purplerabbit

Three years ago I sold my online book store to give myself time and space to write full time. This was a decision I made with full support of my family.

It was rough going at first, but then I tried something new. I had been complaining to a friend about the lack of poly stories in fiction and she linked me to some fan fiction with poly themes. I had read and written fan fiction when I was a teenager but hadn't since its move to online. I discovered some surprisingly well written and interesting stories. And then I became inspired to write some. Since then, I have actually written and published over a dozen novels and just as many short stories on my online fan fiction journal. And they are very popular. One of my novels has had more than 30,000 readers. My fiction journal gets at least 500 hits a day from all over the world. The stories are read from every continent (except Antarctica). With co-authors I met through fan fiction, we have published over a million and half words of fiction, and written at least twice that.

I have, until now, kept that online identity separate from this one. But things are about to change. Three months ago, the publisher of Circlet Press contacted me. I know Cecilia Tan through both friends and fan circles. She and I met face to face the summer before last. She is the founder and publisher of the first erotic science fiction and fantasy book company. They have, until now, published short story collections. Now, Circlet Press will be moving into novels via ebooks. In September, she wrote inviting me to submit one. I had at least a dozen ideas for novels that would fit the description and sent her the list. She picked out a couple favourites and then my co-authors and I set to work. It took us a month to write the first draft. Then we set it aside for a month, which is something we usually do with them. In November we rewrote it. This week we submitted the 100,000 word novel to her and she has mailed us the contract for the book. There will probably be another round of rewrites before it is done.

Faewolf by D.M. Atkins and Chris Taylor will most likely be published this Spring. It will be an ebook available through Circlet Press, Amazon and other places. Like most of the fiction I have published online, Faewolf is explicit erotic queer fantasy. It is the story of Saoi, a Faewolf - a magical wolf who can shape shift into human form. Living as a human so he can attend college, Saoi falls in love with a young man named Kiya. Faewolf is a story of desire, love and adventure while these two characters struggle to find each other and to survive the perils facing them.

I hope this will be the first of many original new books I complete. My co-author and I have other stories planned both in this series and with other characters. I will keep folks posted on the progress of the book and more.