FAQ

How do I get my ebooks/audiobooks?

I use the service Bookfunnel to automatically send an email to you with download links to get your books after purchase. With Bookfunnel, you can then send your ebooks to your favorite ereader, read them with Bookfunnel online, or use the code they provide to load them into the Bookfunnel app. Audiobooks are great in the Bookfunnel app!

 

Where are my books?

Bookfunnel will send an email with download links to your ebooks or audiobooks right after purchase. This usually arrives instantly.

Sometimes, if a payment is delayed at the payment processor (this can sometimes happen if you paid with Paypal), it can take up to an hour for the email from Bookfunnel to arrive.

If you didn't get an email from Bookfunnel after an hour, please look in your spam folder. And if you don't see it there, please contact me. I want to make sure you get your books!

If you contact me, store hours are 9AM PST-6PM PST Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. If you contact outside of store hours, I'll get back to you within one business day.

 

Can I get my signed copy personalized? 

Due to high order demand, I can no longer personalize individual books. Signed books will always be signed, however!

 

Are your books appropriate for my teenager?

While everyone is different, I can offer some content guidance here! Most of my books are rated PG-13 to R. There are some scenes in some of my books, but they are mostly non-descriptive, focus on emotions, and/or fade to black.

Spice is rated from 0-5 peppers. Series are as follows:

The Stars and Green Magics: PG-13 (half a pepper)
The King's Weaver 1-2: PG-13 (half a pepper)
The King's Weaver 3: R (🌶️🌶️)
Good King Lyr: R (🌶️)
Magnificent: R (for content, not spice)

Please do read my extensive content notes! And feel free to ask if you have any questions!

 

How do I send ebooks or audiobooks to a friend?

I'd suggest entering your friend's email address during checkout so that the books go straight to them. You can also forward the Bookfunnel email to them so they can claim their books. Forwarding can sometimes still add the books to your own Bookfunnel account, though, so please contact me if you need me to change the email address on the backend. 

 

I have a sensitivity concern, are you open to hearing about that? 

Absolutely. Having diverse and inclusive books is really important to me, and I do my very best, but we all have unconscious bias. If you have a concern about something in my books, please reach out!

 

Do you ship internationally?

I can currently only ship physical goods to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. Please also be aware that you will be responsible for any customs, duties fees, or tariffs charged by your country through the shipping carrier. I can't calculate or collect these fees beforehand.

 

Do you sell wholesale?

Yes! If your are a bookstore and would like to place a bulk order of signed or unsigned books at wholesale discount for resale, please reach out to me!

 

What about AI?

My business is creator first and AI assisted. This allows me to have the greatest reach to get the most queer and trans books as possible into the hands of those who need and will enjoy them. Some people think this is a good excuse to be transphobic to me--don't be one of those people.

Some of my books are entirely human written, most written pre-AI. (Good King Lyr, Magnificent, Throne of Eleven, Lives on Other Worlds, The Truthspoken Heir, The Shadow Rule, A Bid to Rule, Court of Magickers, The Nameless Storm, The Second Ruler: Part One, The Second Ruler: Part Two, Sky and Dew, and all of my previously published stories from anthologies and magazines.) Court of Magickers has one header quote rephrased by AI--but if that soils your soup, my books probably aren't for you. 

Some of my newer books are AI-assisted in the writing process. I use AI to enhance my own creativity and lessen the cognitive load, not replace my own voice and ideas. My books often still take months and hundreds of hours to write and edit. Books where I use AI in my process are the same books I would have written without it, but this lets me release 3+ books a year and maintain the running of my author business, where I was only able to manage 1-2 books before. My final books are always my final books, in my own voice, AI-assisted or not. (If you don't like my writing, you just don't like my human writing. You can pry my em dashes and sentence fragments from my cold, dead hands, ha.)

And of course I use AI in the making of my films and shows! My end goal is to build a studio where I can hire human actors and artists and filmmakers to make trans-led movies and shows. But, Hollywood right now is going backwards in representation. To get to my goal, I've gotta prove the audience. And we might need to change the world a bit in the meantime, too. That's also the plan, that more people see characters like them and enjoy watching their stories. I pour hundreds of hours into writing, directing, producing, and editing my films and shows. AI tools are used, but these are still human-creative productions made heavily with human-led craft and skill.

All of my audiobooks currently use AI voices. Some, like The King's Weaver series and The Stars and Green Magics series, mainly use voice clones from voice actors who are paid for their use. While I'd love to have human narrations some day, the best way to get there is by supporting my work! (To narrate my whole catalog would be around $100K and take several years. We'll get there, friends, but not quite this day.) Accessibility is important to me, and I'll use the best AI voices I can in the meantime.

I am, always and ever, an artist. My mission is always to spread queer joy as widely and as far as possible, for people to see themselves in books and shows where they haven't before, and for inclusivity and empathy and self-love and expression to spread. Running a trans led business in our current world is hard. And I'm not willing to back down on spreading queer joy, which is immensely important right now, if there's a way to boost the signal. I know why I use the tools that I use and why my business model is built on my own joy, love, and integrity. 

I always welcome earnest questions. I will not respond to harassment. For more on why, see here.

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