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Wolfe 🪳 @wolfehorror.itch.io · Jul 24

#hotwetqueersummer jam participants— Jun and I are rehoming the jam to a new website & im going to extend it by one month so please don’t give up on all the wonderful queer works you’ve been creating all summer 🫶

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jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · Jul 24

I wish I could give everyone a big hug right now :( fuck censorship and conservatism. I don’t make money from that platform, but it was going to be my gateway to getting my art out there. I’m angry as hell with you all. I will be following along with y’all and supporting you whenever you go next.

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Wolfe 🪳 @wolfehorror.itch.io · Jul 24

Itchio info from my discord of what we know so far

<@&1043303120299622421>
Hey folks it’s come to our attention itchio has started a crack down on nsfw content, if you have books listed I would check to see if yours are shadow banned, or if they’ve been deleted.
It may be a good idea to remind your readers if they’ve purchased something from you not allowed on other sites to download it now.
Editing this to say also not trying to fear monger!! We’re seeing some books gone already so just wanna give yall a heads up 🫶

<@&1043303120299622421>
To turn your revenue share on Itchio to 0%
>Payouts
>Seller settings
>Revenue share

Edited to note it will make your dashboard grayscale

Editing to add your ACCOUNT overall can be marked as adult and this will still result in ALL your content being removed

Edited to add some books are unsearchable due to lgbtq tag

Editing to say this is hard to do on mobile and to do on desktop

Editing to say it is recommended to withdraw your balance now just in case

Edit: current alternative

subscribestar.adult, payhip, smashwords, your own website.

Editing to add how to find your items

it appears if you have purchased something that has now been "suspended" you can still download it by finding it in your library and clicking "download"

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jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · Jul 18

Ahhh thank you 💕 the full thing might not come out during the jam, but that will give me more time to make sure it’s even better!

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jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · Jul 17

It's #hotwetpitstop day!

Drag Me Under is going well, but a little slower than I expected. We'll see how much I end up getting done by the end of the summer!

Thank you for all the support, it really means a lot as a baby author!

#hotwetqueersummer @monstermanorbooks.bsky.social

A painting of a short-haired androgynous person playing a mandolin. They are surrounded by people, who are listening to the music. Over top of the painting is a graphic that reads Hot Wet Pit Stop Jam Event.

A painting of a cliff overlooking an ocean with a grey sky above. The title reads #HOTWETPITSTOP, underneath the text reads-
Words written: 15,213
Projected word count for project: ~40k
Playlists created: 3
Beta readers acquired: 3
Amount of breakdowns: let’s round down to 10

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jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · Jul 7

And last but not least for #hotwetboost, I have to highlight this project!

I’m a sucker for magic and mermaids and I just know it’s going to make me feel all the things!

Revon M. Castillo 🏳️‍⚧️💖 Writing !! @themythiclibrary.bsky.social · Jun 5

#hotwetpitch #hotwetqueersummer #a #r #e #wip

🌊 DE LA MAR, CON AMOR 🌊

Presenting my project for the #HWQS Jam! This is very close to my heart: a mix of Nicaraguan culture with low fantasy and magic, with mermaids and more! An adult romance erotica low fantasy novel(?) coming soon!

A promotional piece for #HotWetPitch displaying a painted beach and ocean, overlaid with a pixelated book cover. De La Mar, Con Amor sits beside it, and a box overlaid on the beach portion states the following: Xionel's grandmother is dead.
In her will she leaves him everything from her home, her wealth, and makes a final plea to him: return to Nicaragua. The one place, in all his travels as a nature photographer, he never had the heart to return to. Xionel makes the decision to go, called by the ache of missing a home and culture he's never known but always loved, and finds the roots his grandmother buried go deeper than he could ever have imagined."

The same beach and sea painting overlaid with the same book with its pixelated cover saying Work In Progress, now centered, with tropes surrounding it. It includes, from left top and counter clockwise to the right, BIPOC trans MC x Cis(?) mermain LI, latin inspired witchcraft & mythos, mermaids & shapeshifters, hot ritual sex, finding your place & identity, family magic, queer rep, and finally: m/m romance.

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jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · Jul 7

#hotwetboost number two, electric boogaloo

This one looks so deliciously twisted, and also trans m/m vampires??? Sign me the hell up!

vert ⚡️🪶 open to work @subvertebra.bsky.social · Jun 5

🩸 MELT (refrain) 🩸

n. the burden of a song.
v. to hold back.
n, again. the burden of a man.

or: is it fine to rejoice in someone's immortality when he never wanted it in the first place?

🌙 #1 in a nonlinear series
🌙 M/M T4T
🌙 yeah it's vampires.

#meltWIP #hotwetqueersummer #hotwetpitch #HR #F #D

A collage of nine images with three colour stories slowly blending together: red, blue-green, and black-and-grey. Overall, they paint a picture of a mysterious, suspenseful urban fantasy focused on people and liminal spaces. At the center bottom is the word "refrain" to match the title.

The images are:

Red: dripping icicles on an overhang cast in red light like bloody teeth; a night sky with two crescent moons in the center like closed eyes; a dark alleyway lit only at the edges of the entrance by bright red light.
Blue-green: a streetlamp casting light on a dark corner of a road; abstract close-up of an eye with a grey pupil, wide iris, and a dark figure reflected in it.
Black-and-grey: a dark space with thin industrial lights illuminating tiny portions of it; a dark silhouette of a person against a pale backdrop, with broad shoulders and pulled-back hair.
Blended: a night shot of an ultramodern skyscraper framed by two classical-style buildings (specifically the Walkie Talkie in London); a shot glass on a white backdrop, with red liquid neatly poured in it, while a few drops of the same liquid sit to the side

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jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · Jul 7

Happy #hotwetboost! Hope everyone is having a great #hotwetqueersummer

This project looks so incredibly up my alley, I will be devouring it when it comes out. The tags and comps are actually Jude-bait!

jun @advalentinus.bsky.social · Jun 5

THE CHOSEN x THE SONG OF ACHILLES
🌿 set in ancient judea
🌿 best-friends to enemies to fated lovers
🌿 not jesus x judas but also not not jesus x judas
🌿 fighting back against colonial powers

#hotwetpitch

A grid with seven images, depicting ancient Judea under Roman control, with the verse “And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who is to shepherd my people Israel.’—Matthew 2:6" in black.

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jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · Jul 6

Thank you so much 🥰 I’m excited to get this one out into the world, hope you end up loving it!

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jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · Jul 6

Thank you so much, Rev!! 🥰

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jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · Jun 19

Here’s some of the “hot” I’ve gotten to in the WIP so far! Much more and much worse (/pos) to come…

#hotwetqueersummer #hotwetqa

The background image shows a black and white image of the dark sea. The title reads "#HOTWETQA". The exerpt underneath reads
"Ezra didn’t think it would ever be close enough. He wanted to live inside August, he never wanted to be apart from him. The moment he was away from him, he missed him. He wanted to melt their skin together until they couldn’t tell who was who. He wanted August to fuck him, he wanted him to be the first person inside him. He hoped he would be the only one ever inside him.
“Please,” Ezra moaned.
“Please, what?” August breathed the words into the curve of his jaw.
“More, please more,” Ezra whined.
August sucked a hickey where his lips were pressed and Ezra squirmed underneath him. “I can give you more,” he said."

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jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · Jun 19

bsky ate my post like five times and then decided to post them all at once because me being a clown on the internet time is now i guess

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✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · Jun 18

I'm Achilles King, gay trans smut freak, and for #HotWetQueerSummer, I'm writing a depressing novella about falling in love, familial abuse, and death.

Monster Manor @monstermanor.org · Jun 18

First question, introduce yourself!

A graphic of a painting with text on it and a QR code in the bottom right corner. #hotwetqueersummer #hotwetqa welcome to the hot wet q & a!
Question one - introduce yourself as an author and your project for the hot wet queer summer jam

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jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · Jun 19

a cartoon character says " that 's rough buddy " in front of a fire

ALT: a cartoon character says " that 's rough buddy " in front of a fire

media.tenor.com

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jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · Jun 19

Black Water Beetle

Kinda sick tbh, I’d totally read and write smut about that cryptid

Cozy Library Press @clcpress.bsky.social · Jun 18

⚡️YOUR CRYPTID NAME IS⚡️

-The color of your shirt + last thing you drank + favorite bug

⚡️Repost with your answers or comments below 😌 🪲

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jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · Jun 19

I'm a brand new baby author!

I've been writing ever since I can remember, but I never thought publishing my work would be something I would be able to do.

I've learned a lot about the self-publishing world and the logistics of it all that make it now seem achievable.

#hotwetqueersummer #hotwetqa

Monster Manor @monstermanor.org · Jun 18

Question four, are you a new or published author?

A graphic of a painting with text on it and a QR code in the bottom right corner. #hotwetqueersummer #hotwetqa welcome to the hot wet q & a!
Question four have you published before and if so tell us about that, if not tell us some of the things you’ve learned from your first journey publishing.

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jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · Jun 18

This was actually my first idea and I stuck with it! I’ve wanted to write some kind of modern queer horror monster romance for a while, so with the prompt it all came together really quickly.

Monster Manor @monstermanor.org · Jun 18

Question three, what about your other ideas?

jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · Jun 18

This was actually my first idea and I stuck with it! I’ve wanted to write some kind of modern queer horror monster romance for a while, so with the prompt it all came together really quickly.

Monster Manor @monstermanor.org · Jun 18

Question three, what about your other ideas?

A graphic of a painting with text on it and a QR code in the bottom right corner. #hotwetqueersummer #hotwetqa welcome to the hot wet q & a!
Question three - did you have any other ideas for this jam that you scrapped? Do you plan on revisiting them later?

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Maxime Jaz🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @maximejaz.bsky.social · Jun 18

#HotWetQueerSummer #HotWetQA
I'm Maxime, bi, non-binary trans masc author of scorching hot queer romances with a dash of darkness. My project for the jam is a love story between a bullied to the brink of death young, rich guy and a fisherman he meets on a holiday in Greece.

Monster Manor @monstermanor.org · Jun 18

First question, introduce yourself!

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K.T. is drafting! @ktangelowrites.bsky.social · Jun 18

I’m K.T. Angelo (he/him) and i’m a thai-Am author who likes to write about queer love in strange and sometimes sad situations! My #hotwetqueersummer piece is a folklore style story with a good serving of erotica! It’s a feast for all the senses for sure!

Monster Manor @monstermanor.org · Jun 18

First question, introduce yourself!

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Royal W. Isaac @r-wi.bsky.social · Jun 18

There are quite a few ways this story is wet and hot, but this is one of them. Get it, cuz rivers are wet? (even on alien planets, lol)

#HotWetQueerSummer #HotWetQA

Screenshot of a document that contains the follow-up text: "Faer bent down and picked a round black pebble, throwing it towards the river at an angle hoping for it to skip across the glittering water. After two hops, the pebble sank into the water, attracting the attention of some of the eel-like rot-fish as the two have dubbed them. Green and red moss and other aquatic plants dotted the river bottom, offering cover for the smaller creatures from the bigger ones who would want to have them as food. Some of the aquatic plants were quite note-worthy such as one that had underwater flowers with long pistil and stamen that poked out of the water to aid in pollination."

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jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · Jun 18

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jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · Jun 18

Here are some of my inspos:
- A Bone In His Teeth by @skellygraves.bsky.social
- Eyetooth by @marsadler.bsky.social
- 00's paranormal romance
- Doomed yaoi anime ships
- Sleep Token's discography

I'm doing reasearch on marine animals, tidal patterns, and moon phases 👀 among other things!

Monster Manor @monstermanor.org · Jun 18

Question two, what inspires you?

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jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · Jun 18

Here are some of my inspos:
- A Bone In His Teeth by @skellygraves.bsky.social
- Eyetooth by @marsadler.bsky.social
- 00's paranormal romance
- Doomed yaoi anime ships
- Sleep Token's discography

I'm doing reasearch on marine animals, tidal patterns, and moon phases 👀 among other things!

Monster Manor @monstermanor.org · Jun 18

Question two, what inspires you?

A graphic of a painting with text on it and a QR code in the bottom right corner. #hotwetqueersummer #hotwetqa welcome to the hot wet q & a!
Questions 2 - what are some elements that inspired your project? What sort of things are you researching?

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jude bennett 🌙 @bookcryptidjude.bsky.social · Jun 18

Hi all, I’m Jude! I’m a queer, transmasc author hoping to branch into all kinds of speculative fiction and romance.

My project is an angsty horror romance about a transboy and siren. Expect yearning with a side of blood and sex.

#hotwetqueersummer #hotwetqa

Monster Manor @monstermanor.org · Jun 18

First question, introduce yourself!

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Cozy Library Press @clcpress.bsky.social · Jun 7

THE KICKSTARTER IS LIVE! And the cover is here. What do y'all think of our new anthology curated by @marsadler.bsky.social & @wolfehorror.itch.io

Back here

www.kickstarter.com/projects/coz...

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