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Oxfurred Comma virtual furry convention this weekend
Posted 5 years agoIt's focused on writing/writers, and I think it'll be great. The panels look good, and I have a spot in the Author's alley *and* the Dealer's den. :D
Just finished making an online listing of all my stuff for sale, including books, plushes, tails, ears, and some other miscellany.
The thing is this Saturday/Sunday. I may be a little distracted, as alas I will have my kiddo underfoot, but I should be online most of the time, and pretty responsive to questions/sales.
I super hope this takes off. Heck, maybe if this virtual version is a success they could do an in person one in coming years? Everfree Northwest, the Brony writing-focused convention has always been really great. A furry writing convention should have existed a long time ago! There's so much amazing furry writing out there, and it's so under-appreciated sometimes. (No, I'm not just biased, srsly, read some furry writers. SO MANY good stories. I can point you at a few, or toss the Furry Writer's Guild recommended reading page at you.)
Here's the convention page: https://oxfurredcomma.com/
See you there!
Just finished making an online listing of all my stuff for sale, including books, plushes, tails, ears, and some other miscellany.
The thing is this Saturday/Sunday. I may be a little distracted, as alas I will have my kiddo underfoot, but I should be online most of the time, and pretty responsive to questions/sales.
I super hope this takes off. Heck, maybe if this virtual version is a success they could do an in person one in coming years? Everfree Northwest, the Brony writing-focused convention has always been really great. A furry writing convention should have existed a long time ago! There's so much amazing furry writing out there, and it's so under-appreciated sometimes. (No, I'm not just biased, srsly, read some furry writers. SO MANY good stories. I can point you at a few, or toss the Furry Writer's Guild recommended reading page at you.)
Here's the convention page: https://oxfurredcomma.com/
See you there!
Blood Choice Kindle Edition out now!
Posted 5 years agoBlood Choice for Kindle
In a post-apocalyptic world where humans hide inside protective lights and vampires roam the desert, searching for exiles, one human being has a chance to make a difference, if only he can make a single, terrible choice.
It's out, for those of you weirdos who prefer an e-book to a paperback. (Or for people on a budget, since it's quite a bit cheaper that way.)
This is my very first novel, and I'm still proud of it. There are a few things I'd do differently today, but I re-read it for my own enjoyment every now and then, and I always like it. To be clear, unlike most of my other vampire novels, it is not erotic romance, and the romance side-plot is *shockingly* straight. There is just a little hint of steamy in there, but that's all.
If you like vampires, adventure, sword-fights, and classic anime references, you should check it out!
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In a post-apocalyptic world where humans hide inside protective lights and vampires roam the desert, searching for exiles, one human being has a chance to make a difference, if only he can make a single, terrible choice.
It's out, for those of you weirdos who prefer an e-book to a paperback. (Or for people on a budget, since it's quite a bit cheaper that way.)
This is my very first novel, and I'm still proud of it. There are a few things I'd do differently today, but I re-read it for my own enjoyment every now and then, and I always like it. To be clear, unlike most of my other vampire novels, it is not erotic romance, and the romance side-plot is *shockingly* straight. There is just a little hint of steamy in there, but that's all.
If you like vampires, adventure, sword-fights, and classic anime references, you should check it out!
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:( Writing energy all gone
Posted 5 years agoLife has unfortunately turned to shit. (2020 things, woo) and I dunno when I'll have the next Dungeon and Dragon chapter ready. Bler. Sorry, guys! I'm stoked that so many people are following and voting here and on other sites, but just... ugh. Life, man.
Writing flashfiction on twitter!
Posted 5 years agoToday's entry: a little bit of "classic" science fiction.
Green World (My "working title" was Angry Plant, but I figured I should go with something a little less silly. Though on the other hand, it's twitterfic.)
Enjoy! I'm doing these more or less daily right now, so feel free to follow me on twitter for more.
Green World (My "working title" was Angry Plant, but I figured I should go with something a little less silly. Though on the other hand, it's twitterfic.)
Enjoy! I'm doing these more or less daily right now, so feel free to follow me on twitter for more.
Free book giveaway on Twitter
Posted 5 years agoI ended up with some misprint copies of my gay vampire romance book The Sacrifice. I was going to sell them cheap at conventions, but the whole universe is cancelled right now, so I decided to do a giveaway instead.
Just comment on twitter to enter.
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Comment-driven CYOA smut story?
Posted 5 years agoI had a read through Roland the Indigo Dragon, the story I did where every chapter ended with a Choose Your Own Adventure option that the readers voted on, years ago.
I feel like trying to re-start that would be a bit...rough. I'd be asking people to read things I wrote forever ago and get invested. But I really had fun with the format, and I'm considering having another stab at one, and maybe actually finishing it this time.
Thoughts? Interest? It'd probably be dragons again, but might be X-rated this time. Not just because smut sells, though also that, but because CYOA porn just sounds like fun, and I haven't seen much of it out there.
I feel like trying to re-start that would be a bit...rough. I'd be asking people to read things I wrote forever ago and get invested. But I really had fun with the format, and I'm considering having another stab at one, and maybe actually finishing it this time.
Thoughts? Interest? It'd probably be dragons again, but might be X-rated this time. Not just because smut sells, though also that, but because CYOA porn just sounds like fun, and I haven't seen much of it out there.
I have a Twitter!
Posted 5 years agoI've had a twitter forever, really, but I haven't *used* it in years until now.
Looking to connect with furry authors, LGBT authors, literary agents who are open to same, and interesting people in general. Hit me up!
https://twitter.com/bladespark
Looking to connect with furry authors, LGBT authors, literary agents who are open to same, and interesting people in general. Hit me up!
https://twitter.com/bladespark
Even Furries Hate Nazis Anthology is out.
Posted 5 years agoEven Furries Hate Nazis, an anthology of furry antifa tales (tails?) is out. It contains a fun little story by me, titled "An Incident at Demansk Station". It's my first published/completed work in what is probably my favorite sci-fi setting, a far-future world where humans created "morphs", anthropomorphic animals first used as slaves and then freed and called equals, at least on paper, with all the cultural baggage that entails.
It also features the first appearance by Yin, one of my all-time favorite characters to write, and definitely the one who would be picked by those who know her as "Most likely to punch a Nazi in the face." Which she does!
So if you'd like satisfying tales of animal people showing fascists where they can go, consider picking this up. I have not yet read the other stories included, so I cannot vouch for their quality, admittedly, but I'm sure there's lots more good fun in there. (I'll post a review once I do have a chance to look at the rest.)
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It also features the first appearance by Yin, one of my all-time favorite characters to write, and definitely the one who would be picked by those who know her as "Most likely to punch a Nazi in the face." Which she does!
So if you'd like satisfying tales of animal people showing fascists where they can go, consider picking this up. I have not yet read the other stories included, so I cannot vouch for their quality, admittedly, but I'm sure there's lots more good fun in there. (I'll post a review once I do have a chance to look at the rest.)
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Vore, maybe! And other anthologies.
Posted 5 years agoI just finished two stories, both for anthology calls, and I've submitted or am working on a bunch of other stuff right now. Busy times!
One story, edited up and sent off today, was for a vore anthology. Vore is not among my personal fetishes, but I do enjoy predator/prey dynamics a ton, and I've been toying with a virtual reality setting for extreme/dangerous kink stories, where it can be clear that everyone is fully consenting, while still writing tales about predation, snuff, violence, etc. So I figured why not! (I'm putting up another story from this setting as a Patreon reward shortly, also.) Don't know if my story will be accepted, but I suspect the odds are good, given how niche this is.
The other, rough draft done but still in need of a little time to sit before I give it an editing pass, is a story for the "Dogbumps School for Wayward Wixards" anthology. Dogbumps being a play on Hogwarts, and the point of the anthology being to create a school of magic specifically for transgender, LGBT+ and other marginalized peeps. It's a bit of a middle finger to Rowling's TERF-y ways, and I was delighted to take part! My story is a sweet bit of "first love" fluff between a trans man and his non-binary crush. It's not furry, but I did put some animal transformations in there, because magic! No idea if I'll get in to that anthology, but of course I hope so.
I am also working on a story for a "HashtagLove" publication call, involving more VR, but this time finding romance in a Second Life style virtual world, and what happens when real selves that have been hidden behind very different (or maybe too similar!) avatars have to be revealed. It's a little silly, very fun, and I honestly I don't know if I'll have it done in time for the publication call, but even if I don't it's a good idea.
Then somebody pointed me at a "Solarpunk" anthology call, and I'm toying with trying to come up with a story for it. I love post-apocalyptic stories, but I also love the anti-apocalypse "the world gets better" theme of solarpunk, and I have a few thoughts about what I might write, but nothing that's really gelling for me yet. (It's one of those "I have a concept but not a story" things. I want to write something about a non-binary person who's a third in a poly relationship. Third gender, third role, "Third" as a title, it seems like a good concept, but I don't know what *happens*. Where does the story's motion come from? I don't want to build it on any kind of conflict about being non-binary, the whole *point* of a solarpunk story is a better future, and in my version of a better future, being non-binary is no biggie. But if not that, then what is the story about? Stories don't have to have "conflict" in any aggressive sense, my Dogbumps story doesn't for example, but characters have to go from somewhere to somewhere, and I don't know where this enby person goes.)
On top of that there's also a thing I've written an outline for and I hope I find time to write for the second Reclamation Project furry shared world anthology!
And finally I sent in a couple of my "HFY" stories, (which my patrons and discord followers may have read, though I haven't posted any of them here on FA yet,) to a "We're the Weird Aliens" anthology, that looks at humans from the point of view of aliens who find us bizarre. "HFY" is kind of a reddit thing, it stands for "Humanity Fuck Yeah" and is pretty much the same idea. (See also "Humans are space orcs" and "Earth is space Australia".) Humans being weird, scary, or especially scarily competent to aliens that are totally baffled by us. I don't spend a huge amount of time on reddit, but I have read some of the "classics" there, and I've had fun playing with that, so I tossed a few of those at the publisher, and I hope they'll get accepted.
Anyhow! As you can see, I'm busybusybusy!
Other things in the pipeline:
-At some point the Anti-Nazi furs anthology from Thurston Howl will be out with a story of mine in it.
-I should have two short story collections entirely my own from them also! They are apparently currently having some delays of things, I probably should poke somebody about those.
-The paperback of Blood and Fire is upcoming. Also need to poke somebody about the release date, it should be early fall?
-I'm trying to find a publisher (or an agent to help me find a publisher) for Dragon's Blood, my furry vampire philosophy novel. :3 Wish me luck there, it's a weird one! But I feel it's one of my best, hence wanting to get an agent to see if I can place it somewhere that might get it into actual bookstores and not just furry conventions!
Also more fanfiction coming, and I might even have an open commission slot one of these days. Maybe. If I don't drown in all this other stuff to do first!
One story, edited up and sent off today, was for a vore anthology. Vore is not among my personal fetishes, but I do enjoy predator/prey dynamics a ton, and I've been toying with a virtual reality setting for extreme/dangerous kink stories, where it can be clear that everyone is fully consenting, while still writing tales about predation, snuff, violence, etc. So I figured why not! (I'm putting up another story from this setting as a Patreon reward shortly, also.) Don't know if my story will be accepted, but I suspect the odds are good, given how niche this is.
The other, rough draft done but still in need of a little time to sit before I give it an editing pass, is a story for the "Dogbumps School for Wayward Wixards" anthology. Dogbumps being a play on Hogwarts, and the point of the anthology being to create a school of magic specifically for transgender, LGBT+ and other marginalized peeps. It's a bit of a middle finger to Rowling's TERF-y ways, and I was delighted to take part! My story is a sweet bit of "first love" fluff between a trans man and his non-binary crush. It's not furry, but I did put some animal transformations in there, because magic! No idea if I'll get in to that anthology, but of course I hope so.
I am also working on a story for a "HashtagLove" publication call, involving more VR, but this time finding romance in a Second Life style virtual world, and what happens when real selves that have been hidden behind very different (or maybe too similar!) avatars have to be revealed. It's a little silly, very fun, and I honestly I don't know if I'll have it done in time for the publication call, but even if I don't it's a good idea.
Then somebody pointed me at a "Solarpunk" anthology call, and I'm toying with trying to come up with a story for it. I love post-apocalyptic stories, but I also love the anti-apocalypse "the world gets better" theme of solarpunk, and I have a few thoughts about what I might write, but nothing that's really gelling for me yet. (It's one of those "I have a concept but not a story" things. I want to write something about a non-binary person who's a third in a poly relationship. Third gender, third role, "Third" as a title, it seems like a good concept, but I don't know what *happens*. Where does the story's motion come from? I don't want to build it on any kind of conflict about being non-binary, the whole *point* of a solarpunk story is a better future, and in my version of a better future, being non-binary is no biggie. But if not that, then what is the story about? Stories don't have to have "conflict" in any aggressive sense, my Dogbumps story doesn't for example, but characters have to go from somewhere to somewhere, and I don't know where this enby person goes.)
On top of that there's also a thing I've written an outline for and I hope I find time to write for the second Reclamation Project furry shared world anthology!
And finally I sent in a couple of my "HFY" stories, (which my patrons and discord followers may have read, though I haven't posted any of them here on FA yet,) to a "We're the Weird Aliens" anthology, that looks at humans from the point of view of aliens who find us bizarre. "HFY" is kind of a reddit thing, it stands for "Humanity Fuck Yeah" and is pretty much the same idea. (See also "Humans are space orcs" and "Earth is space Australia".) Humans being weird, scary, or especially scarily competent to aliens that are totally baffled by us. I don't spend a huge amount of time on reddit, but I have read some of the "classics" there, and I've had fun playing with that, so I tossed a few of those at the publisher, and I hope they'll get accepted.
Anyhow! As you can see, I'm busybusybusy!
Other things in the pipeline:
-At some point the Anti-Nazi furs anthology from Thurston Howl will be out with a story of mine in it.
-I should have two short story collections entirely my own from them also! They are apparently currently having some delays of things, I probably should poke somebody about those.
-The paperback of Blood and Fire is upcoming. Also need to poke somebody about the release date, it should be early fall?
-I'm trying to find a publisher (or an agent to help me find a publisher) for Dragon's Blood, my furry vampire philosophy novel. :3 Wish me luck there, it's a weird one! But I feel it's one of my best, hence wanting to get an agent to see if I can place it somewhere that might get it into actual bookstores and not just furry conventions!
Also more fanfiction coming, and I might even have an open commission slot one of these days. Maybe. If I don't drown in all this other stuff to do first!
The Burnt Fur Anthology - a small disclaimer
Posted 5 years agoI may have mentioned a few times that I have a story featured in the Burnt Fur horror anthology. I still do! However, as I've finally had time to read the other stories that accompany mine, I've hit a point where I think I need to put a small disclaimer and/or warning in my recommendations that pepole buy the book.
It's horror, so I don't think saying that one of the stories there is "horrific" will shock anybody. The author went hard for "fucking disturbing" and hit the mark.
The problem is that in the process they have sprayed some additional horror around that some people might not want or expect, even from a horror story.
The story "The Hamford Pigs" is a story that is leaning into the "pig" pun, because it is about cops. It is also by word count probably close to half brutal torture porn whose details do not significantly advance the plot. It could have drawn a curtain over a large section of the story and not changed anything about the reader's understanding of the characters.
It's a horror anthology, so you know, fair enough! I'm not going to judge an erotica collection for gratuitous porn and I'm not going to judge this for gratuitous violence. (Though I will note that thus far it is the only story in the anthology I've read that contains significant violence that could be omitted and change nothing, so...)
In this story (spoilers! I am going to ruin this for you, sorry. The anthology has a ton of other stories, though?) our protagonist is a young policeman, who is drawn into a secret society where it turns out his fellow cops perform brutal, extended, extremely graphic and violent extra-judicial executions of those they have deemed deserving. The man murdered in this tale is a child rapist who was given a light sentence when convicted by the courts. The brutal violence is aided by the "spirits" of real pigs, presumably slaughtered for human food, who hate humans, and so the cops donning their skins and channeling their spirits are goaded to ever more escalating levels of awfulness.
This story absolutely succeeds at being horror.
The events in it are indeed, horrifying, and are presented as such. I wouldn't be bothering to say anything about it, were it not for the ending. At the end of the tale our disturbed protagonist, having brutally tortured a man in truly horrible ways, returns home, debating how he should react. Turn everyone in? Join the club? What should he do, what should he feel? The story then has him see his girlfriend and her child sleeping peacefully, and conclude that he is right and just to join the club and murder people, because making sure the worst criminals are dead will protect them.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT ARE YOU KIDDING ME???????
*ahem* The story was written something like a year ago at minimum, this anthology took considerable time to come together, so it was not written with the background of current events in mind. Nevertheless it appears to come down hard on the side of justifying police violence and extra-judicial execution as perhaps horrifying, but also in the end moral and necessary.
I felt I needed to say something about that.
I won't say don't buy the book. I won't condemn the author because sometimes you write a story without thinking too hard and it says things you didn't mean. Or sometimes people just don't get what you were going for. Maybe this was the most horrific thing the author could think of and the ending is meant to be the final horror. I don't know. Perhaps our "pig" cuddling up to his love with a feeling of satisfied contentment about the decision he's made was *meant* to evoke the "Holy fuck that's awful" response it evoked in me! Who knows?
I just felt that I couldn't let this pass unaddressed in this day and age. I don't endorse this story. I don't think that making the victim the worst criminal the author could think of makes it "okay" for somebody who appears to be the "hero" to murder. (And that part there is what leads me to think that the author meant the ending to be straight, not an even-worse-horror twist, because if you want the protagonist to come across as the villain, setting him in opposition to something that our society holds as the worst possible crime doesn't really have that effect!)
So yeah. Just...felt like I needed to say something.
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It's horror, so I don't think saying that one of the stories there is "horrific" will shock anybody. The author went hard for "fucking disturbing" and hit the mark.
The problem is that in the process they have sprayed some additional horror around that some people might not want or expect, even from a horror story.
The story "The Hamford Pigs" is a story that is leaning into the "pig" pun, because it is about cops. It is also by word count probably close to half brutal torture porn whose details do not significantly advance the plot. It could have drawn a curtain over a large section of the story and not changed anything about the reader's understanding of the characters.
It's a horror anthology, so you know, fair enough! I'm not going to judge an erotica collection for gratuitous porn and I'm not going to judge this for gratuitous violence. (Though I will note that thus far it is the only story in the anthology I've read that contains significant violence that could be omitted and change nothing, so...)
In this story (spoilers! I am going to ruin this for you, sorry. The anthology has a ton of other stories, though?) our protagonist is a young policeman, who is drawn into a secret society where it turns out his fellow cops perform brutal, extended, extremely graphic and violent extra-judicial executions of those they have deemed deserving. The man murdered in this tale is a child rapist who was given a light sentence when convicted by the courts. The brutal violence is aided by the "spirits" of real pigs, presumably slaughtered for human food, who hate humans, and so the cops donning their skins and channeling their spirits are goaded to ever more escalating levels of awfulness.
This story absolutely succeeds at being horror.
The events in it are indeed, horrifying, and are presented as such. I wouldn't be bothering to say anything about it, were it not for the ending. At the end of the tale our disturbed protagonist, having brutally tortured a man in truly horrible ways, returns home, debating how he should react. Turn everyone in? Join the club? What should he do, what should he feel? The story then has him see his girlfriend and her child sleeping peacefully, and conclude that he is right and just to join the club and murder people, because making sure the worst criminals are dead will protect them.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT ARE YOU KIDDING ME???????
*ahem* The story was written something like a year ago at minimum, this anthology took considerable time to come together, so it was not written with the background of current events in mind. Nevertheless it appears to come down hard on the side of justifying police violence and extra-judicial execution as perhaps horrifying, but also in the end moral and necessary.
I felt I needed to say something about that.
I won't say don't buy the book. I won't condemn the author because sometimes you write a story without thinking too hard and it says things you didn't mean. Or sometimes people just don't get what you were going for. Maybe this was the most horrific thing the author could think of and the ending is meant to be the final horror. I don't know. Perhaps our "pig" cuddling up to his love with a feeling of satisfied contentment about the decision he's made was *meant* to evoke the "Holy fuck that's awful" response it evoked in me! Who knows?
I just felt that I couldn't let this pass unaddressed in this day and age. I don't endorse this story. I don't think that making the victim the worst criminal the author could think of makes it "okay" for somebody who appears to be the "hero" to murder. (And that part there is what leads me to think that the author meant the ending to be straight, not an even-worse-horror twist, because if you want the protagonist to come across as the villain, setting him in opposition to something that our society holds as the worst possible crime doesn't really have that effect!)
So yeah. Just...felt like I needed to say something.
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Fitting Together/Scry of Lust 2 charity anthology.
Posted 5 years agoMy story "Fitting Together" is, as I may have already mentioned, in the charity anthology Scry of Lust 2. The folks behind that have finished getting all the various editions of it up, so I thought I'd provide a comprehensive set of links.
On Smashwords (the place to buy if you want to support the SFAIDSWalk, as this is the one that gives them the most money.)
On Amazon in e-book or paperback
On Lulu in hardcover
Thanks for reading!
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On Smashwords (the place to buy if you want to support the SFAIDSWalk, as this is the one that gives them the most money.)
On Amazon in e-book or paperback
On Lulu in hardcover
Thanks for reading!
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Pride Month story and small announcement.
Posted 5 years agoHappy Pride Month!
I just released a story today, titled Coffee and Free-Fall. It's set in one of my favorite settings, which, probably amusingly, was invented for an epic sci-fi action adventure story with spies and politics and racial tensions and the galactic fate of humanity at stake. The only stories I've managed to finish in the setting, though, are small-scale things, mostly slice of life. (Though there is an upcoming anthology with one where a character punches a nazi, so that's fun!)
I thought I would share this particular story on this particular day/month for several reasons. It's one of two I've written about Emily/Eli, both of which are in some way about LGBT issues, and also both of which are in some way about me.
I don't think I can call this "coming out" because I haven't been in the closet about it, exactly, but I have reached a point where using "Stephanie" as my pen name just doesn't work, so I figure it's time for an official announcement. As I hate to completely cut ties with all my previous books, I'm swapping back to just S. Park as my pen name. I used the full Stephanie when I was first published, way back in 2006, because a bad pun as an author's name felt silly. But hey, bad puns are at least memorable, and the S. is a way to not ditch Stephanie entirely while also not feeling incredibly uncomfortable when talking to people as an author.
The actual name I go by these days is Aidan. So hi. Nice to meet you all.
You can still call me "spark" too if you like that's fine! "Sparkwrites" is the name of the account and "spark" is totally a thing I also go by. But if we're talking about "The real person behind the writer S.Park" then the name is definitely Aidan, not Stephanie. :3
P.S. My patrons on Patreon are getting the sequel to this story today. Toss me a buck now if you'd like to read it early! It'll be up here sometime in the coming month.
Thanks!
I just released a story today, titled Coffee and Free-Fall. It's set in one of my favorite settings, which, probably amusingly, was invented for an epic sci-fi action adventure story with spies and politics and racial tensions and the galactic fate of humanity at stake. The only stories I've managed to finish in the setting, though, are small-scale things, mostly slice of life. (Though there is an upcoming anthology with one where a character punches a nazi, so that's fun!)
I thought I would share this particular story on this particular day/month for several reasons. It's one of two I've written about Emily/Eli, both of which are in some way about LGBT issues, and also both of which are in some way about me.
I don't think I can call this "coming out" because I haven't been in the closet about it, exactly, but I have reached a point where using "Stephanie" as my pen name just doesn't work, so I figure it's time for an official announcement. As I hate to completely cut ties with all my previous books, I'm swapping back to just S. Park as my pen name. I used the full Stephanie when I was first published, way back in 2006, because a bad pun as an author's name felt silly. But hey, bad puns are at least memorable, and the S. is a way to not ditch Stephanie entirely while also not feeling incredibly uncomfortable when talking to people as an author.
The actual name I go by these days is Aidan. So hi. Nice to meet you all.
You can still call me "spark" too if you like that's fine! "Sparkwrites" is the name of the account and "spark" is totally a thing I also go by. But if we're talking about "The real person behind the writer S.Park" then the name is definitely Aidan, not Stephanie. :3
P.S. My patrons on Patreon are getting the sequel to this story today. Toss me a buck now if you'd like to read it early! It'll be up here sometime in the coming month.
Thanks!
Scry of Lust 2 is here!
Posted 5 years agoThese things seem to come in waves, don't they? But yeah, another short story from me out in another anthology.
Anyhow, there is another story of mine out that you can buy! "Fitting Together," a furry, transgender, spanking-and-also-sex kink story is featured in Scry of Lust 2, a queer kink anthology that's fundraising for the SFAIDSwalk, which this year needs that sort of thing more than ever, since the in-person event can't happen this year.
Get your copy of it right here.
Anyhow, there is another story of mine out that you can buy! "Fitting Together," a furry, transgender, spanking-and-also-sex kink story is featured in Scry of Lust 2, a queer kink anthology that's fundraising for the SFAIDSwalk, which this year needs that sort of thing more than ever, since the in-person event can't happen this year.
Get your copy of it right here.
Omegaverse short, patreon, cover art preview, and other n...
Posted 5 years agoLots 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.
I got a story into Scry Of Lust 2!
Posted 5 years agoIt's a queer and kink focused short story collection that's also a fundraising effort for the SF AIDSwalk, which of course isn't happening in person this year, so this kind of indirect support is extra important!
I'll share more information about how and where to buy a copy as I learn it!
Meanwhile, if you haven't already read the teaser version of Fitting Together, my transgender spanking story, check it out.
Scry Of Lust 2 will have the full version, including some fun, feline, transgender sexual escapades not included in the short version. :3
I'll share more information about how and where to buy a copy as I learn it!
Meanwhile, if you haven't already read the teaser version of Fitting Together, my transgender spanking story, check it out.
Scry Of Lust 2 will have the full version, including some fun, feline, transgender sexual escapades not included in the short version. :3
Trying to upload more often.
Posted 5 years agoI won't make any grand "I'm back!" declarations, but since I'm being more active in the furry writing community in general, (the Furry Writer's Guild discord is a thing now, and seems nice so far!) I'm trying to get back in the habit of uploading stuff here on FA and not just on AO3.
I have another novel coming out soon, too, so it'd be nice if I had actual active readers around when that drops. :D We'll see how that goes, anyway.
Patreon is still always the best place to get all my content, of course, but I am going to try to get my backlog up here and keep posting new things as I write them.
Thanks for reading!
I have another novel coming out soon, too, so it'd be nice if I had actual active readers around when that drops. :D We'll see how that goes, anyway.
Patreon is still always the best place to get all my content, of course, but I am going to try to get my backlog up here and keep posting new things as I write them.
Thanks for reading!
Corrected covers are here!
Posted 6 years agoThe Sacrifice now has the right back cover, and I now have a dozen copies.
Anybody who's been waiting on the proper ones to buy a signed copy can buy one now. $13 shipped anywhere in the USA, which you can send via paypal to spark.costumes[at]gmail.com
Anybody who's been waiting on the proper ones to buy a signed copy can buy one now. $13 shipped anywhere in the USA, which you can send via paypal to spark.costumes[at]gmail.com
The Sacrifice, now out in paperback!
Posted 6 years agoYup, it's finally here! I have copies in my hands right now, even. Unfortunately said copies had a printing error. The back cover belongs to some other book entirely. Oops. That said the interior text is correct, and so is the front cover, so if you don't care about back cover blurbs, this is your chance to get a copy at a significant discount.
Here's where/how you can buy The Sacrifice right now:
1. As an e-book, which is available on Amazon, or from JMS Books (And from basically every e-book distributor, so search for it on the platform of your choice.)
2. As a paperback, also on Amazon or JMS Books.
3. As a signed paperback from me! To get that, if you are in the USA, just paypal $13 to spark.costumes[at]gmail.com and tick the tickybox to include your address. Include any notes about inscriptions, lewd doodles, or anything else you want me to put on there along with my signature. Or if you want one of the error back cover versions, send $8 instead.
If you are outside the USA, you can hit me up for a shipping quote on a signed copy, however international shipping doesn't have a media mail option, so it's going to be ridiculously expensive, and you're probably better off just getting the e-book. That said I don't mind shipping international packages at all, just paying $20+ to ship a paperback is ridiculous and I feel absurd even suggesting anybody do so.
P.S. I'm about to upload a little indulgent extra. I wrote non-canon fanfiction for my own original fiction. I may possibly be some kind of ridiculous. :D But I had a demented idea for a sort of alternate non-con scene near the end. I don't think it *actually* belongs in the story, but the idea rattled around in my head until I finally let it out onto the page. That'll be up shortly. So if you're a perv like me and you like evil sexual fantasies, you may want to check that out.
The novel itself, though, is entirely consensual and honestly pretty sweet. Can I write cute cuddly fluff between a human student of magic and an eight foot tall ancient vampire god? You bet I can. :D
Here's where/how you can buy The Sacrifice right now:
1. As an e-book, which is available on Amazon, or from JMS Books (And from basically every e-book distributor, so search for it on the platform of your choice.)
2. As a paperback, also on Amazon or JMS Books.
3. As a signed paperback from me! To get that, if you are in the USA, just paypal $13 to spark.costumes[at]gmail.com and tick the tickybox to include your address. Include any notes about inscriptions, lewd doodles, or anything else you want me to put on there along with my signature. Or if you want one of the error back cover versions, send $8 instead.
If you are outside the USA, you can hit me up for a shipping quote on a signed copy, however international shipping doesn't have a media mail option, so it's going to be ridiculously expensive, and you're probably better off just getting the e-book. That said I don't mind shipping international packages at all, just paying $20+ to ship a paperback is ridiculous and I feel absurd even suggesting anybody do so.
P.S. I'm about to upload a little indulgent extra. I wrote non-canon fanfiction for my own original fiction. I may possibly be some kind of ridiculous. :D But I had a demented idea for a sort of alternate non-con scene near the end. I don't think it *actually* belongs in the story, but the idea rattled around in my head until I finally let it out onto the page. That'll be up shortly. So if you're a perv like me and you like evil sexual fantasies, you may want to check that out.
The novel itself, though, is entirely consensual and honestly pretty sweet. Can I write cute cuddly fluff between a human student of magic and an eight foot tall ancient vampire god? You bet I can. :D
Sorry for the silence. (And gay romance novel pre-orders!)
Posted 6 years agoHonestly my personal life issues have been part of the reason, but Furaffinity's dumb formatting is another part. I can't just copy-paste from my stories elsewhere, I have to reformat specifically for here and then save as a .txt file. It's not a huge amount of work, but it's enough to be too much when I'm super exhausted.
I have *tons* of fanfic and some original stuff I need to post, though! I'm going to start working on the backlog this week, and try to keep an weekly update schedule, probably on Wednesdays.
Also, I'm taking pre-orders for signed editions of my first "dead tree" book. The Sacrifice, the gay vampire adventure/romance novel that was out as an e-book some time ago is finally going to be in print! It'll be for sale for $13 from JMS books on Sept. 29th, and I'll post a link here then, but if you want your copy signed, you can order now from me! Just let me know you're interested. No extra charge for singing, and in fact if you don't mind waiting a bit on media mail, I can send them with free shipping too, so it's $13 flat, no other fees. Just paypal me!
I have *tons* of fanfic and some original stuff I need to post, though! I'm going to start working on the backlog this week, and try to keep an weekly update schedule, probably on Wednesdays.
Also, I'm taking pre-orders for signed editions of my first "dead tree" book. The Sacrifice, the gay vampire adventure/romance novel that was out as an e-book some time ago is finally going to be in print! It'll be for sale for $13 from JMS books on Sept. 29th, and I'll post a link here then, but if you want your copy signed, you can order now from me! Just let me know you're interested. No extra charge for singing, and in fact if you don't mind waiting a bit on media mail, I can send them with free shipping too, so it's $13 flat, no other fees. Just paypal me!
Story acceptance news, and also Pillowfort account!
Posted 6 years agoDo you use pillowfort? Here's mine: https://www.pillowfort.io/Aidan_Rhiannon
I'm following everybody back right now, because I really want to use pillowfort to *interact* with people, and not just descend from on high with art that everybody looks at but nobody knows me and I don't know you and all that. So if you'd like to socialize and see me talk about life as well as post art/writing, it may be a good place to follow me.
In other news, I've had two stories recently accepted. "An Incident On Demansk Station" was accepted into Thurston Howl's "Even Furries Hate Nazis" anthology, and "'Ware the Deep" was accepted into Blood Bound Books' "Burnt Fur" furry horror anthology. I am thrilled about both! They were both very fun to write, though they are *wildly* different stories. The first is just a good, rolicking, Nazi-punching, Hero-gets-the-girl good time with a trans and trans-human twist, while the second is a much more serious attempt at something both at least slightly literary and about as creepy as anything I've ever written. I do very little horror, I'm not always good at "scary", but I feel that this succeeded, and I guess the folks at Blood Bound Books agreed!
I'll have more news (and teasers) for both of those once publication is a little bit closer.
I'm following everybody back right now, because I really want to use pillowfort to *interact* with people, and not just descend from on high with art that everybody looks at but nobody knows me and I don't know you and all that. So if you'd like to socialize and see me talk about life as well as post art/writing, it may be a good place to follow me.
In other news, I've had two stories recently accepted. "An Incident On Demansk Station" was accepted into Thurston Howl's "Even Furries Hate Nazis" anthology, and "'Ware the Deep" was accepted into Blood Bound Books' "Burnt Fur" furry horror anthology. I am thrilled about both! They were both very fun to write, though they are *wildly* different stories. The first is just a good, rolicking, Nazi-punching, Hero-gets-the-girl good time with a trans and trans-human twist, while the second is a much more serious attempt at something both at least slightly literary and about as creepy as anything I've ever written. I do very little horror, I'm not always good at "scary", but I feel that this succeeded, and I guess the folks at Blood Bound Books agreed!
I'll have more news (and teasers) for both of those once publication is a little bit closer.
Storm Cat on Amazon (and Smashwords) Previous books on sale.
Posted 6 years agoI finally figured out how to price things for $.99 there, too, so the previous two stories are on sale now! (They are also for sale on Smashwords, of course.)
On Amazon:
Storm Cat
The Vampire's Return
Well Met By Moonlight
On Smashwords:
Storm Cat
The Vampire's Return
Well Met By Moonlight
On Amazon:
Storm Cat
The Vampire's Return
Well Met By Moonlight
On Smashwords:
Storm Cat
The Vampire's Return
Well Met By Moonlight
Unfortunate story news. :(
Posted 6 years agoI just received word that Jaffa Books, the furry publisher I've been with for some time now, is closing, and that my upcoming physical books, (The Sanguine Canvas, The Garden Maze, and Blood Choice) will not be published with them.
I will be getting the rights back, but *nobody* publishes single-author furry short story collections, so it's not like I can just make this happen somewhere else. I may be able to eventually place a few of the stories individually. Some of them probably not, though, as they're fairly quirky and/or quite long, and not likely to fit into somebody's themed story anthology.
To be honest I'm really kind of crushed right now. I have all these stories suddenly that just...don't go anywhere. They're not erotica, so I can't put them up with my self-pub erotica line, they're not romance so I can't send them to my other publisher. They just get to sit, I guess. I don't know. If I really never can find anywhere to send them, I guess I can eventually post them here. Although, no offense, "put up for free for like 20 people to read but mostly ignore" and "actually publish as a physical, tangible book" are worlds different, even putting monetary factors aside.
The Sacrifice is still coming in paperback, as that is with JMS Books, not Jaffa Books. So there's that.
Sorry this is a downer. I was not having a good day *before* this news. I am very not having a good day now.
I will be getting the rights back, but *nobody* publishes single-author furry short story collections, so it's not like I can just make this happen somewhere else. I may be able to eventually place a few of the stories individually. Some of them probably not, though, as they're fairly quirky and/or quite long, and not likely to fit into somebody's themed story anthology.
To be honest I'm really kind of crushed right now. I have all these stories suddenly that just...don't go anywhere. They're not erotica, so I can't put them up with my self-pub erotica line, they're not romance so I can't send them to my other publisher. They just get to sit, I guess. I don't know. If I really never can find anywhere to send them, I guess I can eventually post them here. Although, no offense, "put up for free for like 20 people to read but mostly ignore" and "actually publish as a physical, tangible book" are worlds different, even putting monetary factors aside.
The Sacrifice is still coming in paperback, as that is with JMS Books, not Jaffa Books. So there's that.
Sorry this is a downer. I was not having a good day *before* this news. I am very not having a good day now.
Real dead tree edition romance novel coming out in April!!!!
Posted 6 years agoI am excited! :D
The Sacrifice, the first two chapters of which you can read right here, will be coming out as a paperback, as well as an e-book, in April of this year.
I'll share more details as I get them from the publisher.
The Sacrifice, the first two chapters of which you can read right here, will be coming out as a paperback, as well as an e-book, in April of this year.
I'll share more details as I get them from the publisher.
The Vampire's Return, gay vampire porn, is on Amazon now.
Posted 6 years agoAnd on Smashwords, if you somehow missed that.
All the world changed in a single moment. Lives were ended, and even more lives disrupted. For magic had come back into the world, and with it came elves, dragons, were-folk...and vampires.
Thomas never could have imagined he might become a vampire. What he could imagine even less, though, was that he and his handsome roommate Brad could end up fleeing the end of the world together, and doing other things together as well.
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Buy on Amazon
Buy on Smashwords
It's cheaper on Smashwords, because of some quirks about Amazon's rules. I'm still trying to figure out if I can put the previous book on sale, and I can't seem to unless I sign up for their "Agree to sell this only on Amazon" program. :P
Can I say how much I really haaaaaaaaaaaate marketing? I hate it. I hate it so, so, so, so, so much. If I could just write them and post them and not say a peep, and have people still buy them, I would. :( It's very sad that as creators we can't make a living unless we're also sales people.
All the world changed in a single moment. Lives were ended, and even more lives disrupted. For magic had come back into the world, and with it came elves, dragons, were-folk...and vampires.
Thomas never could have imagined he might become a vampire. What he could imagine even less, though, was that he and his handsome roommate Brad could end up fleeing the end of the world together, and doing other things together as well.
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Buy on Amazon
Buy on Smashwords
It's cheaper on Smashwords, because of some quirks about Amazon's rules. I'm still trying to figure out if I can put the previous book on sale, and I can't seem to unless I sign up for their "Agree to sell this only on Amazon" program. :P
Can I say how much I really haaaaaaaaaaaate marketing? I hate it. I hate it so, so, so, so, so much. If I could just write them and post them and not say a peep, and have people still buy them, I would. :( It's very sad that as creators we can't make a living unless we're also sales people.
Kiss Against The Wall - a gay coming of age story
Posted 6 years agoI'm publishing this story over on Archive Of Our Own. It's not furry and FA's rules about human teenagers and sex are...fuzzy enough that I'm not sure if it belongs here. (It contains no underage "sex" as such, but is a coming of age story and has things such as a teenager masturbating, etc.)
Kiss Against The Wall
Matthias Emerson gave in to temptation—once—and kissed the then-thirteen-year-old Ethan Flagg. He feels immensely guilty about it, a burden of guilt added atop the heavy load that comes from being a gay man born and raised in a conservative town and an even more conservative church.
For Ethan, though, the kiss was a revelation; he wasn't bored with girls because he was still a child, he was bored with girls because he liked guys. Aided by his bisexual classmate Rob—and by the fascinating things he reads on the internet—Ethan sets out to grow up, and to unlearn the lessons his own conservative parents have taught him. And most of all, to see if he can find the romance he so deeply desires.
When an anonymous admirer reaches out to Matt over the internet, he has no idea it's the boy he sinfully kissed. But with Ethan as the pursuer—and increasingly the one taking charge—things don't turn out how either of them expected.
It seems like the obstacles before them are insurmountable, but it just may be possible for the unlikely pair to deal with Matt's guilt, and with the fact that they will need to wait years until Ethan reaches adulthood.
I'll be uploading one chapter a week over on AO3, or you can just read it in full right now on Patreon.
Kiss Against The Wall
Matthias Emerson gave in to temptation—once—and kissed the then-thirteen-year-old Ethan Flagg. He feels immensely guilty about it, a burden of guilt added atop the heavy load that comes from being a gay man born and raised in a conservative town and an even more conservative church.
For Ethan, though, the kiss was a revelation; he wasn't bored with girls because he was still a child, he was bored with girls because he liked guys. Aided by his bisexual classmate Rob—and by the fascinating things he reads on the internet—Ethan sets out to grow up, and to unlearn the lessons his own conservative parents have taught him. And most of all, to see if he can find the romance he so deeply desires.
When an anonymous admirer reaches out to Matt over the internet, he has no idea it's the boy he sinfully kissed. But with Ethan as the pursuer—and increasingly the one taking charge—things don't turn out how either of them expected.
It seems like the obstacles before them are insurmountable, but it just may be possible for the unlikely pair to deal with Matt's guilt, and with the fact that they will need to wait years until Ethan reaches adulthood.
I'll be uploading one chapter a week over on AO3, or you can just read it in full right now on Patreon.
