#(except for game theory where technically the first story is 'deeper into the woods' but i'm thinking of removing that)

[not-poignant]

What is the best order to read your works?

It really depends on what you like, anon -> Because I write across quite a few different genres!

If you like original stuff:

If you like contemporary / slice of life, then you might want to start with the Spoils universe, specifically Spoils of the Spoiled and subsequent stories!

If you like omegaverse, you might want to start with the Underline the Rainbow universe! (Careful though, this one's unfinished!)

If you like epic fantasy, you might want to start with the Fae Tales Verse, which is the main canon, with Game Theory as the first story.

If you like epic fantasy but you want to read a standalone instead of something over a million words long, that has a happy ending and is an OT3 (i.e. M/M/M), you might want to read The Wildness Within!

If you like epic fantasy but you want it to be a standalone and you want it to be really dark incest between two brothers that ends up having a hopeful ending despite going to some truly twisted places, you might like Strange Sights!

If you you like epic fantasy but want to read a standalone, and features diplomacy, meeting strange, alien cultures, and dealing with fae who have very unique ways of doing magic and interacting with the world, as well as childhood sexual abuse recovery, and a Mage trained by his father figure who also happens to be the King of the Unseelie fae, you might like the Lone Wolf series, and especially The Nascent Diplomat! (Careful though, this one's unfinished).

If you like fanfiction:

If you like fanfiction where you don't need to know much about the original world, as well as space opera and military / political plots, you might enjoy The Golden Age that Never Was!

If you like fanfiction where you don't need to know much about the original world, as well as classic fairytale fantasy elements, fights between Good and Evil, and obstacles that the heroes need to overcome, as well as a villain-turned-antagonist-turned-antihero, you might like From the Darkness We Rise and its direct sequel, Into Shadows We Fall! This is a GREAT introduction into the Fae Tales universe too!

If you like fanfiction where you don't need to know much about the original world, as well as epic fantasy in an elves/humans/etc. style world that's similar to DND, you might like Stuck on the Puzzle!

If you like fanfiction where you don't need to know much about the original world, as well as dark science fiction with an android/human relationship, you might like Eversion!

If you like fanfiction where you don't need to know much about the original world (and if you ever do, you can just ask me), as well as awesome fantasy/magic worldbuilding, ghosts, and exorcisms as well as fantasy BDSM, with two older lovers, you might like The Beast that Chose Its Own Bridle!

If you like fanfiction where you don't need to know much about the original world, as well as contemporary slice of life about enemies-to-lovers in a small country town you might like The Wind that Cuts the Night or even A Stain that Won't Dissolve (careful though, this one's unfinished!)

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But I have no idea what kind of things you like to read or why you're here, or what you've read already (most folks who find me here have read something of mine already, if you haven't, then the above is a pretty good primer - just be aware that I put BDSM in everything, that it's all m/m and that there's always trauma recovery and hopeful or happy endings and you're good to go!) and some folks who like some stories don't read other stories, so there's no point saying 'this is my favourite' or 'this is the best place to start' when it has all the things you hate in it! You know what I mean?

I can't do much off a single sentence, I'm afraid, and because I've written so many different series, across different genres, I have over 5 million words out there, and it's not all in the same series, and it's not all focusing on the same thing. :D

But who knows, maybe you found something this way!

I don't know if you like the dark stuff or if you're uncertain about the dark stuff. If you love kink or don't know how to feel about kink. If you find trauma recovery really squicky or if you're okay with it. And I can't make blanket recommendations on a reading order when I've written millions of words across multiple series and genres.

So I'd much prefer to target recommendations specifically to what you like, anon, because we are not all the same, so I wouldn't give everyone the same reading order to my works :D

Happy reading, if you find something you like, let me know!!

[not-poignant]

#generally read the first story in that series link #(except for game theory where technically the first story is 'deeper into the woods' but i'm thinking of removing that) --- Do you mean removing DitW as being the 1st one in the series reading order, or removing that story completely? :O If the latter, would you consider orphaning instead? (Not that it's not 100% up to the author, and I'll respect your decision either way!)

Definitely not deleting it outright!

I'd move it into the Canon Extras series!

It actually was never intended to be a true prequel really, it was meant to be an aside, a kind of 'glimpse into the past' for people who wanted that.

But around the time that I wrote it, people wanted an introduction to Gwyn and Augus that happened within the setting of Fae Tales, and not the fanfiction in which I created these original characters as side characters, so I changed the reading order of the series and Deeper into the Woods came first.

In retrospect, I still don't think it's a very good beginning. It doesn't explain what happened between Augus and Gwyn at the beginning of Game Theory, and it is - amazingly - even more porn focused than Game Theory is. For that reason I think it really does better as a separate / side canon story, much like the Augus/Raven Prince canon.

For me, the true canon series will always be Game Theory, The Court of Five Thrones, and then The Ice Plague. Unfortunately for newcomers, Game Theory can be a little confusing to some (not all, a lot of folks have zero issues with not knowing what's going on and picking things up as the story progresses), and I may go back to recommending that people read the fanfic Gwyn and Augus were introduced in first, to get a proper flow into the original series.

Folks who don't like that should really just start with Game Theory, or even The Ice Plague, because The Ice Plague actually contextualises a lot more about Gwyn and Augus, 'public vs. private' perceptions, the world itself, and what it is to be Unseelie and Seelie, even if it is reverse chronology to do it that way, lol.