Anyone with an email address can create an unlimited number of Goodreads accounts. That means anyone can leave reviews — even without reading the book. And yes, groups of people absolutely do this to “cancel” authors they dislike. I know because it happened to me. Two years ago. And yet, the misinformation is still circulating.

Because the kind of darkness I write doesn’t always fit into tidy trigger checklists. These aren’t stories about tropes or kink packaged for mass appeal. They’re stories about power. About control.

When women write about sex, especially in a raw, honest, or emotionally complex way, it often gets dismissed as "porn" or "smut" because it threatens the traditional boundaries that have long defined acceptable female expression. There's a cultural discomfort—especially in male-dominated literary criticism—with women owning their sexual narratives without shame, without permission, and without softening the edges.

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I was just goolging Olympia Black and found that I was mentioned in UK Cosmo in 2022. I never knew. But I know everyone of those other...

There is no question that being an indie author requires a larger skill set than going down the route with a traditional publisher.