InkScape – Cover Design for the Masses

Posted on March 6, 2022 by LarryArcher

As an author of erotic stories, I sometimes need other things beside lube and my keyboard for satisfaction. Being a scribbler of dirty stories, completing one of my masterpieces requires a book cover to show off the contents. Also, the goal is ultimately to extract the pervert’s credit card from their raincoat to purchase a copy of said story.

Creating a proper cover requires a graphics design software package specially designed for the job. Certainly, products such as PhotoShop or GIMP can be employed, but my go-to program has always been CorelDRAW. Corel has been around for years and is a staple of the commercial graphics design business.

The biggest impediment for many authors is the cost of CorelDRAW, but there are now alternatives to be considered.

InkScape is an open-source (i.e., Free) software program for graphic design similar to CorelDRAW. Programmers typically develop open-source software as a labor of love and not money. As a programmer myself, I classify Corel and InkScape as object-oriented software packages.

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My Cup Overflow’ith With Computers

Posted on March 4, 2022 by LarryArcher
“Come back here. I’m not done with you yet,” Foxy yelled.

My third HP Workstation is bouncing around in the back of a FedEx truck as we speak and will be ensconced with the initial ones this afternoon. Not having a house party to go to has changed my outlook on life.

What am I going to do with three workstations? I have plans for the first two, but the third is a mystery so far. I know that my wife is wondering about all of the boxes piling up in the living room. She’s biting her tongue to keep me from questioning why I have to keep ordering replacement credit cards for her. Hers keep melting in the bottom of her purse, and I can hear them whimpering when I drive past Neiman Marcus on the Strip.

I’ve divided my life into individual parts, like a schizophrenic who argues with himself over what restaurant to eat at and needs the third identity to cast the deciding vote.

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Christmas in March

Posted on March 3, 2022 by LarryArcher

Today (so far) has been a great day. My additional memory for my new HP Workstation is installed, and now I’m running 128 Gb of RAM. I’m thinking about wearing racing gloves. It’s like going to a house party (swinger’s party), and all the wives know your dick is bigger than their husbands! My computer is bigger than yours!

Or like that time you walked sleepy-eyed down to the family room to see the Christmas tree and look for your new pony or your Red Ryder BB gun. That was before your parents told you the horrible truth about Santa Claus and how he would jump a 12-volt battery to Rudolph’s balls so his nose would light up.

After learning that soul-crushing truth that destroyed your innocent childhood, you knew the mall Santa was laughing behind your back when you asked for a new saddle for your pony. And saw the Elves taking upskirt pictures of your mom.

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Smut is Piling Up

Posted on February 27, 2022 by LarryArcher
12 of the 15 Erotic Novels I’ve Published to Date

Richie of Kinky Literature and I have been going over my paperback books released so far, and to my amazement, I’ve published 15 stories in print form. Once I got the hang of publishing, I couldn’t stop myself and started to lose track of which ones I’d done.

Below are the paperback versions of my electronic versions, which I’ve published to date. These links are to the books on the Kinky Literature website, and I recommend that you use them if you don’t have a preference. The cost is the same as Amazon’s price. They make their money off referral fees. The good thing is that you are helping to support a site that provides stories from all the top authors of erotica. I don’t make anything from pushing them. In fact, I pay them for advertising my stories, but Richie and Randi do so much for the erotica industry. It’s my way of paying it forward.

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Heavy Reading and Heavy Breathing

Posted on February 27, 2022 by LarryArcher

Swinger Stories Compilation #1 is three of my popular wife swapping stories bound together in a single 650-page paperback. This was my first experiment publishing a long print book and was yet another learning experience. Like when you touched a hot stove to see if it was really hot.

My experiment into creating print books is also getting expensive. The love-hate relationship with QuarkXPress continues unabated as I struggle to understand why Quark is an unforgiving and insidious bitch. Apparently, I’m the first one to discover this, as usual, because it seems that Quark also hates PhotoShop. Or maybe it’s the other way around, except it’s me with my finger on the hot stove.

I believe that Quark has a memory leak that Depends can’t solve. I’ve maxed out the memory in my desktop to 32 Gb, and that seemed to help. So, I decided to attempt to solve the problem with my typical last-ditch method, throwing money at the problem.

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Company Benefits is Live Today

Posted on February 25, 2022 by LarryArcher

Company Benefits, Larry Archer’s latest smut story is available today, Friday 25-Feb-2022, at Kinky Literature, Amazon Kindle, SmashWords, Apple Books, Barnes and Noble, and Kobo. Coming soon to Scribd.

Company Benefits is available in both electronic and paperback format through Kinky Literature and Amazon. Now with a paperback copy you have something to do with your other hand.

As always, Larry recommends that you favor Kinky Literature with your hard-earned money as they carry all the best erotic literature in both eBook and paperback form. You pay the same price and get the satisfaction of supporting a website that promotes all the best smut from the top authors of erotic literature.

As you slip that story into your phone, tablet, computer, or hand, you can hear your favorite reading device saying, “Shove that big hard erotic love story deep into my electrons and make it hurt! Whip me, beat me, make me say dirty words!” Remember to keep a towel nearby in case you make a mess!

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Company Benefits Available This Friday

Posted on February 21, 2022 by LarryArcher

Company Benefits is available for preorder and will hit the streets this Friday, 25-February-2022. For the first time, I’ve packaged both the electronic and paperback versions that will be released at the same time from Kinky Literature, Amazon Kindle, and SmashWords.

My love-hate relationship with QuarkXPress continued unabated but moderated at this point. I’ve successfully transitioned to the 2022 version of Quark, which appears to have solved all but a couple of items on my Bitch List.

I’ve currently published fourteen (14) of my stories in paperback form to date. So if you’re looking for something to do with your other hand, you can now hold one of my stories:

I’ve gotten the paperback publishing business down to an art now and can publish a previously written story in under two hours from start to finish.

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Amazon Is More User-Friendly to Authors?

Posted on February 7, 2022 by LarryArcher

Until recently, the use of Amazon and User-Friendly in the same sentence was almost a pejorative for authors, especially writers of erotica. When I publish a smut story, I hold my breath during the required “Review Process,” as I can imagine a group of little old church ladies sitting in a circle knitting while discussing my latest submission.

When you get the dreaded rejection notice, it contains a list of possible reasons that often trump the disclaimers seen on television for some new drug to cure erectile dysfunction or some other malady you are loath to discuss in mixed company.

On the one hand, you’d like to get lucky, but is it worth dying over a piece of tail? It always seems that the final side effect is always death with every drug.

Previously, when I got a rejection notice from Amazon and sorted through the wide range of possible objections, it was challenging to figure out precisely what they didn’t like? At least in my case, it typically boiled down to one thing, which Amazon could have told me to fix rather than play a guessing game.

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Life is a Cruel Mistress

Posted on February 5, 2022 by LarryArcher

Have you ever wanted to stick your finger in a light socket to see if it really hurts? Or what could go wrong when you rode a shopping cart down a steep hill in San Franciso? I don’t think it would hurt at all. On the other hand, I know I would crash into something soft.

Let me tell you, friends, life sucks the big one! As my mom tells me, “You never learn your lesson unless it hurts!”

My quest to publish my erotic stories in paperback has turned into Monty Python’s Search For the Holy Grail, except for the coconut carrying swallows (European or African). I’d always hoped to find the Castle Anthrax with “8 score young blondes and brunettes…, all between sixteen and 19-and-a-half…, cut off in this castle with no one to protect us! Oh…, it is a lonely life. Bathing…, dressing…, undressing…, knitting exciting underwear….”

I especially love that the castle was cold, and the girl’s outfits were so thin and showed every bump.

Sorry, got distracted!

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My Masochistic Love Affair With QuarkXPress Continues

Posted on February 2, 2022 by LarryArcher
Cuckold Club - First Date
Cuckold Club – First Date

Like a pervert in a raincoat with a bag of candy and a picture of his lost puppy, I can’t get enough of QuarkXPress. I guess it’s the pain reward part of my brain that seeks abuse and excitement from seeing my erotic stories in print on actual paper. Can you have Stockholm Syndrome with software?

As a long-time user of QuarkXPress for creating print documents, just when you think you’ve mastered the program, it knees you in the gonads. Quark is a man’s software for manly men, not for pussies or the faint of heart. But, like in high school, when you and another stud muffin would put your arms together and lay a lit cigarette in the crease to find out who flinches first, Quark takes no prisoners.

I know I could use In Design, but I dislike Adobe and other companies that rent you their software instead of selling it to you. If I bought it, I should own it and be able to regift it. Besides writing porn stories, I also do a lot of photography and use a high-end Canon digital camera. Unfortunately, Adobe got smart, and now you have to pay a monthly fee to use their Lightroom program for processing digital images. I got hooked on Lightroom when you could own it and have over 100,000 photos in Lightroom that I’d rather not convert to some other piece of software. Adobe knows this, and it struck them that rather than just sticking their hand in your back pocket once, they can do it forever.

No use beating a dead horse. I just suck it up and move on.

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