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New Novel Almost Here… and an Update

January 31, 2021 By Trent Evans

To those of you wondering, no, I haven’t fallen off the face of the Earth — all evidence to the contrary.

I have been writing. Quite a bit, actually. But this has been a year of transition, and adjustment, career-wise… and it looks like said adjustment is finally settled.

So, what does that mean?

First, and most importantly, it means a new novel is almost here — a dark scifi M/f erotic romance with a strong, resilient heroine, and a tortured, conflicted hero. I think you’ll love both of these characters.

It’s currently with the editor, and with a little luck, should be published within the next month.

After that, there are several more novels to come, likely in quick succession.

As I said, I have been writing. A lot;)

What I’ve also been doing is spending quite a bit of time working on material for my Patreon community, something that’s grown larger than I’d ever imagined (and for which I’m so very, very grateful).

Patreon has become sort of my “go to” for readers who want to see what I’m up to, day-to-day. There are a wider range of fiction/kinks/pairings I’ve been experimenting with over there, some of which you won’t see in my published novels. Wanting more F/f content? More intense themes? Tropes and dynamics I haven’t done before? It’s all there.

There are now over 140 new scenes, vignettes, and short stories over on the Patreon page — a significant number of them not seen anywhere else. Those shorter works now total nearly 130,000 words at the time of this blog post.

$3/month tier gets you in to see all of that.

I’m also “writing in the open” over there, in that as I draft my indie novels, I’m posting them, chapter-by-chapter, over on Patreon. There, literally, is no way to read my books earlier than that, and it affords readers and fans a way to follow along in the creative process, and give input almost in real time. Patrons get to read my new indie stuff before it goes live on any retail platform. There are more than 53,000 words (across 28 posts) from new work-in-progress novels on the page, with more added regularly.

If you’re interested in that, $5/month is all you need to get access to it.

Finally, I’m doing Patreon-exclusive (*for the first six months, post publication) novels over there as well, including my first M/f age gap BDSM novel, Rescue Conditions.

Subscribing at either the $3, or $5 tier gets you access to the Patreon-exclusive novels.

Below, is a quick list of the novels in-progress over on my Patreon page right now:

Rescue Conditions – M/f maledom age gap (older man/younger woman), spanking, BDSM – [Patreon Exclusive*]

Conquering Cori – M/f maledom age gap (older woman/ younger man), spanking, BDSM, White Valley setting. (Both the hero, Lee, and heroine, Cori, made appearances in a rather dirty scene in the novel, Lacey’s Surrender. They get their own story here!)

Captive Cargo – M/f maledom dark scifi, BDSM, Master/slave (quasi-sequel to, Submission’s Edge)

Property of the Nocturne – M/f, MfM, F/f, F/m, maledom/lezdom/femdom dark epic fantasy/paranormal, vampires, BDSM, captivity (Book #2 in The Chronicles of Muurland series; long overdue sequel to, The Fall of Lady Westwood)

The Humbled Quean – MF/f maledom/lezdom, cuckquean, married couple + “unicorn”, contemporary

There are other fun things over there as well, including:

  • Maps – I have posted a rough map of Muurland over there for The Chronicles of Muurland readers to enjoy — and with more to come soon!)
  • Polls – Want direct input on what Trent might write next? This is where you can get your voice heard! Patrons got to choose by popular vote what the first Patreon exclusive novel would be — and age gap won, going away. Thus, Rescue Conditions was born!
  • Background/setting information – There are “gazetteer”-style entries for Muurland posted, including one about the mysterious matriarchal barbarian civilization whose home is centered deep in The Great Southern Forest, a people known only as “The Trackless.”

In the near future, there are going to be many other features, including:

Publication schedules

Vignettes

“Director’s cut” epilogues

“Too Hot for Amazon” alternate scenes

Author interviews

Series background

Author notes

I’m so excited to see what this Patreon community has become in such a short time, and I have great hopes for what it might evolve into over the next year.

In case you’re wondering, no, I have zero plans to abandon this blog, either. It is, and will continue to be, the first place people can go to learn more about my books.

The various Silicon Valley behemoths have made it plain to see that they don’t want, or like erotic fiction on their platforms. And they have made it crystal clear their belief that they know better what readers should be reading… than the readers do.

This is not hyperbole; this is what’s actually happened, surreal though it may be. I expect that problem to get much worse before it (possibly) gets better. As a result of this, I just can’t rely on social media anymore.

I won’t be missing from social media, but my presence there will be more “outposts” than anything particularly active. I’m going to instead focus my attention (and work) on the venues where I have the best chance of reaching and engaging with what’s most important to me — readers like you!

I will be concentrating my efforts on my newsletter, my Patreon page, and my blog — in that order — for the foreseeable future.

Despite the headwinds erotic fiction writers face, and the challenging (and troubling) increase in censorship we’re now contending with, I’m excited for the future of books, and of storytelling.

Great things are still to come.

I intend to be here for a long time yet, doing what I do, in the way I want to do it.

And I hope you’ll be here, too.

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Update + New Venue for Trent writing

April 14, 2020 By Trent Evans

Hi All!

I’ve been a little quiet here lately, but there’s a good reason for it. I’ve been trying to brainstorm ways of giving readers more cost effective access to my work, and determined that adding a Patreon page to my overall platform made a lot of sense.

(https://www.patreon.com/authortrentevans?fan_landing=true)

Right now, most of my published long form work is available as e-books through all major e-book retailers, while a few novels I’ve done through other publishers are largely Amazon/Kindle Unlimited exclusive.

I realized that other options were needed for:

1) People who didn’t have the money to afford the $10/month for Kindle Unlimited, nor the funds needed to purchase books individually, and

2) Readers who, for whatever reason, didn’t like/have no access to Amazon, or other e-book retailers.

My Patreon page is something I hope bridges that gap for those readers. It’s by far the most cost effective way to access Trent Evans writing (starting at $3/month!), and it has the added benefit of having limited time exclusive content regularly posted there.

On a few other venues,  I often write captions, or vignettes, or scenes, but wanted to find a way to collect that writing into one centralized place for other readers to enjoy. The $3 option allows readers to access all of that material, and it’s material that’s fairly wide-ranging, and often dirtier even than what I publish in my e-book work. If you’ve ever thought, “I wonder what Trent would do with this trope, or that kink, or that crazy fucked-up premise?” well, my Patreon page is the best place to find out:)

Future captions, vignettes, and scenes will now appear exclusively FIRST on my Patreon page, before appearing anywhere else. So, if you can’t wait to see what’s next, a $3 subscription is all you’ll need!

These new captions/vignettes will be added to my Patreon page at a clip of 4-8 new ones/month so I’m hoping readers who decide to check them out will want to stick around a while. But if not, that’s okay too:)

(For anyone wondering, never fear, I am still working on, and will publish, plenty of full-length e-books. That’s not changing at all. I am a novelist, first and foremost, and will remain so as long as people still want to read my work:)

For those of you so inclined, there is a slightly higher cost $5 option that allows you access to all of my captions, vignettes, and scenes (over 60,000 words and counting), AND also allows you to follow along with me as I post new chapters of my various novel and novella-length works-in-progress (WIP).

Some of you have asked me in the past how they could read the things I’m working on, even if it was only partials, or chapters, or scenes — the Patreon page will definitely fulfill that request!

There are over 18,000 words of WIP fiction already posted, with much more scheduled for publication in the coming weeks and months.

That’s not all, either. For paying patrons, I am also planning to post some very interesting bonus material such as:

author notes

book notes/errata

background and setting information

bonus character background

interviews, deleted scenes

Eventually, a comprehensive publication plan for my next year or two of publications will be included as well for patrons.

Lastly, for subscribers to my Patreon page, you will have the ability to directly message me whenever you’d like. I want this to be a place where people can have fun, and talk freely about the books they love (and no, that doesn’t mean it has to be just about my books!). I will answer your messages as soon as possible, and would love to hear from you!

Have requests for future books, or tropes, or genres? Questions about a character or an event or a setting in one of my books? Questions about erotic fiction writing and the publishing industry? Just send me a message:)

I’ve never done anything like this before, so I’m hoping I don’t fall flat on my face with it…

I hope my e-book readers will give my Patreon page a look, as the fiction I’m posting over there is, effectively, a significant expansion on the areas my writing usually covers, including into subjects that might not be “favored content” commercially.

I wanted to be able to do some writing where those commercial considerations (read: shackles) weren’t a factor anymore, and instead let imagination be my only guide. Some of the material on my Patreon page will surprise… and maybe even shock. Some of it just might not be for you — and that’s okay!

I’m confident though that you’ll be glad you gave it a look. As always, I’d love to hear what you think of this idea — good or bad.

Thank you so much for your support and wonderful encouragement. It means more to me than I can possibly convey.

Trent

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What’s Ahead for 2017 – Predictions!

January 9, 2017 By Trent Evans

In my previous post, I realize I may have conveyed a bit more of a pessimistic tone than I’d intended. I was going for realistic… but I recognize I may have missed the mark there. I’ll try not to be such a Debbie Downer with this post… but I can’t promise I’ll succeed:)

I don’t normally engage in the predictions game, but this is an industry rife with so much change that I thought I’d make a few this year just for shits & giggles. In 2018, we can come back and laugh at how many I got wrong. I’ll start with the higher confidence predictions, and end with the more… unlikely ones.

This should be interesting…

(Disclaimer: What follows are my opinions only, based on my observations of the publishing industry.)
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The Year That Was – 2016

January 3, 2017 By Trent Evans

I try to keep this blog reader focused, but from time to time, I also will opine on the publishing industry as a whole. This is one of those times, so if reading my blathering about the state of publishing doesn’t sound like your idea of a party, we’ll be back to regularly scheduled programming soon:) Oh, and a warning: this blog post is long.

2016. Well, that was interesting!

So much changed during 2016, and I don’t really have the space here to go into all of it, so I’ll just hit a few highlights of the things I noted during the past year. Ready? Here goes…
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Untangling the New Changes to Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited — Some Early Thoughts

June 16, 2015 By Trent Evans

For those writers who may not be aware yet, beginning July 1st, 2015 Amazon will be rolling out a significant change to the payout calculation scheme for their subscription service, Kindle Unlimited (KU). I will assume most readers are familiar with the basics of KU, but just in case, I’ll lay out the differences below.

(This will be a detailed post, so if you want the Cliff’s Notes version, you’d better pass this one right on by…)
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My Experiment with KU

February 13, 2015 By Trent Evans

(Note to readers: I try to keep this blog a place for readers, but occasionally I’ll do a writing or business related post intended for other writers. This will be one of those posts. I hope you’ll find it of interest too, but if not, rest assured, we’ll be back to regularly scheduled programming shortly:)

 

Disclaimer — What follows are numbers and results of my experience with KU.  The rest is my opinion only. YMMV 🙂

 

I’m an Amazon fan, and I believe they’ve done more for writers than anyone in the past half century — perhaps ever. That said, as much as I like Amazon, I like writers even more — and I want to make sure writers know what they’re potentially getting into when it comes to KDP Select, and specifically, Kindle Unlimited (KU).

As an experiment, I put a standalone novelette, and a five part serial into KU for Q4 2014. I also had to pull the full novel of the serial from other retailers since the serial installments (which share the same text as what’s in the novel) were going into KU. This latter factor would prove to be huge.

So, one standalone, and five serial installments went into KU, plus the serial’s novelization that had to go Amazon only. What was the verdict?

I believe KU is a bad idea for many writers. I’ll explain why below. [Read more…]

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