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5 years ago
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Lots of things today!
First: SPark attempts to write an Omegaverse story, and it comes out weird.
If you're not familiar with the Omegaverse it's a "setting" where humans come in three flavors, loosely based on (fantasy) wolves: alpha, beta, and omega. Exactly how this works varies depending on the author, but the usual thing is that omegas are small, fragile, submissive types, who go into heat and are then primally claimed by big, aggressive, dominant alphas. (Betas are normal human beings, generally.)
Now I like me some primal sex and I like me some D/s themes, but I also find the premise (you are biologically set up for your role, the end) to be...let's go with boring.
Actually, let's expand on that. As a trans person, I find it not only boring, but uncomfortable, insulting, and possibly outright stupid.
If this world were real, there would be alphas who want nothing more than have somebody cuddle them and tuck them in at night. There would be omegas who were Napoleon-complex aggressive tops. There would be people who didn't want their "rank" and hate it, as well as people who embrace it, and people who reluctantly conform to its stereotypes only because they feel cultural pressure to do so. It would work like a real world.
So, well... I wrote a little bit of that. You can find a substantial teaser right here on FA. Or you can read the whole thing by supporting me on Patreon. (It's a $10 tier exclusive, but right now if you join as a new patron, even at the $1 level, I'll send a copy of the full version as a bonus.)
In other news, I got the cover art for my upcoming novel, Blood and Fire. I did not design or produce this cover, to be clear. It's a generic "romance novel" cover, which is kinda what I'm stuck with here. But oh well. The story is great, even if the cover is a little meh.
You can see it right here.
Kelwyn Grayson is just one more faceless runaway on the streets of Tower City. Among elves, gnolls, and dragons, one winged boy fades into the background of life in the Eternal Kingdom. But when he cuts the purse of the handsome were-lion Harun Rashid, he finds himself dragged out of the crowd.
Rather than a cell, however, Harun offers a helping hand to set Kelwyn on the road to a respectable, peaceful life...if he could just bring himself to stop flirting shamelessly with Harun, keep his sticky fingers to himself, and avoid bringing the wrath of a powerful, mad vampire down on his head.
But even faced with Kelwyn’s death—or undeath—Harun will not give up on him, and Kelwyn will not give up on finding his way to sharing that peaceful life with Harun. Two men, love, and magic are bound and determined to find their way to their shared dream of a future—and family.
Blood and Fire will be out on June 20th. A nice birthday present for me, since I'm turning 42 on the 21st. :3
There are some other fun things in the works, too. Thurston Howl's Even Furries Hate Nazis anthology should be out soon, with a story from me in it, the queer and kinky Scry of Lust 2 even sooner, Blood and Fire, as I mentioned above, which will have an e-book on the 21st, and a paperback shortly after that (I'll be certain to post when that's available! I know a lot of people prefer the "dead tree" edition to the e-book.) And I've a bunch of other things lined up to submit, though I'm always looking for new publishers, new anthologies, and other opportunities to reach new readers.
2020 may suck in a lot of ways, and I'm sad to miss out on some in-person events where I was planning on signing books, but it still should be a pretty good year for my writing.
First: SPark attempts to write an Omegaverse story, and it comes out weird.
If you're not familiar with the Omegaverse it's a "setting" where humans come in three flavors, loosely based on (fantasy) wolves: alpha, beta, and omega. Exactly how this works varies depending on the author, but the usual thing is that omegas are small, fragile, submissive types, who go into heat and are then primally claimed by big, aggressive, dominant alphas. (Betas are normal human beings, generally.)
Now I like me some primal sex and I like me some D/s themes, but I also find the premise (you are biologically set up for your role, the end) to be...let's go with boring.
Actually, let's expand on that. As a trans person, I find it not only boring, but uncomfortable, insulting, and possibly outright stupid.
If this world were real, there would be alphas who want nothing more than have somebody cuddle them and tuck them in at night. There would be omegas who were Napoleon-complex aggressive tops. There would be people who didn't want their "rank" and hate it, as well as people who embrace it, and people who reluctantly conform to its stereotypes only because they feel cultural pressure to do so. It would work like a real world.
So, well... I wrote a little bit of that. You can find a substantial teaser right here on FA. Or you can read the whole thing by supporting me on Patreon. (It's a $10 tier exclusive, but right now if you join as a new patron, even at the $1 level, I'll send a copy of the full version as a bonus.)
In other news, I got the cover art for my upcoming novel, Blood and Fire. I did not design or produce this cover, to be clear. It's a generic "romance novel" cover, which is kinda what I'm stuck with here. But oh well. The story is great, even if the cover is a little meh.
You can see it right here.
Kelwyn Grayson is just one more faceless runaway on the streets of Tower City. Among elves, gnolls, and dragons, one winged boy fades into the background of life in the Eternal Kingdom. But when he cuts the purse of the handsome were-lion Harun Rashid, he finds himself dragged out of the crowd.
Rather than a cell, however, Harun offers a helping hand to set Kelwyn on the road to a respectable, peaceful life...if he could just bring himself to stop flirting shamelessly with Harun, keep his sticky fingers to himself, and avoid bringing the wrath of a powerful, mad vampire down on his head.
But even faced with Kelwyn’s death—or undeath—Harun will not give up on him, and Kelwyn will not give up on finding his way to sharing that peaceful life with Harun. Two men, love, and magic are bound and determined to find their way to their shared dream of a future—and family.
Blood and Fire will be out on June 20th. A nice birthday present for me, since I'm turning 42 on the 21st. :3
There are some other fun things in the works, too. Thurston Howl's Even Furries Hate Nazis anthology should be out soon, with a story from me in it, the queer and kinky Scry of Lust 2 even sooner, Blood and Fire, as I mentioned above, which will have an e-book on the 21st, and a paperback shortly after that (I'll be certain to post when that's available! I know a lot of people prefer the "dead tree" edition to the e-book.) And I've a bunch of other things lined up to submit, though I'm always looking for new publishers, new anthologies, and other opportunities to reach new readers.
2020 may suck in a lot of ways, and I'm sad to miss out on some in-person events where I was planning on signing books, but it still should be a pretty good year for my writing.
