🌸 Our Lord of the Flowers — Frequently Asked Questions

Updated Fall 2025

I’ve been getting some great questions about Our Lord of the Flowers, and I thought it would be fun to share the answers here. This page is public so everyone can enjoy it — but if you love this kind of behind-the-scenes storytelling, join my newsletter for updates, exclusive photos, and early looks at future projects.

Special thanks to my longtime readers and Patreon supporters, whose curiosity inspired this FAQ.

😎 When Are You Releasing the Book?

🏵️ I workshopped the book as a serial inside my former Patreon site in 2024 and 2025. At the moment I am revising it so I can release it through this new web site. The paperback will also launch in 2026. The final version will be pretty different than the original Patreon serial, but the sensuality and thrills will remain in the book

😎 Why Is this Project Called Our Lord of the Flowers?

🏵️ My novel Our Lord of the Flowers features Xochipilli, the Aztec god of flowers, homosexuality and queerness, music, dance and psychedelia, in a major way. Every single one of my published novels features the Aztec deities as figures that not only impact the story, but sometimes are the story itself. 

😎 Is Sir Vitrum based on a real person?

🏵️ No, he’s uniquely his own character — but he’s inspired by many leathermen I’ve known and met over the years.

😱 Is Sir Vitrum and Rosario’s playroom a How to Kill a Superhero Easter Egg?

🪻 YES.

🤓 Is the Chicago Reader a real weekly publication?

🌺 Yes it is! When I was young, I read its long-form articles religiously every Friday. It also carried personal ads where I could glimpse both vanilla and kinky queer folks looking to meet each other. It’s no coincidence that in the novel, Vitrum’s father wrote for the Reader for many years.

🌝 Why are so many scenes in the novel so gross? Couldn’t you just write a sexy book all the way through?

🪷 I write about the full human experience, not compartments. Life isn’t oversimplified, so neither are my novels. This book is visceral because life is visceral. And it’s also deeply erotic — because imagination is erotic, and that makes it beautiful.

🥰 Sometimes Our Lord of the Flowers feels like a horror novel. Is that intentional?

🌻 YES. Two of my key inspirations are Clive Barker and Caitlín R. Kiernan, who both interweave fantasy and horror with incredible skill. I love the thrill of horror, and my How to Kill a Superhero series also blends horror with the erotic and the fantastical.

🦵🏽Why So Much Pantyhose in the novel Our Lord of the Flowers?

Pantyhose are more than a fetish. They’re a second skin, a symbolic gateway between the inner and outer world of experience. 🌺

In my web novel Our Lord of the Flowers, pantyhose become part of a story about grief, desire, queer leather culture, and the unseen. These images aren’t cosplay — they’re visual echoes of those themes, a way of embodying the book.

🌿Do you plan on releasing the web serial as a paperback?

🌜 YES! I have published several of my novels first as serials and then converted them to paperback. The Our Lord of the Flowers paperback will publish in 2026. When it launches, it will also be available as an e-book here in our store, as well as Kobo, Apple Books, Kindle, etc.  

🌿 Why did you leave Patreon?

🌼 Patreon is a great starter tool for artists, but in order to operate as a true indie author and put into action my anti-colonialist values, I felt it was very important to own my narrative natively on my own website and cut out the middleman.

Here on my official Our Lord of the Flowers site, I can give you:

• Better and more direct experiences with no algorithm in the middle
• Higher-quality interaction and content delivery
• A top-tier shopping experience when you purchase the paperback, photo prints, and product designs tied to Our Lord of the Flowers

This shift lets me build an ecosystem where queer, independent art can thrive on its own terms.

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