-Desire, betrayal, resilience — told through women’s eyes-
Books by AJ Blackwell
If you’re drawn to fiction that takes women’s inner lives seriously, you’ll find it here. These stories explore love, betrayal, ambition, and resilience — the choices that complicate as much as they clarify.
The trouble with writing about sex for a living is that eventually, someone expects you to live it. Chloe Summers has built a career on beautiful lies—exploring desire from a safe distance. But now, in her early fifties, her carefully controlled world isn't enough.
Her publisher wants more—the kind of raw authenticity that comes from experience, not observation. She's being urged to go further. Invitations arrive. Doors open to opportunity. The question of what she really wants begins to surface—and what she's willing to give up to achieve it. But in a world where everyone has their own agenda, the most dangerous question becomes: who's really in control?
Authored By Others explores what happens when your life becomes someone else's story to write.
Eventually You Will is an intimate collection of short stories exploring the quiet complexities of female desire—psychological, emotional, and unmistakably real.
These are not stories of women waiting to be chosen. They're stories of women choosing—to feel, to risk, to cross lines they've spent years drawing. But choosing doesn't mean knowing. In these nine stories, sexual curiosity becomes a form of self-discovery that complicates as much as it clarifies.
A woman disappears into wordless connection on a dance floor. Sisters navigate pregnancy and workplace dynamics with imperfect wisdom. A wife conducts forensic surveillance of her partner's affair. Each character fumbles toward understanding through encounters that resist easy categories.
If you're drawn to literary fiction that takes women's inner lives seriously—where every choice creates new questions—this collection will speak to you.
Coming Soon: The First Edit
Before she became Sarah Foxcroft, she was Sarah Kingston — a writer on the rise, celebrated for her insight and prose. Her debut drew critical praise, and for a time she seemed destined to be one of literature’s promising voices. But in publishing, acclaim is fragile, and trust even more so. A second novel was dismissed as too niche. An editor she relied upon stole her ideas and reshaped them into another’s success. The industry turned against her, branding her “difficult” and “delusional.” Her career collapsed almost overnight.
What followed was reinvention. Stripped of her reputation but not of her will, Sarah married into power and wealth, exchanging her pen for influence. As Sarah Foxcroft, she no longer told stories — she controlled them. Networking, manipulation, and coercion became her currency. She discovered she could bend writers, investors, and patrons to her vision. Where once she had been silenced, now she became the one who silenced others.
But such a transformation came at a cost. Her bitterness at betrayal hardened into ruthlessness. Her obsession with authenticity twisted into a weapon she wielded against those who sought it. Sarah Kingston, the idealistic writer, was gone. In her place stood Sarah Foxcroft — the gatekeeper, the orchestrator, the one who would shape others’ narratives for her own ends.
The First Edit is her untold story: how a betrayed author remade herself into a force that could no longer be ignored. It is the prelude to Authored by Others, offering readers a glimpse into the past of Chloe Summers’ most formidable adversary — and a haunting exploration of how survival can turn into domination.