We’re sure you’ve probably heard about the PayPal/Smashwords/erotic ebook debacle going around this week. Maybe you haven’t.
Basically PayPal was busy strong arming ebook publishers, romance ebook distributors and other such businesses, threatening the businesses to pull anything with rape-as-titilation, incest, or bestiality. If the publishers did not comply PayPal would freeze their accounts and take all the money therein.

Writers and censorship boards were all in a fervor about it and we here at We All Wear Masks had meant to write something about it but everyone had already said what needed to be said, and said it better.

So why are we writing this now?

Because PayPal has caved. PayPal has modified the policy so that stories with strictly text are acceptable, but images are not.

So, technically under this new policy Garth Ennis could not sell Crossed since it has extremely brutal depictions of rape with a healthy dose of dismemberment of children. I think there was animal fucking too. I know someone used a horse cock for a weapon.

But under the same policy we could write all the rape we wanted as long as there were no graphic images of said rape and everyone is over 18.
But we could have images like this:

SKS – September Sun by ~I-am-SKS on deviantART

Yes, it’s an imperfect system, but it’s a reasonable compromise for now. We’re all just still figuring out the creature that is epublishing and we’re going to run into snags like this one.

On a personal or perhaps selfish level we’re very fucking relieved. We were wondering how exactly we would get We All Wear Masks out there to the masses without use of Smashwords, Amazon Kindle store, CreateSpace or PayPal. We’ve both put a lot of time love into this twisted, depraved project and we weren’t just going to give up the goods for free. We’re whores, not sluts!

So thank you, PayPal and Smashwords, for revising these policies. Thank you to all the readers and writers who fought for the right to read and write dirty, filthy things whether out of want for horror or titillation or simply because it was the correct thing to do in the name of free speech.

We here at We All Wear Masks my think and write and dream horrible things, but thinking is not a crime, and fictional people are not nor can they ever be victims.

Since the beginning we’ve been advertising SKS through Project Wonderful, however tonight we’ve set up an aggressive ad campaign in an effort to get more eyes to the site. You might see us around. You might get sick of us.
We might show up when you least expect it. We could be lurking, stoic and silent.

But we’re there.

Hello all my delectable voyeurs.

Wouldn’t you know it? One night you’re using the laptop that holds all your kinky things and your fingers stoke along the keys as you bang out fetishistic prose and then fzzzt! The power cord dies and you’re left with your proverbial dick hanging in the wind, unsatisfied and unable to finish.

Luckily you backed up everything on your old desktop. Oh, you could use your old desktop to continue writing but no. The screen on the desktop feels too bare, to exposed.

B. Alae thinks they’ve taken this metaphor about as far as it can go.

Anyway, yes, that’s where we’ve been. B. Alae’s power died and a new cord just arrived less than 30 minutes ago. So now we must work double time to catch up with all the missed days.

Good afternoon all you demented fucks.

How has October been treating you? It’s been treating us very, very well.

So, we now have an account on both Blip.tv and Youtube, because nothing gets word traveling through the internet better than mindless video. Reading is hard. Maybe we’re in the wrong line of work.

Watch the below videos, preferably at night, with the lights off.

The other night a fan asked if any of this was based on a true story. Now would be a good time to clarify that no, it’s not.

Everything in WeAllWearMaSKS.com is completely fiction and like everyone’s favorite episode of Law & Order and it’s many spin-offs, any resemblance to people or cases is strictly coincidental. We just enjoy crime shows.

A lot.

Whether it’s because B. Alae went out to a fetish club last Saturday after a several-months-long dry spell or that T. E. Otis is out of town, or  simply because 4 months of writing violent sex takes it toll on a person, not a single syllable has been written for SKS this week.

We needed a break.
We think it’s deserved.

7 stories are written and 8 & 9 are almost finished (Unless T. E. Otis is lying and spending all his time and energy on hookers and cocaine instead of writing.). Who knows, T. E. Otis comes home tonight so maybe he’ll produce a complete story. The story B. Alae is working on is almost done, just a little more needed to wrap it up.

In the last post B. Alae was going to give out little promo materials for SKS at the aforementioned club but B. Alae came down with a case of shyness so none of the cards got passed out.

But there is still time. So much time.

SE7EN stories are written. No blog was posted because there was not enough content for a full blog entry. Now there is.

This weekend B. Alae is going out to play with some friends. It’ll be nice to get away from the fucking screen full of type and interact with other living, breathing humans. Hopefully between now and then there will be one or two more stories written. But B. Alae needs a break and a break B. Alae shall have.

However, B. Alae may bring some cheap, promotional print outs with, so be on the look out. It’s fun because you, the reader, have no idea who or where B. Alae is.

Excited?

Hello all you little ne’re-do-wells. This is a call out to all of you, to take part in this kinky little tale.
In an effort to better know how to get the story out to you, we’ve set up  a poll asking how you prefer to read your books. Do you use an e-reader? Or would you rather use the dead-tree variety?

Let us know so we can get SKS out to as many eyes as possible. Because it’s always fun to watch.

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Thanks to Dreamhost’s Labor Day sale, we finally have an official home on the internet!

We’ve been working since yesterday to make the site ready for visitors. We are, of course, still available on Twitter and Tumblr and the links are to the right.

As of this post 6 stories have been completed and 3 are in the process of being written.

We’re  trucking along at a good pace and we hope you all enjoy the horrible things we’ll eventually show you.