I keep getting royalty payment notifications from KDP, just one or two here and there, and it's fun. I still want to see if Books 1-3 will explode into popularity (although doubtful) before I publish the next three. I might post future cover art on this here blog.
At this point I'm mostly focusing on my non-Sweet-Valley-Twins-parody books, the ones that have my character Piper but no Sweet Valley twits to terrorize (and are therefore not parody/ are original so as to not be mayhap messing with copyright laws). It's going rather badly. Saccharin Valley Twits was my training wheels, like it was OK to write these/ publish them because they were a humorous/horror-filled takeoff on an existing idea (also I was really good at mimicking the author/ghostwriter's style). Now it's all me, and I keep wondering why I'm trying to be a writer. (Technically I'm a writer already, but not really, because self-published doesn't count). I have a lot of chunks written that go in various books in the same series, but no one book is finished. Also I'm concerned for my ability to construct a plot/narrative longer than 100 pages (the standard size for SVT books). It has to be all "adult" too, can't be (making fun of) 90s-era middle-school books. As previously stated, I'm really bad at sex scenes, which seem to be a staple of urban fantasy; I can only titillate. Then it's like, YOU KNOW what happens after that, nudge nudge. Do I have to spell it out for you? Yes, apparently that's how allosexual people get their jollies. (I am asexual, and can be turned on by abstract things: color, pattern, texture, certain music. I have a libido, I just don't have sexual attraction to other people).
Hopefully if people liked my Saccharin Valley Twits books they would be interested in another (non-parody) series. I was always excited to find that one author's name was a pseudonym for an author I already read and liked.
