New Chapters

There’s quite a lot to tell you.

It’s nearly Anzac Day here in Australia, which always means a great deal to me as a former serving sailor. It’s a reflective time, a proud one, and never quite passes without stirring something deep. It also marks the point where the weather turns properly bitter, which means I’ll soon be wearing considerably more clothing than many of you have become accustomed to.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been rebuilding, expanding, and quietly setting fresh things into motion behind the scenes. Some of them are brand new. Some of them are old parts of my world finding a new home. All of them matter to me, and I wanted you to hear about them here first.

One of the biggest changes is the launch of Landfall, a new fiction space of mine that now lives on Patreon.

Landfall exists as a home for stories across my different pen names and series, a place where fiction can gather under one roof while still letting each voice remain distinct. To celebrate the launch, Landfall is currently 50% off, and the two top tiers also include complete instant access to The Pleasure Index. This also marks the return of Plain Smut VIP, which houses the filthiest, most deranged work I write. The stuff that does not come politely wrapped.

There are also previews of brand new stories that may eventually become full novels. The first of those is Songs of Supper & Sin, a new piece I’m especially excited by. It feels wild, intimate, strange, and full of promise, the sort of story that makes me remember exactly why I write.

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I’ve also set up a Discord with some erotic author friends of mine, Zac Baker, Fox Emerson, and Chris Jones. We wanted to create a space where readers could actually feel part of a wider community around the work, rather than simply reading from a distance. So if that sounds like your kind of place, I’d love for you to join us there too.

Our joint discord is called OGE Daisy Chain, the OGE stands for Original Gay Erotica.

The most exciting launch of these past weeks, though, has been the arrival of The Lighthouse District, and with it, Evan Marshall.

Evan is one of my newer pen names, created for stories that lean more fully into romance, heart, and tenderness.

The first release under that name is Lighthouse Surfer.

A burned-out travel writer. A beach town that will not let him disappear into the background. A surfer who knows exactly how to pull him back into living.

Evan arrives in the Lighthouse District planning to stay quiet, finish his book, and leave without making much of a mark. Instead, he finds a weathered seaside shack, a town where everyone actually knows one another, and Leo Carter, an infuriatingly hot, sunlit surf instructor next door who does not understand the concept of emotional distance.

What begins with coffee, sharp conversation, and one disastrous surf lesson slowly becomes something riskier, deeper, and far harder to walk away from. Lighthouse Surfer is a sensual queer beach romance about creative exhaustion, found family, and the kind of love that changes you while pretending it’s only passing through.

It’s available now for a limited time in Kindle Select on Amazon.

That leads neatly into something I know some readers may wonder as they see more names appearing around my work.

Why so many pen names, when I’m still the one behind them?

Because I want you to know what kind of story you’re opening before you even begin.

Marlo is where the supernatural and the horrific bleed into desire.
Plain is where the most extreme fetish work lives.
Simon is for cleaner, more reflective coming-of-age stories.
Harlan is for psychological erotic thrillers.
Jax holds autobiographical sexual confessions.
Evan is for small-town romance, longing, warmth, and love stories salted with sea air.

The names are not about hiding. They’re about clarity. They help each part of my writing life stay true to its own mood, promise, and audience. Desire takes many forms, and so does storytelling.

Writing as an independent author is intoxicating. Building the world around the work, finding readers, growing slowly, making things sustainable, that part can be exhausting. Most days I work a full shift, then come home and spend another six to eight hours writing, editing, planning, and trying to carve out more space for these stories to live.

That is why your support means so much.

Thank you for being here. Thank you for reading. Thank you for your patience, your warmth, your messages, and your willingness to follow me as I build all of this, story by story, name by name, platform by platform.

It makes the work feel possible.

🖤 Step inside my Pleasure Index at rowanthornwell.net