Jules Jones

Just a quick update on the short story, Naked, I uploaded to Smashwords 2 weeks ago, on 28 October 2012. So far it's been downloaded 169 times, and been added to 16 personal libraries. It's been reviewed 3 times, all in the first couple of days. For future reference, it's been free all of that time (and I don't intend to charge for it in the future, it's advertising), and the keywords I uploaded it with are: erotica, gay, bdsm, mm, ds, shaving, shaving erotica, bdsm shaving

It was approved for the Premium catalogue (i.e. third party distribution) on 31 October, and hadn't shown up anywhere else as far as I could see when I checked last Sunday (4 November). Today I can find it at

Barnes & Noble, where the cover is missing
Apple iTunes
Deisel (where I needed to use the advanced search to track it down).

I can't yet find it at Sony or Kobo.

It won't show up at Amazon, because Amazon isn't taking most of the Smashwords output. And I can't put it up myself, because it's free, and Amazon requires a minimum price of 99c or local equivalent.

Hope this is useful for any of you wondering about using Smashwords to distribute stuff. I'd planned to do "One Size Fits All" this weekend as a 99c short by way of comparison, but I've a) been sidetracked by Picowrimo, b) had a nasty outbreak of the RSI today. That amount of mousing would be a Really Bad Idea. Maybe next weekend, depending on how I feel.

My short story Naked, first published in Ultimate Gay Erotica 2005, has just been reprinted in Loose Id's Hurricane Katrina fundraiser blog.

There's a mix of genres and orientations on the blog, and more will be added. All the stories on the blog are free to read, but if you like them you're asked to consider making a donation to one of the charities.

Please note: This story is homoerotic in nature (male/male), and contains both D/s and "shaving".

Naked