First thing is first.
A Warm Place 3 is out! I managed to get it done just before March.
I didn’t think I’d actually get the whole thing written, edited, formatted, and published in a month, but I did it in 27 days! What sucks is that if I’d had my shit together, I could’ve had it done in like 20 days.
Anyway, I’m now recovering and taking a little break.
Next thing that’s coming out is A Warm Place Prelude - 3 Collected. After waffling on it for awhile, I finally decided to not only do the Collections, but to add in bonus shorts. I think I’ll just be taking whether or not to add bonus shorts on a case-by-case basis. This short will take place in between Prelude & A Warm Place 1, and feature Mary from Prelude.
Before I talk about A Warm Place 4, which contains some spoilers, I’ll talk about everything else.
I’m in a strange place right now, but it’s a good strange, for once. A Warm Place is doing really well, and it’s finally taking the pressure off. Remember how many times I’ve talked about finding something to take the pressure off? I finally found it. Consequently, I don’t feel like I desperately need to be working on two projects simultaneously.
I still want to get my second pen name ready, because A Warm Place can’t last forever, and it’s ultimately just a temporary stop-gap, because the problems with Misty Vixen that I’ve already outlined will still exist. But at the moment, I’ve got 12 novels planned for A Warm Place, and that will last me through the rest of 2021, probably even somewhat into 2022.
Now obviously I want a good six month or so buffer between when I start working on the new name and when I launch it so that I can have another buffer after launch, but for the next few months, I want to kind of take it easy. So I’m going to be working on A Warm Place most of the time, and on the side, I’ll FINALLY get to indulge in some fan fiction! I’ll also be writing a few incest stories. I’ve got several set in the A Warm Place universe that I think about a lot.
My first erotic fan fiction is going to be the Dragon Age one with Fiona, Lysette, and a lot of other girls, and I’ll get nude fan art of them as I can, for the full effect. I’ve also been scouting around for a place to host my fan fiction and I think I’m going to go with Archive of Our Own. It seems to be fairly NSFW friendly. I’ll also be hosting it here on the site, though honestly I want to try and find a better way of hosting.
After the Collection, I’ll get to work on A Warm Place 4. Which I’d like to talk about now.
If you don’t want to know anything at all about what’s coming next, stop reading now. Spoilers.
I initially had a plan for how I wanted to handle A Warm Place as a whole. Those of you who have read it in its original incarnation (should) know by now that I began the new series chronologically before the original version, and that I have intended to include a rewritten, somewhat reimagined edition of that version. To be clear, it will be an entire rewrite. I’ll just be using what I wrote as a guideline, taking the best parts and the parts I liked and throwing out whatever doesn’t fit, and add in a lot more.
After some consideration, I finally decided it would be best to make that rewrite happen as A Warm Place 4, 5, &, 6.
However, in order to make it work, Chris needs to be alone at the beginning of A Warm Place 4. This would break a pretty big rule of harem novels, even though A Warm Place isn’t necessarily a harem series…although it kind of is. This is why I didn’t specifically title it as such, even though it has many of the trappings of a harem story, most of them intentional. That rule being that the protagonist doesn’t lose all the women in his harem at once.
I believe I have found a way to make it work, and obviously I’ll be introducing new characters (the ones from the original version, Lara, Susan, etc.), and I’ll be getting back to Megan and Delilah and the others in the future. The thing is, I’m fairly confident in my ability to tell this story decently, I’m less confident in my casual reader base who will just be angry that Megan and Delilah and Elizabeth are no longer in the story and just stop reading.
I’m even more nervous about this because A Warm Place is doing like really well. I finally feel like I’m actually succeeding as a writer with this series, and here I am taking a big narrative risk on it.
But I feel like it has to be this way, and am praying people will just trust me.
So yeah, the first collection will be out sometime this month, and A Warm Place 4 will be out probably early April.
Wish me luck and thank you so much for the love and support you’ve given A Warm Place thus far!