Long before I started writing Vesta's Hearth, my first intersexed novel, I was writing and publishing on Kindle both as EBooks and paperbacks, work of other genres including anthropomorphic aimed at the age groups 10 to110, Historical England in the Iron Age through to the modern day, comedy and Fantasy (Time slip between the 15th Century and 21st Century.) Though some of them contained adult scenes, none of them included either intersexed or transgendered characters so I have never mentioned or published them under the name of Frances Penwiddy here on Big Closet or on Amazon Kindle.

I was advised by two people in the publishing industry that this may be a tactical error and my TG related books were proving successful and I had neglected my other genres whilst concentrating on the Frances Penwiddy novels. 'Put them all under one name on Kindle', I was advised, 'They are good books and transgendered people do read other novels as well as those dealing with TG themes.. The people who like your TG books will enjoy your other work because your writing style, sense of humour and the manner in which you develop your characters is similar in all your work.'

That advice was given 18 months ago and I think it has sufficient merrit but until now, I have done nothing about it. I have spoken to Erin and she has no objection to my mentioning the Titles of any books I switch over to the Frances Penwiddy name on Amazon Kindle. I am doing so because I know that quite a few readers here have visited my Frances Penwiddy page at Amazon and I don't want them to go buying the books from my other genres thinking that they are TG when they are not. As I switch each title over, and I will be doing it one at a time and over a period of about eighteen months I will post a blog on here and perhaps a footnote on my Bic Closet chapters to warn people that XXXXXXX is not a TG book.

I will not be posting any chapters, teasers or links on Big Closet just the warning that the new title is not TG. I will also try and change the title pages and illustrations on my Amazon Authors Page of one or the other series so that you can easily identify the TG books.

I am not saying you should not read them, I would be delighted if you did. What I would like to do if I can, is perhaps tempt the non TG reader to try one of my Intersexed/TG books and perhaps make them more aware of the fact that TG people boys and girls alike are not aliens from another world. They do not eat peoples babies, strangle old folk, burgle their houses, tempt school children into trying class A drugs any more than the general public, perhaps even less because a prison sentence given to a TG person is a more horryfying experience than it is for most others.

This blog is to try and find out what you feel about it, would it upset the applecart if my Amazon Bookshelf contained non TG stories alongside the TG novels? I will not be slowing down on my TG work, Footprints in the Sea has another two possibly three volumes still to come and Vesta's Hearth at least one more and I also have a series of short stories and novellas that will be appearing in 2018 and a TG horror story.

Thank you all for the wonderful support you have given over the past years.

Frances,
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