#about tami

[tamiveldura]

I should start rambling about my writing or you'll never know about it.

Hi, I'm Tami Veldura and I'm a published indie author with 149 titles according to my spreadsheet, the vast majority of which are short stories.

I've received an honorable mention twice from The Writers Of The Future, I've been published in magazines and anthologies, I've indie published a bunch of shit, and Tumblr inspired my trans fairy tales series when someone mentioned that Cinderella was trans, obviously, and where were the trans retellings?

They're here and they're lesbian: https://www.tamiveldura.com/the-black-trans-fairy-tales/

Anyway, now I'm writing a super kinky gay harem vampire romance for my website peeps and I'm actively developing a new erotic romance M/F dragon shifter series called Angelfall which has already been claimed for first rights publication by an erotica magazine sight-unseen because the editor is a fan.

I'm also developing a series of dragon-focused anthologies with two friends of mine who are also fan-editors of my work. You can find that here: Dpt Of Dragon Archives but I will be the first to tell you that is a bare bones splash page to hold our domain and the newsletter sign up because we are still very early in the cycle.

I'm also an artist. I've done the first dragon archive cover, I want to draw more character art for my own creations, and generally don't have time for all my hobbies. Mood.

AMA about writing, publishing, doing it for 15 years with chronic illness.

[tamiveldura]

How long have you been writing?

Since I can remember! The first thing I remember "writing," I was maybe 5, was a single sheet of paper where I copied the descriptive paragraph inside all of my Lisa Frank folders and gave it to my mother claiming I'd written a story.

My mother, in her infinite wisdom, handed it back to me and said, "It's great! What happens next?"

I moved into forum based RP groups immediately after that. Shifted into fanfiction during my high school years, then majored in college in creative writing, with a novella as my senior project.

I've been writing original fiction ever since!

I use several pennames to keep genres separated:

London Kemaker: PNR and SFR, M/M, dark and kinky

S.T. Lynn: YA cozy fantasy, female mains, if romance it's F/F or Nonbinary.

Anna Morgan: to-market M/F PNR, at the moment all books are in the same world. Dark-ish.

Tami Veldura: science fiction, fantasy, adventure, short story experiments, my first and catch-all penname, so it holds a large variety in the older catalog. Going forward, the focus is non-romantic genre adventure with limited exceptions to complete existing series.