This is an experimental cover prepared with Leonardo.ai. I wanted to have a new chapter or slice of the story but writing has just not been happening lately.
So I decided to post this. Comments?
2023-07-24 19:43:06 +0000 UTC View Post
A collection of Melanie E's short transgender romances is coming from DopplerPress! Watch for it!
2023-07-23 16:35:05 +0000 UTC View Post
We're putting out an ebook of Jane sometime in the next week or so. :)
2023-07-22 17:46:34 +0000 UTC View Post
"Sooooo...."
"Yep."
"...Huh."
I stared at the half-opened package and thought.
What I'd ordered had been a vintage 1977 Kosmic Kevin tee shirt, size medium. One of the promotional ones they'd given out at a few events when the first movie came out. It was supposed to be dark heather gray, with midnight blue trim and a (mostly) intact screen print of Kosmic Kevin himself on the front, just like on the movie poster that already hung over the couch in the living room.
... 2023-07-22 02:15:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Four of Melanie Brown's Switcher tales in one volume. Probably soon Kindle tomorrow or Saturday.
These are body swap tales by Melanie Brown and they are quite good. :)
Hugs,
Erin
2023-07-21 00:58:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I woke up the next morning warm, comfortable and feeling oddly heavier than normal. I laid there for at least ten minutes, half-asleep and trying to figure out why I seemed to be held in place before my brain began to sort things out.
I was in a king-size bed in a hotel room in Austin, Texas.
I was tucked against the bolster Brian and I had made the night before to give us separate sides of the bed, my back pressed firmly to it.
I couldn't move because, at some po...
2023-07-19 18:06:43 +0000 UTC View Post
By the time I got through changing clothes six or seven times, I was thoroughly sick of the whole thing. Everyone tried to be supportive and encouraging, and Linda was positively enthusiastic, but I ended the “fashum” show by coming out of my room wearing a pair of my old jeans and one of Dad’s polo shirts that had ended up in my laundry somehow.
Donna scowled at me. “Your little alligator is lying on his side. You’re cute even when you’re not trying to be,” she accused. 2023-07-16 21:05:11 +0000 UTC View Post
The romance continues... and not just for Marcia. Romance, mystery and suspense all over the place in this second volume!
2023-07-14 22:58:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 24 – An Evening With Friends
It took another three and a half flights of stairs for me to get down to the lobby and another flight back up once I learned the restaurant was on the building’s second floor. I was mulling over the desk attendant’s somewhat confusing directions when I pushed open the second-floor door, only to see Brian about ten feet from the door on the other side.
“Oh!” I said, jumping a bit but quashing the instinct to step back into the stairwel...
2023-07-13 12:20:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Our newest book in not transgender so we are using our AlephTwo imprint for Science Fantasy.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CBNS63HH
Kevin McCarthy has created a far-future world full of science going wrong, or at least wandering off and getting lost.
It's got superpowers, theme park dieties, alien spiders and art by the author. It's fun!
2023-07-12 06:51:19 +0000 UTC View Post
The water in the pool was as warm as August, with only a breath of humid air moving above it. Did they keep it warm all through the winter? It doesn’t get that cold in Friendly, but we have snow almost every January. It probably costs a fortune just to heat the big old house, let alone an indoor pool.
No business of mine, I decided.
I waded in at the shallow end, then dog-paddled out to deeper water. It all felt very odd, and I seemed to be more buoyant than I remembered being. ...
2023-07-11 03:47:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Wednesday Knights
Melanie E.
Chapter 23 -- Waking Up
I was dreaming.
I knew I was dreaming because I normally didn’t have afternoon tea with banana-yellow velociraptors in the waking world.
“That is a conundrum, dearie,” Mrs. Raptor said, sipping her tea primly.
“Yeah,” I agreed, sipping my own equally carefully. She’d already chided me once – gently – for letting some tea drip onto my dress, and I wasn’t looking forward to Aunt Cici’s r...
2023-07-05 21:20:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This non-TG book is why we came up with the AlephTwo imprint for science fantasy. :) Expect to see this on Kindle before the end of July and a second and third book in the coming months. Kevin is well ahead in the writing.
Oh, he did the cover art, too. Typography by me. We'll have a promo blurb for it and a sample chapter, too.
The basic idea is a far future world where humanity has regressed to 17th-century technology, except that old science is considered magic. There are alien...
2023-07-04 06:27:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Megan had to show me how, of course, but putting the thing up inside me was less trauma than I expected. The little plastic tube went in, you pressed the plunger and pulled the tube out, leaving the little bundle as a cork. And it had a convenient string attached when it came time to remove it.
“You’re giggling, aren’t you,” Megan accused.
I nodded. “Just remembering the last time I had something up there,” I said around a sour smile. “That thing…in the motel…....
2023-07-03 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I did a wonderful cover (I think :)) for Masks 19 before being reminded that Template is not in this one. But Larry the shapeshifter is, so who's to say that that's Template? Hmm?
She does look a bit upset. :)
I changed the title for brevity, even though the original title had a kind of sly nod toward Star Wars. "A Disturbance in the Peace".
I don't think Stick has seen this yet, so they may not like it. No huhu, I can do a different one but I'm kind of at a loss fo...
2023-07-01 22:51:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Duets is at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9WBJ2ZX
Didn't get the cover up early, sorry about that. This is a hot story.
Strong, powerful, independent Liz has a plan for her life but keeps looking for something more.
Upcoming young lawyer Cam owns a good heart and a good head but lacks direction.
From the first time they meet, the two of them are enthralled, Liz with Cam's kindness and seeming ...
2023-06-30 22:32:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 22 – Fit For A King
“Here you are, miss, enjoy!” The chipper booth girl said.
I thanked her and took the small bag from her hands, dropping it in the cavernous mouth of the complimentary oversized tote the con had given me when I’d registered. It wasn’t overly full yet, but I could already feel it weighing down my shoulder and wondered if I should head back to the room to empty it before coming back.
No, I reminded myself. That would just m...
2023-06-30 02:33:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Maryanne's next book is on the theme of replacements, stand-ins and substitutes. Should be up sometime in the next few days. :)
Cover by me using Leonardo AI for assist.
2023-06-28 19:02:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Going up later this week on Kindle, Stickmaker's murder mystery headlining a collection of transformation stories, some of them transgender.
Cover Art by Melanie E
Typography by Me. :)
This will be the first publication from our new imprint, AlephTwo. Watch for it soon!
2023-06-27 01:45:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I used the big towel carefully, patting myself dry more than any kind of rubbing motion. Somehow, my skin was tender and and sensitive, not just my new appendages but all over, like even the back of my neck.
I twisted the towel into a sort of dress and wiped some moisture from the big mirror on the back of the door. I still had on the pink shower cap and the towel hung out from my body, held up by my new shape.
I stared for maybe half a minute, looking at the tiny girl with the hu...
2023-06-24 17:05:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Wednesday Knights
Chapter 21: Weapon of Choice
The last thing I wanted after that fiasco was to get stuck in my own head again, but it wasn’t long before the underwhelming scenery and post-apple pie torpor had my mind circling the drain.
What WAS going on with my relationship with Brian anyway? Were we still just roommates and best friends? Or….
I thought about that morning in our room and waking up in bed next to him. I’d freaked out a little, sure, but if I wer...
2023-06-22 05:55:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Melanie E's Double Date Dare will be out on Kindle, probably Thursday. Here's the cover with art by Melanie, and Typography by Joyce.
Look for the story soon. :)
2023-06-17 19:35:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Wednesday Knights
By Melanie E.
Chapter 20 – From Here to There
“Ugh,” I grumbled as I shifted in my seat, trying to find a comfortable position.
“It’s not that bad,” Brian said, humor in his voice even though his eyes and attention were on the road and not my squirming.
“Says you,” I mumped with another grumble. “The seat belt is twisted, the seat adjuster is broken, and the pleather is cracked and keeps pinching my ass.”
“Shoulda wor...
2023-06-15 06:12:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Latest book in the DopplerPress queue. We hope to have this on Kindle by the weekend, but surely by sometime next week. Still waiting on Kindle to go live with Melanie Brown's A Modest Proposal.
This is a new edit of my own story. :)
Rachel Schibuk did a very thorough copyediting job and I went over it one last time myself, making sure to replace all the old errors with new ones. :D
Cver Art by Melanie Ezell
2023-06-14 03:22:23 +0000 UTC View Post
“There must be fifteen different kinds of chocolate ice cream here,” I remarked to Megan as we deposited our pints on the iced serving table in the big family room of Joanna’s parents’ house. Mansion really.
I’d been here before, and I shuddered a bit, remembering the morning…. Shit! Was that only last weekend? I felt dizzy.
Megan didn’t seem to notice, so I guess I didn’t stagger around or anything. She giggled. “Well, there are probably at least that many girls...
2023-06-10 23:18:32 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the candidate image for the cover for a new Melanie Brown book collecting some of her angsty teen stories. :)
2023-06-09 20:00:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Wednesday Knights
Chapter 19 -- Did We?
“You okay?”
I sighed. “Yes. For like the fifth time, I’m fine.”
Brian held up his hands and leaned away from me but continued to smile. “You’re just fidgeting a lot, is all.”
“Yeah, well.” I harrumphed and crossed my arms. “I’m just ready to get off this boat.”
“You and me both,” he said, laying a hand on my shoulder and giving it a squeeze.
I tried not to flinch at his touch, but I...
2023-06-08 04:43:52 +0000 UTC View Post
When I'm asleep, my Story Machine idles away, working on ideas I probably won't have time for.
Last night, this happened.
*
Sometime in the future, a disaster has wiped out all the adults. The oldest people left in the community are just in their late 20s and remember fleeing the cities when they were children.
Whatever killed the grown-ups is still around. If you drink or swim in water coming from the old places, you may die of something that has symptoms resembling r...
2023-06-06 15:59:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Feeling sorry for myself didn’t seem profitable, so I gave it up after a few minutes and managed to sit up on the bed by first rolling off the side, catching myself, then standing up so I could sit down. I guess I’m a special case, but who would expect breasts to be so heavy?
I caught another whiff of ripeness in my gyrations and remembered that I had determined that I needed a bath or at least a quick shower. I trudged to the door and called down toward where everyone else had fall...
2023-06-05 06:09:27 +0000 UTC View Post
The bikini fitting was a disaster, but less than an hour after leaving the apartment, Jaq and I walked into the tented car show off Century Boulevard wearing beach coverups over teeny tiny bikinis. Fabulously expensive cars covered about ten acres of space with walkways between them and manufacturer booths filled with guys in California business casual suits.
“We’re supposed to report to the Volvo kiosk for assignments,” Jaquie whispered by my ear. Even on tiptoe, her mouth was ne...
2023-06-04 06:45:47 +0000 UTC View Post