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July 15, 2021

A Mafia Romance That’s Actually…Sweet??

A few weeks ago I was given the opportunity to beta read a mafia romance. Now, this is not the first time someone has asked me to read or review a mafia romance. And I’ve always said, “No, I don’t read mafia romance.”

But because the author is a friend of mine, I knew this was going to be a different sort of mafia romance. She had talked about the project a few times in the months before and mentioned that she wanted to put a different sort of spin on mafia romance.

I’ve read a bunch of her other contemporary romances, so I know that a book by Pixie Stormcrow is always sweet, sexy, and consensual.

I beta read the first few chapters of The Dragon’s Enforcer and absolutely LOVED it.

First of all, it’s set in Hong Kong. This is already so different than any other mafia romance I’ve ever stumbled across. It’s not a super diverse subgenre. Pixie Stormcrow’s family is from Hong Kong and from what she’s said, it sounds like she spent a good deal of time there when she was young, so this is an Own Voices story. She immerses us in the culture of Hong Kong and just from reading this story (and keeping up with the Hong Kong facts she posted on her social media in the days leading up to the book launch!) I’ve learned so much about Hong Kong.

The mafia leader who acts as the main love interest leads by compassion and respect, not fear and violence.

The female lead is grieving the death of her father and also on the run from gang rivals when she meets this love interest in a martial arts studio.

The inclusion of martial arts was another very fun detail.

I love seeing an author put their own twist on a subgenre and tropes, and adding a cinnamon roll hero and some oh so sexy consent to the mafia subgenre is a twist I can definitely get behind.

There’s a reason Pixie Stormcrow’s tagline is “Consent is Sexy.” And ohhh is it!

Check out the book here

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Published on July 15, 2021 07:52

July 14, 2021

I Have Now Officially Read a Shifter Book

This was the first serious shifter book I’ve read after discovering the subgenre. I mean, I’ve read a handful of Zoe Chant novella’s, but nobody is taking those seriously, including Zoe Chant herself.

Yeah those books are…well, they’re clickbait amazon garbage.

Jennifer Ashely’s Shifters Unbound series on the other hand is more typical of Shifter subgenre. It has paranormal vibes, lots of magic, and is deeply sensual without being smut.

This book is full of incredible lore that was so fun to become immersed in. I’ve never read one of Ashley’s Shifter books and I still never felt lost or confused. The worldbuilding is massive and immersive, but not overwhelming. I loved how fae are incorporated and all the backstory with fae creating shifters to be battle beasts.

The chemistry and romance between Zander and Rae was so sweet. The pacing was wonderful. It built up steadily and the payoff was great.

There are sooo many subplots in this book and that makes for a really exciting read. There is the bar fight, the boat chase, the broken sword of the guardian, Rae wondering who her biological family is, the clan leaders not accepting Rae as guardian, and really a TON more subplots that I just don’t even have time to get into. Including so many plot threads can sometimes sacrifice the quality of the plot or the depth of the characters, but that was not the case here. Rae has a solid arc, coming into her own as guardian.

Aside from Zander, I’d say my favorite character was Piotr. Just the way he loved to fight so much and anytime there was chaos, he was popping his head up like a gopher, ‘oh hey, a brawl, can I get in on that?’ XD I just loved him. The way he cheerfully shouts “fellows” before jumping into a bar fight and starts fighting multiple guys at once.

Also loved the intense scenes of them trying to navigate that smog-filled area of shipwrecks.

All in all, a really exciting book with a great fully-realized world and even better characters. I was so happy to see Zander and Rae realize their feelings for each other.

I read the bulk of this book on the beach while I was on my honeymoon, so it will always have a sentimental place in my heart ❤

The only thing about the book that sort of bugged me was how everyone kept calling Zander ‘crazy’ and he has this whole reputation of being ‘the crazy polar bear healer’ but like…he never does anything crazy. Listen I don’t want to be too over-sensitive and I’m not outraged or anything, just um…could we not? Could we please not insult people by acting like they have mental health issues when they don’t? It makes me highly uncomfortable.

Other than that, I absolutely loved this book and I’ve already bought two more books in Ashley’s Shifters Unbound series.

I’m new to the shifter subgenre, but I think Jennifer Ashley’s shifter world was a great one to start with.

She’s a truly talented writer and I love the intense and magical world she’s created.

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Published on July 14, 2021 17:33

WWW Weds: Yaoi, Mental Health Reform Non-Fiction, and the Launch of Kindle Vella!

A weekly meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words.

What Did I Recently Finish Reading?So, it was requested that I talk about consent in gay romance. I read this book. It was rapey. I hated it. I called it out. Mission complete.

This Amish Romance was super cute and the characters and plot are surprisingly complex for a genre that is usually so fluffy. There wasn’t great immersion into the Amish setting though. I don’t read Amish Romance to watch people go out for pizza or make trips to Wal-Mart. I’m sure this is realistic for modern Amish people, but I don’t read Amish Romance for the realism. I read it for the immersion into the wholesome Christian setting devoid of modern conveniences. If you can just up and drive to Wal-Mart whenever…why not just write a regular contemporary romance?

I also finished my reread of Things Fall Apart. It’s an interesting post-colonial novel as always. I’ll never cease to be astounded that academics try to turn the book into some kind of feminist statement. How many women are beaten and brutalized in this book? And that’s fine-that’s the story-that’s the realism of the Igbo tribe. Not everything has to be feminist to have merit, and Achebe including attributes of a tribe that are historically and culturally accurate does not mean he condones those actions. What Am I Currently Reading?

I’m about to finish this book. I’m only 30 pages from the end, so I’ll probably finish it tonight. It’s such an exciting read, but in addition to all the action, the boat chase, bar fight, and chasing down feral shifters, there’s also an incredibly sweet romance. Zander is great and I about died when they both scented each other with a mate claim ❤

I have the paperback of this book, but I’ve been reading it on the Galatea app (mostly because I want to test out the Galtea app). This is a fun paranormal romance. Right now Paige is really distrustful of Davin, and I don’t blame her. I’d probably be very suss of a guy if I was dream-fucking him for years and then suddenly shows up irl and is like “Hey, I’m a demon and I feed off dream sex.”

There is so much good information in this book. Anyone interested in mental health reform should check it out. There’s a lot of great info about how drug trials are structured and the problems in how they’re conducted. I learned a few new things about financial ties between pharma and the FDA, and about how the results of drugs trials are either suppressed or misrepresented.

What Will I Read Next?

I’m going to attempt to read this book again. I tried last year and gave up, because Sanderson’s worldbuilding is on a whole level that I just can’t handle…but I’ll try it again.

I preordered this book and it’s scheduled to release tomorrow! I already know it’s great, because I was given the chance to beat read the first few chapters.

And lastly, I plan to read a bunch of serials on kindle Vella! Vella launched yesterday and my book Feels Bad, Man is up there. My story Desire and Destruction is currently under review to be added to Vella. I’m in a Vella discord where everyone is checking out each others stories and being generally supportive, so I plan to read a bunch of the serials of the other authors.

That’s it for me! Have you read any of these books? Are you planning to check out Kindle Vella? Let me know in the comments 🙂

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Published on July 14, 2021 08:18

July 13, 2021

Kindle Vella is LIVE!

And you can read my story Feels Bad, Man there. First three chapters are free.

It is a story that highlights the problems in the mental health field, and what it’s like to be trapped in such a callous and hurtful system.

None of the 4chanisms come from me. I’m not cool enough for that. I have sources who help my 32-year-old wine aunt self with the edgy internet stuffs.

Right now, it’s only available in the U.S. And some people seem to be having buggy issues with their stories. But since today is the first date it’s live, let’s give amazon a little time and hopefully they work it out.

Nothing on my author dashboard yet related to Vella.

I’ll keep everyone up to date as I continue this serialization experiment.

Are you giving Kindle Vella a try?

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Published on July 13, 2021 10:50

Radical Liberals ‘Critical Race Theory’ Does Not Know What To Do With Asian-Americans – 13 July 2021 — xenagoguevicene


One of today’s most vexing federal lawsuits is Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which has brought anti-Asian discrimination to the forefront of our discourse. Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) contends that Harvard’s “race-conscious” admissions process violates the Constitution by disadvantaging Asian American applicants based solely upon their race, while Harvard argues that campus diversity goals […]


Radical Liberals ‘Critical Race Theory’ Does Not Know What To Do With Asian-Americans – 13 July 2021 — xenagoguevicene
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Published on July 13, 2021 05:42

July 12, 2021

Amish Romance with…Refrigerators and Pizza?

A Picture of Love by Beth Wiseman is definitely a different sort of Amish Romance. While I loved so many things about this book, there was one element that was just not there: the immersion in the Amish setting.

A big appeal of Amish Romance is the immersion into a wholesome agricultural Christian community, much like the appeal of fantasy is the immersion into a lush and magical world. So Beth Wiseman is…erm…really doing things differently out here.

Her characters use a refrigerator. And okay, I HAD to go and look this up, because it was driving me crazy, but I guess most Amish people today do use gas-powered refrigerators still kills the immersion for me a bit. I’d say an Amish Romance like the Rebekah’s Keepsake series, which is set in the 1800s, does a little better job of immersion.

But the Amish people in this book ride in cars, go to Wal-Mart, go out for pizza, have flashlights and battery-powered lights in the house. We never see any of them farming. The setting of the Amish community is barely described. As far as Amish setting, this book didn’t do it for me. At all.

There is an air of realism in this story that we often don’t see in Amish Romance, and while the characters were great, I think Wiseman could have written her wonderful three-dimensional characters without sacrificing the wholesome Hallmark energy we usually have in Amish Romance. Between Gus failing to make amends with his estranged daughter and Thomas literally trying to feel up Naomi in the barn, we just never get the wholesome Hallmark energy that I’m craving when I pick up an Amish Romance.

That being said, there is a ton to like about this book. As I said, the characters are wonderful. Unfortunately, the two leads, Naomi and Amos are the most boring of the characters. By the second act of the book, I was seriously shipping Gus and Esther; both of them are far more interesting than Naomi and Amos. Don’t get me wrong, the freindship and eventual love between Naomi and Amos was cute. It was just…meh. We see that Wiseman is skilled at writing compelling characters, yet she plays it very safe with her two leads.

My other character complaint would be the blonde who shows up just to insult Naomi and flirt with Amos. Like, really? We need the girl-on-girl hate in every fucking romance novel? Even Amish Romance? Criminey, we all need to stop fighting over men. If you need to fight a bitch for your dude, let him go. Who needs him. Romance novels really need to stop writing in these slutty characters who throw themselves at the male lead. It’s pretty gross and misogynistic and, even if you don’t agree with me on that, it’s a tired trope.

But that’s really all I have to gripe about with this book. There was far more depth to it than your usual Amish Romance. Every character has a compelling arc. I especially loved Gus’ arc. I liked seeing him bond with Esther and show his soft side to her. Lizzie was hilarious. Her energy had me rolling throughout the book. I hope I’m as sassy as Lizzie when I’m old.

And the book ends with Amos and Naomi expecting a baby and painting together every evening. Soooo cute!!! My heart!

This wasn’t the typical Amish Romance, and it’s not perfect, but I still absolutely loved it, and will likely read more of Wiseman’s amish fiction.

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Published on July 12, 2021 18:31

Mid-Year Bookish Wrap-Up

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Okay! It’s the middle of the year! I’ve seen the Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag making it’s way through the book blogging community. I decided to just do my own version of this. I’m not really feeling like half the questions. So I’m just making up my own thing, but of course, I’ve taken inspiration from the original tag.

Let’s start with my blog stats!

I haven’t quite beaten last year’s stats, but I’m pretty close.

My most popular post this year has been my post about r/redpillwomen. My interview with artist chiskeykku also performed really well. Most of that traffic came from the artist himself pushing the interview on facebook. My interview with a gentle dominatrix consistently gets traffic straight from search engines. That’s pretty cool. Then there are a couple of posts from last year that continued to perform well, but I deleted them because I decided I didn’t want them on my blog anymore.

And that absolute rant at the bottom continues to get views. ‘Random Noise on the Internet’ was written after the absolute sweetheart that is L.E.Kimball, a traditionally published literary writer and adjunct professor, decided to call me “self-absorbed” and tell me I was “wallowing” on a post where I wrote about being raped by my high school boyfriend.

That was her response to me talking about being raped. To call me self-absorbed.

But I mean, she’s just an all-around asshole. Here is some whole ass TERFery that she posted on purpose on her blog.

Look, you act like an asshole on the internet, other people get to comment on it. I’m commenting on it and I’m not sorry.

But yeah, her posting vile comments all over my blog, because for whatever reason a fellow woman processing her rape via the written word was so odious to her, led to a good deal of traffic. Lemons into lemonade.

Controversy leads to views. Her nasty comments left me a little shook, but at the end of the day, more traffic is always a good thing.

My blog does pretty good SEO wise. I’m including this about her, because I want this post to pop up in search engines when people google her. Although I guess just finding her own gross opinions is damning enough…

Again, act like an asshole, people are gonna comment on it. I am not at all sorry for bringing this up again. There are consequences to behavior. Plus, it was part of my blogging year *shrugs* It affected my traffic and my emotional state, so I’m gonna write about it.

But yeah, I suppose other than that, I haven’t had too many issues on wordpress this year. I’ve made a couple more blogging friends and got a brand new logo and color scheme put together by the amazing Pixie Stormcrow.

Now, let’s look at my goodreads stats!

I’m already doing awesome. I only read 33 books total in 2020. It’s only halfway through the year and I already almost beat that. I did include a couple of DNFs in my books “read” and I don’t feel super bad about it. If I read enough of the book to review it, I count that. Plus all the books I read on wattpad, Inkitt, and furaffinity don’t make it into my books read, since they don’t have goodreads pages. I think it all evens out in the end.

So…almost everything I read was romance or smut. A couple of academic works, classics, and fantasies thrown in here and there, but mainly romance/erotica for 2021.

Best Book of the Year

I highly recommend ‘Crazy Like Us’ to anyone who is critical of psychiatry and wants to learn more about the conflicts of interest between pharmaceutical companies and doctors, as well as the global influence of the DSM. It’s incredibly informative, and unlike a lot of non-fiction, is not dry at all. It’s full of stories about real human beings, making it a gripping and heart-wrenching read, despite the bulk of information included.

Worst Book of the Year

This book was so problematic. This is some real good-pussy-solves-bigotry other shit. The alien warrior is incredibly racist against humans. The humans even live in racial ghettos in his city. But then he fucks a hot human, so…racism solved??

Gross.

Most Anticipated 2021 Book

I don’t usually keep up with book releases and when they’re coming out, but since I had the opportunity to beta read this one, I’m pretty stoked for the release.

This is a unique twist on the mafia romance subgenre. It’s set in Hong Kong. The author herself comes from Hong Kong and has visited several times since moving to North America. She included so many interesting details about Hong Kong and in addition to the steaminess and cuteness of the book, there is also an incredible immersion into the culture and vibe of Hong Kong.

I preordered my copy! It drops July 15th!

And now for my Projects!

This year I…

*Launched the second edition of my most well-known work Combustion.

With the launch of the second edition, I actually did some legit marketing. I had a social media kit that some of my writer friends used to blast me on insta and their other socials. I also did a blog tour through Silver Dagger. I got to write a few guest posts and that was fun.

I’ve gotten a bunch more reviews and while sales haven’t risen drastically, I’m happy with the results.

Also with the new revised and expanded book on the market, I decided not to extend my KU contract. I took the book out of Kindle Unlimited, so that I could put the unedited first edition back up on wattpad. Readers now have the choice to read the first edition for free or buy a physical or ebook copy of the second edition.

*I launched the first two books in a 5 ebook series of Monster Girl smuts

I didn’t market a ton, but I did do a Kindle Countdown deal and booked slots in the bookspry newsletter. I also gave away arcs on booksprout. So far, this smut experiment has been a success. I’m not making huge bank, but I am making money consistently with both books. It’s cool. I can buy a small trip of groceries with the money I’m getting from the horny people of amazon 😀

*I collaborated on a furry smut with Nik of Nikitty Studios to help promote the VN game he’s currently working on. You can check it out here.

*I taught a course on plotting in a Kindle Vella discord server

*I worked with other writers to get webinars/classes taught in my discord server

*I started a new youtube channel. Because all of my youtube subscribers were from the weird moment I had where I collaborated with manosphere humans. It’s not like I’m hiding the fact that I have a new channel. But I also don’t think any of them give enough fucks about me to notice. And now I only have other writers and readers following me, not a bunch of guys being all “women bad” in my fucking comments section (Dear God, everyone please forgive me for what an absolute tool I was for all of 2019/2020-I know nobody is going to completely forget about that moment, but as I said before, you act like an asshole on the internet….*shrugs* All I can do is try to be a tad less obnoxious moving forward.

Anyway, here’s the video on my new channel that I’m most proud of:

I’m trying to become involved in mental health reform activism. I’ve applied with several human rights organizations centered around lobbying to end the conflicts of interest between pharma and the DSM/APA/doctors and medical institutions in general. Just waiting back on those applications. In the meantime, before I’m in with a legit organization, I’ll keep trying to spread awareness on my own.

*I enrolled my story ‘Feels Bad, Man’ in Kindle Vella….and Vella is set to launch later this week! I’m excited and I will keep you all posted

Upcoming Projects I’ll be working on for the Second Half of 2021

*I’m working with another writer on an article about the problems in the mental health field. We hope to submit it to some online publications once it’s complete.

*I’m working on a romance and erotica anthology with several other indie writers. Deadlines for the stories is August, so I’ll be sprinting with another of the writers tomorrow. Tentative launch date for the anthology is December. I believe the anthology will be published just before the end of 2021.

*I’m working with a committee of people from my discord server to plan a digital book convention. We hope to put together some panels and guest speakers. Tentative date for the con is the beginning of Sept, but that could change as we don’t have our keynote speaker yet.

Speaking of that con, we are hoping to get more feedback from potential guests, and anybody in the bookish community will be welcome to attend. If you want to give some input into what topics/panels/speakers you’d like to see at a digital con, I have a short survey you can fill out here.https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8Jd1hN-NI6YHkKsEFDhSojuVEFo-FHgDzVp8P8H0LsAiO3Q/viewform?usp=sf_link

*I’ll be continuing to revise and edit ‘Desire and Destruction’ as I hope to self-pub it before the end of 2021.

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And…that’s it! That’s been 2021 so far! 30 books read, a new youtube channel, lots of traffic to this blog, and tons of community events in the works.

What’s your 2021 been like so far? Please let me know in the comments!

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Published on July 12, 2021 07:06

July 9, 2021

So, I Read My First Yaoi Novel and It Was Actually Rapey-er Than all the Terrible Hetero Romance I Read

I read this book because I’m a book blogger who is highly critical of the romance genre and the way rape is often fetishized and excused in the romance genre. Seriously, if you want to talk about “rape culture” the romance genre is a good place to start. Considering the vast amount of women who have rape fantasies, and the very weird way feminists like to play up their physical vulnerability to men constantly, I actually think crying about rape culture is literally a way for women to titillate themselves.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19085605/

I believe women are aroused by their own vulnerability to rape, and that is why women like to scream and cry that if a man approaches them to flirt in broad daylight and is perfectly polite, this is somehow super duper scary.
Anyway, this is my thing I carry on about constantly. I believe women are mostly to blame for rape culture, because it makes women wet, and I know that sounds awful, but if it’s true it’s true. I sure as hell wish it wasn’t, yet here we are.
I was asked by a reader of my blog to talk about consent in gay romance too.

I agreed and happened to stumble upon this yaoi novel in a used bookstore.

This book has all the same weird, rapey problems that hetero romance does.

There is a clear lack of consent, yet the guy saying “no” secretly likes it in his head. So…guess everything is fine then???


How is something like that not supposed to confuse people on what is and isn’t consent. If a guy is saying “no” or “stop” (as Tsukasa does in EVERY fucking sex scene with Takeshima) then you stop fucking him. That’s pretty simple, right? Person says no, you stop doing whatever in the hell you’re doing to them.

Look at this fucking review. Literally my proof that romanticizing rape fucks up peoples’ ideas of consent.

But this book, like a TON of hetero romance, makes the “no” an element of the erotic. Not only that but Tsukasa’s small size is emphasized constantly. Since yaoi is known to appeal to women, this brings me back to the theory I expressed earlier: women are aroused by their own vulnerability to rape. They probably don’t want to actually be raped. But knowing they are small and vulnerable to it turns them on. That’s why feminists talk about it constantly. I believe since this genre is known to appeal to women, the author emphasized the small size of Tsukasa, and in many other ways, infused the feminine psyche onto him. This is a gay romance, but there’s little here to distinguish it from a hetero romance. Tsukasa plays the role of the emotionally-damaged-but-trying-to-play-it-cool main character that we see in most MF romance.

The absolute most disgusting part of this book for me, was the scene where Tsukasa is nearly raped by his ex-boyfriend. Takeshima happens upon them and saves Tsukasa, which, okay I don’t love how sexual assault and being saved from sexual assault are eroticized so often in the romance genre, but whatever, we love a knight in shining armor. Is Takeshima knight in shining armor though?

Well he does save Tsukasa from being raped and threaten his potential rapist. But then he after the attacker leaves, he says to Tsukasa, “Why didn’t you fight him off?” and “If I hadn’t come along, would you have just let him have his way with you?” but it gets better, he also screams “Damn you! Who else are you sleeping with? How many people at Dai Tech are you fucking?”

So…I have a lot of feelings about this.

Look I have my own experience with the r-word, which I think I’ve trauma dumped all over the internet enough these past few months, so probably I won’t get into it. I’ll just say my own experience is the reason I get so pissy over the way rape is eroticized by women, both blatantly in the romance genre and insidiously in fainting couch feminist discourse. It’s also why this scene, where a man is almost raped and then the man he loves yells at him and blames him and acts like he wanted it because he didn’t fight harder, it made me absolutely sick to my stomach. The main character did not react realistically or appropriately at all to being so abused by Takeshima.

I can’t imagine how that would feel, this event that I lived through when I was 18, if on top of that, someone I admired and cared about walked in on it, yelled at me for not fighting him off, implied I wanted it for not fighting harder, demanded to know my body count, and expressed a general anger and disgust at me.

How could anyone write something like this and call it romance?

And the scene isn’t even over there.

“Answer me, you slut.”

Takeshima screams this at a man who was nearly raped only moments earlier.

This is love? This is romance?

No, this is sick.

And this author should be entirely, absolutely ashamed.

And I don’t want to hear fuck all about “respectability politics.” It’s a nonsense phrase used to sheild LGBT+ people from criticism.

If I would criticize a hetero person for doing something (and I have many times on this topic) then I will do the same for LGBT+ people. And that applies to works of fiction too. I will criticize LGBT+ works using the same criteria I use for hetero fiction.

That being said, from everything my LGBT+ friends have told me about MM romance, there’s a good chance this was written by a cis hetero woman. Idk anything about this author. I just know that’s a massive phenomena in MM romance, according to many of my LGBT+ pals. So even if a gay dude wrote this, he was still likely influenced by the sexuality of cis hetero women, as they create many of the tropes and standards for MM romance.

That being said, influence or not, this was a fucked up thing to write. Stories like this romanticize dubious consent and I am incredibly bothered by it.

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Published on July 09, 2021 18:53

Vella is Coming!

Kindle Vella is launching in the next few days! They haven’t given an official date. Amazon has only said it will be sometime within the next week. But…I can tell you this, as I uploaded the last few episodes that I needed to get to the minimum amount for launch (you need 10 episodes minimum to launch a series)I had two options. I could either “publish immediately”-which really means it goes into the que and waits until the mysterious launch date-OR I could schedule for later, with the first ‘later’ date being July 13th. ie I believe the launch date will be July 13th. This schedule later option wasn’t there when I uploaded the other episodes last week.

Now, for those who don’t know, Kindle Vella is a serial option that will soon be offered through Amazon. There has been some mixed reception among authors, and as with everything in the indie writing world, of course I have my own opinions.

My serial is a rewrite of my most controversial work ‘Incel.’ Which there is still evidence of all over the internet, so I’m done trying to bury it. Okay, fine, I’m not that big a deal, it’s just more talked about than anything else I ever wrote. Damn was it easy to get attention with that book. Well I trashed the entire premise of that book. It is now called ‘Feels Bad, Man’, and yes, my 4channer husband did come up with the title. The book is no longer about “the dread and loneliness of the male experience” or whatever other weird shit I was on about for basically all of 2019 and 2020. Now the book is about the experience of the financially dependent psych patient. It’s about being a young adult financially dependent on abusive family and pressured into psych treatment.

I really want to use fiction as a way to shed light on the problems with mental health treatment and psych drugs.

It’s really different from the original manuscript, but I like the main character Adam too much to just scrap it and start a whole new book. My sad little ginger weeb metalhead ❤ Different enough from me that i have to use my imagination, but similar enough that I connect to him.

Anyway, lots of buzz about Vella and I’ve had my own excitement and frustrations as I prep my story for the Vella launch.

I’ll cover it all in a livestream tomorrow at 4pm EST.

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Published on July 09, 2021 15:42

July 5, 2021

Book Tour and Giveaway: Whisper of Darkness

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 by Kristen Braddock 

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Cara Winters is cursed.

Loss has haunted her through life. A fun night out with her sister ends in disaster when she learns she’s a banshee. With a chance encounter and life debt owed, she’s coerced into a deadly competition in the far realm. To survive she finds an unlikely ally in Killian, a mysterious and prickly dark fae. 

The only way to win and get back to Earth is using her powers, but doing so may unravel her to the point of no return.

Perfect for fans of fated mates, enemies to lovers, complicated & diverse characters, slow burn romance, and celtic folklore. Suggested for ages 15+ due to some language and violence.


**From June 7-21, 100% of my profits will go to Foundations of Divergent Minds (instead of the usual 10%), a nonprofit founded and run by autistic people for disability justice!** 

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57968666-whisper-of-darkness

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08W34YC8Q

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Characters and their worlds have inundated Kristen’s mind since she was a kid. Traveling to far off places and having words on a piece of paper transform into entire scenes pulling at her emotions is an obsession.

Her goal as a fantasy author isn’t solely to relish in her imagination, but to bring representation to this genre. She wants stories with characters who are diverse inside and out. Their differences are not the focal point of the story, but rather a natural part of their being. Due to this, you will often not only find characters of varying ethnicities, but of the LGBTQ+ community, who battle diseases, are neuroatypical, and plenty of other areas that make us all so different from each other. These are not their defining qualities. It’s simply a part of who they are. To further support these communities, Kristen donates 10% of her profits to various organizations.

When Kristen isn’t cooped up on her computer or curled up with a book, she is often outdoors– hiking, snorkeling, diving, camping, etc. 

Currently, she resides in California with her husband and fur babies (two dogs and a cat).  

Author Links

Website: https://www.kristenbraddock.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Kristen-Braddock-Books-533014020945418 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kristenbraddock

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenbraddockauthor

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Kristen-Braddock/e/B08VN382MC

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21200091.Kristen_Braddock 

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GIVEAWAY

Signed paperback + Swag Pack (1 winner, US only), 

$15 Amazon giftcard (1 winner, WW),

ebook of Whisper of Darkness (5 winners, WW)

Follow the tour HERE for special content and a giveaway!

https://www.silverdaggertours.com/sdsxx-tours/whisper-of-darkness-book-tour-and-giveaway

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Published on July 05, 2021 13:04