Sorcery School

I have been working on an old series of stories that was titled Fun at Sorcery School at Literotica. I have re-edited what was previously written and am currently adding to it before looking at publishing. Thinking about publishing has presented me with the challenge of finding cover art. My usual source didn't really turn up anything that worked for me and so I've been looking around and stumbled across some images that might just be appropriate. (If you click the link it will take you to the webpage I found them at ... credit where credit is due! Most of these are from Alan Gutierrez)

I need to contact the artist and see if there's any chance of being allowed to use one of them. If you happen to know of an artist that would likely let me use their imagery and it looks as good as these, please let me know!

licks and kisses,

nikki

Nikki and Sammi Update

*Gasp* I have actually updated Nikki and Sammi's story again. Make sure that you click the link at the bottom of the entry to vote given the Blogger poll widget is still broken!

licks and kisses,

nikki

Nikki and Sammi - Polling problems and solutions

Since the last entry in Nikki and Sammi's story was posted, the polling widget that blogger provides seems to have gone kaput. Although it seems to let you vote, it doesn't subsequently provide any information as to the result of that vote. So the current and all previous votes show up as zeros.

This means that I don't know which direction the story is supposed to be going in!

I have found a solution however, using a third party polling service (thanks Polldaddy). So to vote for future directions of the story, I will include a link at the bottom of the post to enable you to have a vote and help me determine the direction it takes.

licks and kisses,

nikki

Nikki Dark

There's a new Nikki Dark book out over at smashwords. You should check it out. It's the 5th book the Sleepwalker Diary series.

licks and kisses,

nikki

Nikki and Sammi Update

Hi all, just thought I'd let you know that Nikki and Sammi's story has been updated and awaits your vote on which way to go! Click the pic to go there!

licks and kisses,

nikki

Cosplay Bingo Price Reduction

Just thought that I'd let you know that I've dropped the price of Cosplay Bingo to $1.99. If you've always wanted a copy but thought I was asking too much, now is your chance!

Now $1.99!

licks and kisses,

nikki

A Minor Bummer

Something happened the other day. Someone was nice enough to rate my book Nikkirotica 1: Fun With Friends over at Smashwords. They rated it 4 out of 5 which is a good rating. The interesting aspect of it was that it was the first time that it had been rated at less than 5 stars. That in and of itself is not a significant issue and I'm not complaining about an honest appraisal of 4 out of 5.

The thing is, because it was the first time that it had been rated at less than 5 stars, it dropped from being the third or fourth top rated erotic book at Smashwords to something significantly less than that. If a book has one rating of 5 stars on the site, it will rank before my book. That means that my book now features on page 145 of the rankings guide. A page that no one will bother to get to (Except for me because I was curious enough to keep searching.)

Now given my book is free, this massive drop in its ranking location doesn't directly affect any money that I make from selling my work (hell its not like this even goes close to being a big money making venture for me) but I was interested to note that it went from being downloaded an average of 10-15 times per day to less than 5 which corresponds to the drop in page views.

Not the end of the world, but interesting to see the impact a single well-intentioned rating can have on the visibility of your book. I always hoped that if nothing else, having that first free book available for so many people to download would mean that people would enjoy it enough to buy one of my others.

Oh well, that's life I guess. Lucky I don't rely on writing to feed myself! lol

licks and kisses,

nikkira

Nikki and Sammi Update

Nikki and Sammi's story has been updated. I must say, I was surprised by the results of the last vote. I was sure that one of the more sexual options would get up there, but perhaps because all of those votes were split across three choices it made the difference.

Read, enjoy and vote!

Licks and kisses,

nikki

Nikki and Sammi's Story Updated

As promised earlier, Nikki and Sammi's story has been updated. Read, enjoy and vote :)

licks and kisses,

nikki

Plodding along

I just thought you might like to know that I am still here and still writing. Things have been a bit slow lately with life getting in the way. I have however managed to get the next bit of Nikki and Sammi's story ready for posting once the current vote ends.

I have also been continuing to work on the oft-neglected romance that I've previously mentioned. It's getting up toward 20,000 of the 50,000 word target that I've set myself.

I have another of the Sleepwalker Diaries almost ready to go. I just need to re-read and edit again and then find some time to publish it. Hopefully that's not too far away.

I have some other ideas bumping around, including an addition to my old story The Dark Room which I know a lot of people have asked for since it was originally published. One day people, one day.

Other than that, I've been toying with Nikkirotica 3, another collection of short stories which will pluck some of my older works from their slumber and mix it with something new.

So as you can see, there's things bumping around, its getting them to line up and flow from my head to the computer that seems to be the challenge at the moment.

Licks and kisses,

nikki