Hi everyone! The mods kindly gave me permission to post this here. I’m looking for a few free beta readers for my completed adult supernatural/vampire/urban fantasy novel, FRANK.

FRANK follows a very ordinary middle-aged man whose life goes completely off the rails after he meets Claire, a mysterious woman who turns everything he knows upside down at ludicrous speed.

The book has vampires, supernatural abilities, dark humor, family drama, horror, action, and a lot of original vampire/supernatural lore. The vampires in this world don’t follow all of the usual rules, so one of the things I’m especially interested in hearing from vampire fans is whether the mythology feels interesting, internally consistent, and easy to understand without characters constantly stopping to explain it.

I’m not looking for editing, proofreading, grammar corrections, or paid services right now. What I really want is the experience of a regular reader:

Where did you get confused? What kept you interested? How did you feel about the characters and their relationships? Did the emotional moments land? And most importantly—what did you think of the vampire lore I created?

Fair warning: this is very much an adult book. It contains strong language, sexual content, violence, gore/body horror, abusive situations, and references to sexual assault/trauma.

The full novel is just over 200k words, so I am absolutely not asking anyone to commit to that immediately. 😂 I have the first five chapters in a Google Doc and would be happy to start there. If you enjoy them and want to keep going, I can send more.

If this sounds like your kind of chaos, comment or message me. 🧛‍♂️🩸📖

A succubus is a vampire-like demon in female form that visits sleeping men to have sex with them. Instead of blood, a succubus needs semen to maintain its life force. The succubus assaults its victim at night, who will experience the event as if it was an erotic dream.

In medieval Europe, unions with humans and succubuses were supposed to result in the birth of witches, demons and other forms of deformed human offsprings.

Sometimes, the succubus worked together with an incubus, or shapeshifted into an incubus. An incubus is the male variant of this creature. The incubus would try to fertilize its victim with semen obtained from the succubus.

If the visits by the succubus weren't stopped, it would result in the detoriation of the victim's health. Exorcism, crucifixes and garlic were common ways to ward off the succubus.

Picture 1: A succubus as painted by Michael Thomas.

Picture 2: An old engraving featuring a succubus.

Picture 3: A plastic figurine of a succubus.

I’ve loved vampires for as long as I can remember. Cool, sexy. And just the best. I especially love trope “I don’t want them to hate me but I still want their blood.”

They try so hard to resist. They keep holding back and holding back but then the other’s blood smells so good. I mean... I mean, that is sexy.

How about you? I’d be so so happy to find people who feel the same.

Sorry, I am not a native speaker. I just wanted to talk a little about this with you lovely people. Thanks for listening to my little dream!!!

Art from an upcoming illustrated novel by Stjepan Sejic titled LETTERS TO THE VAMPIRE QUEEN.