Kaysee Renee Robichaud

Hello, Darlings! It’s the third week of the month and that means another new release from yours truly. The kind team at Twice Told Tales Press have been treating me like royalty, giving me regular monthly releases like this. I am pretty pleased with the results, too!

The sad news is that while some of you have been eagerly awaiting a brand new Bookworm Brigade novel, it is unfortunately delayed. The reason is all me, unfortunately. I caught a nasty little continuity error in that was exacerbated in the most recent novel and that needs to be excised. This unfortunately means getting editing redone and packaging for publication redone as well. So, the book will be delayed until later this year. Hopefully Q2 if all goes smoothly, but more than likely it will be a July or August release. Yuck! Unfortunately, in this business books take as long as they take and rushing them to press satisfies no one. Well, maybe it satisfies the keepers of the time tables, those wily project manager types. However, who wants to satisfy them? People who love them, of course, and folks who more than likely do not work in the arts.

However, I am not responsible for a hole in the publication schedule this month! Yay! I had one of my novellas that was tagged for release later in the year, which has managed to move up to March. That release?

Hello, darlings! It's a new year, and that means once again we are thinking about how miserable our futures are. So, I say let's all express our feelings together. Repeat after me: "Screw Tomorrow!"

Well, not really. Screw Tomorrow is actually the name of my latest collection, not a slogan. The book contains six of my best erotic science fiction stories. I've written a considering stories update about it, again, which released yesterday as part of their Tuesday Tease segment. 

Now, I'm updating my blog here. While the collection is a great release for me, it's also a key to this year for me. Looks like I will be dabbling quite a bit in the sf genre over the course of it. More on that in a short while, darlings. First let's talk about the new book.

It's a mini-collection of six short stories from a variety of subgenres. Cyberpunk (should that be cyberspunk?), eco-punk, space opera, intergalactic intrigue, etc. When I was starting out, using a science fiction bent actually scored me points as I waged the silent war to be noticed in slush piles, helping me to stand out because so many submitters preferred to write erotic fantasy. My steampunk tales, which are more often than not sf-ish as well, do not appear in this book since I have something special planned for those later in the year. All told the book is about 25k words long, and it contains one previously unreleased story. This is the first sf collection I've done of my own works. What's inside, you might ask? Well!

A new book day, hooray! This month finds a new collection of previously published works dating back to my early years, the almost-nine-years-in-the-making volume: Red Hot Revenge Sex and Other Naughty Paybacks.

The stories collected inside are contemporary pieces: a woman's revenge on her philandering husband takes a sexual turn, a lusty encounter in vacation land turns up the already intense heat, a reunion between old friends takes an interesting twist when a sex toy doubles as a truth detector, and in the book's finale, a down on his luck mechanic discovers m/m bliss and double crosses on the set of a low budget film. 

Although one of the stories has a "Is this thing for real?" possible paranormal explanation, the stories are more grounded in the real world we all share. I did this specifically to contrast some of the work I have published lately, since the fans of my non-paranormal stuff have not been getting much to treasure. I am sorry fans! I will try to be better at balancing the paranormal and the real world material in the future! Of course, I started out as a speculative erotic romance writer, and my writing passions take me there perhaps a little more often than to the more familiar world of the boys and girls next door. However, I write all kinds of stories and all kinds of books. There are a few novels I need to get out the door, a vampire book (me? Vampires? Yep!) as well as a couple of contemporary erotic romances.

There is something wonderful about the holidays. When I was growing up, they were a time of cheer (and presents). As I've grown up, they have become a reason to see family and friends (and give and receive presents). Now that I'm far from home, they are a great way to reconnect with my roots and to celebrate all the things that make life worth living. My latest collection tackles all kinds of emotional ground in relation to the holidays and the contents span about eight years of my writing.

Happy Halloween! It's the time for frights and thrills, no? Well, here I am back to (hopefully) give you a little of both.

Hello all, it's been a while, huh? It sure has! Well, just in time for Halloween comes the third volume of my Bookworm Brigade series, a volume that reunites Venkat and Marquis for an adventure that kicks off in Cambridge, Massachusetts and ends up in Houston, Texas. This one is a Page Turner for sure! Of course the folks over at ConsideringStories let me tease readers with an excerpt and some babbling about my favorite programming from the 80s.

Copies are available in paperback and eBook editions. Grab a copy at your favorite vendor today!

Excerpt from PAGE TURNER, © 2018 by Kaysee Renee Robichaud.

One: A Ripe Find in the Rare Room

Hello readers! My dark fantasy novel Potboiler gets a new edition, this week: The novel gets a spooky, mystical new cover to align it with the brand set by the new version of Scary Intel as well as a paperback release! Oh frabjous day (Callooh Callay)!

As in the recent past, I have written a guest post over at the ConsideringStories website for the release day. Feel free to go check it out and learn about guilt, the challenge of writing dark fantasy, and more!

Also, a paperback edition of my short story "Hush Hush, My Love, and Thank You" is now available. Quite possibly, this is the kickoff to a series of short sexy reads featuring my already existing eBook chapbooks.

I thought I might share the origin of this story with you today:

Once upon a time some years back, I was flying out to Las Vegas for a weekend with friends I had not seen in a dog's age (Hi Lorna, Hi Corey!). That weekend turned out to be wicked fun with my peeps and pals (and I even met a new face; Luv ya Kara!), but inspiration can occur almost anywhere and I got bitten by some on the flight out of San Antonio.

A new book day only two weeks from the last one! You heard that right, readers, fans and friends. Coming in fast on the release of my big collection WEDDING BELLS AND DEATH KNELLS (available in paperback and eBook editions now!), I have a new book out. Well, a newly revised edition of a book that was available to a limited audience before... Read on for details.

A new dose of Scary Intel

I have been writing for a few years now, but I still get nervous and excited when something I've written enters the world. It can be new or a reprint, doesn't matter. I can't help it. I know in my head that these weird little ideas hit me from time to time and I scribble them down and then I need to send them off to an editor, and if I'm lucky it will get selected and shown to the world at large. In the meantime, I'm left to wonder: Was that any good? It came in a flash, mostly, and I sat down for a brief amount of time working it out, writing it, and reworking it, and it's the best I could do at that time. But is it good enough?

While I am not exactly courted by Hollywood, I know a thing or two about the movie scene. Of course many people do these days. With the internet and a wealth of information in the form of books, videos, and whatnot, there are millions of experts about The Industry who have never produced, directed, written, or acted in anything. It's a fun, strange world we live in.

I actually have written some feature length scripts as well as some shorter television length subjects. For a time, I wanted to be a part of the world of movies. When I was in college, there was excitement about the indie film scene. This waned a bit by the time I was out in the world and eager to make my own mark. I reminisce about this in a guest blog over at ConsideringStories this week. Please do check it out!

All of this preamble is to say: Guess who has a novella out now? It's a solid, m/m erotic crime thriller set in the weird world of low budget/indie features, and it is called Dirty Sexy Movie Money. eBook editions can be found at Amazon, Kobo, Smashwords, and other fine purveyors of eBook goodness!

On Writing and Timely Publication