Текст книги "The sea ogres eager bride"

Автор книги: Ruby Dixon

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“I’ll show you sea monster, wife,” he snarls, and then tickles me ferociously.

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Author’s Note

Hello there!

Boy, I bet you thought this book was never going to come out! ME TOO FRIEND, ME TOO. Just kidding…sort of. Here’s the thing, I always say that every book wants to be written the way it needs to be written, and every book is different. Most of the time my process is very streamlined. I come up with an idea. I sketch it out and have the idea for a few scenes and where they go from there. I start working on it and rip through the outline until the story is more or less finished.

(There’s a few books here and there that I pick at slowly over time, but 80% of them are drafted from start to finish as the main book on my plate.)

I came up with the concept for this story in 2022 and created my working file then. It was the collision of a few things that interested me at the moment. I was on a huuuuge Trojan War reading kick for a while and I liked the idea of following what happened to one of the women that gets enslaved once the city is taken. Men make the wars but the women were the ones that suffered, and nothing good happened to the women of Troy.

That, and there was a discourse about heroes with two penises in romance. Is two too much? Should he use both? Why or why not? And because I like to challenge myself, I came up with the following plot:

A – Enslaved heroine is desperate to escape her circumstances

B – Big scary sea ogre

C – She decides that the devil she knows is the best and begs to go with him and says she will do ANYTHING.

D – He surprises her with two penises

E – Sex???

As you can see, this is clearly an award winning outline. Clearly. Immediately, though, I ran into problems. I liked Vali. I liked Ranan and his dorky, awkward self. I did not like the power dynamic between them. In my head, this would be a short, smutty story about a girl that gets dicked by a sea-ogre and everyone walks away happy. But I couldn’t get past that power dynamic between them. The whole master/slave thing was killing my lady-boner. How can she possibly be happy with him when he holds all the power and she doesn’t? How is that a happy ever after?

So I put this aside and thought on it for a while. And then Bull Moon Rising needed to be written. And so did a few other books. Once I cleared the decks a bit, I picked this story up again and ran into the same problem, and it’s one that Ranan asks himself through the whole story. How can you know Vali is really happy if she’s used to suppressing how she feels to please the person in charge?

I had to give Vali some power and agency. I wounded Ranan and put his life in her hands. I made them go to his family and had Vali become aware that she didn’t need him. That she could survive and thrive without him. At the end of the day, I was a lot happier with how things turned out. I like to imagine these two pirating their way across the rocky shores, robbing people left and right.

Oh! And for those wondering about Akara, I gave a lot of thought to her, too. If a turtle never submerges, how does she feed? I like to think of her like a basking shark, getting her nutrients from invisible plankton in the waters. She would have the large, terrifying looking mouth that strains things, which would only add to the visual terror of an enormous turtle. Now with scary gaping mouth! But I like to imagine Akara just drifting her way through life, tired of other people’s bullshit…hence her need to go solo.

(Me too girl, me too.)

I hope you enjoyed this story!

– Ruby Dixon

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Want More?

Want more to read? I have a very large backlist in Kindle Unlimited! Here are a few suggestions of things you might like if you enjoyed this story!

The main Aspect & Anchor series

Bound to the Battle God

Sworn to the Shadow God

Wed to the Wild God

Stand-alones in the A&A universe

The Half-Orc’s Maiden Bride