Friday, April 19, 2013

April snowstorms

April showers may bring may flowers but...

April snowstorms bring delays in everything I try to get done. We've had three major storms since the beginning of the month, including school being cancelled for snow days for my daughters.

I also had a sick chicken that finally gave up on me this morning. It's strange, the symptoms appear common from what I found online but not a single person who had posted about it could say what exactly was the disease or problem afflicting their birds nor did any of them figure out a successful treatment. It is possible that it was a congenital thing due to inbreeding. Ours was an Araucana (it looked like the show breeds and not like the more common Easter Eggers) while the ones I found referenced online were also all hybrid breeds that frequently have a lot of inbreeding in their ancestry. I comfort myself by thinking that she was nearly three years old which is an extra year and half over what production chickens get for a lifespan.

So now we're down to eleven chickens in the coop until the young ones we are raising in a brooder are ready to move out there. We'll have to cull a few of the existing ones then so the new ones have room but several of our chickens are three+ years old and not laying too well any more, so it was about that time anyhow.

Anyhow, these are the reasons I've been slow on releasing new stories. I have one that I hope to get onto Amazon next week but I'm not making any promises. So far April has been difficulty after difficulty and, somehow, I don't expect that to change at all.

April 19th, 2013
A. Morrel

Sunday, April 7, 2013

The Son of a Minister Series #9 - Erica's Erotic Education

My newest book should be out tomorrow, it is #9 in The Son of a Minister Series. I uploaded it earlier this evening. Despite being 26,000+ words I convinced myself to keep to the $0.99 pricing for all the books in the series.

The title is:

Erica's Erotic Education - The Son of a Minister Series #9

I'll change that to a link once it is available on Amazon.
changed to link

A quick synopsis that is more lengthy than the blurb I used for the book:

Erica, Deena's best friend, is very unhappy with her sex life. As she puts it, she and her boyfriend have been having sex for years and every time it's the same exact thing. She wants to try something much less vanilla than oral and missionary.

When she finds out that her boyfriend and Deena will be out of town for a couple of week, each with their respective families, and realizes that their vacations overlap for more than a week she asks if she can borrow Tim.

Erica wants to go to Florida but needs someone to drive, she'll pay for the trip but doesn't have a car of her own. Tim is loaned to Erica and Deena tells him the day before he and Erica leave (which is the day Deena is leaving town with her family) that not only will Erica want him to drive, but she'd also like him to expand her sexual repertoire. Since Erica has heard everything that he and Deena have done, she knows there is a lot he can show her that she hasn't experienced.

I think it's a fun one. My proofreaders told me it read more quickly than they thought it would because they didn't want to stop reading.

April 7th, 2013
A. Morrel

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Free this week

Okay, I'm really slow getting freebies set up this week and they'll go later in the week than normal because of it. I'll be using up a few extra free days before they expire so there are a couple of stories available this week:

On April 3rd and 4th I'll have:

Caught Skinny Dipping - An Erotic Tale

up for free.

On April 5th:

Cthulhu's Caresses - Lovecraftian Erotica

Will be free.

Hopefully now that spring break is over for my children I'll be able to get a decent amount of time in writing again. Been a couple of weeks since I got anything new out. I've found a little time to write but since the next story I intend to publish is probably going to be close to 20,000 words I've yet to finish it, I'm close though. Hopefully this coming Monday or Tuesday (April 8th or 9th) will see it published. I need to finish it, proofread it myself, run it through my two other proofreaders, then get it published.

In the meanwhile, I hope you enjoy the freebies.

April 2nd, 2013
A. Morrel