Hello ❤️

Welcome to the Other Side, the home for my in-progress novel A Season of Shades, and possibly other future content.

I’m not 100% sure where this is going, but I’ve learned that when the creative demon takes hold of you, it’s best to ride it out. Here’s hoping that this possession lasts long enough to finish the project.

You can read the first four chapters here.

Now for a few disclaimers to manage expectations.

I’m loosely aiming to add a new chapter every 1-2 weeks.

Until the day I call the whole book “done”, I reserve the right to tweak events from earlier chapters to help the book’s flow and continuity. If that rewriting of history would be upsetting to you, maybe check back here in a year or two.

There will be a lot of sex in this book. Hot romantic sex, creepy demonic sex, and comically-weird Victorian sex. That’ll happen when you make one of your main characters a succubus. Despite there being lots of sexy scenes, they’re still there to serve the story, and not vice versa.

If all that sounds good to you, welcome aboard.

Why the Name?

A Season of Shades is set in our world, in Victorian times, but with an overlaid magical world of spirits, demons, succubi, etc. In researching the demonology of various religious and ethnic traditions around the world, I came across the phrase Sitra Achra from the Zohar, literally meaning the “other side”. I’m not using the term exactly as a Kabbalist would, but I do love the idea of an unseen world and invisible struggles all around us.