I am Alex Slade

I've eventually managed to overcome the absolute sense of dread and self-doubt that I've felt about actually finishing Amy and the Professor and letting it be seen by anyone in public. It took me all of 8 months from writing the first line in mid-January to clicking the "Publish" button in the Kindle Direct Publishing dashboard. 8 months! Of course not all of that time was spent writing a short 35,000 word novella. My time tracker shows that about 60% of the time I spent on the Amy project was spent on tasks other than writing. A lot of reading, (ironically, mostly about the art and act of writing itself), learning all I could about cover artwork, the technicalities of ebook and paperback formatting and layout, and hours toward the end on editing and rewriting. Maybe it gets easier from here on. But, holy heck, giving birth to Amy's story was a lot more complicated than I'd ever imagined. At least for me. Two thirds of it was done for ages. And then i...

Super quick note to mention that the paperback version of Bookseller's Story has been approved and is now available for sale on the Amazon Book store. I even managed to get them to link it to the eBook version already. I also published it via Createspace to non-Amazon and offline stores, but have absolutely no idea how long it takes, or where it goes. If you do stumble over a paperback version of it anywhere other than on Amazon, whether on- or off-line, please drop a note into the comments to let me know. xoxoxo A.

I think I've spent more time fiddling with covers and cover images this month than actually writing. In fact, I know I have. Getting back into writing regularly is hard y'all! And I do so put the 'pro' into 'procrastinate'. Despite committing myself to finishing the first draft of WE #2 by the end of this month, the weather here was a bit meh this weekend, so instead of writing, I messed about in Photoshop again. It wasn't entirely wasted time I guess. I did decide on a look for the overall series, and I am not going to change it again. This is what all of my future Wicked Erotica series covers will look like. The only difference between them will be the color scheme. And the titles, obvs. Also, I wanted to see how to go about publishing a paperback through KDP - using The Bookseller's Story ) - so I needed to make a cover for that anyway. Took the opportunity to update the cover for its' Kindle Edition and compiled and published a paperback versio...

   "The Bookseller's Story" is an erotic adult contemporary romance short story. Her Story is one of loneliness and lost loves. Sex for her has always been routine and unexciting. Romance has never really entered the scene. Sex as a means to an get ahead perhaps, but never as an answer to her loneliness. Her love of books brings her into his life. His Story is one of initial lust from the moment he first meets her in his bookstore. That lust turns into deep passion after they experience one highly charged erotic evening of intense sexual chemistry, and both begin a new chapter in their combined story. Like most of my short erotic stories, I first wrote The Bookseller's Story in my head while out people watching. I noticed a bookshop clerk flirting unsuccessfully with an attractive female customer. She initially seemed very aloof and a little bit snobbish to me, but after watching her for a while I started to think that perhaps she was just lon...