Thank you so much!!

This is so amazing of you, AJ! Thank you again for uplifting my book — it means the world!

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There's struggles with identity, found family, falling in love with a merman while also learning to live oneself. What are you doing reading this post? Go read When the Tides Held the Moon by @venessakelley.bsky.social instead, then come scream about it with me 😁🙌🏼

Thank you so much for this kind shoutout! I’m so happy you enjoyed it!
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Omg, that’s so amazing to hear! Thank you so much for sharing this with me!

Ahh, yay! I’m so happy you liked that line!

Aw, I’m so happy to hear that! Thank you!

That makes me so happy, you have no idea. Thank you so much! 🥹

I can’t tell you how happy it’s made me to see my book included on the Ace/Aro Book lists being shared this week. Extra gratitude to Ace/Aro/Demi readers who have written to let me know how much they appreciated Benny & Río’s “alternative love scene”—I wrote it for us.
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The effect, I hope, is just as romantic and accessible to Aro/Ace readers like me who may struggle with feeling a bit disconnected when reading more explicit depictions of s3x.
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Since so much of Benny’s emotional pain is connected to his asthma, I decided to make Benny & Río’s “first time” an exchange of breath that opened them both to an empathic experience of each other’s love.
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To satisfy and help heal my own demi heart, I charged myself to write a love scene unlike any I’d ever read—one I’d hoped could convey the same emotional intimacy, tenderness, and transcendence as a s3x scene without the actual act.
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…it was a feature of my s3xuality that simply required a more profound connection to someone in order to be intimate with them.
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[SPOILERS AHEAD…]

Many of Benny’s ruminations on s3xual attraction involve the admission that he’s never truly felt it, and it registers in his mind as a vague awareness that something about him is wrong or broken. These were thoughts I’d often had about myself until I discovered this wasn’t a defect… 2

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Omg I’m so happy you liked it!! Thank you so much for reading it!

This is so lovely!! I’m so happy the book continues to be on your mind! Thank you for sharing it with others!