I joke with the people who read my prose that writing my erotic literary fiction is like baking lasagna. The plot and characterization and style are the meat, pasta, and cheese; the naughty bits are all sauce; and then I go and ruin everything by sneaking philosophical discourse, literary discussion, and other nonsens...
These my offerings, tiny and fragile, they must take root in stubborn soil. Fertilize them. Give them shape. Twisted they may grow, but their trunks must be strong. They must reach through the night. They must be of their ground... Some of these poems were published in a chapbook, Eleusinian Mysteries, in 1995, under...
My husband found some of my old poetry in a box in the back room when we were decluttering our house. He asked me if I wanted to save it. As it turned out, I did. I wrote these in September and October of 2003, shortly after I'd discovered I was pregnant with our second child. It is now my autumn. I am not young; I b...
What happens when the healer of an oppressive, tiny village helps her younger brother learn magic, giving him a chance at living a decent life? Nothing good.
The Gilden Door and Arkesh are two fantasy novellas that I wrote for a friend of mine when I was a teenager. I was fifteen when I wrote The Gilden Door, seventeen when I wrote Arkesh. I found both manuscripts in a box of my old writings and was pleasantly shocked to find, upon reading them, that aside from a few gram...
This is a portfolio of art. Or graphics. Or aesthetics. Or something. I'm not sure what to call it. Viewer, if you choose to look at what I have created, I hope you call it beautiful.
Exactly what it says on the tin, this book is another gallery of non-Ancilla art. My first gallery, art? graphics? was getting overstuffed, so I declared the book complete and started this new one. You can also find my art on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seradrakethebookwyrm/
No, you can't apply to be listed in my book of COOL BOOKS. No, I don't guarantee that a COOL BOOKS listing will confer a boost in readership. It confers a listing and a sticker that I send you privately. At some point it might also confer a book review. Maybe. As it is, it confers COOLNESS.
To keep myself from losing track of: all the contests I've entered, all the contests I've volunteered myself as a judge (or let myself be voluntold into judging), all the books I've had to read as a contestant or as a judge, all the deadlines, and all the other important stuff, I've decided to create a book that r...