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RE: Unfinished Projects:

Several years back, I started writing a story about a beautiful young transgirl who moves in with her wealthy "uncle" while attending art school. At first they get along fine, but then he begins demanding unusual "favors" in return for food and board:

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Kind of Ironic...

As noted elsewhere, some of my fiction seems to generate a considerable degree of negative backlash. This is kind of ironic, since according to the stats, they're amongst the more popular of my stories (if views and kudos are anything to go by).

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For those in Utah

For those of you in Utah, I’ll be at my first in-person author event tomorrow at Davis County Pride. If you’re around, feel free to stop by my booth and say hi.

In the spirit of that, I’ve put the ebook for Fractured Rune on sale for $4.99 for a bit. No pressure, just thought I’d share.

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Full Moon Sneak Peak


 Harmonic Distortion

Something I'm working on sporadically. A little blurb about the book I've got sitting on the back burner:

Jason "Jace" McCormick has spent four years building something real — a band, a bus, a life that runs on music and loyalty and the quiet acceptance that punk and emo don't make stadium acts anymore. He's made peace with his ceiling. Mostly.
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A New Story Is Coming Soon… Help Me Pick the Cover

Hi everyone,

I have a new story coming soon, and before I post it, I need your help with something important.

The cover.

I’ve put together a few possible cover images, and now I’m stuck trying to choose the right one. Since you’re the ones who will hopefully be reading the story when it goes live, I thought it would be fun to let you guys help me decide.

For the moment, I’d love to know which cover catches your eye first, which one feels the most intriguing, or feels like the strongest first impression.

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New character concept for a novella part 1 - Taylor Harrington

 

my brain has been rotting with a story idea for a while now and its been difficult to sort of visualise one of the main leads but I think i've probably got it....

 

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Riftbound Flesh — Releasing Saturday

Hey,

I’ve got something new coming this Saturday, April 18.

Riftbound Flesh is a prequel set in the same universe as The Aeldstorm Saga. It sits at the beginning, the event that sets everything into motion.

This one leans more heavily into the science fiction side of the story.

It’ll be available first as a short early-access release on my site, before I open it up more broadly.

If you’ve read Fractured Rune, this builds toward some of what comes later. If you haven’t, it still stands on its own.

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New Shadowsblade is up.

I posted a new chapter over the weekend and I just had to add this little tid bit

I police shooting and weapon jam I described in my story, it really happens about 2 years back in Chicago, it was captured on 2 body cams and 2 cameras watching the street and my depiction of it is tamer than the "Keystone cops" real world version that happened....yes the female cop was that incompetent!

but have fun reading and PLEASE leave comments and questions as some of them make me thing and add to stories!

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Feeling depressed about a story…

I received an e-mail today and clicked the link—it was from BCTS. I started reading a story from the link and immediately felt depressed as the book’s plot is similar to one of mine.

I do not mean it’s a copy….just the concept that is the same and for that, I’m not sure I can complete my WIP..

Should I continue working on it?

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Surprise Offer 2 - Chapter 22 of 45

I’m sorry to report that there will be a one- or two-day delay in posting the new chapter of Surprise Offer. I’m away from home for work, and we’re taking the opportunity to do some last-minute editing. I’m hoping to have it posted tomorrow or Friday.

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Vanishing Tropes?

So...over the past few decades, TG fiction has gone through several distinct phases, and one of the most striking changes is the near‑disappearance of what I'll call the old "coercive discipline" trope — the strict guardian, the melodramatic punishment, the exaggerated authority figure who pushes a character toward transformation. In the 1990s and early 2000s, these elements were everywhere. They weren’t treated as realism; they were part of a larger tradition of heightened, symbolic storytelling.

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Allison Zero - Book Published - Confidence building

Hello everyone! It's been a while, although I've had a few emails from people, which were lovely. <3 to you.

I've had a tough year after my house move, which they say is one of the most stressful events in anyone's life. Especially settling into a new community, something that goes on forever. And I had a lot of difficulty settling down to write, and more importantly edit. Another issue with getting the books out is the finances of it. To have a proper author ecosystem behind me, including a publishing setup, I need to build my savings before I GO BIG with Amazon.

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Has anybody notice a new descriptive abbreviation for teen transgender fiction...

Has anyone notice a new descriptor being used on Amazon to describe transgender teen fiction books? TBDL/Coming of Age?
What does the TBDL stand for? I was just wondering. Google says it stands for Technology-Based Distributed Learning.

Just wondering why this acronym is appearing in a category targeting young teens.

charlie.

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Two new books in the works!

If you follow me on Bluesky (@ScaerieTale.itch.io) you already know about my current projects, but I know BigCloset is its own microcosm too. I wasn't going to announce anything yet because, at first, it was just one book I was working on. But I finished it and needed to occupy my time and creative energy with all the ideas that I didn't use in that book, so now, I'm writing a second one while the first one cools and awaits final editing. There's also been some family medical drama but I won't drag this down yapping about all that right now <3

When they're ready they'll both be available a chapter at a time here on TopShelf, or as an e-book for anyone who wants to skip ahead :)

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Ethan's World: The Music Soundtrack


Ethan’s World: The Musical Soundtrack

 

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So, in an alternate universe I would have been a film director… nah, maybe a producer. Or something, anything to do with movie-making. Not necessarily Hollywood, but you know what I mean. Maybe.

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My wife wanted to watch the Oscar’s this evening…….

And as I am wont to do, I sat with her splitting my attention between reading and watching. To be honest, I have little interest in most of the awards, the sophomoric comedy of Conan O’Brien, or the vast majority of the acceptance speeches. However, I was watching when they remembered those who had passed away in the last year - with special attention given to Rob and Michelle Reiner, Diane Keaton, and Robert Redford.

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Thank you

Hi everyone. Just wanted to say thank you and send kitten cuddles for the warm reception this prodigal kitten has received. It's been over 10 years since I've posted so most of the people here don't know me from Adam or Eve but everyone has been so nice and helpful.

A few of my friends and family were still here. Piper and Sephrena helped me so much and my big Cuz Heather Rose Brown made the ultimate sacrifice and edited my Kittenese into something postable and walked me through everything

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New Chapter of Gamma Girl FINALLY up!

So after three failed posting attempts and errors (MY STUPID FAULT), I was finally able to post a new chapter of Gamma Girl.

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/109947/guess-im-gamma...

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