M.R. Leenysman

Newsletter #36: June 7, 2022
Book Focus: Daddy's Loophole
Okay, so the only book of this series which had been published before I put this newsletter on pause last fall was Package Deal, which I already did a book focus newsletter for. So, I figured I would occupy the next several issues of the newsletter talking about the next four books in the series, hopefully to be joined soon by additional entries (at least two, perhaps three).

Anyway, Book #2 in the series is Daddy's Loophole. When I originally had the idea for this one, it was only intended as a standalone. But it did not take long before I managed to link it in with the coffee shop from Package Deal and the incest scandal revealed by that story and start turning it into this series.

The initial plot idea (which also provided the title) refers to an agreement between a divorced dad and his bisexual girlfriend (or new wife), to allow her to have sex with other women so long as he could join in as a threesome. The loophole part has to do with whether he would still follow through on that agreement when the young lady the girlfriend presents to him as the next threesome is his own daughter.

The main question in deciding the plot direction was whether the girlfriend/wife is pursuing the daughter in an attempt to get out of the agreement by using the daughter as a loophole or whether the daughter is pursuing the girlfriend/stepmom, trying to get into Dad's bed, by taking advantage of that agreement, to get Dad to treat it as a loophole in the incest taboo. You know, either way, he's going to have sex with his daughter, right? But it does change the tone quite a bit. Then, when you find out his ex-wife and her new wife are involved in setting this up, you realize the loophole is more of a lariat... 😎

Fairly early, I decided to place this in the same city as "Package Deal", with the events of the first book having some impacts on the plot of this book, but without having the characters cross over directly. (I left that for book #3).

With a change of narrator, I also wound up shifting the color scheme for the cover and promos, from the green for Package Deal to red in the next three (book #5 is another narrator change and shifts to blue). I was lucky enough to find three good stock photos with the same two models, for the three covers, too.