Ooh-la-la! Love the cover page, max! Aphrodite's Rainbow is a much catchier name than Prunella. I remember the novel from here...  Good luck!

Hi Max,
COOL cover, but use a different font for your name. Its kinda hard to read.
Good luck!
Annelie

Max, I've just read the chapter displayed on the page you linked to ('cause I only just noticed the password boxes at the top and realised THAT was why you put the password info in your OP. Not your fault - I'm just blindingly 'quick on the uptake' like that... not!) So I haven't read all of the chapters yet, but I wanted to pass some comments on to you about my impressions so far, and then I'll read the rest later (when my kid stops nagging me about playing his computer games... *sigh* .... )

First of all, re title: like it very much, but can I suggest, if you should ever want to market this in the UK, that in that instance you don't use the word 'queer' in the subtitle? Simply because it has an entirely different meaning here in the UK - from what I've read so far, I don't get the feeling you're targeting this at the gay community. They would buy this in droves purely because the word 'queer' is in the title (they embrace the term as a celebration of being gay) and then not be very happy because they'd have  been expecting a different kind of novel entirely, if you see what I mean!

Anyway, now for the meat of it... I wasn't sure if what you were looking for were comments on the actual story or the website, but while I haven't read all of the story I can start with the website.

Mainly I have a question - and this is because I am genuinely curious and something of an ignoramus about the whole business of publishing/displaying novels and such on websites. This novel is free, you say? In which case... what is the purpose of the username and password? I knew they were 'next' and 'next' because I saw this post. However, if I was just browsing the web, stumbled upon your page accidentally and wanted to see more I would have no way of knowing those passwords - and I can't see any obvious way of obtaining them/signing up to the site. I'm just concerned that people may not get to see this work simply because they believe - rightly or wrongly - that they 'can't' access the rest of the novel because they don't have these passwords and don't know how to get them. I'm probably being pedantic, or a netnoob - maybe even both - but I personally don't like accessing web content to be any harder than it needs to be. And I don't believe I'm the only goldfish-brain out there like that either 

Other than that - love what I've read of the story so far - like a twisted Cinderella, with a comic kick and a liberal splash of intelligence! I'll read the rest as soon as I can boot my kid off Dungeon Keeper II. I don't know, kids these days... in my day we got our entertainment bouncing oranges off the backyard walls... or something like that... 

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