Hit me up if you want some free wlw books I wrote! (They all survive, too!)
I canât seem to get them published and itâs not about the money, but about having my work be read, so I thought âwhy the fuck donât I just give them away for free?â Here are the two candidates:
#1: All This Paranormal Bull$#!% (yes, thatâs the actual titel)
Imagine a future where ghosts and demons are an accepted part of reality. Where government organizations can be hired to cleanse homes and protect the ones rich and influential enough, while the less fortunate are forced to navigate the world by themselves. And in some cases, deal with it when they get tricked into buying a haunted apartment by a scheming realtor.
Over the course of 87,126 words, it dives into the depths of paranormal fantasy while remaining grounded in reality through the every day struggles of people in their twenties and the building romance between Deleena, a nonbinary queer person, and the woman across the hall.
Deleena is stuck with trying to figure out how to get rid of the paranormal beings messing up their life day-in and -out. But between the wannabe paranormal expert that is their work-colleague, and the overeager neighbor they literally just met, progress doesnât go quite as smoothly as they hoped.
Thereâs the creepy phone calls, the demon in their closet, and the ghost following them into their dreams, and yet, their brain chooses to focus on developing a crush on their neighbor. Life really kind of sucks sometimes. And it starts to suck even more when the ghost of an early twenty-first century woman starts to get personal when she reaches out from beyond the grave.
Switching between âthey/themâ and âshe/herâ pronouns throughout the story, I based Deleenaâs relationship with their gender on my own experience as a nonbinary queer person in their twenties.
Imagine standing in the crowd at a Pride Parade when your mind is hijacked by unseen forces and dragged to another dimension, for that is exactly what happens to Alexandra Skilton.
Set in multiple alternate realities, and running at 119,994 words, this Science-Fiction novel with an undercurrent of Romance tackles multiple heavy subjects along the way, while keeping itself humorous through pop culture references, banter, and the smaller problems that come with navigating the early stages of adulthood.
It kicks of with Alex on her way to her first Pride parade where she bumps into her childhood best friend. They reconnect over their shared past and Alex is introduced to Kiara, whom she immediately feels drawn to. But instead of it being the start of their epic love story like Alex hoped, she passes out without warning and comes back to in a different world.
Between the eerie similarities to the city she knows lie the deviations she canât ignore and they convince her sheâs been transported into an alternate or virtual reality. And itâs only the beginning. Again and again, she blacks out, only to wake up in another place that couldnât even be on the same planet as the last.
She soon discovers that whatever is happening to her ties into the fates of millions of people back home. Thereâs a bigger picture, a global change thatâs already underway, but when she finally makes it back home, she realizes the world has already begun to become less and less recognizable with each passing day.
If you want both or either, Iâll happily send out PDF versions to everyone whoâd like a copy. Maybe Iâll slap them on AO3 in the future, too, who knows? Certainly not me. Either way, Iâll format everything in the next few days and then theyâre ready to go.
