A Place of Safety - Derry / New World For Old / Home Not Home

A Place of Safety - Derry / New World For Old / Home Not Home
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Sunday, September 21, 2025

Time to work up a cover...

I finished this pass on Dirc and the Dyarvos Cafe, and need to start thinking about a good cover image for it. Which I am drawing a blank on. I want it to be intense because the book is pretty intense. Lots of kidnapping, non-con, torture, and terrorizing as well as SciFi/Horror Erotica, included. AND...action-adventure and romance. A real smorgasbord.

I guess I could go back into Shutterstock and see what images I pulled up that I didn't use. I don't have anything in the photos I got from Dan Skinner or others that would work. It's all boiling down to what will make people pay attention and in mm erotica that's usually a well-built man who's half-naked. Which I don't have a problem with....

I got the text down to under 85K in words, which is still a lot, and there were many points in the story that didn't align with what was done in Dirc and the Dyarvos Bones, so that got updated. I'm going to do another pass then use Microsoft editor to test it.

I like how it turned out. Including the HEA. I'm still seeking a better ending line but it's getting there. I may be asking too much for that. Writing a book about men being kidnapped, raped and handed over to an extraterrestrial to be added to its intergalactic cafe's menu may not require anything truly pithy or sharp.

It seems I will have to cut anything with sugar out of my diet, completely. I try to use it in moderation, but I'm finding I grow very sluggish and sleepy if I have any candy or even canned fruit in its own juice. Irritating...but this morning I weighed 230 lbs...that's 10 lbs less than the beginning of summer. So I guess the tradeoff works.

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