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Almost October!
October is just five days away, and with it will be Meredith’s yearly Spooky Serial Interactive Fiction! Past stories are at that link if you want to peruse, but it’s basically a live choose your own adventure game — Meredith writes a part, and you leave a comment suggesting what the protagonist should do. The next day, she’ll write the next section of the story based on your comments, and it will continue like this, reaching its climax by the end of October! (For more info about how she runs this, check out this Twitter thread.)
Keep an eye out for the instructions going up on Sept 30, and check back every day throughout October for new story to engage with. Enter your email in the “Subscribe to Updates” section of the sidebar to be alerted to new story sections as they go up so you don’t miss a thing!
Otherwise looking for spooky stories to set the Halloween mood early?
- Empty Vessels: A psychic young man knows he has to overcome his anxieties to protect the local monsters from something terrifying lurking in the night. Along the way, he finds romance in unlikely places, between the ghost that keeps him company and the deer-antlered man running the mysterious antique shop. Monster kissing, flirty horned boys, mindscapes, and creepy dolls. (Rainbow Awards 2018-2019 Runner-Up Best Gay Book.)
- Only Human: When an excitable human nerd gets hit with a necromantic curse, he finds himself getting close to his doctor’s receptionist, a kindly frankensteinian zombie with body issues. It’ll definitely take some communication to make this unusual relationship work. Coffee shop dates, curses, would-be mystery writers, and fans loving fans! Sweet and steamy.
I’m looking forward to playing with you all this year too!
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If Wishes Were Fishes Now Available!
Happy Book Birthday to If Wishes Were Fishes! Thanks so much to everyone who pre-ordered!
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“If Wishes Were Fishes” Now Available for Preorder – “Empty Vessels” 25% Off!
A big announcement today…
We’re happy to announce the preorder for If Wishes Were Fishes! Release date: May 15, 2020.
❤ PREORDER HERE ❤
The boys from Empty Vessels are back in a new story about family, communication, and learning to let go of the past… and about trying to get along with your immortal boyfriend’s persnickety grown-ass kid whose lover has gotten himself trapped in the form of a fish. (A M/M/M polyamorous paranormal romance featuring a soft psychic, a sweet ghost, and many cute cryptids). Learn more about it over here!
If Wishes Were Fishes is a standalone sequel—reading Empty Vessels is recommended, but not required. But to make it a bit easier to do so, we’ve put Empty Vessels on sale for 25% off its usual price of $4.99!
Despite everything happening at the moment (whew), we want to continue releasing creative things into the world. We’re indie authors, so we’re especially grateful for any support (retweets of our tweets, reviews, recs, etc)! Please add the book on Goodreads, and if you’re a reviewer or book blogger interested in acquiring a review copy, feel free to contact us.
Stay safe out there!
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Free ebook until March 31, 2020: How Saeter Robbed the Underworld
We’re so sorry about the recent lack of updates. 2020 has been… well, you all know how 2020 has been. 🙁 We want to do what we can to help bring a bit of joy to people in an isolating time where funds may be tight and spirits a little low, so:
We’re making How Saeter Robbed the Underworld free until the end of March! How Saeter Robbed the Underworld is a novella-length M/M story and the Rainbow Awards 2019 winner of Best Bisexual Fantasy-Romance. Featuring found family, shape-shifting tricksters & a happy ending. Click here for content warnings, an excerpt, and additional information.
The link above should be showing as free on all major retailers, but it might take some time to trickle down from Amazon.com to other regional Amazon sites. If so, or if you want to download it directly, we have also posted it in epub, mobi, and pdf formats over on Itch.io.
Please follow us on twitter, and if you’re interested, here are some other ways to support us. Watch out for each other (from a good distance, of course) and stay safe out there!
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Halloween I.F – “A Little Night Magic” – Author’s Notes / Story Q&A
[Author’s Notes / Story Q&A]
Thank you so much, everyone, for coming along with me for A Little Night Magic, whether you joined in or just read. It was enormous fun to write, and I hope you all enjoyed reading it as well.
The final length of this story was 53,200 words (around 125 pages in gdocs)! Once again, we managed to pull off NaNo in October! If and when you want to reread it, you’ll be able to find this story linked from my Interactive Fiction page. Feel free to check out some older interactive stories there too!
If you enjoyed the story and are looking for ways to support me and my work, you can learn more about and pick up my books over here. Read some already? Leaving a good rating or review on Goodreads or Amazon can make all the difference. I’ve also got a tip jar over at Ko-Fi if you’d like to buy me a drink! And please, feel free to follow me on social media to see what I’m up to: Personal Twitter and Book Twitter.
Okay, business aside—let’s do a story Q&A! Feel free to ask me anything you want about the story, whether it’s about what my writing process was, how I got the idea for certain events or characters, things people may have suspected but not had confirmed, other ‘routes’, etc. Wonder what would have happened if you’d done X instead of Y? Ask it here! (Lurkers are totally allowed to ask too, you don’t need to have participated to ask!).
Here’s some starting information: I got the initial idea for this after moving into a new apartment. In the elevator room in the lowest basement, I kept finding dead moths, and at one point I had a conversation with the (perfectly lovely and not-possessed) janitor, who didn’t seem to notice she was mopping up dead bugs instead of leaves. After that, when a moth got into our apartment and got hunted by one of our cats, I kept thinking, what if.
Thank you once again… and happy Halloween!
[Ask Me Some Questions, I’ll Tell You No Lies]
[Completed parts: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 | Day 12 | Day 13 | Day 14 | Day 15 | Day 16 | Day 17 | Day 18 | Day 19 | Day 20 | Day 21 | Day 22 | Day 23 | Day 24 | Day 25 | Day 26 | Day 27 | Day 28 | Day 29 | Day 30 | Epilogue]
