That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story ☠️

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So, as you all know, That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story had a special limited edition run that we sold at the Hellmouth Convention. The Hellmouth Edition had a special red cover and says it’s a special edition on the back and inside the front cover. Literally the only place they can be bought was from the 2025 Hellmouth convention and this newsletter, so this is a rare and special little book.

There are still about 15 left, so grab yours before they are gone for good. 

However, if you have been waiting for the standard edition to be published, the pub date is July 22^nd . It will have this beautiful blue and black cover, and you can now preorder the ebook on Amazon!

It was this very newsletter who helped come up with the title! Old school subscribers will remember that I was having a helluva time coming up with a title that, in a succinct and catchy way and which captured all the elements of the story. (I’m now describing it as “Gangs of New York meets Our Flag Means Death,” which is actually a pretty perfect shorthand. I didn’t mean for it to be that thing when I wrote it…but I’m not mad that it turned out that way 😂)

Anyway, I turned to this newsletter and begged for help with coming up for a title…and the wise readers of this esteemed publication said with one voice. “Why would you change the working title? Just keep calling it That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story!”

And so I did. And let me tell you how many people have expressed delight with the title since then. On its first weekend out, many people stopped by the table and bought that book, who would have otherwise have just walked on by, simply because of that title.

Thank you all so much for guiding me in the right direction, there. I’ve never had trouble coming up with a book title before, but if I ever do again, you lot are who will be who I turn to! 🙌

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I cannot express how in love with these I am. They are handcrafted, using traditional and ecological leatherworking techniques, just for us, by a small company that normally makes leather goods for, uh, shall we say, kinkier purposes…

Your choice just getting titles or getting quotes from the story! They feel lovely in the hand, and look gorgeous poking out of your book!

So go grab one — or a few — and you’ll get bookmarks people are jealous of while you support two small businesses at once: win-win-win!

Where In The World Is Noosh?

This week Noosh has finally left Morocco (after some crazy revelations that even I wasn’t expecting—I am definitely not in control of this story 😂) and is in Lagos for short time before moving on to the next location, which is where most of the story’s action will take place.

I’m just getting started on Chapter Seven today! 💃

My brilliant cover artist, Kwasi, has said he has time now to get the cover for Blood Depths (nickname B4) rolling, and he has all the information to work from, so I will actually get to do a cover release well in advance of launch for this book. I’ll share that as soon as possible, and I’m so excited about it!

When all the books re-released after leaving The Terrible First Publisher, it was pure chaos and we were learning everything as we went, and everything was harder than anticipated, and took longer. So we are only now finally in a place where we can publish a new book and give it all the time it requires for the proper marketing stages (Advance Review Copies sent out in advance for blurbing, etc.) and basically finally do everything right (because we now have some idea what we are doing, which is nice!) I am really looking forward to my books finally getting the treatment they deserve—which they were never going to get with The Terrible First Publisher, and which the republished books couldn’t properly get, as they were being re-released. It was a good way to learn what all we needed to do, at least, but it did basically mean that the first three books in the series were brought into the world both times in pure chaos. I am so very much looking forward to less chaos this time around!

Anyway, in a chapter or two I’ll give another update, so stay tuned! 📻

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“Interview with the Vagabond King” finally has some reviews! 🙌

But it really needs more. I’ve realized that most of you somehow never got the story when it was offered for free. While it’s only 99¢ on Amazon, I really need some more reviews (Amazon treats your book differently the more reviews it gets), so if anyone is curious about the story, I would be delighted to send you a free copy in trade for a review. Just reply to this email 📨

This story is one I am very proud of. It was a special treat for me to write an epistolary story (and I know some of you really love those, too.) It all came about as I was doing research for Blood Depths, and came across this Trinidadian pirate named Boysie Singh. His life was so over-the-top, so much more like fiction than reality, and I knew he’d have to be an extra in the novel…but he deserved more than that!

So I gave him pride of place in this story—whereupon I discovered that I was writing something that was seriously intense, and really scary! Entering that world is really rough on the character narrating the story, and I think that’s right. The am’r are scary monsters, and not every kee who encounters them is going to have a Noosh-like experience. This is the story of when the am’r are not quite so sexy, not quite people you want to run off with and join their underground world. It’s important to see that side of them, too.

Thank you to those who have taken a moment to review the story, and if you are just reading it now, ENJOY! 🏴‍☠️

There will be some big news coming along pretty soon about the next audiobook, and in light of that, I wanted to check in with the newer subscribers on their feelings about listening to books… 🎧

To everyone who made it this far, you’re fucking amazing and I adore you! Until next time, be good or be good at it! 😘

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