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"Innocent's Progress" reviews and other news
Some more reviews of "The Innocent's Progress". Strangely enough, the reviews have become less favorable over time.

Peter Tupper’s “The Innocent’s Progress” is set in the theatrical world of the Commedia, where roles are strictly defined and stories never change. A woman auditions for the part of the innocent, a role that calls for a cute young thing. Despite her acting ability, she’s too old, too tall, and too big to play the part of the innocent. Refusing to accept that, she leaves the company in search of a role that fits her. While this story is well written and interesting, the sex scenes have nothing to do with the main story. They are asides, populated by characters that only existed for those scenes. I suppose they were tacked on to fulfill the erotica prerequisite, but they detracted from the story rather than enhancing it. That’s a shame, because the rest of the story was wonderful.

From Erotica Reviewed

“The Innocent’s Progress” by Peter Tupper – Miss Alwyx is auditioning for a part with the House of The Razor Lotus, a traveling performance group that performs plays written by The Bawd and then takes assignations from the Patrons to add coins to the coffers. This is an interesting look at the backstage happenings of the bawdy Victorians. It is also a tale of unrequited love.

From The Baryon Review

The first story, “The Innocent’s Progress” by Peter Tupper, follows the stage-acting career of Miss Alwyx, as told through the eyes of her employer, Ricar. The actors of the playhouse perform erotic plays which symbolically reenact human sexual emotions. Alwyx is frustrated when she doesn’t get to the role she wanted and Ricar struggles inwardly with himself as he tries to convince Alwyx to play a different role. Aside from a bit of light S&M, this story wasn’t very steamy, in terms of both erotica and steampunk. Only slightly Victorian and not very mechanical at all, this story would better fit the broader term of Speculative Fiction.

From Wings of Steam

In other news, "The Pretty Horsebreaker" has been accepted, though it won't be in print, or rather released as an ebook, until the fall. This works out well, as it gives me a chance to do a rewrite of the submitted draft, which was a bit of a rush. My trusty writers workshop comrades also alerted me to some of the problems, ideas which didn't quite work out as well as I thought they did. Some of the themes just slipped by the readers.

I'm also working on a steampunk erotica story collection, though its too early to say much about this yet.