It’s one challenge to write a novel, and another to reach its audience

An unusual novel like The Man Who Reclaimed His Virginity is not easy to promote. It’s what I call a “slice of life” story, or psychological fiction; it’s not a genre story or erotica (although Amazon listed it as erotica as well as “contemporary romance” on the site). I dislike the term “literary fiction” because it’s always sounded pretentious to me. A story is a story is a story! 

Basically what I try to do in any of my tales is to give the reader a vivid experience, something that seems real. That’s my basic goal. “Slice of life” seems closest to that. Even my femdom erotica ebooks are written in such a way that they’re realistic enough to qualify as slices of life, too. 

For the new book, I’ve tried a couple of video promos on Twitter/X in a low-key, slightly humorous style, but they don’t seem to have made much of an impression. If you’re on that platform, you can find them at my timeline here and here

Meantime, I got the first review of the book on Amazon recently, a nice one.

I guess I’ll figure out how to promote this as time goes on. For the moment I just want to express my fervent wish that people will read it. I know a novel (even a short one of 142 pages) represents an investment of at least a couple of hours of time (not to mention $4.99 for the Kindle copy) so I don’t pester people in person to “read it, read it!” I’m simply saying it here on my blog.

I just want people to come to the novel when something about it grabs them. So give it an opportunity to grab you. One of its themes is “maybe you have to be a little mad to stay sane these days,” something my protagonist, Julius Caesar Klein, says at one point to rationalize his weird frame of mind about sex, love, his kinky fantasies about the mysterious actress Margaret Emilia Bortwell, and more. I think a lot of people can relate to this theme. Maybe I had to be a little mad to write a book with this title, hmm? 

Read the book and learn what the unique phrase “contemplating the obvious” means. 

Learn what life is like when you go through it with an unusual name like Julius Caesar Klein!

See what buttons twentysomething Margaret pushes to get seventysomething Julius to comply with her wishes in their unusual May-December relationship; see her get him to sell his prized vintage paperback book collection, so he can help out with her pressing need for cash as an aspiring performer in the cutthroat world of New York City’s Off-Off-Broadway theater scene.

See how she uses his revelation of his “I’m a virgin again” fantasy to her cruel advantage!

So check out the free sample at the Amazon store here (or at the store in your country) and feel The Man Who Reclaimed His Virginity capture your imagination!

And start out the new year of 2026 with something decidedly different and definitely entertaining.