hello my name is Sebastian Nothwell and i have written queer romance books. learn all about them under the readmore.
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Mr Warren’s Profession - mm Victorian romance; a wealthy baronet falls for a clerk in a textile mill; aristocrat x commoner, hurt/comfort, angst, lavender marriage, engineering.
Throw His Heart Over - equestrian sequel to Mr Warren’s Profession; hurt/comfort and horses.
Hold Fast - mm Victorian whaling romance; a harpooner inherits a baronetcy and falls for the estate agent tasked with turning him into a gentleman; hunting, angst, dance lessons, Pygmalion, hurt/comfort.
The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall - ff Gothic romance; sapphic yearning, lavender marriage, haunted house, ghosts or gaslighting?
Oak King Holly King - mm Victorian fae romance; fae warrior fated to die x mortal clerk destined to save him; hurt/comfort, antlers, homoerotic duels.
Tales from Blackthorn Briar - sequel to Oak King Holly King; polyamory, creative anatomy, fae x mortal, hurt/comfort.
Fiorenzo - mm fantasy-of-manners romance; hurt/comfort, royal x commoner, masquerade, homoerotic duels, dance lessons, creative anatomy, fantasy!Venice.
my problem is if i enjoy something enough i will be nitpicking. i Will have things to say about where and how it failed. out of nothing but love straight from my heart. unfortunately this often makes me indistinguishable from a hater who has never experienced joy or kindness. such is the amateur critic's burden.
Huzzah, a Trans Books for Pride Promo! There are nearly 70 books with trans characters or by trans authors brought together all in one place, including mine which is on sale.
"That was the intent, but the decision we made was an abandonment of the core counterculture, f*ck the establishment spirit of Kickstarter, and it left our community vulnerable."
Last week, we released a set of updates to our rules around mature content. It was our first time publishing a set of detailed, specific gui
"This isn’t the easiest route. It means that at any point, whether that’s before launch, while a campaign is live, or after it ends, while a creator is still collecting pledges made via Pledge Over Time or Late Pledges, Stripe can still suspend a campaign that Kickstarter has approved. That's the reality of operating within a payment system we don't fully control."
we must continue yelling at stripe. if you do not want to call them, you can also send them a letter at 354 Oyster Point Boulevard, South San Francisco, California, 94080.
Personally if I see a retailer using Stripe for payment processing I will take my business elsewhere, if possible letting the retailer know why. But this doesn't mean going off on the poor soul working checkout for minimum wage and brutal hours.
Respectfully, I'm not sure that's the optimal tactic, because there are so few payments options available for businesses. Like, the entire reason adult creators are so stressed about this is because we don't have many options other than Stripe! But if you were to take this tactic, you wouldn't be pledging to any Kickstarter, adult or not, because the entire website processes payment with Stripe.
I have to go through goddamn stripe to get health insurance payments for my therapy practice. I didnt chose it. That was simply the only option I could get.
These companies get away with this shit because they are fucking monopolies.
you can be peeling a boiled egg and think to yourself wow. that was so simple. and then you peel another one and it’s like being in the throes of war. shell everywhere. egg mangled. tears in your eyes. that’s how god keeps you humble
Okay, if you are tired then you won't be able to read. There I say it. No one else want to say it. It is strange. If you are tired, if you cannot finish a book that's a given. That's why you need to read...at work. You need to steal your reading time from your employers.
Ah fuck it, I can't wait to post them, I'm too excited. Eveyrone, meet Pete and Val, the main characters from this vampire book I'm writing! Pete is an ancient vampire who was last truly active in the 80s and hasn't quite snapped out of his fashion from back then, and Val is the guy who bought the house Pete was hibernating in. And now they're stuck with each other!
Characters: Pete the Vampire (he/him), Valentine "Val" Delgado (he/him)
And by "written" I mean I've got about 50-75% of a first draft done and my momentum hasn't died yet, so I feel safe to start actually talking about this one. After like 2 years without finishing a major project, it was beginning to feel like maybe I'd lost my sparkle. Enter - 1980s goth vampire and new love of my life, Pete, and his human roommate Valentine Delgado. The idea occurred to me on a long drive on back roads while I was listening to my 80s new wave/post punk playlist, and thinking about vampires, as I often do. Somewhere in there, something started simmering and by the end of my weekend I was left with a very potent concept: Trans man buys a historic house and accidentally wakes up the vampire who's been hibernating in the basement for the past 40 years.
That happened in late April. By the same time in May, I had written 50,000 words and illustrated a full cover. I still didn't feel safe to announce it, because I've announced a few projects since 2023 and none of them have actually Happened yet, but this one has stuck. I can tell you this is a very special little book, to me. It draws on some of my favorite horror comedies (What We Do in the Shadows, Lisa Frankenstein, Your Monster) as well as my enduring love for the intersection between queer and alternative subcultures.
With the pace I'm going at now I feel confident in saying this book, titled BE MY RENFIELD, will come out fall of this year (2026)! Until then, I can't wait to share all the art I've got of the characters that I've been patiently waiting to post until I felt like I was really, truly ready.
Happy pride! In the name of mlm and wlw solidarity here's my humble gift for thee. Wreg and Dame pieces are both for free on my patreon. They are around a4 size if printed, 300dpi, and perfect for your wall or screen.
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If you wish to support my work during this pride, consider joining my patreon for both free and exclusive print drops. Or if you wish to have any of my art pieces as high quality ready-made prints, check out my inprnt!
i personally don’t need to be watching kids movies in the same way i don’t need to be eating baby food. yes, baby food has nutrients and ingredients. it’s made with great care to be as nutritionally dense and palatable as possible for babies. if i were to eat nothing but baby food, it would technically give me everything i really need, because it IS food. but im an adult and i want to CHEW on something