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TV Guide

Synopsis

Fourteen-year-old Alex uses his computer to insert sulbiminal messages into the TV programs his sexy older sister Katrina watches.  Strange things happen when their stepmother starts watching the same shows.

Author's Notes

Although TV Guide deals with an incestuous relationship between a brother and sister, it's not really intended to be an incest story.  Rather, like all my stories, it's a control fantasy.  A sibling rivalry seemed like a natural spawning ground for a tale of manipulation and sex, and the nerdy little brother and snotty older sister were easily conceived characters.  I recieved email from several readers who told me they didn't find incest exciting, but nonetheless really enjoyed TV Guide.  That let me know I'd gotten things right.

This story took a long time to write, and went through a number of changes along the way.  I first started on it a few months after finishing Candace's Education , intending to write a story in which Alex would use his computer to doctor up a fake movie of Katrina participating in a wild orgy.  Alex was going to use the movie, together with some carefully planted "evidence" and a dose of rohypnol (the "date rape drug") to convince Katrina that she really had screwed a dozen or more men.  Alex would then blackmail her with the tape.  Later on, he would use a similar extortion technique on his mother, Doris.  Once Alex had them both under his control, the three of them would frame the father, Greg, for spousal abuse and child molestation (using a doctored tape that showed Greg having sex with an unwilling Katrina.)

Over the next few years I poked and prodded at the story from time to time.  I hit upon the idea of using subliminal images on television (a well-worn plot device in mind-control fiction) and found it more appealing than the blackmail angle.  I replaced Doris, the biological mother, with Tiffany, the stepmother and trophy wife, after I realized that I wasn't all that excited about incest.  (Alex and Katrina notwithsanding, of course.)  Vince was added to give the story a new dimension, and I really wasn't sure exactly how the story was going to end until I got there.

My good friend and fellow author Cal O'Shaw gave me quite a few helpful suggestions, and was rather generous in sharing his creative, dirty ideas.  Several scenes in the later chapters of the story bear his imprint.  (Telling you which ones would spoil the story!)  He also suggested the title.

TV Guide was a pleasure to write, but I was getting tired of it by the time I finished.  Long stories take a lot of time and energy.  I've done three of them now; I don't think I have the willpower to get through a fourth.

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