Free Fiction Friday: Filling In

(UPDATE: This week's free story has now been removed, though I'm keeping the post up to save the comments. Thank you to all who have viewed and commented on this tale. - Tabitha) 

Well, I totally forgot today was Valentine's Day. I had been planning to post a V-Day themed short story, but it just skipped my mind entirely.

I even had this neat little idea about Cupid shooting the wrong person with one of his love-arrows, and causing all sorts of problems for a high-brow professor. I'll just have to see if I can finish it and get it up next Friday, instead. Better late, than never.

Anyway, this week's free story is a little experimental tale I wrote more than a year-and-a-half ago, all framed as a one-sided phone conversation, with just a bit of reworking. I really like how it turned out, though I'm not sure I'd write another story like this.

I'm also hard at work on a brand-new ebook, and I have another older story I'm reworking, which I'll publish soon too. I'm going to add a little word-counter to this blog in a few days - if I can figure out how it works - and then you'll all be able to see how far along I am with some of my WIPs. Hopefully it'll motivate me to actually finish more of my little smutty tales. :-)

The new story is after the break, as per usual. Please enjoy, and let me know what you think. (Also, please don't forget about my poll up on the upper-left side of the blog. Thank you!)

- Tabitha Kohls

A Question for Visitors

(UPDATE: Poll now added, please vote. Thank you, - Tabby)

Greetings! :-)

Over these past few months, I have been involved in several different email exchanges with a number of prospective authors, each eliciting my advice on self-publishing erotic ebooks, and how I go about creating/formatting/uploading ebooks, the financial side of the business, cover making, etc.

I don't mind answering such questions, at all, but I am wondering if there is enough interest in these topics to warrant creating a separate page on this blog which would deal with the various aspects of the self-publishing business. I know there are many resources already available online that do a nice job explaining all of this (I use several of these resources myself), but few of them are specifically devoted to erotica and I think I can provide some personal examples to illustrate some of the basic concepts in action.

So my question to all of you is this:

Are you interested in me creating a detailed guide to self-publishing erotic ebooks?

Self-publishing is a huge topic, in and of itself, never-minding the various subtopics I could get into. So even a simple, basic guide will be quite time-consuming to write. And until I start, I can't really say just how I'd even do this; as one page, or as a series of individual posts, each touching on a particular aspect of the business.

So please let me know your answer in the comments. If I can get it to work, I'll also try to set up a poll for this question as well.

And feel free to add any personal suggestions/questions you have for topics you would like to see covered in the guide. Even if there isn't enough interest to warrant making a guide, I'll still be happy to answer your questions about publishing. :-)

- Tabitha Kohls

Free Fiction Friday: Tabby's Age-Play Holiday (WIP)

(Oops! For some reason blogger erased all my spaces in this post, making it impossible to read! I've gone back and fixed it now. Sorry for the inconvenience!)

(UGHH!!! And now the font is tiny, even though the font is set to normal size!!! ~~pulls hair out, kicks computer... bandages sore big toe~~ )

Sorry for the lack of updates these past few weeks, I've been dealing with several personal issues (mostly illness), and have had to miss the past two Free Fiction Friday posts. On the plus side, I have made progress on several new future ebooks, including a forced-lactation tale and a living mannequin story.

Today's post is a work-in-progress age-regression story I wrote early last year; I'm still trying to decide whether or not to finish it. I have the rest of the story plotted out, but I'm worried certain portions may push the boundaries of Amazon's TOS policies. I will have to rethink a few scenes, if I finish it.

Until I decide to finish this story and publish it, I will keep this story available here. All 8,000 words are after the page break, as per usual. Please feel free to let me know what you think of it so far. :-)

- Tabitha Kohls

New Ebook: Mind Control Collection #1

I've been wanting to try something like this for a while now, and I'm finally getting around to it. As I've said before, I've started Free Fiction Friday with the intention that I will be able to collect and republish my free short stories. Now I'm publishing a new ebook bundle collecting three of my old short mind control/bimbofication stories. Those stories are Jailbroken, Oh-most Famous, and A Marvelous Interview. Each of these was published here for a time, and I've now removed them.

Besides finally giving me a new title up on Amazon, this is also sort of an experiment. Since these tales were already published for free, I can see if my Free Fiction Friday idea will actually work. Otherwise I might need to rethink publishing my stories here for free, at least until I'm more productive again.

It's only up at Smashwords so far, Amazon and B&N will probably take another day or so, but I wanted to mention the story and explain that it isn't a new story as soon as possible, to avoid any unfortunate confusion.

A collection of three short tales of mind control and bimbofication, previously published for a limited time on Tabitha Kohls' personal blog, Humbled Harlots. Over 6,500 words of mind-altering fun!

Links:

Amazon
Smashwords
Barnes & Noble
Kobo





I'll update the links as they come online.

- Tabitha Kohls

PS. Even though it doesn't quite fit any of these tales, I really like the stockphoto I bought for this cover! :-)

Free Fiction Friday: Cabin Fever

(UPDATE: This week's free story has now been removed, though I'm keeping the post up to save the comments. Thank you to all who have viewed and commented on this tale. I expect to eventually write a third Vera Purdee self-bondage story, and bundle all three Vera stories together as an ebook bundle. - Tabitha) 

Hello all, I was hoping I'd finish a brand new self-bondage/chastity belt story for you all today, and I did! :-) Yay me!!

Anyway, this is another Vera Purdee, self-bondage-gone-awry story, just under 5,000 words long. I wrote all of it last night and today, so sorry if there are any glaring grammar/spelling errors that I missed. I wanted to be sure to get it posted today, so I cut back on editing. Hopefully that won't make much difference.

I've got tons of other standalone Vera Purdee story ideas to write, but this idea just came to me the other day while weathering a nasty blizzard, and I just had to write it right away!

The new story is after the break as always. Please enjoy, and let me know what you think!

- Tabitha

Free Fiction Friday: Braggadocio

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Free Fiction Friday: A Marvelous Interview

(UPDATE: This week's free story has now been removed, though I'm keeping the post up to save the comments. Thank you to all who have viewed and commented on this tale, - Tabitha)

Greetings all! Happy New Year!!

I was hoping to finish a brand new short story about a student using a voodoo doll to get revenge on his teacher, but I've come down with a bit of nausea today and won't be able to finish it just now. Hopefully I'll be able to over the weekend, and will be able to post it at next week's Free Fiction Friday post.

So instead, here is another old tale of mine, this time a short Mind Control/Bimbofication story. I've partly rewritten it, to flesh out some of the dialogue and put some things in proper context. Altogether I've added about 600 words, or roughly two pages on the original version.

Story is after the break, as usual. I hope you enjoy it, and have a fun weekend! :-)

- Tabitha Kohls