Ten years ago I wrote a Welcome to Night Vale fanfic called ‘Welcome to Cyber Vale’. It was the story of Carlos going to the Night Vale space colony to meet C.E.C.I.L., a dangerously sentient robot with dark secret that threatened the whole colony. It was a real hit, despite one very large flaw.

See, I had only just gotten into Welcome to Night Vale when I wrote it. So when I wrote it I got almost all of the characterizations completely wrong. It wasn’t until I finished the fic what I was like, oh, oh shit, the WTNV characters aren’t like that at all. But I also realized that, hey, I had the bones of a pretty good Sci-fi story here. Time to make some lemonade out of lemons as it were.

Ten years passed. I would work on the story, send it out to agents/publishers, get turned down, put the story away, sit on it for a few years, bring it back out, etc etc. In 2023 I realized that my book of Queer Robot Romance was just a little too strange for traditional publishing. So with the help of family, friends, and donators I got the funds together to get my story ready for self publishing.

And now it’s ready.

Echo of the Larkspur is a full Sci-fi/Romance/Mystery novel at roughly 130k words now available for preorder on Amazon (other sites coming soon).

This is a story about love, trauma, overcoming the past, learning to trust, all while being queer and diverse as fuck. If you enjoyed the original fic (or any of my other fanfics) then you’re sure to fall in love with Ciro and S.A.G.E.’s ‘enemies to lovers’-style romance.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way, and thank you to everyone willing to give my novel a shot! Love you all!