New Releases

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New releases

It's been a long wait, but the wait is over! Danielle titles "Intensity," "Satisfaction," and "Submission" have now been released in digital and print editions.

Danielle was smart, aware, and very good at her work. But she never understood that plans and structures exist to provide people comfort, and Ronin operates without needing that kind of security blanket. This is her story of what she was willing to do to win his sexual interest, and the price she paid for saying "I do..."

Starting with "Intensity," Danielle's pursuit of Ronin gets off to a very demanding start. For many years, "Intensity" stood on its own without any explanation for Ronin's reluctance and indifference to Danielle's sexy propositions.

Now we find out what was really going on! "Satisfaction" and "Submission" prove how far Danielle is willing to go to both retain Ronin's interest and explore her own suppressed sexual desires.

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New releases

February marked a decisive move forward releasing new print and digital content for Cherish Desire Singles titles. The first wave of new titles included some awesome story arc completion sets as well as planned titles. And the second wave is already underway.

Cherish Desire Singles: Sexy Identities Collection 3, Cherish Desire Singles: She Comes First Collection 1, Cherish Desire Singles: Object Confessions Collection 9, and Cherish Desire Singles: Object Confessions Collection 10 were all planned for February release. These collections mark the continuation of Sexy Identities and Object Confessions, and the new Femdom focused series under She Comes First.

In addition, four other new titles were released. Cherish Desire Singles: Lust And Dildos (The Complete Six Part Series) featuring May is the first full length book covering Max, May, and Nicole's misadventures. Cherish Desire Singles: Object Confessions: Husband And A Master, Cherish Desire Singles: Object Confessions - Number Nine, and Cherish Desire Singles: Object Confessions - Yes are the first three completed story arcs for the Ladies of Object Confessions.

For readers who aren't familair with the series, Object Confessions stories include a number of recurring ladies whose full story arcs have previously required buying multiple Very Dirty Stories, Very Wicked Dirty Stories, and Cherish Desire Singles titles. Introducing novella to novel length titles which each include a single completed story arc is a new approach to align with reader requests for longer novella to novel length titles and making these specific stories more accessible to readers who aren't as interested in the shorts that are typical within the deligthfully sexy adventures (and misadventures) of the Ladies of Object Confessions.

The next wave of new titles will include Cherish Desire Singles: The Studio (The Complete Seven Part Series) featuring Priya, Cherish Desire Singles: Indoctrination (The Complete Seven Part Series), Cherish Desire Singles: Satisfaction (The Complete Four Part Series) featuring Danielle, and Cherish Desire Singles: Submission (The Complete Five Part Series) featuring Danielle.

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"Author To Author: Finishing Touches"

written by Max D

Every story has an ending. It just takes a long time to get there. Because of how I write, both non-sequentially and across multiple character arcs, I'm often dealing with pieces from multiple puzzles all thrown into the same box. Teasing out which pieces belong together, which pieces are the chapters of the next Cherish Desire Singles title, is not always easy and definitely not predictable.

And that's top of mind as I revisit, revise, and publish Object Confessions titles.

There are stories within these collections which link together. Stories here which were supposed to have a common first word in the name so I'd remember they were linked together and chapters of the same book. And some are so close to done. Finishing is an effort unto itself though, and finishing can only begin when you acknowledge what you've forgotten.

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New releases

The initial releases of Very Dirty Stories #206 to Very Dirty Stories #259 are now available on all three retailers we directly publish to and trickling outward to their distribution networks. They can be found on Smashwords and Rakuten Kobo and Amazon.

The transition to working on Cherish Desire Singles and Cherish Desire Divinations is proceeding slowly. Lots of formatting. Lots of revisiting standards to update them to work better within print editions. Overall things are going well, it's just a lot of work. Anticipate Cherish Desire Singles: Sexy Identities Collection 3, Cherish Desire Singles: She Comes First Collection 1, Cherish Desire Singles: Object Confessions Collection 9, and Cherish Desire Singles: Object Confessions Collection 10 by end of February. More new titles are in flight as well, but we're allowing time for corrections and processing revisions of related titles.

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"Author To Author: Brutal Trial And Error"

written by Max D

I just published and republished the same title to Smashwords 21 times. I just iterated through the same title 8 times on Amazon KDP. I just tested the same title 5 times on Rakuten Kobo. Each time finding something wrong. Each time seeing a new glitch. Each time needing to tailor the Word document source further to suit a specific retailer.

This whole process sucks.

While I had hoped there would be a better convergence over time for retailers supporting self-publishing, I'm finding the opposite it true.

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New releases

Retailer requirements change. It's unavoidable. Reviewing the output from Smashwords and Rakuten Kobo releases, it became clear that the divergence has become more profound rather than less. All three major retailers - Smashwords, Rakuten Kobo, and Amazon KDP - are using different engines to generate MOBI/EPUB formats for titles. All three are parsing and producing outputs differently with mutually exclusive expectations specifically around Table of Contents. So we're moving forward with Very Dirty Stories #206 to Very Dirty Stories #259 on Amazon KDP, but anticipating we may need to do a formatting patch once we've experimented enough with the Amazon KDP Table of Contents generation to correct for how Amazon KDP is generating their MOBI format.

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