With the year 2019 coming to a close, did you write any stories that were smash hits or at least successful, getting praise from readers with plenty of views, favourites and high scores? And at the other end of the scale, did you publish any works that were not successful, getting poor scores and negative reviews, or stories that just plain flopped?
I did reasonably well with my typical stories in Erotic Couplings and First Time set in the past. An Erotic Couplings story about a bitchy actress and a young male stagehand in 1930s Hollywood, and two First Time stories about a pretty tomboy and a young sailor in World War 2 and a young Vietnam veteran and his friend's younger sister in the late 1960s were successful. I also had some success writing for specific markets in the fetish genre.
Not so successful were my attempts to enter the Incest/Taboo genre. My lesbian story about two stepsisters wasn't well liked, and neither was a voyeurism story about a young guy who gets a crush on his foster sister. Most hated was an Incest fantasy/comedy series I wrote mid year about a nerd swapping bodies with his twin sister's jock boyfriend. It was similar to the reaction to films such as 'That's My Boy', 'Dirty Grandpa' or 'Freddy Got Fingered'. I've never seen such vitriol outside of Loving Wives before, and all I did was attempt to make people laugh (which they clearly didn't).
What are your experiences in your 2019?
I did reasonably well with my typical stories in Erotic Couplings and First Time set in the past. An Erotic Couplings story about a bitchy actress and a young male stagehand in 1930s Hollywood, and two First Time stories about a pretty tomboy and a young sailor in World War 2 and a young Vietnam veteran and his friend's younger sister in the late 1960s were successful. I also had some success writing for specific markets in the fetish genre.
Not so successful were my attempts to enter the Incest/Taboo genre. My lesbian story about two stepsisters wasn't well liked, and neither was a voyeurism story about a young guy who gets a crush on his foster sister. Most hated was an Incest fantasy/comedy series I wrote mid year about a nerd swapping bodies with his twin sister's jock boyfriend. It was similar to the reaction to films such as 'That's My Boy', 'Dirty Grandpa' or 'Freddy Got Fingered'. I've never seen such vitriol outside of Loving Wives before, and all I did was attempt to make people laugh (which they clearly didn't).
What are your experiences in your 2019?