vulgarweed: (Default)
So I'm very excited to announce that my (Evadare's) flash fic "Synchron" has been accepted for New Smut Project's upcoming Erato anthology of erotic short shorts!

The book is scheduled to come out in October - more info soon. "Synchron" features a nonbinary character, a narrator whose gender is never specified, and a machine for sonic sex magick.

AND...another anthology I'd thought long stalled-out is going forward after all, and it's going to include a story of mine that was accepted years ago. More details to come. This one is F/F, and it's an occult adventure in the Weird Tales pulp tradition.
vulgarweed: (damned_by_cinnamonblood)
Well, it's official, I received the acceptance notice a couple week sago and I sent off the contract today! The Art of the Blood WILL be in Carnation's upcoming queer ACD-style Sherlock Holmes anthology. (This is a different book from the ACD H/W novel I've pitched - this is a multi-author short story collection.) I've been running around gleefully in circles once in a while ever since. I can't wait to read the other stories.

This isn't gonna make me rich anyway, but I've decided that since it was a charity auction fic, for Fandom Loves Puerto Rico, if I wind up making any royalties I'll donate them to the same cause. Don't feel right profiting from it for anything other than my ego.

IN OTHER NEWS went out to Rockford this weekend so, as is only fitting, [personal profile] quantum_witch and I could watch the Good Omens miniseries together. We were both absolutely ecstatically over the moon with it - it's better than anything we hoped for. To celebrate, we're finally taking the stories from our old locked LJ comm, switchythings, that never made it to AO3 before, and sprucing them up and posting them.

I never dreamed that we would get a TV adaptation that was as faithful to the book as it was, and so true to the spirit of the thing in the material it added. I never considered myself to have left the fandom at all, never will, but I had backburnered it. It's screaming for my attention now.
vulgarweed: (patient-by-kcscribbler)
Well, the novel pitch I made to Carnation got a big green light. (In the words of one of the editors: "please pour this story directly into my eyes.")

SO it looks like The Adventure of the American Cousin is going to happen! Bitter twice-widowed Hiatus!Watson is going to Chicago, because not-really-dead-yet!Holmes has gotten in over his big dumb head. The titular American Cousin is a serial killer and necromancer. Honestly the idea of a confrontation between Sherlock Holmes and H.H. Holmes seems so bloody obvious I really can't believe that no one else has written it - has no one really done that yet? HOW?!? Oh well, my version is going to have magic and steampunk tech, and SH and JW are totally gonna bang in the Murder Hotel.

There's just one little problem.

I CAN'T WRITE ANYMORE.

OK, this is probably an exaggeration. But it doesn't feel like one. I have so many stalled-out WIPS - stories I need to write, stories I want to write, stories that are promised - and yet here I sit, staring into the abyss. And the abyss stares back into me and says, "you used to be pretty good at this but you suck now."
vulgarweed: (dont-stop-trying-by-kcscribbler)
(I'm trying to get better about using this regularly.)

First off: GIFTFIC!!! The spectacular [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi wrote me this AMAZING thing for Dick or Treat (best fest name ever):

Soft-Boiled. Witty and absolutely RAUNCHY - Holmes/Watson/Raffles/Bunny in the Turkish baths. "He's a naughty little Bunny." Extra points for use of dubiously-acquired jewelry!



Second: I have just made a novella pitch to Carnation Books. It'll be ACD-flavoured Holmes/Watson, 19th century, with steampunk and magic-realism and cosmic-horror elements. ACD H/W doesn't need to be scrubbed for publication, because public domain means never having to say you're sorry.

Pitch for The Aventure of the American Cousin )
vulgarweed: (cockcoin_by_slasheater)
https://books.pronoun.com/journey-to-the-center-of-desire/

The latest Circlet Press anthology: our steamy tales based on the works of Jules Verne, and one of them by yours truly (as [personal profile] evadare_volney). $3.99 ebook from your fave retailers at the link.

Mine is based on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Established-relationship (kinky) Aronnax/Conseil, and a bargain struck with the passionate, insightful, and devious Captain Nemo which totally doesn't involve a steampunk tentacle fucking machine, oh wait yes it does..

All the other stories are incredibly good. Please consider a review at Amazon or Goodreads or whatnot if you read it and enjoy it.
vulgarweed: (rain_by_aurora_starwing)
Here!! (Links to Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and Kobo)

SEPTEMBER 21!!

From the intro:

"Erotic stories in the worlds of Jules Verne. Verne's books feature daring, intelligent men facing danger and overcoming obstacles in the name of scientific discovery. Journey to the Center of Desire tells the stories of people who love the adventurers: the ones left behind, or carried helplessly along, or are otherwise affected by these harebrained schemes.

In "Lunacy" by Jean Roberta, based on From the Earth to the Moon, two brave and daring women struggling in a man's world come up with a brilliant--and ridiculous--idea to win their freedom and future life together. Luckily for them, great men can still be made into fools by beautiful women with a plan. In Annabeth Leong's "Journey to the Disappearing Sea," Axel, from Journey to the Center of the Earth, is forced to realize that his precious porcelain doll of a fiancée has her own hopes and dreams and strengths and they will not be hidden any more. In Corey Reid's "The Unresolved Wager," (based on Around the World in Eighty Days) Phileas Fogg's friends Aouda and Passepartout make a bet to see who can teach the man they both love that living well requires paying attention to your friends... and having lots of orgasms. In "Poulp Friction" by Evadare Volney, we learn how deep the friendship between M. Aronnax and his loyal Conseil (of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea) actually is, and that Captain Nemo's rebellious nature and technological acumen extended to much more personal matters than we were led to believe.

Includes:
Lunacy by Jean Roberta
Journey to the Disappearing Sea by Annabeth Leong
The Unresolved Wager by Corey Reid
Poulp Friction by Evadare Volney

([personal profile] evadare_volney is my professional-smut otherself.)
vulgarweed: (come_by_jackshoegazer)
No, not that kind of submission!

You probably don't remember that over a year ago, I made this post about my alter ego [livejournal.com profile] evadare_volney submitting a story to Circlet Press for their forthcoming anthology Journey to the Centre of Desire: Erotic Retellings of Jules Verne.

My description of the story at the time: "It’s Aronnax/Conseil/Nemo. There is D/s power-jockeying and a steampunk tentacle fucking machine involved. And yes, it’s called “Poulp Friction” and I’m not even sorry *dodges rotten molluscs.*"


I admit, I'd come close to giving up. But patience pays off! I heard back at last, and they want it!

Details forthcoming about release dates and all that, as soon as I have them. Patience, patience. You can't push the river.

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