#self-pub

The second Adeline Crown book is on the way! NIGHT TERRORS:

Adeline has become the public face of the local extranatural community, the name non-powered people are most likely to know. So when Josephina Rodriguez falls asleep and won't wake up, her mother calls Adeline to save her little girl. Something has been done to Josephina, dragging her into sleep and holding her there. Adeline's attempts to save the girl - and to find out who came after her in the first place - pull her into a deeper mystery than she's prepared for.

Chapters will start for patrons on Wednesday, February 4th, and for free on the website a week later. Patrons get chapters a week early and a shout-out at the end of each free chapter, as well as in the ebook when it releases.

Hi all! I'm publishing this form to start collecting ARC readers for Deny Me, The Nightshade Boy. It's a contemporary M/M romantasy between a half-Fae lord and a haunted human. ARCs won't be sent out for another few weeks and would be due for review by release day of September 8.

Sure! (I truly do not know what "punchy and crunchy" means, but f/f I can do.) Chelsea M. Cameron self-pubs a ton of f/f YA - the 8th book in her Castleton Hearts series comes next week. Rebekah Weatherspoon's Treasure and Shira Glassman's Knit One, Girl Two are personal favorite novella-length f/fs. In YA, Siera Maley is my fave prolific self-pub f/f author, and I'll also shout A&B by JC Lillis, which is YA/NA border. (Lillis's How to Repair a Mechanical Heart is m/m, but I have to mention it also because it's my fave self-pub YA of all time.) Chelsea M. Cameron has Style in YA, and Kelly Quindlen's debut, Her Name in the Sky, is self-pub as well.

Fiona Zedde's another one who does adult - try Femme Like Her and Stud Like Her. A bunch of authors recently started trad-pubbing who used to self-pub, so you can check out older titles by Rachel Lacey, Chencia Higgins, and I have shouted many times about my love for Casting Lacey by Elle Spencer, though a queer pub bought it. Also, I will shout out myself, because I have an f/f NA novel called Out on Good Behavior, and I'll also mention Lily Seabrooke, whose work I haven't read yet but which is very much on my radar because I love foodie romances and she has a whole series of them: https://www.goodreads.com/series/327100-taste-of-port-andrea (Also, the first book has a bi trans girl MC, which is a serious needle in a haystack in Sapphic romance.) Oh, and for older (as in age-wise) romances, you'll prob never find those in trad pub f/f romance but Courtney Milan has Mrs. Martin's Incomparable Adventure and Ceillie Simkiss has Second Wind (and also a bunch of other self-pub f/fs.)

Prepare to rediscover the forgotten legacy of the legendary werewolf!

Purchase here on Amazon.com!

Since before recorded history, werewolves have captivated human imagination. Simultaneously, they represent our deepest fears as well as our desire to connect with our primal ancestry. Today, werewolves are portrayed negatively, associated with violence, cruelty, cannibalism, and general malevolence.

However, in ages past, legends depicted them not as monsters, but as a range of neutral to benevolent individuals, such as traveling companions, guardians, and knights. The robust legacy of the werewolf spans from prehistory, through ancient Greece and Rome, to the Middle Ages, into the Early Modern period, and finally into present-day popular culture. Over the ages, the view of the werewolf has become distorted. Media treatment of werewolves is associated with inferior writing, lacking in thought, depth, and meaning. Werewolves as characters or creatures are now generally seen as single-minded and one-dimensional, and they want nothing more than to kill, devour, and possibly violate humans.

Hollywood depictions have resulted in the destruction of the true meanings behind werewolf legends that fascinated and terrified humans for so many ages. If these negative trends were reversed, perhaps entertainment might not only discover again some of the true meanings behind the werewolf myth, but also take the first steps toward reversing negative portrayals of wolves themselves, which humans have, for eons, wrongfully stigmatized and portrayed as evil, resulting in wolves receiving crueler treatment than virtually any other animal.

To revive the many questions posed by lycanthropy, entertainment must show respect to the rich history of so many cultures all around the world – and rediscover the legend of the werewolf.

This book represents a lifetime of work, research, and argument. It’s the centerpiece of, essentially, who I am and what I want to fight for in my life. This underwent very close scrutiny by a board of distinguished professors, and I had to defend my research and my arguments before them in order to earn my degree.

If you enjoy my werewolf facts, you’ll enjoy reading this, I can guarantee it, especially if you want to hear my side of things. It won’t be a guide to werewolves, though it’ll certainly have plenty of useful information on various legends in coherent chronological order (all with proper professional attribution, footnotes, discussion, citation, etc.). This is a great place to start to get my perspective on things while also learning about almost all the werewolf legends and info I’ve covered in various facts - and many more that I haven’t!

It means so much to me that I have finally gotten to publish this. I really hope you’ll enjoy it and find it useful, educational, and thought-provoking.

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I’ve got about 10 of them—short stories, novellas...Silenced Magic is a full-length novel, and I’m still stupid proud of it—and most of them are a dollar. There is sex in pretty much every single one of these, so you know, YMMV.

You can get them on Amazon and I just threw together a Gumroad page, too, in case you are as sick of B*zos as I am. (Drop me a line if you use the Gumroad downloads, lemme know how the product looks/works for you.)

Also, I’ll be straight-up: a few of them are reworked fanfics, so if you like the fandoms I write for, just head over to AO3 to get the free shit, for real.

If you like my style and want something original, these are the titles to check out:

Silenced Magic - M/M but many many people are gay. Confused normal boy finds out cute classmate is a witch. And then finds out he may be something else. Full-length novel.

His First Escort - M/M contemporary; broke grad students launch an escort service. They have very little idea what they’re doing but they try.

Impersonating an Escort - F/F contemporary; college student hires an escort who turns out to be (gulp) a classmate she’s crushing on. Same universe as His First Escort.

The Beast’s Guide - F/M fantasy; while on a rescue mission, partners on the job realize their magics lend themselves to mild BDSM. Inconvenient.

The Demon’s Lure - F/M fantasy; demon mage tries to get old flame to come work for her boss. He doesn’t want to. Same universe as Beast’s Guide.

Appreciation for the Working Man - M/M contemporary; this is a continuation of a fanfic (Enjoy the Great Taste of Diet Coke). Buff office worker falls for tiny construction foreman.

LOOK AT THE PRETTY!!!