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I’ve been a bit quiet on Lush recently, so apologies for that. Real life has been getting in the way, I’m afraid.
Even so, I’ve managed to finish a story for the new “Spring Forward” competition, which has just gone online. You can read it here – Turning Terry | Lush Stories
This was one occasion when I really struggled to keep my story within the word limit. 4000 words really wasn’t enough, and I’m still afraid that some of the characters aren’t as fleshed out as I wanted, and some of the plot has ended up being a bit rushed. As each little section progressed, I kept wanting to say more, but the word-count just inexorably crept up and up. And of course I needed to leave space for a proper dirty sex scene – this is a “NaughtyAnnie” story after all!
I also wanted to provide a twist on the usual “finding your sexuality” story, which tends to be “straight person discovers their gay/bisexual side”. It would be fun, I decided, to turn that convention on its head. And finally, there is a bit of a serious message behind the story, which hopefully gives it a bit more depth than some of my other straightforward filth.
Oh dear, I hope that hasn’t put you all off! Please read and vote, and hopefully it’ll get a bit of extra attention as a comp entry.
Thank you all!
Annie xxx
Good morning from the UK! Just popped in for a strong coffee on my way to work, because I know customers here tend to know what's going on.
Has IMPURETHOUGHTS (her caps 😉) gone missing in action? I was idly browsing some threads, and noticed some posts that looked like hers were now tagged as "unknown user".
If so, I hope she's okay. Forum traffic will be decimated without her!
Back in January this year, I set myself the target of writing one new story for Lush each month, something I'd come close to before, but never quite managed. A few things got in the way - various lockdowns, Lush v2, my wedding - but now, just in time for Christmas, comes the twelfth and final one of these. It's a particularly filthy piece of smut entitled "Naked Pool Party Swingers", involving various but popular subjects such as teen sex and . I hope you all enjoy it - please read and leave a comment if you do. You can read it here:
Naked Pool Party Swingers | Lush Stories
Thank you! Annie x
Some of my favourite Lush stories were written several years ago, and are now languishing unread in my back catalogue. So I decided to bundle half a dozen of them together in an e-book and publish it on Amazon.
So if you fancy six of my naughty stories in a convenient e-book format, then why not splash out £1.99 (or local equivalent)? You couldn't get a cup of fancy coffee for that these days. Just click the following link...
A Bit More NaughtyAnnie eBook : Harrison, Annie: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Thank you!
Annie x
I know it's been pointed out many times, but the first line of "The Da Vinci Code" is so inept it's funny:
"Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's Grand Gallery."
Some other classic Dan Brown sentences can be found here:
Dan Brown's 20 Worst Sentences - Oh No They Didn't! — LiveJournal
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This is a very thoughtful idea, Nicola. As far as I know, formatting, editing and cover design are all made simple on KDP. https://selfpublishing.com/kdp/ Good luck.
It looks like they've realized it's a technical pain in the proverbial to format a book for Kindle and have come up with "Kindle Create" which I wasn't aware of.
Thank you too!
Coincidentally, I’ve just published a small collection of six of my Lush stories on Amazon. I used “Kindle Create” to help with the formatting, and it was pretty straightforward, even for someone as non-techie as me (and I really am very bad at this sort of thing). And I’m sure there are some very tech-savvy people on Lush who could make the finished product look much better than my feeble effort. And I used the "Cover Create" feature, which took no time at all using their templates and images.
More importantly, it went “online” very quickly. I was expecting it to take days, but it was available in the Marketplace within about five hours of submission. So I can’t imagine there was any human input! The stories are standard straight/lesbian fare, with nothing kinky. Maybe they have some sort of algorithm that searches for inappropriate words?
Annie x