🖋️ New Chapters, Old Crimes, and Sapphic Firestorms: July Updates from Aoibh Wood

Marcella in Whitechapel 1888

Hello readers and radiant friends!

This month's creative cauldron is bubbling over, and I’m thrilled to share what’s just released and what’s blazing toward you next:

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🌸 Himeko – Chapter 2 Begins (Patreon Exclusive) - Released Today

Our sapphic graphic novel returns with the beginning of Chapter 2—available now in EPUB and PDF formats on Patreon!

As Himeko’s fate hangs in the balance at Corianna’s camp, we pivot to the heart of the Kiyomizu Empire. Emperor Koryu’s birthday celebration is in full swing, but it’s more than just candles and courtly posturing. He has a lesson in treachery planned for his brother—and may find himself the student before the night is done. All eyes are on the Empress-to-be.

You can read it now by supporting the project on Patreon.

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🕯️ Marcella: Liber Reginae – Echoes of Blood and Memory (Patreon Exclusive) - Coming in 10 days

Marcella’s carefully placed call to detective Cait Reagan—an alluring thread meant to pull the young sleuth deeper into her web—has awakened something unexpected: a memory.

One soaked in blood, shadow, and the moment everything changed.

In the upcoming chapter, we flash back to the streets of 1880s London, where a killer once stalked the night—and Marcella learned that there were worse things than her stalking the night. The past and present are beginning to tangle, and Cait may soon learn that Marcella’s story is far older—and far more dangerous—than she imagined.

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🔥 The Sapphic Trope Gauntlet – The Dragon and the Sacrifice Who Won’t (for members and Stay Sacrificed (For members and for Sale)

Yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like.

Yes, it’s glorious.

I’m deep in the flames of drafting The Dragon and the Sacrifice Who Won’t Stay Sacrificed—a heartwarming, trope-laden saga of transformation, pyromancy, stubborn survival, and forbidden love. One was meant to burn. The other was never meant to feel. Neither of them read the script.

This one’s going to be a fiery delight, and I can’t wait to share more soon.

Take me Away!