A Second Erotic Graphic Novel by Dr. Faustus

Writing Journal: Not much to report. Finishing to edit The Adjusters #26 which will go out tomorrow. Happily, no scenes to rewrite. Everything is in pretty good shape. Meanwhile, my sekrit project is coming along happily, although I've written nearly 8000 words without any sex in it just yet, and I'm hoping that that will not be a test of my readers' patience when the story comes out.

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The second erotic graphic novel by Dr. Faustus in his Tales of Gnosis College series, entitled Study Abroad is out. I've talked about the first volume before, and this one can be read independently.

Here's a publication blurb:

Prior to traveleing overseas for cultural enrichment and a bit of education, four comely coeds at Gnosis College make a wager among themselves as to which among themselves as to which of them will manage to have the most outrageous adventure. Unknown to them, one of Gnosis’s many mad scientists has found a way to manipulate their minds for his own sinister purposes. Resulting adventures abroad will turn out to be at once more pleasurable — and more dangerous — than any of our heroines might have anticipated. Talk about higher education!

Orientalist Bridget O’Brian will travel to a tiny, wealthy emirate and accept a strange proposal in order to get a very intimate view of the lives of its jaded inhabitants. Biologist Cleo Mount will find at once steamy encounters and that which she most fears in the rainforests of southeast Asia. Politically-engaged Jill Keeney will put her body on the line in a conspiracy against a tyrant. And philosopher Iris Brockman will take a job in the world’s priciest and most decadent mermaid bar, where her provison of unorthodox services will allow her to slake her lust…for knowledge! Which story is most bizzare? I report, you decide.

Available in several formats. Go get 'em!

More Stormbringer Goodies

Writing Journal: I'm technically done writing the first draft of Book II of The Adjusters. The upcomings installments (I think I'm going to start using that term instead of episode, it just sounds better) still need a bit of work, of course, and some things may change depending on how writing the beginning of Book III teaches me, but I'm happy with direction the story takes. Before embarking on Book III, however, I need a bit of a break from The Adjusters's universe. Therefore, I'm going to take a couple of months off from that story and write something else for a bit. I'm keeping the project sekrit for a while, so please be patient. Of course, it should all be transparent to you, since there are six installments of The Adjusters coming down the pipe and by the time I revise them and they get published here, I will have started on Book III already. So all's good.

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Last time, I pointed you to some of Stormbringer's stories. Well, since then, I checked out his ASSTR site, and noticed that there was an entire subdirectory devoted to a series called The Ebony and Ivory Enterprises saga. Stormbringer introduces the series nicely:

The Ebony and Ivory Enterprises saga is a series of stories
revolving around a group of genetically enhanced black men bent
on gaining power and turning the white man's wives and daughters
into sluts through drugs, seduction, and blackmail. The idea came
to me during the writing of "Fresh Off The Bus" where a few bad
men seducing country girls fresh to New York City grew into an
entire organization and conspiracy devoted to converting girls
into sluts. I combined that idea with an unwritten mind-control
story plot about a sexually charged genetic super-soldier and
Solomon King was born.

(from the series description)

There's some good stuff in there, and the more than fifty episodes are not tightly linked, meaning that it's possible to pick them up here and there and read them without getting lost. Although you get more out of it if you read them in order, I presume. (I'm only a quarter of the way through myself.)

The Pact, and Some Stormbringer Goodies

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Weekend Random Links

Writing Journal: While I was away last weekend, I was whacked on the head by the Story Fairy, who finally gave me the idea I needed to outline Book III of The Adjusters. This is great, because I have been struggling to figure out how to bridge the gap between Book II (which is almost done) and Book IV (for which I already know the story). And no, I couldn't just jump into the arc that is to be Book IV directly after Book II. That would be too abrupt.

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The Paris Review has an interesting essay about the Naughty Librarian trope.

Not a recent story, but still worth putting out there. It's about plagiarism at Amazon, and other online self-published ebooks retailers, for erotica. I don't think this has hit me yet. I wonder if I should feel slighted...

Darkness, a hilarious short comic about a roommate with “brooding seductive superpowers” from Boulet (via IO9).

A NSFW funny webcomic, Blooming Faeries.

Don't you want to know what the story behind that first picture on top is?

Interesting essay by Jim C. Hines on writing about rape. Unsure how this applies to mind-control smut, though...

I love old Italian fumetti. They are just so... out there! The Groovy Age of Horror gives us a translation of one that's particularly mindfucking. I mean, really.

A documentary about porn stars that looks like it's actually interesting.

Speaking of porn, here's an interesting article on James Deen, a male porn star, and female fans of the genre.

I did not know you could break your dick. Ouch.

This gives new meaning to the Sexy Legal Assistant trope.

I'm not particularly surprised at the reaction, but still, come on folks, it's perfectly okay to blow other people to Kingdom Come with Extreme Prejudice in video games, but a little slavery play is out?

I'm not leaving you without a story. This is an oldie, but a sweetie, Disturbing Coincidence's Failed Experiment: “A college student takes place in an experiment that changes his brain. He uses his newfound abilities to change his life... one beauty at a time." Incomplete, but what is there is excellent. And the introduction of Shelley is just brilliant. The way she submits to get what she wants, it adds a whole new level of awesome to this story.

Stories About Wives Being Used and Abused

Writing Journal: It's mid-February, and I'm gently hacking away at The Adjusters #31, my appendix (addendum? postscript? thing-I-don't-know-the-name-of?) It's already up to 8000 words, which is too much because it's not even halfway done. And I know that the main reason I'm building up the word count is to delay the inevitable—where the inevitable is of course getting to the end, because I have no freakin' idea how it ends...

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I was away from my computer this weekend, which explains my lack of posting. I'm presuming nobody really cared. My gut feeling is that the audience for this blog is not literally hanging on to my every word. If you feel otherwise, please holler, and I'll work harder at keeping you appraised of possible interruptions of service.

Onwards, story-wise. I ran into a story on Storiesonline a couple of days ago for which my only response was a heartfelt Holy Fuck! It's by the grandiosely named God Of Porn, and it's called Imaginary Man: “A loving husband tries to persuade his beautiful black wife into cheating on him with white men.” It starts out as a pretty standard cuckold story, albeit with a reversal of the typical interracial stereotype common to such stories, but then you hit chapter 4 and it veers left into crazy hot territory. The psychology of the characters feels right, which is rare in such stories. The story's ongoing, and I hope that the author continues with it, because I'm really keen to see where it's going, and how it's getting there.

While we're on the topic, take a look at some classics on a similar theme of wives used and abused.

Lisa Laten and Not My Story wrote Poker Wife: “A young bride is tricked into having sex with her husbands friends. She falls deeper into degradation as she is blackmailed into becoming a sex slave for the pleasures of others. She discovers this has all been done to her to get revenge on her older sister but it is already to late for poor Lisa.” Definitely a classic of the genre, and the corruption of the wife and is nicely done. The story was started by Lisa Laten and eventually completed by Not My Story. The story, according to the author (not sure which of the two), was in tribute a few classics including the hilarious Randy Raped my Wife by Carnal Knowledge: “Husband lets his friend rape his wife, while he watches.” Hilarious in that the story is so over the top yet played straight, not because of the subject matter. In fact, I think this was the first story I ever read where there was nonconsensual sex that did not involve mind control. I seem to recall also that there was more to this story than posted above, but I have not been able to find the rest, if it ever existed.

And this brings us to an all-time favorite of mine in the genre, Rusty Shackleford's The Cop's Wife: “Police officer Tom Barkley had arrested Marcus Dupree on the charge of dealing cocaine, and had testified against him at the trial. After Marcus was sent to jail, Tom sold the dealer's coke, and the word of this got back to Marcus. Now that he was out of jail, having served his time, he was going to extract his revenge on Tom by making his wife his whore and fuck toy.” Straight up, and taking no scenic detour to get to the juicy bits, this is fine smut right there. It's twisted in all the right ways. The video scene in Part 2 sold the story for me, years ago...

Some Recently Posted Stories

Writing Journal: I find myself writing an appendix to Book II of The Adjusters, which I guess will come out as #31. I know, right, an appendix? What the hell? You'll see. I just hope I can pull off what I have in mind...

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Not much to report this week. A few interesting recent stories came across my screen, which I'm happy to share with you.

Special Programmer posted the final chapter of a 2009 mind-control story, The Petition: “Barbara Jones signs a petition to help save the planet, but instead it changes her life drastically.” I love the slow change of the main character, and there are some delightful scenes in there. I generally enjoy the tales Special Programmer spins—his stories are very much straight and to the point, which sometimes is exactly what one is in need of.

New Name Dan posted a nice little ditty as well, another mind-control story, The Accident: “A man gets into a fender bender and winds up with more than he bargained for.” That one is almost played for laughs, but packs an interesting punch for a 3000-words tale. Also straight and to the point.

Finally, Vulgus posted a new long tale on Storiesonline, Green Clouds: “A young woman is coerced into a sexual relationship with her husband's dominant supervisor. It turns out to be...well, maybe you should read it and find out.” A typical Vulgus story line and development, so if you've enjoyed previous Vulgus offerings you know what you're in for. One thing that particularly tickled me about this story is the setup, in which a post-hypnosis trigger—albeit not a real one—plays an important role. I may borrow the idea at some point, as I think it has nice dramatic potential—not to mention it's hot!

The Master PC Universe

Writing Journal: Well, I've more or less wrapped up The Adjusters #30—and thus Book II—at least in draft form. And now I'm left slightly empty. As one commenter pointed out last week, maybe I do need a bit of a rest.

One of my goals over the Holidays was to try to outline more precisely The Adjusters's overarching story line. I mean, I know the broad strokes of the story, the beats if you will: where it starts, where it ends, who does what and why, the key events that will shape each character's arc, that sort of thing. But the details, well, the details, they are nebulous. Not that I'm complaining, really—part of the fun of writing for me is uncovering those details. But there are a couple of things that are nagging me like annoying chihuahuas barking at my heels. Things like worrying that one thing I want to introduce the readers will not buy, or figuring out how to present something complicated in a way that's dramatically satisfying. I think what I have will work, I just need to convince myself of that. Then again, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, right?

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Earlier this month, over at MC Forum, JR Parz said some nice things about Book II of The Adjusters, in a thread devoted to readers' favorite 2011 stories. I recommend you check the thread out for links to good recent mind-control smut.

One of the reason that this kudos pleased me to no end is that I've been a fan of JR Parz for a long time now, ever since I first read through his definitive Master PC story: “Adam discovers a computer program that allows him to become a virtual god to the people around him, allowing him the power to bend their reality to his specifications.” The hallmarks of JR's writing are all there: short scenes, no-nonsense descriptions, and lots and lots of sex. In a setting where the hero gets his hands on something that lets him change everything around him to satisfy his perverse desires. Sweet indeed.

Master PC is special because it touched a collective nerve in the MC community, and subsequently spawned a whole universe. Everyone and their mothers wanted to contribute something to that stone soup. And the result is pretty amazing. JR in fact has collected most of the stories set in the Master PC universe and maintains a web page for it.

For the record, the second Master PC story I read was OBOne's Master PC: Creampie Edition: “In addition to the women around him, Chris uses the Master PC program on himself so that he comes a lot.” Not only is this tale pretty hot, I've also found it oddly sweet.

What's especially interesting about the Master PC universe is that several top-notch MC authors have contributed to it. Here are three of my favorites, but I urge you to go and investigate what's available. There is something for every taste in the collection.

First, we have Bobwhite's The Ornithologist: “Michelle has the Master PC program, but she would rather have someone else take control of her.” A beautiful subversion of the original story line, and a crisp tale as Bobwhite tends to write them.

Second, we have The Sinner's Opening the Box: “Jason attempts to write an open-source clone of the Master PC program.” A tale up to The Sinner's phenomenal standard. Choosing the protagonist's girlfriend's point of view for this one is just genius.

Finally, we have Abe Froman's Gaps in Time: “Maria goes through a set of changes after she disciplines an employee for looking at porn and downloading strange programs from the Internet.” This is an exceedingly hot tale, again told from the victim's perspective. Here, the Master PC program is used more as a MacGuffin than anything else—it is just a device to control the protagonist, but it really could have been anything. But the result is excellent, so who am I to argue such finicky details?

Dare I say it? I've thought about adding an entry to this universe. I still do. Maybe one day...

New Story: The Adjusters #25

Here is February's episode of The Adjusters, “Doctor Cargyle”, wherein we and some of our characters cross paths with the elusive Doctor Thaddeus Cargyle.

As usual, comments welcome.

I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)


The Adjusters #25 - Doctor Cargyle

Daniel sat in silence and watched a still shaky Jackson down his
fourth beer and wipe his mouth with the back of his hand. The boy
looked last, unable to focus on anything. Daniel stole a glance at
Cindy, who was sitting next to him, quiet and unfazed and looking at
Jackson with a mixture of pity and resolve in her eyes. What is going
on in that head of hers, he wondered, not for the first time.

"How could she?" mumbled Jackson, lifting a hand to get the attention
of their waitress. Around them, the buzz of the Saturday night crowd
could still be felt, even though they were not in the most popular bar
of the area.

"I think you know full well how she could," answered Daniel, his eyes
boring into Jackson's.

"I don't know what--"

Daniel sighed. "Jackson, cut the act. Cindy told me everything. And
between that and what Rad and I figured out, the picture's pretty
clear--your frat snatched girls and did something to them so that you
could use them without the girls remembering a thing afterwards. Cindy
here was such a--well, a sex slave, frankly. Kyra is one. And Biff
made Jenn into one. "

Continue reading...


Next month, episode 25: “Actions and Consequences”.