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COVER REVEAL 🔥✨🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈 I’m so excited to finally show folks this BEAUTIFUL cover!! Stunning art by Jan (@thistlearts.bsky.social), who not only obliged me in portraying all three (!!!) of my queer, poly, radical pirates—he also absolutely nailed their dynamic! Coming March 17, 2026! emcaro.carrd.co

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Rears & Vices is about Royal Navy career man Everard Anderson de Anglada [Mr. Stern and Buttoned-up in the middle], who is forced to judge the court-martial of his former lover Vitaliy Gray [Mr. Protective on the right] and finds out the man has been—oops!—an infamous pirate the whole time. 🧵

Why is he Gray? Asking as a curious Russian 😅

Hi! Vitaliy is American (and technically a bastard besides) and uses his mother's Quaker maiden name as surname. If he'd taken a patronymic it would have been Gavrilovich - but the closest he comes to this is to use his grandfather's name as his pirate alias, V. Varfolomey (from Varfolomei).

(btw, i love nerdy questions like this!) As an aside, I'm aware there was basically *no* significant Russian diaspora to America in the late 1700s - his father was a rather strange outlier, having come from Alaska down to Canada/PNW for the fur trade. :)

I thought he'd be from Alaska haha I love it when authors do their research well 😎