It's publication day! (Or rather, second publication day).
My 3rd erotic horror short story collection, A Succubus for Halloween and other tales of Terrifying Temptresses, is now available as an ebook.
You can pick it up here:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Succubus-Halloween-other-Terrifying-Temptresses-ebook/dp/B0B8XNZGN9
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2022-08-12 11:08:33 +0000 UTC View PostI probably should have done this to mark adding the 50th harlot to the House. Might as well do it now.
There are currently over 50 sexy succubus and monster girl harlots in the House of Hellish Harlots. I thought I'd do a big poll thing to find out people's favourites. 50 at once is a bit much, so I'll do them in blocks of 10 based on their internal ID number. Then a final with the top 2 from each poll.
It's more a fun thing to keep things ticking over whil...
2022-08-10 10:28:14 +0000 UTC View PostI'm still having a few problems at Amazon, but gradually powering through them. My 3rd short story collection, "A Succubus for Halloween and other tales of Terrifying Temptresses" is now available at various places:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B8XNZGN9
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en...
There wasn't really an update post last weekend as I was busy getting v0.033 of HoHH out. There were some problems there with uploading raw .html files. I'm hoping I've resolved this (temporarily) by making it available as a .zip file. If you're still having problems, shout up and I'll see what I can do. I'm still looking into more permanent fixes, but that took a back seat as...
Unfortunately, the Amazon problems with republishing my ebooks are ongoing. If...
2022-08-07 22:28:52 +0000 UTC View PostI'm seeing a mix of some people are able to play v0.033 okay, and some aren't.
Here it is in a regular .zip archive. Hopefully that should work for the people that were having problems extracting from the old archive file. Let me know if you're still having problems.
This is less than ideal. I'll keep on it to find a better way for people to get the new versions in future.
Apologies for the less-than-smooth release. Patreon completely caught me off...
This is just a quick check as I'm a bit concerned with the attachment switch to a .zip (.7z) file. Are you able to unzip the .html file and play the new version okay?
It's definitely not ideal. I'd rather not add the extra step of needing to unzip the file, but raw html doesn't seem to be an allowable upload on Patreon now.
This is a temporary fix. I'm going to look into other options. Maybe a patron-only section on the houseofhellishharlots.com website.
I think there's been a change with what attachments you can upload with Patreon. That caught me off guard when I tried to upload the .html file at one in the morning.
Because I was half-asleep, I completely didn't think about the obvious fix of archiving the file as a .zip file (thanks for pointing that out, rareitor!).
If you check the previous release post, you should see it now as a .7z file and I think these files can be unzipped on any device without 7zip.
I thi...
2022-08-01 11:00:39 +0000 UTC View PostSlightly later than initially planned. England actually winning something in the football resulted in a slightly higher alcohol consumption for the evening than normal.
Here is v0.033 of House of Hellish Harlots. This is sort of an interim release. The problems with Amazon and other things knocked me off schedule. I've got my rhythm back, so there will likely be a mid-August release with the other two harlots. I wanted to have something ready for the end o...
The problems with Amazon KDP's review team appear to have been resolved. My republished 2nd collection of erotic horror sexy succubus tales, "A Succubus for Valentine's Day and other tales of Perilous Pleasures" is now available there:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B8487XQ6
Hopefully I ...
2022-07-30 08:39:30 +0000 UTC View PostMy 2nd collection, "A Succubus for Valentine's Day and other tales of Perilous Pleasures" is now out (sort of).
Here is the obligatory blurb:
Alluring, exotic, delectable, sexy... dangerous.
M. E. Hydra returns with a second collection of thirteen sizzling stories featuring seductive succubi, amorous aliens and other sexy femme fatales. 2022-07-29 11:15:33 +0000 UTC View Post
I think the usual end-of-week post spooked a few people (and scared a few patrons off, sadly). I'd had a rotten week for a variety of reasons and wasn't in the best frame of mind when I wrote it.
The Amazon situation is still ongoing, unfortunately. I'm still politely pestering them. I think this is the usual nightmare big-corpo situation where their help department is manned by the underpaid, under-trained, or just incompetent, and you have to keep politely bugging th...
2022-07-28 11:04:02 +0000 UTC View PostI was hoping to have a promo post telling everyone "A Succubus for Valentine's Day" was ready for pre-order by now. Unfortunately, something appears to have gone wrong at Amazon. It appears to be a rights issue. I received a similar email about "A Succubus for Christmas". I sent them the rights reversion letter Excessica gave me after closing and the ebook went live for pre-order the next day.
I did the same with "A Succubus for Valentine's Day" and... nothing.<...
Not sure if it's the heat or I picked up some convention lurgy while I was away last weekend, but I found it a little hard to get going this week.
Thankfully, I did manage to shake myself out of it near the end of the week and get a chunk of Gas Balloon Tits (I really need to give her a more flattering name!) typed up.
The 1st draft side of things was a little slower. I added some more pages to Succuba. I think I have a handle on what her scenario is going to be now. &...
2022-07-17 22:35:36 +0000 UTC View PostIf you'll forgive the ebook shilling, "A Succubus for Christmas and other tales of Devilish Delights" is now live on Amazon and some other ebook stores. It can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Succubus-Christmas-other-Devilish-Delights-ebook/dp/B0B66LRCT4
This one looked close for a while, but sort of ended roughly how I expected.
Huntress 2 + 2 Tongue Daemons - 52
Gas Balloon Tits Wrestler - 41
Dodgeball Arachne - 37
Butterfly Girl - 34
Fungal Dress Lady - 31
Cream Massage Specialist - 22
I'll be typing up and implementing the top 3 this month and looking to add at least 3 new harlot scenarios for patrons to vote for next month. I'm running a little behind thanks to being away for a weekend and having to spend...
2022-07-13 11:05:29 +0000 UTC View PostA Succubus for Christmas and other tales of Devilish Delights is now available for pre-order on Amazon. You can find it here.
Here is the obligatory blurb:
Beautiful, seductive, enthralling, sensual, irresistible... d... 2022-07-11 20:47:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A very quick update post as I was away this weekend and have only just got back.
Most of the week was lost to the weekend and prep for the weekend event.
I pushed on with the ebook collection admin. The 1st book, A Succubus for Christmas, has been submitted. I'm hoping I'll be able to share the pre-order page tomorrow and it goes on sale on Friday (15th).
Because I've been away and had to do other things, I wasn't able to do much work on HoHH. The ...
2022-07-10 22:54:19 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a diversion to sort out my old short story collections, it's back to work on "House of Hellish Harlots". I've been writing new scenarios and have some to choose from.
My plan is to implement the top three harlots and have them be July's release. I did consider leaving that flexible and maybe going deeper down the list if I get ahead of schedule. While I was working on the collections I did take a look at putting a new 7th collection together. That needs 4 n...
2022-07-05 11:07:44 +0000 UTC View PostAnd we're through that odd admin month (mostly).
I still haven't generated a cover for A Succubus for Saint Patrick's Day I'm happy with, but other than that I have 6 manuscripts that are roughly ready to go. I'll give them a quick once over on my kindle and check them with a couple of previewers. One of the annoying aspects of the app Amazon gives out to format manuscripts is it follows this annoying modern web design philosophy of "why would you want to do that?" whenever ...
2022-07-03 22:26:56 +0000 UTC View PostNo "House of Hellish Harlots" release this month. As I said at the start, I needed to focus on getting the old ebook collections back up on Amazon (and others). That turned out to be a little more time-consuming than I originally thought. I didn't have the manuscripts for the older collections and have had to reassemble them from the old stories. I also gave them a thorough editing pass. I wasn't sure on this, as it was time-consuming, but it did uncover a lot of...
2022-06-30 21:47:39 +0000 UTC View PostA bit of a slow and stodgy week. Proofreading six 70-80K collections right after each other is a lot, and I could feel it starting to wear on me this week. I maybe also tried to push it too hard instead of taking a break and working on HoHH scenarios, so some days were a bit of a crawl. I did wonder if I might have been better skipping the proofreading, or just giving them a quick scan, but I have found and corrected a fair few errors that were in the original manuscri...
2022-06-26 22:59:43 +0000 UTC View PostThis week i switched the focus more onto the ebook collections. I'm glad I decided to work on them all at the same time, but proofreading six 70Kish books is a lot! Rough drafts of all the afterword/story inspiration sections have been written. I've also reformatted the manuscript bodies (the story text) of all of them and proofread three of them to catch any typos that were missed the first time around.
This seems to be going fairly smoothly. Next week I'm...
2022-06-19 22:30:11 +0000 UTC View PostQueen Colubridis seems to have been fairly well received, so I think it's time to crack the art commission war chest and have another harlot done by the same artist. I think all five of these would fit the style, being snake girls, wet girls or Misty (who's an outside pick, but looking at Marwmellow's page I think she might be something he can make an interesting job of.
The remaining snake girls are the muscular Anna Boa, the innocent Calliophi, and the mysterious Sorpresa Ombra....
2022-06-14 10:23:50 +0000 UTC View PostI was supposed to be totally on Ebook work this week. However, writing the roadmap for House of Hellish Harlots perked my interest up for filling in the gaps in the various faction rosters. As a result I split my time roughly half-and-half.
For House of Hellish Harlots I went through each of the factions and worked out what slots needing filling and what solid ideas I had for each. I completed the 1st drafts for the Fungus Dress Harlot and Butterfly Harlot. That ...
2022-06-12 22:37:47 +0000 UTC View Post
This came through a little quicker than I was expecting.
Here is Queen Colubridis in all her gluttonous glory. I think she's fairly close to the original description. The one change the artist suggested was the golden eyes to make them stand out more, which I think is right.
The artist again is marwmellow. I contacted them through their page on DeviantArt. Commission cost ...
2022-06-08 23:43:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Mark45 has shared with me the 2nd piece of art of Khanara Anandanum he had commissioned from Marwmellow and has kindly given me permission to post it here.
This time we get to see her with her dress off. She might look a little strange, but once she's wrapped around you, you won't care...
I have paid for a commission of Queen Colubridis from the same artist and seen a preliminary sketch. &n...
2022-06-07 14:21:29 +0000 UTC View PostVery quick update post this week as what I did is already covered by this week's House of Hellish Harlots release (v0.032) and plans for this month were already talked about in the previous post.
I spent the weekend writing a new harlot scenario, this one a sort of fungus monster girl that tries to t...
2022-06-05 22:01:21 +0000 UTC View PostFirst up, I'm not planning to put out a new House of Hellish Harlots release in June. The reason for this is I need to get all my old books back up on Amazon and other places. I was hoping to fit this alongside working on other things, but it hasn't happened, so I'm going to take a couple of weeks to focus on it.
After then things are a little more open. I'm leaning towards making June and maybe July short story writing months. I nearly have enough to put a 7th c...
2022-06-04 11:33:15 +0000 UTC View PostIt's a couple of days later than planned, but here's version 0.032 of House of Hellish Harlots.
The reason for the delay was the last harlot, Pel-Z. Both her and Nef were written a while back. For some reason I thought they were straightforward short scenarios. Both are around 6K words. Pel-Z's 1st draft was also very rough. Rather than being able to type it up in a frenzy on Sunday, implement Monday, and test everything for release on Tuesday, I had to tak...
2022-06-02 22:43:59 +0000 UTC View PostSorry about this.
Most of the time I can hit high gear and blast everything out in time. Unfortunately, as I feared, Pel-Z's 1st draft was in too much of a mess to be able to speed through the typing up process. It's a multi-option scenario and a little disjointed and rough. It's also a little longer than I thought at around 6K words. (all 3 of the scenarios are on the long side at over 5K words - I was very optimistic to think I could get them all done a week ea...
2022-05-31 21:21:55 +0000 UTC View Post