The Misty Vixen Newsletter (December 2022)

Time for some updates.

I’ve got a lot on my mind and because I’m still ruminating on it, I’ll keep this update short. I’m having to reevaluate how I’ve been going about things, but I don’t want to really go in-depth with it until January.

So we’ll go with my favorite method of the bullet-point list to get the pertinent information across.

  • In case you missed it, I made a blog post detailing why I needed to step back for a bit and take a break. About two weeks later, I can say that I do feel a bit better. I feel at least well enough to go back to what I’m calling light duty for December.

  • That light duty is: writing Monster Girl Inn III. I doubt it will be finished by the end of the month, but I’m hoping for an early January release. I have it planned out, I have the cover, and I’ve written a few chapters so far. I will begin posting those chapters on Patreon next Monday, ideally moving at about a chapter a day pace Monday - Friday, until completion.

  • Raw III Audio is officially out.

  • A Reminder: A Warm Place audio is launching on December 5th.

  • Monster Girl Inn II Audio is now up for pre-order. It launches December 14th.

  • Haven 2 will be up for pre-order before long.

  • For reasons that I will get into in the next update, I have decided that I will be pulling down Parasexual, by the end of December, and Like A Fine Wine, by the end of February. They will be republished to Smashwords, and also offered for free as Kindle downloads from my site. At present, I have dropped the price of all of them, both the individual titles and the collections, to 99 cents. So if you missed any of them from the last sale, you can grab them for cheap. For the extremely curious who must know now, the short answer of why I’m doing this is the same reason I pulled down the rest of my backlog.

  • Making slow progress on my first horror harem project.

That’s basically it. I’ve got more reflecting to do on things and December has traditionally been the start of a bad time for me anyway, as I’ve got SAD on top of depression/anxiety, so you may see me try a side project or two. Which basically means: I might fire back up my Dragon Age fan fiction or I may start writing and posting new incest erotica.

Anyway, wish me luck, and I hope you all have a good month.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter (November 2022)

First thing’s first, the first Haven audiobook is out!

 
 

October was definitely a bad month. I was hoping to be most of the way done with Raw V at this point, but I am nowhere near that. I’m not completely sure what happened. Mostly it was a combination of: actual responsibilities popped up a little unexpectedly, including a special writing opportunity that I was presented with and decided to take a shot at (that I will talk about later), and also I spent most of this month just tired. Like really tired. I keep just sleeping but like not really? I don’t know, lately it just feels like I sleep, but when I wake up, my body says ‘no that didn’t count’ and I feel like shit the entire day. I’m trying to get it sorted out. And this is on top of my usual levels of depression and anxiety, so…

Yeah, basically I didn’t get much of anything done. Really the biggest thing I managed to do was redesign all my covers because I do like the new look, so…yay.

Anyway, I’m intending to make November more productive. Here’s a list of shit that’s happening.

  • The preorder for the audiobook for RAW III is coming out extremely soon.

  • The preorder for the audiobook for A WARM PLACE 1 will be out sometime this month.

  • I am having a really big sale/giveaway starting November 3rd that will run for five days. So November 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, & 7th. Basically all of the titles from my completed series will be free, and the Complete Collections will be under 1$.

  • I am intending to get through most of Raw V this month, and may theoretically post it before month’s end.

Here’s the more nebulous stuff.

  • The immediate plan remains the same: after finishing Raw V, I’ll write Monster Girl Inn III.

  • I have finally settled on my horror harem title. It was…D: none of the above. A new idea hit me and it’s just working so far. Not sure when it’ll be done but trust me, when it’s getting close I won’t STFU about it.

  • After Monster Girl Inn I still intend to go hard on Raw and just write it until it’s done.

  • There’s been a change of plans with regards to what I’ll do after Raw. Instead of my slice-of-life sci-fi series, I have instead opted to do a full rewrite of Our Own Way. I’ll release a post about that soonish explaining what and why.

  • After Our Own Way I’ll hit the sci-fi slice-of-life. It’s occurred to me that I really should stop alternating titles and just work on a series until it’s done. This will cause some problems for my sanity (namely burnout), but I’ll work on other projects quietly in the background to help with that. I think the most logical solution would be to write whatever the next series is going to be in the background while I work on my primary one, so that once the primary one is done, I’ll have a jump on the new primary series. At present, there’s just too much time passing between releases, and it’s clearly negatively impacting sales.

  • My backlog. It’s available on Smashwords and a few other sites. I imagine the overlap between people who have already read or don’t care about my backlog and the people who are reading this/visit my site are basically a circle. However, sometimes new readers find these posts, so I figured it’s still worth it to mention. I’ll be making a post about it and creating a page dedicated to it. I have also decided that since my titles are no longer on the Kindle, I’ll just offer them as free downloadable Kindle files directly from this site, in case you missed some.

  • I’ll also be putting together another bibliography. I know there exist some fans who want to see EVERYTHING, because I am one of those people. It will include all my works, including stuff I wrote not as Misty Vixen, or at least everything I can remember. Some stuff is lost to time thanks to bad memory and swapping computers. There were definitely a few experiments I have the vaguest recollections of writing, but have since been removed and deleted, and the specifics of which have been scrubbed from my brain.

  • Among the background stuff I’m working on, I’ll try to find time for either fan fiction or incest fiction. I actually added a bit more to my Dragon Age fan fiction (don’t know if anyone remembers that) and I almost brought it back out, but ultimately put it away because it started feeling like a waste of time. Ideas for and about incest fiction still pop to the surface occasionally, but I pretty much always think ‘I want to, but I really need to get to work on finishing up this current novel…’.

That’s about it. If you’ve got any questions, ask away. I’m going to finish up my secret project and then get to work on Raw V.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter (October 2022)

Monster Girl Inn II is out!

 
 
 
 

And we are very close to the audiobook release of Monster Girl Inn! It comes out on October 3rd.

From what I understand, the pre-order for the first Haven audiobook isn’t too far away.

This update will be pretty short. I’m tired. September extracted a heavy toll. I had what you might call a setback in my mental health. The only good thing about it is that I think my emotional stability has improved because it didn’t take me too long to get back to roughly normal after. But that’s why Monster Girl Inn II was a little late. The setback but also insomnia and just generally feeling worn down. I’m fucking tired.

I’m going to take a break, and then begin work on Raw V. Already got the cover for it, so that’s squared away. (I still look back in horror on the original cover situation. Let me tell you, bumping up against a finished novel with no cover art in sight is particularly miserable for an indie author). Given my current pace, I’ll likely get Raw V out sometime in early November.

After that, I’m thinking Monster Girl Inn III might be my last book for 2022. I’ve been needing, like, a real break for awhile now, and I know that this need will likely double or even triple in intensity once winter sets in.

I’ve been thinking about background projects still, something to work on more for fun and sanity’s sake, and although I keep messing around with horror ideas, I’ve run into some problems there. I want to make an actual blog post about the horror harem situation, because it’s surprisingly complicated for something that was supposed to be just a side project, and I’ll update this post once I write it. [UPDATE: Here is the post]. Should be a few days out. But I may actually take another shot at quietly producing some incest erotica. I might end up writing Kyra’s Game 2, or something else. I’ve got a lot of ideas.

Anyway, hope you enjoy Monster Girl Inn II.

The only other thing I have to say is that you might have noticed a small design change in the Monster Girl Inn covers. I’ve noticed that some of the bigger names in harem have taken to making their name small and tucked away in one corner. I’ve decided to take a shot at this new trend to see if it actually helps, but in truth, I may actually make the change to a few other series because the design really appeals to me on a personal level. It’s a clean, minimalist aesthetic, and that just does it for me. Like, I already really love the way the new MGI covers look. I dunno, we’ll see.

Let me know what you think.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter (September 2022)

First thing’s first:

 
 

RAW IV is out and the pre-order for Raw II audiobook is also out! It drops September 8th.

At the moment, the other audiobooks are still being worked on behind the scenes. It’s looking like the audiobook for Monster Girl Inn is up next, the pre-order coming out this month. For the most immediate information on them as it becomes available, follow my Twitter.

I’ve officially begun working on Monster Girl Inn II. I’m going to start posting it as Early Access to my Patreon next week. At the moment it’s looking like a mid-to-late September release. The cover is done and it has a sexy dragoness on it.

At the moment, the only things that remain a certainty for me are that I am going to finish out the Monster Girl Inn trilogy this year, and that I intend to write at least two more Raw novels this year. And even that is a hope, as it means one book per month. I’m better now than I was before, mentally speaking, but I feel like I’m on unstable ground. The way ahead looks safe, but it could collapse out from under me at any moment, completely derailing my plans for at least a short period of time as I try to get back onto solid ground.

The only good news is that the collapses are less frequent.

Earlier, I said that I was going to try and switch back to working on two projects simultaneously. This has not gone as well as I had hoped, as it remains difficult enough as it is to hold onto a single project, let alone two. I’m holding out hope that this is still possible as I regain mental ground, as I’ve been able to make this work before.

Besides Raw and Monster Girl Inn, I believe I have zeroed in on my next project after MGI is wrapped up. Earlier I mentioned a sci-fi slice-of-life idea that had just sort of come to me. It’s stuck around and grown stronger since then, and I’m going to initiate it after MGI. I feel like it will have a stronger voice than MGI, which will make it easier to write. I’m not sure if that makes sense to readers, but it’s the best way I can put it. Not sure how long it will be, but probably on the shorter side in terms of number of books. I’m going to try experimenting with longer novels again, like with A Warm Place.

As for the rest of it? I’ve found myself pulling away from the outer space horror harem as it has grown in complexity and scope, and drawn towards a simpler, more grounded and modern narrative. A few years ago I began talking about a horror harem, Eyes in the Dark, and the idea has never fully left me. I may end up going with that one to launch the horror harem pen name, and do the outer space narrative later. We’ll see what happens.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter (August 2022)

So, I’m feeling a bit better since last month, although it was at the cost of slower production. Which means I’m not as far along in Raw IV as I had hoped, but I still intend to get it out this month. Monster Girl Inn II is definitely looking like a September release.

The big news, though, is audiobooks.

I’d like to first thank everyone who bought, listened to, reviewed, and otherwise promoted or helped the Raw audiobook. This has had a very big impact, it seems.

Raw the Audiobook did, like, really well.

Consequently, I have now signed deals to have Haven, A Warm Place, & Monster Girl Inn turned into audiobooks by Royal Guard as well!

A Warm Place is going to be done by both Katana Jones and Gabriel Michael.

Monster Girl Inn is going to be done by William Windle and Raya Kane.

Haven will be done by Ellory Lane.

Release dates are still being nailed down but Book 1 of each of these should release sometime this Fall.

Also, Raw II is coming along.

I’ll let everyone know as each of these develop and I get more specific information.

That’s about it for this Newsletter. Raw IV coming out this month and then Monster Girl Inn II after that.

I’m still poking at my outer space horror harem, but it’s obvious now that it’s gonna be awhile on that. I thought I had something of an idea of what to do, but after struggling with it for most of July, I suddenly had the idea that I was going about it the wrong way and tried a different approach. It feels a lot better, but it’s still obvious that it needs a lot of work, and watching out for my mental health has meant that I’ve slowed down.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter (July 2022)

First and foremost, I can finally talk about this: RAW HAS BEEN MADE INTO AN AUDIOBOOK! It is available for pre-order right now, and you can get it right here on Audible, and it is coming out July 17th.

 
 

This is the mysterious thing I’ve been referencing. Back in April I was approached by Royal Guard Publishing to produce audiobooks based off the Raw series. People have been asking me for audiobooks for years, and the primary thing that kept me from seriously pursuing them was the amount of bullshit and fuckery involved with the production of audiobooks, and all the outright horror stories I’ve heard from other authors. After talking with Royal Guard, we came to an agreement and they basically agreed to deal with all the hassle of producing and selling audiobooks, which was the only way I was ever going to do this.

As I understand it, Raw II is currently being produced, and we’re on course to produce the whole series.

As of right now, I’m still figuring out whether or not to pursue further audiobooks for other series, but if this one does well, I can’t really see a reason not to.

Really, the only bad news is that most of my backlog almost for sure isn’t going to become audiobooks. The main reason for this is erotica audiobooks are basically dead on arrival. Amazon hates erotica, but Audible ABHORS it. From what I understand, it’s far more difficult to make sales if an audiobook is slapped with the erotica label, and almost literally all of my backlog is already self-labeled erotica, and given the costs involved with producing a single audiobook, let alone dozens, I can’t see a scenario in which Hellcats and Wanderlust and pretty much everything before Haven gets turned into an audiobook. If you were holding out hope for that, sorry.

One final side note is, this is the reason for why I am producing triple packs again. Audiobook listeners really like package deals, so they like to produce triple packs if at all possible, and there needs to be a corresponding ebook version for there to be an Audible version (I think). Either way, that’s why.

Next thing: Monster Girl Inn.

 
 

It occurred to me a few months ago that I no longer have any straight-up monster girl stuff available, and that was essentially what my platform was in the beginning: inhuman women getting fucked by regular human dudes. I figured I should fix this with a trilogy dedicated just about entirely to monster girls. I’ve had an idea of characters building an inn or outpost in a dangerous fantasy forest for awhile, so I decided to give it a go.

The result is Monster Girl Inn.

I’m looking to get this trilogy written and out before 2023. So far I’m…not happy with how the launch has gone. I don’t know if I did a shit job writing the book, if it was bad luck, or whatever the hell was going on with Amazon’s backend (which of course shit itself the day I launched a brand new novel/series), but it just is not doing well. Which, like…I’m having a lot of trouble with. People are extremely vocal about cover art in harem and how good it should be. It’s why certain authors are as popular as they are, despite the common consensus being that they regularly produce mediocre content: they are able to afford 2,000$ covers on the reg. So I tried to lean hard into making this cover really harem-y and…no one cares? I don’t know.

Playing this harem author game has done a lot for my life, but it’s also deteriorated my mental health to the point where I’m no longer sure about whether or not I want to be alive. Like Hopsin once said: “Real artists get shelved while wack ones get famous” It’s not that I think really highly of myself or that I think I’m a great or even good writer, but it is me writing everything, and I am trying, and I do give a shit. Soulless ghost writer mills are rewarded with millions of dollars and a lot of the rest of us get a fraction of the success and attention. I thought I was onto something with Raw but the more time goes on, the more the first Raw novel feels like a fluke.

I made a blog post last month explaining why I’ve been so inconsistent over the past few years. My mental and emotional stability is unreliable, and this clearly interferes with my ability to reliably produce content. I think it would probably help if I was allowed to produce closer to 4-5 books a year, but that just isn’t my present reality.

I’m obviously not good enough to be like some authors, who can afford to release a few books a year.

I’m not as smart or focused as other authors and can reliably pump out solid content every month or two months without fail (and without the use of ghost writers).

I really don’t know why I can’t just get my shit together and keep it together and just write. I remember reading about John Romero, one of the guys who made DOOM, who was describing what it was like in the early 90s when they were making Wolfenstein and DOOM. He’d wake up, throw on heavy metal, and code for sixteen hours straight, every day, and he was thrilled to be doing so. I have no idea why I can’t be like that. There’s nothing actually stopping me from doing it. To be honest, I should producing a minimum of a new novel every 4 weeks. It’s entirely possible, but it’s like my brain just starts to misfire and I fucking hate whatever I’m working on and I’d rather eat a bullet than keep going some days. And I have no fucking idea why. I’m medicated, I’ve been in an out of therapy for a few years now, I don’t have much of a life outside of writing, so it’s not like shit is taking up time. I don’t have chronic pain, I don’t have any kind of illness. I wouldn’t say I’m healthy exactly, but certainly I don’t have anything that should prevent me from just sitting the fuck down and writing a dozen hours a day.

If it isn’t obvious, this really bothers me. A lot. And I can’t even enjoy the success really. After breaking the Top 500 for the first time ever with Raw, now I’m just disappointed and feeling like an absolute failure because I can’t do it again. Raw III barely broke the Top 1000, so obviously people are just dropping the series, and it’s like, WTF am I doing wrong? Why are these other series with 15 novels regularly hitting the Top 500? What am I missing? Because I’m obviously missing something or maybe it’s just as simple as I’m just not a good writer.

I’m ranting, sorry, this is meaningless.

Right now, I’m taking a break to try and get my head straight again and wrap up a few loose ends in my real life to help me focus. Soon, I will begin work on Raw IV. I already have the cover art for it, and the art for Raw V is being worked on at present, so cover art shouldn’t be a problem for the future. Once I start the actual writing, I’m going to try and go hard. I want to have this out in early or mid August.

In the background, when I can find time for it, I will be working on Monster Girl Inn II. The cover for that one is also already done, and the third cover is being worked on right now. Once Raw IV wraps, I’ll shift focus to finishing Monster Girl Inn II. At the moment, it’s looking like this is going to be a trilogy.

Finally, my horror harem. Production kind of stalled on this one. I fully intended to begin actual writing last month, but as I began planning it, I started running into problems. An outer space survival horror harem is not something I’m as familiar with, and I want to make sure I do it right. This, combined with the fact that I imagine horror harem is going to be niche anyway, means that it’s going to be a background project for the time being.

And that’s about it. Sorry for being a downer, I’m just in a bad place right now. I was really counting on Monster Girl Inn being a heavy hitter.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter (June 2022)

I finally got Raw III out!

Sorry for the delay, and also: The paperback version is out.

And here’s the nude version on Patreon. Also, you can see the nude version of Nessa in the original style, plus the nude versions in the new style art of Raw I & II on this page.

The last bit of Raw-related news is that I’m going back to releasing triple packs, but not with any new content (no bonus short). So sometime this month there’s going to be a Raw I - III Collected title released. The only new thing about it is that I got custom cover art done for it. So you get to see new Niri. I’m doing this for a reason, but I’m not ready to talk about the reason for it. Brand new things are happening behind the scenes and for a reason I will explain later this month, it makes sense to do this. If you don’t care about collections with no new material added, then you can safely ignore this.

So…things are happening.

After two months of trying to work on one thing at a time, and seeing how abysmal my output becomes when I do that, I’ve decided to switch back to working on more than one project at once.

The first thing I’m working on is a new, small fantasy series. At some point, while I was sorting through my work and analyzing everything as I continue to make the switch to being a full-on harem author, it occurred to me that I no longer have anything on offer that involves monster girl fucking. Nor alien girls, or paranormal girls. Nothing. Just humans, and the occasional non-human in Like A Fine Wine and Raw. And while I’ve definitely got more non-human girls coming up in Raw, I don’t have a series that’s dedicated to an entire harem of monster girls. And I should. Because to be honest, I got into this business to write about regular human dudes fucking monster girls and alien girls and other non-human types, and I’ve been away from that for too long.

This series is going to be a bit calmer, in terms of what the plot is about. It’s not going to be about building a whole town or saving a whole group of people. It’s really just going to focus on the protagonists: a human guy and his monster girl harem. And the other monster girls and non-human girls they fuck on the side, and their goals. I’ll talk more about it as I get closer to release, but I do want to say that I’m not going to be posting these chapters to my Patreon. I kind of want to keep it low-key until it’s actually ready to go.

The second thing I’m going to be working on is something I’ve been toying with for years now: horror harem.

I asked in a few places recently about the possibility of horror harem and the reaction I got was pretty good. People seem to want it and I definitely want to do it. I’ve got an idea for a sci-fi outer space horror harem. In a way, I’ve been flirting with horror for a long time. I like writing about monsters and scary situations, I’ve just never really leaned into it. Obviously, it’ll be kind of difficult, balancing horror with harem. They kind of clash, and something’s likely going to have to give, narratively speaking, and it’s going to be the horror, since I’m writing for a harem audience.

This will also give me a chance to test out how a new pen name gets received by Amazon, and also audiences, I guess, but it won’t be a secret that it’s me. I’ve got a name picked out and a rough sketch of the story. If this series does well, I have several other horror ideas that could easily fit here. And it’s going to be the same deal with this one in that I won’t be posting it as I write it, I’m just gonna write it and publish it when it’s ready. The sequels to these stories, however, will be on my Patreon in early access.

Aside from that I’ll be doing some preliminary work on Raw IV. I want to let some time go by so that I don’t burn myself out.

So, hopefully, I’ll have a breezy monster girl harem in a fantasy setting book out by the end of June, and then a horror harem novel out sometime after that, and then Raw IV sometime after that.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter (May 2022)

Not a whole lot to say this time around.

Raw III is still being worked on but an early May release is completely out of the question due to how certain things fell. Mainly, the cover art. Making the transition to a new style means I have to first get Raw I & II recovered. At this point, I have the art for Raw I, and should have the art for Raw II very soon. But that still means I won’t have the cover for Raw III until at least mid-May.

In a way, it’s good news for me because it means I can take the writing at a saner pace. I feel like Raw III is coming out more smoothly than Raw II largely because of this.

As of right now, I’m about 2/3 of the way finished with it.

I’ve got a few other things cooking in the background right now, but it’s too early to really say anything about them. So for now just look forward to more Raw.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter (April 2022)

I finally finished some things!

Our Own Way is done!

A Warm Place is done!

I’m still figuring out the release of The Complete Edition for A Warm Place.

March wasn’t shitty, but it was hectic. I’ve basically been handling real-life stuff, (mainly trying to look after my sanity), and also scrambling to finish those two series.

In case you missed it, you can now read my works as I write them over on my Patreon for 3$/month. The main caveat is that they will get deleted about 12-24 hours before final publication for Amazon reasons.

I’m going to do a big sale soon, though I imagine everyone reading this has already bought or read everything they want to from me.

Right now, and for the immediate future, it’s full steam ahead on Raw. Specifically Raw III, but also just Raw in general. I really want to get the ball rolling hard on that series. Probably the only other thing I’ll be putting work in on is helping Lara X. Lust with the next (and maybe final) Desperate Times book. Otherwise it’s GO TIME for Jak and his harem of lovely stone age ladies. Looking at an early May release.

Also, one more thing, I’m going to be updating the cover art for Raw. For reasons that I don’t really want to get into, it’s been a bit precarious almost from the beginning, but I recently decided to investigate an alternate avenue. If you were a fan of them, sorry, honestly so was I. It’ll be a bit before I get my hands on the newer art, but Raw III should launch with the new style.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter (March 2022)

This is going to be a short one.

In case you missed it, I managed to get a few things out last month.

I had hoped to make more progress with the other projects at this point, but I’m still dealing with certain things. As it stands, A Warm Place 9 is 1/3 finished, and I do have the cover. Our Own Way 7 is about 1/2 finished, and I also have the cover for that. In fact, I have all the covers for Our Own Way.

February was a LOT better than January, by several order of magnitudes. Looking back on it, I’m actually kind of shocked how bad January and some of December was. I’m still taking things kind of slow right now, which is why more progress wasn’t made on the other two projects. Real life things are still cropping up, also it’s winter, and I’m still figuring out my vitamin deficiency. I’m doing better, but mainly I’m taking more breaks and sanity check days so that I don’t start back sliding because honestly, that was fucking scary.

A Warm Place 9 and Our Own Way 7 should be out this month for sure. I might possibly get Our Own Way 8 out as well. Raw III is still on track for April. I’m hoping to make it bigger and better than the previous two books, both literally in terms of word count, but also in terms of things happening. I’m looking forward to it, because once I finish the other two series, it’ll be nothing but RAW for awhile.

The only other things on my radar for now are:

  • My friend released two novels. One has monster girls, the other is post-apocalyptic. Both harem. (I didn’t have basically anything to do with these, for reference.) Desperate Times 4 is gonna come at some point, and we’re updating the covers for the Desperate Times series as well.

  • I am tossing around the idea of beginning an early access program on my Patreon. In short, for 3$/month, you can read my works as they are being written, chapter by chapter. The biggest caveat is that they would be taken down shortly after completion, to satisfy Amazon’s exclusivity clause.

That’s about it.