September Newsletter

Stuff Your Kindle Events, New EYETOOTH story, and more

Hello, and welcome back to the feast! It’s almost autumn, my favorite season, and I’m excited to share some new stuff with you as well as some exciting events that I’m taking part in. Pivoting after the itch.io shutdown has been hard, and there are definitely some changes that I need to make to ensure that I’m reaching as many people as I can with my work.

This means putting my books into Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited services occasionally, as well as participating in more free/on sale events like SYK events. I’m still looking into alternatives to that! I don’t know much about using Amazon for promotion, since I heavily emphasized my work on itch.io. I’ll still be running payhip sales as well, but I haven’t seen a lot of growth there yet since there’s no algorithm like the one that itch.io had.

In the meantime, I’m still writing, still releasing, and getting excited for a busy last part of the year!

LONGBONES

I am so excited to share the prequel 9k word short story that follows Dr. Mede almost 200 years before the events of EYETOOTH. It came out Friday, Sept. 19th, and is available through both Payhip and Amazon in eBook format.

BLURB:

The year is 1836.

Gwydion Mede struggles with the limits of their immortality. They've spent the last few centuries hopping from body to body, inhabiting corpses until they decay and try to make peace with their limited power. Caught in a small village in a body that suddenly gives out, they're out of options and out of time. This time, they might die for real.

Something catches whiff of their last, desperate plea for help, and offers Mede a deal that seems too good to be true and access to magic that shouldn't exist. Mede doesn't have long to decide, and this deal is better than death.

But can they chew and swallow what they bit off?

Be sure to check CWs on the Payhip page, or on my insta page before purchasing!

Stuff Your Kindle Events

I’m in 3 events so far this month and next month, and I’ll link them down below for you to go check them out.

Today, September 21st, is the last day that Blood & Flowers will be $1.99 on Amazon through the Monsters and Magic SYK Day! It is also in KU for the next 3 months, so if you miss this or the next event that it’s in, you can still read it through your KU subscription. It will be free from October 24th to the 26th through the Dark Romance Team’s Stuff Your Kindle Day, which you can check back for updates here! They’re working on getting all of the 400+ (!!!!!!!!!!!!) books up on the website now.

EYETOOTH will also be free for a day, on September 26th through the Smash Slash SYKD. Check out the other horror and dark romance books available! EYETOOTH is also in KU for the next 3 months because of this SYK event, so if you miss this event, you can still read it through your KU subscription.

I’m very excited to see how these events go! My last SYK event was last winter with the Dark Mode Books SYKD, where FIRST CREATION got thousands of downloads and hundreds of new people finding my work. I’m so excited to see what these events will bring!

New Book Coming Oct. 31st

I teased this with my Instagram header update, but I thought it would be fun to do a bit of a more formal announcement for it.

ULTRA HIGH DEFINITION is a story about technology, lust, and soul-sucking jobs. I’m comping it to The Ring and Videodrome and it will be novella length. Here’s the cover, if you want to take a look at it! It will be available through Amazon in ePub and Paperback, and Payhip in ePub and PDF formats.

Keep an eye out on my social medias for updates, including a blurb, content warnings, snippets, and other material related to it before the release date!

Ultra High Definition by mars adler

Thank you for reading, and until next time, I hope you have a wonderful last couple of days of summer. I am so grateful to y’all, as always, for supporting me.
mars