General News: Mar 2025
Revisiting Projects + AppearancesHeyo! Over the winter one thing was made crystal clear to me. I'm not gonna be cashin' the checks my dumbass decided to write last year. I had planned on being at a lot of events this year, but between family and health issues, I'm going to be stepping back quite a bit. I'll likely only be at two, maybe three, events this year, DEFINITELY at Book Harvest, but the rest, I'm still contemplating.
As for projects, I've been revisiting my plan for the year, not that I've really announced said plan. I'm going to be focusing a LOT on writing this year to finish up the fat stack of WIPs I've got sitting on the back burner. I WILL be updating my website as I go though, as there's a lot of content to add. Art-wise, I am only taking commissions in the form of trades, and currently ONLY with a set number of authors. I just don't have the bandwidth for more. Especially if I want to get any of my projects done. As I update my website, I'll also be adding back my artwork. I took nearly all of it down in order to run it through Glaze and Nightshade as a measure against genAI. ALSO, my online store will be changing up as well. I want to offer a broad range of merch and product, but I do not have the bandwidth or space to have all of it on hand. This change will likely be in the form of splitting my shop into two: Author Direct and Merch. Author Direct meaning you're buying directly from me and it'll be shipped from me, Merch meaning it'll be print on demand and shipped by Printful. |
My Gen-AI Policy Regarding My Work:
My policy is simple: NO Generative AI.
I don't use it in my art and I don't use it in my writing. It's exploitative of creatives and just ethically unsound. All of my books are human made. I design the covers (using a mix of compositing, paint over, and from scratch techniques), all of the writing and even the formatting is done by me. I'm planning on adding this stamp on my book covers moving forward! Autism & Progressive Space:If you're not aware, I am self-diagnosed autistic and officially diagnosed ADHD. I'm going in for an official autism assessment at the end of the month.
I realized, going over my old manuscripts for a book I wrote a decade ago, that I tend to write autistic FMCs. Amelia from the Rhuger books in my Orc Matched series is autistic and I've written my experiences into her character. My primary aim, outside of writing fun stories, is to cultivate a multiverse that is a progressive, inclusive, and supportive space. Where experiences that aren't mine are written sensitively with honor, respect, dignity, and compassion. I want to showcase the spectrum of humanity as best I can! |
Book News:
Orc Matched: To Be Revisited
Is Orc Matched On Hiatus?
YES. But only temporarily. There are a lot of factors and reasons why this is so, but it mainly boils down to - I need to put more good memories between the drama and BS I endured in relation to (NOT because of) the series and right now. Once I finish and publish something else, I'll likely be back in the Orc Matched cuddle pile! Orc Matched is already planned out and partially written as a series and it's going to be a LONG one. I mean, I've got 22 stories on the docket and plenty more I can write for it. Am I insane? Yes.
YES. But only temporarily. There are a lot of factors and reasons why this is so, but it mainly boils down to - I need to put more good memories between the drama and BS I endured in relation to (NOT because of) the series and right now. Once I finish and publish something else, I'll likely be back in the Orc Matched cuddle pile! Orc Matched is already planned out and partially written as a series and it's going to be a LONG one. I mean, I've got 22 stories on the docket and plenty more I can write for it. Am I insane? Yes.
Frostvale Holiday Tales: Spicy Holiday Monster Romances
Insta-everything.
Part of my forray beyond Orc Matched and longer stories, is Frostvale Holiday Tales, an ongoing series of cozy, small-town, monster romances set in a fictional idyllic Colorado mountain town that is the premier Christmas romantic retreat.
Mari Lwydmas is between Ella, an autistic woman who had set up a romantic getaway for her and her boyfriend (only to find out he's cheating on her) and Lwyd, a... Mari Lwyd, who drunkenly leaves a festival next door to go caroling at Ella's rental. Ella, thinking it's her boyfriend and pissed, opens the door in nothing but her lingerie to see a drunken man with a horse skull head singing slightly off key. When Lwyd finally notices Ella, he's floored and asks her to enter a pwnco (or lyrical battle) with him. If she wins, he'll hamstring her stupid ex-boyfriend. If he wins... he'll "pillage her pantry" and help her forget him. Guess who wins?
Mari Lwydmas will be published 2025.
Part of my forray beyond Orc Matched and longer stories, is Frostvale Holiday Tales, an ongoing series of cozy, small-town, monster romances set in a fictional idyllic Colorado mountain town that is the premier Christmas romantic retreat.
Mari Lwydmas is between Ella, an autistic woman who had set up a romantic getaway for her and her boyfriend (only to find out he's cheating on her) and Lwyd, a... Mari Lwyd, who drunkenly leaves a festival next door to go caroling at Ella's rental. Ella, thinking it's her boyfriend and pissed, opens the door in nothing but her lingerie to see a drunken man with a horse skull head singing slightly off key. When Lwyd finally notices Ella, he's floored and asks her to enter a pwnco (or lyrical battle) with him. If she wins, he'll hamstring her stupid ex-boyfriend. If he wins... he'll "pillage her pantry" and help her forget him. Guess who wins?
Mari Lwydmas will be published 2025.
The Moss King & the Briar Crown: A Forray Into Appalachian Horror Dark Fantasy
Book Harvest Anthology Short to Novella
Book Harvest is having an exclusive Anthology and I've submitted The Moss King & the Briar Crown (TMK+TBC) as my entry. It's a short Dark Fantasy monster romance with heavy Appalachian Horror influences. It's got Trans/Nbi rep in the NbMC Briar who plays the banjo, lives up in a holler with their kin, keeps dreaming about banging a super hot cervitaur (deer or elk-like faun or centaur), discovers that they're a cunning folk (type of witch) and comes face to face with an ancient eldritch horror called the Ravening. It's a VERY gory story (heh) but also one filled with hope, found family, fireflies, moss, summoning songs, and a sweet opossum familiar Posy who struggles to eat grapes due to her missing teeth.
The short will be published in the Book Harvest Anthology, and I'm already expanding it to be a novella which will be published in January 2026 when the rights revert.
Book Harvest is having an exclusive Anthology and I've submitted The Moss King & the Briar Crown (TMK+TBC) as my entry. It's a short Dark Fantasy monster romance with heavy Appalachian Horror influences. It's got Trans/Nbi rep in the NbMC Briar who plays the banjo, lives up in a holler with their kin, keeps dreaming about banging a super hot cervitaur (deer or elk-like faun or centaur), discovers that they're a cunning folk (type of witch) and comes face to face with an ancient eldritch horror called the Ravening. It's a VERY gory story (heh) but also one filled with hope, found family, fireflies, moss, summoning songs, and a sweet opossum familiar Posy who struggles to eat grapes due to her missing teeth.
The short will be published in the Book Harvest Anthology, and I'm already expanding it to be a novella which will be published in January 2026 when the rights revert.
Art Commissions:
CLOSED!
The only commissions I am taking are in trade for equivalent services from other authors and it is extremely limited.
The only commissions I am taking are in trade for equivalent services from other authors and it is extremely limited.