Tag: Theme: Writing
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How Much I, A Queer Self-Published Indie Author, Made In A Year
My end of year report, looking at earnings, expenses, and achievements this year. My name is Johannes T. Evans, and for those unfamiliar with me, I am a self-published author of queer fiction, especially fantasy, romance, horror, and erotica. I live in Yorkshire in the UK, and I have been a full-time author since 2021 after…
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New Works, Releases, & the Flamingos Coffee House Event
Hello hello! In order below, we’ve got an announcement for a new publication from A Coup of Owls; a charity drive for the Black Trans Travel Fund; Monstrous May and a new work published; some chatter about TV and film this week; and finally, a write-up of the Flamingos Open Mic earlier this week and…
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Using Epithets Effectively in One’s Writing
Putting alternatives for a character’s name to good use. Photo on picjumbo.com via Pexels. For the use of epithets, where you’re using something other than a name to refer to the character — the other man, the blond, her elder, the policeman, etc — it’s good to think about WHY you want that epithet. Why would you use an epithet instead…
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A Queer Indie Author’s Experience of 2024
Looking back on my top stories, sales stats, and best experiences of the year past, and looking to the year ahead! A screenshot from Kindle Direct Publishing, showing my orders processed on Amazon in 2024–1548. Hello hello! I’ve just been in the process of attending to my yearly tradition, ordinarily attended to in the last days…
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The Joy of Trans Creation
On the liberty of making unapologetically transgender art. Originally published in Prism & Pen. For me as a child, there was no real transgender representation around me. Transfeminine characters were exciting when I saw them, even though they were frequently the butt of jokes, highly sexualised, or the targets of violence from the narratives they…
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Woe, Boypussy Be Upon Ye: Transing Characters in Fanfic & Fanart
What’s the deal with envisioning your blorbos as transgender? Originally published in Prism & Pen. It’s been unbelievably positive for me as a trans dude, the change in approach to trans characters in fandom and subsequently in media in general, and I just wanted to write a bit about my experiences with the cultural shift…
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Close Reading: A Deep Dive into the Process
An in-depth guide into applying analysis to a piece of text and extrapolating meaning. A close reading is what we call an in-depth analysis of a piece of text, which might be in the case of fiction a short story, or for novels and novellas might be a portion or an extract from the text.…
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Writing Advice: Crafting Richer Erotica
Adding depth and complexity to your sex scenes. From my Tumblr! Photo by Ketut Subiyanto via Pexels. Anonymous asked: Your smut is always so good, I hope it’s okay to ask for advice, but I’ve been struggling with writing smut in that my sex scenes always end up so short — I don’t want to just pad them out…