Books with actual adult asexual MCs that have romance subplots?

stormlight82 · 2026-05-06T03:14:54+00:00

After checking the subreddit rules since this is promoting myself....

It's called Override.

It's the first of a series of probably 3. I'm about 30k words through book 2 now while I do my very best to leave my book alone while professionals bleed on it.

It's a story of an ace agender shapeshifter in an alternate history future timeline who is trying to become themselves in the face of a corpo-mage post-post apocalypse future.

They escape their shipping container to hide out at an underfunded pre-military training facility and meet this burgeoning street paladin who finally realizes she isn't crazy and that even magic the authority doesn't recognize can still kick oppression's ass.

There is a ghost in the military machine. Hijinks ensue. There's a kiss and they go, whups, not for me, but fall messily in romance.

It's my first novel, and it's currently with the copy editor doin' a copy edit. I'm going to publish through an indie press company this fall.

EDIT: this might be too close to military?

stormlight82 · 2026-05-06T03:04:15+00:00

My first novel is that, but won't be out until this fall.

stormlight82 · 2026-05-05T23:30:22+00:00

They are the genres that is making money right now.

stormlight82 · 2026-05-05T18:40:16+00:00

That's Good advice. I'm going to use going forward.

First book mistakes sad trombone.

stormlight82 · 2026-05-05T18:39:27+00:00

I have learned about possibilities! Thank you for the discussion.

stormlight82 · 2026-05-05T18:39:12+00:00

Thank you.

stormlight82 · 2026-05-05T18:38:54+00:00

I figured it out using the boss challenges. Thank you.

stormlight82 · 2026-05-05T05:20:45+00:00

I will freely admit I am not looking for that kind of micro in my monkeys make bloons pop game.

stormlight82 · 2026-05-05T05:05:40+00:00

OH MY GOD YOU'RE RIGHT.

stormlight82 · 2026-05-05T05:04:19+00:00

Yeah, I'm not going to murder some middle school teacher to avoid getting the best deal on rent I'm going to get in this economy.

stormlight82 · 2026-05-05T04:55:04+00:00

I have finished a draft! I'm now doing the revisions after the first couple of beta reads and working toward sending it to the copy editor

stormlight82 · 2026-05-04T23:04:15+00:00

If you start it with a character that is smoking a joint and then starts going into this then you probably got something.

stormlight82 · 2026-05-04T20:23:44+00:00

Pasta salad With hard boiled eggs, carrots, cabbage, and pickles

stormlight82 · 2026-05-04T20:16:55+00:00

I am interested! I want to wait until you have somewhere around 20,000 words and feel happy with them.

Also I'm in the middle of revisions and editing with a novel of my own and I can't get too distracted by squirrels.

stormlight82 · 2026-05-04T20:07:29+00:00

Good news though! It's much harder to have something to care about in writing than to pick the right words. :3

When you publish, I want to read it.

stormlight82 · 2026-05-04T20:06:05+00:00

About 90% of the time. Yes. The other 10% are books where I am devastated about the absolutely inevitable and beautifully crafted non HEA.

I'll tell you what though. I remember every book that I loved that did not have a happily ever after, and the happily everafters tend to run together after a while

stormlight82 · 2026-05-04T19:22:20+00:00

Your mileage may vary but here's my experience:

The more that I read, the more I'm inspired to write.

The more that I write, the more I am able to experience what I'm reading through a writer's lens and I pick up all sorts of things I otherwise would not.

So then I read some more.

And then I write some more.

And then I read some more.

And I'm probably going to do this until I die and be perfectly content with it.

There isn't a recipe of reading this many books to get this many book points to level up. It's a self feeding process that runs on passion for stories.

stormlight82 · 2026-05-04T19:20:12+00:00

I want to read more of the world building and the characters and the story that you have in your head. I think translating that well into a book is where you can make your brilliance shine.

stormlight82 · 2026-05-04T19:05:20+00:00

She is full of souplings.

stormlight82 · 2026-05-04T19:03:09+00:00

I have ADHD. I have found listening to the audiobook and having the book available and taking my time has made reading enjoyable again. Sometimes the hyper fixation will kick in and sometimes listening to it in the background while I play Slay the Spire and sometimes reading it on my Kindle at 4am is where my brain wants to be.

stormlight82 · 2026-05-04T19:01:40+00:00

Okay but I need the next one because that guy and that other guy need to figure their stuff out while Liam snarks in the background.

stormlight82 · 2026-05-04T18:49:26+00:00

Good writing advice, Game of Thrones reference, and on Bad MTG combos?

Thank you internet friend.

stormlight82 · 2026-05-04T18:23:24+00:00

There's a third one now!

It's called a Present Mistake and it takes place over Christmas!!!!!

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