Hello all,
I know it’s been a long time since I’ve posted, so I thought now might be a good time to update you on what’s been happening.
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By Trent Evans
Hello all,
I know it’s been a long time since I’ve posted, so I thought now might be a good time to update you on what’s been happening.
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By Trent Evans
NaNoWriMo.
For those of you who read that mouthful of a neologism and go blink blink, November is National Novel Writing Month. A worldwide cabal of lunatics, egotists, and fools gets together and attempts to each write a complete 50,000 word novel in a month (or the equivalent in new words on a larger novel). Some of you, like me, sometimes meet or exceed a 50K word count for a month, so you may think this somehow doesn’t apply to you. [Read more…]
By Trent Evans
I’m breaking in on the Spanking A to Z Blog Challenge to update everyone on the status of the next novel, tentatively titled The Change (I think I’ve finally nailed down a new title too).
If you remembered reading my call for beta readers post, you’ll know I’d planned to have the book drafted and out to betas by … today. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen:/
Due to real life circumstances, I haven’t been able to fly as fast on this manuscript as I’d hoped. I should know better by now than to give any sort of date for completion — something always seems to keep me from making it happen.
Or maybe I’m just an idiot. You pick:)
So, the new plan is to tentatively have this ready for the beta readers hopefully the second week of July. I had really wanted to get this thing published in July, but it’s looking less and less likely at this point. August may be more realistic for publication.
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By Trent Evans
Hello everyone,
So, I’m on the home stretch with drafting the latest full length novel (working title: The Change), and I realized that I haven’t put out a call for beta readers in quite a while (read: almost two years?!). Not sure how this happened (Trent’s forgetting shit is always a likely suspect), but the bottom line is that I’m waaay overdue in updating my beta readers list.
What’s coming up?
The Change will be a full length BDSM erotic romance that explores what happens when a couple, just beginning to explore BDSM, find all their plans — and their lives — changed when they learn they’ve got a surprise baby on the way. How does a kinky couple still explore their desires with a little one due in a few months? Can they? Should they? And what happens when the new baby changes — and deepens — their sexual bond in completely unexpected ways?
I suspect this book is probably going to squick a few people (especially those people who don’t find pregnancy erotic or appealing at all), and that’s totally okay. I happen to find it beautiful, and amazing, and terrifying, and yes, erotic, and this book will be my attempt to show how it can be just that. I have no clue if I will be successful in the endeavor, but damn, I’m going to try.
This book — as most of my books do — will include lots of graphic sex, and significant BDSM content (no sugarkink here!). I don’t think this would surprise any readers who have even a passing familiarity with my writing, but I wanted to make that clear for anyone who might be new to the depravity I commit to the page:)
What this book will NOT be though is a “fetish-y” treatise on pregnancy or breeding fantasies (and I’m not disparaging either one: I think those are HOT fantasies!). It incorporates eroticized pregnancy as a central theme (along with D/s), but it’s only part of an overall romantic/sexual relationship.
This title will be book #3 in the Dominion Trust series, and will serve to further flesh out some of the background — and raise new questions — regarding that sprawling, shadowy organization.
Timing
The Change should be ready for beta readers by the latter part of June 2014. I’m hoping 2-3 weeks will be enough time in which to complete the beta reads, but I’m prepared to push back the planned July 15th release date if need be.
Following publication of The Change, the next novel in my schedule is tentatively scheduled for a late August release. Another novel will likely be published Octoberish — which will probably end up being the final release of the year (barring a miraculous burst of energy at the close of the year).
If all goes as planned, for 2014, that would be 4 full length novels, plus a novella and a short story that will be squeezed in somewhere too. Not awesome production levels, but pretty ambitious by my keeping-the-bar-as-low-as-fucking-possible standards:)
What I’m Looking For in a Beta Reader
If you’ve read this far, thank you! I fear half of you will have wandered off by now:/
The main thing I’m looking for is honesty. Brutal honesty.
I absolutely will NOT be offended in the least if you read the book, and find that you loathed it. All I ask is that you tell me why you loathed it. What parts of the book made you want to scrub your eyeballs with a Clorox-soaked wire brush?
If you loved the book, or thought it was smoking fucking hot, what I want to know is why, how, and what parts of the book induced spontaneous combustion and/or husband’s bones-jumping.
In short, I want to know what worked, and what didn’t.
I’ll provide a list of questions I’d like answers to, and you are always welcome to provide any other feedback you’d like to include.
What I Can Offer
1. Free electronic copy of published version of the book in any format you’d like.
2. Free printed copy of published version of the book (there would be some delay as print format is usually last to be released in rolling out a new title).
3. An Acknowledgement in the book, if you’d be comfortable with one (perfectly fine to decline).
4. Undying gratitude of the author:)
Still Interested?
Leave a comment on this post, or if you’d be more comfortable, fill out a contact form and drop me a line. Let me know if you’d be interested in only beta reading this upcoming title, or if you’d like to be added to the beta read list for all future titles.
Thanks for reading, and thank you in advance to any people brave and generous enough to volunteer:)
Trent
By Trent Evans
My friend and fellow miscreant over at Romancing The Kink, Sheri Savill, was kind enough to ask me to join in on this unique blog tour. At first my thought was: “Why the eff would anyone care what my writing process was?”
Then I remembered that writers are readers too — and that I’m fascinated by other writers’ processes, both as a reader and a fellow writer. So, even though I feel like a total douchenozzle when I talk about my writing, here goes:)
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By Trent Evans
I’d meant to post this earlier this year, but alas, real life threw a huge stick in the spokes:(
I’m just now getting back to writing (and blogging) more or less regularly so I thought I’d write a quick update on some plans and coming attractions. In no particular order:
TrentEvansLetters is moving
Well, not really moving per se, but rather changing over to a .com domain. I’ll have more flexibility to improve the blog/website this way, and I’ll have more control over how the content is handled as well as security. I still haven’t figured out how I’m going to migrate everyone over yet, but when I do, I’ll let everyone know:)
New Group Blog
My friends and colleagues, authors Sheri Savill and Natasha Knight have agreed to join with me in creating a new group blog/website called Romancing The Kink. I’m really honored to share a blog with these two ladies. They’re not only great writers, but cool people, and they both bring fresh, unique perspectives to BDSM fiction, as well as kink in general.
We have some ambitious plans for this thing and it’s just getting off the ground now. What we have envisioned for RTK is a place that both readers and authors can go to be entertained, informed, and erm, aroused. Can we pull all three of those off? Who the eff knows, but we’re sure as hell going to be trying!
I do plan to continue blogging at TrentEvansLetters.com, but I’ll also be posting some content at RTK that will be exclusive to that site — including a serialized, rather dark BDSM erotica story called Her Troika — so I highly recommend heading over there to check it out too!
Publication Schedule for 2013
As a voracious reader myself, I always love hearing what publishers and authors have planned for the rest of the year, so I figured I’d share what I’ve got slated to be released in 2013 — just in case anyone’s interested;)
This schedule is subject to change of course, but this is a fairly accurate prediction of what you’ll see published soon.
Q1 release
— What She’s Looking For — BDSM Menage (MFM) erotic romance — full length (approx 97,000 words)
Projected Release: April 15 (e-book); May 15 (print)
Q2 release #1
— (Untitled) collaborative work — BDSM TPE MF dub con erotica — full length (projected: 60,000 — 70,000 words)
Estimated Release: June 30 (e-book); print edition TBD
Q2 release #2
— Working title: The Change — BDSM TPE MFM/MF fetish erotica — full length (projected: 55,000 words)
Estimated Release: July 30 (e-book); print edition TBD
Q3 release
— (Untitled) Sequel to A Message of Love — D/s MF spanking paranormal erotic romance — short novel (projected: 45, 000 words)
Estimated Release: Sep 30 (e-book); print edition TBD
Q4 release
— Working Title: The Cavalier — BDSM MF Paranormal (vampire sub-genre) erotic romance — full length (projected: 75,000 words)
Estimated Release: Dec 30 (e-book); print edition TBD
Quite a year ahead, so I hope you stick with me! Until next time.
Best,
Trent