Indentured Bride

by Yamila Abraham

  “Really? We can be there three days?”

  Jaxil climbed over her and placed a kiss on her neck. “It’s a pathetic world, but there’s one island in a tropical climate with a beach and resort that raises canta-nules, sweet animals that let you ride them.”

  Tabitha became giddy. “Oh!”

  Jaxil lifted her shirt and bra and gave a kiss to her nipple. “Let me share what little joy the Hax-Rah Empire has to offer.”

  She cupped his face in her hands and kissed him.

  “Not a little joy.” A tear of happiness dripped down her cheek. “You’re the greatest joy of my life.”

  END

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  About the Author

  My stories tell me how long they want to be, and this one turned out to be a short novella. I have a lot of text that was cut away, her space flight to the planet, a prior scene between her and her foreman Merit, because none of that added anything to the story. Indentured Bride, while compact, was as long as it needed to be to tell the story that I wanted.

  The last sci-fi romance novel I wrote was a sci-fi ménage called Bride of the Keil Warriors. This story was an attempt to redeem myself from a past screw-up, while also getting back into the sci-fi romance arena.

  Aliens Bride was my other sci-fi romance ménage prior to Bride of the Keil Warrors. It starred the slave-turned-bride Selena. I still say this was a good book, with an original storyline, compelling characters, immersive world, and great sex scenes. The problem, however, is that it wasn't the ménage readers wanted to read. It fell off the rails in a big way.

  I didn't know where that story was going when I started writing it. Sometimes I do what us writing-types call 'pantsing' and I just make it up as I go along.

  Well...that's what I say I do. The truth is I start out with these characters and they just hijack the story and do whatever the heck they want. That's what happened in Aliens Bride. I just screwed up.

  Boy did readers let me have it! This was my first ménage and I flew into it blind. I didn't understand the contract I was making with readers when I put a woman and two hot alien guys on my cover. Just check out the reviews...they ripped me a new one.

  And I deserved it. I know I did. I should have done better. I should have lived up to the promise I made readers. I'm not some big-name literary author who can write fancy-pants stuff that is allowed to have sad endings. I write romance. It's a very strict genre. Expectations have been established by readers and I had a duty to deliver. This was a failure and it ultimately led to the downfall of the whole Alien's Bride series.

  Bride of the Keil Warriors ended up being the greatest seller of my writing career thus far. I feel I successfully reentered the sci-fi romance arena.

  I've written a lot of stuff. It accumulates fast when you're putting out one or more books a month. I'm mainly known for my male/male romance, but I have plenty of really good sci-fi romance novels I hope you'll check out. The Android's Bride was my most recent one before Bride of the Keil Warrors. The Alien's Bride series has six other ebooks besides that ménage one I was talking about up there. These books have historically been best-sellers for me. Most have really great reviews and fan response. These are the 'Mars Needs Moms' type of books where women are scarce and the aliens are grabbing themselves some brides. In the first book they go 2,000 years in the past to kidnap the first bride the need. That bride Maritza goes on to appear in all the later installments...as a villain! It's really kind of cool!

  Now I have to talk about gay stuff. I know a lot of readers like bisexual stories, but I also know that those who don't like them REALLY DON'T LIKE THEM. That's why I kept things hetero for Bride of the Keil Warrors. If you like the gay stuff I hope you'll check out my library.

  In the male/male romance books I like for characters to have to do things that make their souls ache, but where they have so much incentive that they just have to force themselves to do it. That was the prevalent theme of Hostile Taking, a story where a politically powerful alien takes over the business, and body of Merrick Connor.

  In The Eidolon's Conquest, my sci-fi gay romance novel before Hostile Taking, Rand is sick over the idea of surrendering to an enemy who he not only pissed off, but who is going to do sexual things to him. I worked the situation to make sure my character was trapped. He had to give in—to sink into absolute submission.

  I explored this same theme in The Demon and the Emperor. Dianese must have the demon Rodukjo's help, no matter what the cost. The cost ends up being his body, something abhorrent to him, and yet he has to consent. (Don't worry, it's all consensual and they fall in love in a major way.)

  In all these books the rest of the story becomes how to make the consent truly willing. I've read many stories where the uke (bottom) is getting raped from the beginning and his 'consent' comes about once he's thoroughly broken. You can't convince me that he will willingly come to love his abuser by the end. Maybe some people like and expect those types of stories, but I just can't go there. A little piece of my heart is in each one of characters. I want them to love their semes (tops) without it being Stockholm Syndrome. In this regard you kind of know what you're going to get with me every time.

  I pushed this in Vanquished Knight, where the knight was getting stripped naked, spanked, and swallowing cum within minutes of meeting the demon king. I still say that Jonah genuinely came to love his demon captors. I made him the sort of character who could not be broken by abuse, and who could see the love of his masters even through their apparent cruelty. If you read Vanquished Knight you'll see it truly is consensual sex that leads to love.

  Computer overlords screwing things up is another motif I've been exploring in my work. The computer C-Raptin in The Android's Bride controls the main android character, and we don't know if he's evil or not until the end.

  For sci-fi gay romance Maelstrom is the most prominent and popular series. This sci-fi serial has gotten me several devoted fans, and I'm working on creating a webcomic out of it when my Patreon receives enough funding. It's already made its way out as an audio book! Another sci-fi male/male romance, Zolabarth Bi, will be coming out as a full-cast audio book. I'm excited for both of these projects. It seems like sci-fi m/m is where I really resonate with fans.

  Getting back to the 'About the Author' stuff, I believe that writing is a role, not a job. This was a calling for me from before I was out of diapers. I had to tell stories, and then I had to write stories. I started going into trances when I wrote at a very young age. It's kind of like taking Quaaludes. There's time distortion where I think an hour has passed when it's actually been 12 hours. I also talk in my characters voices without being aware of it. If this sounds crazy to you, it's really not. Other prominent writers have admitted to 'writing trances.' Every fiction writer has to get into their 'zone' to write. For some it just gets creepy. I'm fine with this phenomenon. It's how I make my living, after all.

  I started out getting published in small literary journals when I was out of college. I won contests here and there, and I always seemed to be working on my next submission for publication. In 1999 I discovered yaoi (Japanese gay romance for women) and it was an epiphany for me since I'd been writing yaoi for decades but never had a label for it. In 2004 I started my own publishing company, Yaoi Press, and put out yaoi graphic novels. I got out 50 or so before Borders Books closed and the bo
ttom fell out of the market. The last book Yaoi Press published was in 2012, and I'm pretty sure that's the end of ink and paper books for me.

  Ebooks have given me a wonderful and viable career. I started out with Incubus Master, a serial where I was testing out my prose skills for the first time. The premise and characters are solid, but it's not as strong prose-wise as my current books. Still, my imagination uncorked with this series and it led to the sequel, Captured, and then Scor's Story.

  These early series proved to me that I could still live off my writing, even if Yaoi Press is mostly shut down. I've been pumping out work at a fast clip ever since. Sometimes new fans discover me and my work resonates with them. They want to read everything I've put out, but it's daunting. I have 144 titles on Amazon right now. If you want to get all my past works I recommend starting with The Big Yaoi Bundle and then continuing with The Huge Yaoi Bundle. This gives you the bulk of my library in two heavily-discounted purchases. After that is The Maelstrom Compilation—which is really one of my best works, I highly recommend it, and then Incubus Master Complete and Incubus Master Captured Complete.

  My most recent works are some of my best. I will always recommend UnPrison in every new ebook I put out because it's still garnering praise even a year after its release. Seriously, check out the reviews for this ebook. Even people who don't like prison romance or gay romance in general have ended up likely it. I worked in a men's prison for a year and channeled all that insight into a very realistic daddy/kid prison romance story. Str8 Room8 is another top-seller I hope new fans will not overlook. It's an extremely sensual, fun, short read about a thoroughly seduced hetero college student.

  I write for a living, as I said. If you are an aspiring writer and want to know all my secrets I cover all my advice in the book Ten Steps to Kindle Fiction Success, which I try to keep for free on Amazon, but since it's exclusive under Kindle Unlimited I can't trip the permafree status by just making it free elsewhere. If you don't have Kindle Unlimited and want a free copy, email me at yaoimila@gmail.com and I'll send it to you (will take a week or more, so don't freak). In exchange for the free gift I ask for you to sign up for my newsletter at http://yaoimila.com. This covers the 'how can I be a writer like you' part of my About the Author section.

  Almost every story I write is a variation of beauty and the beast. One big monster type going after one small vulnerable type. The story is in how the monster seduces beauty. The beast character is often a demon in my writing. The Demon and the Emperor, Vanquished Knight, Incubus Master, and Xenoskar. I dig stories about big sexy demons taking sweet tender ukes. Demons, to me, are vampires without the fangs and bloodsucking. They're sexy monsters that can be whatever you want. In Demon Consort I had the demon take the role of the sweet vulnerable one and the human took the role of the beast.

  When I was growing up you didn't see sexy demons all that much in Western comics, literature, and media. I thought the huge horned demon Tim Curry played in the Legend movie was pretty sexy, but that pointy cleft chin turned me off. Pinhead in the Hellraiser movies was pretty cool, but how do you kiss him? Demons in Western comics were similarly disappointing. I gravitated instead towards anime and manga where feudal Japan traditions brought about demons who were less monster and more beautiful and godlike. This ultimately led me to write graphic novels in the manga style for my publishing company Yaoi Press. The big hit for me was Winter Demon. My other notable graphic novel is Dark Prince (which you can read for free right now on http://yaoimila.com).

  Okay, it's time to wrap this up. The real Yamila Abraham is a super friendly lady who loves meeting you at conventions or on the road. I live in an RV and tow it south in the winter and north in the summer. You can read about my misadventures in my RVing blog: http://searchingfulltime.com I also post lots of stuff in my Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/yaoimila

  If I've interested you I hope you'll go to my Amazon page, select the option to follow me, and peruse all my offerings. I've got prison romance, alien romance, demon romance, BDSM, hurt/comfort, fantasy, and lots of bundles that group my huge body of work into affordable mega-deals. Check that out here: http://amazon.com/author/yamilaabraham You can see what books I have available for free HERE.

  And please sign up for my newsletter! I only bug you once a month. http://yaoimila.com.

  If you're one of my yaoi fans I have a Patreon with the goal of making a web comic out of Maelstrom. You get to read Happy Yaoi Yum Yum, a very smutty yaoi graphic novel that's out of print, in exchange for a modest subscription.

  Other Books on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited:

  Hostile Taking

  Alien's Bride

  Bride Games

  Alien's Bride Lisette

  Aliens Bride

  Alien's Bride Meredith

  The Android's Bride

  The Demon and the Emperor

  The Eidolon's Conquest

  Conquering the Phobe

  Vanquished Knight

  UnPrison

  Xenoskar

  Table of Contents

  Indentured Bride

  About the Author

  Other Books on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited