In for pen, in for a pounding.

Probably was a bad idea to write to a reviewer of my book I stumbled across on the web.

But she did have a few good points so I thought,well what the hell in for a penny on for a pound lets send aan email, I doubt I will get a response and I am not really looking for one.

I just felt like it.

I will probably get yelled at again or at least a stern email of the ‘leave it to the publicity and pr department’ variety buy my agent at least but this is how it went.

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Just stumbled across your site and review of my book, http://www.itsallwrite.net/aspbite/categories/index.asp?intCatID=1089
Hummm. Well have to put a hands up on that one, you have it and me pegged right. ‘Badly written’ yes your probably right...for a start English was never my best subject and it’s not like its how I make my living.
I will fully confess I wasn’t out to write or have published a great literary feat, I am not a writer after all. I just had a story to tell to win a bet. I personally never thought it would get published or even really pushed it to make it sound ‘scintillating’, but you must know what its like when a big publisher gets hold of something and then to them its a product, not a book.
They only wanted to fill a cheap beach throw away read slot, so that’s what it ended up being. Like much in this world today something to pimp and make money off the back of. After agents, editors, publisher and publicity chopped and pulled it around, I am not surprised myself at reactions I have received, you either love it or like you, hated it ...to people that can write like yourself, it must have been full of holes I can see that.

As for being boring, as it is not a novel and is my real life I wasn’t going to start lying and dramatise it like I was being pushed to.

Maybe it would have made better more interesting reading if I had, maybe if I had been beaten, raped or gained a drug habit from becoming a whore I would be a more interesting subject for people.

I didn’t want to start extravagating like other working girls have done in the past and start giving the impression it is all glam or just all misery in the sex industry. I am an average working girl like many I know, if that makes me boring then I am probably a boring old fart. Now even I am surprised that after 10 years of being a working girl my clients are not board to tears and see me again after meeting me, but saying that ...they aren’t in my bed to read books.
It was short yes and there was a lot more written but lots of it was cut to make it a ‘saleable size’ at least you where saved the time in not having to read all that. Bless

Sorry cant Spare You I am afraid ..under contract for book 2,(yes your probably moaning and berating the fact that why people that jolly well cant write, get published)
Also the second is filled with more condoms and safer sex stuff... very glad to know putting a rubber on made you yawn. I wish more people knew how and got bored so easily because its something they already know how to do well. You said yuck to sucking rubber, I just can’t help but think maybe your sucking the wrong ones though? but good on you that you have the security of a tested partner that your health doesn’t have to rely on that sort of thing. That kind of man is hard to find.

Its scary how may women out there don’t know how or just don’t use one!

There, think I got the hang of these exclamations marks now you’ll be happy to know..that’s if the copy editors don’t fill dam book2 with them again...but just in case... better stay well clear of ‘Extra Confessions’ then.(Yes crap title but I didn’t get a say)
Glad you don’t want to emulate me darlin...you might just put me out of a job,

Whorethouress of a doorstop, Miss S
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Hoo hum..I I could be wrong but I will either get a toasting reply or ignored (and no I am not going to blog it )

...at least some one likes me though!

looks like contracts with a US publisher to publish the first book is well under way.

If you are good might let you see what they have done different for the US front cover. Something tells me I think I am going to like Source Books

Fancy a Dance?

Well so far so good in the book two saga all is done and off to the editors and copy write people for setting and messing with it and the like.
All picks up where I left off in book one and starts off trying to make it as a stripper and NO before you ask the Confessions of a Stripper that is coming out later in the year is nothing to do with me.

Bet she didn’t get a choice in title either, have noticed a plethora of ‘Confessions of’ books lately don’t think publishers are really that creative, they keep on going on about marketing the product and how it ‘does what it says on the tin’ helps sell, maybe it does but its getting very old hat now you would think they could come up with something else.

Looking back over the final copy (only four days late on my deadline in the end so not too bad)
I could have added a lot more detail, at least a whole book more of text considering I have had to compact at least three years in to roughly 16 chapters, publishers wanted me to write it ‘up to present day’ but quite frankly that’s at least 9 years now since the end of book one and with 8months turn around for this one I haven’t had the time to elaborate on the swingers and fetish parties to start with. I was contracted to do min 74,000 words but not to many more, ended up with 80,000 so didn’t have much choice or time for that matter to round it off better.

Went well I thought and since its 4 years since I wrote how I started for the first book and learned what is needed and how to write a bit better (didn’t worry I am not giving up the night job, I doubt I could ever really make it as a professional writer, its not exactly one of my strong points after all)

I have high hopes for book Two my Extra confessions should be better than the first, fingers crossed

Oh well people will either love it or hate it I suppose.

This time around I will probably get a bashing from the Gay community as well as the Fetish and the Swingers for someting I said or more likly didnt say about something that happened years ago.

On to a brighter point I have been nicely added to a fellow Paid Companion's Book’s of Sins list on her blog.

The DollyMopp has added little me and my Confessions of a Working Girl to it!

Thank you dear lady!

So if your out there and fancy a perusal of some naughty reads I am sure Dolly wont mind you popping in for a perve .

Extra, Extra read all about it!

Oooh look what happens when Tesco and WHsmith clap their hands and say they didnt like the old yellow shoe cover either. Yep it has changed, funny that.
Penguin wll not listen to me but will listen to the buyers.. ummmm
I am trying not to be all smug, honest (not that anyone would hear me say 'I told you so' here)

Big huge kiss to people at Tesco and WH Smith xxx

I better get cracking and get my second book finished for them now.
Cripes! as the deadline has gone. Naughty me!
I am in so much troubble, now if I could just get men to put me down for a few days I might be able to finish it.

The Second book picks up from where the first one left off with me moveing to London and is about what happened when I got there.

From book 1:
Well, the grand total at the end of the night said it all really.
I earned ￡50. I got to keep all of it because it was my first day, but I hated every moment of it.
What’s the point in teasing men?
Taking their money and then not being able to have my wicked way with them?
I went back to the hotel room to shower and scrub myself. I felt dirty and cheap, and my mind was buzzing. I didn’t know how the girls on stage did it . . . hats off to them . . . or should that be pants off?
Definitely not my kind of thing, and there was so much bitching.
Maybe it was just that club? Maybe a bit more of an upmarket one would be better? Whatever the set-up elsewhere, I decided stripping would be deeply frustrating.

I had hoped I’d earn enough to cover what I would have missd out earning at the house in my absence, the cost of a cab home and still make a profit, but no such luck.
I returned the following night to see if it would be any better, but it wasn’t. I earned ￡80, good for a new girl, so I am told, but the house took ￡40 and my parking cost ￡20, so I felt even worse.
But it was decision time – should I stay at the house and work full-time now my course was finished and hope the situation improved and that my regs kept me ticking over until business picked up again, or should I take this way out and a chance to move to London for more adventure?
I opted for London and a fresh start and called up the manageress at the strip club to say I’d take the job, but I needed to sort out somewhere to stay in London first.
She gave me the phone number of one of her dancers, Claudia, as she had a room to let in Holborn, fairly near the club. I arranged to go and meet Claudia one afternoon in London so I could see the flat. She seemed a bit aloof, but her English was quite bad so it was hard to judge.
The flat was in a red-bricked council block close to Oxford Street, small and bare, but OK. My proposed room was poky, with a mattress on the floor and not much else, but I could move in two weeks’ time. Claudia was a tall, skinny, brunette ex-model (or so she said) from Russia, with a real attitude. She was here to learn English and was ‘just dancing’ at the club (I was snootily informed) to pay her way, but I got the impression there was a sugar daddy floating around in the background.
The flat was immaculate, although there wasn’t any stuff around to make it untidy. The windows in the lounge didn’t even have curtains, and a bare light bulb hung from every ceiling, but that could all be fixed. I shook her bony hand and said I would take it. It felt like the right thing to do for the short term, even though the weekly rent was more than I paid per month with Layla and Sanita....(To be Continued in Extra Confessions of a Working Girl)

I am only a whore?

Well you guessed it the book is being called Xxxtra Confessions of a Working Girl.

Well at least its not the 'Further' rubbish any longer..
I don’t know why they keep sending me suff eg titles, cover ect (I said nice but not sure on the yellow shoes, so of course I get ‘we all love the yellow shoes’ back in reply,I shouldnt have said a thing) and asking what I think?

Frankly from the responses they get from me, they don’t care and I know they will do what the hell they want anyway. I still don’t get why they keep asking me for my opinion its a total waste of all our time surely?

I shouldn’t of had to stomp my feet and have to explain with them trying to call a book nearly similar to one in the same genre could hurt my business,life and make me look like a fool, but there you go.
I have come to the conclusion working with a publisher is like working for an escort agent no matter what you think, they know better how to sell you and expect you to do as your told because that’s how you will earn more..bla bla.

Having gone independent and having more confidence in my business dealings, as a freelance doing what others tell me to do now is not sitting well with me like it used too. I had truly forgotten how frustrating it was being placated and told what to do.

After all what do I know, I am only a whore right?

Crap I am sounding bitter and a bit pissed off don’t I?

Not really,I have had a good few weeks so far,nearly rushed off my feet! In such a goodway too.

I am off on my holidays soon, so will be good to get away from everyone that might bother me for a good couple of weeks. Locked in a hotel room to get the rest of this next book down on virtual paper over Christmas before the deadline bites me on the arse in the new year.

Xxxtra Confessions of a working girl

In response to Penguin my publishers now wanting to title second book ‘Xxxtra Confessions of a working girl’
And I said ‘what they want me to write hard core porn? because they do know that’s what xxx means x soft core porn or girl on girl stuff, xx is classified straight sex and xxx is hard core and anal action’ I don’t buy that much porn but even I know that.'

My agent said along the lines of, No the general public will think it means a ‘bit saucy’.
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Email to my Agent this week:
‘Ok I am laughing my socks off ... of course everyone knows what tripple X means..I have a friend that’s a Sunday school teacher and even she knows what that means !and she knows nothing of the sex industry..why does everyone think I don’t know what the public thinks or knows??? Hell my family are white blooming picket fence and as about public in general as it gets and they would know that. so if we stood on the street and asked the public if xxx meant saucy or hard core porn, Penguin are telling they wouldnt say porn?
..my other straight friend (that doesn’t know what I do and I mentioned in passing of a friend writing a book with xxx in the title said ..I kid you not ...'oh my god hard core porn!'..so yes the public know ..they read the same news papers that everyone else reads..
Am I livening in a whole other country or something here?
lol we are in 2007 right..

Bless you all..this is sooo funny... fairly saucy my ass..Oh I love you..this cracks me up...
Fine with me, but I am not giving money back if people ask for a refund...
Is Tesco going to go for that really?...have they said so???

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So It looks like I am going to write hard core porn book without the hard bit..
So more like a book with an erection problem?

What in the name...?

Well it was bound to happen at some point, you could just guess that as soon as ‘Secret diary of a call girl’ hit the screens and Billie Piper got plastered on Belles front cover ,that it was going to bounce back in the charts and probably knock mine off the Sunday Times List.

(Do like the series though if you where wondering, especialy the one where she rides her cilent like a horse with a saddle..who would have time to bother about that?And just plain envious of the expencive huge working flat, never known a girl have one that big ,but Ok it is TV after all!)

Well it was good while it lasted and I will probably fade in to the dark back where I belong.
Especially as I personally am having issues with the new title for the second book the continued bit about when I came to London. Further Confessions of a working girl is trying to be forced upon me and I don’t like it. The sequel might not get published at this rate!
It’s bad enough people keep thinking I am copying off the back of Belles let alone copying her second book with a nearly dead on Title.

Keep being told its 'what you do when you have a second' and a few books do the same with the 'Further' tag, what they don’t get is its books in other genres so its not so much copy cat for them.

I am my own person, a feisty red head too boot, I don’t like being boxed in to look like someone they think is the same when I a not. Having people patting me on the head telling me they know best, is quite frankly metaphorically, making me want to bite them on the ankles!

I personally would like if I have too ‘Confessions of a Working Girl-Continued’ but no one is interested in my feelings as its just a product to them and just in it for the money, what do I matter if I lok like a compleat twat to the industry to them?

Hell I am a product to my clients too in a way, but I will not do anything they want just because of the money...even they treat me with more respect than that.
Don’t think it helped that I put my foot down and said I wouldn’t sign the new contract if it was going to be the ‘Further ‘ version. I think I have caused trouble and pissed a few people off.
Why every one thinks that just because I am a whore means I will do anything for the money and screw my principals has another thing coming.

You would think they would know by now I don’t whore anything just for the money .

Selling myself-oh yes and my book

Well this week still hanging on in there at NO:7 in the Times bestsellers list..

Who would have thought a cheap summer 2 for 3 read would get this far -I am the author and I sure didn’t. Looks like I am still on top of Mr Ramsay & Mr Titchmarsh!
Lucky me!

From The Sunday Times
September 2, 2007 :Augusts sales and Total sales
Paperbacks: general

1 Marley and Me/John Grogan (Hodder £7.99) American couple’s lives are changed when they acquire a neurotic dog 104,105 (104,240)
2 The Sound of Laughter/Peter Kay (Arrow £7.99) Comedian’s memoir, from Bolton childhood to stage and screen fame 88,935 (174,980)
3 The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Bill Bryson(Black Swan £7.99) Humorist looks back at his 1950s American childhood 57,305 (311,340)
4 The God Delusion/Richard Dawkins (Black Swan £8.99) Powerful arguments on the irrationality of and harm caused by faith 49,140 (218,615)
5 Damaged: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child/Cathy Glass(Harper £6.99) Foster carer’s relationship with abused child 47,265 (47,265)
6 Gerrard: My Autobiography/Steven Gerrard (Bantam £7.99) Life of the Liverpool captain who lifted 2005 Champions League trophy 34,865 (47,290)
7 Confessions of a Working Girl/Miss S (Penguin £6.99) Real-life diary of the author’s first year in a brothel 26,545 (37,505)
8 Humble Pie/Gordon Ramsay (HarperCollins £7.99) How the Scot became one of the world’s most successful chefs 25,510 (191,725)
9 Fear of the Collar/Patrick Touher (Ebury £6.99) Inside story of maltreatment at Dublin’s infamous Artane Industrial School 22,135 (32,380)
10 Nobbut a Lad/Alan Titchmarsh (Coronet £6.99) Television gardener and novelist waxes lyrical about his Yorkshire childhood 20,305 (34,115)

Thank you for buying it to everyone that has and I still thank you if you liked it or not

and just to annoy further have started on Confessions of a working girl part 2, or year two?

I have no idea yet its not like I have much chioce in the matter, the title will be decided by my publisher like it was the last, as to what 'will sell' and the cover will be decided by Tesco as not to cause any offence to its buyers before they will sell it.

That just leaves me less than 5 months to write it ready for next years summer read offer,

And I thought being on the Game was difficult!