Free Fiction Friday: Order of Magnitude - and some news

I wrote this over a year ago, but have recently written a standalone sequel, so I figured I might as well post this part first. I was planning on posting it here last Friday, but realized too late that I needed to edit it a bit before it was ready to post here.

I'm hoping to put the second, and totally new, installment up this coming Friday. It isn't a direct sequel, but it will answer a few questions as to Tasha's ultimate fate.

On the ebook front, I'm starting to finally get some of my old muse back at last. I've just started work on a new superheroine story, and have a few similar tales outlined as well. I'm also planning out a third Ro-Sham-Bimbo game show story, this time with a politician theme.

And finally, I've been working on an Age-Regression story, the first since I published Paddled! nearly two years ago. I think this story will have a very Hal or Daring Diane or Alec Leamus feel to it when I'm done. So if you're into their sorts of stories, this might be right down your alley when it's done.

Sadly, none of these stories, or any of the others I've also got simmering, are anywhere near ready to publish yet. And I'm not sure how long it will be. Just be patient with me, and I'll get something out there for all you lovely folks though. :-)

Well, that's about it for news, on to today's story. Just click the 'Read More' link below, as per usual. And be sure and let me know what you think, especially if this story is new to you. I love feedback, after all....

- Tabitha Kohls

New Ebook: OFFICE BOUND

Finally got around to publishing a new story, after several months. This is a bdsm/blackmail-themed story, one of those rare tales where a female dominate gets taken down a notch or two. It is a bit shorter than my more recent stories, but I'm quite happy with how it came together.

OFFICE BOUND (8,200 Words Long)

A beautiful young domme hatches a scheme to entrap her chauvinistic boss and add him to her harem of male playthings. But has she bitten off more than she can handle? 

Over 8,200 words of hot, sexy fun! Including scenes of painfully strict bondage, humiliating figging, male domination, coercion, and more!

Links:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Smashwords
Kobo: No longer using this distributor; see below






I'm finished trying to upload ebook on Kobo, so sorry if that's where you prefer to shop. But they are taking ages to publish anything lately, and being very finicky again. They've just refused to publish this new story (they claim due to inappropriate content, though it's hardly any rougher than my usual stories) and just this week they finally published my bundle of The Plastic Surgeon's Revenge Series, after more than a month of waiting. For comparison, Amazon and Smashwords go live within hours or a day at most, B&N takes around 2 days usually. More than 30 days is ridiculous.

So I'm done with Kobo. I'm looking at expanding into a few other sites in the future, but probably not for another month or so. Again, I am sorry if Kobo.com is your preferred store; I won't delete my account or anything, but my future stories won't be published there.

Anyway, in happier news, my upcoming standalone sequel to Ro-Sham-Bimbo is progressing nicely, and I hope to have it up later this month. A sequel to Chief Executive Bimbo is also in the works, as well as my commissioned story(s), and even a new age-regression tale. With any luck, I'll have all of them published in the next few months, and a few more free stories posted here as well in the meantime.

I hope you enjoy the new story, and thanks for visiting! :-)

- Tabitha

The Milking Games, Part 1 (WIP)

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

Wow, what a month! I've been hit with endless storms, a near-miss by a tornado, and then my internet connection failed!! Thankfully, the rain has stopped, and best of all, I've finally gotten a new satellite dish installed. :-)

Anyway, I'm now working on a new ebook, a full-length version of Chief Executive Bimbo. I posted a short excerpt a few months ago, HERE. I've changed some of the details, but I think it'll end up a fun tale, more of a slow-burn bimbo transformation story, with some body modifications, and a series of humiliating exercise routines.

I'm also working on my epic body-mod story, and I'll try to post a few excerpts sometime soon.

But enough of that: last year I started writing a forced-lactation tale, called The Milking Games. I'm not sure when, or even if, I'll ever get around to finishing it, but I have written a solid 14,000 words so far. 

I've decided to start posting the story here, in weekly installments. This is the first part, about 2,000 words. I'll leave this up until I post the next part, next Friday. I expect to eventually post the whole WIP here, as the weeks pass. Please enjoy, and let me know what you think. :-)

- Tabitha Kohls

Exciting News and Ebooks Links

(UPDATE: Angela's Last Resort 2 is up! :-) )

I've got lots of exciting news to share, but first, I think I've finally got my Amazon ebook fiasco under control.

Angela's Last Resort 1 & 2 have been resubmitted to Amazon now, though only Angela's Last Resort 1 has gone live so far. But ALR2 should be up in another day or so, and I'll update this post with links.

Also, I've had to resubmit this month's ebook, The Doll, as The Living Doll, with a new cover and title, as well as slight changes to the book description. This new cover and title will only appear on Amazon, as I'm leaving the original big-boob cover on B&N, Smashwords, and Kobo. 

I really like the original cover, though the new one shows off the whole Mannequin-transformation thing quite well, I think.

New, Boob-light Cover

Old, Big Boob Cover

I've rewrote most of the book descriptions of my entire catalog on Amazon, to minimize the chance of further issues in the future. 

The biggest change I've had to make was to my gender transformation / forced crossdressing story Pledge Week Revenge: Sissy Makover. I've changed the title to the much simpler Panty Raider's Punishment, and given it a less objectionable cover. (The original showed too much skin, apparently)

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In more exciting and related news, a well-known erotica author, Selena Kitt, has launched a new erotic ebook site called Excitica.com (Details at Selena Kitt's blog: HERE)

Like my own recent problems, she has had to deal with the major ebook distribution sites, like Amazon, Kobo, B&N, Smashwords, and so on, trying to censor her books. Amazon especially is cracking down harder and harder these days, and constantly changing what they consider allowable content, with no clear indication as to their actual policies.

Selena Kitt's new Excitica site promises to allow practically anything, with no fears of censorship. At the moment it is still under beta, and busy trying to work out bugs. But apparently it will fully launch sometime later in the year.

Since I haven't been able to get onto the site proper, many of the details are still unknown to me, but overall the site sounds like a great idea, for myself and erotica writers everywhere. Once the site is up and going, I fully plan to join up and publish all my stories there, as well as at Amazon, Smashwords, and B&N.

I do know that this site is much better set up for erotica, with lots of useful categories in place, for just about every common fetish out there. 

And this new site is supposed to pay out at around 60% price, a bit lower than Amazon, but not bad. Even better, it will pay 60% even for ebooks under $2.99, so I might finally be able to put up some short stories for $0.99. Whereas Amazon drops to 35% for books under $2.99.

All in all, I can't wait for the site to fully launch, and start selling ebooks there. I've had a lot of ideas that are just too out-there for Amazon or any of the normal distribution sites. But this new site sounds like just the place to try some of them out, and see how they go over.

Also, I'm roughly 70% done with my new ebook, which will have lots of piercings, and some nice big breast enlargement for you all to enjoy. Thanks for visiting! :-)

- Tabitha Kohls

An Update on the Great Amazon Ebook Crisis of 2014

Okay, I've been real busy this weekend dealing with my whole ebook problem. I've reworked the synopsis and tags for nearly all my ebooks on Amazon, and even reworked a few covers too, all to minimize the chance that another story would blocked. Only time will tell if it worked.

As for the two books that were blocked, I emailed Amazon about it, and got a form letter in response. Besides being totally unhelpful, it did mention that I could try resubmitting my stories. So I've republished Angela's Last Resort, adding the number 1 to the title, and reworked the synopsis to remove any possibly offensive material. The actual content of the book remains largely the same, though I have rewrote several early sections to slightly tone down Angela's abduction scene. Mostly by giving her lots of unexpected orgasms, which I'm sure she needed. :-)

Anyway, the story isn't really changed in any major way. As to Angela's Last Resort 2, I haven't resubmitted it yet, but will soon now that I know ALR1 got accepted.

I also want to mention that I have resubmitted my new mannequin transformation ebook, The Doll, to Amazon just a few minutes ago. I changed the cover entirely, and now the story is entitled The Living Doll.

As much as I really loved the original big-titted cover, I think it showed too much skin and got the story flagged by Amazon's sales-killing adult filter. I've noticed that, despite being brand-new this month, it wasn't showing up in my searches on Amazon. The filter hides stories from the main search; to see the filtered stories, you have to actively select the Kindle Store in the search bar. Which most people don't seem to know, yet, unfortunately for all us starving smut writers.

Anyway, now that things seem to be getting back under control, I'm focusing on my new story. It'll feature lots of body-modifications, like piercings and breast expansion, as well as some medical-play. So far I've completed about half of it, over 5,500 words. Hopefully I'll be able to finish the rest before the end of this month.

Thanks to you all for your sympathies and support, and especially your patience, while I've dealt with this whole Amazon fiasco.

- Tabitha Kohls, who has skipped the ice cream in favor of an extra-large bag of peanut butter M&Ms. :-)

Another Amazon Censorship Crisis

UPDATE: I've sent Amazon an email, hopefully they'll respond soon. If they just let me resubmit my books, I'll be satisfied, I guess.

Sigh. This is turning out to be a tough week; first I had minor surgery just a few days ago, then I spent all day yesterday driving across the state in a crowded pickup, and now when I finally get home, I find out that Amazon has blocked two more of my ebooks.

Every time before they only put my ebooks back into draft status, which meant I could still edit them, and maybe fix whatever it was that was ticking off their censors. But now they've outright blocked Angela's Last Resort 1 & 2, pretty much ruining my series, at least on their site. And since they are now blocked entirely, I can't even edit them and fix the issue.

I'm not really sure what to do at the moment; if I resubmit them, with a different synopsis they might accept them, or they might get annoyed and block my whole account. Impossible to know. Both have been up on the site for months now, and suddenly they aren't good enough for Amazon. (Not that Amazon is offering to return the +30% they took from each sale, of course.)

Until I figure out what to do, I can't really mentally focus on writing. Sorry. I'll try to keep this hiatus short. Hopefully I'll figure something out. For now though, if you want to purchase these blocked ebooks, they are still available at the following links:

Angela's Last Resort

Barnes & Noble

Smashwords

Kobo

Angela's Last Resort 2

Barnes & Noble

Smashwords

Kobo

I even have a new, fun little mind control story in the works. All day long I've just wanted to get home and finish it for Free Fiction Friday. And then this happens, again. :-(

I'm too glum and tired to think about this anymore. I'll see you all later, hopefully soon. Sorry about all this.

- Tabitha Kohls, who is feeling very disheartened at the moment. And regretting not buying a gallon of ice cream on the way home.

New Ebook: The Doll

Greetings! Sorry about missing last Friday's free fiction post, my computer has been really acting up lately, and being a general pain. I'm not sure I'll be able to get anything new finished for this Friday either, but I've got some WIPs I can post instead. Maybe part of my Milking Games story?

Anyway, I did finally manage to finish a totally new ebook before my computer crashed. It's called The Doll, and is a mannequin transformation story, similar in some fashion to my earlier tale, Her Hospital Nightmare, as both are built around women immobilized and mistaken for inanimate dolls.

This story ended up just over 18,800 words long, easily my longest story to date! Due to the length, though, I've decided to publish it at a slightly higher prize than usual; $3.99. I managed to work in a fair number of humiliating scenes of the living mannequin woman being treated like a slutty doll by random strangers. FYI, there is also a bit of forced feminization/cross-dressing.

The Doll (18,800 words)

A young, busty con-artist uses a stolen drug serum to temporarily immobilize herself, all as part of a complex scheme to impersonate a department store mannequin, and rob a brand-new store on its opening night. 

But will her disguise fool the crowds of gawking shoppers? And what if the experimental serum fails to wear off as planned? Will she find her temporary disguise has become a permanent new career? Will she be doomed to spend her days modeling skimpy lingerie, as bored and horny men ogle and grope her immobile body? 

These questions, and more will be answered in this incredibly hot, new story by erotica author Tabitha Kohls! This 18,800 word long tale features detailed scenes of mannequin transformation, public exhibitionism, public humiliation, personal groping, humiliating outfits, rough anal sex, powerful vibrating sex toys, and even male crossdressing and feminization! 



Links:
Amazon
Smashwords
Barnes & Noble
Kobo

I'm really happy with how this cover turned out. I spent a lot of time in GIMP trying to give her a more plastic-like sheen, and enlarging her breasts. And I didn't even have to enlarge her lips; they were that big to begin with! :-)

I hope you all enjoy this new tale as much as I did writing it. Have a fun Humpday, everyone! :-)

- Tabitha Kohls

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

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: A Vera Tight Space

(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) 

Personal Notice: 

(My beloved pooch of twelve years passed away very late on Christmas night, so at the moment I am not really in the best mood for writing. I've been very busy taking care of him these past several months, and especially the last few weeks. This (and my difficulties at my former Evil Day Job) is largely why my productivity has plummeted recently. 

When I am done grieving over him, I will start writing again, with a vengeance. But until then, these free Friday tales are probably the most you'll see of me. Thank you all for understanding,

Sincerely,
Tabby)

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This week's free story is another old tale of mine, slightly reworked in a few places to fix some old spelling/grammar errors. It is a self-bondage/predicament bondage-themed story, about a woman who builds a self-bondage device to play out her fantasies. Naturally, things go awry! :-)

Predicament bondage devices like the one in this tale are an old favorite subject of mine; I actually wrote this story to explore a few fun ideas I had for such a device. I rather like what I've come up with here. Hopefully the feeling will be mutual.

Also, I am going to rewrite this story as a full-length ebook soon, though I have some different ideas for the device's inner workings. And I want to develop the Landlady's character a bit more too. I've long planned to write a series of short, stand-alone tales following this story's protagonist, Vera Purdee, and I think the Landlady would make a fun reoccurring villain/foil to play with in the future.

Remember, this tale will be deleted by next Friday, when I upload another free tale. So if you want to read it, do so now rather than later. And be sure to comment and let me know if you want me to write more tales like this.

As always, click the Read More link to read the story, and have a Happy New Year!

- Tabitha Kohls

Alert: Ebook Problems

Just an FYI:

Yesterday I received an email from Amazon's Kindle Publishing department, informing me that two of my ebooks have been found in violation of Amazon's content guidelines and have been depublished. (For a laugh, you can read them here: Guidelines) The two ebooks that have been pulled are Lights, Camera, Anal! and Angela's Last Resort 3.

This erotica ebook purging has been going on at Amazon and Kobo for several weeks now, and this is the first time they have hit me. I was hopeful that I would fall through the cracks, but apparently not. With any luck, they won't purge any more of my titles, but who knows?

I am reading a few blog posts by other writers, to see what I can do to fix this problem. As I have no idea exactly why they were pulled (the aforementioned email only points to the content guidelines link above) I am not sure what I have to change, but I will work on the covers and descriptions, and resubmit both. Hopefully they will be back up and published in a day or two.

For now though, both are still available at the following links:

 

Lights, Camera, Anal!

Barnes & Noble Link: HERE

Smashwords Link: HERE

 

and

 

 

Angela's Last Resort 3  

Barnes & Noble

Smashwords

Kobo

 

At least in the case of LCA, I think the cover image is what set the censors off: too much skin. I'll probably just reuse a pic I've used on other books, and see how that goes. I'll fiddle around with the description too, try to make it a little less racy. Some keyword or other is probably setting things off.

 

I'm not sure about ALR3's cover though. I'll just resubmit, and use a bare-bones synopsis. Hopefully that will work. I'd hate to lose part of a series, that would make finishing the series rather difficult.

 

Hopefully this all works, and things go smooth from here. **Fingers crossed!**

 

- Tabitha Kohls 

Ebook Link List Updated

I've been working during my writing breaks to get my full list of Ebook links updated, and aside for a few Kobo links, I'm done! You wouldn't believe how tedious updating links is! :-)

I'm not really sure how to make permanent links to Kobo.com yet; I know you have to put the link into a special algorithm and that will spit out a permanent link, but I'm not certain what the algorithm is. Anyway, I only have three books up on Kobo right now, so I probably won't bother with it for a while. Kobo is very slow to update when I add a new book.

On a similar note, my Ebooks are listed on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords. I don't yet have anything up on the Apple store, but I've been thinking about moving some stuff there too in the near future. What I'd like to know is, do any of you use the Apple store? Or an Ipad/Iphone to read Ebooks? I should probably make a poll sometime. I'd like know how many of you use Kindles or Nooks. Do you have any preferences as to where to buy Ebooks?

Oh well, questions to consider for the future, now back to writing. I'm about 2,000 words into my Angela's Last Resort sequel. Have a happy weekend, everybody!

- Tabitha Kohls

Ebook News

My appologies for those of you who are waiting for my next Ebook, I've been recovering from a root-canal and ear infection, and haven't been able to write much these past ten days or so.

But now that I'm feeling better, I've started writing two new Ebooks.

The first is a very long (probably 50K) Age Regression novel, which is going very well so far, and will have scenes covering everything from diapers to spankings and more. This will probably not be finished for quite some time, but if there is interest, I might post the first chapter here as a WIP. I'd have to delete the post once I published the novel though.

The second Ebook will be a sequel to Angela's Last Resort. I've only just started writing this, bu I'm hopeful that I can finish this tale over the next week or so. It will focus primarily on Angela's slave training and her newly-enlarged breasts! This is already shaping up to be a very breast-obsessed story, with a strange specialized breast implant and several breast torture devices/games. So if that is your thing, I think you'll really like it. :-)

Hopefully I can get a few free shorts up here too, soon!

- Tabitha Kohls