A brand new short story featuring Aubrey & Lindsey of Mr Warren’s Profession is now on Patre♡n! Wherein Aubrey discovers an alarming development in his wash-stand mirror.
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Aubrey had not read the novel by Lord Graves’s playwright acquaintance. He had however heard its details discussed at length over the course of several dinners. He knew that it involved a beautiful youth who had a devilish portrait painted to age in his place, and for every sin the dissipated lad committed, the portrait grew more hideously withered. Aubrey had no such portrait. His own sins could only bear out upon his flesh, and he supposed, with more resignation than bitterness, that given the life he’d led it was more surprising he hadn’t found anything more than a single grey hair ‘til now.
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Joining me on Patre♡n will give you access to “drawer fic” – aka the 500k+ words worth of manuscripts that have been shelved until I figure out how to fix or finish them. You’ll also be invited to join an exclusive Discord server just for patrons!
A new chapter or story will go up every week. Missing (unwritten) scenes will be indicated by brackets describing what would probably happen if the scene were written. Example: [in this scene Aubrey and Lindsey ride a carousel]
Currently posting… ♡ A Mirror for the Prince’s Shadow (historical m x nb romantasy)
Completed works… ♡ the Aubrey & Lindsey solar fantasy project (mm) ♡ A Willing Canvas – John Halloway x Lord Cyril Graves (mm) ♡ The Train Job – Rowena Althorp x Rebekah (ff) ♡ Hold Fast 2 – Hold Faster (mm) ♡ Vampires Vampires Vampires (mmm) ♡ The Sebastian Nothwell Contemporary Expanded Universe (mmm+) ♡ Theo. (transmasc historical mm romance)
I’m so excited to finally share with you just how Gary Furlong has brought our Victorian lads to life.
Kickstarter backers have already received their download links. It will take a while for the audiobook to upload to all the major retailers (Audible, libro.fm, Chirp, etc.) as well as library apps like Libby and Hoopla.
To celebrate this new audiobook release, use the coupon code “Nothwell” at check-out for 20% off your entire purchase. (A wonderful opportunity if you wanted to grab the Oak King Holly King audiobook or any of my ebooks while you’re over there.)
However or wherever you acquire your audiobooks, thank you for listening.
We’ve already crushed our first stretch goal. Can we meet our second and fund the sequel audiobook Throw His Heart Over?
Your support – either by backing the campaign directly or by sharing it with friends or through social media – could be the final push we need to make it happen.
Rewards include… • ebook deals – grab the complete Sebastian Nothwell back catalogue for just $10! • signed and annotated paperbacks of Mr Warren’s Profession, Throw His Heart Over, and Oak King Holly King – more details on annotated books here! • the Oak King Holly King audiobook at a steal – narrated by the one and only Gary Furlong! • and, of course, the Mr Warren’s Profession audiobook itself!
Mr Warren’s Profession is a gay Victorian cross-class romance featuring hurt/comfort and a happily-ever-after – and the audiobook could be yours if you check out the Kickstarter today!
The campaign ends September 30th. As of this writing we’re already 70% to our goal. Your support – either by backing the campaign directly or by sharing it with friends or through social media – could be the final push we need to make it happen.
Rewards include… • ebook deals – grab the complete Sebastian Nothwell back catalogue for just $10! • signed and annotated paperbacks of Mr Warren’s Profession AND Oak King Holly King– more details on annotated books here! • the Oak King Holly King audiobook at a steal – narrated by the one and only Gary Furlong! • and, of course, the Mr Warren’s Profession audiobook itself – which won’t exist without this Kickstarter!
Mr Warren’s Profession is a gay Victorian cross-class romance featuring hurt/comfort and a happily-ever-after – and the audiobook could be yours if you check out the Kickstarter today!
We’re already over halfway to our goal. Your support – either by backing the campaign directly or by sharing it with friends or through social media – could be the final push we need to make it happen.
Rewards include… • ebook deals – grab the complete Sebastian Nothwell back catalogue for just $10! • signed and annotated paperbacks – more details on annotated books here! • the Oak King Holly King audiobook at a steal – narrated by the one and only Gary Furlong! • and, of course, the Mr Warren’s Profession audiobook itself – which won’t exist without this Kickstarter!
Mr Warren’s Profession is a gay Victorian cross-class romance featuring hurt/comfort and a happily-ever-after – and the audiobook could be yours if you check out the Kickstarter today!
Every Kickstarter has a goal. An amount of funding is achieved, and the project is created. Simple, elegant, beautiful. It worked for the Oak King Holly King audiobook, and I’m very hopeful it will do the same for Mr Warren’s Profession.
A stretch goal is an extra bonus goal that kicks in after the original funding goal is reached. When a stretch goal is reached, it allows us to create even more things than the original Kickstarter!
For the Mr Warren’s Profession audiobook Kickstarter, we have two stretch goals. Both are centered around the sequel novella Throw His Heart Over, an equestrian continuation of Aubrey and Lindsey’s romance.
If the campaign reaches $6k, we’ll have the funds to reformat Throw His Heart over (complete with cover redesign) to print through IngramSpark, which will unlock signed and annotated copies as backer rewards.
If the campaign reaches $7.5k, we’ll have enough to record the Throw His Heart Over audiobook in tandem with the Mr Warren’s Profession audiobook, and unlock the sequel audiobook as a backer reward.
But why?
Throw His Heart Over – redesign
At present, Throw His Heart Over is printed through Amazon with a cover designed by yours truly.
This means it is not available to libraries or brick-and-mortar bookshops. They stock from a different printer, IngramSpark. This is the printer I use for almost all my other books to maximize accessibility and quality.
Amazon creates paperbacks by crunching the ebook into print format, with mixed results. IngramSpark, on the other hand, not only offers wider availability of the resulting book but also requires a file especially formatted for print. This results in a more thoughtfully-presented and more consistently high-quality paperback. Honestly it will be a relief to know that Throw His Heart Over will now match Mr Warren’s Profession inside and out.
In short, reformatting will result in library availability, indie bookshop availability, and an increased print quality.
The cover painting for Throw His Heart Over will remain the same. What will change is the style of the title and other text on the outside of the book.
This may not sound like a very big change. However, please consider the following examples.
Left: The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall, cover typography by me. Right: The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall, cover typography by an actual graphic designer.Left: Hold Fast, cover typography by me. Right: Hold Fast, cover typography by an actual graphic designer.
Left: Throw His Heart Over, cover typography by me. Right: Throw His Heart Over, cover typography by an actual graphic designer???
Kelley York of Sleepy Fox Studio is the graphic designer behind all my other book covers. Her skills allow the cover artist’s paintings to shine to full effect—including the wonderful work Jan Falk of Thistlearts Studio did for the Mr Warren’s Profession cover painting.
With the redesign, Throw His Heart Over will look just as gorgeous as all other books, including Mr Warren’s Profession. Plus with the redesign Books one and two of Aubrey & Lindsey will (finally!) match each other and look nice on a shelf side-by-side. All the more important when ensuring that the signed and annotated editions are looking their best, suitable for collectors and pride-of-place in personal libraries.
So there’s our first stretch goal—the Throw His Heart Over paperback redesign, which will unlock signed and annotated paperbacks as additional backer rewards.
Our second stretch goal is…
Throw His Heart Over – audiobook
Simply put, this will allow Gary to record Mr Warren’s Profession and its sequel Throw His Heart Over back-to-back in one fell swoop. Very convenient for him, and very fortunate for us, because it gives us two audiobooks for one Kickstarter.
None of this will be possible without the power of stretch goals.
There’s a new episode of Right Here Write Queer waiting for you in your favorite podcast app!
Tess Carletta (she/her) interviews Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) about his gay romance novel Mr Warren’s Profession, including historical research, Victorian engineering, and the strange and stubborn road to indie publishing.
Tess Carletta (she/her) is the author of Kit & Basie, a queer cozy magical-realism romance. You can connect with her at her website: tesscarletta.com
Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) is the author of Mr Warren’s Profession, a queer historical romance currently crowdfunding its audiobook. You can check out the campaign on Kickstarter.
Now that funding, production, and distribution for Oak King Holly King is all wrapped up…
It’s time for another audiobook.
Mr Warren’s Profession is a queer historical cross-class romance featuring hurt/comfort and a happily-ever-after. I’m so excited to be teaming up with Gary Furlong once again to bring it to life.
The Mr Warren’s Profession audiobook Kickstarter will kick off on September 1st. If you want to be notified when it does, you can check out the pre-launch page here!
Scene 35 of Solar Fantasy – Aubrey & Lindsey Retold is up on Patre♡n! Wherein we reach the conclusion of this romantasy.
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Newspapers lay scattered across the table. Aubrey glimpsed a few headlines—ARTEMIS ARRESTED and A ROYAL SLAYING amongst them, before Lindsey swept them aside into an untidy pile and stacked books atop them to keep them folded.
“Don’t look at those,” Lindsey added, a little unnecessarily, as he returned to Aubrey.
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Did you want more Aubrey and Lindsey – but in a whole new world?
Joining me on Patre♡n will give you access to “drawer fic” – aka the 500k+ words worth of manuscripts that have been shelved until I figure out how to fix or finish them.
A new scene will go up every week. Missing (unwritten) scenes will be indicated by brackets describing what would probably happen if the scene were written. Example: [in this scene Aubrey and Lindsey ride a carousel]
Currently posting… ♡ the Aubrey & Lindsey solar fantasy project (mm) (90k)
Scene 34 of Solar Fantasy – Aubrey & Lindsey Retold is up on Patre♡n! Wherein a duel is fought.
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Someone screamed.
Lindsey whirled.
Carlisle stood by the open pistol case. His clothes had torn in his escape from the clutches of the guards who even now surged to retake him. He had a dueling pistol in his hand. He raised it.
Chartreuse flashed between them as Emmeline leapt for his arm.
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Did you want more Aubrey and Lindsey – but in a whole new world?
Joining me on Patre♡n will give you access to “drawer fic” – aka the 500k+ words worth of manuscripts that have been shelved until I figure out how to fix or finish them.
A new scene will go up every week. Missing (unwritten) scenes will be indicated by brackets describing what would probably happen if the scene were written. Example: [in this scene Aubrey and Lindsey ride a carousel]
Currently posting… ♡ the Aubrey & Lindsey solar fantasy project (mm) (90k)
Sebastian Nothwell 