Thursday Fanwork: Flip’s Story by Mark Treble

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

The first of the Thursday Fanworks is fiction by Mark Treble, who included the following note:
This is a work of fiction and all names used are fictional. It is fan fiction based on the “Daron’s Guitar Chronicles” series by Cecelia Tan. There are no copyright restrictions on this work and it is free for such use as the reader may wish, without attribution.

Flip’s Story

Daron and I were bullshitting one night and I don’t know what came over me. I hadn’t even thought about it in at least a decade.

“Yeah, I sucked a few dicks in college.” What had motivated me to tell him that?

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The #RT17 BDSM panel wrapup and handouts

Thanks everyone who attended the panel at RT Booklovers in Atlanta on BDSM: What’s Next for BDSM Romance?

If you need the handout, you can grab the PDF from here: RT BDSM HANDOUT. It includes some specific sales numbers from the authors on the panel demonstrating the rise and fall of sales numbers.

I opened the panel by saying when we first started planning the panel it seemed like if we were all seeing sales drops like that, it was legitimate to ask whether the post-50-Shades “BDSM boom” was over. However, since compiling our numbers, I’ve been talking to many authors in other subgenres of romance and erotica, and to publishers as well, all of whom have seen very similar curves in rise/fall even when no BDSM is involved. So, it’s not just us.

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Mirrored from blog.ceciliatan.com.