#emerging author

hello everyone, i thought i would just pop back on here for a moment to announce that a short story collection about love in all its forms, good and bad, that i am featured in will be released 11/11 <3

my story is about an ex-addict witch, her talking familiar and their codependent relationship; about what happens when they lose it.

It's called Melded

What's it got?

Well, illustrations for one

And thirst

A lawful evil antagonist bending the rules of religion for his own gain

Body horror!

And more!

I'm getting ready to query for publication, but if you want to follow the journey and learn more about the book, just give this blog a follow!!

In The Epistemology of the Closet, Sedgwick writes: “the fact that silence is rendered as pointed and performative as speech, in relations around the closet, depends on and highlights more broadly the fact that ignorance is as potent and as multiple a thing there as is knowledge” (Sedgwick 4). She describes the very state of “closetedness” as “a performance initiated as such by the speech act of silence […]” (Sedgwick 3). Our silence had never been hollow, an absence of words: instead, it was theatrical, conciliatory, convincing in what it disguised, affirming of people’s assumptions, loud and provocative, a word play. Our existence was subtextual, we found shelter in the crevices of interpretation, we blossomed in the fields of others’ guesswork.

I am non-binary. You, a trans woman. We live in Athens, hiding in our closets. We navigate queer family-making, traditional values, precarity and violence in hostile Greek society, from the safety of our room. Our relationship blossomed in quarantine and everyday subverses what it means to stay hidden, to create places where survival is possible between the folds of normality.

Melded is my first full length novel I've written. It is finished and revised and I am beginning the querying process for traditional publication starting July 2023 (very soon!) Awaiting final approval from a publisher!

🎉✨IT'S BEING PUBLISHED IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2024!!!!✨🎉

It is the first half of a planned duology with the sequel, Merged, in planning and early drafting stages.

📚 Wazzit about?

Melded is a gay romance/ dark fantasy

The power of Haliz Fundir can combine two people into one body and mind. The possibilities of its use are endless, but the power comes at a terrifying cost.

Jorel covets it without understanding it, hoping to use it as a weapon of war.

Gen fears it, knowing the cost all too well, and has vowed to never use it again.

Simon has only met it, and it's up to him to discover what lengths he's willing to go to protect it.

When Jorel takes control of Haliz, the last piece he needs to wield it resides within Gen. He wasn't expecting Gen to use that knowledge to meld with a human and run with his secrets.

Now inside one body and mind, Gen and Simon are forced to face their pasts, their inner demons, and the emotions they've hidden from each other so well just to survive.

There's nowhere to run inside your own mind, and with a psychotic biologist, crazed dog monsters and the entire island hunting them down, their options are running out.

Featuring tropes about found family, religious trauma, body horror, a lawful evil antagonist, eldritch monsters, inherited responsibility, female abusers, evil scientists, mommy issues, opening up to someone, and facing your problems.

Told from the perspectives of the antagonist as well as both the protagonists.

📚 Where can I read it?

I've been releasing quotes and excerpts on here and Instagram, and I'll post any publishing updates as they come!

📚 Why is it a gay romance?

Because I spent my formative teenage years on Tumblr and Deviant Art. You did this to me. This is your fault.

📚 What does that dumb photo you keep reblogging mean?

Oh, this one?

Writing is not about “finding your voice.” That trivializes it. It’s not about talking or language or words. It’s about the times you were stopped from thinking at all. Writing is about reclaiming your sanity from people who didn’t want you to be sane.

Cada rutina mundana del día Es quizás algo importante Cada día despierto y no siento nada de la pérdida y la emoción del día anterior Como si lo que se ganó o perdió ayer ya no importara Y hoy me enamoraré o desenamoraré Pero aquí hay un trabajo importante Cada pequeño momento de soltar Es un cambio de vida, un terremoto en el mundo Resolviendo algo que nunca se ha hecho En la historia…

Two antagonists chilling in a basement five feet apart cause they can't stand each other ❤️✨

Excerpt from my debut novel Melded, out now through paperback or Kindle/ unlimited!

Gay romance, dark fantasy, eldritch horror trees and puppies!

Information about my novel-in-progress, Melded