Posted by kathrin on Mar 12, 2016
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I hate writing blurbs. Hate, hate, hate writing them. You’re done with the story, you’ve come up with a title, you’ve used all your photoshop wizardry to make the cover, and then… THEN you need to come up with another story… ABOUT THE STORY YOU JUST WROTE! And not just that, it needs to be at the same time SHORTER and JUST AS SEXY as the original one, in order to make people curious about the book. And THEN, because that’s not HARD ENOUGH ALREADY, it can’t be too explicit, can’t contain certain keywords, or a certain amount of keywords, because otherwise the major vendors won’t accept it. And AFTER you’re done, you need to do the formatting SEPARATELY, because some vendors support HTML, some don’t, some even have their own formatting that’s, of course, incompatible with others. And when you’re done and finished and have just sent it off… THEN you’ll think of a great line that would’ve made the whole thing THAT MUCH SEXIER! I wish someone could do this for me, but I’ll either have to pay out of the ass for that (because that person would need to have read the whole story to begin with) or it’ll suck just as bad. So I’m stuck doing this on my own. Doesn’t mean I can’t gripe about it,...
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Posted by kathrin on Mar 7, 2016
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Well. I’ve refrained from saying anything about the US elections so far, partly because I’m not a US citizen (albeit sharing a bed with one) and partly because I’m a porn author (albeit a political porn author). Then again, it could be argued that every story is political, just by the way it choses to portray people, characters, events and environments, and porn is no exception. Let’s take, just for a random example, your run-off-the-mill gangbang scenario (one of the more popular porn tropes). How is the woman portrayed? How are the men? What’s the interaction? Are there black peope, white people, other ethnic minorities? How are they protrayed? (And what does it say about our readership that a token black dude makes the story sell even better?) So, lately I’ve started writing a new series, set in Germany’s Weimar republic, and as the thorough little writer I am, I’ve done some extensive research into the subject matter to make it as authentic as I possibly can. I know I don’t have to do that, but I like it. I’m not even kidding myself into thinking that it would make the story any better, I’m just curious about things and like to learn about them before I use them for a story setting. So anyway, Weimar Germany was a very tumultous, exciting, stressful, revolutionary, chaotic and awesome time, but will also always be looked at through the lens of “this is the kind of environment in which Hitler came to power”. And since there are a lot of Hitler comparisons going around lately about not just one candidate, but mainly about one in particular, I thought I’d add in my own two cents of what I’ve learned. It’s important to remember, but easy to forget, that Germany was a very young democracy in the 1920’s. In fact, it could be said that it was the first time it had a truly democratic government in all of its history, which created the usual frustrations that we’re used to today, but were new and strange for people back then. Things just take longer to get done in a democracy, there’s a lot of debate, a lot of compromise, a lot of in-fighting, a lot of, well, politics. If the emperor said something had to be done, it got done. If the president said something had to get done, it needed to...
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Posted by kathrin on Mar 6, 2016
Hey everyone. It’s STORY SUNDAY and I’m sick as shit. Which, incidentally, would be a good way to describe this sunday’s new release… It’s the beginning (or rather, the pre-beginning) of a new series about a cloister in 19th century Prussia and the events that led to a young woman being there, and what she encounters. It’s one of the darker things I’ve written, and due to its taboo subject will only be available at small selection of...
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Posted by kathrin on Feb 28, 2016
Hey Luvahs, it’s story sunday – ON A SUNDAY! We finish up February with another BIG collection, this one containing all of the Martina, Novella and Billionaire Celebrity stories. Initially I wanted to do the Cloister Black series this week, as announced, but oh well – that’ll have to wait until next week, I guess. Anyway, this bundle comes at an especially tasty price, considering the many many sweet and dirty orgasms it will bring, so I don’t know why you’re still here and not reading it...
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Posted by kathrin on Feb 24, 2016
Well, here’s something new: Story Sunday on a Wednesday! In my defense, the book’s been out since sunday, and aren’t you happy that it’s THE COMPLETE AURORA SERIES IN ONE VOLUME!?! Thought as much. So, now that this neccessary evil is dealt with, let’s hope next sunday I can actually be on time, since there’s something new and exciting to come out of that. I’m not saying what it is, just that it’s very possibly on the home page in the “coming soon” section....
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