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Saturday Spankings

Hello! Do I know you? Have I seen you at Saturday Spankings before? What’s your sign? Ahem. No, this is not a spanko pick-up bar. It’s the Saturday Spankings blog hop. At each stop you get 8 sentences of spanking fun, so belly up to the virtual bar and have a shot of pure spanking goodness.

Cover: Kiki's MillionaireThis week, I’m sharing some excerpts from Kiki’s Millionaire, my very first all spanking, all the time, spanking romance. It was published first as a serial on Bethany’s Woodshed, and then published to the great wide world by Blushing Books. Another segment of the book was posted for Horny Hump Day this week. You can find it here, and of course there are details and a longer excerpt available on my site.

In this segment, Kiki has faked being sick because she’s avoiding Jim. Rather than telling him she needs a little time, she makes up a very elaborate lie. Jim is not the kind of guy who likes being lied to, and this is one of those cases when saying “I’m sorry” isn’t good enough.

“I think a little corporal punishment is in order.” He unbuckled his belt and slid it from the loops.

Feeling a sense of guilt mixed with an annoying tingle of anticipation down in her nether regions she thought about trying to talk him out of it. “Now, Jim…”

With a firm yank on her upper arms, he soon had her over his knees. Suddenly, this seemed entirely too familiar. He pushed her robe up over her behind, then pulled down her pajama bottoms; they were so big and baggy, they practically slid down on their own.

“But, I said I was sorry!”

I’ll leave the rest for you to read on your own. 🙂

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moving boxes 12361405_sHi, everyone. If you’ve been following along, you know that my family is moving from Washington DC to Calgary AB (in Canada). International moves like this (even to our neighbor to the north) are a very, very complicated affair and take months to accomplish. For those of us who like to have all the details worked out in advance of a move, it can be a frustrating and infuriating process. However, it can be accomplished. We did it once before when we moved from Texas to Vancouver, and we are doing it again. Please be assured that this blog is not moving or changing. The site will remain exactly where it is without interruption (unless the whole net goes down, in which case, we have more important things to be concerned about).

While I move, I’ll be off the blog for a few weeks. I may or may not have a reliable internet connection when we first get there, and my computer will be in a box on a moving van for several weeks before I get it. However, I will be with you in spirit, and if luck is with me, I’ll be back to work on the blog before January is over. If you need to reach me or just want to lend support, you can leave a comment here or write to me personally. I’ll have my iPad so will be receiving email and comment notifications. I might not be able to respond promptly, but your support will certainly be appreciated.

In the meantime, please visit all the Horny Hump Day authors and give them your love, and maybe you’d like to take a trip through my site to read some free fiction, as well as blurbs, excerpts and character sketches pertaining to my many books. Also, drop in at Blushing Books for all the spanking romance you could want, and consider a membership to Bethany’s Woodshed to get your fix even before the books and stories are released on Blushing.

Thank you for sticking with me. I’ll be back with more Horny Hump Day posts and two new releases in February. My best wishes to you.

Trish

Serialized fiction has a long, prestigious history. In 1836, Charles Dickens’ first novel, The Pickwick Papers, began in serialization as nineteen installments over the course of two years. In 1893, Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson was also serialized, and, more recently, Stephen King’s The Green Mile was added to the list. Today, serialization not only takes place on paper, as with these classic books, but also as “blog-fic,” graphic novels, comic books, and serial fiction podcasts. Television, of course, is mostly serialized fiction.

Cover: Kiki's MillionaireIn 2011, two of my novellas, Kiki’s Millionaire and Strong, Silent Type, were bought for serialization on Bethany’s Woodshed a membership site. Although published many times over the years, I found writing for serialization a new challenge. To sell these stories, I had to conform to a template for online serialization. It is not as simple as writing chapters 1-20 and offering them to readers on a regular basis. Each chapter had to be a certain length in order for the reader to feel like she was getting her money’s worth with that installment. They had to tell a satisfying segment of the story and provide a memorable lead-in for the reader when a new segment came out a week or a month later. And the whole book had to be complete before it was serialized, meaning that the publisher knew the end of the story would be delivered as reliably as the first chapter. No one wants to pull a Stephen King and offer a serialized story online only to leave it unfinished as he did with The Plant in 2000.

Cover: Strong, Silent TypeKiki’s Millionaire is serialized bi-monthly, while Strong, Silent Type was serialized weekly, but that won’t be the end of them. When their serialization is over and they’ve been resident on the site long enough for most members to read them, in whole or in segments, they’ll be moved to Blushing Books, the eBook part of that publisher’s marketing program. This provides market diversification for both the publisher and the author, giving us a chance to reach readers of all types.

Jason Pomerantz, of Fiddle and Burn wrote that online serialized fiction has three facets, “brevity, frequency and navigability.” These are mutually dependent requirements. The segment can’t be so brief that the plot isn’t affected, nor so long that readers’ eyes get tired reading on the intense medium of a computer monitor. The frequency should relate to the length of the segment—too frequent, long segments might as well be a whole novel in paperback, while infrequent, short segments will cause a reader to lose interest. Finally, the reader must be able to navigate from one chapter/segment to the next and back again. Readers are accustomed to a chapter modality, as with a traditional book. They can move from one chapter to the next and back again to pick up something they missed or to remind themselves of details from prior segments. Skipping navigability means that the reader cannot access the work to follow it.

Understanding these requirements gave me a platform from which I might write stories that sell in the market I’m targeting. Just like any other kind of fiction, if you don’t know your market, you will not be successful.

Today’s reader has many options for obtaining fiction. Serialization is only one, but it is a tried-and-true method that has been a pigment on the fiction palette for many centuries. The written version is not likely to fade away in the sunlight of too many options, rather, it will fulfill a need for the modern consumer.

My suggestion, if you’re a writer, is to consider writing for serialization. It’s a worthwhile challenge. And, if you’re a reader, patronize sites that offer serialized fiction and you will find that you’re reading something differently satisfying. I might not be of the caliber of Mark Twain or Stephen King, but I find myself on the list of writers who have taken a chance on serialized fiction. It’s an honor and a pleasure to be here!

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