The Home for Mell Eight's Original Fiction
Mell Eight is an author of LGBTQIA original fiction, primarily M/M.
If that is not your thing, hit the back button, otherwise welcome and enjoy!
If that is not your thing, hit the back button, otherwise welcome and enjoy!
Out Now:The Spy (Audio)
November 25, 2025 
The Prince (Audio)
November 11, 2025 
The Chef (Audio)
September 30, 2025 
Coming Soon:
Cupids' Arrows
January 13, 2026 
Submitted Projects:
Current Projects:
I have been working with Nine Star Press since August 2019.
I worked with Less Than Three Press from December 2011 to July 2019.
Supernatural Consultant Volume One received this award.
Ground of Insurrection was Nominated
Hadash Aviv was Nominated
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1/11/26
This definitely isn't a case of "new year, new me." I can say that with absolute certainly. And yet, in the last two weeks I feel like I was more productive than I was for the entirety of 2025. Somehow I have managed to finish writing two stories, and I've made significant progress in others. I know this isn't sustainable and I'll fall behind on my to-do list very soon, but I'm going to ride this writing high for as long as I can. The first story I completed was Baron of the Shifting Sands. There's dragons, a touch of magic, and a lot of fun, set in a world where the desert and the Gods rule them all. It was really interesting to write, and topped out at approximately 40k words long. I've been playing with this story off and on for a full decade. No joke. My computer says the Word file for Baron was first created in June 2016. Progress was hampered for a number of reasons, some of them outside my control. I also had at least a two-year period where I thought the story was too broken to bother finishing. Last year I had the epiphany of how to fix it: there were a number of time-skips that I needed to get rid of. I was right. As soon as I wrote out the full scenes instead of skipping ahead, the story snapped together like a puzzle. The way my writing process works is I read through and edit the story immediately after it's complete, trying to fix errors and such while everything is still fresh. I'm working on that right now. Once I'm done, Baron will go back in the lock box until mid-February at the earliest, which is when I will pull it out and give it a more thorough edit. Once that second edit is complete, I'll submit this story to NSP for their consideration. The second story I finished was Cupid's Flight, the sequel to Cupids' Arrows (coming out in a few short days!). Flight is full of more cupid shenanigans, this time with a twist. Technically it's supposed to be for NSP's internal Halloween call, but I took some liberties. LOL The call closes the end of this month, so I have a tighter editing deadline than I like and I'll have to condense my editing schedule. Flight is going to sit for the next week to at least give it some time to percolate, and then I'm going to edit and get it ready for submission. The one caveat I have is while the story is complete, I usually like to add an epilogue and I'm drawing a blank. Everything I've come up with so far seems so trite and the current ending is so perfect. I don't want to ruin it. We'll see if I can figure something out in the next week. To round out the Wings Series, I want to write a third book I'm currently calling Cupid's Halo. This one would be set in December at holiday time. However, the due date to submit this book is the end of March, and I have doubts I'll be able to get a viable story put together in time. This past week I worked on figuring out who the main characters are and the basic tenants of the plot, but haven't put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) yet. I'm going to give it a go and try to get this story written in time, but I make no promises. Please wish me luck! I've been working on a couple other fun things too, but this post is already long enough so I'll share more later! In the meantime, please feel free to check out Cupids' Arrows, coming out on January 13th! If you buy from NSP, you can read it today. If you buy from Amazon or anywhere else, you only have to wait two more days! 1/3/26
It is time for the annual tradition of wondering what the heck I did over the last year! I'll add in a touch of things to look forward to now that it's 2026 as well. Ready? In 2025 I:
To be bluntly honest, it wasn't my best year as an author. I aim to release four books a year, and I did not meet that goal in 2025. However, putting together the audiobooks was a ton of fun. I loved them and will definitely work with the company again should the opportunity arise. Part of the reason I didn't release as many books as usual in 2025 was because of how much I was writing. That seems like an oxymoron, but in truth I hopscotched between stories and ideas constantly. That prevented me from actually finishing a book. I did write and complete Cupids' Arrows (book 1 of the Wings series) and Divine Judgment, the two books I'm contracted for with NSP, but I also worked on Baron of the Shifting Sands, more stories in the Wings series, a somewhat ridiculous magical girl story I'm calling Rainbow Princess Angels, Go!, Age of Dragons, and the list continues. If it's a story on my Current Projects page, at some point I worked on it in 2025. What I am hoping is all of that writing will lead to good things in 2026. (Hint, it already has!) In 2026 I'm of course looking forward to publishing both Cupids' Arrows (January 13th!) and Divine Judgment, but there's much more to come! Thanks to all the writing I did in 2025, I have completed my first story in 2026. Sort of... Baron of the Shifting Sands is technically complete. I put the final period on the epilogue just yesterday. However, there are places in the story where I just wrote "FIX THIS" in all caps, so I still need to actually go in and fix those sections. I do expect Baron will be submitted to NSP and (presuming they accept it) published in 2026! I have also made a ton of progress in writing Cupid's Flight, the second book in my Wings series. I only have two important scenes and the epilogue left to write, so there's still a chance I'll be able to submit it before the deadline this month. It'll be a rush, but that's the goal! If I'm able to complete it in time, and if NSP accepts it, it will be released sometime around Halloween 2026. That wraps up my glimpse into things to look forward to in 2026. I hope everyone had a very happy new year and that you also have wonderful things in store for 2026! 12/21/25
Happy shortest day of the year for everyone living in the Northern Hemisphere! I know it will take a while, but at least I now have the faint hope of soon having sunlight streaming through my windows before my morning alarm, and still have sun remaining in the afternoon on my drive home from work. I know some people find winter depressing because of the cold and the gray, but for me it's always being forced to turn my lights on that gets me. With the days now getting longer, that will be over soon! On another depressing note, I have been getting so much spam lately. I was super excited to see posts replying to my blog this week, until I read them and realized they were almost entirely spam. Given I have the CAPTCHA on, only humans should technically be able to post, and yet these keep appearing. They look like partial descriptions of products, so they're not gross or inappropriate, but moderating them is very annoying. If anyone knows how to stop them, please, please, please tell me! I also submitted a cover to AllAuthor a few months ago, which they allow on a limited basis for free accounts. Since then I have gotten literally a thousand (no joke) emails from yahoos claiming they want to help me promote my books. They apparently have hundreds of followers and since they loved my book (no specification as to which one, LOL) they want to help me. Since I haven't validated their existence by replying, I don't know how much money they're trying to scam me out of, but it's incredibly annoying that I keep getting them. I feel like continuing to post a cover on AllAuthor every once in a while is probably still beneficial to help new readers find my books, but the spam is threatening to take over my life! In better news, I have a release date to share! Cupids' Arrows is slated to come out on January 13, 2026! I have reviewed the ARC and it looks great! I can't wait for it to be released, which is really, really soon! I have also completed the copy edits for Divine Judgment. I don't have a release date yet, but it should be soon given this story is also almost ready to go. I haven't managed to write much in my works in progress, since I've been working on so many edits, but I'm hopeful the upcoming holidays will give me enough time to buckle down on writing! |
