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If you love wings, a tail, and a fanged smile on a blue mutant, I would be delighted to have you on my ARC team!

In order to sign up for arcs, please click the button below and fill out the form. ARC readers will receive the book through Bookfunnel, via an email with one-time download link. The form will close 11/21/25.

Be My Bad Guy features:

a weathergirl who wants to get to the bottom of a mysterya mutant henchman with an iced coffee habit, and some of the answersof course there’s a weird dickgetting railed in a fancy showerscifi pods of fan servicebreaking into secrets labstoxic masculinity, fascism, and deconstructing the superhero narrativea billionaire ex eating the curbSign Up to Be An ARC Reader Here

The book comes out January 20, 2026, it’s ~68,000 words.

I can’t wait for everyone to get to read about Ellis and Lacey, this book was so much fun to write and to workshop with my critique group, I just know you all are going to love this one.

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He’s the supervillain’s henchman, she’s the superhero’s ex girlfriend.

Lacey Vigil has been trying to break up with her city’s resident billionaire superhero, Steel Heel, for a while. It’s not easy when she keeps getting kidnapped by his enemies.

Ellis is an unethical lab experiment, a bit of a slacker, and honestly kind of a fuckboy. He’s always had a thing for the reporter from Channel 6, but when Lacey asks for his help investigating the mutants crisis, he refuses. They’re on opposing sides – whoever heard of a superhero’s girlfriend and supervillain’s henchman working together?

Lacey and Ellis keep tangling in everything from breaking into secret hideouts to surprise bagel dates to mutually masturbating at each other from across the street in separate buildings. The closer they become, the less they can avoid the wedge between them – Steel Heel.

BE MY BAD GUY is about a good girl getting the bad guy, weird monster dicks, struggling with people pleasing vs. authentic living, repeatedly dunking on billionaires that want you to think they’re saving the world, and dismantling the toxic masculinity that props up the superhero fantasy.

This book is a spicy M/F monster romance with a typical superhero comic book backdrop, with 68,000 words.

Available January 20, 2026.

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As we approach ORCtober, I have some exciting news for this most monstrous month.

On October 16th, I will be at The Ripped Bodice in Brooklyn NY, along with CM Nascosta, LE Eldridge, Bex Deveau, Alexis Osborne, and Tiffany Roberts for a monster romance discussion panel! Tickets to the event are now available.

The Ripped Bodice will be stocking all three books of my Claws & Cubicles series, you can pre-order them here. 

Event info:
The Ripped Bodice Bookstore
October 16 7:00 pm – October 16 9:00 pm EDT
218 5th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215

This ticketed event includes a $20 store voucher.

If you can’t make it to the event but still want signed copies, they will be available for Brooklyn pick-up and shipping here, the deadline to order is October 21.

Some sad news, unfortunately, I have withdrawn from BookHarvest2025, there’s some personal life things I have to attend to that coincide with the event dates. I’m sorry to anyone who was hoping to see me there.

Fated Romance will still be offering the green special edition of the Claws & Cubicles omnibus hardcover at the event, and I will be signing bookplates to include with them.

I hope to join BookHarvest next year, and will be looking at the photos from this year’s event with total envy. I hope everyone who gets to go still has a wonderful time!!

Just a quick update – if you’ve ever wanted my NSFW art, they’re now available as vellum inserts that fit perfectly into the pages of the books! Currently they exist for Mated to My Ex, Love Laugh Lich, The Orc from the Office, and The Gargoyle from General Management.

The art is done by me, and they are only available on my etsy. The NSFW art is censored here, but will arrive without the page scraps, packaged with a piece of cardstock to prevent bending/folding.

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I am just over the moon to tell you guys that the audiobook version of “Mated to My Ex” is officially out today! It’s narrated by Christian Leatherman and Ash Kingsley, published by Tantor Media.

It’s available at all audiobook retailers (Applebooks, Audible, Audiobooks.com, Barnes&Noble, Everand, Googleplay, Spotify, Hoopla and Overdrive), the button below will take you to a directory of links for your preferred listening platform.

I am downloading my copy AS I TYPE, I just can’t wait to hear how Christian and Ash have brought Shawn and Elise to life. Time for all the divorced werewolf bickering.

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I’m so excited to be attending Monsterotica 2025, in Baltimore this weekend! I can’t wait to meet readers there. I’ve added a little map of the convention’s floorplan, the hot pink highlight is my table. I’ll have signed copies of all my monster romances, bookmarks, candles, stickers, and free brochures.

See you there!

The Love Laugh Lich audiobook will be on sale for 50% off until 5/11/25.

Get This Book for My Ears

The Love Laugh Lich ebook will be on sale for $0.99 from 4/21 through 4/25/25.

Get This Book for My Eyes

This year, I’m making more of an effort to get out of the house. I’m gonna go outside at least 3 times, but at least once I will be inviting you (virtually) into my office. See me in the flesh, or don’t– that’s cool too.

Find out more about these events at their websites, linked below.

Strange Love Indy

March 29th

A Virtual Signing Event

Ticket Information

Monsterotica Book Con

May 8-10th

Hyatt Regency Baltimore Inner Harbor
300 Light Street
Baltimore, MD 21202

Ticket Information

Book Harvest 2025

October 2-5

Hilton Chicago
720 S. Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60605

Ticket Information

Spellbound in the Valley

October 24-25

14 Civic Center Plaza
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601

Ticket Information

I’m so excited (and a little overwhelmed, but I did this to myself) to announce that Tales from the Orc Chasm, a collection of a few short stories about big orcs will be out in February 2025! I have been planning this collection for a little while, to make available the short stories that were once part of limited-run charity anthologies, plus one more brand new story!

These short romances all have a cozy fantasy backdrop, filled with heart, loads of banter, and no matter what, they make it fit.

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Stories in the collection include:

Snowed in with the Orc

Fawn has seen countless others try to flirt with the handsome orc tavern keeper Erryc, she knows he always turns them down. Known for her shyness, she’s determined to keep her feelings for her friend to herself, even when he comes to her with a dilemma– he needs her to pretend to be his lover to gently dissuade a persistent patron. However, a drunken kiss at the Winter Solstice episode might ruin their friendship forever.

Only One Bedroll

Mushrooms, halfling-eating monsters, and orcs, oh my. When Bianca Chanterelle gets lost in the woods, she doesn’t expect the orc hunter that finds her to be any help getting back to her traveling party, but with him finds adventure, a secret microbiome, a terrifying monster, and a budding attraction between them. Tanis, son of Dhane the Bloodthirsty, shouldn’t be so curious about the halfling woman who is utterly unsuited to living in the woods, but he can’t resist the way his blood calls to her, especially when they find themselves hiding in a tent, sharing his bedroll. When the rest of the orcish hunting party decides to raid the traveling halfling troupe of actors’ camp, however, a staged kidnapping and a monster intervention may not be enough to make sure everyone gets out of the woods.

What Makes A Firebug Glow?

The problem isn’t that the bounty hunter orc is several times the fairy’s stature. It isn’t even that he’s rude, mouthy, and makes Nettle scald with only a look– it’s that he might just be what she needs to glow again. She only hires the grizzled Silver to help her navigate a treacherous gauntlet, but between saving each other’s lives and getting thoroughly mixed up in each others’ drinks and business, they find a way to make it fit.