Thank you all for the warm welcome!
Yes the book wasn't necessarily planned. I felt my writing was getting stale so my wife challenged me to write something outside of my comfort zone. I told her to give me a prompt and she said, "Transsexual Erotica. Write a Futa Romance with a happy ending."
That was certainly outside of my comfort zone, but it was some of the best stuff I've written n a long time. I contacted a publisher and was told it was good...just not right for them (they dealt with different taboo subjects, like incest and polymorphism, not hermaphroditism). I contacted another publisher and they said, "Sure, if you can get a companion piece written for it, because it's too short on its own."
So after some time I managed to eke out a companion piece after almost a year of planning and starting different takes on a few stories and submitted them both to the second publisher as a combined piece. The submissions editor said, "This is great! Do you have a third one?"
I died at that point.
My ghost was able to jump into hyperdrive and I wrote for about 48 straight hours (I slept for 5 hours somewhere in the middle there) and spent a week editing it before submitting the third piece.
And that's where my first book,
Escort, came from.
As for the webseries, I've been an avid scholar of Asian history for years. I got into it after reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms and from China I jumped into Japan after learning about the samurai and getting into Jidaigeki movies and all that.
I've held a few panels on samurai at anime conventions the past few years and we had been thinking about, maybe when my books got to a bigger thing, starting up a webseries based on what I do in my panels. But this past year a lot of people approached us after the panel and said they wished I had a Youtube channel or something, because they liked my approach and thought I made the information interesting.
So a few months ago we officially started Samurai Gaiden.
So hopefully I can bring an overabundance of Samurai lore to VGfacts and DYKG. :)
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