#WIP snippet from the new book. Yes this is just an excuse to get on my soap box about privileged rich white gays.

I think I have a title for my second book. It's very cute and in line with both the themes and sexual innuendo, as well as doubling as a reference to a location in the story. I'm baffled this title choice didn't occur to me before.

I thought I might have some writers' block the last couple days, but that seems to have dissipated entirely. 5000 words in one session. Let's fucking go.

Damn, I was serious when I said this second book is gonna be longer. I'm still writing chapter 1, our main characters have not met yet, and I'm at nearly 15% the word count the entirety of HIS PROTECTOR had already. We are fleshing out our worlds more going forward, babes!

#wip snippet from my new novel I didn't set out to write an ode to the bathhouse and gay cruising culture but if it happens, it happens

#wip snippet from my new novel I didn't set out to write an ode to the bathhouse and gay cruising culture but if it happens, it happens

What is the opposite of writer's block because I have 18 different ideas for books I wanna write in the near to middle future rn.

The scale of this new book is gonna be so much larger. In every way. More complex plot and themes. More locations. More characters. Many more sex scenes. It's a bit intimidating but I'm excited to get into it.

Currently coming up with a bath house location that will return multiple times for absolute DEBAUCHERY in my new book and may or may not loosely be based on a certain bath house in Berlin and my personal experiences there. I love me a bath house.

For HIS PROTECTOR I just started typing (and then wrote out a loose plot outline after I had finished the first couple chapters to give it more structure), for book #2 I'm trying something more like a series bible with a much more structured approach. Let's see how this goes.

I think I have a pretty solid grasp on who the love interest of my next book *is* and I'm excited to explore this character. And his hole.

caught between despair and hope right now as my job looks set to be making me redundant in the coming months, maybe weeks, but also my experiment in running ads for my books performed so well that i see a path to profitably being an author there, which would be the absolute dream

I may have underestimated the long tail of KU reads from ads. Today I'm on track to have one of my best days in terms of pages read and ads have been off for over a week at this point. Maybe I will break even on this ad spend after all.

I didn't know that Amazon automatically made a Goodreads page for your books. I just went to set it up and found HIS PROTECTOR already there sitting at a 4 star rating 🥺 Mind you, off two reviews, but that's still really fucking cool!

I'm excited to start on my second book next week. I have an outline and character bios more or less done. It's gonna be a different sub-genre, not the Drake Silver sequel. I've had a really rough time lately but I'm gonna take this weekend to relax and catch up on sleep and then I can get typing.

Some small author transparency and nerd math: I spent about 110€ on meta ads to promote HIS PROTECTOR and I made about 80€ off it in that time. Ads are paused now. I expect some more to come in off the long tail of Kindle Unlimited reading that is often time shifted, but may not break even.

I think it's time to write book #2 🫣

I have been inching up day by day and I can TASTE that top 100 position 🥺

I've edged towards 1000 without crossing it a few times now. Finally made it past today for the first time. I know it's a tiny number to established authors, but people reading 1000 pages of my book in a day is a huge deal to me. Whew! Let's celebrate that!

I'm as slutty as my characters btw

You know writing has taken over your brain when you remember two dreams from the night and they are: - literally writing your next novella - waking up to new reviews on Amazon

The triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of high school football, and also anal sex in the locker rooms after the match.

Anyway buy my lovingly human made slop so I can feel less defeatist about watching AI slop perform so well. 💖 mybook.to/hisprotector...

A drum I will bang on forever. Studies consistently find that people who self describe as "porn addicts" have completely normal engagement with porn, they just feel shame about it. Porn is not addictive. It's not a diagnosis. No respectable psychologist treats it.

I jinxed myself. It was 1000 pages read on Kindle Unlimited in a day (which would roughly equate to 8 people reading the book in full, though of course more likely more readers reading various amounts) but we ended just short of it.

The most insidious thing about genAI is constantly seeing soulless, cynical AI creations outperform things put together lovingly by humans on social media everywhere around us. It makes you wonder what even the point is if everyone apparently wants the slop. And you gotta resist that feeling.

Issue resolved!

I'm on track to hit an arbitrary but meaningful little goal with my book today. I don't wanna celebrate before it happens. But it's really affirming to see my metrics climbing there.

💥 OUT NOW 💥 HIS PROTECTOR, the first in a series of kinky, smutty, explicit gay biker books! Buy now on Amazon or read for free on Kindle Unlimited to meet Drake Silver and find out what makes him so wildly intoxicating. mybook.to/hisprotector... #gaysmut #gayromance #gayauthor #queerauthor #mlm

Trying to come up with another ridiculously stupid name for the love interest in my next novel and this shit is harder than the actual writing process because now I wanna one-up myself and come up with something better/more ridiculous than DRAKE SILVER.

I definitely understand why genre authors swear by Amazon Kindle Unlimited. 3 people reading my very short book in full is roughly equivalent to the revenue from 1 sale, and it's a whole lot easier to get people to give your book a chance for "free" as part of their membership vs to sell a copy.

People “writing” with AI going into the text and purposely adding typos and grammatical mistakes so their text isn’t clocked as AI is crazy. I don’t need to add human stupidity to artificial intelligence. My jumping back and forth between US and UK spellings randomly is all natural. 😂

Hey babes! I’m aware my book can’t be found through Amazon search rn. Trying to figure out the issue and work it out - hoping it’s just search indexing delays! Until then, the link in my bio will take you to the listing for your local Amazon store ❤️

Is this how you sell a book? I’m not above slutting myself out for attention 🫣

Final Destination but it’s porn and all kills are ridiculous gay sex mishaps like a motorized butt plug exploding in your hole or dying from suffocating during too aggressive a mouthfuck or getting your skin burned off by the exposed water heater at the bath house falling on you mid orgy.

It’s a new week and I’m energized to start on my second book. I have a few ideas that are all dragging me in their direction, let’s see which one I end up starting on.

Queering m/m romance by making all my characters huge sluts in open relationships having casual and group sex in public places, but more importantly by tying the resolution of the emotional arc directly to Britney Spears.

I hope these are reminders to buy HIS PROTECTOR on Amazon later or read it for free on Kindle Unlimited using the link in my description and then to leave a 5 star review, and not for unchristian reasons smh

Hey babes I know I asked a lot of you the last couple days, but can I ask one more thing? 🥺 If you read/enjoyed HIS PROTECTOR, can you drop a quick review on Amazon? Those early reviews are super important and people are hesitant to check out anything with few or no reviews. Will love you forever

Setting up my author linktree and I'd rather eat glass than have AI write a 160 character bio for me like some idiot baby who cannot handle the smallest tasks and needs a computer to tell him who he is.

Is this how you sell a book? I’m not above slutting myself out for attention 🫣

My fav thing is when people first notice the joke in my pen name.

I want all my readers to know exactly where I stand.

I have way too many ideas including some high concept stuff and some that crosses erotica with other, really fun genres. Y'all aren't ready. I'm taking a few days off from writing and then picking whether I'll continue the Drake Silver series first, or do something completely different.

The name Drake Silver was supposed to be a joke about the most ridiculously stupid name I could think of for a biker but now I lowkey really love that stupid ass name. It's camp. It's fantasy. Why not.

Face reveal I guess. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to link my pen name to my face or actual identity at first, but I realized I’d rather be myself than construct a persona. Hi, I’m Richard Vein, author of kinky filthy gay smut. #gayauthor #queerauthor #ownvoices #gayerotica #maleerotica #gaysmut

Just saw another m/m romance that uses not only the same model, but another photo from the same photoshoot for its cover that I used. We all share the same envato subscription 😂

OUT NOW #booksky #gayromance #queerromance #gaysmut #bikerromance #bdsm mybook.to/hisprotector...

Sales for HIS PROTECTOR are coming in and I just wanna say thank you to everyone taking a chance on me and checking out my debut 🙏 Also available on Kindle Unlimited for free with your membership btw

I want all my readers to know exactly where I stand.