Hellcat Is Live! đŻ Plus Fight To Keep The Internet Free!
Hellcat is published and live!
Okay, so this story was initially meant to be a quick Halloween erotic short. Grump nerd is grumpy. Witch moves in and her familiar molests grumpy nerd. Grumpy nerd overwhelmed and seeks to find witch to be free from horny Hellcat. Grumpy nerd realizes itâs love, the end. Hellcat became so much moreâlol, but still has those roots. XD 101,000 words. Itâs actually amazing when I think of the journey this book took. It transformed more than Sean and Soot did. There will be a sequel, one I plan on focusing on once Sorcerer Slayer is done. Iâm already rereading what Iâve written so far with Sorcerer Slayer and getting ready to go forward! Whoot!
ARC reviewers, Hellcat is now in your section of the website if youâre interested in reading and reviewing. And for anyone who picks up Hellcat, please review. It doesnât even have to be nice XD but I think people are really going to like the book, and Iâd love to hear how you feel about it. Iâm trying something totally new and daring for the sequel, which I mention in the parting at the end about TJ, and Iâm a little worried that current readers might have a big âfuck no!â reaction. @[email protected]
Patreon
I finally started a Patreon! This is a âtip jarâ scenario. Basically you pledge as little as a $1 a month and you get access to whatever is written for Patreon. My main focus will be Demon Bonded. Iâm going to put the Coven Saga episodes up there that are already written this weekend⊠maybe all the Demon Bonded, actually, to catch everyone up… and then go from there. Oh, and I have a Liem story brewingâhis own book, pretty sure by the time itâs done. Heâs going to fall for a total bitchy, wild demon once he starts training with other apprentices. A total hate to love thing. Iâm so excited about it.
I really want to use Patreon as an excuse to update Demon Bonded monthly. These books might not be published or fully edited in that time, but they will be there to read and more Demon Bonded will be written faster because of it.
There is a lot of vagueness on what Patreonâs adult guidelines are. They say fiction is fine (they mention Game of Thrones) but at the same time say individuals talking about rape they experienced could get them banned (wtf?) Iâm having a lot of trouble understanding what the fuck their âlineâ is. So I have a feeling all the content I have for Patreon will end up on a new section of my website. No membership filter at all, not even the free one, just a simple wall of âIâm an adult and allowed to read this button.â It will be completely funded because of donations through Patreon, but the content will not be on their site to ensure I stay within their guidelines. I will use Patreon to let patrons know that something new has been posted and the links to it.
I think this is the safest, smartest way to deal with this instead of relying on Patreon to know what the fuck their morality lines are. Iâm so fucking sick of morality. Amazon has started a new algorithm, pretty sure, and theyâre dumping gay romance into erotica in droves. The Demon Bonded books are one by one suddenly in erotica and no longer linking as a series, and I think this is just the beginning. If youâre wondering what having a book pushed into erotica does for authors, well, please feel free to read the ranting below.
Amazon Is Kinda Homophobic, Censorship, And FOSTA/SESTA
US citizens can fill out a very easy form and email your representative immediately to demand they stop FOSTA/SESTA Yes, this is after the fact, but itâs important to continue to have your voice heard.
There is also a petition going around but it has some weird email block, so I donât know how effective it will be.
Okay, so what the fuck is going on? A quick catch up for those who had lives and didnât know Congress was voting to steal free speech away in the name of stopping sex trafficking, here are a few links.
How Congress Censored the Internet
Congress Just Legalized Sex Censorship
Authors of LGBT romance have been noticing their books being dumped into erotica all of a sudden on Amazon. This isnât a new problem, but it has suddenly amped up hardcore. Most annoying for me personally, I just spent 6 months writing Hellcat, just did the last jaunt of editing, formatting, requesting ARCs, and still need to do a shit ton of promoting (after a little break. @[email protected]) I thought part of that promoting would be with an Amazon ad. Iâve only used an Amazon ad once before. It was for the release of My Broken Angel all the way back when I had all my books in KU. I made good money that monthâit was actually the month where I thought I would be able to make a living being an author. I finally âmade it.â Then KU broke, pages stopped being counted, and I threw the subscription site together to save my ass. I was hoping a break from Amazon would give me a clear head for business when it came to their platform. Unfortunately, they took one look at Hellcat and placed it in the erotica category when itâs romance.
Oh, Hellcatâs not hearts and kisses and tears instead of cum romance, but this is a love story. And love is obsessive and full of ownership, and in the beginning when hormones are strong, thereâs a lot of sex. Sex is a part of being alive. Itâs actually the only reason any of us are alive. Our parents all had sex. If people stopped having sex, humanity would die out in a generation. Sex = Life. Sex isnât shameful; itâs actually pretty fucking important.
My plans to have an Amazon ad are ruined. I cannot advertise Hellcat on Amazon because they have classified it as erotica. Erotica is not allowed to have ads on their platform, or on Bookbub; pretty much anywhere that readers go to find books outside of InstafreebieâInstafreebie is damn cool on that front. When people browse the gay romance section, there will be no potential that Hellcat will pop up on the side under Hot New Releases to help promote the book. The last week, bestseller status and ranking were stripped from erotica books, and although it has returned, there is no way to know for how long.
I first discovered how erotica is treated differently (outside of having my books banned) when Demon Arms ended up in erotica for months. I tried everything to get the book moved back; keywords, categories, changing the blurbâwas the word âscrewedâ being considered sexual to Amazon? I had no idea. Nothing worked until I contacted Amazon directly and demanded they move it back. They gave me no explanation as to why it was moved in the first place. You guys know Demon Arms, where the main characters donât even touch for 50,000 words into the book? What the fuck happens when I publish Sorcerer Slayer? Does it just end up in erotica because Iâm on some list with Amazon for writing erotic books now? Everything I write must automatically be hidden away and prevented from being advertised? Or is it because itâs gay, and gay books focus on sexuality so they must be dirty in Amazonâs eyes?
Iâm fed up, and Iâm worried about my future as a writer. I put a lot of work into Hellcat, a lot of loveâI love this book! Itâs fun, itâs quirky, itâs sexy and just a wild ride. I have never pushed myself so creatively, and I feel like itâs a turning point for me as a writer. I grew in this book. My settings and world building were fleshed out and fun and I want to keep pushing myself. This book was a joy (even when it was frustrating as fuck! XD) Iâm seriously hoping Amazon doesnât go the next step and ban Hellcat completely, because Amazon does that too. They not only prevent authors a fair share in making money off their books they deem are âerotic,â but they also remove books they donât think are allowed to exist at all. Subjects that I find again and again in straight fiction are banned from LGBT. You can blame it on an algorithm, but a human being made that algorithm. Humans are in control of why Amazon chooses to discriminate against the books they do and chooses to ban the books they do.
This week kicked my ass as I pushed myself to get this book out, and this was the final blow in a lot of ways to have Hellcat publish straight into erotica next to books about fucking the neighborâs wife and Daddy porn. I love erotica, donât get me wrong, but this book doesnât belong there and how the fuck are readers going to be able to find it? How is eroticaâbeautiful, sexy, fun eroticaâgoing to be able to compete against novels crafted with complex storytelling in mind? Now theyâre not just competing with other books made to titillate, theyâre competing with full-blown romances that are seeking a completely different mood from a reader. There is a reason we have genres, and itâs not to discriminate against books no matter how Amazon treats erotica, but to help readers find what theyâre looking for.
This is what happens when censorship of fiction occurs in a âfreeâ market. There will be no boycott that will fix this, there will be no petition or outraged cry. And Iâm not saying that just because many people are still so full of shame when it comes to sex, so they dumbly nod their heads when they see free speech censored in the name of morality. No, Iâm saying this because Amazon is a trillion dollar company and they donât give a fuck. They donât have to give a fuck. They are protected by the law while individuals are not protected from being discriminated against because of Americaâs âObscenity Laws.â Authors talk about getting together and making this giant see reason because âerotica makes Amazon money,â and I just have to laugh to myself. Itâs not going to change unless Amazon chooses to stop discriminating against sex in fiction, and whatever is driving it isnât business oriented. They donât care about the money. Amazon has been removing erotic fiction for nearly 10 years now; they donât like sex, especially gay sex.
Amazon is literally defining the gay romance genre by what they allow to exist. What they donât want suddenly disappears from the market and hey, apparently thatâs business. They decide what people want and what theyâre allowed to read. In a truly free market, customers decide what is written. If something is popular, more is made. Thatâs why erotica will never disappear, btw; people like stories about fucking. Itâs very popular like sex in general (and I know sex is popular cuz hey, we got billions of people on this planet who got here through sex.) Thatâs why weâre seeing the shifter craze move away from the vampire craze. But hey, those who like vampires still have that option because no one came along and said âNo, vampires arenât allowed on Amazon.â That would be insane, never mind dickish as fuck. But thatâs what Amazon does. There are authors who try to trick the system and theyâre made to feel ashamed because demanding free speech and equality is âbreaking the rules.â
I fear itâs only going to get worse with SESTA/FOSTA. Itâs waiting to be signed by Trump (pretty sure it hasnât been signed yet @[email protected]) and I canât imagine he wonât. He has so many morality groups screaming in his ear. Some were literally calling him the second coming of Christ. Religion has deep pockets and heâs a bought man. Certain groups who have pushed this bill claim itâs the first step in removing pornography from the Internet, and yes, erotica is considered pornography which is why itâs being segregated from the other books and/or banned entirely. The âI know it when I see itâ rule for obscenity applies in the US, and Amazon âseesâ it in this case and they donât want others seeing it. As platforms make an effort to protect themselves from the liability this bill opens up, anything in regards to sex on the Internet will become harder to access or host. Why? Because there is no way to know when someone is talking about sex, be it simple conversation, or in fiction, or in jokes, if it is or isnât connected to sex trafficking in the real world.
So, a quick reality check. Sex trafficking canât happen on a computer. No one can reach through the screen and kidnap someone or save them, for that matter. You cannot be sexually assaulted by a computer; you cannot be coerced by a computer. But the Internet is being held responsible for sex crimes existing in the real world by saying the Internet âenablesâ sex crimes. The same way âhaving a penis enables rapeâ in the minds of some individuals, so men = rapist. This is not a logical jump, but people are illogical all the fucking time. It may sound âresponsibleâ until you look deeper and realize itâs just people on a morality kick looking to save the world from sex crimes by punishing the existence of depictions of sex on the Internet. Congress ignored the expert testimony that this bill would in fact harm those trapped in sex trafficking by forcing perpetrators away from the Internet where itâs harder to find and rescue victims. It makes platforms liable, meaning businesses will be less likely to contact authorities if they see a crime to protect their livelihoods. It also makes it extremely unsafe for consensual sex work by removing the Internet buffer when looking for new clients.
Sex crimes donât need a computer to happen. Humanity has a long history of being terrible to each other, and the Internet is very young in comparison. This bill takes a safe place for free speech away, as well as correlates sex with crime in an attempt to erase sex from the Internet with the mentality of just in case someone bad is doing something bad, the Internet has to be stopped.
Will the Internet be changed over this?
It’s up to the Internet. Craigslist shut down their Personals Section already because of the liability that individuals might be being exploited and the perpetrators using the service. Reddit is erasing community after community. I have a bad feeling that this new surge in Amazon erotica hunts is just the beginning in their need to âprotectâ people from fiction, and who the hell knows what will happen once the bill is actually signed. But I am not a fortune teller. Itâs very easy to shine a light and squish a bunch of objects together and say the shadows mean something. Itâs the same type of leap in logic that intelligent, well-intentioned human beings use to insist itâs the Internetâs fault for sex trafficking. Reality is reality, now is now, and there is no way to know how each platform will deal with this new bill. Thereâs no way to know if the bill will be signedâbut again, it seems unlikely that it wonât be. Congress already voted away the rights of Americans, and theyâre supposed to be paid to do the exact opposite.
I host with Dreamhost, btw. I selected them from the very beginning when I was looking for a web-hosting service because I knew some of the things I write would be considered controversial and I didnât want to be arrested. There are states in the US where people are in jail for drawings. Not even photosâand no, I donât think a photo is a person, or that a person can be exploited by someone looking at a piece of paper or screen, just so weâre clear. In this modern, supposedly forward, technology-rich society I am a part of, people are being jailed over ink on a piece of paper and pixels on a screen because morality is fucking-over reason. Dreamhost was not only accepting of adult content, but they actually spoke up against censorship, and that struck a strong cord with me. I donât believe what I do is wrong on any level, and I wanted a hosting company who understands that. That still doesnât mean if these laws pass that Dreamhost will be able to keep strong against them, but I have high hopes theyâll at least try.
When Trump took office there was a huge outcry for morality, and it has been repeated again and again. Many people think theyâre calling for basic decency on how we treat each other while blindly trampling on the rights of others and self. I think many want decency, and I wholeheartedly agree we should all seek to treat each other how we would wish to be treated (unless youâre a masochist. XD) But when people are caught up looking for control, looking to make what seems like a monstrous situation be sane and reasonable, they make really shitty decisions. The Patriot act was a wonderful example, and Iâm sad to say this country didnât fucking learn. As much as I point out if you donât want to be shot by a gun, donât surround yourself with guns, I still support the 2nd amendment because I understand the right to be allowed to defend yourself. I donât think that right needs to be at the expense of the lives of others, but it is still an innate right to live and survive. You will dieâwe all dieâbut what living organism wouldnât fight to stay alive? It is a choice, like all choices, and who is anyone to take that choice away?
This bill will take away the ability to say whatever the fuck you want on the Internet. Posting nude images of yourself might be subject to so many questions that platforms may remove them completely just to make sure the subject of the image isnât being exploited sexually. Writing fiction might be decided by platforms to encourage sex crimes and be removed with creators facing criminal liability. And if that seems insane, again, there are people in jail who have never committed a crime against another human being, they just viewed and downloaded something from the Internet. Each platform will decide their âlineâ to protect them from prosecution over the actions of individuals on their site. There is no way to know how far they will go. Thereâs no way to know if we wonât all wake up tomorrow and have erotica erased completely from Amazon.
Iâm not saying this will come to be. I just have a very active mind and too many things to squish together to read the shadows. It wonât stop me from writingâIâm really not interested in doing anything else. XD I have yet to give a fuck about the morality of a bunch of tight-asses who canât distinguish reality from fiction. But this is also my job where Iâm seeing this storm brewing over what I do, and yeah, Iâm worried. :/ Blah.
Itâs a choice how to react, how to feel, and ultimately, to decide if this is going to change the way I exist in the world. Iâm choosing no. Platforms may cave, they may break, but any lawsuit taken into the courtsâthe courts who sent word to Congress to try to stop the passing of this bill because it infringed on the 1st amendmentâwill support free speech. Eventually. So if it all goes to shit, we gotta hang on and still live the way we want to live. Platforms are making a choice to react. Itâs up to us to choose to follow their lead and be forced into the shadows, gutters, and closets, or stand the fuck up and live life to the fullest.
This might sound weird and random, but I actually went through Hellcat in the final edit and erased God from it. There are these phrases I use that I grew up with, and I realized here I was still unable to escape that brainwashing on this level. I donât want God in my fiction. I donât want God in my life. We do not need some concept of judgment of every action done defining if an individual is worthy of being alive or not. If you take away God, humanity still exists free to make choices and be empowered by their actions. If you take away sex, humanity is literally dead and extinct. I want to keep the one that brings life, and itâs all sexy fun. ^^
Mated To The Demon Prince: Hellcat #1
Sean knows what those wicked, hellfire eyes want. Him, on his knees, taking every finger, tongue, tail, and tentacle.
This is what being corrupted by a demon feels like. Itâs the only explanation. Seanâs not supposed to have fangs or know magic, damn it. And this bs where heâs horny and begging all the time? No, not freaking happening. Heâs just a nerdâa hot, gay, totally panicky IT specialistâwho needs to find a solution to his destroyed business, asap. He doesnât have time for whatever weird this shapeshifting demon is into. Soot canât just claim him whenever he wants, over and over again. Heâs about to be homeless!
If Sean doesnât save a witch from a dragon, itâs game over. But heâs changing, turning into someone he doesnât recognize. Heâs not sure if he can play hero, not even when Soot abducts TJ, Seanâs painfully straight crush, to the top of a tower full of witches, gargoyles, and one very pissed off dragon. TJ doesnât know who to fear more, the demon prince or whatever it is Sean is turning into.
There has to be a way out. Stealing a 3 million dollar hellcat isnât a binding contract to be a sex thrall, no matter how much his demon master disagrees.
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Monthly Freebie – Heat
Iâm leaving Heat up over the weekend while I get the new Patreon aspect of the site sorted out. All the Demon Bonded books, past and present will end up on this part of the site and likely will replace the monthly freebie with updates to the Demon Bonded serial. Weâll see how it goes. <3