My first novel is a (very) slow burn BL story.
Title: Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days
Genres: LGBTQ, BL, Coming of Age, Slice of Life, some Romantic elements, Coming Out, Nonfiction
Synopsis: This is a story about Carmen, a perfectly normal young man with a secret. Follow along as he navigates puberty, the teenage years, and his 20's trying to find love and happiness in a world seemingly determined to keep these things from him. Set in the 1980s, 1990's, and early 2000's.
Content Warning: This is based on a true story. I am Carmen. Many disturbing things have happened to myself and people that I care about, and those things are presented here as they happened. Subjects such as childhood death, mental illness, homophobia, substance abuse, religious fanaticism, and self harm/suicide are all covered. It's not all bad news though: interspersed among the angst there are plenty of happy moments as well, even if some of them may be fleeting... Also contains some sexual content, vaguely described in earlier chapters due to the ages of the characters and more detail/spice in later chapters as characters age into "legal" territory.
Format: Illustrated Webnovel. This story reads as a novel but has illustrations. In the early chapters the illustrations are infrequent, but toward the end every episode gets a new one as I got more comfortable with drawing again.
Status: This story is complete. While the main story is complete there will be sporadic updates with new short stories related to the main novel. Currently at 82 episodes, roughly 180,000 words.
