Readers are calling my debut lesbianoir novella fast-paced and compelling Have you visited Pier-Upon-Pier city yet? 📖 : payhip.com/b/Kc4yf ✒️ : ladz-merch.square.site/product/ice-... 📚 : books2read.com/IceUponAPier/

I need to start calling Sasza a white-haired bishonen in marketing and I'm worried dark fantasy people will expect Griffith Berserk except his sex is really bad And then I remembered the sex Griffith Berserk has and I sighed INCREDIBLY LOUDLY at myself

o wowie thank you for 21 preorders on ebooks for my Polish carmilla retelling 🥰 (I nearly typed lesbian carmilla, I think that means it's time for bed)

LADIES DON'T PLAY FIGHTING GAMES is fun so far because there is no chill to be found in any of these girls and the yuri is somehow less gay than them battling each other

#horrorbooks on sale !! Summerween Midnight Scream sale is live - and it's a Ladz vampire double feature This will be the only time you can pre-order OUR CRIMSON CAGE for less than $1 Check out the 18+ section of the sale: www.authordonnataylor.com/18horror Book links down below 🔽

I'm watching episode 1 and they introduced totally not Russia and totally not fucking Joseph Stalin,did the writers do the reading (I'm going insane does anyone want anything)

(also the pre release nerves have arrived full force)

the world knew I needed a win and gave me a BEAUTIFUL book proof I hope you all love BAD DOG half as much as I do

Listening to Finnish throat singing until morale improves

Happy Flat Duck Friday from this shape

JULY 2026 WRITING UPDATE We don't always get to pick what we work on

The Fealty of Monsters (2024 - Ongoing)

If you're the type of person who wants to sample some prose before committing to an entire book, OUR CRIMSON CAGE has a preview of Chapter 1 up on itch Preorder: ladzwriting.itch.io/our-crimson-...

me writing books like

going from the book I just finished (which was rife with the erotic bait-and-switch mentioned in my essay below) to Night's Master, where Tanith Lee in the intro is like "yeah I was reading a lot of Wilde so this is full-on bisexual eroticism" was a stark about-face www.riengray.com/blog/the-per...

gay sex scene in the first 10 pages for a book from 1978 vs. the "impossibility" of lesbian desire from something far more recent, sigh

this is my call to action to say HEY if you like my work and you've never posted a public review about any of my books, NOW WOULD BE SUCH A GOOD TIME FOR IT 💦 if you're worried someone's gonna cancel you for liking transgressive art just tell them to mind their business and go back to watching HotD

Like if you're wondering who's doing it like Poppy Z Brite in the 2020s, it's Roo I'm sorry he's not agented or published by a Big 5 publisher and y'all are cowards

Surely someone else in my network has more than $3 a month to give for some fine art porn, very few are doing it like Roo is

I've been told I need to tell you guys that my upcoming novel LAZARUS is a vampire book. 1920s gay horror noir with an erotic thriller vibe. And vampires. Vampires everywhere. You can read the first 6 chapters here! beastcutter.itch.io/lazarus-teaser

I think my core issue with DCC is the reading culture that it exists in No one gives translated work or English work by marginalized authors that much patience or grace "wait until book 3 for it to get good" picking up a litrpg light novel would incinerate some of you

I wish my brain would let me write yaoi that somehow doesn't loop back to FEALTY

Chi dorme non piglia pesci

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I think my craziest Christopher Lee headcanon was when reading Titus Groan and being like, "He'd be amazing as Mr. Flay, too bad he's dead" Imagine the shriek I shruck'd discovering he was in the BBC adaptation as Mr. Flay

The Fealty of Monsters (2024 - Ongoing)

FULGHOR EVER DARK IS FUCKING BS

what if we were both girls and drunk in Wrocław at 330am and stole a sword off a statue 👉👈

I know I posture as someone who is smart but sometimes I need to be stupid, brought to you by Me: I don't think this scene is working cuz the sex is unsatisfying for all parties involved The point of the scene: the sex is unsatisfying for all parties involved

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Today's OUR CRIMSON CAGE blurb comes from one of my favorite dead dove yaoi creators, @tdcloud.bsky.social She gave me one of my claustrophobic vampire faves and a feelsbad Pied Piper retelling that you should read as well Check out her catalogue: www.tdcloudofficial.com/books

I love that Nightreigntok is losing its mind about the Bandai Namco Nightfarer core vids because update?? update bls???

Convincing you to play the Runt demo with twitch clips store.steampowered.com/app/4141350/...

I know I posture as someone who is smart but sometimes I need to be stupid, brought to you by Me: I don't think this scene is working cuz the sex is unsatisfying for all parties involved The point of the scene: the sex is unsatisfying for all parties involved

I'll add that if you are tradpubbed first, you already have a MAJOR advantage over those of us who are indie first: people have already heard of you. They already want your next book and don't care if you selfpub it.

LRP is why I am so impatient with tradpubs lamenting the way books as a market work

Note: I'm being pretty harsh on tradpub right now BECAUSE it's got decades of good PR and people build up imaginary dreamy fantasies about it that do not track with the reality of being a business, so they end up not making good business decisions as small-business owners (authors).

Today's OUR CRIMSON CAGE blurb comes from one of my favorite dead dove yaoi creators, @tdcloud.bsky.social She gave me one of my claustrophobic vampire faves and a feelsbad Pied Piper retelling that you should read as well Check out her catalogue: www.tdcloudofficial.com/books

Maybe once it's done, I'm going to write a piece about infidelity as the primary plot driver but not a theme in THE FEALTY OF MONSTERS as a series and everyone is going to have to be super cool about it

reminder that catboy Sasza exists

JULY 2026 WRITING UPDATE We don't always get to pick what we work on

I hate asking this, but earlier my student loan payment went out twice (glitch) and they're unable to refund me. I thought I'd be good until payday, but my job is a bit inconsistent w/ when the money goes in. 😓 If anyone wants to buy a book from Ko-Fi, I'd appreciate it! 💛 ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur...

Have you pre-ordered this yet

Someone made a Nightreign edit to Stereo Love and I think it fixed me

BALANCE

Pro tip for marketing your Eastern European fantasy and/or recommending it to Slavs: if the marketing uses "Polish folklore" and "Slavic mythology" interchangeably and is recommended for "fans of Leigh Bardugo," that's not a book for Slavs or diaspora

I hope readers are excited for tomorrow's newsletter, we're discussing how to build a pee fetish world

WAS NO ONE GOING TO TELL ME THAT THE SAGA OF TANYA THE EVIL IS BACK ON THE AIR

sometimes you send pretty cool emails to pretty, cool people