The Dreamer awakes, the shadow goes by; the tale I have told you, that tale is a lie...Portals to magical worlds, corvids that speak the meaning of life, and more await one who sits and listens to this sharing of tales between two anachronistic raconteurs, one of whom may or may not be Geoffrey Chaucer.Reader, remember this: the tales are pure fictions. Fantasies. Except when they are not.…
Need a bite? A stripper gets caught in the act of impersonating a goddess... A beauty is loved by a beast... A painter makes her work come to life... literally. But there is a price to pay... Two Sapphic edge-players put the pieces of a flower arrangement to unusual uses on their first date...Here are some short stories that might satisfy you. Some are sweet. Some are savory. And some are spicy. The most common spice in this collection is not vanilla.Explicit. 18+ only.════════════════════════════════════"Sera Drake showcases impressive range, moving seamlessly from dark, Grimm-esque fairy tale retellings to contemporary tales of BDSM and magical realism... A highly recommended collection for open-minded readers looking for something beyond the conventional." - Champion (Amazon)"I loved the subtle aura of this book, the way the stories built up slowly, peaked, and faded, leaving me pondering, and I liked that the characters and vocabulary were not vulgar. I loved how the stories were arranged so that each story was better than the last." Ann Linus for Readers' Favorite"Drake is a pro at playing with the reader's emotions in a way that I am slightly terrified of...If you are someone who's tired of the hetero-normative blandness of Fifty Shades of Grey, give Morsels a try." - Hannah Gonzalez, Reedsy Discovery════════════════════════════════════This book was shortlisted in the 2025 Passionate Plume Awards, an annual contest hosted by Passionate Ink, an affiliate of Romance Writers of America.…
She had it all - riches, a college scholarship, a girlfriend - until her conservative, hyper-religious parents found out about the girlfriend and made her choose between conversion therapy and disownment. That was the end of her academic career.Three years later, she met a shy public reference librarian in a bookstore. He'd been waiting his whole life for her. Meanwhile, she was starting her whole life over. What ensued between the two was magic. Given that he was about to become her tutor in the magickal and erotic arts, that was only to be expected. But at what cost?The mysterious older man was all she could ever have wished for, but she might need to choose between her developing identity and the most profound love she had ever known.════════════════════════════════════"Magic and philosophy sandwiched in between some of the hottest scenes I've read in recent years... Loved it!" - Hannah Gonzalez, Reedsy Discovery"Love is brutal, bloody, and ecstatic in this passionate romance... BDSM aficionados will love it... A richly imagined, lurid love story that's not for the faint of heart. (Our verdict: Get it!)" - Kirkus Reviews🏆 Wattpad Accolades: 100+ indie awards since its January 2024 launch; featured in 4 Ambassador profile booklists, including AfterDark, Romance, and LGBTQ+ #inkedandunwritten…
She had it all - riches, a college scholarship, a girlfriend - until her conservative, hyper-religious parents found out about the girlfriend and made her choose between conversion therapy and disownment. That was the end of her academic career.Three years later, she met a shy public reference librarian in a bookstore. He'd been waiting his whole life for her. Meanwhile, she was starting her whole life over. What ensued between the two was magic...Given that he was about to become her tutor in the magickal and erotic arts, that was only to be expected. But at what cost?The mysterious older man was all she could ever have wished for, but she might need to choose between her developing identity and the most profound love she had ever known.════════════════════════════════════"Magic and philosophy sandwiched in between some of the hottest scenes I've read in recent years... Loved it!" - Hannah Gonzalez, Reedsy Discovery"A richly imagined, lurid love story that's not for the faint of heart. (Our verdict: Get it!)" - Kirkus Reviews════════════════════════════════════THIS IS A SPECIALLY EDITED EDITION OF THE ORIGINAL NOVEL. It is designed to be easier on the eyes of smartphone readers. There are also caution bars and spoilers bracketing erotic material in the (*) asterisked chapters so that readers who wish to avoid explicit content can read as much of the chapter as possible while skipping the explicit parts.…
On her fortieth birthday, Rennie Fitzgerald has finally realized that there is no timeline for adulting, no ticking clock for setting a date for marriage, and no pressure to have children. If only Imani Aguillon's parents had reached the same conclusion...What do you do when you're on the cusp of middle age and under pressure to get married, give your folks some grandkids, and live a life that's completely different from the one you want? And what if your Ms Right is just around the corner, waiting to be met?Welcome to a kinky Sapphic romcom containing bondage, spanking, orgasm denial, social justice questions, the Unipiper, active volcanoes, an argumentam ad absurdum proving that bats are bugs, ballroom dance lessons, Immanuel Kant, marriage discussions, THE WORLD'S LONGEST SAFEWORD! and more. Adults 18+ only.…
Here is a tale of two dimensional gates. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair...Through "The Gilden Door," a young girl grows up rapidly as she discovers she must save a land from ruin. Through the door into "Arkesh," two teens stumble and fall into a kingdom's civil war. Enter the portals to two magical worlds in this back-to-back collection.…
I joke with the people who read my prose that writing my erotic literary fiction is like baking lasagna. The plot and characterization and style are the meat, pasta, and cheese; the naughty bits are, of course, all sauce; and then I go and ruin everything by sneaking philosophical discourse, literary discussion, and other nonsense in there like broccoli bits.Well, this book is nothing but broccoli. If you're here, you must want broccoli. Bon appétit.…
This is a collection of reviews I have written of various books as part of judging them for contests. I have gathered them together in a portfolio for the convenience of contest hosts who want to see samples of my work, but writers who I have judged in a contest are welcome to look for their reviews here if they want to see them.…
No, you can't apply to be listed in my book of COOL BOOKS. No, I don't guarantee that a COOL BOOKS listing will confer a boost in readership. It confers a listing and a sticker that I send you privately. At some point it might also confer a book review. Maybe.As it is, it confers COOLNESS.…
Fun fact: Ancilla has its own art gallery! It's here. Behold the collection of all the promotions, illustrations, book trailers, and playlist videos I've ever made for my novel. (FYI: The gallery is safe for work, as the saying goes, but the original story is absolutely adults only).My art is also viewable on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seradrakethebookwyrmAll rights reserved. The moral rights of the author/illustrator have been asserted. I do not consent to have my poetry and prose used to train artificial intelligence.…
Wild Is the Wind: The Art of Ancilla concluded at the end of December 2024. New art gallery, coming up!This one has art for all of my commercial projects. As in Wild Is the Wind and my contest logs, Asphodels and Narcissi will be peppered with offhand comments about the "joys" of being an indie author in the publishing industry, whether that involves self-publication or publishing on Wattpad.…
This is a portfolio of art. Or graphics. Or aesthetics. Or something. I'm not sure what to call it. Viewer, if you choose to look at what I have created, I hope you call it beautiful.…
Exactly as labeled, here is another gallery of my trippy, woozy art edits. Enter the story at your leisure.…
In my spare time (when I have spare time...) I make art. To be more specific, I make layered, heavily edited digital collages that collide and swirl images together until the end result is something that looks like it could have come out of a fever dream. Here it is.Dream.…
Remember how I always said I never wanted to host an award? Ever? Too much work, too much stress, count me out? Oops. It's true. I am hosting an award. No, I am not just doing it as an excuse to make people stickers, although there will be stickers. OH, YES, THERE WILL BE STICKERS. This contest is a celebration of all that is awesomely misfit on Wattpad. Are you in?…
BEHOLD MY BRAG BOOKThis is a portfolio of awards and reviews that Ancilla and its art have received, both on Wattpad and in the real world, due to being entered in real-world contests in addition to those on Wattpad. (I self-published Ancilla commercially about a month before I published an edition of it on Wattpad). Ancilla's rate of winning contests on Wattpad, according to Google's calculator, is about one contest in three - one in two if I only look at the contests that did not fizzle out before completing. Real-world contest win rate: zero. For general wins and losses, refer to my 2024 and 2025 Books of Contests. This portfolio displays reviews, score sheets, comments, press releases, and interviews.Nearly all the material contained herein is glowing and positive (of course) but I have also tucked in some negative material and contest fails, including a downright withering review from some guy at IndieReader.Dear reader, I hope you find this entertaining. If you are an independent pro author like me, I hope you also find it useful for your journey to success.…
Just what it says on the tin, this is a portfolio of awards won and reviews received for What Is Told: A Conglomeration of Confabulations. A story I first published on Wattpad shortly after Christmas 2024, thinking it would be a little collection of fluff. Just my clean stories collected into one volume, which I'd eventually publish commercially when it got to be novella-size, so that my kids could read something I'd written without being traumatized for life by material nobody's offspring should ever read if written by their parent...Hah.It is now a third of the way done, and the hardest material of all - interludes connecting the stories together, and retellings from Boccaccio's Decameron written from Chaucer's perspective, as if transliterated into modern English - is staring me in the face. I'm working up my gumption to get it done. But WIT has received enough awards by now that it needs its own brag book, despite being an unfinished rough draft. I guess I'm doing something right?…
To keep myself from losing track of:all the contests I've entered, all the contests I've volunteered myself as a judge (or let myself be voluntold into judging), all the books I've had to read as a contestant or as a judge, all the deadlines, and all the other important stuff,I've decided to create a book that registers all these things in a somewhat organized fashion. I can't remember who advised me to do that, but whoever you are, and there are probably several of you, thank you.I've been reading that it's extremely common for contests to be a bit sluggish with follow-up if a person wins a major prize and gets graphics and shout-outs, so I'll use this book to keep track of that, too.I had no idea so many people would be adding my personal convenience book to their own bookshelves, let alone voting for chapters - if my book of contests is useful to other people, that makes me happy. Very happy.However, I feel I must reiterate that although other people are welcome to browse my public contest logs and look for contests, look for information about details of contests (i.e. you want me to pour you some tea), etc, these contest logs are primarily for my own use. I enter so many contests that I can't keep track of them without a log. I forget important details, too, including things like "Note to self: You do not get along with this contest host, best not participate in their contests."This was never meant to be an "expose" book. I'm not exposing anybody. Contests are matters of public record, as are any comments made in the contest books. I'm just a ditz who needs a written log to keep track of everything. I would lose my head if it wasn't attached to my shoulders.I DO NOT CONSENT TO MY POETRY AND PROSE BEING USED TO TRAIN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE…
To keep myself from losing track of:all the 2025 contests I've entered, all the 2025 contests I've volunteered myself as a judge (or let myself be volun-told into judging), all the 2025 books I've had to read as a contestant or as a judge, all the 2025 deadlines, and all the other important stuff,here is a book that registers all these 2025 things in a somewhat organized fashion. With occasional commentary.Nota bene: Although other people are welcome to browse my public contest logs and look for contests, look for information about details of contests (i.e. you want me to pour you some tea), etc, these contest logs are primarily for my own use. I enter so many contests that I can't keep track of them without a log. I forget important details, too, including things like "Note to self: You do not get along with this contest host, best not participate in their contests."Like my 2024 contest log, this was never meant to be an "expose" book. I'm not exposing anybody. Contests are matters of public record, as are any comments made in the contest books. I'm just a ditz who needs a written log to keep track of everything. I would lose my head if it wasn't attached to my shoulders.I DO NOT CONSENT TO MY POETRY AND PROSE BEING USED TO TRAIN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE…
To keep myself from losing track of:all the 2026 contests I've entered, all the 2026 contests I've volunteered myself as a judge (or let myself be volun-told into judging), all the 2026 books I've had to read as a contestant or as a judge, all the 2026 deadlines, and all the other important stuff,here is a book that registers all these 2026 things in a somewhat organized fashion. With occasional commentary. For the record, I am not Lady Whistledown, and I do not have all the gossip of the ton. Nota bene: Although other people are welcome to browse my public contest logs and look for contests, look for information about details of contests (i.e. you want me to pour you some tea), etc, these contest logs are primarily for my own use. I enter so many contests that I can't keep track of them without a log. I forget important details, too, including things like "Note to self: You do not get along with this contest host, best not participate in their contests."Like my 2024 and 2025 contest logs, this journal was never meant to be an "expose" book. I'm not exposing anybody. Contests are matters of public record, as are any comments made in the contest books. I'm just a ditz who needs a written log to keep track of everything. I would lose my head if it hadn't been attached to my shoulders.I DO NOT CONSENT TO MY POETRY AND PROSE BEING USED TO TRAIN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE…