Mated to the Jaguars - Paranormal M/F/M Menage (18 page)
I started out getting published in small literary journals when I was out of college.
I won contests here and there, and I always seemed to be working on my next submission for publication.
In 1999 I discovered yaoi (Japanese gay romance for women) and it was an epiphany for me since I'd been writing yaoi for decades but never had a label for it.
In 2004 I started my own publishing company, Yaoi Press, and put out
yaoi graphic novels
.
I got out 50 or so before Borders Books closed and the bottom fell out of the market.
The last book Yaoi Press published was in 2012, and I'm pretty sure that's the end of ink and paper books for me.
Ebooks have given me a wonderful and viable career.
I started out with
Incubus Master
, a serial where I was testing out my prose skills for the first time.
The premise and characters are solid, but it's not as strong prose-wise as my current books.
Still, my imagination uncorked with this series and it led to the sequel,
Captured
, and then
Scor's Story
.
These early series proved to me that I could still live off my writing, even if Yaoi Press is mostly shut down.
I've been pumping out work at a fast clip ever since.
Sometimes new fans discover me and my work resonates with them.
They want to read everything I've put out, but it's daunting.
I have around 150 titles on Amazon right now.
If you want to get all my past works I recommend starting with
The Big Yaoi Bundle
and then continuing with
The Huge Yaoi Bundle
.
This gives you the bulk of my library in two heavily-discounted purchases.
After that is
The Maelstrom Compilation
—which is really one of my best works, I highly recommend it, and then
Incubus Master Complete
and
Incubus Master Captured Complete
.
My most recent works are some of my best.
I will always recommend
UnPrison
in every new ebook I put out because it's still garnering praise even a year after its release.
Seriously,
check out the reviews for this ebook
.
Even people who don't like prison romance or gay romance in general have ended up liking it.
I worked in a men's prison for a year and channeled all that insight into a very realistic daddy/kid prison romance story.
Str8 Room8
is another top-seller I hope new fans will not overlook.
It's an extremely sensual, fun, short read about a thoroughly seduced hetero college student.
I write for a living, as I said. If you are an aspiring writer and want to know all my secrets I cover all my advice in the book
Ten Steps to Kindle Fiction Success
, which I try to keep for free on Amazon, but since it's exclusive under Kindle Unlimited I can't trip the perma-free status by just making it free elsewhere. If you don't have Kindle Unlimited and want a free copy, email me at
[email protected]
and I'll send it to you (will take a week or more, so don't freak). In exchange for the free gift I ask for you to sign up for my newsletter at
http://yaoimila.com
. This covers the 'how can I be a writer like you' part of my About the Author section.
Almost every story I write is a variation of beauty and the beast. One big monster type going after one small vulnerable type. The story is in how the monster seduces beauty. The beast character is often a demon in my writing.
The Demon and the Emperor
,
Vanquished Knight
,
Incubus Master
, and
Xenoskar
.
I dig stories about big sexy demons taking sweet tender ukes. Demons, to me, are vampires without the fangs and bloodsucking. They're sexy monsters that can be whatever you want. In
Demon Consort
I had the demon take the role of the sweet vulnerable one and the human took the role of the beast.
When I was growing up you didn't see sexy demons all that much in Western comics, literature, and media. I thought the huge horned demon Tim Curry played in the Legend movie was pretty sexy, but that pointy cleft chin turned me off. Pinhead in the Hellraiser movies was pretty cool, but how do you kiss him? Demons in Western comics were similarly disappointing. I gravitated instead towards anime and manga where feudal
Japan
traditions brought about demons who were less monster and more beautiful and godlike. This ultimately led me to write graphic novels in the manga style for my publishing company Yaoi Press. The big hit for me was
Winter Demon
.
My other notable graphic novel is Dark Prince (which you can read for free right now on
http://yaoimila.com
).
Okay, it's time to wrap this up. The real Yamila Abraham is a super friendly lady who loves meeting you at conventions or on the road. I live in an RV and tow it south in the winter and north in the summer. You can read about my misadventures in my RVing blog:
http://searchingfulltime.com
I also post lots of stuff in my Facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/yaoimila
If I've interested you I hope you'll go to my
Amazon page
, select the option to follow me, and peruse all my offerings.
I've got prison romance, alien romance, demon romance, BDSM, hurt/comfort, fantasy, and lots of bundles that group my huge body of work into affordable mega-deals.
Check that out here:
http://amazon.com/author/yamilaabraham
You can see what books I have
available for free
HERE
.
And please sign up for my newsletter! I only bug you once a month.
http://yaoimila.com
.
If you're one of my yaoi fans I have a
Patreon
with the goal of making a web comic out of
Maelstrom
.
You get to read
Happy Yaoi Yum Yum
, a very smutty yaoi graphic novel that's out of print, in exchange for a modest subscription.