Dark fantasy author + authorpreneur redefining the book business…
Hi, I’m Pagan, and I’m a fairy tale retelling author best known for my dual retelling of Snow White and The Little Mermaid, KINGDOM OF SIRENS AND MONSTERS.
After signing with two traditional publishers, my author journey quickly turned into its own twisted fairytale as I fell in love with the ‘stigmatised’ side of publishing (AKA: self-publishing)... left my publisher in 2020, and never looked back.
Now a serial entrepreneur and HUGE advocate for the indie route (aka: breaking the rules and doing it your way), I believe in creating multiple income streams through your skills and body of work—which has also led to me writing articles, emails and website copy for online businesses over the years (TL;DR? I've been getting paid to write cool shit since 2017).
My books are dark fantasies disguised as complex, epic love stories, following protagonists as they uncover their true (magical) identity, with a healthy sprinkle of morally grey characters and (more recently) spice.
You know when you pick up a book and you get so engrossed in it, you can’t stop thinking about reading it even when you’re not reading it? For me, this happened for the first time in MANY years on a Saturday evening, when I had wandered down to a wine bar to try and […]
As someone who is actively building a personal brand and is working on a range of different writing projects, I’m sharing some of my big, scary, audacious goals for this year. This is the year I’m getting paid to write and creating my best pieces of work. The year I’m fully diversifying and monetising my […]
Are you a newer author looking to publish your first (or next) book, but also wanting to ensure you give it the best possible chance at selling and reaching tons of readers? When I started publishing in 2016, I released my debut novel (Stuck on Vacation with Ryan Rupert) to an audience of crickets, made […]
