Yes, if you have been following My Life in Erotica over the past 57 weeks, you'll notice that this week there is no new post about the writing life. I'm entertaining a guest this weekend and have simply not had time or mindshare to create a new chapter. On the other hand, I’m having a great mini vacation and plan a prime rib and mimosas Sunday brunch and a nice drive out to Hoover Dam/Lake Mead today. And there is other news!
Bedtime Stories for Grownups
Released today in eBook, only on Bookapy, Bedtime Stories for Grownups is a collection of Devon Layne’s short novellas that make great bedtime reading for couples. (Or more or fewer!) The four stories, between 12-16,000 words each, have been released individually on my website and at StoriesOnline, but this is the first time they’ve been collected together in an eBook. Here’s a summary:
100 V-Days
It’s a very bad day for Dallas. He’s been fired, smashes his cell phone, gets drunk, and then wakes up Valentine’s Day morning with the wrong woman in his bed. But that's only the set-up. He sees a bus accident and suicide, finds a distressed waitress who has been stiffed on a bill, finds a bag lady who has been beaten and robbed, and finally is jumped and mugged himself by two lowlifes in a truck stop.
And then he wakes up to do it all again! Valentine’s Day never ends—at least not until Dallas finally gets it right. 2015 Valentine’s Day Contest winner on SOL. 2015 Clitorides winner for Best Erotic Seasonal Story.
My Sex Slave
A long-haul truck driver with a few days off stops to see what a “bikini barista” coffee kiosk has to offer. What he sees is inspiring. He decides to role-play a pickup scene from his favorite science fiction erotica series, the SWARM Cycle. Surprisingly, the barista is willing to play along as his sex slave. For the long haul! This was originally released on SOL under the author name J-Hop, the writer name of a character in The Transmogrification of Jacob Hopkins.
Carousel
We’ve all heard of ‘seven degrees of separation.’ In this series of Valentine’s Day romances, we discover they are all just seven degrees from a Teddy bear. We also discover they are a bunch of cheaters when it comes to their relationships. Like on a carousel, what goes around comes around! This was my entry for the 2023 Valentine’s Day Contest on SOL.
My Brother Reads Incest Porn. zOMG! He Writes It!
Hillary discovers her twin brother Eric has been reading incest porn on the internet. But as if that wasn’t shock enough, she finds out he was the author of the hottest stories! What’s a sister to do? It starts out with her deciding to correct his misconceptions. “It would never happen like that. He’d actually have to... Well, like this.” Hillary has just stepped in over her head!
All four stories are available in one eBook. If you prefer to read online, they are still available here on SOL.