What I Read And Wrote In January

 

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It’s been a hectic start to the year here at AJP Headquarters! Lots of work in my day job that piled up over the holidays is now ALL top priority, we headed out of town for a weekend to celebrate my mom’s birthday, and of course the country slipped further into authoritarianism. My wife’s family is from St. Paul, so the news out of Minnesota was of particular interest to us — and made it hard to focus on anything else.

What I Read In January

I’ll admit to needing a little escape and there were a few writers that provided great escapist fodder the past couple of months, including a couple of female-dominant stories that were not my normal thing but that I quite enjoyed. These are all on Medium.

The first is a nine-part series on Medium from Maya D'Souza called “His Whore, My Rules”. When the protagonist discovers his husband’s cheating, she takes total control of both him and his affair partner, who is more than willing to be her sub. Hubby might have been a harder nut to crack, but crack him (or them) she does. This thing is white-hot and I loved every word.

In Sean Geist’s “My Wife’s Best Lay”, a couple slides into a hot wife dynamic without really talking about it, with our hero’s boss as the lucky recipient. In so many hot wife stories, there is planning, discussion, rules — not so here. This one is all about opportunity, and pushing until someone yells “stop!” But maybe they don’t?

In a very different vein, Jordan Lubov’s age gap story of an inexperienced young coed that looks to an older man for guidance is told with sensitivity and patience. I’m doling the chapters out, taking my time with it as he does with her. Jordan’s stuff is always good!

A married pair gets a very special, off-the-menu couples massage for their anniversary in Scarlett Erotica’s “The Anniversary Massage That Broke Us Both Open” — her titles tend to be very descriptive! This is a short one but very hot.

A couple of months ago I wrote about a couple of non-fiction writers I was following on Medium (one of whom has sadly now left and doesn’t seem to be posting anywhere). More recently I’ve been reading The Career MS and enjoying her takes on relationships, trends, etc. As I’ve stated before, it’s possible she’s really a 60 year old guy in Des Moines with a beer gut, but he’s really really good, if that’s the case. She is very prolific, but I find that I agree with most of what she writes, which seems impossible, but there ya go.

What I Wrote In January

Well, not much, although I am continuing to work on the finale for “Devil Inside”. To buy myself some time, I’ve been posting two chapters of my award-winning “Neighbors: The Beach Trip” every week on Medium. It’s the first erotica novel I published and some of my very earliest fiction writing, so I’ve tried to clean it up a bit but I’m mostly left the story itself intact. I quite enjoy it — I hope you do too! It should run into the second week of February.

If you’re impatient to get to the end, of course it’s available on Amazon.

After that, I hope to post the last arc of “Devil Inside” starting the second half of February, then wrapping all of it up into a novel.

If you want to stay warm this winter, I suggest you read lots of erotica, whether it’s mine or some of the other folks I’ve mentioned! It’s a long way ’til spring!

 

Looking Backwards and Forwards (with a little aside about AI porn)

 

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This is usually the time when I update you all on what I’ve been writing and reading, both to highlight my own stuff as well as erotica that I particularly liked and can recommend. But that would make for a very short post, as I’ve little time to read or write in December. Between end of year work deadlines and holiday prep (and enjoyment!) — let’s just say that trying to write was mostly a non-starter.

So instead, here’s a quick recap of 2025! I published a BUNCH of stories on Medium, many of which also ended up on Literotica (I write as ‘flipnmelonfarmer’ there). I submitted four stories to two anthologies that JK Mill is putting together for later in 2026 (hoping that at least a couple of them will be chosen!).

I also published one short novel (“The Consultant: Mothers and Daughters” — a sequel to my previous “Consultant” book) and I collected over a dozen short stories from the past 18 months or so into an anthology, called “Filthy Bedtime Stories for Adults”. Both are available on Amazon as ebooks and as paperbacks.

Looking ahead, 2026 is going to be a year of major changes. I’ve got a ton of story ideas that I’m ready to write, but I’ll be experimenting with platforms other than Medium, given the massively reduced compensation from that platform since the end of 2024. All the platforms I’ve investigated have their problems, and I need a little time to sort through them and decide on a couple to try.

If all goes well, I’ll have more time to do that research and experimentation (as well as more time to write) as I’m hoping to retire from my 44 year IT career sometime in the middle of 2026. Fingers crossed!

I am in the middle of serializing my novel “Neighbors: The Beach Trip” on Medium — we’re about halfway through at this writing. It was the first erotica novel I ever published, and I’ve enjoyed going back and rewriting/reediting parts of it — I think it’s good but my writing has improved so now I think it’s even better!

I’m also working on the final arc for “Devil Inside”, my crazy erotic horror/mind control story. The final arc will be a little lighter on horror but will feature lots of sexy sex!

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When I first started publishing stories on Medium early in 2024, I started using a generative AI engine to produce racy-but-SFW “artwork” for my posts. I found it somewhat addictive, to be honest. It was easy to get sucked into creating fantasy scenes (many of them definitely NOT SFW), and I got pretty good at creating prompts to get the results I was looking for.

As I thought more about ethical considerations (massive power consumption, training on artwork without the artists’ permission, etc), I stopped using AI “art” and started hitting the free photo repositories instead. That’s a personal decision and I’m not shaming anyone who makes a different one (at least not in this post!). And I will assure you that I have never used gen AI to write and I don’t intend to in the future. There’s just no fun in that!

But having played around with image generation a bit 18 months ago, I’m fascinated by the discussions around AI porn that are really only now starting to hit the public consciousness. There is a LOT to think about!

Porn has driven adoption of tons of technologies over the past few decades. The VCR, the hi-def standard for DVDs, and tons of internet-related advancements have been fueled by, and in some cases dictated by, the porn industry. Sites like OnlyFans allow porn actors much more control over their careers and even when some of them do cross over and start working for the studios, they seem to have much more control over their schedules, working conditions, etc. It’s easier (and safer) to be a porn actor, but probably a lot harder to get noticed.

So what happens when consumers of porn can relatively easily create their own custom porn? Go hit Reddit or XVideos and you can already find a lot of it — most of it of fairly poor quality yet but some is hard to tell from real people.

Some porn stars are already using GenAI engines to create chatbots to interact with fans in their voice, adding another potential income channel (engagement is KING!). But lots of sites offer AI-generated girlfriend experiences — how is that going to affect real-life interactions when guys (and it will be almost all guys) are used to having an AI girlfriend that never says no, that is down for whatever kinky shit they’re interested in, and who are programmed to please? Real people are likely to be even more of a challenge for these guys than they already are.

I’ve seen some of the ads that some of the girlfriend experience sites run — create a woman that will never ask you to take out the trash, that will never be too tired, that will never spend the evening talking about her day or her problems — who will never say no to any sexual experience.

I find it interesting that in watching a few of the longer AI-generated videos, there’s almost always lots of fellatio (usually the unseen guys have inhumanly-large dicks, of course). There’s lots of athletic sex in various positions. But while my sample size isn’t huge, I have yet to see AI guy go down on the AI girlfriend. Wonder why?

There’s also a ton of fantasy stuff out there — big-boobed futanari with giant cocks, monster-on-monster sex, tentacle sex — all of which has been around for years as anime, but now I’m seeing it being generated by AI.

I have no idea where this is going to go. When it comes to human relationships, I can see the guys who fall down this rabbit hole will either take themselves out of the dating/breeding pool and stick with their ever-more-realistic looking AI babes, or they will try to base actual human interactions on what they’ve learned from their AI booty calls and let’s just say that that will not go well, for the guys or the women.

As for porn performers, who knows? Does human-centered porn become more boutique? Or a fetish thing? Porn companies, and porn performers in general, have weathered a lot of changes — I suspect they’re more concerned about the latest puritanical movements in the US and other companies than they are AI, at least for now. But changes are coming quickly.

Any thoughts from you folks? Have you seen any AI porn? How does this play out?

What I Read and Wrote in November

 

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Hard to believe that it’s December! I hope those of you in the States had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and/or friends and those of you in the rest of the world enjoyed a couple of days without those Americans you work with bothering you. A global holiday!!

What I Read in November

November is always a nutty month for us. In addition to Thanksgiving, my wedding anniversary is in the middle of the month and the first two weekends are usually taken up by my wife’s art exhibits as part of the local artists guild Fall Tour. But I did get some good reading in!

Jordan Lubov is one of my favorite writers (and she seems like a very cool person). I particularly enjoyed “Sharing Mom’s New Boyfriend” on Medium. It has been suggested that my stories don’t have enough conflict in them, but sometimes ya just want to read/write about nice people having fun sex because sex is awesome. This is one of those!

Sharing Mom’s New Boyfriend

Vivian White (Roleplayliterate on Literotica) is another favorite and she never disappoints. Her continuing “Cuckold Consequences” is one of the hottest and intensest stories I’ve ever read and her “An Interview to Long For” was hot in an entirely different way. A power couple goes through a tough initiation to gain an exclusive membership and whoo boy, ya gotta wonder if it was worth it! I think the couple agree that, regardless of what they learned about themselves and each other, it definitely was worth it.

An Interview to Long For 

I’m drawn to people that can do more than just write heat — they can tell stories. They could write in any genre, and some do. Jordan and Vivian definitely fit that bill, and so does Emily Miller. She’s just published a novel-length story on Literotica (“The Story of Nix”) that is actually just really good sci-fi with a lot of sex. I’ll admit that I’ve only read the first installment (see aforementioned busy November) but I will absolutely finish it in the next couple of weeks.

The Story of Nix

 

What I Wrote in November

November was not a great month for original writing. Instead I used the time to do some writing adjacent stuff.

I mentioned that Exceptional Erotica, the Medium publication that I was a part of for the past 18 months or so, is on indefinite hiatus. However, JK Mills is pulling together a couple of anthologies for next year and I took the time to clean up a few of my stories to submit. Fingers crossed!!

I also did publish an anthology of many of the stories that I published on Medium the past year or so (I held out some that are hopefully destined for JK’s anthologies or that I think I might expand into novels). It’s called “Filthy Bedtime Stories for Adults” and it’s available on Amazon in both ebook and paperback formats.

Filthy Bedtime Stories for Adults

I also finally got around to doing a paperback cover for “The Consultant: Mothers and Daughters”, so now all five books on Amazon are available in both ebook and paperback.

The Consultant: Mothers and Daughters

I entered my story “Beach Bum Christmas” in the Literotica Winter Holiday contest as well — it probably wasn’t overtly Christmas-y enough, but I think it’s a good story.

Beach Bum Christmas

And finally, I started serializing my first erotica novel — “Neighbors: The Beach Trip” — on Medium. It has some of my earliest writing and I think I’ve improved a bit, but I’m trying to keep the edits to a minimum.

Neighbors: The Beach Trip

For December, I’m posting chapters of Neighbors: The Beach Trip every Tuesday and Friday — that will take me well past New Years. I’m also still working on the finale of Devil Inside and more of the Know What You Write series. My friend Sifu on Medium will not be happy (nor will be be surprised) at the direction it’s about to take.

Stay warm, stay safe, stay sane and keep reading!

 

What I Wrote and Read in October

 

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I’ve mentioned in the last couple of newsletters that I may not be posting as much on Medium going forward. Maybe, maybe not. I don’t intend to submit work to a new publication, but given that my current membership has another 8 or so months to run, I may be posting stories directly for a bit.

What may change is the nature of the stories and the way I tell them. As I mentioned, I have felt a little boxed in by expectations of length etc on Medium — if I’m posting just under my own name, I can play around a little more with those expectations. I guess I’ll figure it out over the next couple of months. Regardless, I’m definitely not stopping writing.

What I Read in October

Ran across some really terrific stories during the month! Maya D'Souza's three-part (so far) story “His Whore, My Rules” is a wonderfully smoking-hot story of a woman who catches her husband fucking around with a kindergarten teacher and instead of running away, she stays and takes total control of both of them and of the situation. Highly recommended!

I waited until Rick Scott finished publishing his slow-burn of a hot wife story “Benefits Renewed” because I frankly wanted to see where he was taking it. I get a little tired of the woman being taken by an “alpha male” (such an animal does not exist, kids) and leaving her poor weak husband (or at least leaving him behind sexually). On the other hand, stories where it’s all about the love the husband has for his wife (and she for him) and their trust that her heart is not wandering — those I can get into. Rick’s story might be a slow burn, but it absolutely smolders in every chapter. You should definitely check it out!

If you don’t have a lot of time and you want an age-gap story that gets right to the point, check out Mona Rivers’ “Saturday Shenanigans: My New Step-Mother Is A Whore”. I mean, the title kind of says it all, right? Hot fun in a single-chapter story.

MelissaBaby may be the best pure author of any erotica writer that I read regularly. Her Bluesky profile says “I don’t write sex stories, I write stories about people who have sex.” That is a damn fact. If you’re looking for a haunting Hallowe’en story, look no further than “Mr. Spooky’s House of Halloween Fun” on Literotica. But don’t blame me if you have trouble sleeping afterwards.

I’m sure I’m leaving some other good stuff out!

 

What I Wrote in October

I was surprisingly active in October! Surprise to me, at least.

Part 3 (of 3) of “Belonging” was published on Medium early in the month. I then posted the whole story as a one-parter on Literotica and so far it is the highest rated story I’ve ever published there. I quite like it myself! Olivia was wild in her undergrad days but her life as a grad student at a small private university is way too quiet, until suddenly it isn’t.

I published a continuation of the Bear and Cat age-gap story with “Danielle: A Bear and Cat Tale”. This one is focused more on Barry’s younger brother Adam, and a young woman he meets at his bar. It’s got everything — love, sex, threatened violence, and a brief return of Bono the Beagle!

And they’re all available on Literotica under my ‘flipnmelonfarmer’ pen name.

I introduced the erotica writer Lauren, her husband Mark, and her stepsister April in “Know What You Write”. They’re all back in “Know More Of What You Write”, as Lauren keeps pushing boundaries and Mark finds himself reluctantly intrigued about things he never would have expected. This is evolving into the most straightforward hot wife story I’ve written to date — more to come for sure.

Also available on Literotica — free as always!

Finally, the 3rd arc of “Devil Inside” titled “The Grove” was published just a couple of weeks ago. It seems pretty clear that Sir is starting to lose control of the demon inside of him, or maybe he’s just letting the power he’s borrowing from the demon corrupt him. I’m working on a 4th and final arc and I hope to wrap it all up into a novel and get it published before the end of the year.

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That’s all for this month — I’m hoping to get a short story collection out on Amazon over the next couple of weeks, as well as finish the Devil Inside story. Then we’ll see what’s next!

Thanks as always for reading!

 

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

 

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I joined Medium initially as a reader a couple of years ago. After some months of enjoying reading, I posted a few non-fiction essays about writing and with some of my thoughts on erotica. Somehow they caught the attention of the wonderful JK Mill, who invited me to write for the Medium publication Exceptional Erotica.

And boy, did I!

The support and positive feedback I’ve gotten from JK and Celia McKinley and all my readers (I’m looking at you, Sifu!) has been nothing short of phenomenal and I thank you all from the bottom of my filthy little heart.

Sadly, as many of you have written or read, Medium is not the same platform as it was last year. My income has dropped to 10–15% of what it was last year, and my readership has dropped, even while the number of people following me has risen.

Not all of that is due to Medium’s changing payment schedule. I’ve done some experimenting with different types of stories, some of which may not have had the same appeal to folks as my earlier stuff. I’ve also had less time to write due to several personal reasons, so my output is down. So while I still see other authors getting tons of responses, I’m getting very little feedback. At least not on Medium.

I was toying with exploring other platforms when it was announced that Exceptional Erotica is going on indefinite hiatus after this month. My “Devil Inside” arc that was just published this week will be my last stories for them. Sad but I totally understand why they’re shutting down.

I could look for another Medium publication to join, and I’m sure I’d have no trouble finding one. But I’ve realized that writing for Medium is limiting (or driving) the way I write. Generally, the expectation is for 1500–2500 words per post, which demands a particular style of writing. If I have a longer story that I’m breaking up into multiple posts, I find myself trying to make sure I put some heat in each one, even if they story beats don’t really call for it. It also feels like I need to continually publish on a weekly basis to maintain interest, which is difficult to keep up while I’m still working a full-time job (fingers crossed that that will change in twelve months or so).

So while I will maintain my Medium presence for the near future and my previously published stories will still be out there, my new posting will likely be limited to newsletter/blog posts like this one while I explore other potential platforms.

In the meantime, I plan to continue to post stories on Literotica (you can find me at ‘flipnmelonfarmer’) and I will continue to put out the occasional novel or short story collection on Kindle. I’ve also submitted a couple of stories for consideration for an anthology that the Exceptional Erotica folks are putting together next year. Fingers crossed!

In no way am I going to stop writing, although without the self-imposed deadlines for writing for Medium, actual publication may be a little more sporadic. But that’s okay.

I’ve got at least a dozen potential stories rattling around in my head — no, probably closer to two dozen. Some of them would not be appropriate for Medium (or Kindle) anyway — I’ve got a very dirty mind, kids. So some of those stories will likely be exclusive to Lit, which gives writers a little more leeway. And oddly enough, I find Literotica readers are much more comfortable with longer stories than Medium readers are.

I’ll talk more about some of what I’m working in my month-end missive in a few days. For now, I just want to say again how incredibly much I have appreciated your feedback, your claps, and your highlights. Not gone, hopefully not forgotten, but a little quieter…

 

What I Wrote and Read in September

 

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Hey, sorry I’m a little late in getting my newsletter out, but I’m at the tail end of Antonapalooza, otherwise known as my birthday. And it’s a big one. The zeros and the fives can all be important milestones, but nothing compares to 18, 40 and 65. Guess which one I just passed.

There are changes coming (sadly, retirement from my day job is not yet one of them — soon, maybe).

Medium was a great platform for me when I started publishing there at the beginning of 2024. I got noticed by the wonderful JK Mill, who encouraged me to write for Exceptional Erotica. And they have been incredibly supportive. But…

Medium as a platform has not been so supportive, at least in the past 12 months or so. For a number of reasons, I have been contemplating taking my writing elsewhere (I’m already reposting most of my Medium stuff on Literotica 2–3 weeks after initial publication).

Today I found out that Exceptional Erotica is going on an indefinite hiatus starting in November, which will likely hasten my decision to either try out Ghost or Beehiiv or some other platform, or focus on Literotica, or possibly both. I’ll keep you posted! In the meantime, shout-out to JK and Celia McKinley for being so damned awesome!

What I Wrote In September

On Medium, I finished the “Descent” arc of “Devil Inside”. Sir is in Charlotte doing some research on how to rid himself of his demon rider, while enriching himself at the expense of some of the city’s bankers. He runs into a real estate agent whose aura is blacker than his, even though she doesn’t have a demon inside of her. He has clearly gotten a taste for meddling in other peoples’ lives, and boy does he meddle in hers and her family’s!

https://medium.com/@antonjpierce/list/devil-inside-c7382b7e4873

Also on Medium, there’s a very, very hot three-parter called “Belonging” that was a response to a back-to-college prompt from Exceptional Erotica. Olivia was wild in undergrad but she’s not getting any action at the small private school she’s doing her graduate work in. Until a mysterious and kinky encounter in a classroom building restroom after hours sets her off on a very hot adventure! You can also find this one on Literotica under my “flipnmelonfarmer” handle.

https://medium.com/exceptional-erotica/belonging-pt-1-31ea083405c3

What I Read In September

I always talk about the fiction I’m reading, but I want to highlight some of the non-fiction I’ve been enjoying on Medium the past few months.

We’ve known for decades that people can be anyone they want to be on the Interwebs. That hot twenty-something fitness instructor you’re trading messages with could be a fifty-year-old man in Bulgaria. We all hope that we’re discerning enough that we can tell the genuine from the artificial, and maybe we’re mostly correct, but you never really know.

I hope like hell that LibrariAnna is real. She ought to be. She is a self-described “bisexual, polyamorous, neurodivergent librarian & married mom of 4” and reading her posts on Medium about coming out as bisexual, she and her husband’s forays into ENM, and the sheer joy she finds in the connections they’ve found with another couple just make me so damn happy. She’s a hell of a writer with a hell of a story and she’s well worth a read.

https://interestedinsex.com/ 

One of my other favorite non-fic reads is Sam & Kate on Medium, a couple in their fifties navigating ENM and a hotwife dynamic in a much different setting than Anna’s. Sam’s writing is honest, open, and very matter-of-fact. I love that he and Kate have had their bumps and their stumbles (and they’re willing to share them with us) but they’re absolutely in each other’s corner and, as with Anna, they have a family that accepts them for who they are. We really can’t ask for much more than that. I could easily see sitting down with Sam and talking about life and music, and I’d even forego the beer since he’s sober. Check ’em out!

https://medium.com/@Sam.Kate.enm

Next Month

I submitted another three-part arc of “Devil Inside” that should be published on Exceptional Erotica on Medium before they go on hiatus at the end of October. It’s hotter and kinkier than anything I’ve written before. I’m working on a final arc, but it will probably be added as final chapters as I turn the whole thing into a novel over the next few months.

I’ve already published another “Bear and Cat” three-parter on Medium this month, this one focused on Barry’s brother, Adam. It’s hot and sweet and a little kinky — more age gap goodness! I’ll likely post it on Literotica before the end of October.

https://medium.com/exceptional-erotica/danielle-a-bear-and-cat-tale-pt-1-1fa544c655c1

There’s also a two-part continuation of the story of Lauren the erotica writer and her husband Mark. “Know More Of What You Write” is the most hot-wife-ish story I’ve written to date. Lauren is determined to experience more (not only in pursuit of her writing) and she’s dragging a semi-reluctant Mark along with her.

https://medium.com/exceptional-erotica/know-more-of-what-you-write-pt-1-94cd31688c9d 

I’m also working on collecting a bunch of my shorter stuff into a single volume to sell on Amazon (and remember that I’ve got four novels already out there on the ‘zon!)

Look, it’s crazy out there. Things are weird and they’re only going to get weirder. While you still have access to this stuff, read as much as you can. Buy books — Amazon can pull back ebooks but they can’t do that with paperbacks! You can find mine at Anton J Pierce on Kindle.

And be good to each other!

 

 

What I Read and Wrote in August

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