My Journey to Paradise

Everybody Starts Somewhere

A Long Time Ago, in a City Far, Far Away — Starting in the Mid-1990s

I always wanted to be a writer. I loved telling stories — especially contemporary sci-fi/fantasy stories with super powers, big adventures, and a variety of transformations.

At first, I wrote just for fun, just to entertain myself. Years later, I started sharing my stories with my girlfriend and close friends. They were kind and gracious, saying they enjoyed reading my work. But were they just saying that to be nice, because they were my friends?

The Experiment: Astral Zone 4

Later, Around 2004

Eventually, I created my own website — a place I called “Astral Zone 4”. What was an “astral zone” and why were there at least four of them? Who knows — it just sounded good. 🤪

I publicly shared my stories — completely free — on that new website. I did it for two reasons:

  1. I wanted to share my stories with the world.
  2. I still didn’t know if I was any good. Friends might be biased. Would total strangers enjoy my stories too?

By this point, I’d already been writing privately for fun for about 10 years. So hopefully, just from the sheer volume of writing so many different stories over all those years, I’d developed enough talent and skill for my stories to be worth reading by the general public.

It took courage to put my work out there like that. But it was worth it.

During this time, I wrote and published stories like A Girl’s Life and Secrets at Echowood College. And I got my first fan mail from those. One person said he really loved A Girl’s Life; it was sweet, innocent, and short — and he felt it’d be great to share with his romantic partner, a safe way to introduce her to his secret gender-bending fantasy.

Secrets at Echowood College was being written and released one chapter at a time. And, honestly, I abandoned it halfway through. (It was a free story, after all. I wasn’t making money from any of these stories yet. This was all just for fun, practice, and to get honest feedback from readers.)

One reader emailed me to say how much they enjoyed reading Secrets at Echowood College, and their only complaint was how long it took for new chapters to appear. New chapters? Oops. Uhh, maybe I should get back to work and finish what I started! So I did. And it came out great!

(Nowadays, I only ever publish what’s completely finished. Some work-in-progress stories still do get abandoned behind the scenes, but no one ever sees those.)

The First Sale

2011

My stories included a variety of transformation types and original superhero adventures. But male-to-female gender transformations started becoming a personal favorite. And by now, I had gotten enough positive feedback from total strangers to feel confident taking my writing to the next level — actually selling it.

I started with an independent subscription-based website that exclusively published gender transformation stories. They were always on the lookout for new writers to add to their library. So I submitted my work to them. They loved it and bought a couple of my stories.

I received my very first paycheck as a writer.

It wasn’t much money. Literally $75 for one short story, and $150 for a longer one they split into two parts. Paid once, no royalties or residuals. Not nearly enough to live on — but it was an encouraging sign. I felt like I was on the right track. It was a start!

From that day on, I could tell all my friends, “I’m a paid writer!”

Getting Established at TG World Books

Very Soon After

Next, I began publishing my stories at a different site, “TG World Books”, which used a traditional publishing business model. No subscriptions. Just a few hand-picked authors, selling their ebooks directly at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Books, and elsewhere.

I made more money this way — enough, barely, to actually live on!

OMG — I was finally a full-time author!

And I got to work alongside other talented writers like Robyn Rhedd, Emissa Ghaight, and Stacie Skye. Because TG World only published male-to-female gender transformation stories, that became my exclusive and full-time writing focus — and I loved it!

TG World was my home for several years.

But as with everything in life, nothing lasts forever. It was a fun ride, but the company’s overall sales gradually declined, and eventually TG World Books notified everyone they were going out of business. We all received our final royalty payments, said goodbye, and went our separate ways.

I still keep in touch with some of the other authors, to this day.

Transformation Paradise Is Born

November 11, 2016

Feeling more inspired than ever, I decided to go solo and launch my own website — again. Only this time with a whole lot more life experience under my belt. And I wanted to share all my stories here.

I brought with me all my gender transformation stories that I’d previously published at TG World Books, plus a few other non-TG stories like:

My vision for Transformation Paradise was to include all the things I loved, expanding with even more types of transformations, paranormal romances, and original superhero adventures — with gender transformations (my favorite type, and what fans had come to know and follow me for) remaining a core, popular part of it all.

Paradise Found

Along the way, I temporarily renamed this site to “SciFantastica” — a combination of “science-fiction, fantasy, and erotica” — but that name felt too general and vague. Transformations were at the heart and soul of everything here — either as the main and only focus, or at the very least, an important and meaningful part of the plot and adventure.

So I switched the site’s name back to “Transformation Paradise” — celebrating transformations, and invoking a sense of play, pleasure, and fantasy escape.

Transformation Paradise includes all my popular stories across this entire journey. Browse by transformation category, recommended favorites, or advanced custom search to find exactly what you’ll personally enjoy.