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French Kissing: Episode Six

June 9, 2014 by Harper Bliss 4 Comments

French Kissing: Episode Six

Well, here we are, Episode Six (aka The Season Finale) is out! For the release of the boxed set (planned for next week) I’ll be doing some retrospective blog posts on what I’ve learned from writing a serial, who my favourite character is (despite, of course, loving them all equally!) and to reveal my ‘fantasy casting’. But, for now, I’m just enjoying the moment of having finished this rather epic undertaking.

It all started from two pages of scribbled notes six months ago, and trust me, these characters, as they grew, have surprised me greatly along the way as well. 😉 It was my initial plan to start on Season Two quite quickly after Season One (with just a break for writing a novel in between), but I think I’ll give myself a bit more time. For me (e.g. a person with a very short attention span), spending six months on (basically) one story is very long. But, I promise to have the first episode of the new season out in January 2015. (There should be enough resolution at the end of Episode Six to tide us all over for a bit.) 😉

That being said, writing this first season of French Kissing was so much fun and I hope that comes across on the page (or e-reader screen). I have such a soft spot for all six (Dominique Laroche included!) of the characters and I hope the season finale leaves you satisfied.

Here’s the short blurb. The longer one (containing mild spoilers about previous episodes) can be found here >>

In Episode Six of French Kissing all the drama comes to a head. Will all the ladies get their happy ending?

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P.S. I’ve you’ve e-mailed me with purchase receipts of the first 4 episodes, I’ll send you the boxed set early next week!

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French Kissing: Episode Five

May 14, 2014 by Harper Bliss 2 Comments

French Kissing: Episode FiveMassive plot twist: Episode Five is available already! 😉 It kind of snuck up on me as well, but here we are. I call it the ‘sex montage’ episode, because, well, you’ll see… After all the drama in the previous episode(s), it was so much fun to let all the sexual tension explode.

Only one more episode to go in the season. Just this morning, I finished the first draft of Episode Six, typing a big fat ‘THE END’ after the last sentence. I have to say, after penning 145.000 words of lesbian drama, it was rather climactic.

I’m taking a few days off from writing, but next week I’m going to write a short story that will be completely free, and after that, I’m finally going to start on the novel that’s been brewing in the back of my mind for months (working title: At the Water’s Edge / genre: uber-dramatic lesbian romance).

Meanwhile, here’s the short blurb for French Kissing: Episode Five. For the longer one containing mild spoilers about previous episodes, click here >>

In Episode Five of French Kissing the ladies are licking their wounds after all the heartbreak—and drowning their sorrows in too much French wine.

It’s available from these retailers
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Enjoy! Episode Six will be out in June (as well as the boxed set.)

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Paris

April 3, 2014 by Harper Bliss Leave a Comment

If you follow me on Facebook, you may have already seen these pictures. If not, here’s the photographic evidence of my search for the French Kissing characters in Paris. 😉

ParisThe arty (and pricey) neighbourhood where Margot lives.

Paris1The spot on le Champ de Mars where Margot and Claire kissed for the first time. (The shoes belong to neither one of them.)

Paris2The Palais Bourbon, where députée Dominique Laroche regularly summons Steph.

Paris3Just to remind you that Paris is gorgeous. 😉

Paris4The Métro station closest to where Nadia & Juliette and Claire live. They never take the Métro though. (I do.)

Paris5If they feel like walking to the Barbier & Cyr office (located on a side street of the Champs-Élysées), this would be a common sight for Claire and Juliette.

We only had three days and I didn’t have time to snap pictures of Steph’s neighbourhood (Père Lachaise is a bit out of the way.) I did, erm, find the location of Nadia and Margot’s hospital, but don’t have pictures of that. 😉 The plan is to go back this summer (because we have to go to Belgium anyway to meet the newest member of our family), so I’ll be sure to take some more shots then.

It was so much fun to be back in Paris. We drank a lot of wine, ate a lot of food and walked until I couldn’t feel my feet anymore. Now, we’re back in Hong Kong, battling jet lag. (If the sentences in this blog post are not very well formed, it’s because my brain still thinks it’s the middle of the night and I never write after dark.) I’m giving myself a few more days to find my bearings, but as of next week, it will be full speed ahead.

I have two short stories to write. One for a Sex at Work mini-anthology I’m putting together and another so I can finally submit to Cheyenne Blue. (Authors, the deadline for Forbidden Fruit is 15 May!) I have to whip French Kissing: Episode Four into shape and get cracking on the remaining two episodes of the season. (Just an early disclaimer, as of Episode Four it’s a good idea to have tissues nearby.) 😉 Then there’s an idea for a novel that’s been stuck in my mind for weeks that I have to deal with. (I Still Remember meets Summer’s End but longer and even more dramatic.)

It’s good to be back. Loads to do. Jet lag be gone already!

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French Kissing: Why Paris?

February 24, 2014 by Harper Bliss 2 Comments

French KissingThe short answer is because I wanted a big city I knew well enough to set an entire (hopefully long-running) serial in. The long answer may turn into a love letter to Paris. 😉 I ♥ Paris and when I lived in Belgium it was only a three-hour drive away (and we had easy access to some digs), so we drove to Paris once every two months, which easily makes it the city I visited most in my life.

If a city is going to play a large part in a story, I need to have been there. Not because I want to indulge in descriptions, but because I appreciate knowing a bit of its geography, the distance between certain places and the general vibe. In the background, it helps me that I can actually picture where my characters are going. I know many authors can pull this off with Google Maps and internet research, but for someone with zero sense of orientation (i.e. someone like me), it’s important to have been there and to have walked the streets myself.

Additionally, no city is more ‘our city’ (our = my wife’s and mine) than Paris. To me, Paris equals romance. When I met my wife (a long, long time ago) I was a twenty-two year old who’d barely crossed the Belgian country borders. The first trip we took together was to Paris. We weren’t an item yet (she was still playing hard to get), but something was definitely blooming and I vividly remember staying up late, talking and joking until deep into the night, the guy who hit on her when we queued for the ferris wheel at the Place de la Concorde… (We officially got together a few weeks later, because no one can resist the romance of Paris. ;-0)

When writing this, I’m about to start on the last act of Episode Three and it has become very clear to me that French Kissing is deeply romantic. It’s all about love, the quest for it, losing it, fighting for it, not understanding it, the pain of it. ‘My ladies’ (that’s how I call them now) suffer for love, but they also revel in it (and have hot first-time, make-up and break-up sex because of it) and they desperately crave it, too. Because of all of this love, I couldn’t imagine any other city being the backdrop for my dramatic lesbian romance opus.

And now all I want to do is go back to Paris myself (but a thirteen-hour flight is a bit more of an obstacle than a three-hour drive.) So, in the end, I’m glad I at least get to write about it (and when I go home for my bi-annual family visit in March, I will, for the sake of research, make a small detour.)

P.S. ARCs of French Kissing: Episode Two will be available in a few days. E-mail me (harperbliss at gmail dot com) if you want one in return for an honest review.

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French Kissing

January 15, 2014 by Harper Bliss 6 Comments

I’m about to finish the first draft of the first episode of my new series called French Kissing. It’s set in Paris, has four main characters (and corresponding points of view), lots of drama and a few sexy scenes to keep the juices flowing. 😉 The blurb will follow later, but I wanted to talk a little about the format of this series and my plans with it.

French Kissing is a project of rather epic proportions. Each episode will be about 25.000 words long and I will write 6 episodes per season. The idea is to, ultimately, create multiple seasons. This means that the individual novellas will not be stand-alone stories, but parts of an ongoing serial.

I had to get out of pantser-mode and plot the first season (to distribute the drama over all 6 episodes) which in the end, all episodes combined, will amount to 150.000 words of lesbian erotic romance. And that’s just season one. (As I said, quite epic. ;-0) It’s far removed from my usual 10.000 words stand-alone novelettes, but I have had some practice with the High Rise series. The most common question I get about High Rise is whether there will be a sequel, which is why I decided to devise French Kissing in this serialised way. If it does well, it never has to end.

The plan is to release the first episode around the end of February, with a new instalment every month. From the beginning of February onwards I’ll start introducing the four main characters on here. I’ll talk about the setting, why I chose Paris and how my wife convinced me to, for once, include a couple in a long-term relationship in one of my stories. 😉

Creating this series is a new way of doing things for me, but this is the brave new world of publishing after all (and I’ve grown quite fond of my four characters already, so I believe in it with all my heart.) 2014 is going to be very exciting (I’ll have more thrilling news to share soon) and I hope you’ll join me on the ride.

Meanwhile, here’s the cover for French Kissing (Episode One):

French Kissing

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