#liam turner

I'm done querying -- I suspected no one would pick up this character driven, adventure, aromantic, slice-of-life getting together story. I love it, it's my wife's favorite out of everything I've written, and I think there's an audience out there for it. BUT no one in publishing thinks so. And I'm okay with that!

TIME TO SELF PUBLISH:

Finding Home

Finding Home is Liam and Delle's story. Liam is a trans (ftm) police homicide detective who falls in love with the new agender aromantic pathologist he has to work with. Convinced he is unlovable and desperate to respect Delle's aromantic status, Liam locks his heart away and throws himself into work. (Read: danger) Liam has a propensity for getting himself in scrapes. Luckily, Delle seems to be there to catch him every time.

Finding Home isn't quite a plice procedural - there's not one single overarching thread of a "case", but rather a few little cases that Liam ends up entangled in. This book is driven by the characters, not the plot, and that's a major reason it was rejected.

It's a fun read, imo, with a few minor tw for gin violence, blood, and a few mentions of sexual assault (but no detail and it doesn't happen on screen).

Finding Home is the perfect book for anyone interested in aromantic "getting together" stories - proving that Love can take many forms.

I'll be releasing more in the coming days. No release date set yet, but definitely before the end of October 2024.

GOT A DRAWING TABLET FOR CHRISTMAS!

Thanks so much for the tag @illarian-rambling

I'm going to give you a list of some songs that I associate with some of my OCs! Vote for your favorite! Whichever character wins, I'll post some information about them and why the song resonates with me. :) Feel free to reblog for sample size. Oh, and feel free to comment who you think belongs to which song. :)

OCs represented include (in no particular order) Ian Maynard, Delle Eckles, Mirabel O'Donnel, Euwenn Gilmore, Liam Turner, Sara Harrison, Rowan Morris and John Lemmore.

Links to songs under the cut.

Okay, I'm going to do this for two characters, Liam Turner and Delle Eckles, from Finding Home, which should come out this fall. Delle and Liam end up having lunch together often throughout the course of the book, so much so that Delle's brother thinks they are dating (they are, they just don't know it ... yet).

Quick bit of background, Liam is trans and struggles with what we think is an undiagnosed eating disorder. He struggles to remember to eat, and has some body image issues. Delle, who is a pathologist, often badgers Liam into remembering to eat. This, of course, after Liam fainted in Delle's presence multiple times.

If the two of them ended up at an all you can eat buffet, Liam would probably glance over the buffet and grab some pasta. Delle would poke him until he agrees to getting a salad and some protein on his plate as well. If they happened to have split pea and ham soup, now, Liam would be eating that up! It's his favorite soup. Delle will make sure that Liam had enough on his plate, and then fill their own.

I think Delle would have a strategy -- they would go down the buffet and then back up it, scoping out what there is, before scooping varying amounts of food -- depending on how much they like the food.