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✨️ mars 🪽 is writing
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(they/he) 26 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 | 18+ content, occasionally ⚰️🕊 | award-winning author of queer and trans horror | co-EIC of Cozy Library Press | recovering ghostwriter | pfp by @/theartofabirdy

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https://marsadler.carrd.co/
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Reminder that these are out now in paperback!!!!

www.lulu.com/spotlight/ma...
Me holding both The Apples of New Eden and Unholy Favors in one hand against a yellow and white background with foliage
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Please excuse the hasty picture I took at work yesterday in the supply closet (lmao) but 2 of my taboo books are now for sale in the lulu shop! (Made in Blood and FULGURITE to come soon!)

www.lulu.com/shop/mars-ad...

www.lulu.com/shop/mars-ad...
Me holding hoth unholy favors and The Apples of New eden in a poorly lit supply closet
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Every damn time I go there I SWEAR
Dvds: Robots, Atlantis Milo Returns, Finding Nemo, Silent Hill, White Noise, The Grude (STILL SEALED!), Monster House, True Detective S1, Santa Clause 2 (got this for my mom), Lara Croft Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider Cradle of Life, The Corpse Bride, Skyfall, Hildago, Clash of the Titans (the old one) Also got a woven basket and 2 books, Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
October 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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My second #SLUDEPIT post is for my published taboo horror novelette, FULGURITE. #P #HR

⛈️ the horrors of growing up different in a small town
🖤 isolated cabins in the woods
⛈️ weirdly sexual dreams
🖤 the great outdoors
⛈️ a creeping sense of dread

Find it here:
payhip.com/b/aAUSq
A sludgepit template trope map with the fulgurite cover in it and green elements all around the edges. Text is in a light yellow with dark yellow arrows. T4T uncle x nibling Folk horror Grief and loss and family Lichtenburg figure scaramouche Cockwarming Came back wrong Old Gods of Appalachia x The Summer Hikaru Died Luce stands and swings the door open, and his brain must still be half asleep, catching and winding up around the sight of Jasper’s long, pale legs under Luce’s shirt. It swamps them, swallowing their fingertips and brushing mid-thigh. Luce has never felt much larger than Jasper, but seeing it firsthand is doing something strange to him, something twisting in his gut and fluttering up in his esophagus. He blinks, rubs a hand across his chin, and focuses on the two mugs of coffee Jasper is pouring instead. “I hope you don’t mind that I borrowed your clothes,” Jasper says. “You didn’t bring anything?” “No.”
October 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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My first #SLUDGEPIT pitch is for my published taboo horror novella MADE IN BLOOD #P #HR

✨️ Annihilation weird place vibes
🖤 routine supply run gone wrong
✨️ trapped underground & in the dark
🖤 Gross™
✨️ fuck the govt & eat the rich

Find it here:
payhip.com/b/09TF8
A sludgepit template trope map with the cover of Made in Blood (illustrated by Mitch Green) with dull pink words and dark pink arrows Post Apocalyptic Trans dad x son Exploring an abandoned military base Eat the rich Wound fucking Cosmic and body horror Color Out of Space x The Last of Us Callum looks over at Julian, eyes flashing in the light. He doesn’t look like Julian’s son. He doesn’t look like the perfect little boy that Julian and Cecily created, twenty-four years ago. He’s more. He’s everything, Julian’s whole goddamn world, and he will do anything to save him. Callum smiles, and his teeth are sharp. Predator’s teeth. “We have everything we need right here,” he says. “Remember?” Julian breathes out, slow and steady. He tries to forget what it is to feel fear. He listens to the hum of the earth, of what rests below them, just a bit to the right.
October 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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So uh. Yeah. Got this done ✅️

Do you like remote cabin horror and feeling really bad? This is the book for you!

Out on payhip now and coming soon to smashwords instead of amazon (bc it's taboo, tread cautiously and check CWs!!!)

payhip.com/b/aAUSq
A trope map for Fulgurite t4t taboo relationship Folk horror Isolated cabin in the woods Grief horror ACAB Storms & lightning Complicated family dynamics Weird (horny) dreams Non-sequential storytelling Uncle x nibling Lichtenburg figure scars The summer hikaru died x old gods of Appalachia How far are you willing to go for the ones you love? Luce Sullivan makes his yearly trip up to the isolated cabin he and his brother Michael bought decades before. He’s alone, and drowning in grief, and prepares to spend the time drunk to avoid thinking about the accident five years ago that took his brother from him and drove Michael’s child away after they survived a lightning strike. Jasper hasn’t made an effort to contact him once in all the years since they left, and Luce is afraid he lost both of them to that storm. To his surprise, Jasper shows up in the middle of the night out of the blue. At first, Luce is elated. Is this finally the reconciliation he’s been yearning for all these years? But things turn more sinister as Luce realizes that Jasper isn’t quite right. He grapples fear, isolation, and strange new feelings for Jasper, as a storm looms closer and closer, threatening a grand finale that neither of them are quite prepared for.
September 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I get fucked by the digital incarnation of fear on company time

Coming Oct. 31st
Cover of Ultra High Definition by mars adler
September 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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LONGBONES is out on payhip, and coming soon to Amazon! Please check CWS here or in the downloadable preview file before purchasing and reading!

payhip.com/b/2TLoO
LONGBONES contains: cannibalism (on and off page), body horror, body dysmorphia, graphic gore, vivisection, scalpel use, desecration and mutilation of a corpse (non-sexual), murder (off page), sickness and vomiting, ritualistic self-harm, injury, grief, cursing. Additional sexual content: necromutilomania, masturbation next to a corpse, blood as lube, nonbinary person describing their genitals with terms like ‘cock.’ A NOTE ON THE PRICE LONGBONES is just under 10,000 words, so I am going to leave the price at $1.99 indefinitely since it’s a shorter novelette. Amazon’s royalty system hates this and me, but I don’t feel like it’s fair to charge as much as I do for my 20k word novellas! If you can, Payhip is still the best way to purchase this story, since they give me the full amount instead of 30% royalties that Amazon does, as well as giving you a DRM free file to keep forever.
September 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Last day to get EYETOOTH and Blood & Flowers on my payhip storefront until late January! Both of these books are going to be in some SYK events this month and next month, so I'm super excited to have them in KU for that!

Snag a DRM free copy here if you want:
payhip.com/marsadler
Coming to KU for 3 months The covers of Eyetooth and Blood & Flowers side by side in ipad frames Last day to buy them on payhip until late December 2025
September 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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It's this kind! I've seen it the last few times I've been there, so i hope they'll continue to carry it!
Bachan's original Japanese barbecue sauce
August 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Continued!!
The summer I accidentally joined the revolution because I love my brother too much The summer I took down an evil housing corporation with an alluring stranger (or are they a stranger?) The summer I got trapped in a creepy abandoned military base with my friend and son
August 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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mars adler x The Summer I Turned Pretty

except y'all know what kind of books I write 😅
The summer I fell from heaven and ate peaches with my ex-enemy The summer I survived a haunted house and sex pollen The summer I got an experimental surgery done by my shady hot doctor The summer I made a deal with something I shouldnt have (but it was fine because we had hot otherworldly sex)
August 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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My payhip is up and running, with all of my books now avaliable for purchase there! I've decided to also pop my taboo books on d2d/smashwords, so I will keep y'all updated on that!

For now, here you go!

payhip.com/marsadler
The "about me" section of my payhip page, which reads "mars adler (they/he) is an award-winning queer and trans author. They currently reside on the side of a mountain with their dog, and unfortunately hold a corporeal form." White text on a black background with a picture of my profile picture done by @/theartofabirdy in a circular frame.
July 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Sorry for me changing my mind 500 times, this is completely uncharted territory for me and I'm trying to figure out what will be the best in the long run. Also, since payment processors are punishing us for being transparent, my CWs are going to have to be a bit more hidden going forward.
Updates for everyone interested, I was initially going to toss all of my work into a private Google drive folder, but since there's no way to regulate that and I don't really want to deal with having to match like screenshots of kofi donations to email addresses, I'm instead going to take a little extra time to set up a payhip storefront. All but 3 of my books (Unholy Favors, The Apples of New Eden, and Made In Blood) are still up on amazon in the meantime. Thank you so much for your support while I figure this out!! I'm hoping to get my payhip storefront up by the end of today but I slept incredibly badly and have work today, as well as family visiting, so it might be tomorrow.
July 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Cool. Cool cool cool cool. Yeah so i'm going to be removing my work from itchio and good fucking luck running your website without nsfw content creators 💕
We are currently conducting a comprehensive audit of content to ensure we can meet the requirements of our payment processors. Pages will remain deindexed as we complete our review. Once this review is complete, we will introduce new compliance measures. For NSFW pages, this will include a new step where creators must confirm that their content is allowable under the policies of the respective payment processors linked to their account. Part of this review will see some pages being permanently removed from itch.io. Affected accounts will be notified via their account’s email address from our support address. You can reply to that email if you have any follow up questions.
July 24, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Right but one of your admins could take the time to post an emoji and JUST an emoji in the official itch discord. Of course. How silly of us to expect a quick "hey we're having to change some things" message to go along with this.
This is a time critical moment for itch.io. The situation developed rapidly, and we had to act urgently to protect the platform’s core payment infrastructure. Unfortunately, this meant it was not realistic to provide creators with advance notice before making this change. We know this is not ideal, and we apologize for the abruptness of this change.
July 24, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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The epub price is different on itchio and Amazon for EYETOOTH. This is because of the difference in royalty split (Amazon's 35% for any book under $2.99 and itchio allowing you to choose your own, I have it set to 80%). Plus, I'd like to still push people towards getting a DRM free copy on itchio!
A picture of the eyetooth and blood orange covers on pads with a dark green background. The text above reads "available on amazon in epub fromat!!" The text below reads: "this means a few changes... @mars.adler"
July 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Blood Orange, my dark t4t urban fairytale is avaliable in paperback on amazon!!
a.co/d/daV8g7I

Ebooks avaliable on itchio 💕
marsadler.itch.io/blood-orange
Avaliable in Paperback The full Blood Orange paperback cover On amazon, link in bio Against a green background, with white glowing text A snippet from Blood Orange reading: "He doesn’t think about the fruit on the ground, the butterflies already gathering to drink from it. He doesn’t think about how much he’d wanted to consume it just a minute ago. All he can think of is the Caretaker’s dark, endless eyes, and how real his fingers feel in their mouth. This time, there’s no shock, and the feel of them sucking at his fingers awakens something deep in his gut, something that reminds him of both times he’s touched himself thinking of them, of how wet he’d gotten just from the kiss, how it had been almost enough to get him off later. Their eyes don’t leave his the whole time, and Graham flushes, wondering if what he’s thinking about is telegraphed as plainly on his face as it feels." Green glowing text below reads "now avaliable in paperback"
June 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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I have a new book coming on July 15th. It's post-apocalyptic, about fathers and sons, fuckass vines and flowers, using your teeth while being intimate, and government propaganda negatively affecting people to the point of societal collapse. I hope y'all will enjoy!!

marsadler.itch.io/made-in-blood
Color Out of Space x The Last of Us Made in Blood cover: A black cover with a red, faceless figure with hands held up to its dripping face. There are vines growing from the cut off pieces of the chest and hands. The text is in a dark pink and it reads "Made In Blood" at the top and "Mars Adler" at the bottom Cover artist is Mitch Green, who can be found at @mitch_grn on instagram Coming to itchio July 15th Made in Blood trope map Taboo father/son Very dubious consent Plant aphrodisiac Trans dad Sex is something you do with your teeth A whiff of cosmic horror Losing time in an abandoned military base Government propaganda and corruption Post apocalyptic world Religious overtones Blurb: On a routine supply run in post-apocalyptic North America, Julian Doyle and his son Carter get caught in a dust storm with another member of their group, Roy. They find shelter in an old military base that doesn't appear to be on any of their maps, despite being close to well-travelled routes. Everything seems safe despite Julian's initial misgivings, and they agree to stay the night. Everything goes to plan until Julian wakes with a gun in his face, three days missing from his memory and food supply, and Carter acting erratic and feverish. Roy is convinced that there's something horrible happening, and that Carter somehow caused it. Torn between loyalty to his friend and keeping his son safe at all costs, Julian has to figure out what's wrong with the plants in this place, why Carter is acting the way he is, and how he can keep the peace between all three of them. But there's something hungry and wrong in this abandoned base, something that's changing the world around them, and changing them. They're running out of time to figure out what happened to those who came before, and escape this place with its weird, mutating plants that distort how he feels about his son. Just how far is he willing to go to save Carter?
June 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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NEW BOOK OUT NOW

HOLLY BLACK'S TITHE X ANNIHILATION

i'm so excited to share this new novella with everyone!!! Check out the details below, with more info at the link here:

marsadler.itch.io/blood-orange
The cover of Blood Orange by mars adler with the words "out now on itchio" in white cursive against a green, forest background A trope map with the cover of Blood Orange on it, surrounded by white serif font and a wreath of vines, and a dark foresty green background The text reads: T4T friends to lovers Trans sculptor x enby channeling Body horror Fairy tales a la Holly Black Eco horror Evil people in power get what they deserve Repressed memories Mars-typical weird wanking scenes Cock pocket Lots of butterflies Novella length with a HEA Blurb: Art student Graham Ellis is focused on making it through the semester and paying his bills when old enemy Eva Haddon returns to the neighborhood he grew up in. Graham has had a bone to pick with the Haddons ever since they tore down the affordable housing units and undeveloped land behind it that he grew up in. He becomes obsessed with trying to stop her from finishing what her father started ten years ago. What he doesn’t expect is help from a mysterious figure who calls themself the Caretaker. They claim that they can drive Eva and her family away once and for all, but they need Graham’s help. Despite his reservations, Graham follows their nonsensical instructions and waits for something to happen, but as time passes, all he notices is the strange way the plants are growing around Eva’s house and that the mysterious Caretaker is nowhere to be found to finish the plan. But there’s something darker lurking, in Graham’s own memory and what he recalls from the years before he left the suburbs and moved to the city. As he struggles to piece together everything that doesn’t make sense, he will have to choose between two worlds: his, and the Caretaker’s. Content warnings: Blood Orange contains: on page and off page murder, violence, harm to a child that leads to death (off page, past), graphic blood and gore (including impalement), graphic body horror, destruction of natural landscape, misuse of a comatose body (non-sexual), graphic description of animal harm (bugs and mammals), past transphobia and misgendering, poverty, past child neglect, past off-page bullying, depictions of grief and loss, consent issues due to a character having temporary amnesia, pica. It also contains explicit sexual content such as: masturbation, penetrative sex, oral sex, non-human genitals, trans man using ‘cock’ and ‘cunt’ to describe his body during intercourse, nonbinary person described as having a cock during intercourse
May 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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I dont think it gets any more peak than the former enemies to (?????) In my writing saying the things they mean without actually saying them

From the Blood & Flowers holiday short that's included in the updated version of the book 😈
towards the light. He’s flushed, pupils blown wide, and his heart beats erratic and rabbit-quick. “What’s got you so wound up?” “You,” Elio spits. “Always you. I can’t get you out of my fucking head, even when we’re in the same room, sleeping in the same bed. You won’t leave me alone. I don’t want to be obsessed with you anymore, Valerian. You’re right here.”
May 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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✨️‼️NEW PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT‼️✨️

ROADSIDE HYMNS was supposed to be out today, but it got pushed back so I could take care of a family member. But I thought, "well I can still announce it!" So here we are, on Good Friday!

This is a story about trauma, anger, faith, and becomings.

MORE SOON
A moodboard with the cover of Roadside Hymns in the middle of it The text is in white all uppercase letters and from the top going clockwise reads: - improper use of stigmata wounds - apocalypse in a run down motel room - second coming (evil) - body horror - mental health rep (ptsd) - religious horror - t4t pairing At the bottom it says Coming to itch.io early May @mars.adler Blue is roadtripping the country after being laid off from work, staying in old motels and trying to figure out what to do next when the apocalypse starts. they don't notice at first, too preoccupied with their past, the strange rash on their side and the even stranger man in the room nextdoor who blasts televised Sermons all day and rarely leaves the motel. but things get weirder and they can't ignore the worsening freak storms that trap them in the little motel in the middle of nowhere and the obvious signs of the end times. They can either try to weather it alone, or band together with their neighbor and ignore all the warning signs that point to him being something... different and potentially dangerous. Which is safer, the apocalypse, or the harbinger of one? Roadside Hymns ~ Coming to itchio early may
April 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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LAST DAYYYY!!!!

We've hit all of our secret goals but I have a big secret stretch goal that I think would be very cool if we could hit to benefit the 28 amazing creators in this bundle. We're about 15 sales away from it right now!!!

itch.io/b/2933/trans...
Trans horror Romance and Horror Erotica Bundle A bundle hosted by mars adler with content from 28 creators. Drm free Buy 41 items for $30 • regularly ~$93 save 67% Offer ends in 1 day 4 hours and 40 minutes
April 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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These gorgeous covers I got done for two of my books are ones that I think about frequently!!! I have some more for non published books that I can't wait to share as well someday!

Blood & Flowers: @heavenlyystar.bsky.social

First Creation: @theartofabirdy.bsky.social
Blood & Flowers cover First Creation cover
March 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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I'm very excited to announce a project I'm in, BOY MEAT: and transmasculine erotic anthology, hosted by @clcpress.bsky.social and curated by @thornyfilth.bsky.social and @wolfehorror.itch.io

My story, AMBROSIA is a corporate cannibalism horror with some literal boypussy eating 😈✨️
An old style reciept with the words Contributor Announcement: Ambrosia by mars adler in... boy meat: an erotic transmasculine anthology By CLC press, supporting point of pride, coming this summer Heart of Guiscardo (Ghismunda) Bernardino Mei As the background with the words Ambrosia by mars adler Corporate horror ○ cannibalism ○ p*ssy eating (literally) In white
March 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM