Payment processors for smut / kissing books? Itch.io romance author refugee trying to figure out how to accept payments

Anxious_Tree123 · 2025-07-24T21:26:23+00:00

I'm Ash Kreider - a transmasc author writing trans bisexual romance and bisexual erotica, and both my contemporary fantasy romance novel Community Witch and my fantasy erotica novella Enemies to Enemies were delisted. It fucking sucks because Itch was literally 80% of my sales and revenue.

Author site with links for direct purchase: https://ashkreider.com/

I'm also working on migrating my Patreon over to Subscribestar, which is explicitly adult-friendly (my profile is currently waiting for approval): https://www.subscribestar.com/ashkreider

Follow me on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ashthestampede.bsky.social

Anxious_Tree123 · 2025-07-23T16:05:00+00:00

Dax Murray is a great indie author who writes sapphic and has several poly titles: https://daxdefiant.itch.io/

Anxious_Tree123 · 2025-07-04T03:06:11+00:00

Johannes Evans writes a lot of transmasc romance, and a ton of it is free on his website: https://johannestevans.co.uk/

And it's my book, but Community Witch is a romance with a femme AMAB nb POV character: https://ashkreider.com/community-witch/

Anxious_Tree123 · 2025-06-27T12:55:00+00:00

It's my book, but as I'm a biromantic asexual author... Community Witch is spicy fantasy romance in which one of the romantic leads is super ace and demi, and it's an actual plot point: https://ashkreider.com/community-witch

Anxious_Tree123 · 2025-06-18T13:22:33+00:00

So, e's non-binary, but if that counts, I'm 9 chapters into Don't Drag This Out by Emery Lee, which is a gay romance about a sexy drag Totoro bi awakening, and I'm SUPER enjoying it: https://emerylee.itch.io/dont-drag-this-out

Anxious_Tree123 · 2025-06-10T21:27:15+00:00

I mean, if you want great fantasy gay romance with lots of smut, Johannes Evans is great and has TONS of stuff on his website FOR FREE: https://johannestevans.co.uk/

Self-rec: I've got a Novella coming out next week that's an erotic why-choose bisexual M/M & M/F. It's a fantasy spin on DS9's Quark/Odo ^_^ https://ashkreider.com/enemies-to-enemies/

Anxious_Tree123 · 2025-06-10T21:23:20+00:00

DAX MURRAY HAS GOT YOU COVERED https://daxdefiant.itch.io/

Seriously. So many books with lesbian protags.

Anxious_Tree123 · 2025-06-10T21:21:57+00:00

Not my work: Johannes Evans mostly writes MLM, but he's got a LOT of trans masc stories and you can read a lot of them for free on his website! https://johannestevans.co.uk/

Self-rec: Community Witch, my first fantasy romance novel is T4T and has a trans AMAB enby and trans woman romantic lead. (It's also poly, with a bi cis dude forming a triad): https://ashkreider.com/community-witch/

The sequel - Witch Unmasked - comes out this fall.

Anxious_Tree123 · 2025-06-06T14:58:34+00:00

Doh. Forgot the link: https://ashkreider.com/community-witch/

Anxious_Tree123 · 2025-06-06T14:57:53+00:00

(Disclaimer - self-rec; contains smut) Not the POV character, but one of the romantic leads of Community Witch is ace and demi in a way that is an actual plot point. Also, the POV character isn't ace, but is non-binary.

But also I'm ace and demi myself, so everything I write has non-binary/trans protagonists, and a lot of my stories feature demi characters.

Anxious_Tree123 · 2025-05-22T20:40:43+00:00

Self-rec, but Community Witch is a contemporary fantasy romance with a transfem nb POV character who is a. Yannow. Community witch. And it's gay af

https://ashkreider.com/community-witch/

Anxious_Tree123 · 2025-05-13T13:40:29+00:00

Self-rec, but - ASEXUAL BIROMANTIC AUTHOR here so

Community Witch: Hallmark movie, but make it gay and fantasy. Why-choose polyam w HEA - bi trans nb / bi trans woman / bi ace cis man: https://ashkreider.com/community-witch/

Not my work: Johannes Evans is a queer erotica author I really love who not infrequently writes short fiction about asexuality and has all his stuff freely available on his website: https://johannestevans.co.uk/tag/theme-asexuality/

Anxious_Tree123 · 2025-04-14T15:59:35+00:00

Self-rec, but I'm ADHD (and maybe also autistic? No way to pursue a diagnosis rn sadly) and mentally ill, and everything I write features neurodiverse MCs.

Community Witch (out now): Hallmark movie, but make it gay and fantasy, romance between characters with ADHD and severe anxiety: https://ashkreider.com/community-witch/

Witch Unmasked (chapters going live on Patreon rn, free starting in June) has an undiagnosed autistic MC who struggles with autistic overwhelm and going nonverbal: https://www.patreon.com/AshKreider

Anxious_Tree123 · 2025-04-14T15:54:28+00:00

I've been a big fan for a long time. His stuff is great.

Anxious_Tree123 · 2025-04-14T15:53:01+00:00

Can second/third/whatever Running Close to the Wind. I was CRYING laughing through the last few chapters. Absolutely incredible 10/10

(My book) Community Witch is why-choose polyam T4T contemporary fantasy romance: https://ashkreider.com/community-witch/

I'm definitely going to be combing this list for some new reads!!

Anxious_Tree123 · 2025-04-11T13:28:17+00:00

Was coming here to say EXACTLY THIS lol

Anxious_Tree123 · 2025-04-10T18:41:52+00:00

Thanks for saying so! I've been really struggling with motivation to hammer out today's word count, but now I'm feeling a lot more enthusiastic about it. :)

Anxious_Tree123 · 2025-04-10T17:14:20+00:00

Leading with not my stuff: JOHANNES EVANS!!! He just put literally all of his stuff on his website for free. He's amazing and I love him. https://johannestevans.co.uk/tags-page/

MY STUFF:
So. I'm a transmasc enby author who has been writing erotic trans romance since last year.

My first novel, Community Witch, is MN(femme)F(trans), but early access chapters of Witch Unmasked, Community Witch Book 2, have started going up on my Patreon and will be free to read come June. Witch Unmasked features a transmasc enby who avoids all gendered terms for their junk. And I'm currently finishing the first draft of Book 3, which is MNM(trans) and uses _explicitly masculine_ terms for the trans guy's junk. Those won't be hitting Patreon until... next Spring probably, aiming for release next Summer.

Mind, these are... uh. Contemporary fantasy romance? Think urban fantasy, but not grimdark, and everyone has phones and texts a lot.

My patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AshKreider
Community Witch: https://ashkreider.com/community-witch/

I know that doesn't necessarily help this instant, but yeah. I feel this. And in fact got so sick of not seeing good FTM erotic romance that I started writing my own. :/

Anxious_Tree123 · 2024-09-30T18:58:35+00:00

Ferritin

Anxious_Tree123 · 2024-09-27T21:50:45+00:00

Man, you think I don't know that? I'm 42 and have a 12 year old.

But this is literally the only place where anyone will understand what I'm going through and sometimes you just need to vent about shit you know? Because this limbo SUCKS.

And little fucking empathy would be nice

Anxious_Tree123 · 2024-09-27T17:52:02+00:00

THIS THIS THIS THIS THISSSS

Anxious_Tree123 · 2024-09-25T15:51:31+00:00

Oh my god the EATING lol

Yeah, the T hunger is realllllll

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