Helen's Eventful Summer

Just to make sure that those who only read this blog get the news as well:  I have just published a major chunk of the Helen story in Helen's Eventful Summer, which goes online at Smashwords tomorrow sometime.

The story starts with Helen out in Seattle for a longer-than-usual filming of a feature movie based on several episodes of the Galaxy Show (her regular TV series), in which the space ship The Galactic Voyager discovers a barely habitable planet, and decides to leave a colonizing team on it.  Helen has been cloned, and the infant's growth has been artificially accelerated so that she is a teenager within a few months.  (This will never be possible; that part is just bad science fiction.  If you like a more realistic version of this sort of thing, please read The Music Of the Stars, which is a story about another person called Helen, who has some of the same background as the Helen in this story, but is intended to be someone different.)

Anyway, Helen goes off the rails, and decides to hire a call girl.  But being Helen, she manages to get into a complicated relationship with this woman, and worse, shortly after gets into an affair with a girl in a restaurant, called Jana.

Unlike the other Helen stories where I managed to purge most of the explicit sex, this story has enough graphic sex to actually get in the way of the other action.  But I just couldn't see how to remove it, because of the plotline.  If you're Eastern European, I apologize in advance for the representation of Jana's English.  I wanted her to be very foreign, and so I had to tinker with her dialect.  She is a wonderful character, so I hope you forgive me for the liberties I have taken with the dialog.

Two other characters emerge in a very three-dimensional way:  Elly Kolb, the daughter of Helen's oldest Ex, Janet, and Tomasina Krebs, the daughter of Janet's mother, Old Elly.  While Elly has turned over a new leaf and become a good student, Tommy has decided to get into the porn industry as soon as she graduates.  In fact, she makes an adult video featurette over the summer break, in which she is a motorcycle babe who abducts a young bride from the altar, and gives her a night she will never forget.

Finally, there is an innocent college freshman, Crystal Baxter, whom Janet meets during a visit to Philadelphia.  Crystal is so obsessed with Janet that she walks to Minnesota from her home in Wisconsin, and takes a room close to where Janet teaches.  I don't think I have succeeded in making Crystal a believable love interest for Janet, but that's just too bad: Crystal and Janet will be a couple for the long term.

I've had a pretty eventful summer as well.

It started with Google and Facebook flooding me with ads for dresses, just because I happened to see a dress being modeled by a girl that looked attractive.  This model was everywhere I looked, sometimes with her eyes cropped out, often with only her mouth and below showing.  I started collecting pictures of the dresses she modeled, even though I could never dream of pulling off wearing one of them.  She was a classic summer model type: deep tan, bright red lipstick, big curves, lovely classic legs, narrow waist, long bleached blonde hair, beautiful hazel eyes (I managed to find a photo or two with her eyes in them).

I want to say that I stopped short of actually obsessing about her, especially because that wasp-waisted, heavy-breasted girl is not the type I go for.  (I prefer girls who look like serious competition swimmers, for instance.)  But this woman's face continued to haunt me.

Finally discovered that her name was Renee Somerfield, so I can relax now.  Somehow the magic is gone, but she seems interesting, at least in the few interviews I have seen on YouTube since I learned her name.  Australian models are interesting at least because of their accents; I love to watch Miranda Kerr on YouTube, with her sly humor.

So that was pretty exciting while I was still looking for a name to go with the face of Renee Somerfield.  She looks fabulous in dresses, but a little too 'Swimsuit Model' stereotypical in a swimsuit.  Stick to dresses, Renee, and who knows: I might buy one of those!!

Kay