
My latest ebook is a nice, short story called One Size Fits All. In this story, I channel my inner bimbo-maker with a rather ingenious design: imagine a bra that not only makes the wearer’s breasts look bigger, but it actually makes them bigger… Meet Kim, a somewhat reluctant test subject to this new kind of technology that Victoria’s Secret would practically kill over……
Here’s the cover:
Right now, it’s available for download from Smashwords, with the other sites coming online within the next couple of days. I’ll tweet and post to facebook when the other sites come online.
*****
A few quick administrative notes: I had previously written that Piece of Ass from a Hole in the Ground had not yet been published at Barnes and Noble, but that has since changed and all of my books (other than One Size Fits All, anyway) are now available from all sites.
Additionally, I added a new header for “Links!” over on the side. It contains direct links to all sites that I know of, which carry my books. As I bring on other sites, I will add them as well. Because I am using images from the respective sites to house the links, I found that the site didn’t quite look as nice with the old theme. So I changed it up a little bit and got something that worked well with the images themselves. I hope you like the new theme.
A minor update
Earlier today, I mentioned the publication of Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Tight. Chrystal Wynd saw the cover and advised me to (1) make the title larger, and (2) cover up the bare bottom of the woman pictured.
I respect him on a lot of levels, and he has been doing e-publishing longer than I have, so I had no qualms about making changes.
In response, I did both and updated the image to this:
The change to Smashwords was immediate.
Kobo let me change it before it gets formally published.
Amazon and Barnes and Noble don’t let me change it before it’s formally published. Amazon did notify me of a formal publication, but the moment I updated the image, it went back through the review process. I’m still waiting to update the image on Barnes and Noble. They still haven’t approved Piece of Ass from a Hole in the Ground, for whatever that’s worth…
Chrystal Wynd, by the way, updated his website to notify his readers that I’m publishing ebooks, so I’d like to publicly thank him. If you don’t know his works, you’ve got to check them all out. His stories are a lot of fun. He’s on the same sites as I am…. And his website is ChrystalWynd.com.