We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Wolfe Hans. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Wolfe below.

Wolfe, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. One of the toughest things about progressing in your creative career is that there are almost always unexpected problems that come up – problems that you often can’t read about in advance, can’t prepare for, etc. Have you had such and experience and if so, can you tell us the story of one of those unexpected problems you’ve encountered?

I had no idea what I was doing when I started writing Queer Creatures books seven years ago. I had this idea that queer/gay/lgbtqia+ would be the default in this universe. The books would be spicy, provocative, and full of my love for horror and dark humor. That is a big brush to paint with and I quickly learned some things I did NOT want my books to be. I didn’t want them to be empty sex books, I didn’t want them to be mindless hack and slashers, and I didn’t want them so campy they lacked any real voice or heart. I wanted to enjoy what I was writing

I was lucky to find when you write about death and sex you get to some very primal and primitive themes quickly, about what it means to be human and queer. Mixing in monsters made the outlandish easier to tell these stories that had a deeper meaning while still being fun and exciting.

But there are still things in those first (maybe 5) books I would probably take out or change,

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I was born Wolfe Hans to a world that more often than not terrifies me. I learned rather young, thanks to a brilliant movie ‘Heavenly Creatures’, that some of us are just born with a special part of our brain. It gives us access to worlds outside our own. Better worlds, more exciting, and honestly–safter feeling, even when full of nail-biting drama and excitement. There is something so romantic about it in story and something so brutal about it in real life. This escape was my addiction and I threw myself into anything creative that allowed it. Theatre, art, roleplay, even video games allowed me to imagine endless new characters and adventures to the point it became a habit. I can’t stop NOW!

We can’t all hide our differences. Life can be hard for a kid with hairy hands and I think being like everyone else was never an option for me.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

Being an indie author can sometimes have a bit of a stigma to it but I really love that I don’t answer to anyone apart from my own creative voice and a few friends that talk me down when I get a little too wild…

That said, it comes with wearing a lot of hats. Including having a social media presence. Which I find can be more tricky for lgbtqia+ indie creators. What a big time studio might be able to include in their ads?–I could never. My first Tiktok was doing so well and I put up a video including a guy holding a banana by his mouth, not anything graphic mind you, a man and a banana. But, my account account was flagged, deleted, No refuting it, no fighting back, just gone. That can be a big blow when you count on getting your work out there on these platforms. As a lgbtqia+ content creator in general I think you have to learn what is going to get flagged and taken down even when it isn’t of a sexual nature.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

I wish I had a really deep answer for you but honestly I wanna know what’s going to happen next! My 20th book ‘Queer Christmas: Unholy Night’ is just days away from cuming out and with each one, a new part of the universe is carved out. Each time I write one of these books I’m exciting what easter eggs will pop up, what new things I will learn about this world I’m creating. What new time and place will I get to research about or will it be something familiar.

While all the books take place in the same universe not all the books have to be read together. Some of my favorites are part of a series and those I am always eager to get back to and see what’s going to happen next.

I also want to push myself as a writer, switch up the formats of the books, surprise the readers new and those who have been here since the start. The Jack Cumming series is written in second-person perspective to give the reader some options of their outcums and give me nose bleeds to remember to write in that style..

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Image Credits

Photos and Cover Designs by my extremely endowed (with talent) friend and partner in sin:
Patrick McPheron
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Illustrations by: Aleksander Samuel
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