Haven Valentin @havenvalentinwrites - Tumblr Blog

Hello and welcome to my writeblr!

I'm Haven Valentin - a queer horror romance/erotica writer based in the UK. This tumblr is new but I am not new to tumblr. Hang around here for my takes on the erotic, the Gothic, writing craft and more.

You can also find me on Bluesky.

My Work:

Come Inside -

The spicy horrorotica short story I wrote for WET SCREAMS: A Monsterfucker Anthology, publishing Nov 1st!

Featuring: possession, ghost sex, a kinky haunted house and a kinkier spirit medium.

You can preorder it here.

Unnamed Haunted House WIP -

The novel I'm currently writing, and a sequel to Come Inside (though you'll be able to read it without having read Come Inside, and vice versa). Kinky poly why-choose horror romance set in a remote manor, featuring vampires, a nervous doctor, more possession, more ghost sex, and the aforementioned kinky spirit medium/haunted house.

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toiich

Crash (1996), dir. David Cronenberg

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anomalicecaris

Hornyposting not out of lust but sheer love of the game

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mintmatcha

you guys have to get more weird. it's genuinely not hurting anyone. get weirder. get horny and sexual with it. get violent, get horrifying, get scared, get sad.

stjohnstarling

Hi! I'm super curious how your book is doing re: purchases vs people reading the free version that's 15k less words. I ask because I've never seen this done before and it's interesting marketing. I certainly understand if you'd rather not share however.

This is a bit of a funny question, because I'm not convinced I would be selling any copies of my novel without the support of the free version. If I didn't have this free serial, I don't think anyone would know who I am or give a damn about anything I do. My free fiction is supported by my patreon, also, so I do not make all my money through sales.

If you mean how am I doing considering I didn't take the free version down when I published the completed novel, I cannot really compare how I'm currently doing to a hypothetical. I can tell you that people do buy the published version of What Manner of Man. I suspect that the free version is the best possible marketing I could have for the paid version - people are much more likely to buy more of a thing they already enjoy (and support the author of a book they already like) than to take a chance on an unknown.

You are right, though, that nobody else really uses the same business model as me. I'm just doing my own thing.

stjohnstarling

Yes I am aware letting people sample the product for free is the same business model as a heroin dealer.

#bookish business

greelin

[EXTREMELY HAUNTED & HOLLOW-EYED LOOK] yeah man i’m doing. Really good

#jem

stjohnstarling

Stop moaning and arching your back - this is an autopsy!

heartbreakincident

writing your fave having sex with with their love interest is OUT writing your fave shamefully jerking off and coming pathetically fast at just the idea of fucking their love interest is IN

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stjohnstarling

Ever since starting to publish romance novels I’ve been checking out the romance books at the thrift store specifically for the clinch covers, as a reference for what I might want to do with my own books.

As a culture we mocked these to extinction but I think we were just afraid of their power. The modern clinch revival still hasn't reached the heady heights of what they were doing in the 80s! The vintage covers can be really quite explicit. These ones in particular were steamy enough they had to be hidden on an inner flap.

stjohnstarling

This episode of the Smart Bitches Trashy Books podcast where they interview Shirley Green and Sharon Spiak, who were romance novel cover artists in the 80s, is a fascinating look at what a huge industry these covers were. Did you know they had whole photography studios full of props to make these? They’d take photos and turn those over to a painter who’d make something like a couple of these a day. They had it down to a science.

stjohnstarling

I do feel like I should share the fruits of @beastliness and my study into clinch covers on this post. Beastly's painting would never have turned out so well without having first learned from the masters.

For those for whom a romance between a vampire and a priest is of interest, you can read the novel for free here.

#bookish business #books and stories

hiramslodge

so truly genuinely we need to get more funding towards freaks and perverts to make weird horny movies and tv and art i would rather watch someone’s barely disguised fetish with an interesting point of view than another soulless corporate shell with boring beautiful actors and nothing to say

dreamyvixen

“She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.”

— Tom Waits, on his wife Kathleen (via rabbitinthemoon-blog)

bodhrancomedy

Look, it’s a weird hill to die on, especially when I don’t really explain, but children deserve to experience fear, disgust, and discomfort in safe scenarios where they can process those sensations.

Media for children used to be scary and that’s important.

aetherograph

Media for children used to have sensuality--not just fear, but also a sort of fleshiness, a wide breadth of sensations. There was weird surreal stuff that may have been Nightmare Fuel or may have been Fetish Fuel, depending on who was watching it. Women had boobs and jiggly parts, not just smooth barbie doll curves. Bad things happened. Scary things happened. WEIRD things happened. People got tied up, or fell in goop, or transformed into animals, or blew up like a balloon, or a thousand other things that, once the mainstream became aware could be someone's fetish (despite none of that being inherently sexual--the whole point of a fetish is that it's having sexual feelings for something that isn't sex), they freaked 0ut and stopped including. Which severely hampered the story and made it boring and empty of humanity. Humans are made of meat. Art needs to be made of meat also.

The puritanical panic will and has destroyed art. Until you let the fuck go of it, you won't make good art. We are in a second Victorian era where all stories have to have a Moral Lesson and it's fucked up. Let art be for arts sake. Stop with this fash bullshit.

acidtheater

Another thing I do kind of want to add as someone who is generally fascinated by kinks and how they happen, you can never stop people from developing kinks. If it happens to a character in something you saw at a formidable age, no matter what it is or how innocuous, a certain amount of people will develop a kink for it because your brain accidentally made the association. If you eradicate all scenarios that form currently known kinks and start entirely over with new, 'clean' stories, some people will develop kinks about the new scenarios. It just happens. And if eradicate all media at all, some people will develop kinks because of their lived experiences. It's just an inevitable thing that's going to happen. We're mass sterilizing kids' media in service of something that's not only normal and morally neutral, but completely unavoidable.

#anti censorship

girlfleeshouse

The house is restless.

#haunted house wip

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things some people, especially people who are new to ao3 or fandom/fanfic space as a whole, seem to not understand:

archive of our own is an archive. not a social media.

archive of our own was built with the stance that there would be no censorship, because other platforms already had censorship where some things that were taboo were reported/removed. ao3 was built with the purpose that all of these works, that were not allowed on other platforms, would be allowed on ao3.

the archive will house anything that’s considered fanworks. so no, you cannot report this fic because it portrays in explicit details taboo topics about xyz, you cannot report that fic because it romanticizes and glorifies xyz. ao3 will not remove any of those fics, because whether or not you like it, those fics do not go against ao3’s terms of service.

“but these things are not allowed on other platforms” that’s precisely why ao3 was created, to house and give a platform to these things that were censored/banned/removed from other platforms.

if you have a problem with this, you can use other platforms to post and read fanfics

but you should also know that ao3 by far has the best tagging system, meaning you won’t get anything like what ao3 provides on other platforms, meaning it may be a pain in the ass for you to find a fic with the prompts and pairing you’re looking for, meaning you may still get jump scared by things that are triggering to you half way through your reading of what you thought was an innocent fic. because other platforms don’t have tagging systems, where you can find and avoid any character/pairing/tag as you please, like ao3.

#fanfiction

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