Comments on: A Lazy Life of Sex and Mojitos (26/7/2013) http://www.stephendeas.com/a-lazy-life-of-sex-and-mojitos-2672013/ The Dragons Are Coming Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:01:46 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Stephen http://www.stephendeas.com/a-lazy-life-of-sex-and-mojitos-2672013/comment-page-1/#comment-106708 Stephen Tue, 21 Oct 2014 07:01:52 +0000 http://www.stephendeas.com/?p=3312#comment-106708 Update a year on (for anyone who's interested): Well, BigSekkrit was Elite, for anyone who didn't guess that already, and one of the speculative projects got taken on and is now published (The Royalist), but the advance was pretty small and so I spent the first half of this year freelancing my old skills. So this year is panning out to be: - 6 months of working a normal dayjob - Two novels and one novella delivered (370k words) - Assorted copy-edits and proofs. Four novels came out this year, across two different publishers. I have Fantasy, SF, historical and game tie-in covered. I am about to be out of contract with all three of my publishers. After the end of this month, when I'm done with the edits for this year's submissions, I don't have the first idea what I'll be working on. Mojitos, possibly ;-) Update a year on (for anyone who’s interested):
Well, BigSekkrit was Elite, for anyone who didn’t guess that already, and one of the speculative projects got taken on and is now published (The Royalist), but the advance was pretty small and so I spent the first half of this year freelancing my old skills.

So this year is panning out to be:
– 6 months of working a normal dayjob
– Two novels and one novella delivered (370k words)
– Assorted copy-edits and proofs.

Four novels came out this year, across two different publishers. I have Fantasy, SF, historical and game tie-in covered. I am about to be out of contract with all three of my publishers. After the end of this month, when I’m done with the edits for this year’s submissions, I don’t have the first idea what I’ll be working on.

Mojitos, possibly ;-)

]]> By: Stephen http://www.stephendeas.com/a-lazy-life-of-sex-and-mojitos-2672013/comment-page-1/#comment-72456 Stephen Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:24:36 +0000 http://www.stephendeas.com/?p=3312#comment-72456 One person in thousands has a visible success, but of course we never see or hear of all the rest. It must be so disappointing to think everyone else is doing so much better when in fact they're not. One person in thousands has a visible success, but of course we never see or hear of all the rest. It must be so disappointing to think everyone else is doing so much better when in fact they’re not.

]]> By: E L Jasmine http://www.stephendeas.com/a-lazy-life-of-sex-and-mojitos-2672013/comment-page-1/#comment-72201 E L Jasmine Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:25:30 +0000 http://www.stephendeas.com/?p=3312#comment-72201 I totally understand where you are coming from. But you won’t be able to convince people otherwise who are not in the game of writing for a living. Take for example E L James made $50 million dollars writing her Fifty Shades Of Grey trilogy. So a lot of people now want to jump aboard and think that they will make the same amount of money if they write an erotica book. I totally understand where you are coming from. But you won’t be able to convince people otherwise who are not in the game of writing for a living.
Take for example E L James made $50 million dollars writing her Fifty Shades Of Grey trilogy. So a lot of people now want to jump aboard and think that they will make the same amount of money if they write an erotica book.

]]> By: Kristjan Helgi http://www.stephendeas.com/a-lazy-life-of-sex-and-mojitos-2672013/comment-page-1/#comment-70901 Kristjan Helgi Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:34:57 +0000 http://www.stephendeas.com/?p=3312#comment-70901 Keep up the great work. As for the mojitos, we fans can take care of that while reading your work ;) Keep up the great work. As for the mojitos, we fans can take care of that while reading your work ;)

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