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No this isn't a call for funds
(although i'm always open to donations, lol) but I need some insight from you lot, the readers.
Now for 15 years i've been writing and posting the Gaby saga and stuff like Peaches, Nena etc. Occasionally i've put up one off or short tales too all of which have, i'm happy to say, been received quite well.
There is however a tendency i've noted that some of my slightly more 'adult' stories get a lot of reads compared to the more mainstream tales. The question for me is, is this due to them being something different from my core writing, or is it a desire to read more 'edgy' stuff?
So, please, why do you prefer say Trixie over Gaby?
Not saying i'l be changing what I write but some insight from my readers may just influence future writing projects.
PLEASE comment and let me know what you think.
Thanks
Mads
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Germany vs. Gaby 0:1 ;-)
Well, I tried to avoid commenting, but you have asked for it (twice).
The German language and culture in the Gaby novels (yes, I get them via Kindle, not as signle chapters here) is one the problems that I have with them - it jars me out of my suspension of disbelief more often than I like and this makes reading the novels a bit more tedious. You sometimes garble German grammar (it was far worse in the early books) and things like naming of pubs or restaurants. Also I am confused with her school/college education, I cannot reconcile it with her age. That may be my fault, I will try to build myself a Gaby timeline to see where I got it wrong - if the "fault" (authors may deviate from reality after all, but it should be recognizable as such to vaoid confusing the reader) is on your side I will send you the details (but don't hold your breath, I've been considering this for a year now ...).
The theme has partially moved from TG/crossdressing into mainstream, also her sporting abilities lately feel a bit like jumping the shark. Ok, at one point you dubbed her "Wunderkind", so it is not too surprising, but it still makes above mentioned suspension of disbelief a bit harder. This has reduced the fun for me, so I could refrain from buying each partial novel (sometimes checking almost daily to see whether the next installment is available) to getting just the completed novels.
I must admit that I haven't finished the last one yet, I put it aside part of the way through to read something completely different. But I will return it, that I'm sure of.
With regard to your other stories/novels: I would like to see any of them continued. As I got most of it through Kindle or Lulu, I now have some catching up on my TODO list with regard to Trixies latest adventures (already converted to epub and loaded on my old Sony Reader). :-)
Best regards from northern Germany,
Rigid
Gaby is my favorite.
My finances are bad so I rely on BCTS and Kindle Unlimited for most of my reading material. Gabby volumes 1-22 are among the few books I have bought in recent years. And I did this even though I knew the early books were available on your old web site. (Tanya Allan books account for most of the other books I've bought lately.)
But I have read everything else you've written that is either available for free. And I think I have purchased a few of your other books. And I have read much of your stuff several times.
So I think it basically comes down to that I thoroughly like most of the stuff you have written, including Gaby, Jamie and the Peach, Nena, Trixibell and a few others. The rest of it I'm glad I got to read at least once.
I have read everything else of yours that
glad
That you enjoy them enough to keep reading!
Mads
Madeline Anafrid Bell
I Like...
1. Gaby, of course
2. Nena
3. Sunbeam Safety
I haven't read any of your darker stuff.
Red MacDonald
Love them all Maddy
Hi Maddy,
As you know I have been a long time reader of your work, even getting my own mention in an earlier book. Gaby has progressed on and away from its initial beginnings but is still a very good read and I purchase as soon as a new part is released. Nena, is more grown up and while I don't think it is as good as Gaby, I still buy and read it as soon as it comes out. Trixie I am really enjoying and think it is more in the style of the early Gaby books where you can see her falling deeper and deeper into girlhood without her seeing it herself. I know I have told you before that I would love for you to continue with Jamie, it has been an age and would love to see that move on. Maybe as Gaby is now, and always has been it seems, a real girl and getting older then Jamie can take on that schoolboy into schoolgirl role and I hope give you chance to do something with similar storylines to the early Gaby books.
No matter what you decide I will still buy and read your work.
Hugs and kisses
Karla
XXX
Gaby and Nena :)
As you know I was an early fan of Gaby and still love her (admittedly my reading has not been what it used to be ages ago), but I think in some ways I really preferred Nena. It doesn't take away from Gaby, but a new Nena was such a treat. I still have my Nena Omnibus Hardcover somewhere.
-Piper
thanks
Piper - there will be new Nena, hopefully before the year is out! Looking at a new setting but with some returning characters - my research trip is only a few weeks away!
Mads
Madeline Anafrid Bell
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