by Cecilia Duvalle | Jan 19, 2017 | BLOG POSTS
I’m horrible at blogging. Or updating. I hate this part of the writing business because of the technical stuff involved. I like to write. And I love to read. And I love connecting with people who enjoy the same. If you want to receive updates via email, please consider joining my brand new newsletter list. I will only send out an email when something new is published, and I’ll include a link to where you can buy it. The sign up is on the right column of this page, and you get access to my first-ever printed piece “Birthday Boy” as my way of thanking you. It’s a sweet little FemmeDomme piece.
So what’s new for 2017?
1–Blood In the Rain 2 came out in October 2016. We had so many stories to choose from that it was difficult work. I love this collection, and hope you do too.
2–If Mom’s Happy, an anthology edited by Brandy Fox will be coming out in May. It was fun to write a story about a mom who’s desperate to have her husband all alone at home so they can have sex all over the house. Having kids can cramp your lifestyle, but it doesn’t have to mean the end of sexy times.
3–Blood in the Rain 3–Submissions are opening again very soon. Mary and I will be looking for more vampire erotica. New guidelines should be available on bloodintherain.com and at cwtchpress.com by the end of January.
4–I have another story that is pending with another anthology. Here’s hoping it all comes together. 😉
Wishing everyone a grand 2017.
by Cecilia Duvalle | Oct 8, 2016 | BLOG POSTS
I know, Blood in the Rain 2 is about to hit the shelves and the audible for BITR 1 is finally available? I’ve blogged about the audiobook process a few times. The fact that our studio was available one evening a week for a couple of hours, plus our talent work ‘real jobs’ made it a longer project than we’d hoped. Oh well! IT’s available NOW. Click this audible link to get it for yourself.
I have a couple of free codes available for people who are willing to do a review on audible.com. If you’re interested, make a comment and I’ll get you a code.
by Cecilia Duvalle | Apr 12, 2016 | BLOG POSTS
I get this question about a lot of different things. “I thought you started that book five years ago.” and “Weren’t you knitting that last time I saw you?” are variations on a theme. Most recently, I’ve been pinged a few times by folks who are excited to share the audio version of Blood in the Rain: seventeen stories of vampire erotica
. I had no idea when we started this process just how long it was going to take. Future audio book scheduling will take into account life and the way things just get in the way. Illness, school vacations, dead hard-drives, and things like that are very hard to factor into a schedule, but they will, inevitably, mess with any timeline.
One of the things I really didn’t know was just how long it was going to take to edit a story. In the photo above, you can see the raw content in the shaggy caterpillar like band across the middle. All the vertical lines are markers for flubs that need editing. Every time the voice actor stopped to change a word, intonation or cough, the audio tech put in a marker. Then, after the recording is all done, each line has to be addressed.
So…seventeen stories. Each story takes sixty to ninety minutes to record and three to five hours to edit. Add in voice actors can only work for three hour stretches (union rules) and, since ours are working full time at “real jobs”, one evening a week and you can see why it’s April and we’re just now really close to finishing. We have twelve stories mostly done and five left to record. I think you’ll find it’s been worth the wait. Here’s hoping for a June release!
by Cecilia Duvalle | Mar 10, 2016 | BLOG POSTS
The audible version of the Blood in the Rain is ALMOST finished being recorded. Did you know that professional voice talent is only allowed to work for three hours? Did you know that one story takes approximately an hour to record but takes about five hours to edit? Add in colds–a voice can change dramatically with illness, weather, and life…well…things take longer than you think they’re going to. Still, we’ve hit the 3/4 mark on the recording. I’m hoping we can finish the raw recording by the end of April, finalize the edits by the end of May and have the audible version available soon after.
We had so much fun with the first volume, Mary and I have decided to edit another volume of Blood in the Rain! Here’s a link to the submissions guidelines. http://bloodintherain.com
- Loving the image above? : © Renascence Images / The Peacock Mirror
by Cecilia Duvalle | Nov 2, 2015 | BLOG POSTS
My first attempt at editing an anthology came out last week. When my co-editor, Mary Trepanier, and I first sent out the call for submissions, I didn’t know what to expect. And, I’ve been asked by friends who know I write erotica, “Why vampire erotica?” My answer is, “Why Not?”
This project started with a discussion about how we’d like to find a home for some of our current work. When Mary and I figured out that we both had vampire stories looking for placement, we decided to put together an anthology. Mary is a writer and professional editor, and I have a degree in journalism. We’ve both been writing erotica for a while and figured we could work our way through the hoops and hurdles involved. We jumped in, and Blood in the Rain is the result. I thought we’d receive a handful of stories and have to resort to begging our friends to write something for us. We got WAY more than that. In fact, we got so many submissions we had to create an elaborate excel spread sheet to track them all. One thing is clear, people love reading and writing about vampires!
After many hours of reading some incredibly awesome pieces, we picked fifteen other stories that were erotic in different ways. We ended up with an eclectic mix–it’s not all straight, or all gay, or all BDSM. Instead, we went for stories that moved us or stayed with us after the initial reading. We turned down stories we really liked but just didn’t fit the overall mix or were too much like other stories we liked ‘just a little more for some reason.’ Editing an anthology is incredibly subjective, and I totally get that some readers will love some of the stories we included while hating others. Such is the nature of anthologies. I’m okay with that.
Here are three links to purchase this collection:
Click here to go to Amazon
Click here to go to Barnes and Noble
Click here to go to Kobo Canada
I’m horrible at blogging. Or updating. I hate this part of the writing business because of the technical stuff involved. I like to write. And I love to read. And I love connecting with people who enjoy the same. If you want to receive updates via email, please consider joining my brand new newsletter list. I will only send out an email when something new is published, and I’ll include a link to where you can buy it. The sign up is on the right column of this page, and you get access to my first-ever printed piece “Birthday Boy” as my way of thanking you. It’s a sweet little FemmeDomme piece.
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