!!! My endless thanks to the incredible teams of SPSFC judges, to my readers, and to everyone else who helped my strange debut novel find its place. This is beyond surreal. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 💟

As always, no AI anywhere in my process, just good old hyperfixation.

In some non-writerly Nikki happenings, I did GBJam a few weeks back, and as part of that I've been learning to do chiptunes for Gameboy hardware. To practice that, I encoded The Dear Hunter's "Red Hands" into a Gameboy chiptune file, and I think it turned out pretty well!

9 for 10 here! I have somehow never heard of Real Genius. I guess I should correct that.

A perfect day to pick up a trans farm romance novel!

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Loved Neverender Festival! My feet hurt, I'm sore everywhere, I lost my voice from shouting along with the Coheed crowd, and the 100+ degree heat really got to me by day two. Worth it! I hope they bring it back here next year (maybe in winter months though!)

Like, seriously, this should be a full on trope, not a relatively rare occurrence. I want it to be common enough in queer fiction that it gets its own TVtropes page. (I propose "double trans UNO reverse situation" as it's called in my book, if anyone ever wants to make that happen.)

I mean, how affirming! The confusing yearning between two closeted trans people, strangely falling for each other despite being mainly or exclusively attracted to the gender their corresponding love interest is trying to repress! It's so beautifully symmetrical. We need MORE books like that.

I find that a little ironic, because I originally started outlining Fallow as a sapphic romance. But as soon as I found Ash's voice early in the first draft, it was obvious that he needed to transition too. And the story is so much stronger for that.

I've been surprised to find that even among T4T romance readers, most aren't interested in reading TFxTM at all. There have been so many "please let it be yuri" or "not my cup of tea" type comments on my TikTok posts.

Snag it on sale for the next few hours, along with my first novel, Our Simulated Selves, a convoluted trans cyberthriller that took MANY frantic years and dozens of drafts between 2011 and 2025 to write. That one is decidedly NOT a romance, but good luck convincing the antagonist of that.

So, anyway, my 100% human-made trans romance novel, Fallow Till We Bloom, took a full year to write and edit. I have a full time job and two young kids, so I stayed up late writing every night, all without any "help" from the word-stealing calculators they've sold as "intelligence."

Feminize a band name: Estrogen, Lake & Palmer

Now display each of them atop a gift-wrapped box of flour

Nobody stop her! I need more books like this!

Good point, I don’t think there was an option to select where it ends up. It just blasts you out to all the platforms out there.