I'm taking a sabbatical

That makes it sound far more professional, doesn't it? 😂

Short version: personal circumstances have dictated that I stop writing and promoting erotica for a while. Maybe a long while.

Slightly longer version: it's currently no longer viable from a financial perspective or a time perspective for me to be able to invest the hours I need into crafting smutty stories every month and releasing them in a semi-regular fashion. As many of you will know, I'm a semi-professional erotica author and compose my filthy fables in my spare time. I used to have a job that accommodated this - but I now find myself in a situation where both my professional hours and free time are at a premium.

Basically, there aren't enough hours in the day to carry on with my previous routine, and as one of those crazy creatives who REFUSES to adopt AI to generate any of my words, I'd rather put a pause on my output than serve you up slop.

I had hoped that closing my Patreon service would give me the breathing space I needed, but alas it wasn't enough.

I will still be sending the occasional newsletter, either to let you know about sales/bargains or to promote other authors – and I'm halfway through FIRM: Book 3, so that'll make an appearance at some point – but I'm afraid, for now, you'll be hearing a lot less from me.

Thank you to all those who have supported me thus far - either by purchasing my books or simply reading my words. It has been massively appreciated and super gratifying.

I'm hoping this is temporary. We'll see how things go!

In the meantime, feel free to send me an email at jackhawkland@hawklanderotica.com

And if you want to speed up my return to writing, consider making a purchase or sending me a tip – you may help bring me to the point where I can quit my job and write smut full-time. Then you'll be getting a new book every week or so!!

Here's (nearly) everything I've done

I've never done this before in a newsletter but this seems as good a time as ever. Featuring bundles where all the books in a series are currently collected, here is almost every book I've produced since starting, presented almost in publishing order. Missing is my debut – *Not a Sexual Service – which is exclusive to Galatea, and some of my shorts are yet to be contained within a Climax Collection. But this is pretty much all of my output!

I'm proud to say that it's all 4–5 star stuff based on Amazon reviews, so I was clearly doing something right! If anything takes your fancy, I hope you'll check it out...