The cover reveal and release date for our new book is coming soon!

Just a few of the things we’ve unleashed since starting the Starian Cycle…

Winter of the Owl, book one in our Queer romance series set in Lukos, is 99 cents until June 24th! Check it out here: a.co/d/08C8fMC5

Happy birthday Iris!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Sabre cameo in our current story: Competent, hot, slightly scary regarding how much power he has The literal king of Staria in the same story: just here for the vibes

We want it to be known that the MC of our upcoming book is a picture of restraint and only crashed out a handful of times And only one of those times involved sending someone to the fantasy ER

It’s revision-central over here! The goal is to add a new scene, fix a continuity error, and give the book another once-over.

Us every time we include a Sabre cameo in a side story: Look at how cool and hunky this guy is, what a babe, what a dreamboat

Reasons to travel to Staria, the fantasy bio-kink world where we set the Traitor’s Mercy: 1. You can be certain that at any given point, a hot redheaded cousin of the king is getting absolutely railed a.co/d/08jOD602

Staria doesn’t have as robust of a healthcare system as Arktos, Katoikos, or say Gerakia (where many doctors go to study) but it DOES have a hot brat in charge and a spooky noble estate full of ghosts and one demon, and isn’t that almost equivalent?

“Would you survive in your own fantasy world” dude that doesn’t matter, there’s free fantasy top surgery in Arktos, sign me up

It should be pretty clear to readers that one of the MCs in our upcoming book is dealing with the fallout re: how adults in his early life responded to his neurodivergence. Iris has been pretty open about having ADHD. Foxglove was never formally diagnosed.

Knight of Staria is also on sale (showcasing Foxglove’s tendency to write trans men with swords and a grudge against the nobility)! a.co/d/09TorKx6

The Traitor’s Mercy is on sale for three more days! Pick up our steamy dark fantasy romance here: a.co/d/0gQSZTz4

10k words this week! Yes!!!!

Foxglove’s dad: So what have you been writing lately? What we’ve been writing lately: -an orgy -a gloryhole scene -sex on a boat -sex off a boat -a fisting scene in the most awkward location ever -makeouts in an orange grove Foxglove: Oh, yeah, we’ve been writing about… sailing…

Weekly word count progress: 6,011/10,000 (Technically, reaching 5k is considered a win this week, while 10k is more of a stretch goal)

The Traitor’s Mercy and Knight of Staria are on sale for a week starting today! Begin the kinky, angsty (but still with HEAs) Starian Cycle with the Traitor’s Mercy and pick up the story that happened behind the scenes with Knight of Staria!

We don’t often do this, because word count goals can feel a little restrictive, but let’s try it with no expectations: Weekly goal progress: 1,758/10,000 words

The most wholesome relationship in our current WIP isn’t even the two MCs. It’s a hivemind polycule bound by a horrifying demon. They’re cute as hell, we swear.

Patreon shorts + might work on a small side story to get back into the swing of things/build up to our next series

Hopeful despite all odds was a running theme for both of us LAST year

In 2025, Iris celebrated her first year of sobriety, Foxglove moved to a new place, we worked on a new book series (it’s coming along!) and published a Starian Tale featuring Yves and Charon. We are ready to kick off the new year!

This holiday season, bundle up with a steamy, Queer ds-verse romance set on a frozen island: a.co/d/4mQE8rB

Everyone say hi to Foxglove (who forgot to sign up for social media again)!

A professor once waxed philosophic about a misogynist’s poem before telling me that mine would never sell because it involved magic/fantasy. She said that I should stick to writing about “the real world.” The poem she’d been trashing had just been accepted into a magazine.

If you come into a public place, unmasked, and sneeze on everyone before loudly complaining to the world at large about how miserable and sick you feel, they HATE you Signed, someone who woke up sick at 3am

We have wildly different preferred writing environments. Foxglove: sitting weirdly on a chair, possibly upside-down, writing on the phone in complete silence Iris: In the middle of a sensory maelstrom, but the keyboard + computer system is immaculate

Having sudden imposter syndrome in the middle of writing an intense scene is less than fun, because in one moment, a hot man is suffering, and the next, a hot (due to HRT hot flashes) man is suffering

Speaking of cats hating the strangest things, the black cat hates the McElroy brothers specifically? I kid you not, I can put on any other podcast or music and he’s fine, but if I put on MBMBAM he will yowl and smack the phone around until I turn it off.

The kitten is now afraid of the following things: -snow -the Christmas tree -the heater -the soft warm blanket Does she just… hate winter? She might hate winter.

Every now and then I see a clickbait article run across my feed that says “it’s time for this underrated fantasy show to get a remake,” and every single time, without fail, the show in question is the 10th Kingdom

This little Christmas ghost romance is half off, if you have fifty cents and a burning urge to read something a little different from what I normally write (no jokes in this story, only hauntings and longings)

It's that day again. Try and have a good one. 🦉

I am brimming with holiday spirit

Sariel has black cat vibes because he basically IS a black cat. Sebastien: Cat energy, but the .05 percentage of cats that are actually graceful Astra: the 99.95% of cats that are NOT graceful whatsoever and keep needing to be rescued from the top of doors (how did they get there???)

Characters with big labrador retriever energy: Sasha Aleks (a little) Levi, but only because he keeps eating things he shouldn’t Hear me out, Azaiah (Good-natured, follows Nyx around like a puppy, loves people sooooo much)

I’d say that the character of ours who most accurately represents a scrungly little cat that you have to fish out of the gutter would be Marius Chastain. That man gets the worst haircut of his life, rolls down a muddy hill, is exposed to Hiking, and gets hunted by multiple burly men.

If you’re wondering why we’ve seemed quiet lately, it’s probably because we’re swimming in the deep end at the moment

“Actually, this small detail intrinsic to the character’s past will tie everything together far better than this other thing.” 40,000 words of already-written story: I hope you like combing through me instead of writing more today ha ha ha ha ha ha

Preventing writing burnout by spending the morning watching Die Hard and cleaning

Happy birthday to me (Foxglove), the guy who forgot to switch his gender on Facebook and has been confused by his notifications all day

Damian -has- given up at the start of the book. The only thing that would stop Caius from pursuing his goals would be someone putting him in a catapult and yeeting him off the map.

Heading to work in the rain so guess whose workplace will be blasting Florence + the Machine while I’m there alone, trying not to think about Damian Akti

Foxglove: Had a brutal morning because my spouse and I can’t afford to see our family for the holidays again, + postponing top surgery as usual, and I came here to find people talking about book pirating And man, right now? I don’t think I’m in a place to even think about it.

I don’t like suggesting alternatives to the wizard boarding school series because the people who continue to consume that IP don’t seem all that interested in reading other books. But if you want a coming-of-age fantasy where the protagonist grows as a person, the Prydain series slaps.

More bookstore stories: we randomly sold socks in one of the bookstores I worked at. No, I don’t know why. They were just there. Bookstore socks. We also had a thief who exclusively stole those socks and sold them at their own stand. Over time, I watched the bookstore owner slowly turn into Javert.

I once got a customer angrily insisting that she wanted to get a book “with a character who doesn’t have a dad.” Not a person with a dad who passed away or left. Someone who never had a biological parent at all. Bewildered, I suggested something from mythology, and she was FURIOUS.

Working in bookstores for most of my retail career taught me a few things. 1) A certain type of man is unreasonably worried that anything (including the glossiness of book pages) can “turn” him gay 2) a parent saying, “this has a cat on it, my kid likes cats” and buying Warrior Cats is inevitable

As a former bookseller, the only time I had trouble at a book signing was when a famous game show host showed up and people were climbing over the bookshelves, crying and shaking, to get to him. Celebrity worship still weirds me out, man.