Update 15th Sep '24

A frustrating week, but before I get into the details of that, here is an actual update.

The private demo version of House of Hellish Harlots 1.5 has been updated. New harlot art has been added. This means no more harlot art placeholders. All 36 of 36 harlots now have pin-up art.

The demo version can be found here under "Private Demo":
https://houseofhellishharlots.com/pg07-experimental/

The password is: ftJ\u<0k6nCI)u:C
(it's also in the pinned post)

Now for what I got up to in the week.

It started pretty well. I did some organising of my short stories in-progress and looked again at what I need for the next short story collection. I typed up a chunk (about 2.5K words) of one of those stories, and got two others running again. One is a new Annette Brite story. It was originally just a random idea I was in the mood to write. Initially, it wasn't one of the stories I needed to write for the collection, then I figured out how to nicely tie it in with the Nicole story idea for the collection (which I also need to write).

This was quite convenient as I had to axe one short story idea as it wasn't working. The contents of the collection are still in flux, but I have a better idea of what needs to be written and what is currently in process.

This week I also got the latest batch of artwork back from marwmellow. It was when I tried to pay him for the commission when the week fell apart.

The crowd-funding site he uses has been pretty much blocked by all payment processors at the moment. I shouted at my bank for a while, before finding out the customer service drones are not legally allowed to tell you why payments are being declined in cases like this. We're currently looking at workarounds.

That ended up disrupting the second half of the week and I'm still working on finding a way to pay him for work done.

While it did disrupt my writing, I was able to get some other things done.

The new short story "An Exclusive Performance with Magistrix Synn" has been edited and submitted to Literotica. I'm waiting on that to be accepted.

And the last thing was uploading the new art to the houseofhellishharlots website, which I finished this morning to give you the new demo mentioned at the top of this post.

The next few weeks are probably going to be fairly chaotic. Top priority is making sure marwmellow gets paid for the commissions.

After that there are a few plates spinning.

Now I have all the harlot art, I'm thinking it might be time to put out a proper public demo for HoHH 1.5. The question is whether to go with the current placeholders I have for the title page and UI elements, or delay the public demo until after I replace them (at least for the UI elements).

I need to get back to work on Temptacia. I know a lot of people are waiting expectantly for her.

I also have 5 short stories on the go at the moment. One is for Literotica's Halloween competition and the other four are for the next collection.

I'll probably prioritise these based on which I'm in the mood to work on. That usually tends to be the most productive for me. I don't know what that'll be until I actually work on things, so expect the next few weeks to be a little chaotic.

Thanks for the understanding and support.
- manyeyedhydra