ISSUE 1 AUTHOR INTERVIEW: BETHANY BAKER
What’s better than a size difference mommy kink smut story? How about a size difference smut story where the mommy is a sexy dinosaur? Bethany Baker, author of “Sapient Species Special Sexual Services” (featured in NYGEL’s first ebook issue), chatted with us about finding scaly inspiration!
NYGEL: What piece of media was your gateway into monsterfuckery?
BB: I'm perhaps unusual (or maybe not!) in having jumped straight into the deep end through the infamous Corruption of Champions game by Fenoxo. For those unfamiliar, it's a text-based RPG game centered around the fantasy of exploring a corrupted world full of imps, demons, centaurs, spider-girls, plant monsters, and more. There are random encounters as with any RPG game, and the winner gets to, let's just say, "have their way with" the loser. It's hard to beat the density of CoC in terms of getting introduced to a wide variety of monsters and encounters! Needless to say, I was hooked.
NYGEL: What creature or character is your biggest 'hear me out'?
BB: It's gotta be the eldritch horrors for me. The formless, nameless, sapient-but-not-in-any-way-recognizable-to-human-consciousness betentacled creatures. Sometimes you just want to be thrall to an otherworldly being, y'know? Saves on rent!
NYGEL: Did anything in particular inspire you to write this story?
BB: I'm a "grab bag" sort of writer, where I like setting myself the challenge of throwing out a series of unrelated or semi-related ideas and finding the connection between them. I was on an ovi kick and decided it had been too long since I wrote something scaly. My pieces for this one were eggs + something dragon adjacent + femdom + explicit consent + make it weird. Once I find the thread that ties it all together, the rest crystalizes around that!
NYGEL: If you could add a monster romance to any existing story, what would you choose and why?
BB: Funnily enough, I get inspiration for a lot of my stories by thinking in this way! I love to look at classic action and horror plots, then say, "Okay but what if monsters and what if spicy." Some stories stay close enough to the original material that I publish them as fan works, such as my Little Shop of Horrors parody, "Breed Me, Seymour" which features a femdom Audrey II x Seymour plot. Others are more loosely inspired, such as my upcoming romantasy featuring a grumpy wolfish demon and a black cat FMC, whose dynamic borrows a bit from the Bayonetta prequel game, Cereza and the Lost Demon.
NYGEL: What would you like to see more of when it comes to weird and spicy fiction?
BB: I'm a sucker for nerdy "research" erotica. Like hmmm we must analyze the reproductive rituals of this newly discovered species. Works like that evoke a sense of curiosity and openness around spicy encounters that many of us lose as we get older, or have difficulty finding to begin with. There's almost a playfulness with the reader, daring them to keep their "research" hat on even as the scenario gets hotter and hotter. I'm also a big fan of inconvenient arousal, so there's a lot to love in that kind of story!
Want to read more scaly smut? Check out “Sapient Species Special Sexual Services” in Issue 1, and be sure to leave room for… eggs 😉
Bethany Baker (she/they) writes monster romance that blends the familiar and the fantastical, the erotic and the emotional, the silly and the sexy—into one downright tasty concoction.
When she's not baking cookies or writing smut, she enjoys collecting weird animal facts and going for walks with her partner. She has two cats, who go by "Disaster Bean" and "Chaos Baby" more often than their actual names.
https://www.instagram.com/bakecookieswritesmut/
ISSUE 1 AUTHOR INTERVIEW: EK DATURA
Who doesn’t love some hot alien-on-alien action? We chatted with EK Datura, seasoned monsterfucking expert, about the art of making the monsters smooch (and then some). “The Dalgur’s Secret” can be read in full in NYGEL’s first ebook issue!
NYGEL: What piece of media was your gateway into monsterfuckery?
EKD: I have a poor memory, but what got me into writing monsterfuckery was The Emperor from Baldur's Gate 3 (a squid-like mind flayer for those who don't know). The tentacles were entrancing, and I had to write some of my own!
NYGEL: What creature or character is your biggest ‘hear me out’?
EKD: The Emperor? He still seems like a conventionally attractive squid-man, but he's very manipulative, so that goes along with the hear me out!
NYGEL: Did anything in particular inspire you to write this story?
EKD: In my book The Dalgur's Pet (that this short story is based on), I didn't delve too deep into the relationship between Vrix and Thase, since it's all told from the POV of the human FMC that they abduct. I wanted to give more insight into their background and, of course, write a "first time" scene between the two of them.
NYGEL: If you could add a monster romance to any existing story, what would you choose and why?
EKD: My answer is non-specific, but I wish more classic sci-fi had romance plot lines with aliens!
NYGEL: What would you like to see more of when it comes to weird and spicy fiction?
EKD: As much as I love the classic monsters, I really enjoy it when people come up with new alien/monster species! Or have a new take on a classic monster!
Be sure to check out EK’s story “The Dalgur’s Secret” in Issue 1 for a spicy, tentacle-y good time!
E.K. writes dark romance about naughty aliens, devils, shifters, and so much more. She likes to explore taboo themes and push the boundaries of what it means to find love, crafting unique creatures with all manner of interesting appendages and ethics. You can find more information at ekdarnellbooks.com or on Instagram @ekdarnellbooks.
Issue 1 author interview: FLOOZY L'PIOUX
Today on the NYGEL blog, we’re joined by Floozy L’Pioux, author of the sapphic, cryptid erotica “Candle,” featured in our very first issue!
NYGEL: What piece of media was your gateway into monsterfuckery?
FL’P: Honestly. Honestly HONESTLY honestly? Probably Hexxus from Ferngully. As a kid, every show had a villain that was not human, queer coded, and s.e.x.y. Hexxus was probably the first time in my life I went, “Got it, I’m feeling attracted to the monster, the monster is sexy. Cool.”
NYGEL: What creature or character is your biggest ‘hear me out’?
FL’P: Rasputin zombie from Anastasia. And don’t idealize him, this is not an “of course” situation! I’m talking he is ROTTED, head in his CHEST CAVITY. Canonically SMELLS. I want him carnally.
NYGEL: Did anything in particular inspire you to write this story?
FL’P: Years ago I started writing about Santo Domingo. A call for flash fiction fairy tales ended up being the first draft for “Candle.” Thank goodness it wasn’t accepted, it turns out all my fairy tale was missing was an interlude with monster sex. Also, I’m into fisting, conceptually.
NYGEL: If you could add a monster romance to any existing story, what would you choose and why?
FL’P: Here’s the thing…I believe in the power of fic. So I kind of can add a monster romance to any existing story. I’m not a fic writer myself, but I have definitely found myself in the bowels of Archive of Our Own so that I could enjoy the monster romance that a story was originally missing.
If I could add a monster romance to some source material, it would be Brendan Fraser’s 1999 The Mummy. I think Brendan smooching the pharaoh would have healed something in the American psyche.
NYGEL: What would you like to see more of when it comes to weird and spicy fiction?
FL’P: Body diversity! Lillian Lark and Emily Antoinette, Michele Mills, of course, all have books with plus-sized heroines that I think are extremely impressive. However, I think the craft of erotica finds itself in some trouble when the form takes its fantastical core and translates that to mean that people don’t have lumps and bumps.
More than anything, I think that the form can do a lot more with penises. Don’t get me wrong, monster erotica does some truly creative things with penises, but the trends seem to be that they are contoured differently than human penises, they have some sort of physiological mechanism that obligates a waiting (and cuddling) period–typically a knot, and occasionally there is more than one penis per monster. There always, always is a stretch kink involved (part of why I find Sara Ivy Hill’s Salt Planet Giants series so impressive, because she depicts STEAMY sex where the answer to something not fitting isn’t, make it fit). I want sex that meets the challenge of body diversity by declaring that everything is capable of being desirous!
Check out Floozy’s story “Candle” in Issue 1 for fairytale-esque sapphic smut with a furry cryptid twist!
Floozy L'Pioux is a human author, philanthropist, and incorrigible liar. Generous, kind, sexy, she is a friend (with benefits) to all monsterkind. She can be found @floozywrites.bsky.social
Issue 1 Author Interview: Joachim Heijndermans
In honor of NYGEL’s debut issue, we interviewed Joachim Heijndermans, author of Issue 1’s “Please Show Me Stars.”
NYGEL: What piece of media was your gateway into monsterfuckery?
JH: While some of the more risque European comics and Japanese anime had some monsterfucker coded themes, it was funny enough memes by people preferring the Beast over the prince from 'Beauty and the Beast,' which led me to deep dive how prevalent this was among readers and viewers of the story (my imprint 'Beautiful Beasts' takes its name from a Greta Garbo quote). This led to me writing novellas with this theme and, before long, I was introduced to many other authors who wrote in the same genre, hitting the same beats that I enjoy.
NYGEL: What creature or character is your biggest 'hear me out'?
JH: I recently sold a short story that features a massive sentient leech and their human partner, so that has been my most out there idea so far.
Buuuut…I do have a concept that is probably my most hear me out there because, at first glance, it doesnt seem that Monsterfuckery at all.
It stars a certain golden age of comics superhero.
It will be…something else.
NYGEL: Did anything in particular inspire you to write this story?
JH: My inspirations from Star Trek are probably pretty on the nose, especially as it has been a series rife with inter-species relationships since its inception. But, being a tv-show with human actors, there's only so much it has been able to do. Having been in a long-distance relationship myself, I'm more than familliar with the challenges of trying to maintain a relationship beset by obstacles.
NYGEL: If you could add a monster romance to any existing story, what would you choose and why?
JH: I'm not sure I'd add any monster romance to existing stories myself that aren't in the public domain (I did a Beauty and the Beast novella and all). At most, I'd make clear expy stories that are still somewhat original worlds.
That said, more Emily Brönte/Jane Austen style stories with monstrous paramours is always welcome.
NYGEL: What would you like to see more of when it comes to weird and spicy fiction?
JH: Robin Williams once did a bit on more Shakespearean quality pornography is needed. I would say massive, vast years-to century-sprawling epics with spice and smut as part of it are warranted. Space operas. Fantasy epics. Doorstopper sized tales where the complex world-building and smut are equally important.
Check out Joachim’s story “Please Show Me Stars” in Issue 1 for sapphic, scifi smut with tentacles and jellyfish goodness!
Joachim Heijndermans is a writer, artist, filmmaker and SFWA from the Netherlands. His written work has been published in a great number of publications and in several languages, including as audio stories and comic books and adapted for film and television (Netflix's 'Love, Death + Robots).
He publishes erotic science fiction, fantasy and horror through his Beautiful Beasts imprint, with the fourth installment recently announced.
In his spare time he reads, draws comics and collects toys and books.
BlueSky: @jheijndermans.bsky.social