Shakuita Johnson's Blog: The Ramblings of Me

Wicked Crimson

A Myths and Legends Anthology

Genre: Mixed Paranormal

with stories by

Shakuita Johnson, Stephanie Kelley, Stephanie Ayers, Aubrie Nuttle, E.S. McMillan

Ancient cultures often tell tales of ancient legends…
Gathered are 5 such tales told from 5 perspectives.

Shakuita Johnson
Magic Gods

Stephanie Kelley
Pas de Deux

Stephanie Ayers
Broken Chords: Fosse’s Song

Aubrie Nuttle
Embrace My Ashes

E.S. McMillan
Dita’s Choice

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Shakuita Johnson is a 34-year-old Psychology major. When she isn’t going to school or working, she is doing what she loves most. Writing. She started writing in middle school. She would write poetry in her room or the middle of the night. Then she was introduced to short stories in a creative writing course her senior year. Her love for paranormal and supernatural started with R.L. Stine Goosebumps books and TV shows, Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles, and Christopher Pike books. She is an avid reader with over 100 books on her bookshelf and 1000 plus on her iPad. She also loved to watch Charmed and Buffy the Vampire Slayer with her mom.

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Here’s a little sneak peak to my next release coming out May 2018! Let me know what you think in the comments

Okay, I’ve finally got my 100 things down and I’m ready!! My start date was Sept 11, 2017 and my end date is June 8, 2020. I’m so excited to start everything! So here is my list… I’ll update this post as I complete them!

Get a penpal
Go to Disney
Learn Japanese
Write 3 books outside of NaNo
Participate in NaNo in 2017, 2018, and 2019
Rewatch Supernatural from the beginning
Rewatch Law & Order: SVU from the beginning
Catch up on Game of Thrones
Get my own apartment
Move from the South
Don’t cut my hair before the 1001 days except for a trim
Start a book club
Start the event planning business with Jessica
Spend no more than $50 a month on random expenses except certain exceptions
Do healthy eating and work out twice a year until 1001 days is over
Read at least 50 books a year
Save $1000 a year in 2018, 2019, 2020
Make $1500 a month with my books in 2018, 2019, 2020
Finish Snap Shot with LM Adams
Get a passport
Go to Japan for 2 weeks in 2020 if I have $5500 saved up
Dedicate one room to a library
Dedicate one room to an office/craft space
Go back to San Diego
Go back to NYC
Visit Atlantic City
Rewatch One Tree Hill from the beginning
Try 5 new restaurants
Read 10 classics I’ve not read
Blog about my 101 things in 1001 days as they are completed
Post more on my author social media
Have a party for my 35th bday
Volunteer somewhere
Do a video series for my reader’s group on my writing process (upload to youtube later/maybe instagram)
Learn Spanish
Learn 150 new words a year
Make 2 new friends
Read a new to me author 5 times
Have 30 black out me days/no social media in 2018, 2019, 2020
Try 10 new foods
Make 10 new foods
Go to the Wicked play again
See a ballet
Get rid of credit card debt
Have 4 no spend months a year in 2018, 2019, 2020
Take a creative writing course
Take James Patterson’s master class
Go to 3 weekend trips
Go to Mardi Gras
Leave a 100% tip
Finish KAT: Encounters of a Man Whore shorts
Start and finish the Petty Chronicles shorts
Gain 1500 followers a year on my social medias (FB, Twitter, NL, Insta, Blog)
Take Rebecca Hamiliton’s one on one coaching course
Do another Charmed Legacy book (this time by myself) – save $2000
Grow at least 3 herbs
Write a letter to myself, open at end of 1001 days
Take a picture a day (random pics) for one month
Send a care package to someone 2018, 2019, 2020
Get all A’s in next 4 classes
Make cake pops
Take a cooking class
Make a homemade pizza
Learn to French braid
Put $10 in savings for each goal finished
Show up at the airport and take the next flight out
Do my hair in a new style once a week for 2 months
Get a mani with my nieces
Set up a patreon keep active for at least 6 months
Get life insurance
Make a new will
Fly First Class
Buy the person’s food behind me in a drive through
Donate $2 for each failed thing on this list
Do another book signing in Vegas/explore this time
Design and make one custom dress
Edit my own videos
Pay off Toyota
Donate to toys for tots twice
Be in a serious relationship
Write a piece for a magazine/be featured in a magazine
Win a writing prize
Teach someone how to do something new
Attend a book signing as a reader
A video a day for one month
Query a book to a publisher
Record the song I wrote
Write an hour a day for 30 days 3 times
Send 3 random readers a swag pack
Host a huge giveaway for my 5 year publishing anniversary – Dec 6, 2018
Spend 2 weeks with Gavin and Cris again
Wake up by 8 2 weeks in a row
Read all the unread books on my bookshelf
Finish Dark Indiscretions insider’s guide
Knit a blanket
Make a dessert from scratch
Host a dinner party with fancy food and ppl dress up
Sell 10 paperbacks a year 2018, 2019, 2020
Rewrite/expand And So She Waited
 Get in a boxed set
Blog post about 101 things overall experience

So here they are in all their glory. Are you doing the challenge? Let me know in the comments!!

I know I know… so many crazy things have happened in the past year. Can’t believe it’s been 8 months since I’ve updated my blog. I plan to change that very soon. I will be doing more writing of course but I also recently started bullet journaling, taking a lettering classes and I plan to participate in the 101 things in 1001 days challenge. I will be making a post about that and I will be making an update post about my writing. I plan to do a series during NaNo this year and I hope you all follow along on my journey. I won’t give away spoilers for the project I’ll be working on during NaNo but I will post a picture of the amazing cover… Talk to you all next week

Title: SMUT
Author: Nona Black, Shakuita Johnson, Stephanie Kelley, & Nina Gabrielle
~Featured Stories~
Bait
Clash
By The Moon
Red
Last Friday Night
F*ck Me Please
Betrayal by Blood
Wanton Secrets
Bentley (Kiss and Tell: Encounters of a Man Whore)
Publisher: Venefica Publishing
Release Date: Dec. 20th, 2016

 

 

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9 stories, 4 authors, a lot of steam.

Enjoy a collection of steamy stories with Venefica Publishing’s first anthology… Smut

Last Friday Night:

What Happens on Friday’s is our little secret… Jessica has a little secret. She met her husband Peter in a sex club two years ago, and her life has been satisfying ever since. But work calls Peter away for the whole week and leaves the weekends free for fun, f*cking and no holds bared.

F*ck Me Please:

Sometimes offices are for work, and sometimes offices are for f*cking!

Jennifer want nothing more than to be f*cked all over and sideways by her fiancé who is always at work. Taking matters into her own hands she decides that this time the ball was in her court.

Bentley:

Mature audiences only. Contains M/F scenes and adult language

Clarissa is back and this time she’s brought the men with her…This is the first installment in a six part serial. Although each can be read as a standalone, it is best to read them in order.

Clarissa is an acclaimed journalist and blogger who sets out to show the erotic side of escorting by writing a blog article for her followers. She speaks to six men, in Connecticut, asking them to tell her one of their hottest encounters with a client.

The first man she interviews goes by the name of Bentley. After being released from a juvenile detention center he opened Cupiditas with five of his closest friends. Join him as he regales Clarissa with tells of lust and desire with, Chloe.

Wanton Secrets:

Ms. Cage is looking for a bit of fun away from her high powered job. She goes to a place at the urging of an associate. Once there however, she gets far more than she bargained for.

Betrayal By Blood:

The debt was due… I was the payment. The one who sold me… was family.

By the Moon:

It was just supposed to be one night last summer, just a fling with him at his welcome home party. Just one hot, delicious, drunken romp in his truck was all we agreed on. Except we couldn’t keep our hands off each other and it turned into all night.

Rome was the guy all the local girls wanted; good family name, easy on the eyes, skilled with his hands. And I didn’t need linked to him. I didn’t want to be in the shadowed spot light that was his life.

Now that man, who swore by the moon in a drunken confession that he was a witch, was at my library, silently waiting for me when I left work. I didn’t know what he wanted but he’d promised

me magic that night last summer. I didn’t believe in magic, but I knew the way he looked at me made me want to go back on my word.

Red:

Dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair… Wait, that’s the opening for my favorite Eagles song. Probably shouldn’t be drinking and telling you this, but it kinda sucks to be the wolf with no Red Riding Hood to seduce when one is in a mood, wait, I mean chase… chase, that’s it.

That is, until he shows up with flaming red hair and lots of muscles.

Bait, an erotic comedy, takes place in Baltimore where my protagonist, Katrina, is a thirty-something year old woman whose life has simply fallen flat after her ex dumps her. She finds herself going through the paces, hating every step, afraid to dare to be more. Until she bumps into Deck, young and impulsive yet wanting a real kind of love. By no means is he willing to become Kat’s “boy-toy” and he goes about convincing her to commit in a very… unconventional way.

Clash, an erotic drama, also taking place in Baltimore where the protagonist, Ava, has turned into a coldhearted and ruthless woman. She’s up for a promotion at her firm but is forced to work with her ex and prove to the board that she can work well with others in a difficult situation. She has every intention of getting in, getting out, and washing her hands completely of her past. Little does she know, Nick still loves her and refuses to let her ice him out again, but love cannot be forced.

 

 

 

 

Nina Gabrielle is a sassy woman from NY! Being new to the erotica world she writes sexy smut while juggling a host of things.

Nina is innocent, with just enough freak in her to get the job done…and yes, in her books as well.

What can I say… I started writing poetry in middle school… It was my escape from some bad days and I poured those unfortunate memories on to paper in an effect to purge them from my life. I had no idea that over 10+ years later I’d have started to write and publish an actually book! To say the last three years have been eye-opening, exhilarating, and at times exhausting, it’s taught me many things about myself. I’ve had the dream of owning my own publishing company for almost 2 years now and it’s finally a reality. With the help of an amazing friend I’ve met through this book community, Lark Adams, we’re finally releasing our first publication.

We hope SMUT is a huge hit and leads the way for more to come.

The stories I submitted took me out of my comfort zone and I hoppe to write more stories like them. ENJOY and make sure you pick up your copy ASAP!

 

Mature audiences only. Contains M/F scenes and adult language

Clarissa is back and this time she’s brought the men with her…This is the first installment in a six part serial. Although each can be read as a standalone, it is best to read them in order.

Clarissa is an acclaimed journalist and blogger who sets out to show the erotic side of escorting by writing a blog article for her followers. She speaks to six men, in Connecticut, asking them to tell her one of their hottest encounters with a client.

The first man she interviews goes by the name of Bentley. After being released from a juvenile detention center he opened Concupiscentiarum with five of his closest friends. Join him as he regales Clarissa with tells of lust and desire with, Chloe.

 

 

 

Ms. Cage is looking for a bit of fun away from her high powered job. She goes to a place at the urging of an associate. Once there however, she gets far more than she bargained for.

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Shakuita Johnson is currently finishing up her Master’s degree. When she isn’t in school she enjoys watching Japanese Anime, eating, and relaxing. She published her first book Dark Indiscretions (Dark Indiscretions Series, #1) in Dec. 2013, which is permafree on all online outlets for ebook.

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The first stories I’d ever written were all about BDSM, sex… every manner of kink. It was a way to express myself and people loved them!

I decided to combine my two favorite worlds and started mixing my kink with supernatural. Now for the challenge, could I go back to the writer I was before? I took on the dare and am now publishing my first stories that have no monsters to go bump in the night.

I hope everyone enjoys these stories and looks forward to the continuation of both. Switch, the next installment after Bait and Sync the next installment after Clash both coming in 2017.

It’s time for the men to take charge of their hearts.

 

 

Bait, an erotic comedy, takes place in Baltimore where my protagonist, Katrina, is a thirty-something year old woman whose life has simply fallen flat after her ex dumps her. She finds herself going through the paces, hating every step, afraid to dare to be more. Until she bumps into Deck, young and impulsive yet wanting a real kind of love. By no means is he willing to become Kat’s “boy-toy” and he goes about convincing her to commit in a very… unconventional way.

 

 

 

Clash, an erotic drama, also taking place in Baltimore where the protagonist, Ava, has turned into a coldhearted and ruthless woman. She’s up for a promotion at her firm but is forced to work with her ex and prove to the board that she can work well with others in a difficult situation. She has every intention of getting in, getting out, and washing her hands completely of her past. Little does she know, Nick still loves her and refuses to let her ice him out again, but love cannot be forced.

Nona Black is the pseudonym of… well if I tell you, there wouldn’t be any point in having a pen name

Stephanie Kelley

I’m a newbie to the world of published fiction.  I’ve always written, it’s just who I am. My two short stories featured in Smut are my first ever published works.

In high school, I filled my schedule with as many creative writing courses as I could fit into my schedule.  If I didn’t have a few pages for my friends to read on the bus home, I wouldn’t hear the end of it until one of us got off the bus. Those short scribbled stories for my friends often ended up as part of our annual high school literary magazine.

I went to college for Journalism. I had a radio show for three years, worked behind the scenes on our college television news program, and was the photographer and copy editor for the college paper. Whatever my class schedule, I always managed to sneak at least one creative writing class. I had a few instructors that I butted heads with creatively, and it always made for interesting classes

I’ve kept up writing through the years, but nothing was ever finished. I decided last year after some prompting from a dear friend, who is an amazing best selling author in her own right,  that I needed to buckle down,  finish something and put my own stories out there.  I realized I was hiding. I’d been hiding for years behind fear of failure. And I was tired of hiding behind fear. I grabbed onto the quote from Erin Hanson “Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?” and did my best to fly. I told myself, I’d have something out by the end of 2016. Now I have two short stories in Smut, and a full length novel that is currently on track to be released in January 2017. It’s been a journey this last year, and I have a lot of amazing people standing behind me that have been a great support system.

As far as my stories featured in Smut, they were both fun little pieces for me to write. By the Moon came about when I was scrolling through Pinterest while looking for inspiration for a painting that I never ended up doing. I came across a silhouetted graphic for Beltaine, also known as May Day, of a couple. The girl had a crown of flowers while the guy had antlers like Pan. I kept coming back to that graphic, I wanted to know their story.

Red is my take on the Red Riding Hood tale. This story actually came about because I was having a lousy day and was venting to my best friend from childhood. Somewhere in my rant that day I made a comment about Red Riding Hood. My bestie stops me and says, “That’s it. That’s the story you need to do. You said it, you can’t back out of it.”

I don’t know what she saw in me that I didn’t that day, but when you’ve been friends with someone for over 30 years, it’s best to listen to them. And I’m glad I did. I’m quite proud of this little short, and looking forward to what else is in store for Poppy and Harkin.  Keep an eye out on my Facebook page for updates on my projects.

My first full length novel, Steal the Sun, I am looking to release mid to late January of 2017. This is the first book in this series.

Steal the Sun is a supernatural story set in Alaska at the end of gold mining season. Something has caused towns folks and miners to go missing, but the disappearances are not what the Sesi family is used too and their gold mine could be next. The Sesi family has kept the supernatural population in lower Alaska in check since before the Alaskan gold rush, but like any family, they have their secrets from each other too. Secrets that could put them in harm’s way or tear them apart.

If you’d like to read something that’s not your typical garden variety shape shifter with a flirty merman thrown in, follow my Facebook page for updates regarding the upcoming release.

 

It was just supposed to be one night last summer, just a fling with him at his welcome home party. Just one hot, delicious, drunken romp in his truck was all we agreed on. Except we couldn’t keep our hands off each other and it turned into all night.

Rome was the guy all the local girls wanted; good family name, easy on the eyes,  skilled with his hands.  And I didn’t need linked to him.  I didn’t want to be in the shadowed spot light that was his life.

Now that man, who swore by the moon in a drunken confession that he was a witch, was at my library, silently waiting for me when I left work. I didn’t know what he wanted but he’d promised me magic that night last summer.  I didn’t believe in magic, but I knew the way he looked at me made me want to go back on my word.

Dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair…  Wait, that’s the opening for my favorite Eagles song. Probably shouldn’t be drinking and telling you this, but it kinda sucks to be the wolf with no Red Riding Hood to seduce when one is in a mood,  wait,  I mean chase… chase, that’s it. That is, until he shows up with flaming red hair and lots of muscles.

 

I’m a 36 year old sci fi geek who wishes Firefly was never canceled. I like silly hats, karaoke, and don’t say “shiny” nearly enough. I’m a straight up goof who has an obsession with all things gummy and makeup.

I work full time while pretending to be an adult. Who decided it was a good idea to invent rolly chairs that spin anyway?  Chances are if you walk by my cubicle and I’m bopping along to my headphones there is a good chance it’s Rob Zombie, Five Finger Death Punch, Dorothy or The Pretty Reckless.

I have a degree in Journalism but write supernatural and fantasy stories. Something about the juxtaposition of those two things never fails to amuse me.

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Nina Makes her Debut!

By Nina Gabrielle

When I started this writing journey a little over two years ago, I was naïve, inexperienced and maybe even a bit over my head. I knew nothing of what I know now, just that I wanted to get my stories out unto the world.

Now two years later 3 novellas, many short stories, I am finally crossing over into the erotica genre. I write under a pen name anyway, but for this new smexier version of that, I had to come up with something that was a bit sexy, but still mysterious. Like who is Nina? And what can she do?

I admit I first signed up to do the SMUT anthology purely out of let’s see if I can do this. Let’s see if I can write purely sex, and make the sex good enough that readers would appreciate whatever my voice is as an erotica writer. Let me be clear as this is the first time I have written erotica. So in the process I am still trying to figure out what my voice is as Nina. How can I tell a story that will get the readers want to read something else from me afterwards?

So how did I come up with the idea? Let’s just say that an event or experience from life can sometimes pop its way into fiction. Even sometimes a fantasy can makes its way into fiction and a story is spun. I won’t say what is what to protect the innocent, but I did truly have fun writing these stories.

Last Friday Night is a short story of what goes down in a sex club on Friday Nights!!

F*ck Me Please is a short story about a woman wanting to be constantly pleased by her fiancé and things get a little spicy and smutty.

I really hope you all like them as much as I do. On December 20, 2016 Nina will be introduced to the world!

 

What Happens on Friday’s is our little secret… Jessica has a little secret. She met her husband Peter in a sex club two years ago, and her life has been satisfying ever since. But work calls Peter away for the whole week and leaves the weekends free for fun, f*cking and no holds bared.

 

 

 

 

Sometimes offices are for work, and sometimes offices are for f*cking!

Jennifer want nothing more than to be f*cked all over and sideways by her fiancé who is always at work. Taking matters into her own hands she decides that this time the ball was in her court.










Nina is a sassy woman from NY! Being new to the erotica world she writes sexy smut while juggling a host of things.

Nina is innocent, with just enough freak in her to get the job done…and yes, in her books as well.

 

A Very Blackwell Christmas by C.L. Matthews

Shattered Souls (1.5)

Genre: Adult Romance

Release: 12-21-2016

Links: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33190878

Blurb: Everyone deserves a happy ending. Planning a wedding while Gideon heals has been tough, but enjoyable at the same time. Who knew this sort of life would be everything I ever wanted? Our road was rough, but absolutely worth it. Combining everything I love into one, we are planning our Winter Wonderland wedding for just after Christmas. We will start a new year and our new life together in the most beautiful setting I can imagine. Something tells me there are even more surprises for Gideon and I. In fact, I can feel it fluttering in my belly. I couldn’t be happier right now. After that nightmare, this dream is so welcome.

Author Info: C.L. Matthews resides in Utah, the state with the best snow on Earth. She’s not a fan of the snow, but loves her home just the same. She’s known for her swag creations and creative pieces. Her hobbies consist of crafting, drinking coffee until she can’t consume anymore, and reading until she falls asleep with a book in her lap. She’s happily married to childhood best friend. She got her happily ever after.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clmatthewsauthor/

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/C.L.-Matthews/e/B01N3PAMJY/

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Twitter: @clmatthews121

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Cover Design: Emcat Designs

Photography: MH Photography

Models: Julio Elving & Ashley Edmund