I’m H.M. Serotta, a fantasy writer. I’m a storyteller of character-driven worlds imbued with magic and myth. I love writing stories led by women and men who are searching for their place in the world.
Xo is the world’s most perfect woman. Ash Bex is a journalist tasked with writing the end-all be-all expose´ on Xo and her “perfection”.
Chiyo just wants her father to come home – he’s been missing for months. She defies her family and leaves her small village to find him, only to be plunged headlong into the wild world of magical Japan.
Skyven went to the world’s most notorious prison for magical criminals at the ripe age of eighteen, all for a prank. His only hope for redemption is a seedy new residential program for “reforming” convicts.
(Image: Menagerie) Hollow Perfection, my work-in-progress novel, is about thousands of overpowered, ridiculously beautiful characters living in a society where ego is the most valuable currency. Only one can be “the best”. Xo has been filling the role as the world’s most perfect woman, and somehow, she’s kept her crown without dispute for years. Her…
Enjoy this passage from my work-in-progress novel, Mendett’s Home for Social Rehabilitation. I wrote and submitted this as part of my coursework while working on my English degree at Southern New Hampshire University. Content warnings: bodily injury, cursing, violence Second time should do the trick, Skyven told himself as he broke free of his two…
(image by Toriyama Sekien) The keukegen (毛羽毛現; けうけげん, keh-oo-keh-gen) is a Japanese yōkai that was first documented by prolific 18th-century scholar Toriyama Sekien. It is a small, shy, dog-like spirit whose name literally means, “an unusual thing which is rarely seen”. Beware their cute, fuzzy appearance – its presence spreads disease and ill omens to…
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