Content Warning: mention of rape, violence, and murder, transmisogynist slurs, descriptions of transmisogynistic sentiments

I’ve thought a lot about what to say in this post. It all sits like a weight in my belly, the sensations of my body shaping around it the way water is displaced by a stone. I need to get this stone out of me. 

I feel vulnerable writing this, and I’m not sure I’ll say everything right. It’s hard not to be emotional as I look back over the past weeks, months, and years. Over my time on Twitter. 

I hope you’ll bear with me […]

Not long ago on social media a reader asked whether Lord of the Last Heartbeat could be considered paranormal romance.

It’s categorized as high fantasy romance (and sometimes dark fantasy, aka fantasy with aspects of horror), but for a reader to think of it as paranormal romance makes sense to me. Moon-souls overlap with shifters and vampires, familiar beings in paranormal romance. Ghosts aren’t a far way off, either.

It’s also set in a secondary world (meaning a setting that isn’t our own familiar world, or a variant of it, but a different fictional world altogether), and has magic, witches, […]