While lounging in my studio apartment, I published a new blog post on my WordPress author site using my old laptop. It was the latest chapter of my ongoing gay romance series titled “Something Like Fate.” I smiled with pride because of how well it’d been doing for its over-the-top romance and tasteful erotic scenes. I hadn’t expected it to be as big as it was, especially when it was silly enough that I’d named the main character and his love interest Mario and Luigi, respectively (not brothers in my story, of course). It was a weekly series of flash fiction installments to be read in order, like a telenovela, so to speak, and I posted a new chapter every Saturday. I’d started it in early June, and it was mid-August, not a single week missed. I’d gained hundreds of followers over the summer
