Rien Joyce

FLESH is officially live today on Payhip and Amazon! If you're looking for a short, hot read to fill out your spooky season, try my queer erotic horror novella. My shop: payhip.com/RienWrites Amazon: www.amazon.com/FLESH-Flesh-... #bookrelease #booksky #adult #horror #novella #queerwriters

LAZARUS is full of vampires who are so normal. Is this a spoiler? Maybe. #FangOut

The cover for my queer erotic horror novella FLESH was illustrated by the incredible @welldipper.bsky.social with typesetting by me. FLESH is about a man who makes bad decisions with his dick and ends up hunted through the woods by a Fae and their hounds. payhip.com/RienWrites

Man makes bad decisions with his dick. Its 7, sue me. XD

Galeas the Keen is my butch/femme retelling of The Fisher King, starring a blind knight seeking the source of a cursed flood, and the wounded noblewoman trapped in the waters ⚔️ cover by me! 🔥High Heat 🌊 Lush Prose 💪 Disabled Power Couple 📱 riengray.itch.io/galeas-the-k... 📖 riengray.shop/b/wYrcg

The cover for my queer erotic horror novella FLESH was illustrated by the incredible @welldipper.bsky.social with typesetting by me. FLESH is about a man who makes bad decisions with his dick and ends up hunted through the woods by a Fae and their hounds. payhip.com/RienWrites

If you're still looking for a quick read for the end of October, my queer erotic horror novella might be what you're looking for! For lovers of pathetic men, nasty women, and people who want to be hunted through the woods like an animal. #booksky #queerhorror #erotica #adult

Outlined the sequel to FLESH this past week and did some high level series outlining so I know where its going.

#LitHodgepodge 23 Oh I would love to team up with a badass leatherworker to make some cuff and collar sets based off David's work in FLESH.

If Sherlock Holmes retellings that are queer and awesome are your type of thing, check out @olivejkelley.bsky.social's Kickstarter campaign. Olive is running this for another twenty-eight days and is halfway there! www.kickstarter.com/projects/olivejkelley/watkins-and-hemlock-volume-one-ouroboros

5 days since my queer erotic horror novella released!

Your name is Oli, and you're a trans masc messenger who is trying to get an urgent message to the other side of this dangerous magical family's fancy gardens, through which you're trespassing. And there's monsters with their dicks out! johannestevans.co.uk/2026/10/20/t...

#LitHodgepodge 20 FLESH is, in the end, a monster-fucker horror. The monsters are Fae, but I'll be honest that I play really fast and loose with the lore. Otherwise, "Don't go into the Woods" and "Making Bad Decisions With My Dick" are strong contenders.

I enjoy writing. I primarily write with myself as the main audience. That being said, if you're reading something by an indie author (or partaking in any indie media) and you enjoy it, PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, TELL US. We LIVE for comments and gushing and all that. Even an emoji. <3

Have you heard about the BIG GAY VAMPIRE BUNDLE? 22 LGBTQIA+ vampire books & stories by incredible authors like @ladzwriting.bsky.social and @bookspotlight.bsky.social (and myself of course) for just $23 - that's just over a buck a book! Grab yours today itch.io/b/3951/big-g...

Short but verrrrry fun :3

#LitHodgepodge 19 Oh this one's a little hard! David's not a particularly materialistic person. He is fond of his leather jacket, his truck, and his leather-working tools. He is probably more sentimental about gifts he has made and given away, such as his mentor's leather cap.

I'm still thinking about this.

No matter what anyone tells you in indie, “debut” day for your novel doesn’t mean shit. Keep posting it. Every day is your book’s birthday. Mine have done their best sales 3 years after release. Just keep talking about it.

Something I see a lot of well-meaning artists do is get discouraged when they post their work here and don’t receive feedback. You have to be social on social media. Posting and running, without ever engaging with others and their craft will not give you the results you want. Art is about community.

Please can you give my posts a boost? I’ve managed a couple of sales but in order to progress and build a business I need to sell a few little bits to be able to self fund this please help me if you can. As I’m guessing nowhere fast and I really need to prove myself right this time. 

#LitHodgepodge 16 Mercedes Lackey and Ursula K Le Guin. Massively influential to me and super interesting authors. I just want to pick their brains about craft and all sorts of subjects, haha.

I want to make a tea based on FLESH. I think a base of lapsang souchong with juniper berries?? Idk, ideas they float about my brain while I try and nail down the high level blurbs for the next couple books and the full outline for the sequel.

#LitHodgepodge 15 Myers-Briggs is bullshit pop-psych and I really dislike most of these kinds of personality profiles. But I do like astrology. David is a scorpio, though he's pretty unambitious for one. But his independence and passion are absolutely on type.

The only people who think book banning is good publicity are authors who sell so many copies they wouldn't notice. Okay, cool, the ban didn't sink Stephen King's career? Try interviewing a queer author whose book hasn't hit four digits.

I'm a sucker for simile and metaphor rich prose, especially when it re-iterates symbolism or acts as foreshadowing. From FLESH- "Every day he felt more like a pile of loose sticks bound together against his will with a gaping, hollow emptiness at his core." #LitHodgepodge 14 #writesky

sometimes you try to write a second book and instead you get really into formula one and decide to make that everyone else's problem. ON TOP! is a new formula one romance coming in april 2027 and i swear to you, i promise, from the bottom of my heart: they do have sex with the car.

FLESH officially released on October 16th! A queer erotic horror novella perfect for spooky season reading. Pre-Order now! payhip.com/RienWrites Cover as always by the impeccable @welldipper.bsky.social #queerbooks #indieauthors #spookyreads #queerwriters #booksky

Because it made me happy.

Thats a hell of a promo for this tasty bundle!

Trying something new this #PortfolioDay and highlighting my book cover illustration work in its own post. 📚 I'm M.E. Morgan, I paint book covers! My previous clients include PRH, Simon&Schuster, & HarperCollins. Feel free to view my portfolio & get in touch⬇️ morlevart.com mmorlevart@gmail(.)com

Not a damn thing /jk Loss of the ability to feel happiness and enjoy things though -is- a major part of FLESH. David loves making things with his hands, volunteering with his local kink/queer communities, and playing/spending time with friends.

#LitHodgepodge 13 The Woods are a major setting piece in FLESH. They are meant to embody everything a forest could stand for- freedom, danger, refuge, wildness- and yet still be wrong or too much or not quite real.

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Cover reveal and pre-orders are open for FLESH, my queer erotic horror novella about a man who'd rather get hunted by the Fae than go to therapy. Cover by @welldipper.bsky.social Typesetting done by myself Pre-order direct Ebook or Paperback! payhip.com/RienWrites #spookyseason #booksky

Honestly it usually pops into my head. My wip titles are usually stupid as I just need something to call it and then during the course of writing I either have a titling epiphany or I have to grind and workshop titles at the end in the most miserable experience possible.