First
I.
Have.
Been.
On Tumblr for what feels like a thousand years. If anyone knows me at all, it’s usually from the comment sections, where I ask questions or openly adore artists—you’re the ones who keep a fandom alive and, through your drawings alone, create new headcanons and inspiration *shameless flattery*
Since I’ve finally managed—after overwhelming self-criticism and far more text than necessary—to write a book, and since I’ve found some incredibly kind people who are publishing it, I’d now really love to use my accounts to keep anyone who’s interested updated on this journey.
Because:
Being an author is a lonely road. Most of the time you’re sitting all by yourself in your little room, hunched over your writing program of choice, imagining the wildest stories and trying to forge them into words—just to convey even a hint of what you actually want to say to a potential reader.
And.
The entire journey from start to finish (especially the end) is paved with self-doubt and riddled with self-loathing.
With this small journey of mine, I’d like to try and tackle some of that uncertainty. If anyone wants to use the comment section or even a reblog to share their own anecdotes, that would make me incredibly happy.
Of course, this post is also shameless self-promotion for my book… but I’m also planning to translate all of my German fanfiction into English and finally put it up on AO3.
So you’ll be able to judge my writing skills (or the lack thereof) for yourselves beforehand.
If you think I’m absolute garbage because of that, feel free to let me know.
If anyone would like to write a review of my book, please get in touch with me!
And if it’s just the topic itself that doesn’t appeal to you, I promise I won’t be standing next to you with a whip, forcing you to read.
Pinky swear.
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Disgusting product placement:
JMS Books LLC - Empathy
“Be black in chess” is easier said than done for aspiring soccer professional Silas Yanagida. His three-year relationship with Hadrian Nakata ends when Hadrian cheats on him. The reason: Silas is emotionally unavailable, cold, and distant, caring only about soccer, or so Hadrian claims. When Hadrian leaves, Silas’s world falls apart. Is he truly an emotionless monster?
Left alone in Tokyo, cut off from friends at university, and without offers from the top league despite his youth national team status, Silas hits rock bottom. In the cafeteria, he meets Aiden Tago, a psychology student returning from mourning his parents. Silas gets a wild idea: Can empathy be learned? And who is better to teach him than Aiden?
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