Low Dawn Release Announcement

Out Now! Low Dawn: Secrets of Sleipnir volume 1

 

A steamy queer romance on an alien world. A story of hidden histories, shattered destinies, and Really Big Animals.

Fiyeli has a pretty good life on the ringed moon Sleipnir. He has friends all over, and even a few casual lovers, if not the belonging and devotion his heart has never stopped seeking.

He's made a career of sorts out of crossing the treacherous Sea of Glass, carrying messages and guiding travelers through the massive impact crater separating the northern and southern forests. Escorting a girl prince and a boy princess on their betrothal caravan to the western sea should be a similar job, just bigger (a lot bigger).

But when a chance encounter with a remnant of the tyrannical Kingdom of Heaven forces him deeper beneath the surface of Sleipnir than he's ever gone before, what he discovers there will upend the life he’s built, and the secrets he built it on…

(Approximate length: 60,000 words)

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Out but not up

It's launch day, and I'm very excited, but I have now run up against the delay of waiting for all the automated processes to complete. I can't wait to add some working links to the launch sticky! I might wait until the Amazon link is also live, which will take the longest, at least this first time.

(I also very much played myself by clicking Publish at 5:00 PM on a Friday 🤣)

It's been such a new experience writing an original story! I've written quite a bit of fanfiction over the years, and thought that was what I was doing this August as well, when my latest concept, um. Mutated. Aggressively. I looked at the seething, delightful thing, realized it would actually take more work to shoehorn it back into having some vague semblance of a connection to its ostensible parent fandom, and set out to do... something new.

It's so wild to write your own canon! You can make it anything you want! Horse-sized six-legged salamanders? Yes! Elephant-sized hermit crabs? Yes! Mycelial networks? Yes! A ringed planet orbiting a Neptune analogue in the habitable zone? Yes! Name it after the worst-behaved Norse god and that time he had to push an eight-legged horse out of his hoo-ha? Yes! Filthy fucking smut drowning all this worldbuilding like boiling hot fudge over a single scoop of ice cream? YES!

So, yeah, rampant horny biology nerdery, coming soon to every outlet served by the aggregator Draft2Digital. Watch the sticky for actual working links as they become available!

Twitter is a bad place

And book Twitter is the worst of the worst. I went on exactly long enough to claim the username saxbrightwell and add a link back to here XD