After not releasing any new books in 2025, I have two advance review books available for 2026. Both these books come out midyear this year, and I’d love to find folks interested in reviewing them.
The first one, The Temperance Engine, is…um. I’m…um. I’m not sure what it is, and I co-wrote it.
It’s kind of an erotica novel (there’s a lot of sex in it). It’s kind of a historical satire. It’s kind of science fiction, sort of. It has elements of steampunk, maybe? It’s sort of a coming-of-age story, I guess, maybe.
The story is set in modern-day Buffalo, New York, and 1870s London. Odd-numbered chapters follow a group of college friends when one of them inherits a house from a relative he didn’t know he had. They find a diary and a hidden mad science lab in a boarded-up section of the basement. The even-numbered chapters, told through the diary they find, follows a London doctor in 1869 obsessed with finding a cure for the mental illness of furor uterinus, also known as “nymphomania,” and details his efforts to build an apparatus that would cure this dread condition.
The college students decide to replicate some of his experiments, for reasons of their own, and in the process discover some things about their own desires they didn’t previously know.
One rather clever person on social media describes it as “steamypunk,” which I suppose is as good a term for it as any.
The second book, Spectres, is much more straightforward; it’s an anthology of supernatural erotica, but with a new spin (no stereotypical vampire porn or ghost porn here!). It contains thirteen stories ranging from short fiction to full novellas, including stories about heartless gods, an archaeologist possessed by the spirit of a long-gone Hittite priestess, alien invasion, a very special hotel that’s visited once a year by a pair of Assyrian lovers, and more.
I have ePubs and a limited number of paperback ARCs available. If either of these books sounds like your jam, let me know!
I’d love to read for you. 😍
Awesome! Shoot me off an email (franklin at franklinveaux dot com) and I’ll get you some books!
Even if you make me shut off my VPN before commenting. 🤪
Hi Franklin,
I’d love a copy of each, but I’m in Australia, and postage may be a bit pricy.
Yeah, postage is prohibitive, but I can send you an eBook version. Email me! Franklin (at) franklinveaux (dot) com.
Hi Franklin,
I’m not sure of the best way to contact you but I would very happily read and review both – or either – of the books. If there’s a preferred approximate word count let me know beforehand. I’ve read a few comments of yours about them in previous blog posts, or possibly on Quora, and they sound fun; the only (joint) book of yours I’ve read to date is “More than one”, which is somewhat different….
Awesome! Would you prefer eBooks or print copies? Shoot me off an email to franklin (at) franklinveaux (dot) com and I’ll get some books to you!
I would love a paperback copy of The Temperance Engine. If no more are available, then an ePub.
I enjoy your posts on Quora, and you efforts to expose scammers.
I’ve set one aside for you! Email me your mailing address to franklin (at) franklinveaux (dot) com and I’ll send one out to you.
We’ll take epubs if you still have them. drakoneiros@gmail.com
Looking forward to reading these in any event. If not now then when they land officially. -D.
I’m interested in “Temperance Engline” a try. I’d like to get an understanding of what Eunice and you sound like as writers.
Detail: uh, I recently dreamed about you, Eunice, and Joreth sitting on a wooden bench in the clubhouse at Dan-Chy’ōng. The only thing I remember is that all three of you were looking curiously at something I couldn’t see.