Update 31st Aug '25

First up, I finally got the slime smother nun (Voluptua Obruo) release out. The details of that are in a previous post.

My replacement laptop also showed up a little quicker than expected, which meant I could also update the houseofhellishharlots website at the start rather than the middle of the week and get back to regular activities.

This left most of the week clear for the next activity.

I mentioned at the start of the year I would be setting aside a month to get a new short story collection out. I did want to do that after finishing all the round 5 elite harlots, but I also wanted to drop the new collection sometime around Halloween, which is looming, so that month needs to be pretty much now.

Even though most of my focus has been on HoHH, I've still been sneaking out the odd short story here and there. I've nearly got enough for two collections. What needs to be written are the staples that show up in every collection - a Nicole story, a Succubus Tablet story, and usually some variation of "[RPG-Class] vs Succubus (or monster girl)". I'll probably drop more details on this in a post sometime next week.

The Succubus Tablet story for this one is a little complex. Rather than focus on the person possessing the tablet, it focuses on the persons the succubus is sent to assassinate. I thought I'd do something similar to what I did with "Locked in with a Succubus" (from A Succubus for Freedom) and scatter the parts through the whole collection. Hopefully, it should work better this time as the parts are standalone shorts in their own right that just happen to be part of a larger story that is resolved with the final piece.

I have two of the shorts already written from a while back. The plan is for 6 H-scene shorts of the succubus in action, a 7th short resolving the whole story, and 4-5 fragments filling in some of the gaps as some of my regular characters put in an appearance. I didn't mess around at all this week and wrote 3 of the shorts, and 4 of the fragments. That's pretty much writing 3 short stories in a week, so that's pretty fast for me. I'm hoping I have that same productivity mood when I finally get around to writing Succubus Summoning 301. At that rate I could probably write the first draft in a month!

This is exactly the start I wanted to make (and the nameless succubus is quite creative with her 'kills' when let off the leash). The succubus tablet story is the most complex piece for the collection, so if I can get that out of the way, the rest is more straightforward. Ideally I'd like it all done (first drafts, typing up, editing, ebook formatting) by the end of September, so I can give myself some PR time to hype the collection up before dropping it on Amazon (and other online stores) around Halloween.

I haven't forgotten HoHH. The other thing I was doing this week (yes, I've been very busy. :) ) was writing the notebook sections for the low-tier harlots. I'll continue doing this while working on the collection.

Thanks for the interest and support.
- manyeyedhydra