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"If there is one thing I have learned in the twenty-seven years
of my career here, it is never to underestimate the role that guards can
play in the life of the Eternal Dungeon." ¶ The next volume of
the Eternal Dungeon historical fantasy series is published, as part
of The Eternal Dungeon Omnibus.
Master Meredith, whose entitlement to a last name had not yet
been determined by the courts, was sitting in a window-seat overlooking
the playing fields of Narrows School when the Third House bullies found
him. ¶ A story within the Master and Servant historical
fantasy novel is published and serialized online, as part of Waterman
Omnibus.
An essays is posted about the development of m/m fiction.
New recommendations are posted at Buried Treasure.
Reviews are provided by readers of The Eternal Dungeon, Life
Prison, and Loren's Lashes.
The details:
Need to know which stories feature platonic feelings, gay attraction, mature content, etc.? Read these explanations of the labels used below: What is the Main Bookshelf? | What is the High Bookshelf?
* High Bookshelf. Site content label. A historical fantasy series set in a land where the psychologists wield whips.
New e-book:
The Eternal Dungeon Omnibus 2010. This 440,000-word omnibus contains all the stories in The Eternal Dungeon.
New free e-book:
The Breaking. The prisoner knew that the Eternal Dungeon was a place where suspected criminals were broken by torture, and he was prepared to hold out against any methods used against him except the method he could not anticipate.
New online serialization (prologue only, till next year):
On Guard. The ties forged between the noble-minded Eternal Dungeon and the abusive Hidden Dungeon have set off an unpredictable chain of horrific events, in which the love between two Seekers (torturers) will be tested to the straining point. Caught in the middle of the struggle are Barrett Boyd and Seward Sobel, two loyal guards who will find themselves questioning their most fundamental beliefs about the Eternal Dungeon's ideals.
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Waterman
(formerly entitled Prison City)
* High Bookshelf. Site content label. A historical fantasy series and retrofuture series inspired by the Chesapeake Bay oyster wars, boarding school rivalries in the 1910s, and 1960s visions of things to come.
New e-book:
Waterman Omnibus 2010. This 100,000-word omnibus contains all the stories in Waterman.
New booktrailer video:
New online serialization:
Master and Servant 3: Unmarked. "Fair play" is the motto of the Third House at Narrows School, but that motto takes on a different meaning when a lonely member of the Third House is secretly wooed by a young man from a rival House.
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>>> Essays
* Nonfiction. Site content label.
New essay:
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys Who Like Leather.
OTHER PEOPLE'S FICTION AND NONFICTION
* Recommendations of fiction and nonfiction. Site content label.
New recommendations have been added to the 2010 page.
* High Bookshelf. Site content label.
Reviews of The Breaking:
"The series explores the range of human emotions, from love to madness, all within the confines of a dungeon shut away below the 'lighted world.'"
Five-star review by Catana at Smashwords.
"The characters are enticing and the whole story is beautifully written."
Five-star review by Diana Kay at Smashwords.
Reviews of Rebirth:
"The setting isn't like anything I've seen before, and the relationship between the two main characters is complex and fascinating."
Four-star review by Tara Stone at Goodreads.
"This is very dark fiction with an overriding sense of healing and hope, and the characters are unlike any that you've ever met in your reading."
Five-star review by Catana at Goodreads.
Review of Transformation:
"I think this dungeon must be low on funding, because it's woefully understocked all they've got are whips and racks, and the racks are constantly malfunctioning."
Four-star review by Tara Stone at Goodreads.
>>> Life Prison
* High Bookshelf. Site content label.
Review of Life Prison:
"Seriously confusing, but deep at the same time."
Three-star review by Pradlee at Goodreads. Includes major spoilers for the novella.
>>> Waterman
* High Bookshelf. Site content label.
Review of Waterman Omnibus 2010:
"The underlying theme of the stories is inherited power relationships, the effect on individuals of being unable to fit into the established hierarchies, and the wisdom of learning from those below you."
Four-star review by Catana at Goodreads.
"The theme of institutionalized Master/slave and Master/liegeman service gives a strong groundwork to the stories. While the theme itself is nothing new in this type of stories, the way the characters put their own spin on the service is what makes the story as good as it is."
Four-star review by Ishako Domino at Smashwords.
>>> Loren's Lashes
* High Bookshelf. Site content label.
Review of Edgeplay in Mayhill:
"Not a cliche in sight, and the characters are realistic enough to jump off the page."
Jean Roberta, author and BDSM book reviewer.
GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS AND UPCOMING FICTION
>>> New social networking profiles
Because I'm living in the iPod Touch app world now.
Goodreads Dusk Peterson profile. A catalogue of a small portion of the books I own, including what I am currently reading. Parental supervision is strongly suggested.
Twitter duskpeterson profile. Brief entries on my daily life and on Web links I like. My duskpeterson blog reprints my tweets periodically.
>>> The Prison City series is now the Waterman series
Just so that I don't catch you unawares. Nothing has changed except the series title and its location within the domain. (The old location has forwarding pages.)
>>> Coming next
Law Links (The Three Lands), the online serialization of On Guard (The Eternal Dungeon), and holiday gift fiction on a topic selected by my blog readers.
Check the progress report for the latest status of upcoming fiction.
He had awoken, on that day after, to find himself lying alone in
bed. ¶ Two volumes in the Eternal Dungeon historical
fantasy series are posted.
"The police were inclined to think of me as the victim, since
I had been bound." He gave what Melody referred to as his shark's smile.
"Their mistake." ¶ The beginning of a new serialized leather
novel in the Loren's Lashes series is posted, with an accompanying
e-book.
A new edition of Love in Dark Settings Omnibus is published,
and an update is posted to the story recommendations at Buried Treasure.
The details:
Need to know which stories feature platonic feelings, gay attraction, mature content, etc.? Read these explanations of the labels used below: What is the Main Bookshelf? | What is the High Bookshelf?
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Love
in Dark Settings Omnibus
* Main Bookshelf and High Bookshelf. Site content label. Collected writings.
A new edition has been published of Love in Dark Settings Omnibus, the zipped HTML e-book collecting all of my online fiction, nonfiction, and fiction recommendations. The price is the same as last year, but there are half a million new words of fiction, for a total of well over a million words. I've no idea how many words the nonfiction is; it's too many words for me to count.
The collection includes the latest Loren's Lashes serialization (parts one to three of Edgeplay in Mayhill), so if you want to read ahead in that series, you have the choice of buying either Loren's Lashes Omnibus or buying the stories from all my series in Love in Dark Settings Omnibus.
* High Bookshelf. Site content label. A historical fantasy series set in a land where the psychologists wield whips.
New
online fiction:
Transformation. The Eternal Dungeon, a royal prison where criminals are transformed, has lost its leadership. The duty of returning the dungeon to normal falls on two Seekers (torturers) who are already burdened with their own problems. One Seeker is struggling to understand why an old love affair continues to gnaw at him. The other Seeker is faced with his greatest challenge: whether to risk that which is most precious to him in order to save his own abuser.
New online fiction parts one through four:
The Balance. The workers in the Eternal Dungeon have always expressed contempt toward the Hidden Dungeon in the neighboring kingdom of Vovim, whose torturers abuse prisoners without restraint. But the balance between mercy and hell is not so clear as might be thought in either dungeon, and now that balance is about to tip. Only the strength of love and integrity will determine the paths of two Seekers whose fortunes are bound together.
In addition, an excerpt from the upcoming novel On Guard has been posted.
>>> Loren's Lashes
* High Bookshelf. Site content label. In the rural town of Mayhill, population 32,000, leather life is a little different.
New
e-book (zipped HTML edition):
Loren's Lashes Omnibus. A collection of all the Loren's Lashes stories.
New online serialization parts one through three:
Edgeplay in Mayhill. In 1965, Loren was initiated into the mysteries of leather by a motorcyclist passing through his isolated Midwestern town. Twenty years later, he is owner of the town's gay bar, which serves as a leather bar after hours. He is a master, trained to control and discipline men. . . . If only he could convince other leathermen of this fact.
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OTHER PEOPLE'S FICTION AND NONFICTION
* Fiction recommendations. Site content label.
New recommendations have been added to the 2010 page.
>>> Turn-of-the-Century Toughs Bibliographies
* Web directory.
Islanders and Watermen of the Chesapeake Bay has been updated. Also, the homosexuality section of Masculinity, Crime, and Everyday Life in Victorian and Edwardian Times has been updated. (One of the advantages of clearing out my clutter is that I finally discover missing bibliographical references. These were for my research for Michael's House.)
REVIEWS
>>> Master/Other
* High Bookshelf. Site content label.
Review of Leather, Licking and Lawnmowers:
"I really loved this short little book, and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys dark sexual comedy with principles and heart. You don't have to be gay, and you don't have to be in the BDSM or the leather scene to enjoy these stories. . . .
"9.75/10 simply because I wanted more."
[Review by Cheryl Anne Gardner at POD People]
GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS AND UPCOMING FICTION
>>> This has been an interesting year
I was seriously ill and worsening by the day this spring, hence my frantic attempt in March and April to get all of my stories posted. I'm stable now, thankfully. I'm still planning to post all my fiction online (life is too short), but it's now taking me longer than before to edit and lay out my stories. So I'm switching over to serializing my novels by chapter rather than by part, which will give me more time to work on upcoming stories. Notices of weekly installments will be posted at my duskpeterson blog.
(Oh, and my literary executor has my unfinished stories in HTML format, in case I should get worse again.)
>>> Coming next
Law Links (The Three Lands), Master and Servant 3: Unmarked (Prison City), and more Eternal Dungeon stories.
Check the progress report for the latest news on upcoming fiction.
John had a way of speaking, softly and simply, words that were
most chilling. ¶ A new Kindle e-book edition is issued of the
friendship fiction novel Blood Vow.
The darkness that Farsight had sensed during the past weeks was
quiescent, perhaps driven into sleep by the light. ¶ A free edition
of the suspenseful fantasy story "Night Shadow" is the first in a new series
of ePub e-books.
Reminding himself that he was not to kill anyone in this dungeon
. . . ¶ A holiday gift story is posted at The Eternal Dungeon.
He had prepared himself for the possibility of death at the hands
of the enemy. He had not expected his King to die in the moment of his
victory. ¶ Two stories are posted at a new series site devoted
to rare litfic: gen, het, and slash.
The Turn-of-the-Century Toughs bibliographies are updated.
New blurbs, cover art, and excerpts are posted from upcoming fiction.
The details:
Need to know which stories feature platonic feelings, gay attraction, mature content, etc.? Read these explanations of the labels used below: What is the Main Bookshelf? | What is the High Bookshelf?
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The
Three Lands
* Main Bookshelf. Site content label. A fantasy series on friendship, romance, and betrayal in times of war and peace.
New Kindle e-book edition:
Blood Vow. He has taken a blood vow to the Jackal God to bring freedom to his land by killing Koretia's greatest enemy. But what will he do when the enemy becomes his friend?
* Main Bookshelf. Site content label. Fantasy tales about young people in times of conflict.
New ePub e-book edition (free):
Night Shadow. A prince who could see beyond his borders but not see the people around him. . . . An enemy who would take any measure to get what he wanted. . . . And now a stranger has brought news to the prince of an approaching danger.
* High Bookshelf. Site content label. A historical fantasy series set in a land where the psychologists wield whips.
Final installment of the online serialization of this novella:
The Unanswered Question. No weapons, no allies, and no guarantees that he will survive the test.
A 2009 holiday gift story for Dusk Peterson's readers.
>>> Subtext
* High Bookshelf. Site content label. Rare litfic: gen, het, and slash.
New online fiction:
Cold Stars. The prince was told that he must find himself. But what if finding oneself means losing one's love?
Revenge. Revenge is sweet . . . unless you are haunted by dark memories of your own misdeeds.
In addition, a number of stories that are elsewhere at this domain have been linked to from that series site.
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OTHER PEOPLE'S FICTION AND NONFICTION
>>> Private Parlor: Online Male Homoerotic Fiction Recommendations by Guest Reviewers
* Fiction recommendations. Site content label.
A story by Midnight Firemist and Devilkat has been recommended by guest reviewer Kendal on the Fantasy page.
>>> Turn-of-the-Century Toughs Bibliographies
* Web directory.
I've moved all four of my Turn-of-the-Century Toughs bibliographies to the above directory. I've also made the following updates:
Islanders and Watermen of the Chesapeake Bay. A thorough rehaul has been done to this bibliography, with many new sections added.
Masculinity, Crime, and Everyday Life in Victorian and Edwardian Times. The Education: Boarding Schools section has been updated, and a section on Sports: Rugby Football has been added.
Retrofuture: Visions of the Future, 1945-1975. The historical studies section of the Retrofutures page has been updated, as well as the following sections: Counterculture and Youth and Journalism and the Media.
>>> Prison City
* High Bookshelf. Site content label. A historical fantasy and retrofuture series based on the Chesapeake Bay oyster wars, homoeroticism in British public schools in the 1910s, and 1960s visions of things to come.
Review of The True Master:
"It's heart warming and so very true."
[Brief review by Osoimaru (with spoilers)]
>>> Master/Other
* High Bookshelf. Site content label.
Review of Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers:
"It's so great to see the Leather culture taken out of the normal 'club hub' and thrown into suburbia."
[Brief review by James Buchanan]
GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS AND UPCOMING FICTION
>>> Blurbs, cover art, and excerpts
I've posted new blurbs, cover art, and excerpts from upcoming stories in the following series: The Three Lands, Darkling Plain, Prison City, and Master/Other (including Leather in Lawnville).
They are all linked from the Love in Dark Settings Press page, where you can also find links to previously posted blurbs and excerpts.
In addition, the Main Bookshelf cover art gallery has been updated.
>>> New ePub e-book editions
I'm in the process of converting my entire backlist into ePub e-books. Some of the e-books will have bonus material about the creation of the stories.
If you're not familiar with the format, ePub is the MP3 of the e-book world: a common e-book format that can be read by many e-readers and mobile devices. Since an ePub e-book is simply a bunch of HTML files collected together in a special way with a few other files, you can easily read ePub e-books in your Web browser, as well as in e-readers, mobile devices, etc. More information is available in Easy Ways to Read ePub E-books.
My first ePub e-book is now online: Night Shadow. If you plan to read my e-books at any time in the future, I'd appreciate it if you'd download this free e-book. If you encounter any problems with the formatting or layout, please let me know so that I can correct them now, before I publish more e-books.
>>> Word counts and progress report
For those of you interested in my past progress in story writing, I've posted the records and charts I keep for my own information. You can also track there what the current status is of my stories in progress.
>>> List of published writings
Just a reminder that I periodically update two pages: my list of published writings, positions, and honors: divided by date and my list of published writings, positions, and honors: divided by subject. The first list is a timeline of my writing career; the earliest reference is to my pre-school years.
>>> Coming next
Three novels in the Three Landsseries are currently at the editing stage, as are a number of works of short fiction on the Main Bookshelf and the High Bookshelf. I hope to publish all of them this year. As far as composition is concerned, I'm currently working on various works on the High Bookshelf.
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