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Yo!
Hope you’ve been having lots of fund this start of summer season! 🍹😎
And, yeah, there’s the World Cup, also! 😅 Insane event, this year! This has been the most exciting round of 64 in… like, ever?
Certainly the most exciting that I can remember. 🤩 Folks on the Cup have been putting up a good show, and I hope they keep turning the heat up until another 𝓬𝓻𝓪𝔃𝔂 final like last year! 🤯
And before you ask, yes, I’m rooting for Argentina. Of course. 🇦🇷🥳
Now, onto business: I’ve had a spat of good news in my life recently, one of which being that business has picked up again, a bit.
Early this year was a crazy and extremely annoying fight with service providers, including getting banned from Amazon and YouTube.
My writing (sadly) got affected along with my mood. Sorry, but that’s can’t be helped. I’m overly sensitive like this.
Regardless, things have started to stabilize, and more venues for income have opened up to me. 😎 My brand continues to evolve (slowly, sure, but it does) and is starting to solidify somewhat.
These past few years have been utterly unpredictable, causing no small amount to annoyance to many of your. Trust me, it’s been annoying as hell to me too, and I’m glad that things are starting to get a little more rational and sensible.
Knock on wood, hope this doesn’t change again, not any time soon.
As part of this “brand consolidation”, I’ve got a ton of small, little changes and quality of life improvements planned for this summer (or beyond if my schedule remains crowded).
These include:
⭐ Updates on all published books: New covers, descriptions, file formats (for download), and better formatting on the book content.
⭐ High-quality paperbacks: Limited offer at first, but I plan to roll it out to all my books when my account is big enough.
⭐ Audiobooks + Adult Video Series: Long-term.
⭐ Expanding sales on book stores: Amazon is out, possibly forever, but other stores like itch.io and Google Play are in!
⭐ Branding fixes: “Beautifying” Patreon and standardizing visuals (posts, banners, etc.)
⭐ Better UX and UI (Patreon): Improving customer service, community relations, and updating the Patreon UX as best as its UI allows me.
⭐ New content: Goofy stuff like film reviews, memes, and the occasional article now and then – stuff that I think will resonate with y’all (Brasiliana is a long-term, deep, and complex project, and won’t feature here too often, not at least until 2028).
⭐ Daily erotic content: One new chapter (or short story) every day.
⭐ Consolidating access: Patreon for all new content + Discord for user interaction. All other websites and social media accounts are “read-only” (I will post there, but interaction is limited).
I think this covers pretty much everything in terms of short terms changes, except for the aforementioned audiobook/webseries plan, which will be (naturally) very time-consuming.
You’ve probably seen some of these coming out already (if you’ve been around here for a while), and you should expect more of these rolling out throughout summer.
Other changes and plans are too long-term to mention here, but please, do keep an eye out for Brasiliana (see more on Discord) when I announce it.
As usual, time is my greatest limitation. I would normally say something like “pls subscribe to help me out make more books” and stuff, but no amount of money can actually buy me more time.
And no, hiring (or recruiting) somebody is, for now, more trouble than it’s worth. 😓
So… yeah. No can do there. I hope you can understand if some of these changes keep going on for the rest of the year (the changes on the books are especially time-consuming given the sheer volume of them!)
This also assumes I won’t get f–d over by 3rd party platforms again, which… pff! Let’s be frank here, it’s almost a guarantee at this point. 😒
That said, I also need to make another thing clear: no more free erotica releases until second notice.
I don’t know how long this freeze will last, but it can be weeks. Maybe months. Years (?????)
This hiatus applies only to free stuff. My regular work on Patreon remains unaffected. Business as usual.
I’m glad my work is improving both in quantity AND in quality, as the writing style is getting shorter, snappier, and much more fun to read! 🥳
One last thing…
I’m eternally grateful to all the people who follow me. Thanks a lot, you mad men.
This whole erotica thing is my way of reaching out to the world while also experiencing a little bit of the pleasure and fantasy I cannot really get in real life.
That I can also make (some) money with it is just, like… real nice. ☺️
Cherry on top, you could say. 😁
I hope I can get attention to my other stuff as time goes by. Attention and interest!
Thanks a lot, again and again, for reaching out, interacting, and buying my stuff.
As wish there were words to express my gratitude to you, as well as my dedication to both you and my works, but there aren’t. I will sound sappy or pushy if I actually try to say them, so I’ll leave y’all with a simple thank you.
Well… 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓴 𝔂𝓸𝓾. 🥰
Back to our regularly-scheduled program, now, we go.
I hope y’all those in Europe aren’t suffering a lot with the heat waves. I keep reading about ugly stuff going on in France, and… welp, I hope you all don’t melt or something.
Buy a nice fan and you’ll be good to go, I guess. Can’t do much about the outdoors, though. If you want to step outside, I guess you’ll just have to suffer. ☠️
[Guess I’ll just die meme]
Thank you very much for your attention, support, and (in the case of what I hope is many, if not all of you) friendship.
I’m really not good at ending announcements like these (or even most of my stories, if I am to be perfectly frank 😓), so I’ll just… up and leave now, okay?
Okay. Cool.
Thanks. And bye.
See ya!
Excelvior! Light of the world, beacon of mankind! 🌟 The marvelous City of in the Sky debuts in this short promo – also featuring Monica and Tomás, two fiendish members of a merry group of bandits!
👉 Watch the video
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Rising a half-dozen miles over the evergreen valley of Esselssa, rooted deep in the waters of Oceanus by the unshakable Bone Pillars, the sky-city of Excelvior always bustles and ever glimmers with the comings and goings of its untiring children – proud denizens whose millennia-long tale of hard work, toil, and travail helped build this treasure in the clouds.
Excelvior! Light of the world, beacon of mankind!
With their rich collection of cutting-edge technology and fathomless folio of human knowledge, the children of Excelvior never pause and never sleep, always tinkering and seldom bickering, working tirelessly towards progress, never at rest, but always at ease – for they know that, as hard as they labor and as long as they breathe, mankind will always beat its limits and men’s minds always surpass their dreams.
Sempre avante! Sempre avante! As their saying goes.
Always moving! Always working! Always struggling!
Except…
In the sixth day of the week, six days in every month, the lights go out and the city quiets down to allow its citizens look up at great, black dome… and sing.
In the Hour of the Stars, the Excelvien finally see the natural sky and behold that which they, in their luminous labor and industrious haste, are always threatened to forget: the glimmer of the million stars in the endless void sea; the shiny, milky arms of the Octopus Galaxy; and the ghostly blues and cosmic purple hues of the long-erupted, forlorn nebulae.
In the quiet darkness of this pensive hour, embalmed by the harmony of Excelvior’s melody, shadowed and shouldered by the cold, tall walls of its iron-bronze labyrinth, even the most restless souls and wicked fiends can put to rest their gnarly goals and impish deeds, forget their sins and cleanse their crimes, and look ahead to brighter days, cleaner ways, and clearer skies.
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This concept art depicts the Interlude between books 1 and 2 of the upcoming steampunk series Brasiliana. It features Monica and her “uncle” as they stand (and conspire) before the Vargas Building.
© Art by Gigi Potemkin with AI assets by Perchance and ChatGPT.
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The Lone Continent of Azula, lost in the midst of an endless, inhospitable ocean, is made even lonelier and more sorrowful by the Wall of the World, a colossal mountain chain thousands of miles long and several hundreds of miles wide that divide the continent’s eastern and western boards into two self-contained, almost mutually unreachable halves.
Even this titanic, magnificent barrier has its cracks, though, and for the most skilled smugglers, these hidden passages and long-forgotten roads turn the Wall into an impenetrable fortress... and an invaluable vault for their ill-gotten gains!
In the dangerous, narrow, and treacherous trails of the mountain tops, the journeys are always gray and the skies always cloudy.
Well, almost always. On some very rare and blessed occasions, the clouds can part and the sunlight can shine through the icy air to reveal the hidden beauty of even the deepest and most desolate zones of these mountains, a beauty not meant for common men’s eyes, and one that’s most dazzling, almost divine in a little area called the Gap of Whoa.
In this most hidden of most hidden spots, the rare traveler can be blessed by the view of a sprawling ice field at the bottom a dizzying fall, beyond which only the tallest mountains of the Wall lay, and further beyond… the Ever-Storm! The Black Dome of the World! An endlessly raging tempest that clouds the northern chain in perpetual darkness!
From the precipice of the Gap of Whoa, under the rare clear sunset skies, the unsuspecting traveler bears witness to all the terror and awe of the Wall’s majesty and woe: its delicate beauty, deadly falls, breathtaking vistas, slippery slopes, and all the darkness that its vast, sprawling expanse harbors!
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This concept art shows The Girl’s expedition (from right to left: the Girl, her Lover, the Guide, and his bodyguard Carlos) at the Gap of Whoa during a rare clear sunset sky, near the eastern gates of the Wall of the World.
© Art by Gigi Potemkin with the help of AI (perchance.org).