New book!

Hi friends!

I’m so excited and nervous and fearful and a twinge exhausted to tell you about a book I soft-launched recently on Amazon! It’s called Transgressions and it’s a collection of erotic short stories.

It’s $3.99 right now in the Kindle store, but if you wait another week, May 27 to be exact, it’ll be $.99. I’ll send another email alerting you, which will be my “hard” launch (pun unintended, for once).

There’s also a print version for $9.99. I don’t know what it looks like yet, ha! I’ve ordered a few copies. Will let you know.

I’ve never self-published before and it has been a wild ride. For instance, I just learned that Amazon won’t let me buy any ads for my erotica because it contains “erotic content.” So, that’s fun.

But I wanted to let you know the book was out. I’ve been working on it, technically, for a few years now. I started writing erotica after my friend Avery forwarded an email from an erotic podcast looking for writers.

I wrote a story (“Blind Heat” in the collection) inspired by a trans guy whom I was trying to convince to have sex with me. (Actually, we also went to that wondrous and strange erotic dinner party that I wrote about for VICE.) I thought it might be a touch creepy to write erotica about someone I didn’t know very well, but he told me he was flattered, so phew.)

Anyway, I sent the story to the podcast and they were like, WE LOVE IT. We’ll give you $200 and we also want the story rights forever.

And I was like, Wait, all the rights forever? Like, I can never publish it or sell it elsewhere for as long as I’m alive?

And they were like, yep!

So I said, Never mind, then! Because I watched that Dolly Parton documentary and she was like, NEVER GIVE UP THE COPYRIGHT TO YOUR ART. ELVIS TRIED TO BUY “I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU,” AND I SAID NO, AND THEN WHITNEY HOUSTON CAME ALONG YEARS LATER AND MADE ME A BAJILLION EXTRA DOLLARS. I DIDN’T NEED IT CUZ I WAS ALREADY RICH, BUT YOU KNOW, STILL.

Okay, she might not have said exactly that or all-capsed it, but that was my takeaway.

So if I can make $200 on this book, I’ll feel vindicated. (Buy it here.)

Also, I’m proud of it. The stories are hot and weird and sometimes funny and one is even a social justice erotic story, which I’m pretty sure is not even a thing, but I was mad at the patriarchy one day and the story just came out.

(It’s called “The Holy Grail” and it’s based on the idea that a straight man bedding two women at once is considered ‘the holy grail’ of sex acts, but the two women he wants to bed in the story send him on a quest to teach him what it’s like to be a woman in the year of our lord 2021.)

If you do buy the book, I’d love if you could also give it an honest review, because people distrust things that have no reviews. This is why I ask all my exes to update my Yelp page accordingly once we break up.

Kidding.

There’s no Yelp page for my vagina. (I HOPE.)

More to come (like you, probably, if you buy this book),

xxo,

Anna