Category: Blog

Random thoughts on what I’m working on, why I wrote what I did, what I think about life, and maybe what I had for breakfast… if I’m in a chatty mood.

Blog

Site redesign underway

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I’m redesigning kennywriter.com. It needed a facelift, for one, but I also wanted to add more functionality to it. Things you’ll see in the next few weeks include:

  • Responsive design: Now it’ll be even easier to read new stories on your mobile devices (this one is here already)
  • Portfolio of ebooks: Now that I actually have them, I want to show them off! Browse by cover, click for more info, etc. (now live)
  • Story archive reworked: This one is necessary with the new theme. Right now, the story section is a mess. I apologize. I’ll put in a temporary fix as soon as I can.
  • Gallery of cover designs: More for me, but I wanted to show them all off. The new theme makes that easy, theoretically. For now, I’ve put everything on my Facebook page. (This is now live, too)
  • And more: This is a test in UX design. We’ll see how I do!

Also, look for a couple new stories from me. One around the length of  While She Watches, the other a short, fun, and free story.

 

Story Announcements

Published!

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It’s official, we’re up and running (on Amazon and Smashwords, at the very least). I guess that makes me an author? Sounds weird.

The technical process was a little more time-consuming than I’d anticipated, but I’ve also learned a lot from it. Eight Hundred Dollar Heels and While She Watches are both live now ($.99 and $1.99 respectively), but getting After School Special up for free has proved more of a challenge. Hopefully that’ll be sorted out shortly, but in the meantime, you can get the Smashwords version here for free.

For those new to my stories, welcome and I hope you enjoy. I think my brand of erotica is accessible for anyone looking for something explicit, sexy, and a little different than a good deal of what’s out there. More specifically, though, I write erotica for myself, a male who enjoys reading it but doesn’t find enough out there geared toward me. I want to contribute to the expanding world of “erotica for men,” word by word.

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Upcoming stories and cover reveals

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Little Miss Calculation was published in November. Here we are, almost June of the next year, and for that, I apologize. But that’s not to say I haven’t been busy. In fact, I’m making the leap from the free sites to the world of publishing, and to kick things off, I’m going to release three stories at once: While She Watches, Eight Hundred Dollar Heels, and a slightly revised After School Special (which will be a free download). I’ve already designed the covers, so hopefully they will be available in the next week or two

While She Watches

A charity auction brings out Cara’s wildest fantasy yet; she wants to watch Nick with her best friend, Elise. While Nick is into his girlfriend’s crazy fantasy—after all, Elise is a pretty brunette with a body that makes him want to do bad things to her—he never considers really doing it. That would be insane, right? However, when he wins a date with Elise at a charity auction, Nick discovers Cara plans to make her fantasy a reality.

 

 

Eight Hundred Dollar Heels

Looking at her reflection, Deanna can barely recognize herself. She’s used to being pretty, sure, but the brunette sitting at the hotel bar looks as good as the $800 heels she’s wearing–she knows this because of all the stares she gets from the men around. Not that they have a chance; she has a good husband and a comfortable life waiting for her on the other side of the country. Question is, can the woman in the mirror remember that?

 

 

After School Special

When Andy’s friends convince him to visit a strip club in their final summer before college, shy Andy has a few things to worry about. Running into his history teacher, Ms. Fischer, was never one of them.

Moonlighting as a cocktail waitress at a strip club, Hayley Fischer is just as freaked out as Andy when her former student walks through the door. Is this a nightmare scenario for both? Or possibly a dream come true?

Originally published on kennywriter.com, this updated version will be free to download. I’ve updated the version on this website with the latest edition.

 

The world of erotica needs more stories written for guys, by guys, and this is my offering (hopefully the first of many). If you’re not familiar with my style, poke around this site. I try to write sexy, explicit, and often romantic erotica with characters I could fall in love with and plots that stay with me long after I’m done with them. Look for them soon. I’d love to hear what you think.

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Don’t expect applause

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Some solid advice for creatives in all fields (even erotica) from Seth Godin:

If your work is filled with the hope and longing for applause, it’s no longer your work–the dependence on approval has corrupted it, turned it into a process where you are striving for ever more approval.

Who decides if your work is good? When you are at your best, you do. If the work doesn’t deliver on its purpose, if the pot you made leaks or the hammer you forged breaks, then you should learn to make a better one. But we don’t blame the nail for breaking the hammer or the water for leaking from the pot. They are part of the system, just as the market embracing your product is part of marketing.

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Site redesign: lucyvmorgan.com

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Over the weekend, I redesigned Lucy V. Morgan’s website. Check it out if you want some highly entertaining blog entries, giveaway opportunities for her upcoming novel, Chairman of the Whored (definitely pre-order this if you’re a fan of erotica; it’s spicy), and other goodies.

My experience “designing” a Blogger website was an interesting one. When I discovered that the templates were all gathered into one, honking file (this includes the CSS and the javascript — jquery libraries and all), I decided to actually apply a pre-existing template to it and then design around that. She wanted clean, elegant, yet sexy (and a bit quirky) and I think it was successful.

Credit where credit is due:

  • The template I based this off of was Beauty & Clean, written by LiteThemes
  • The photo in the header is off of Veer (license held by Lucy)
  • All content is written by Lucy herself
  • Google did the rest!
  • Oh, and maybe some of my own design went into it, somewhere.
Cover Art

New Cover Art: Kissing in a Tree

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My cover art portfolio is getting to the point where I need to consider just that: an actual portfolio. Here’s the latest. Pretty sexy little short, too.

After her reckless behavior in the first Her Other Husband story, “A Snap Decision,” Kelly can’t get her longtime friend Danny off her mind. She’s confused that she doesn’t feel guilty for cheating on her husband, and her confusion grows when she realizes she wants to be with Danny again. After a hot sexting session gets her primed, Kelly agrees to meet Danny late one Friday night for an encounter in one of their childhood haunts, the backyard treehouse!

The short story, “Kissing in a Tree,” is the second in Kirsten McCurran’s “Her Other Husband” series. It’s naughty. It’s dirty. It’s quick. And it’s only .99. Oh, and it has a kick ass cover, designed by yours truly. It’s available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble, so pick one up for your Kindle or Nook.

I know for a fact that there will be one more in this series.