Cecilia Lansing

The Discovering Alice Series

A new series!

The first book is called "Should have Guessed Her Name", and it is available at all Amazon stores.

Bad luck? Or…

Alice is tricked into signing the contract. Unable to comprehend all that that encompasses—and not given the time, anyway—Alice is whisked off to her first assignation.

Brandon is woken from deep sleep by a strange woman. How did the two women get into his bedroom? A closer look reveals one of them to be Alice. The one that got away.

His brain has painted a nice scenario for him to enjoy. The proposal the strange woman throws at his feet can't be real. He just goes with the flow, and plays out one of his favorite fantasies on Alice. Although, judging by her responses, she's just as much into it.

When it seems over, Alice has no time to process it all, as the Mystery Woman is there to take her off to the next ex.

Soon…

Find out what happens next in the soon to be release second book in the Discovering Alice series.

The Libertine Explorations Series

The Libertine Explorations of Brian and Amanda.

The first two ebooks in the series have been released and are available at most regular ebook sellers.

Book 1 is called "First Time".

Book 2 is called "Just Time Enough".

Book 3 is tentatively called "Talking Fantasies".

Vanilla start

The Libertine Explorations of Amanda and Brian start off when Amanda pulls Brian into his bedroom to fuck. Brian is hesitant, as Amanda is the same age as his much younger sister, and her housemate. But Amanda quickly convinces him to give in and enjoy.

And enjoy they do. After their first very satisfying tryst, they decide it shouldn't be the last and declare themselves Fuck Buddies.

Naughty Oral

The second time they are together, the return of Brian's sister Sandy limits the time they have to go wild. They end up orally pleasing each other, and then having to scramble to not get caught.

Ebook Pricing

Dean Wesley Smith highlighted a comment from one of his readers (Teri Babcock) about ebook pricing in its own blog post. It argues for saner ebook pricing, and I mostly agree. I've been thinking about raising the prices on my two ebooks for a while now, and will probably follow through Real Soon Now™.

A telling quote I think:

Read the full comment and a few follow–up remarks by Dean here: The New World of Publishing: Book Pricing from Another Perspective.

I'm still a bit wary of pricing my ebooks too high, so the coming price hike will probably be small. I was thinking around $3 for removed (because that is really quite a short story) and around $4 for removed.

Thoughts?

Rambling, and a Work In Progress Excerpt

After a week of vacation I seem to have been inspired to get back to writing a bit more seriously again. Today was a productive day, and that makes me feel good.

I'm a writer. How do I know I am, you ask? Because the act of writing makes me feel good. It's that simple.

But it's not all, of course. Part of being a writer is having other people read what you write. And hopefully like it. Or at least be moved to feel something by it. There's nothing worse than being boring, as a writer. As a person, really, but as a writer it touches on what makes you, you. And what makes you money, in the end, so it can be a real problem, being boring as a writer. Unnoticed. Forgotten.

Which is why you probably see a lot of writers trying to get attention. For their work if they're not too conceited, but sometimes for themselves. Those should probably just be ignored.

But the thing is, we don't know if you've seen our work if you don't tell us about it. So please do. Write a review, give it a rating. Comment on a blog post, or send an e-mail (mine is cecilialansing @gmail.com). The author will love you for it.

This author will even love you if you criticize her writing. Not saying mean things, mind you, but telling me what's wrong with my work will maybe even earn you more gratitude than gushing platitudes about my greatness. I already know about my greatness. Tell me how to improve! ;)

So here's me, asking for some attention for my work. The little bit below is an excerpt from one of my Works–In–Progress (WIP). Unedited, raw. So it has warts. Can you see the same ones I already spotted? Or have you spotted problems I've missed by being too close to the material? I'd love to know. Leave me a comment?

Excerpt

That is the end of chapter 6 of my novel–length work in progress. It's about the journey of a somewhat older man as he discovers the delights of kinky, sexy games with three uninhibited young women. And somewhere they end up on a sailing boat. With ropes and rigging and acres of lonely water.

So, liked it? Hated it? Problems? I'd love to get some feedback.

March 2012 Update

It's been a bit silent here for a while. I finished a new draft on a short erotic story (actually the first in a series) a while ago, but put it aside and for some reason I haven't felt like starting up on the editing and revising process on that one. I'll let it lie a little longer.

I've also been on holiday, so I was out of the country and away from internet and my keyboard. But now I'm back, with a couple of new ideas running around in my head.

Today I found myself starting a completely different short erotic story. But the lead-up to the actual naughty bits is taking a lot longer than I planned. Not that that is by default wrong or something, but I might need to rethink the story once I get through writing down the first draft.

Anyway, still #amwriting, just not as fast as I had hoped when I started out on this adventure. But come back. I'll have something new up. Promise. Just don't know when.

Meanwhile, if you haven't already, check out my first released short story: (removed).