This image is the cover for the book Not About Love

Not About Love

Growing up, Mai Nguyen always loved comic books. In college, she writes fan fiction about her favorite characters and publishes the stories online. Soon enough, she has a writing partner, who turns into a close friend.

Kate is an admin assistant who also reads and writes steamy stories about her favorite comic heroes and villains. To Mai's surprise, Kate is a lesbian, too. The women grow closer as they begin to write fan fiction together and talk late into the night. Though an ocean separates Mai in Boston from Kate in the UK, Mai is happy with the way their friendship and story are turning out.

But as Valentine's Day grows closer, and the climax of the story they’re writing together grows more intense, Mai finds her feelings for Kate changing. When Kate suggests they meet up in real life, Mai doesn't know how to respond. In stories and online, love is easy and carefree. But the real world is something different. Can Mai translate fiction into reality?

Eve Francis

Eve Francis has appeared in Plunge Magazine, Infernal Ink, Iris New Fiction, MicroHorror, and The Eternal Haunted Summer. Her short stories have been on The Human Echoes Podcast and included in The Grotesquerie, a short horror anthology for Mocha Memoirs Press. She is the former poetry editor for Prosaic Magazine and a peer reviewer for Feral Feminisms. Horror and romance are her favorite genres to write in because everyone knows what it’s like to be afraid -- and fall in love. For more information, please visit evefrancis.wordpress.com.