Wild-Type (fanfic) Update tag #WTfic. Currently re-reading (with very minor edits) on AO3. To be completed.

Wild-Type (original novel) Update tag #WTnovel. In the planning phase - Will be republished as a single volume on Amazon. 

Podcast Currently in development. Will be a fictional kinda thing. Details coming soon. No update tag yet.

Other Fics I’m playing this by ear for now.

The shortest and the nicest way to explain where I’ve been is probably just the words, ‘real depressed,’ but I feel like that doesn’t adequately account for the time I’ve been offline. MDD is a foul place to be and I don’t want to go back there, so that’s the best explanation I can give. I had too much happening too quickly and I reacted by transforming into a ghost. I kept meaning to come back and yet I never seemed to have the energy. Too much time passed and then ... I dunno. So! Uh. NEWS! News in nice bullets:

I want to finish a couple of my Attack on Titan WIPs. Wild-Type is my first priority, but I will need to re-read it and I will probably edit as I go so that I can look at it without being hella embarrassed. News on the other WIPs to follow.

The original version of Wild-Type (and the other things I wrote under the pseudonym Kasey Delamer) are currently offline. I took them down abruptly after some shit hit the fan. First, my aunt found my pseudonym by doing some very creepy sleuthing and threatened to read everything. Y’all. Everything. My family is socially conservative, Southern, religious, and Republican, and my aunt doesn’t keep secrets so when I tell you that my panic was very real and very blinding I don’t want you to mistake it for hyperbole. Julie, if you’re reading this, you suck and you are the reason I’m so paranoid. Anyway. Around that same time my parents’ friends heard I was writing an unspecified adult romance and called me a slut while they were all drunk, which my parents then proceeded to defend by saying I was making it up. So when my aunt found my pseudonym I snapped a little bit and took it down.

That being said, the horror has worn off and the anger has set in and I’m very seriously considering republishing it under my real name because yeah I write “slutty” gay dragon books and I’m not actually sorry.

I do want to rewrite it though. Because I feel like that story could be told in one book and planning for three makes me want to cry a little bit because I’m working on another original trilogy right now and that’s just too much y’all.

So. I got my first author proof. Everything looks awesome on the inside and the text on the cover is aligned very well, but the cover (which was supposed to be a subtle black scale pattern that I was expecting to look gorgeous) is not only too dark, but completely obliterated. This has been a complete nightmare useful learning exercise. I went back in today and made it as light as I can without repainting the cover entirely and ordered a second author proof.  It should arrive at my house on March 8. If all goes well, that will be the date that paperbacks are available on Amazon.  If not, that will be the day I make my first drunk post to tumblr. 

The longer short version of the cover creation story is below the cut. It has a punchline, but the joke is entirely at my expense: 

Thank you! TwT

Yes! The first book was going to be Allure, but I decided that it sounded like the title for an erotica. I did start writing the fic with plenty of erotica in mind, but when I edited my timeline for the original version and worked for a more natural slow burn, it ended up being more fantasy/kinda action/kinda crime novel with a gay romance in it. There will be sexy times in the third book, but it definitely isn’t a typical erotica. So ... I don’t know. Long story short, I was nervous about the title so I went for one of those trilogy set theme things. The books are going to be Flint, Steel, and Tinder, in that order! =D

Right now, I only have the eBook published, so it will be downloadable in any of the countries Amazon has contracts with. However, I am working on paperbacks as well. Amazon’s system doesn’t like the PDF I’m trying to upload, so I’ll probably end up having to reformat it in Word using someone else’s computer (mine doesn’t have Word on it. I write in Scrivener). This will take a bit longer, BUT I’m busting ass on it because I want it up as soon as possible. The paperbacks will have different covers than the eBooks and I really think they’re prettier. But anyway, if Amazon doesn’t ship to your country, I’m ordering a bunch of extra copies, so you can also get it directly through me. 

Oh jeez, when was this? I’m so sorry for the delay: 

13. I’m not sure where I’ll be, Saturday. I’ve been invited along on a beach thingy, but we’re having transport issues. Ollie’s car was totaled so I was going to drive, but two nights ago I kicked the shit out of the corner of my dresser drawer and I can’t really walk and that was my driving foot, so the five hour drive might be out. The bruise is impressive though. About half my foot is blue. I might have even fractured it! =O If that’s the case I’ll ... probably be writing. 

26. Yes and no. My current hair color is mostly natural. I dyed a small bit of it pink while I was in the salon and I just cut MOST of it off when I decided I wanted to look like a 20′s flapper chick for a while. There is a teeny tiny bit of pink left, but that’s it.

Book #1 of The Wild-Type Trilogy is live! You can now get Flint on Amazon.

Dragons are more than what science expected of them, emerging from a long extinction with mankind’s intelligence and the ability to wear the human form as naturally as their own. They are all the things that set humans apart from other animals, yet they are bought and sold like property in a thriving exotic pet trade.

This is apparently a thing:

The first eBook for Wild-Type (called Flint) has been uploaded to Amazon. It just seems that it will take some time to go show up in the store. I started on Friday because I expected this, buuut I also had other delays.

The paperback version is still in progress. It should still be uploaded tonight or in the wee hours of the morning. I’m just going to have to create a completely separate file for the paperback cover because of actual books being 3D and angular and nightmarish, so if you were wanting this book in paperback form, that may take ... maybe a day extra?? I’ve had dinner and Ibuprofen sitting next to me for an hour and I’ve been neglecting both, but after I eat and medicate, I’m starting immediately on the cover. Just. I’m going to need more coffee.