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The 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…
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