NaokoSmith
Honourable Slut
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I know there's a thread for finding editors but I thought I would ask here first, as you guys know me. A bit.
About three months ago I found an editor who has been working with me on a set of chapters forming a story about a pack of werewolves. She really helped me sort out a better style of writing and now I don't want to go on without someone to support my work. Unfortunately Real Life has cropped up and she doesn't have time to edit for me any more. I waited about a month for her, now some kind person has posted a comment asking when the next chapter is coming out and I think I must get back to the series.
I think I sorted out my habit of writing run-on sentences. I'm pretty good about grammar and spelling, especially after some quirky habits have been corrected by my previous editor. I do tend to write poetic and unusual sentences which are lovely in themselves but cause the reader to pause and lose the thread of the story and I need someone to point those out to me.
My werewolf stories are unusual. I wrote the first one as a bet with myself that I could write a safe sex werewolf story. I had a huge amount of fun with it. To my astonishment, it has garnered about 15 reviews on Amazon, about six one stars and several five and four stars. Opinion is completely divided as to whether it's the most disgusting thing since I last cleaned my kitchen floor (one woman even said it made her put her whole collection of werewolf erotica to the back of her bookshelf!) or hilarious fun and hot, even if badly written (I found my editor after writing it). Of course getting a string of one star reviews saying it's a vile piece of filth has led to it becoming immensely popular, I think it's on about 8000 downloads now but I've lost count. (It's free, BTW, although I did make a little money from it before punters realised it was free elsewhere and made Amazon sort that out.)
I started writing a series about the pack to which Mr Werewolf in Office Clothing belongs. You can find the first chapter here. As this is a pack, I felt I could write a different kind of story. I could exploit the internet hyperlinking potential to write the stories of pack members who are different sexualities. Then people can read the story chapters and skip scenes which are sex scenes they're not interested in. So when it's all up, you should be able to read the story and just the heterosexual scenes, or just the lesbian scenes, or just read the hetero and the lesbian scenes - whatever floats your boat.
My next chapter is a scene in which the gay male upper class werewolf with piercings meets two other male werewolves in an alley. It made my fetishist gay guy pal in Berlin horny, so it's not some piece of fluff like my romantic story An Honourable Slut (written for girls who like men who like men).
I need an editor who is willing to read different sexualities presented in their own terms: soft focus lesbian and hard core gay male.
You might have noticed that although I flutter my eyelashes a lot and am honestly very fluffy in person (excuse me while I affect a lithp), I'm a heavy feminist from an advanced school of thinking about identity politics. My stories are written with a view to a thrill, but also to get people to think.
Anyone up for it? LOL.
About three months ago I found an editor who has been working with me on a set of chapters forming a story about a pack of werewolves. She really helped me sort out a better style of writing and now I don't want to go on without someone to support my work. Unfortunately Real Life has cropped up and she doesn't have time to edit for me any more. I waited about a month for her, now some kind person has posted a comment asking when the next chapter is coming out and I think I must get back to the series.
I think I sorted out my habit of writing run-on sentences. I'm pretty good about grammar and spelling, especially after some quirky habits have been corrected by my previous editor. I do tend to write poetic and unusual sentences which are lovely in themselves but cause the reader to pause and lose the thread of the story and I need someone to point those out to me.
My werewolf stories are unusual. I wrote the first one as a bet with myself that I could write a safe sex werewolf story. I had a huge amount of fun with it. To my astonishment, it has garnered about 15 reviews on Amazon, about six one stars and several five and four stars. Opinion is completely divided as to whether it's the most disgusting thing since I last cleaned my kitchen floor (one woman even said it made her put her whole collection of werewolf erotica to the back of her bookshelf!) or hilarious fun and hot, even if badly written (I found my editor after writing it). Of course getting a string of one star reviews saying it's a vile piece of filth has led to it becoming immensely popular, I think it's on about 8000 downloads now but I've lost count. (It's free, BTW, although I did make a little money from it before punters realised it was free elsewhere and made Amazon sort that out.)
I started writing a series about the pack to which Mr Werewolf in Office Clothing belongs. You can find the first chapter here. As this is a pack, I felt I could write a different kind of story. I could exploit the internet hyperlinking potential to write the stories of pack members who are different sexualities. Then people can read the story chapters and skip scenes which are sex scenes they're not interested in. So when it's all up, you should be able to read the story and just the heterosexual scenes, or just the lesbian scenes, or just read the hetero and the lesbian scenes - whatever floats your boat.
My next chapter is a scene in which the gay male upper class werewolf with piercings meets two other male werewolves in an alley. It made my fetishist gay guy pal in Berlin horny, so it's not some piece of fluff like my romantic story An Honourable Slut (written for girls who like men who like men).
I need an editor who is willing to read different sexualities presented in their own terms: soft focus lesbian and hard core gay male.
You might have noticed that although I flutter my eyelashes a lot and am honestly very fluffy in person (excuse me while I affect a lithp), I'm a heavy feminist from an advanced school of thinking about identity politics. My stories are written with a view to a thrill, but also to get people to think.
Anyone up for it? LOL.
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. But I have a near perfect PM record, with only one person ever having been foolish enough to try to suggest we take virtual showers together via his pretended interest in rugby. I like things that way. I don't mind the cubs, they can PM me any time - or kittens, but for understandable reasons the kittens are not so interested in my support. But I dislike getting PMs going Hur Hur Hur I bet you look good in the shower when I'm expecting a cosy chat about the coaching structure in the home nations teams. So forgive me being a bit of a home girl and looking amongst your intelligent company for someone to help my writing. 
