So here's the scoop on the progress for The Art Of Domination series. The feedback on the first title indicated that people were really enjoying the longer length--it was over 24,000 words--and were hoping titles 2-8 were also going to be novella length, which is very very generally considered to be 20,000-40,000 words. I am happy to oblige, as I really do enjoy developing Iva and Nolan, but it means a lot of rewriting. Hence the delayed release date.
BUT as the title of the post suggests, the second novella is out! This is what it looks like:
When Iva Moreau made a
deal with sexy bad boy photographer Nolan Beal to keep her younger sister from
becoming his erotic pin-up model—in exchange for one photo session with Iva
herself—she thought she could fulfill her bargain and walk away from the life
of art, hedonism, and passion that had once consumed her. She hadn’t
anticipated that taking creative direction from the intense photographer would
lead so naturally and inevitably to taking sensual direction from him as well,
as she submits to the forbidden thrill of his sexual domination. With his fair share of
attention from wannabe models and art world groupies, Nolan expected to satisfy
his curiosity over the fiery and protective Iva with one night’s seduction. As
she defies the stereotypes that have kept Nolan at a distance from love,
however, he finds himself compelled to seek out the Iva hidden behind the mask
of fierce duty and stifling respectability. What began as Nolan’s
mission to obtain Iva’s signature on a model release for the use of her photos
now becomes a Dom’s seduction and instruction of the woman he would take as his
submissive. And the signature he has decided he wants from her is the very
opposite of a release. Photo Slave is available now at Amazon (including Amazon US, UK, and Canada), Barnes & Noble, All Romance, BookStrand, and Smashwords. Kobo and Apple, of course, lag behind and take a few more days. The downside to the lag is that Kobo and Apple buyers won't get the debut weekend discount. Because the second title is a novella rather than a novelette, its regular price is going to be $3.99 instead of $2.99. However, for its debut, now through Monday January 27, 2014, Photo Slave will be on sale for 99 cents for early birds and loyal readers. It's a good opportunity to pick up the title at a 75% savings even if you want to wait until the entire series is out before you start reading. Please enjoy, let me know what you think, and keep an eye out on this blog or on Facebook (or better yet, sign up for my newsletter) for announcements on the release of #3, Catchlight. Have a great weekend, everyone!
Considering I've been promising this serial for months, even posting in anticipation of an October 2013 launch, saying it's coming out early is a bit nonsensical. What I mean to say is that processing took less time than normal instead of more--it's a New Years miracle!--and The Art Of Domination: Model Release is available for sale today rather than tomorrow, as originally recently intended.
The cover and blurb go something like this:
The Art Of Domination:
Model Release A Domination and Submission Romance
Reformed wild girl Iva
Moreau is doing a passable job of convincing herself that leaving behind the
artist lifestyle for the safety of suburbia and the respectability of academia
is the mature decision. She suffers her job as an Art Department secretary at
Vandergriff University, belittled by her supervisor and pursued by lecherous
professors, as willing penance for her former life on the art scene and all the
damage it ultimately did not only to Iva but to her family. But she can’t
maintain that distance when her baby sister, Cheri, starts down a path all too
familiar to Iva.
Unrepentant bad boy
Nolan Beal is the up-and-coming rock star of the photography world with a
seven-figure salary snapping shots for glossy fashion magazines and his own
nouveau noir erotic exhibition at the
gallery in town for controversial and provocative art. His work explores power
and the hypocrisy behind sex… and the masks people use to hide their true
natures and desires even from themselves. Themes of domination and submission
run as rife through his life and his liaisons with beautiful woman as they do
through his photographs.
When Iva shows up at
Nolan’s studio to demand that the photographer stop using her younger sister as
a model for his erotic exhibition, an instant recognition and attraction
between them causes the very different masks they wear to slip. And they strike
a deal. In exchange for Iva submitting to one modeling session for Beal, he
will give her Cheri’s signed model release and relinquish the right to use the
photographs forever. The perfect solution, giving Iva the chance to see once
again how self-destructive the hedonistic artist’s lifestyle is while she is
also saving Cheri from the same mistakes, and providing Nolan with the
opportunity to crack the false front Iva presents to the world and possess the
passionate submissive he senses behind her defenses.
Neither are prepared
for the passions released by the first meager glimpses of the true Nolan and
Iva behind the masks.
Novella Length: 24,600
words or roughly 80 traditional print pages.
It's currently available at Amazon (including USA and UK), Barnes & Noble, All Romance eBooks, and BookStrand and will be available after more lengthy processing at Smashwords, Kobo, and Apple.
Expect The Art Of Domination 2: Photo Slave next week, on Friday, January 10, 2014, when it will be priced at 99 cents instead of $2.99 for its debut weekend. Until then, I leave you with a little bit of trivia from Model Release. There's a reference in the novella to a song about paper cut hearts, which comes from a gorgeous song by Jillette Johnson called Basset Hound. I thought it would be fun to include it here, from Youtube:
(Please stand by while Blogger torments me for trying to include a simple video....)
Okay, Blogger can't find the version I want to include of Jillette's Slacker performance, even though it's up clear as day on Youtube, so I chose this one for the recording quality. Nothing to look at but the pretty photo, though. :(
