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I am now under quarantine! Which means I have to stay at home writing erotica. So… not much really has changed for me other than my roommate’s going to be around. His job is “non-essential” and his anime store is now closed. I had gotten used to having the house to myself most of the time…

Oh well.

Hope you all are staying safe and sound wherever you are!

I have finished God’s Passionate Love! All three books are written! I typed The END. Always a strange moment when writing a long story. It’s like a weight falls off of you along with an emotional rush.

I am thrilled. It came out pretty good. Nothing is ever the way you imagined in it your mind. It’s always imperfect, but I’m satisfied.

Triage X Volume 18 arrived just in time for Washington State to go under quarantine. I am a big fan of this series. It’s got wild action and violence, a main character who’s more than willing to get his hands dirty, and plenty of anime titties. An outrageous amount of anime titties.

Triage X is about Black Label, a medical vigilante unit founded by a doctor that believes triage needed to be extended beyond the hospital. To the criminals. Those who don’t deserve to live, the worst of the criminals, need to be put down.

Arashi is the newest recruit. A young man who wants to see evil punished. Willing to do whatever it takes to get the mission done. With him is Mikoto, who has her own dark reasons for wanting to be a vigilante, and the perky and playful Orhia. By day, she’s a pop idol, by night she’s sneaking off to kill criminals.

It’s an adrenaline-fueled ride. Volumen 18 ended on a huge cliff-hanger. Eager for 19. The characters are great. The action is intense, and the fanservice is abundant!

And then World’s End Harem 8 showed up. Love this series. It is full of hot, harem sex.

In the future, Reito is a young man in love with a girl named Eliza. They are both medical students in college. He’s scared to confess his feelings to her because he’s been diagnosed by a rare and new disease. It will kill him soon so he has to go into cryostasis. Medical AI predicts they’ll figure out a cure in the next five years. But he gets the courage and tells her. Eliza says she’ll wait.

He goes into cryostais and awakens to find out that the world has changed. A mysterious disease has killed every man save those who went into cryostasis. The world is run by women. Only those with Reito’s rare disease has an immunity to the MK Virus. He’s the second man to be awakened and all hopes of humanity’s survival rest on him. They want him to breed. He wants to find the woman he loves, but Eliza has vanished in the chaos of the last five years as society worldwide has nearly collapsed. He decides to find her and to find a cure for the virus.

So that’s your typical anime protagonist who has a chance to screw a bunch of women but declines. Luckily for us readers, the other guys don’t have these problems. So as Reito looks for a cure and faces naught temptation, the other surviving men are having their fun. Lots of sex. In fact, Part 8 has a mother and daughter tag-teaming a guy. So it has a great story and lots of sex.

A wonderful series.

Seriously Seeking Sister! Ulitmate Vampire Princess Just Wants Little Sister (Plenty of Service Will Be Provided!). Now isn’t that a mouthful of a title. It’s the light novel I’m reading. It’s fun and cute. I was hoping for a bit more yuri in it, but it’s more wholesome.

Ritsia is a true blood vampire, the youngest daughter of the king. All she wants is a little sister that she can dote on the way her family dotes on her. But her parents are just refusing to have another kid. So she embarks on a plan to go into stasis for a few decades to show her family she’s serious. A few decades is nothing in the life of beings that live for a thousand or more years.

Something goes wrong. She is in stasis for far, far longer. When she’s awakened by a young adventure, she learns that it’s been a thousand years since the vampires vanished and the world has changed. But now Ritsia has a chance to find her a little sister. Or more.

She’s a bit of an airhead, but she has a lot of heart. The book gets super real in the middle with some dark stuff.

Avery – Back In Your Heart is the iStripper card of the week for me. There were some great cards, but Avery just had this sensual cuteness about her. She’s sexy and playful. Just a delight to watch.

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At the very last moment, the trip to Japan canceled as they are about to start quarantining US travelers. Oh, well.

This week I read Magika Swordsman & Summoner 12. I am a big fan of this series. Sexy anime girls, magical battles, and harem. Our hero, Kenji, lives in a Japan were magical monsters are attacking the world. The Japanese have turned to the 108 Pillars of Solomon, a group of demons, to bond with summoners. Up until now, they have all been female.

Until Kenji.

He’s the king summoner. His naughty demon’s powers mimic others. But first, he has to bond with them. He has to increase their relationships to the point that they will bond with him. To facilitate this, he has to move into the Witche’s Castle, the most elite all-girls dorm at his magical school.

Naughty antics follow.

This manga series was what got me back into reading manga again after only keeping up with Berserk for years. I am looking forward to Part 13.

Since I consumed Magika Swordsman & Summoner, I have turned to the Ranma 1/2 manga.

My Asia figure from High School DxD arrived in the midst of the quarantine. She is such a cutie. I am glad to finally get a figure of her even if it’s not in her nun outfit.

But she’s looking gorgeous. She’ll be looking great on my shelf beside some of the other figures. During these crazy days, you got to find the simple pleasures in life.

Finished listening to The Way of Kings and on to Words of Radiance

I’m off to reading Division Maneuver Vol. 2 – Binary Heroes Light Novel. Things are getting desperate for humans. This series continues to be full of fan service and desperate battles for the survival of humanity. Things get nuts in this one.

It is a rare light novel that makes me genuinely worried that a character is going to die. Important characters. Ones that I’ll miss. I’m getting it in this one. I’m liking it a lot. I am glad those big boobs on the first novel’s cover attracted my attention.

I really like this series. It’s only two novels, but they are great. I highly recommend this one.

Liya Silver & Jia Lissa – Diver Down dual card popped up on Friday. Two of the sexiest ladies on iStripper together getting naughty with each other.

Bikini. Oil. Redhead. It has it all. My favorite card for the week.

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Still on track for my trip to Japan. I fly out in a week (Monday, the 23rd). I know the world is getting crazy, but Japan is not as crazy as where I live. I’m taking my laptops with me. If I get stuck in Japan or quarantine, I’ll still be writing.

Stories will still be released. I’ve been working extra to have content ready for publication over the eleven days I’m gone.

Things are getting crazy at the stores around here. Hope you all are stocking up on the necessities. My governor just shut down all the restaurants for dine-in. Take out and delivery only.

The Genius Prince’s Guide to Raising a Nation out of Debt (Hey, How About Treason?) Volume 1 was a bust. No etchi fun for the first 3/4 then I just got bored. No stakes. While the main character and the girl had playful banter. And while it’s funny that circumstances are conspiring to make him into a leader, it just had no stakes.

I’m now reading Division Maneuver Vol. 1 – A Hero Reincarnated Light Novel. It has a really busty chick on the cover, so I went for it!

And I’m loving it.

That cover was not a tease. It’s a cute, busty girl in a skin-tight outfit that keeps falling all over our main character. Her big, luscious tits keep engulfing his face. She’s even spawned her own “dere” subgenre: warrior dere. She’s the best fighter in school, but around our MC she gets all dere-dere (cute and adorable and embarrassed by her feelings).

Our main character is the Hero. He was the best pilot using this magic-technology to create armor and weapons. Aliens invaded and he flew into their portal and mortally wounded the queen. He also died in the process. As he died, he realized the queen would come back in 20 years. His desire to defeat is so strong, his soul enters a baby being born. He has a second chance.

Only on round two, he’s no longer the strongest magic users in the world, he’s the weakest. Just an enthralling book. Probably going to go onto the second book next week!

Started reading To Love Ru, the original manga. It’s the first two volumes bundled together. Lala is cute. The story is funny. It’s got some fun titties in it. Overall, I’m going to continue this one. Still reading it, but I’m going to get it done, too.

Lala is a princess from Deviluke, a planet with aliens who look human but have a devil tail. She has come to earth to escape all her suitors. She’s the daughter of the Emperor of the Milky Way. When she accidentally lands naked in Rito’s bedroom, she has found the man to be her husband.

But Rito has it bad for his childhood friend Haruna. All his plans to make her his girlfriend are backfiring thanks to the cute and adorable Lala shameless declaration of her emotions.

Jia Lissa – I’m On was my favorite card on iStriper that came out this week. And there were some good choices out there this week. There was a great Ellie Leen one and Liya Silvers is always a tattooed goddess, but redheaded Jia edged them both out. Plus, she’s got those thigh-highs on. Just yummy.

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Hope everyone’s staying safe with Corona-Chan out there. There are a few cases in my area, but things are still calm. (My friend who works at the USPS sorting facility in Federal Way told me someone at the other end of his building has it. So far, he’s fine. Which is good, since he’s one of my friends going with me to Japan on the 23rd.)

Writing’s going well. Next Son of Lust is on the way for those who are fans. Ultimate Harem Fantasy 2 is with my editor (the same guy who edited the Devil’s Pact years ago) and on Saturday, I started writing Ultimate Harem Fantasy 3.

The response to Book 1 has been great! Thank you all! I hope you’re eager for more from Marcus and his harem of sexy RPG ladies. We have a cute halfling joining the fun in Book 2!

I read Kisses, Sighs, and Cherry Blossom Pink Collection, a thick manga with various yuri (lesbian) tales at an all-girls high school. They’re cute and fun stories about girls finding love for each other and getting a little naughty. It’s by Milk Moringa. I really liked her Gakuen Polizi series. That one was a lot of fun.

I enjoyed these sweet tales of high school girls kissing in out of the way corners. It’s mostly about Nana and Hitomi and the trials of their relationship, but there are other girls swirling in the background. Really enjoying it.

And this will clear another manga off the stack of them in my bedroom that I’ve been accumulating since I got back into them.

I started reading The Genius Prince’s Guide to Raising a Nation out of Debt (Hey, How About Treason?) Volume 1. It’s one of the many light novels I have. Seems to be one of those tactical ones. Our prince is a lazy guy named Wein. He just wants to enjoy life, not rule his bankrupt nation after his father falls ill. He has Ninym (our cute heroine) to keep him on the straight and narrow. They have some funny banner.

And a little sister character has shown up. The art in the book has some nice anime titties in it, a nice topless shot of Ninym, so here’s hoping for some etchi fun in this light novel.

I got a new figure in the mail today. A sexy schoolgirl named Sari Utsugi. She’s an original character. The naughty ones usually are. I must have ordered her a year or longer ago, so it’s always a fun surprise when one shows up.

This week in Amazon, stories are getting published without covers! The Incubus’s Naughty Harem Collection 5 spent a day on amazon without it’s the best piece of marketing. It’s bad enough that Amazon has a stranglehold on indie publishing, but do they have to fuck up something as simple as showing the book properly?

Thanks, Amazon!

Avery “Siren Song” was the sexiest card released on iStripper this week. In a bikini, all nice and oiled up, she is such a sweet thing to watch prancing across your desktop. There were a lot of good cards this week, but she stood out!

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I started reading If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord 1 and I gave it up. Hoping for more lone wolf and cub thing, and it was way to slice of life. It’s about a guy who finds a half-starved demon girl in the woods near her father’s corpse. He takes her in and wants to help her out.

That’s fine.

But while he’s going out on his adventures, the story sticks with the girl as she helps out around the inn that he lives in…

Nearly halfway through, and there’s no conflict other than the mystery of what happened to her father and left her in the woods. That could work if there was any real tension or the story was focusing on unraveling the mystery, but I gave up when it started talking about her peeling potatoes.

So I started reading Her Majesty’s Swarm Vol 1, a Light Novel written by 616th Special Information Battalion. The Japanese are weird. And this is a play on the isekai trope. But instead of entering a fantasy world or MMORPG, our queen enters her favorite RTS (Real-Time Strategy) Game. It’s a mix of Warcraft 3 with the fantasy setting and the hero unit mechanic and Starcraft since she’s playing a zergling-like race.

No longer playing her favorite faction, she now commands them as their leader. But what she supposed to do now with her Swarm? I’m still reading this one, but I’m liking it so far. I’m curious to see where the author will take this premise.

I finished listening to The Licanius Trilogy on Audiobook! It was great to listen to this trilogy. It has a lot of visions of the future, time travel, and more, so listening to it in a row really helped to see how the story fits together better.

It is a great fantasy trilogy that gets into how can you have free will if God knows everything you’re going to do. Does that make you a slave? Just because you know how you’ll die does that make your choices meaningless? Things like that.

It’s a series that doesn’t hold your hand. You are as confused by events as the characters but you feel answers are there. And they make sense. It’s a puzzle that James Islington assembles for you over three books until it all fits together at the end.

Really satisfying ending.

Might listen to The Martian next while I figure out another long series to delve into. One of my favorite sci-fi stories. It makes a fun audiobook, too.

I don’t know if any of you have heard of iStripper, but I’m a fan. It’s a program that lets you get girls stripping and dancing around on your computer. Ellie Leen had a new card come out this week. God, she is cute AF. Definitely, my favorite card released this week, and it was a good week with some great new shows coming out.

More fun problems from Amazon! The fun of publishing with them! For some reason, my original story The Incubus’s Passions Unleashed (The Incubus’s Naughty Harem 14) has material someone else published. They kicked my book back to draft (an unpublished state) and then I have to wait hours for the automatic email to get sent and tell me what the problem is. This isn’t a big one. They just want me to proactively claim it’s all mine by republishing it.

But it’s always stressful waiting to find out this stuff. Amazon just nukes people’s publishing accounts and keep all the money you’ve made that they haven’t paid you (up to two months worth of royalties).

Oh, and my car battery was dead. Winter and not driving it much have prevailed. It jump-started find, so here’s hoping I don’t need a new battery.

On weight loss front, I am getting away from snacking. So that’s good. And I lost nearly 5 pounds this week!

In my mainstream fantasy writing, I finished editing my second fantasy series. So that’s more than a little emotional.

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I read An Archdemon’s Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride: Volume 9! This is one of my favorite light novel series, a pure fantasy one and not an isekai. It’s not a fanservice one, but still lot of fun. Zagan and his elf Bride Nephy are great together (even if their relationship proceeds like a glacier). This one had some great stuff with the couple strolling through a labyrinth full of dangers like it was a Sunday afternoon.

It’s a great series. It’s about Zagan a sorcerer who grew up as an orphan. He lucked out and killed another sorcerer trying to sacrifice him and learned magic. He’s since been spending his time getting better and better. His best friend is an untrustworthy guy named Baltazar. One day, he comes across an elf being auctioned off as a sacrifice. Not wanting her to die, he buys her for himself to set her free.

The only problem, he can’t figure out how to release her collar.

I finished Sekirei Volume 4 today. Really enjoying this Manga. It’s a lot of fun. I’m glad I picked it up. One of my fans recommended it to me. If that was you, thanks for the recommendation. It’s a great read. I’m on to Volume 5. It looks like all our harem girls are in place since all the Sekirei have been claimed (though Number 1 might still join the fun, we’ll see).

In writing, I’m still slowly working on the Dungeon Builder Fantasy Harem series. But I haven’t had a lot of time. I’m busy getting ready for my trip to Japan in a month. I’m also well into writing Book 3 of The God’s Passionate Love. It’s the final part. I’ll probably have it all written by May.

New hard drives have arrived.

Of course, there were problems installing them! The first one was an easy one. Though my motherboard can take 6 SATA devices, my power supply only has plugs four of them. one of those power cables is plugged into the Blueray player. The second plug on that cord didn’t have the slack to reach the new harddrive. Well, I wasn’t using that Blueray player anyways.

Next problem was Windows. Despite my BIOS detecting the new hard drive, my computer didn’t. At least, not where it mattered in Disk Manager. I spent a good 30 minutes googling this issue until I found a website suggesting this third-party software. It worked great. It detected the hard drive and let me create a partition. Then Windows detected it.

So I copied everything onto that hard drive and then chucked the bad one. I inserted the second hard drive in. Once again, BIOS detects, Windows doesn’t. I was prepared, though. I opened up that third party software and created a partition.

Only instead of the 2.75 terabyte partition I expected, it was only 2 terabytes. That confused me. It was the exact same manufacturer and model as the other harddrive. Why could I create a full partition on one and not the other?

Because they had different headers. Hard drive one had an MBR header which allows it to use its full storage capacity. The other one had a GPT header which limited it to 2 TB. Luckily, this third party software let me fix that. My computer is back in business!

In weightloss news, I have finallly got over the hump in eating less! I lost 4 pounds this week! I’m super thrilled!

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It’s snowing today. It really doesn’t snow in Tacoma where I live. And when it does, it’s usually a light dusting. This is heavy and thick. it looks like it’s sticking around.

Well, glad I’m not doing my old job of driving around. This would not be a great day, but here’s a photo from my porch. This is the level of snow that makes my city fly into a panic. It’s rather sad, I know. We can go whole winters without seeing the white stuff.

Just lots, and lost of rain.

Anyways, I finally finished listening to the Crippled God, Book Ten of Malazan Book of the Fallen. This epic fantasy series I’d been listening to for over a year now. The books are long and while I really enjoy this series, it’s not one I can listen to for hours on end.

But the series is fantastic. It’s so different from any other fantasy out there. From the characters, the situations, and just the sheer breadth of the world-building. The Crippled God is a great ending to the series. Emotional and resonance and satisfying given how crazy and convoluted the series is and all the plot threads that Erikson brings together at the end.

I like listening to audiobooks when working (not writing or editing) so it’s great to get this series behind me and listen to more bingeable fare. I started An Echo of Things to Come (The Licanius Trilogy Book 2). It’s a fantasy series that just ended and I enjoyed it. Makes good use of time travel and prophecy while discussing some great topics like “Do you have free will if God knows everything you’re going to do.”

Read Saki the Succubus Hungers Tonight Volume 1 this week. What a great, fun manga. A cute and sexy heroine, lots of naughty fun, and a delightful premise. Saki needs men’s essence to survive, but she doesn’t want to be a slut like her older sister.

She wants to feed only off the man she loves.

Will she find that with her new roommate?

This even has some sister-on-sister action in it. Both in fantasies and in big sis giving a very intimate inspection of Saki. I can’t wait for volume two of this manga to come out!

I watched the series finale of The Good Place. I’ve been a big fan of this show. It’s the last TV show I’ve been following. I love the blend of comedy, philosophy, and world-building. The special effects might not be a great show, but the characters and the story make up for it.

It was a bittersweet ending. I’m not sure how I feel about the ultimate solution, but it was still a great farewell to the characters. This is a show that has always known where it was going. It kept changing the status quo as it explored a version of the afterlife.

I recommend this show whole heartily!

Boy, How NOT to Summon Your Demon Lord 12 got real at the ending. I can’t wait for number 13 to come out.

Enjoy your week! If you’ve read or watched anything great, let me know!

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