I’ve been pretty busy over the last few years since…through the pandemic. I noticed my last post here was 2020. Let me give you the blast version of the run down.
2020 – Global Pandemic. Spent a lot of time writing. Also 2020 couldn’t figure out how to make wordpress work the way I needed it to easily, so I chose another what I thought was free web host. Let’s face it with royalties what they are I can’t really justify spending $300 a year on a website. Sorry, not sorry, no go. In any event I got this really cool website up and going. Then I discovered it was only free for a year then said fee was imposed. That took a lot of wind out of my sails. I’m back to WordPress. I still don’t get it to work the way I want it to. I’ll have to work on learning it more, I guess. It’s not always user friendly.
Also 2020 discovered a number of my less racy titles were in the “Erotic Dungeon”. In talking with authors I learned that if Amazon thinks that your title is a little risqué they only allow it to appear if the searcher (potential readers) knows the author’s name and searches on that variable. In effect, if someone searched out a broad category of say ‘romance’ then my title wouldn’t appear. Rip much? Oh yeah. So that resulting emotion caused me to end my long-time exclusive contract with Amazon. I ended the exclusive contract option with them and as the contracts expired, I posted my titles far and wide on other digital platforms. Draft2Digital (thru them Smashwords) and Book Strand, now join Amazon in hosting my books. That took a lot of my time and energy through 2022.
So, in 2020 I launched into a series I named “Seductive Celebrations”. If I was going to be punished in sales for what I wrote. I’d give them something worth punishing. Oh I was a very bad girl. It’s a novella. Blurb: “Vol 1 of Seductive Celebrations Novelette, MFM/MMF; Erotic Paranormal Romance. This is a spicy evening read for your entertainment and enjoyment. Let the Seductive Celebrations Begin. Brielle and Michael orchestrate a birthday celebration Noah will never forget. Brielle crosses the divide between male and female with her fae talent of shape shifting into any form she can visualize. For this birthday party she’s got something up her pants. Michael and Noah open the door to try new things. A birthday is a perfect time for getting down with new experiences. Wolf shifters always enjoy a little rough fun while they share their fairy’s tail. Best Birthday EVER!” https://www.amazon.com/Noahs-Fairy-Tale-Seductive-Celebrations-ebook/dp/B08D6ZRVDF?ref_=ast_author_dp_rw&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.57_gJ9keGYERfTFL_1TuN5viUCztnYopdbKxDmzyY0B7f6vaB2JMkTIIYKuwDdHJ6KDh5CvYcXBQE8Qze8aBqtLmfQ_5AF4lv1R0zQ2ZqMZDVyzFpI0Ur9PXo9DG0cnlDz-948B_pVP6lbpZf3rGe679kRPUVcMtK_1vRkMqiSdy0uxWiXYOJnrGCmgPMvncuCrAgNB05EGHVLuMQie11V-9MyfYdAtzlNk2id8z5ig.jq-ztzUO-miKbf4EkzbKYf2c0P2558DFa8Uw4R12pow&dib_tag=AUTHOR
That temper tantrum led to book 2 in the Seductive Celebrations with “Three Is Just Right.” Another Novella length, Blurb: “I am Jade and I am a complicated piece of ass. That’s what I’ve been told by past lovers and I can see the point. I’ve got barriers around me like a concertina wire fence and hackles like a porcupine. Commitment phobe? Look it up in the Urban Dictionary and you’ll see my picture. But then, you could find my photo and references to me under several entries in that tomb of kink. It’s Christmas and I feel like giving three of my packmates a special gift, a no holds barred, me. All I want in return is a little bit of DNA to satisfy my ticking clock. I was raised by a single mother. That’s my style. I have a choice of a luscious Dar’kind Fae full of mystery and command; a hot ebony feline shifter that makes me laugh and wears his heart on his sleeve; and the gentle giant of a man that packs me full of goodness. Is he bear shifter or bigfoot’s love child? I can’t choose between them. What I don’t expect is the way they will peal away my layers until I’m left vulnerable and ready to accept the future my three unique lovers have planned for me.” https://www.amazon.com/Three-Just-Right-Seductive-Celebrations-ebook/dp/B08FF31HL1?ref_=ast_author_dp_rw&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.57_gJ9keGYERfTFL_1TuN5viUCztnYopdbKxDmzyY0B7f6vaB2JMkTIIYKuwDdHJ6KDh5CvYcXBQE8Qze8aBqtLmfQ_5AF4lv1R0zQ2ZqMZDVyzFpI0Ur9PXo9DG0cnlDz-948B_pVP6lbpZf3rGe679kRPUVcMtK_1vRkMqiSdy0uxWiXYOJnrGCmgPMvncuCrAgNB05EGHVLuMQie11V-9MyfYdAtzlNk2id8z5ig.jq-ztzUO-miKbf4EkzbKYf2c0P2558DFa8Uw4R12pow&dib_tag=AUTHOR Yes, indeed I planned on earning my spot in the erotic dungeon.
Then in 2021 – 2023 I returned to school to get certified for a new career. I really needed income. I worked hard at that and graduated a two-year program with a 4 pt average and a number of academic awards. I was able to re-enter the job market in 2023 and start paying off some bills. Go Me.
In the meantime. I’ll call these 2020 – 2024 the pandemic years. I still had that naggy voice in my head from my x-husband’s aunt. See blog post in 2017 on Never Give UP. That voice kept telling me I wasn’t good enough. It battled with the other voice in my head telling me nice naughty stories to pass on to you guys. I’d promised you guys “Jake’s Bid” It was a story that nagged me quite a bit. It has a Valentines Day setting. It really wrote like a Seductive Celebrations book. However, it was intended to be in the Amethyst Desire Collection because of that naughty amethyst necklace. You will have to be the judge. I finished it a long time ago but toyed with it, worried with it, wrote additional scenes, took the scenes out, put them back in, edited them. Finally this week 2025 I had to just let it go. Maybe you will like it….maybe you will hate it. I set it free. Blurb “Jake has a Friday night ritual of dinner, wine, and cards with his friends Julian and Natalie. Somewhere along the way he fell in love with both of them. He hasn’t been able to figure out how to communicate his desire without the risk of losing the friendship he has with the couple.
Tonight is the night, Valentine’s Day. He purchased an amethyst necklace for Natalie and he’s going to figure out how to tell them he wants to deepen their three-way relationship if he doesn’t chicken out.
While talking himself out of the confession he hears Natalie say, “We’ll play a round of spades and the winner gets to fuck me.” Julian smiled before he added, “And I get to fuck the loser.” His smile broadened as he looked Jake in the eye. “Does that about cover where you wanted to go, Jake?” https://www.amazon.com/Jakes-Bid-Amethyst-Desire-Collection-ebook/dp/B0DSQQ72KS?ref_=ast_author_dp_rw&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.57_gJ9keGYERfTFL_1TuN5viUCztnYopdbKxDmzyY0B7f6vaB2JMkTIIYKuwDdHJ6KDh5CvYcXBQE8Qze8aBqtLmfQ_5AF4lv1R0zQ2ZqMZDVyzFpI0Ur9PXo9DG0cnlDz-948B_pVP6lbpZf3rGe679kRPUVcMtK_1vRkMqiSdy0uxWiXYOJnrGCmgPMvncuCrAgNB05EGHVLuMQie11V-9MyfYdAtzlNk2id8z5ig.jq-ztzUO-miKbf4EkzbKYf2c0P2558DFa8Uw4R12pow&dib_tag=AUTHOR
So there you have it. I am continuing to write and write and write. I am working on the next in the Amethyst Desire Collection which is vol 9 if I count right. It will be titled Jack’s Holiday. It will be a fun F,F,M menage’ romp in a world I’ve not explored before while still under the influence of that crafty amethyst necklace. I hope you will like it. I’m working on final edits and the cover now. That spawned off a side series about those new paranormal beings and I’ve got two novellas in the works there that are MFM menage’. I also started on the beginnings of the 10th Amethyst Desire Collection that has a Yule setting and is a fun another F,F,M menage’. And on a back burner is an alien sci fy trilogy novel. The only tease I’ll give is think tentacle porn. It may stay under my bed for a long time, or maybe not.
That explains my gap in visiting with you. I hope you haven’t completely forgotten about me. I’m climbing, clawing back. Let me know what you think. And as always, the way to help authors is to purchase their work. It’s often less than a starbucks latte. Then leave a review. It doesn’t have to be a book report and don’t put in spoilers. Just a brief and click some stars. I still have reviews out there from vengeful x-girlfriends that were 1 star and said mean things. So, be kind.
Eden Glenn 