The Dreamer awakes, the shadow goes by; the tale I have told you, that tale is a lie... Portals to magical worlds, goddesses that walk among us, corvids that speak the meaning of life, and more await the one who peruses this volume of collected tales. Reader, remember this: the tales are pure fictions. Fantasies. Except when they are not.…
An awkward bookworm searching for her inner strength...A magus who also happens to be a sexual dominant...An age gap, a forbidden romance, and a quest for gnosis...A shy public reference librarian and a college dropout who was disowned when she refused to submit to conversion therapy encounter each other in a bookstore. He's been waiting his whole life for her. Meanwhile, she's starting her whole life over. What ensues between the two is magic. Given that he's about to become her tutor in the magickal and erotic arts, that's only to be expected.But at what cost?The mysterious older man is all she could ever have wished, but she may need to choose between her developing identity and the most profound love she has ever known.With its mystical academic setting and quirky characters, this is a bisexual coming-of-age story like you've never read before.Amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant...════════════════════════════════════Ancilla was added to Wattpad After Dark's BDSM booklist on May 10, 2024. It contains mature and explicit material; reader discretion is advised.Readers who are stumbling on this novel in search of "spice" will find it, and it is hotter than a ghost pepper - however, be advised that compared to other books of this nature, Ancilla has a very slow burn, and there is more to the plot than just "spice."Like all my other books, this novel is self-illustrated. Some of my art, including the cover, incorporates snipped pieces of AI-generated images that I rendered in Canva Pro. The other layers of my collage art involve free stock images, photographs taken by me or my husband, and public-domain fine art.…
An awkward bookworm searching for her inner strength...A magus who also happens to be a sexual dominant...An age gap, a forbidden romance, and a quest for gnosis...A shy public reference librarian and a college dropout who was disowned when she refused to submit to conversion therapy encounter each other in a bookstore. He's been waiting his whole life for her. Meanwhile, she's starting her whole life over. What ensues between the two is magic. Given that he's about to become her tutor in the magickal and erotic arts, that's only to be expected.But at what cost?The mysterious older man is all she could ever have wished, but she may need to choose between her developing identity and the most profound love she has ever known.With its mystical academic setting and quirky characters, this is a bisexual coming-of-age story like you've never read before.Amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant...════════════════════════════════════Ancilla was added to Wattpad After Dark's BDSM booklist on May 10, 2024. It contains mature and explicit material; reader discretion is advised.Readers who are stumbling on this novel in search of "spice" will find it, and it is hotter than a ghost pepper - however, be advised that compared to other books of this nature, Ancilla has a very slow burn, and there is more to the plot than just "spice."This edition of Ancilla has been serialized for greater ease of smartphone use. Like the original edition, which was added to Wattpad After Dark's BDSM booklist on May 10, 2024, it contains mature and explicit material. Reader discretion is advised.Readers who are stumbling on this novel in search of "spice" will find it, and it is hotter than a ghost pepper - however, be advised that compared to other books of this nature, Ancilla has a very slow burn, and there is more to the plot than just "spice."…
This is a portfolio of awards and reviews Ancilla and its art gallery, Wild Is the Wind: The Art of Ancilla, have received, both on and off Wattpad. Also included: my author interviews.…
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.…
New promo art gallery, coming up!I marked Wild Is the Wind: The Art of Ancilla concluded at the end of December 2024. My promotional art has other foci. While I still promote Ancilla, I simultaneously make art that entices readers to buy a commercial edition of Morsels. I am also working on Soror Mystica, which is the sequel to Ancilla, and a spin-off novella, The Adventures of the Hypotenuse. All of my projects get their own promo art.New art = new book.As in Wild Is the Wind and my contest logs, this art gallery will be peppered with offhand comments about the "joys" of the publishing industry, including self-publication and publishing on Wattpad.…
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 dimensional portals to two magical worlds in this back-to-back collection of novelettes.…
What happens when the healer of an oppressive, tiny village helps her younger brother learn magic, giving him a chance at living a decent life?Nothing good.…
These my offerings,tiny and fragile, they must take rootin stubborn soil. Fertilize them.Give them shape. Twisted they may grow,but their trunks must be strong.They must reach through the night.They must be of their ground...Some of these poems were published in a chapbook, Eleusinian Mysteries, in 1995, under the pen name Sarah Maddox.Other publications that accepted my poetry include The Mill, Isis Magazine (the literary magazine for students at the University of Oxford), Tournaments Illuminated, and the late, great Shadowdance zine.All rights reserved; the moral rights of the author have been asserted; I do not provide consent for my writing to be used to train artificial intelligence.…
My husband found some of my old poetry in a box in the back room when we were decluttering our house. He asked me if I wanted to save it. As it turned out, I did. I wrote these in September and October of 2003, shortly after I'd discovered I was pregnant with our second child. It is now my autumn. I am not young; I bear no fruit. But here is a memory of summer. My tree once blossomed.…
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 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. Some of it consists of stuff I transcribed from handwritten or typed stuff I wrote in the 1990's, because I'm in the process of purging clutter from my home, but any new essays I write will be stuffed in here as well, either in the first section, which is the academic part, or in the second section, which is is for the personal essays and the things I wrote for an arts and entertainment column I once had as co-editor of that section of the campus newspaper, back in my undergraduate days.…
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.…
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.…
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 if I actually manage to win anything at all, I'll use this book to keep track of that, too, so I can maybe tweak my book covers to reflect contests won or something. 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.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.…