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There is a particular kind of silence that only exists in a book room at night. Not a normal room with books in it. A real book room. The kind with old paper, leather, dust, foxing, dead insects in the window tracks, and shelves that seem perfectly innocent until you…
Continue readingThe most disheartening rejection I ever received was also the most honest. Two publishers looked at The Unseen Hand in their boardrooms, a book my co-author and I had spent years writing, a book we believed in completely, and said, simply: We don’t know how to sell it. Not: we…
Continue readingThe most beloved male leads in dark fantasy romance and erotica are not the good ones. They are not the bad ones either. They are the ones the reader cannot stop parsing—the ones whose interior contradictions are so visible, so precisely engineered, that reading them becomes the pleasure, and the…
Continue readingThe first cover I designed for Daevil’s Bells was not for Daevil’s Bells. It was for a book called Secrets of Dom Arjona, which is what I thought I was writing in 2017. The cover I built matched the book I thought I had: an erotic gothic thriller about a…
Continue readingDaevil’s Tears is a book about a walled garden. I did not know this when I started writing it. I knew it had a great house in it, and a master, and a girl who came to scrub his pots. I knew it had a god whose name the servants…
Continue readingThe last post here is from 2021. I know. I looked. The honest version is this: the pandemic did a number on all of us, and I was no exception. When the dust started to settle I found I didn’t want back into the world I’d stepped out of. The…
Continue readingThursday, June 17th–one day before I head to the airport for a flight to Italy. Did you ever think you’d vacation again? I can tell you that for a long while, I certainly didn’t think so. The last year and a half has been filled with worry, depression, joblessness, sickness,…
Continue readingFebruary feels like years ago, doesn’t it? Since then, we’ve launched and completed our first successful Kickstarter (which Marzio will tell you more about in a later blog post), shipped out hundreds of hardcover first editions of The Unseen Hand around the globe, and yeah… we’ve been hit by a…
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