On Writing A Male-Preg Romantasy by Uta Burke

Uta Burke was watching a swim meet one gray winter afternoon when a thought fluttered through her mind. What if one of those bare-legged girls in tight, red swim suits would get her period unexpectedly, in full view of everybody? Then another, much wilder thought popped up. What if one of the BOYS would get a period? And cramps!? Heck, why not a whole pregnancy with morning sickness, tiredness, hormonal rollercoaster rides, and yes, the agony of giving birth, everything females have to suffer through!! Oh, the satisfaction of writing what most women wish on the opposite sex… And the satisfaction of imagining how all this could become reality one day.

As the author began writing, she did not know the mpreg genre even existed until a beta reader told her that is what she wrote. After a fun time researching what would need to happen, how the world might react, and imagining how a guy would experience his pregnancy, the romantasy Seahorse Diaries began to take shape. The main aspect of mpreg fiction is not the sex itself, even though that obviously comes into play to get the guy pregnant. Instead, it concentrates on the gestation and the birthing process in delicious detail. Mix in a good portion of boy emotion and hot looking guys and you get all your cravings met: lust, love, satisfaction, transgender and gay issues, anxiety, wonder, and nature’s strongest urge, sex for procreation.

“The Seahorse Diaries” is like “Brokeback Mountain,” except one of them gets pregnant…

A mysterious gene mutation affects thousands of boys around the world by turning them into male-bearers, boys capable of giving birth. When Joss Engel starts his period during a college swim meet, he confides in his friend Max that he is one of them. After a surprise sexual encounter with Max, Joss ends up as the first one pregnant. All male-bearers are immediately placed under government protection and the progression of natural male pregnancies is recorded in a top-secret registry which the boys have nick-named THE SEAHORSE DIARIES.

What will their offspring look like? How will the babies get out? Are they able to survive? And does this mind-boggling development in evolution have anything to do with a recently discovered planet fit to sustain human life?

The future is already here. It is we who haven’t arrived yet.

Told with a satisfying mix of tenderness and harshness, complete with a plethora of surprises, The Seahorse Diaries is a testimony of the human spirit and a roadmap to the possibility of creating Peace on Earth. Male pregnancy can turn even hard-ass guys into gentle pussycats.

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The Seahorse Diaries: A male-preg romantasy
by Uta Burke

A mysterious gene mutation affects thousands of boys around the world by turning them into male-bearers, boys capable of giving birth. When college student Joss Engel from New Jersey starts his period during a swim meet, he confides in his friend Max that he is one of them. After a sexual encounter with Max, Joss ends up pregnant. All male-bearers are immediately placed under government protection and the progression of the first male pregnancies is recorded in a top-secret registry which the boys have nick-named THE SEAHORSE DIARIES.

What will their offspring look like? How will it get out? Is it able to survive, and, above all else, what does this turn in evolution mean for humankind?