Teddy-Stonehill

Teddy Asplund

twitter.com/teddy_stonehill

27 year-old butch lesbian obsessed with watching obscure gay movies and writing lesbian fantasy romances.

Read my tapas novel here: https://tapas.io/series/The-Saintess-and-the-Villainess/info

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Good to know, I'll have to look into it!

All good points, thanks! Yeah, I'll probably listen to my instincts here and stay away.

Honestly it depends on your genre! If your novel matches the general storytelling style of a lot of the popular stories on Tapas, you're likely to do well here. If it doesn't, you might not get much attention. You should try to find the online platform with the reader base that best matches what you…

I had an editor from the Libri app contact me about my novel, The Saintess and The Villainess, wanting to feature it on their app. Does anyone have any experience with Libri? Does anyone know if they're good for authors or not? I did a cursory google search but I wasn't able to find any reviews of t…

It really depends on your genre. Tapas is one of the better sites for Fantasy Romance, GL, and BL stories. Stories that are at least somewhat adjacent in plot/style to popular East Asian webtoons and webnovels aimed at a female audience. After all, those translated webtoons and webnovels are the m…

Yeah, I recently reached 1.5k for my novel and even with ad revenue and support on I've made less on this story than I've spent on it lol. But I feel like the dedicated handful of readers I have who comment on every chapter really makes the work I'm doing worth it to me.

This may sound harsh, but you may want to consider commissioning a professional artist and/or graphic designer to help redesign your cover. Not because the art you currently have is particularly bad, but because a really professional-looking cover can make a huge difference in how readers perceive y…

I'll answer these questions for my main character, Anne. Does your character like fancy clothes? It depends. She doesn't like dresses at all. But she doesn't mind wearing fancy suits, especially if someone else helps her put it on (she might struggle to tie a tie on her own). can you characte…

I've been working on a GL fantasy isekai romance since October of last year! I would love to see the GL section of Tapas get some more love and attention in general. We could always use more good GL imo!

We may be outnumbered, but there's nothing wrong with preferring real-world issues to be realistically addressed lol

I'm obviously in the minority here, but as a lesbian myself I vastly prefer media where the existence of homophobia is acknowledged and addressed. It doesn't have to be the primary focus of the work or even a major theme necessarily, but world that are completely free of any discrimination feel.. fa…

Thanks for this opportunity! 1. Logline: When an ordinary office worker finds herself unexpectedly reborn as the heroine of the novel she was reading just before she died, she sets out to change the plot of the original novel in order to save her favorite character, the villainess! Inspirin…

Thank you so much for choosing me as a staff pick! I'm honored!

Here's a link to my GL romance series, The Saintess and The Villainess! Logline: When an ordinary office worker finds herself unexpectedly reborn as the heroine of the novel she was reading just before she died, she sets out to change the plot of the original novel in order to save her favorite ch…

Not in the sense of trying to please people, exactly. But reader response can tell me a lot about how my story is coming across, which plot hints are being picked up, what people are missing, etc. I have adjusted which hints I drop where and also how soon certain plot revelations dropped based on…

It's relative. There were people earlier in the thread claiming BL was only about teens. I was arguing that's not the case because BL comics about men in their 30s are extremely common.

Well, I know of a couple even just here on Tapas: Office workers in their 30s are pretty common in BL in general. One particularly good one (that even has a live action drama adaptation on Crunchyroll) is: -Cherry Magic! 30 Years of Virginity Makes You a Wizard?? A couple comics I know f…

That's definitely not true. I've read plenty of BL comics about older men. The main thing is that BL/GL are mostly used to describe certain genres of Japanese and Korean comics. They're most relevant as genre-markers for original English language works IF those works are taking clear inspiration f…

It's not technically character art, but I recently designed this crest for a group of characters in my novel. [image] They're a group of four young noblewomen who are friends. One of them decided to name their group "The Bastards' Club" because they're all illigitmate daughters. Several of the o…

I think a big part of what you're noticing is just that Tappytoon and Tapas specifically are generally more targeted at female audiences. If you go to other websites you can find content, even webtoons, more catered to other demographics. As for manga and anime, there actually IS a ton of incredib…

Take fantasy romance / reincarnation isekai tropes, and make them lesbian

Most of the reincarnation stories I've read, even when it's someone being reborn in a different world, it's usually a world they're familiar with (like a book they read or a game they played while they were alive in their previous life) which is why they'd know about the future "disaster" form the "…

There are a lot of good responses here, but I think it's worth noting that in the "reincarnation" genre specifically, often the primary conflict has to do with changing something. It depends on the type of reincarnation it its, but generally there's some sort of disaster in the "original" story or…

If you know it's seinen then it obviously know it doesn't count as shoujo. It doesn't make any sense to say that something made for adult men counts as something made for young girls, even if there are some superficial similarities to those less familiar with anime demographics. Moe genre properti…

I'm pretty proud of the first scene in my romance novel where the two romantic leads officially meet. One is the villainess of a novel called The Foundling's Wings, the other is a person from our world who's been reborn as the novel's heroine. Her favorite character was the villainess, so when the…

It's a novel rather than a comic, but my novel has a butch protagonist. Also, if you're interested in finding more media with masculine-presenting women, here are some more suggestions, off the top of my head: Anime Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun Movies Cloudburst The Watermelon Woman Yes or No R…

Here's the thumbnail for my novel! I'll probably continue to use the same thumbnail at least through all of Part 1. [image] And here's the link to the novel in case the thumbnail sparks interest!

Here's my twitter: https://twitter.com/teddy_stonehill I generally post about my writing, webtoons in general, and watching obscure LGBT movies.

Welcome to Tapas! I'm pretty new here myself. I'm a lesbian writer, and I've recently started posting a GL novel on here. It's a lesbian take on the fantasy romance/reincarnation isekai genre.

I just started posting my GL fantasy romance/reincarnation isekai novel! Here's the link: https://tapas.io/series/The-Saintess-and-the-Villainess [image] I'm posting a chapter a day for the first two weeks, and then switching to a weekly update schedule. I hope my genuine love of the genre …