#hooktown

Presenting the current litter of my first gay (mlm) gothic mystery book, Hooktown. This visual fancast is just for fun. In the future, when I’m closer to publishing, I’d love to bring the world to life with real art, either by hiring an artist or by illustrating the characters myself.

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First ever fanart of my boys, Austein and Danner, from my original mlm gothic mystery, Hooktown.

candlemaker x aristocrat - forced proximity + bad history

🕯🐟 read it HERE on wattpad

✦ HOOKTOWN IS LIVE ✦

🐟 Hooktown is officially live on Wattpad—the first ten pages are up right now!

✧ READ HERE ✧

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Genre: Gothic / Mystery / Dark comedy

Rating: Mature

Romance: MLM, slow-burn tension, past enemies because of miscommunication in the past-to-lovers, eventual (surprising) smut

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— Hooktown is my GAY gothic mystery book (my very first) with a meta narrator and two men, with a complicated past, forced into the same problem.

I wanna know…

❝ “No one here likes me, you know.” It was the sort of arbitrarily timed statement Wink made as if liking were a measurable substance, like flour, and she had somehow failed to purchase enough. She never seemed quite certain what it meant to be liked, or to like, or to be tolerated in a respectable quantity. Platonic, romantic—there were too many kinds, and Wink kept trying to sort them all into neat piles. ❞

Posted two new pages on Wattpad! That's a wrap on Chapter 1.

❝ Sometimes, he is caught sipping from a tiny vial of silver light. Curious. Is it medicine? A tonic to keep him human? A fashionable beverage reserved only for nobles? Or is it, in the most shocking possibility of all, just what it looks like—a tiny glass vial of silver light, of no significance whatsoever? ❞

I don't really know what I'm saying other than your story seems cool and I'd love to see how it comes about over time!

With love, another writer from across the world 💌

When I tell you my heart flipped—

Hi, hello, I am absolutely tucking this in my heart forever. Thank you for taking the time to come over here and write such a thoughtful message, and thank you even more for being the first-ever comment on Hooktown. How special is that! Ah! I’m going to treasure your words and press them between the pages of my favorite book.

Don't worry! It is not rude at all. I actually appreciate your honesty. The fact that the writing drew you in anyway, especially when this is not usually your kind of romance, is a rare and beautiful compliment. It is exactly what I hope Hooktown can do.

The romance is certainly a main current, but I want it to feel natural in this world, not like it has been pasted on top of the story. The mystery still gets its spotlight. So hearing that you’re interested means more than I can properly say!

I promise there will be more fish food soon. I’ve been working on my book daily, and I’m aiming to post a fresh sample of the first pages within the next week or so. You have officially encouraged me to never stop writing this story.

With love (also) from across the world,