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Kate Sutter, narrator extraordinaire of the Lesbian Adventure Club book series

Milestones

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She gets a bump past 975,000!

The LAC series now sails beyond 600,000. That’s pretty darn cool and yet kind of funny if you consider that she didn’t think she was even writing a series when she finished the first book. She should be thankful the DWD are so boisterous and demanding.

And an update on LAC 15… It’s slowly coming along, but now I’m not quite convinced she’s going to hit the million mark on this book. Told you she sucks at estimating book lengths. If not this one, then it should be LAC 16 and not a Laura book. We’re planting seeds for 16 in her seedy little brain, just frickin’ in case.

 

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LAC 15 Chapter 1

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Here is the first chapter of LAC 15. Please remember it’s first draft. And, yes, you are correct: It does not yet have a title. It’s supposed to get an S-word this time.

 

Chapter 1

Dear Mayor and Girl Friday,

We appreciate your invitation to spend a nice relaxing weekend at the mayor’s mansion. Unfortunately, we are unable to attend as we will be running away together for the weekend.

Sincerely,

Alberta Cojones & Heady Heaper

Okay, we didn’t actually RSVP that, but we probably should have. I sure as hell wanted to. Claudia, on the other hand, dusted off her 30s persona with great anticipation. I knew, though, that she wasn’t quite as trusting as she came across. Easily, I discovered that when I tried shoving clothes into our duffle bag, finding little room to spare with the fifty-two bazillion teabags she had stashed. Prohibition or not, the gangster would have her Earl.

For me, I figured this weekend at the mayor’s mansion would be even more difficult than the last one. Then, we ‘simply’ had to determine who the hell stole Bimbo Babe. This time, Ginny and Laura had made Alison and Janice promise to make the activity “cutthroat,” and Ginny had gone so far as to push for pitting partner against partner. Short of poker and a ‘friendly’ spitball war, I was not at all fond of anything competitive, let alone cutthroat, with Claudia. It just didn’t jibe with my wussy nature.

Regardless, there I was, Heady Heaper, unscrupulous gossip columnist, pacing and smoking in our driveway, awaiting my ride to the mayor’s house. Per couple-cleaving instruction, Claudia left nearly an hour prior, after we greedily kissed about a thousand times, knowing we would soon become strangers—or much, much worse. Recognizing my anxiety—and most likely knowing its source, she gave me the “mess with and be messed with” lecture, and we once more vowed to come out the other end of the weekend together, no matter what.

I had just tossed my extinguished butt into the garbage can when I spied a familiar car pull into the drive. Despite myself, I smiled and eagerly approached.

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Bump

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She gets a bump on the Mil-O-Meter to 965,066! That leaves 34,934 to go.

She’s moving into Chapter 6 on LAC 15 and has passed the 11,000 mark. The end is nowhere in sight, but since the beginning is, I will see about swiping the first chapter very soon.

 

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Uptick

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The Mil-O-Meter gets a nudge. She’s now in need of less than 40,000 words, and I’m figuring she’ll get it with LAC 15. She’s in its fourth chapter, and the story is barely off the ground so, yes, I’m thinking we’ll get it instead of just Laura in one of her books. It should be all of us!

 

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Mil-O-Meter

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The Mil-O-Meter over there gets a bump to 955,596. She’s finally moved to 96%. That leaves her 44,404 to go.

Some of you left predictions in another thread about when she’ll hit that million. If others have cats and/or crystal balls and want to add to the list, please do so on this comment thread. You don’t have to use a real name or even a real email address. Just pretend you’re an author and make up some shit, and predict away. Or… Simply cross your fingers that Scooter gets a cameo for his birthday.

 

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LAC 14.5 Released

Lesbian Fiction New Release, Most Unlikely and the Angry Arsonist

Grab the tequila and make a margarita! Most Unlikely and the Angry Arsonist has been released today in our ebookstore! Half a book, half the price! It should be available as a really skinny paperback sometime this month.

She has started LAC 15, but she has some author business to see to before she gives it her all. As always, we will keep an eye on her and insert firecrackers as needed. You are in good hands!

 

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LAC 14.5

Lesbian Fiction New Release, Most Unlikely and the Angry Arsonist

She finished the first draft! Appropriately for a .5, it’s about half the length of an LAC book. Requiring neither an S-word or an L-word+one, it’s earned the title, Most Unlikely and the Angry Arsonist. She’ll trade her author cap for her editor visor, and it should be ready for the light of day in early May.

And… Her Mil-O-Meter over yonder has been going up steadily. She’s got 46,110 words remaining. Her plan is to flesh out an idea for another Laura book and get moving on LAC 15. All work and no play for an author makes her characters rather happy. Well, at least it does until she gets cranky.

 

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Lighting a Fire Under the Saddle

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The writer is slumping again! Apparently, she’s finding out that the ‘quick’ 14.5 she’s working on is proving to be harder than a regular LAC book. I wonder why that would be…

 

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Something roused me from my sleep. A dream, I figured and nuzzled closer to Claudia, who seemed herself to be stirring.

“Door,” she mumbled. A second later, she shot straight up, yelling, “Someone’s at the door!”

Her own dream, I further figured, but another second later, our dumb-ass doorbell corrected me. My eyes sped to the clock radio: 1:28. I dove for the lamp switch as Claudia hurried into her robe.

“Who could it be, Kate?”

“No frickin’ clue,” I replied, which was the truth, but one that didn’t acknowledge the feeling of doom in the pit of my stomach. “Wait for me. I’m going with you.”

The doorbell sounded again as I raced to put on sweatpants and a T-shirt. I caught up with her at our bedroom door, and together, we bolted down the hallway.

After I flipped on the porch light, we stole a peek, and my stomach instantly lurched.

There stood Holly.

The look on her face was cruelly reminiscent of the one she wore on the day Laura had been shot. Scared shitless, I seized the doorknob. 

I barely had the door open an inch before Claudia yelled, “Holly, what’s wrong?” 

With a red, puffy face, she answered, “Laura and I had a fight.”

Holy frickin’ shit, hell had frozen over!

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Back in the Literary Saddle

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Okay, the latest book has been released, and the author is trying to get back into the rhythm of writing and not editing. I must say we’ve had a decent amount of time off lately, too, and it has been kind of nice. She’s a frickin’ whip-cracker most of the time. But, the LAC show must go on. She’s focusing on 14.5, and she has some ideas for another Laura book.

(Was just thinking about how the hell she’s going to title 14.5. It wouldn’t be an S-word. It wouldn’t be an L-word+1. Hmm… S-word + L-word+1? S-word L-word? Whatever the hell she wants it to be?)

Anyway…

Since she’s so word-count obsessed, I was thinking maybe another public display of her progress (or lack thereof) may help her move at a steady pace, allowing that taskmaster whip to be idle. Her next major goal is to reach 1,000,000 words between the two series, LAC and Laura’s. So, I put up one of those counters in the menu over yonder. For those of you without mental calculators… At this very moment, she’s got 61,235 words to go. That’s certainly a ways off, and she will not be moving at a NaNoWriMo pace, but it is damn close. Two LACs or a Laura book or… We shall see.

Maybe we should start a pool. Whoever guesses the date she hits a million wins … um… No, Jesus, not Bimbo Babe!

 

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