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They/them, forty-something, southeastern U.S.
I've been writing since I was a child and posting stories on various free fiction websites since 2007. Since 2013, I've been selling ebooks; Smashwords pays its authors better than Amazon, and itch.io is hard to compare, but seems to be in the same ballpark as Amazon.
* http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/trismegistusshandy
* http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00I14IWV6
* https://trismegistus-shandy.itch.io/
My other free stories can be found at:
* https://www.deviantart.com/trismegistusshandy
* http://www.tgstorytime.com/viewuser.php?uid=8445
* http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/trismegistus-shandy
* http://shifti.org/wiki/User:Trismegistus_Shandy
* https://archiveofourown.org/users/Trismegistus_Shandy/pseuds/Trismegistus_Shandy
* http://www.fictionmania.tv/searchdisplay/authordisplay.html?word=4122
My short story "The Parent-Teacher Conference" was added to *False Positives and Other Stories* on Thursday.
https://www.scribblehub.com/read/181473-false-positives-and-other-stories/chapter/1205343/
This coming Thursday, another new short story, "The Half-God's Mother," will be added to that collection, followed by a reprint of "Wentworth and the Mind-Body Problem" from *The Weight of Silence and Other Stories*, the following two Thursdays (i.e. through January 30).
Check out my friend Jess's short superhero story "A Hero's Wish," which she wrote as a gift for me in 2022 and which has been a Patreon exlcusive until now.
https://www.scribblehub.com/read/1360108-a-heros-wish/chapter/1360113/
The Secret Trans Writing Lair's fifth holiday bundle is out now. I don't have a story in it this year, but go check it out -- there are eight short stories, seven novelettes, and three novellas totalling 176K words.
https://itch.io/b/2807/stwl-presents-santas-secret-transfic-stash-vol-5
The novelette version of "Permission Slip" has begun serializing, but for some reason isn't showing up on my author page or a search for recently updated stories by tag. So here is a link.
Okay, now it is showing up, a good seven hours after it was scheduled to appear. The main page is saying it went up an hour ago, while the story page says chapter one went up eight hours ago. And it's showing up at the top of a search for recently updated stories with the "single parent" tag. Go figure.
Depending on how much of Project 2025 gets implemented, and how, we could be facing mass censorship of trans or generally LGBT+ content. I recommend that everyone who cares about trans fiction read this essay by Bethany Karsten.
https://thetransfemininereview.com/2024/11/13/a-practical-guide-to-resisting-censorship/
My silly short story "The Dark Lord's Housemaid" has been added to "False Positives and Other Stories."
https://www.scribblehub.com/read/181473-false-positives-and-other-stories/chapter/1076207/
I've posted ten two-sentence horror stories to "False Positives and Other Stories."
https://www.scribblehub.com/read/181473-false-positives-and-other-stories/chapter/1280162/
I have a Halloween horror novelette, "The Floating Girls," in the Secret Trans Writing Lair's Autumn bundle. There are eleven stories (some but not all of them horror) by trans authors totalling around 148k words, three of them novellas.
For some reason, the first of today's chapters of "Umpteen Characters in Search of a Self-Insert" went up with the date of December 14, 2023, rather than today (the date it was scheduled to appear). Probably a SH bug? Anyway, here it is:
https://www.scribblehub.com/series/943243/umpteen-characters-in-search-of-a-selfinsert/
Hey, I'm debating putting stuff up here that I post on TGST. Is there any specific spot for the ex-pat community to post here, or is it like a free for all?
Welcome! I'd advise you to use both the "gender bender" genre and the "transgender" tag (and the "male to female"/"female to male"/"genderless protagonist" tags as suitable) for better visibility. A lot of us find new stories by searching for recently updated stories with one of those tags.
Another thing: when you're reposting stories from TGS, don't post all the chapters in a short time. Spread them out over a few days, at least, so your stories will appear on the front page (or a search for recently updated stories with a favorite tag) multiple times instead of just once. SH lets you schedule chapter posts in advance, so you can set everything up in one day and then have the chapters go up each day while you're doing other things.
Also, I'd suggest going through the list of Scribblehub's supported tags and using as many as you can find that are relevant to your story. That will increase visibility and help Scribblehub recommend your story to readers of other similar stories. https://scribblehub.com/list_tags.php
Thanks Tris! I appreciate the help. I'll probably bring the big hit over first and then the new one, but I figured it would be good to have them over here. Probably get a lot more feedback too given the new one is a little out of my comfort zone.
Question about jekyllase, does the hyde need to have a different personality? Because what if a person repressed so much that they just go through life day by day as a husk of their former selves, then they take Jekyllase and they have everything come back to them. I'm just wondering because I wanna know what a person that's repressed everything might be like.
Yeah, that sounds like a plausible scenario. Feel free to write about it.
Yay, author permission!
All my stories are released under a Creative Commons license that allows other people to write stories in my settings, etc. You don't necessarily need to ask individual permission.
If you want to be informed when I add a chapter to a story or a story to a collection, and not just when I do a profile post or start a new story, you can, but the setting is kind of hidden on a page separate from the other notification settings. Click the bookmark icon on the latest chapter you've read (it's kind of a ribbon-looking thing, at the top or bottom of a chapter) to add it to your reading list.
Then click your username at the top of the page to open the menu, and select "Reading List"; then click the gear icon on the right of one of the top rows. Then scroll down to "Enable Alerts" and click it, and then "Save Settings."
You can also make your reading list private by selecting "Disable Public List"; if you don't other people can see it.
I am curious, have you found any way to add an Author to the favorites? I.e. I would like to see all of your stories new chapters on my favorites, even if I haven't noticed them yet?
The closest to that is following the author which gives you notifications on this site of when they post a new status or story. In your reading list you can change the order to have the latest updated stories show at the top. I just check my reading list every once in a while to read up on the updates when I feel like it.
There have been four stories added to "False Positives and Other Stories" since my last profile post about it: "Cameron Wilson," a weird mystery, "An Underhaunted Courtship," a ghost story/romance, "Where She Belongs" and "Borrowing," two selkie stories.
This coming Saturday, "Umpteen Characters in Search of a Self-Insert" will begin serializing; the next additions to 'False Positives and Other Stories" will be November 16 and 23.
I have gotten slack about putting Creative Commons license notices in the author's notes of my stories, so I went back and added them to all the stories that lacked them (and updated the older ones from the 3.0 US license to the 4.0 International license). In non-legalese, you can share my stories and create derivative works based on them as long as you credit me as the original author and don't make money from your copies, adaptations and spinoffs.
Only twelve hours left on the Pride Month bundle sale:
https://itch.io/b/2503/stwl-pride-month-sale-2024
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| Location: | Southeastern U.S. |
| Homepage: | http://shifti.org/wiki/User:Trismegistus_Shandy |
They/them, forty-something, southeastern U.S.
I've been writing since I was a child and posting stories on various free fiction websites since 2007. Since 2013, I've been selling ebooks; Smashwords pays its authors better than Amazon, and itch.io is hard to compare, but seems to be in the same ballpark as Amazon.
* http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/trismegistusshandy
* http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00I14IWV6
* https://trismegistus-shandy.itch.io/
My other free stories can be found at:
* https://www.deviantart.com/trismegistusshandy
* http://www.tgstorytime.com/viewuser.php?uid=8445
* http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/trismegistus-shandy
* http://shifti.org/wiki/User:Trismegistus_Shandy
* https://archiveofourown.org/users/Trismegistus_Shandy/pseuds/Trismegistus_Shandy
* http://www.fictionmania.tv/searchdisplay/authordisplay.html?word=4122
| Series: | 29 |
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| Total Words: | 1,195,439 |
| Total Pageviews: | 271,931 |
| Reviews Received: | 15 |
| Readers: | 4,817 |
| Followers: | 297 |
