My latest glimpse into the world of Foxy and Larry’s world, as they explore “the lifestyle,” is sort of finished. The story clocks in at 60,000 words and is a sexual romp through the world of swingers, experiencing one adventure after another.
The story revolves around Foxy finding a new love when she takes The Beast into the Mercedes speed shop for a diagnosis. Like a teenage boy, Foxy equates speed almost as high as sex for things to do. Except teenage boys have to settle for humping their pillow, where Foxy gets to enjoy the real thing.
In the last episode, The Death of Innocence, Foxy was thrust into a world of violence that Larry had shielded her from since she was a young woman of twenty. Larry had leaped on his white stallion like Don Quixote, attacking a windmill as he stopped a school shooting while single-handedly neutralizing a group of domestic terrorists with Foxy’s help.
Larry was wounded while dispatching the bad guys one by one with his trusty Springfield Arms XDM 9mm semi-automatic and Foxy as backup with a 12-gauge Mossberg 500 tactical pump shotgun.
Foxy had to shoot one of the terrorists and still sees his bloody body slide down the wall of the school after being eviscerated by the short-barreled scattergun, filled with double-ought buckshot, every night in her dreams.
Being proclaimed a hero by His Honor, the mayor of Las Vegas, did nothing to help her deal with taking a life. Foxy now has one more thing on her plate. Foxy’s world began to fall apart during the House Party series, when she decided to leave Larry and run off to LA with a guy she met at a house party to become a porn star.
Larry was able to coax her back by building a production studio in Las Vegas so she could continue her budding career in adult movies. With Larry’s anal nature, the movie studio quickly became one of the hottest production sites on the West Coast. Larry bought an eight-story office building in a bankruptcy auction on the west side of Vegas.
Most of the building’s first floor was converted into a large studio with access for everything, including automobiles. The best computers and servers were added with fiber access to the outside world and between the editing suites. The result was a video editor and studio’s wet dream. The production of “straight” commercials and movies quickly eclipsed the porn business.
Foxy’s nightmares only worsened, and on top of everything else, the mystical Boatman who collects souls for his boat of the dead has become a regular visitor. She’s even starting to see him during the day. His stench of death and the sound of oars seem to constantly surround her. For the first time, Foxy is concerned that she’s losing her mind but is trying to appear the happy-go-lucky person she always was.
Finally, she decided to seek professional help from The Shrink, which, as expected, didn’t go exactly as planned. For Foxy, revealing her inner self to the psychiatrist quickly turned into dropping her dress on the floor as she entered his office. Foxy’s new doctor was “pretty,” as she described him, and he quickly succumbed to her advances. Not that he had much choice in the matter. Foxy thought of him as a “pretty” version of Larry. The added attraction of his redheaded administrative assistant only made things worse, especially when she realized that she was paying him three hundred dollars a visit to fuck her! She’s never had to pay for sex before, and this pissed her off when she thought about it.
Now, finally, we get to the setup for The Mechanic, which is the next saga in our long-running tale.
Foxy’s Mercedes-AMG SLS sports car, which she calls The Beast, began making a knocking noise, so she took it to the custom speed shop that services her car. At the speed shop, her mechanic turns out to be a young brunette, and Foxy immediately fell in love or in heat, as usual.
Foxy, along with her latest slut in training, meets Lauren, a MILF who is a star in some of Lisabeth Sarai’s erotic stories from her Vegas Babes series of stories. I love Lisabeth’s stories that revolve around sluts we all love, and I decided to add my vision of her to the story. Lisabet, I’m sorry if I portray your characters differently than you assume.
Lauren, a late-blooming MILF, likes to play the field with permission of her attorney husband as long as she doesn’t embarrass him among his other ambulance chaser associates.
Lauren ends up staying with Foxy, Larry, and the girls while hubby goes back to LA. Foxy stays on the ragged edge as she attempts to deal with her new girlfriend, Lauren, and the Boatman, who stays in the morning mist, just outside her field of vision.
One of her constant fears is Heather, who is a twenty-year-old dancer at Larry’s club, The Fox’s Den. For the first time, Foxy is afraid of losing her side of the bed to someone. Heather, who is a virtual image of Foxy, except six feet two and younger. Larry has told her Heather is just a fuck buddy, but Foxy is not convinced. She and Heather are occasional lovers both with and without Larry, as Foxy weighs her odds, but will often wake in the middle of the night with the nightmare of Larry and Heather walking down the aisle together, especially since Heather always wears white in her dreams.
My next step in publishing is to develop a blurb (short description) for the story. If you like stories with a lot of sex in them, this one follows true to form, and as we say in swinging, “There is a lot of fuck’n and suck’n going on.”
With an ebook for your phone, laptop, tablet, or pc, it’s not to difficult to assemble the file to submit to the publisher. It’s just time-consuming, but the paperback is a different story. Formatting is mostly handled by the eReader program you use, but for a paperback, everything has to be correct up front if it can be printed. I use QuarkXPress to generate the final file for submission, and I’ve done this a number of times, so it’s relatively pain-free.
I plan to do a final run-through of the story this weekend from start to finish. At that point, I will use Scrivener to compile the story and export it into files for Amazon and SmashWords (Draft2Digital). Then, I will import the story into QuarkXPress for the paperback version. Once you finish the main content, you’ll need to determine the spine thickness to get the cover width right. That’s the tricky part because the cover is a single image of the front, back, and spine combined. The spine thickness varies with the number of pages, so precise measurements are required to ensure accuracy. Otherwise, the printer will not accept the job.
I use CorelDRAW for the cover and virtually all of my artwork, as it is a commercial product specifically designed to create images with exact dimensions. Once I get the dimensions for my cover, I crop my initial cover image and export a copy sized for the book. It’s not terribly hard, but it’s about 4 hours from start to finish.
Hopefully, I don’t get derailed, but at this point, I hope to kick the story out the door in about two weeks
I’m Larry Archer, a simple writer of smut stories in both print and electronic format. Foxy and I are swingers in real life, and I write about what we do and see. While the Lifestyle is not for everyone, it’s been fun for us. My smut is explicit and hardcore, but with a somewhat plot. My porn stories are generally positive and fun, as this reflects how enjoyable swinging has been to us. If you’re interested in checking out my stories, I publish in electronic, paperback, or audiobook format at all the typical outlets.
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