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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 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 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…
Continue readingThe weekend before Halloween, Marzio came over my house and we started tinkering with a silly online program that generates plots. I said to Marzio that I was going to base my next big novel on this Emily Brönte insta-book plot generator that spit out a story about an old…
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