We've been paired up in Nexus this week. (Yay! Another poet! BTW, I like Taylor Swift, too, and I think her lyrics are amazing. Although my favourite poet-songwriter is the late Leonard Cohen).
Given that you are a fellow poet, you will probably be most interested in reading _Excavations_, which is my poetry collection. You may also be interested in _Wild Is the Wind_, my art book, which is a fairly quick read. That, and some of the art tiles are illustrations of poetry (other peoples' poetry - I like to illustrate poems and then post the art to Instagram).
You may or may not be interested in reading my novel. _Ancilla_ falls in the love-it-or-hate-it category because of its subject matter and narrative style. I've had some glowing reviews, including four and five stars on Goodreads and Amazon, and I've had some seriously scathing reviews, including one from an IndieReader editor who I paid an unholy sum of money to (IndieReader costs almost as much as Kirkus, and is understaffed, so I have a funny feeling I was assigned a professional reviewer who was not into my genre - the review seemed to indicate that). _Ancilla is genre soup - dark academia, mysticism, philosophy, magical realism, bisexual coming-of-age story, atypical vampire story, tragic romance, 90's nostalgia - but one of the soup ingredients is also BDSM erotica. The book recently got featured as a Wattpad After Dark selection in the BDSM category. It is NOT everybody's cup of tea, and the first page of the novel is a content warning. If you like some of the elements and are interested in reading, but want to avoid the explicit descriptions of lovemaking (and it is lovemaking, not just casual sex) the workaround I came up with for contest judges and for interested readers who want to avoid reading explicit sexual context is to read through _Wild Is the Wind_ first to get the context of _Ancilla_, and then read the chapters of "soundbite" _Ancilla_ that are NOT marked by an asterisk.
