Spicy (Sci-Fi) Serials: Dark Romance & Speculative Worlds - Where Love Is Dangerous, Reality Is Weird, and Nobody Fades to Black
Plus: Exclusive, Backstage Access to How My Mind Works (Spoiler: It's Complicated)
Welcome to Spicy Serials, the home of my unapologetically adult romance serials!
‘Adult’ isn’t just spice, though.
My heroines are in their thirties and forties: self-possessed, flawed, and still learning what it means to choose themselves. The men who want them are wicked, dangerous bad boys, but they’re never careless with love.
If anything, they love too hard, too deep…
Ahem.😉
My stories usually have a sci-fi or fantasy twist: alternate realities, other worlds, or an irreverent mix of mythology, religion, and tech — because that’s my jam.
Also my jam? Wide-open-door spice. 😈
Don’t worry, though! The spicy chapters will have a (🌶️) in the title, because I don’t want you caught red-handed — and red-faced! — at work. (Go Team!)
Behind the Scenes
I’m also doing something a little different.
Something I’ve been told ‘might not work out.’
What is it?
Spoilers.
Lots of them.
I’ll be sharing the scaffolding behind my stories. Digging into how I build these worlds, and what changes when actual words come into the mix. How the story bends to a character’s arc, what gets rewritten…
What survives, and why.
These posts will be wandering deep inside spoiler territory (clearly labeled and completely optional, of course).
If you’re a Christmas-present-hunting, has-to-know-the-secret girlie — if you love peeking behind the curtain — this is for you.
These “crafting” posts will only be available on Substack; they won’t be sent to your inbox. So you can read them, or not, whenever you’re ready.
What to Expect
Serialized chapters, released every Friday.
Honest Author commentary on craft, structure, and emotional beats.
Polls that will influence the story in progress.
I’ve been told my stories aren’t like anything else in Romancelandia, and these serials will be the most unhinged yet.
The train departs in January, but I’ll be sending out a couple teaser dispatches between now and then — a holiday gift, if you will.🎁
If that sounds like your jam, welcome aboard and buckle up.
— Adrienne