A Change in Direction for 2026
Not goodbye to Cornelia so much as hello to Sylvia and Sabina!
The TL/DR: Cornelia is taking a much needed vacation for a couple of months, clearing the way for Sylvia Wise to write some extra spicy reverse age gap romances and for Sabina Lynette to explore high heat romance with a touch of kink. Sign up for their newsletters for more information, or stay tuned here for updates on these fun new projects!
With the release of “The Fox Run Swingers’ Freeuse Fling,” I’m putting a pause on Cornelia Quick’s output for a little while so I can focus on some other kinds of stories. This is absolutely not an end to the Corneliaverse, though, and certainly not the last you’ll see of Cornelia’s peculiar approach to erotica and erotic romance. It’s more an adjustment to give me (the entity behind Cornelia, who resembles her in some ways and not in others) a little space to explore different kinds of stories.
A little history is in order, perhaps …
I started down this odd little path with a series of baseball-themed erotic novelettes, “Winning With the Wildcats,” starring Cassie Snow, the batting coach of a small town minor league team with some very unusual coaching strategies. I absolutely loved writing those stories, and I started casting about for other erotica ideas.
While looking for my “niche,” as the indie writer industrial complex would have it, I stumbled on Hannah Wilde’s “Hipster Gangbang” series. They were a little older (most published in 2013), but they were just the kind of thing that tickled my fancy: high concept, uproariously funny, and unabashedly filthy. The gangbang niche led me to stories by May Fellowbrook, Lacey Cross, and a handful of other writers, and I thought that I had perhaps found my home. I pretty quickly churned out a bunch of fun and filthy gangbang stories in the “All For One and One For All” series, and I absolutely love every naughty word in them.
But I had other ideas, too, and I didn’t want to be just the gangbang queen (not that there’s anything wrong with that). So I did some bi-awakening stories (who doesn’t love a little sword crossing action?), and an erotic romance series (which features one of my best gangbangs in “Madeline’s Awakening”), and a swingers’ romp (also with, ahem, gangbangs …). And I put all of these out under the “Cornelia Quick” moniker (except for a few BDSM-oriented “Quentin Quick” stories that I couldn’t easily shoehorn into my admittedly squishy brand).
In the course of writing all of these delightfully dirty stories, I discovered a few things about my preferences. For one thing, writing short form erotica can be exhausting: the market expects quick releases (I was doing a story a week for a while), and with a sex scene every chapter (for me, that’s about every 1,200 words), there’s not a lot of space for character and plot. And I really want to write character and plot. I can scratch that itch with something like the “Insatiable Ingrid” series (where character and plot emerge over the course of five novelettes), but it’s not quite the writing that I really want to do.
I also really like the arc of traditional romance. While romance and erotica are definitely cousins (and cousins who often get up to some frisky business together …), there’s a different flow to stories in each genre. Erotica is typically a story of personal discovery: my erotic stories are often about a character who encounters something that gives them a complex “yuck” vs. “yum” response, and they’re driven to explore new desires. And romance is all about the push and pull of a personal relationship, with the characters coming together, falling apart, and then reconnecting before the happy ending.
Cornelia only has a handful of stories that could be classified as “romance”: “The Heart’s Hunger” and “Matador” were both explicitly plotted along the romance beats, and “Mapping the Boundaries of Love” sort of follows the arc (with, you know, gangbangs). Those stories have actually been among my best received, whether because of the romance or in spite of it, I’m not sure.
I’d like to try my hand at a few more romance stories, but I feel that doing them under Cornelia’s name is more limiting than liberating. My catalog is already a pretty chaotic mix, and doing romance, even erotic romance, would be likely to confuse my readers. It seems that going from “Groped by the Garage Band” (which is a really fun story!) to “The Heart’s Hunger” (also, fun! but with angst …) is subjecting my fans to more whiplash than they deserve.
And so, I introduce you to my new secret identities, who will be publishing some stories that Cornelia’s fans would also enjoy, but are a little different from Cornelia’s usual work:
Sabina Lynette will write erotic romance, often with a twist of kink and always with some serious angst. She’s got a few stories in the works that are high heat and high stakes, tending toward the novella or short novel length. You can sign up for her newsletter here; expect to see her first book appearing in late January or early February.
Sylvia Wise will write short reverse age gap stories in her “Second Wind” series. These are stories of older women and the younger men who love them, clocking in at about 20,000 words (perfect for a lazy afternoon, a day at the beach, or an airplane ride!). Her stories have heat, and angst, and more than a little longing, but also some humor, and focus on how the heroine and hero bridge the years to make love work. She’ll have a newsletter, too, and there should be a first book coming your way in March.
Long time Cornelia Quick readers will find a few overlaps in settings and characters in Sabina’s and Sylvia’s stories; we all share in the Corneliaverse, and you’ll likely bump into more than a few old friends in these new tales.
But what about Cornelia? I hear some of you ask. After all, she’s been the Wonder Woman to my Diana Prince for almost three years now; surely I can’t just cast her aside as I head into the brave new world with some Ginny-come-lately noms de plume!
And worry not, gentle reader, I would never discard Cornelia. For one thing, she owes me a couple of sequels to “The Heart’s Hunger” and “Matador”: those have been my money-maker books in 2025, and she’d better come through on the stories she set up. Also, as an unrepentant polymorphic perverse paraphiliac, I sometimes get dirty ideas that I need to squeeze out of my brain and through my fingers on the keyboard (ew, that sounded ickier than intended …). I will absolutely be taken by a nasty little scenario that I need to play out, and I will subject you to it in all its wicked glory. So expect to be delighted and disgusted by more naughty Cornelia (and Quentin!) Quick tales in coming months!
So here’s to 2026, and the wonders it may bring! Whatever shit storms the world throws at us (and I guarantee, they will be shitty …), you can count on Cornelia (and Sabina and Sylvia) to offer you some entertaining diversions to make getting through it all just a little bit easier.
