I'm SO excited to introduce you to another writer/illustrator set you'll find in the pages of Love Letters. 

Cecilia Tan

Cecilia is kind of a badass. She doesn't just write sci-fi BDSM erotica (and lots of other erotic/romance fiction) she founded Circlet Press, a whole publishing house devoted to it. You might recognize some of her titles: Slow Surrender, The Prince’s Boy, Mind Games, The Hot Streak, White Flames, Edge Plays, Black Feathers, The Velderet, and Telepaths Don’t Need Safewords, as well as the Magic University series of paranormal erotic romances. My favourite accolade, though, is that Cecilia has the distinction of being perhaps the only writer to have erotic fiction published in both Penthouse and Ms. magazines.

Imagine my delight when this real-life erotic romance author expressed a fondness for Star Crossed??? I was flattered to say the least. 

When I invited Cecilia to contribute to Love Letters, she immediately sent over some interesting pitches that unfortunately overlapped with some other contributors' pairings. When I asked for more, she very hesitantly pitched something... a little darker. A little too real, maybe. In a dystopian way. 

If you like near-future sci-fi, intense power dynamics, and medical weirdness, you are going to love Fever. I certainly do. One thing I really like about it is that through carefully varied options, she really lets the players decide how kinky they want things to be. When I reached this part of the google doc we were working in: 

I’m pretty sure I let out a full-on cartoonish villainous laugh. Is there any higher praise?

HamletMachine

I have been into HamletMachine's work for years, ever since the early days of their sexy m/m space drama STARFIGHTER. It's one of those rare works of art that feels like it was made for me. I mean, I'm a BIG fan. I played the visual novel the day it came out. (And then I played it again.) 

HamletMachine's work contends with intense, complicated dynamics that are sometimes as unsettling as they are compelling. And it's always hot. I'm thrilled about her new ongoing project, MICKEY + JESSICA, a gritty butch/femme D/s romance that is sometimes about people reconciling with hidden and rejected parts of themselves - and is sometimes just about really hot sex. 

Her piece for Fever really captures the heavy, claustrophobic desperation that pervades the pairing. So much is conveyed in this single image. 

If you love this kinky intensity half as much as I do, please check out HM's work here and Cecilia Tan's here. 

Also: We are so close to $10k in pledges? Will we hit that amount today???? An astounding sum for our little book. Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart :)

<3
Alex