Aaaannd It's Up for Pre-Order ('Achille and Florian')

So! My side project is complete and uploaded to Smashwords for pre-orders. You can check out the book page over here for warnings and all that fun stuff. Now I don't know if anyone without a Smashwords account can see the page, but it IS in a "hidden" category because of it contents. 

If you do have a Smashwords account, you'll need to go and update the erotica filter on your account page to include all erotica, not just mainstream, in order to see all the "hidden" books.  

I'm sticking to my new pseudonym for the author name. I'm also now planning to move forward with my sort of follow-up book in the "naughty, naughty" collection (which I've titled Ouroboros) under the same name, and with this surprising development -- and, no, never have I even considered trying out taboo erotica at any point since 2008 -- the doors are now open a teeny bit wider.

Please note that "planning" is one thing. "Doing" is another. I'd love to challenge myself again, of course, but it might take longer than my usual books, and it might still fall through. This is a completely different ball game I'm talking about, so yeah. Heavy emphasis on "planning" for now, not actually "doing". 

Now granted it was a difficult process for me since I'm not a pure erotica writer, but I found my stride after a false start, and at least now I know where my strengths lie at least where stories in this genre are concerned. I did throw everything in there if only to learn first hand what I'm comfortable writing about. If you look at the book's warnings as well as the search tags I used, you'll know how far I went. To what extent I was successful in achieving a balance between story, sensuality, and titillation, I hope I got the job done. 😅 It's now up to the readers to decide. 

Oh, yes, I did another update to the cover art:

The book's release date is October 1. I'll also be updating my site / blog with links to this new project of mine, but it'll be sometime closer to the publication day. 

And now to restore myself and go back to Valérian.