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Post by Not Wes on Nov 7, 2020 22:23:19 GMT -5
Just letting you know. If you don't see it, refresh the screen with the left shift button held down (repeat a couple times if necessary) and it should come up. Works for me.
Let me know of any page or html or linking errors anyone sees while I get some rhetoric dreamed up to describe this more than what little is there now. Like I said, working for me, but I may not see everything. Thanks.
Sorry about the lack of a cover image, but we just couldn't find anything suitable (meaning it fit the book and was free), so there isn't one this time. And no way we were coming up with three different ones like Wes did for Three from Bradford. He was an image guy, and we aren't. More in a bit, though maybe not until Sunday sometime.
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Post by Fred on Nov 13, 2020 15:13:08 GMT -5
Hello, Could you give us a chapter count for "Slippery Slopes" with the intro? Thank you so much! CHEERS!
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Post by Not Wes on Nov 13, 2020 20:20:05 GMT -5
Here's some more info:
A slightly expanded description:
This is an anthology of three shorter works, much like the book “Three From Bradford” that Wes published back in 2013. The three stories are related by both theme and common characters and here are posted in order of story chronology. The main theme connecting the stories is light bondage, and there is lots of that. There is also some sex, some very mild masochism, some violence, and even a smattering of religion, so you are warned. In a few places, it is over the top for certain events or activities, but that’s the way Wes often did it. There are long chapters and short chapters. Often you’ll get two chapters posting as one, but you’re used to that now.
Coincidentally, like WTLC, there are 61 chapters. The first story is 4 long chapters, then a much longer story with 53 mostly short chapters like WTLC. The last story is shorter but again with 4 long chapters. That middle story usually has 2 chapters posting as one. The whole book is approximately 128,000 words in about 256 print pages. Again, this books posts over 15 weeks.
I try to include the number of chapters and word count in the store page for the books. People aren't used to that as Wes didn't (usually?) do it. I've also recently started putting the chapter count below the actual story table of contents list, but you can't see that yet. It's mainly there as a reminder of how many are left to come when posting.
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Post by Jon on Dec 5, 2020 22:19:55 GMT -5
Have a question as to where Slippery Slopes fits in the SLT universe. I see Slippery Slopes as an "Independent" as it does not fit in the three major SLT geographical locales of Spearfish Lake, Bradford or Arizona/Dawnwalker. Geographically, place names so far do not favor any extant SLT locale, but I'd hazard to SE Michigan as many Independents seem to be set there.
If there is a locale where Slippery Slopes fits it would be Bradford for the bondage. Bradford is where the kinks/fetish are born in Wes's mind: prostitution, LGBT, wife sharing, polyamory and even normal female/male relationships (Jason & Vicky and Emily & Kevin).
Yeah, I'm just postulating and wanting to twerk some comments......
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Post by Boyd Percy on Dec 6, 2020 15:56:44 GMT -5
I'm sure Not Wes will post a reply in due course. He asked me not to reveal too much. Not Bradford or Spearfish Lake. SE Michigan is the real-life Hudson where Wes worked. Probably no overt kinky activity except in his fertile mind? Bradford is near Hawthorne. I had always thought Hawthorne was to the north but I think it is to the east of Bradford. When the Bradford newspaper editor Lloyd had a heart attack, they took him to Kalamazoo which is in SW Michigan.
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Post by Not Wes on Dec 16, 2020 16:19:53 GMT -5
Jon, the twerk didn't seem to work.
Yeah, this is an independent novel and listed as such in the bibliography. I don't remember any concrete place names showing up in any of the stories, but I'd have to check that to be sure. Some extrapolation can be done as more story is revealed.
Remember that handcuffs first appeared in the Spearfish Lake Tales series book "Andromeda Chained", long before "Magic Carpet", the first of the Bradford Exiles series, started posting. Some also appeared in Dawnwalker stories, but I don't think those instances (Randy and Nicole and Noah and Crystal) were before some of the bondage showed up in BE (Hat Trick?). I'm just going by memory here, not looking up events for accurate timing.
I do admit that there were some slight changes made in these shorter stories to fully separate this anthology from other series. Some congruence with other stories will be hinted at here and there with character names, but nothing to actually pin this book to a specific series. These were left on purpose, figuring they'd do no harm. That I can tell, Wes for the most part purposely didn't include any place names to further that same end. Like Boyd Percy, I also put this primarily in SE Michigan, maybe even farther east than Hudson, where Boyd suggests might be the center of activity. Wes and Kathy's house is within 15 miles of Hudson. It doesn't have to be right there though. Fictional Bradford is placed about 70 miles west of real-life Hudson.
After the book has finished, I'll reveal a few secrets (remind me as I'm getting increasingly forgetful), even though the connections are still very loose, and Wes meant it that way. He fully intended this as an independent novel though not all of the stories herein were ever on any publishing list. His wife Kathy as executor of his estate authorized the release of these.
We editors actually discussed the idea of publishing this under another pen name simply because the subject matter is for the most part sort of a more extreme version than his norm found in existing stories, but we decided that "Wes Boyd writing as . . ." like we did with Sword of the Amazon was a wasted effort. I mean its not like the author is questionable, correct?
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Post by John Robert Mead on Dec 24, 2020 19:15:29 GMT -5
The handcuffs in the Dawnwalker sequence came in via the Andromeda Chained folks; when the idea for the initial gag came up, they were consulted as to a source for purchasing said items as Randy knew them.
On to a different matter...
Once story 2 (Slippery Slope) stated posting, story 1 (Hardcase) became inaccessible.
I suspect this has to do with the HTML coding of the reader and how the pages are ID'd.
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Post by Colin on Dec 25, 2020 5:36:24 GMT -5
Once story 2 (Slippery Slope) stated posting, story 1 (Hardcase) became inaccessible. I suspect this has to do with the HTML coding of the reader and how the pages are ID'd.
It works for me using both the left column link and also the back link at the end of the first chapter of part 2.
What are you trying that doesn't work?
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