T-minus 60 hours to Feathered Hearts: Eros launch... · 12:35am May 29th, 2021
It will launch when I get up on Memorial Day, which is Monday morning (a three day weekend! 
). First full editing pass on the ten chapter side story is complete, and a second one is planned. I also need to flesh out the final two chapters by about 1000 more words to bring them up to what I consider ideal clopfic chapter length. That aside, I've already got the story cover prepared:
This should give a good idea of what to expect. Note the color-coded chapter rating/content descriptions at the bottom. Some of that will be spoilered when the story actually goes live, but I figured I'd give you all a sneak preview of what's there. As for the cover art, I auditioned three other cropped pictures of Gilda in sexy scenes, even one with her in anthro form, but in the end, nothing beat the original. So what the cover art is supposed to look like is the original main story art of Gilda as seen through zap apple-inebriated eyes—i.e., a pinkish glow around everything.
Get hyped, folks. By this time Monday morning, one main story chapter and five side story chapters will have been launched with the remaining five of the latter held in reserve. Even aside from sex, expect plenty of interesting information and some new worldbuilding in the side story, including Giraldi's full name and family life, how the griffies would react to seeing movies like The Princess Bride or 300, and most ominous of all, a heated debate amongst the humans over the best fried chicken franchises on earth.
No one can possibly complain they got ambushed by squick. Very nice color layout!
Prepare yourselves for chapter 1, guys. What a way to start it off!
This is my fetish.
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Thanks!
And yes, I admit I'm a bit paranoid about that now, especially for a story with as much varied action as this will have.
Thanks again! I'm quite proud of it.
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*sniffles* someone gets it!
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Yep, those are the chapters I'll be checking out.
Will the side story take place before, during or after the chapter that will be going live? Asking so i know in which order i'll have to read it.
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It will take place before it, basically filling in the gap between the end of the previous chapter and start of the new one. So if you want to read them sequentially, you would read the side story first.
However, the events of the side story are (mostly) not remembered in the main story other than the physical aftereffects--i.e., the lingering hangover and magical addiction after having so much zap apple cider spiked with a prescription fertility potion. In my view, there's no real harm in reading in the main story chapter first to see the aftermath and maybe getting one or two teasers as to what happened, then going back to read the side story to see what happened if that's what you prefer to do.
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Some come for the clop. Some come for the worldbuilding. Either is fine with me!
All I'm going to say before release is, this is probably Firesight's single greatest continuous clopfic, along with one of the best of the recently release. Right up there with Some Leech and Dirty Little Secret.
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Thanks, SB5! That's high praise indeed. Here's hoping everyone else agrees.