Hermes audio is live & my Ream Stories is now open!

First things first. HERMES, my mad lad and all time fave, audio is LIVE. Man, these monthly releases are wild but I’m so enjoying them. I hope you guys are binging them as much as I am. It’s never NOT going to be weird hearing my own words back to me.

Here is the link if you want it.

NEXT BIG NEWS

It has begun! My new Ream Stories subscription is now live and open for checking out! As promised, I have only one Tier. It’s $4 a month. It’s called Thornstars because my humor is that of a 13 year old boy. You know and love this about me.

Here is the official pitch!

Be a part of our own Found Family of mischief makers and misfits. This is our inclusive community to talk about books, writing, video games, weird monster anatomy, share NSFW art and other general shenanigans.  

I’ll also be sharing exclusive stories based in my new universe ‘Inferno’, updates on whatever I’m working on, and other fun stuff.

Please note, this community will have adult content including swearing and talking about spicy books, probably in graphic detail. If that’s not your jam, that’s okay, you can keep up to date with me on my Newsletter and Instagram.

This is a place where everyone is welcome, and it will have a zero tolerance to bullying or badmouthing towards myself, other writers, or fellow members of the community. Let’s all be nice and have a great time.

You can subscribe right here!

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FUN RIGHT? I’m so fking excited. OKAY. Now for the all other details. Get ready for an Alessa info dump OR scroll to the bottom to look at hot shit.

Why I chose Ream Stories over everything else?

The short version:

I want to be able to have an inclusive community thats owned and run by me, a safe place I can share my content and stories, without any fear of it being censored or taken down. Between us, you all know I’m feeling ways about Insta but I’ve also had some issues on the publishing end of Amazon recently. They were small things that were easily resolved but it freaked me the fuck out. Ahem. For my own mental health, I need a way I can keep money coming in and books going out that I own. I’m a KU girl, and thats not going to change. I will keep publishing through Amazon. This is just a fail safe for my brain to not have crippling anxiety of one day being accidentally shut down by Amazon over a misunderstanding. This is my full time career and the thought of losing it, even for a day…well it turns my hair white (not the hair on my head).

The long version:

• Ream is going to have exclusive shit – I’ve created a world called INFERNO just for Ream that won’t be available on Amazon. In the beginning its going to be vampire novella’s, released a chapter a week but this world is immense and has soooo many PNR creatures and monsters in it. The sky is the limit with this bad boy. Eventually they will bundled for a KU box set but its going to be at least a year’s wait. I also have some passion projects (M/M Road to El Dorado retelling) that I want to throw at you in a zero stakes environment. I’m also going to be releasing early access chapters of books based in my other worlds (Fae Universe, Gods Universe etc) on Ream. I’m also lining up for my subscribers to see all my commissioned art first (including a very very smutty exclusive piece of gargoyle art – oh my god.)
• Ream is available worldwide – I live in Australia and we don’t get a lot of things such as Kindle Vella for example. I wanted a platform that everyone could access wherever you are in the world and that’s not going to be censored for being smutty (which Patreon does).
• Ream has been created by Romance authors FOR their readers. This makes it a good experience for everyone because it means content is easy to read, find and interact with.
• It’s a good place for our community – Ream has a way for you guys to comment on the chapter every time I put one up and also has its own Facebook like area for us to post on whatever we want; books, monster peen, nsfw art, whatever. Instagram has become really unreliable on when it decides to share my content and what comments etc it shows me. This is going to make group discussions possible and a lot more fun because its also uncensored. Writing is lonely as fuck sometimes and I need some interaction thats not a toxic waste land of social media.

So those are the reasons why. I want you to know, because I want transparency. This is going to be a place for you just as much for me.

Now…the juicy bit.

Check out this sexy cover I have had my wonderful designer do for our first batch of INFERNO Stories….

DAMN FAM. I’m so fucking excited to be writing vampires. Don’t expect the tame, animal eating kind of vampires either. I lean very heavily into the older vampire tropes with these ones. They are the erotic, blood everywhere, monsters galore, exploding into bats, having vampiric brides like Dracula does, type of stories. Yes there will be art.

The first one has begun! Here is a quick taste of the world for you:

Welcome to Inferno, the city where monsters rule and only the strong survive. Each district is ruled by a different species and all have their eyes on the humans for food, fucking, and other frivolities. If you choose to come and dance with these devils, you’re never going to be the same again.

You can start reading it right now because the first two chapters are live!

As I said, these INFERNO stories are going to be exclusive to Ream for at least a year. I have three planned, maybe four, for the vampires but we will see how I go. I also had two other series planned in the world. Expect content for a while.

While you are over there, you can check out the bonus chapters of ‘Ironheart’ that I have put up for anyone eager for more Zori and Vladik.

I know Ream Stories won’t be for everyone, and if you don’t want yet another subscription, I understand. Really I do (ask me how many tv subs I have…yikes). I’m still going to have this newsletter, Instagram and KU. None of that’s changing. This is just something extra.

Any way, I’ll hope you to see you over there,

Alessa x