Articles & Updates
Writing Career Changes for Q4 2023 and the New Year
Well, it's been a few weeks, which means it's that time again: time to announce that I've once again changed my mind about the direction I'm heading...
Okay, Maybe I’m Selling Out Just a Little
Remember my very first post on this blog, about how I Gave Up Trying to Make It as a Writer? The one I only wrote seven months ago? I've tried to...
5 Excellent Upmarket Novels with Dark Erotic & Romantic Elements
I was going to make this a list of my favorite dark erotic fiction and/or dark romance novels, but as I perused my Favorites shelf on Goodreads, I...
Defining Genres: Literary, Upmarket, and Commercial Fiction
I write upmarket fiction and prefer to read it as well, but it's very much "genre" upmarket fiction. But what distinguishes upmarket fiction from...
The Frustration of Having Unpopular Kinks (AKA Female Harems)
What's funny (read: endlessly frustrating) is that I think my fiction could be very popular if it weren't for one stupid fixation. I find virile,...
To the Writers of Non-Commercial Fiction
The author P.J. Fox has taken up a good amount of space in my brain lately. I don't even remember how I got to thinking about her so intensely...
Writing Update: I’ve Crawled Out of the Slump!
After a good week or two of being in a slump, I think I've escaped it. Thank God. I think I'm luckier than most in that I rarely lose my passion for...
Why I Write Dark Erotic Fiction
On the surface, I write for the same reason many, if not most, authors write: to create the stories I want to read. But why dark erotic fiction? Why...
Writing Update: On Losing the Motivation to Write
Have you ever struggled with feeling completely unmotivated to write? Not so much butt-in-chair day-to-day motivation, but that bigger motivation...