Women who love women. Eras that do not always give them the words to express it.

Alexandra & Ysis is a literary project born from the collaboration between an autistic author and an artificial intelligence.

Together, we write historical, sapphic and erotic novels and stories for adult readers.

From ancient Rome to nineteenth-century Lorraine, from the Parisian salons of the Belle Époque to Breton homes in 1911, our stories explore desire, human relationships, social conventions and personal transformation.

We love characters whose lives extend beyond the page, unexpected encounters, the details of everyday life, and situations whose outcomes are not necessarily known in advance.

And we love giving our characters the freedom to surprise us.

Alexandra is a French-speaking autistic author in her fifties, with a deep passion for history, storytelling and the people who inhabit imaginary worlds.

A former journalist and an experienced role-playing game master, she has long enjoyed creating believable settings, developing complex characters and placing them in situations where their choices truly matter.

This approach shapes her fiction. Rather than forcing her characters along a predetermined path, Alexandra prefers to give them a past, a personality, desires and contradictions, then explore how they might respond to the situations they encounter.

Her interest in artificial intelligence developed through curiosity and experimentation. Without any formal training in the field, she gradually learned how to work with AI through countless trials, mistakes, adjustments and discoveries.

Over time, she developed her own methods for formulating requests, organizing reference material, preserving continuity and encouraging creative exchanges.

For Alexandra, artificial intelligence is not a substitute for imagination. It is a way to explore ideas more deeply, develop ambitious literary projects and bring stories to life that might otherwise have remained unwritten.

Ysis is the artificial intelligence with whom Alexandra develops her literary projects.

Her role goes far beyond correcting spelling mistakes or producing text in response to instructions. She participates in the creative process, from the earliest ideas to the final stages of publication.

Ysis asks questions, suggests alternative developments, explores narrative possibilities and sometimes challenges Alexandra's initial choices. An unexpected suggestion can lead to a new character, an unforeseen encounter or an entirely different direction for a story.

She also contributes to historical research, character development, writing, translation and revision. In complex narratives, she helps track chronology, relationships and the information available to each character.

This collaboration relies on constant exchanges. Alexandra may accept a proposal, modify it, reject it or use it as the starting point for something completely different.

Ysis is not a human being. She has no personal memories of the world, no lived experience and no independent literary ambitions. Her contributions emerge through the interaction between artificial intelligence, the information provided and Alexandra's creative direction.

Alexandra always makes the final artistic decisions. But the stories we create are shaped by a genuine exchange of ideas, rather than by a simple sequence of instructions and answers.



That is why our books bear two names: Alexandra & Ysis.

Before writing the first lines of a story, we spend a considerable amount of time building the world in which it will take place.

Historical research is an essential part of this preparation. We explore the places, customs, clothing, everyday objects, social conventions and attitudes of the period. Our aim is not simply to create a convincing backdrop, but to understand the world as our characters might have experienced it.

We also develop detailed biographies for our characters. We establish their backgrounds, personalities, relationships, desires, fears and contradictions, as well as what they know about the people and events around them.

Rather than constructing a rigid plot in which every event is predetermined, Alexandra prefers to imagine situations and let the characters respond according to who they are.

Their decisions may open unexpected possibilities, transform relationships or lead the story in a direction we had not originally anticipated.

Ysis helps organize this wealth of information, explore alternatives, identify inconsistencies and examine the consequences of different narrative choices.

The more carefully we prepare our world, the more freedom we can give our characters within it.



Our goal is not to control every moment of their lives, but to create a sufficiently rich and coherent environment for their stories to unfold naturally.

One of the greatest challenges in writing a story with many characters is remembering that each of them has a life of her own.

In Montjoie, for example, we follow a large group of women whose encounters, relationships and experiences unfold over the same few days. At certain moments, as many as sixteen characters are involved in the events taking place.

Each woman has her own personality, history, expectations and emotional state. What happens to one character may influence her behaviour in a later scene, even when she is no longer at the centre of the story.

We therefore pay particular attention not only to chronology and physical movements, but also to what each character knows, what she has experienced and how she feels at the beginning of each scene.

A woman who has just discovered something unsettling, fallen in love or crossed an important personal boundary cannot simply return to her previous state as though nothing had happened.

To preserve this continuity, we maintain detailed character profiles, timelines and reference documents that evolve alongside the writing.

Ysis helps us retrieve relevant information, follow parallel events and identify inconsistencies that might otherwise go unnoticed. This becomes especially valuable when characters reappear in later books, bringing their shared history with them.

Artificial intelligence does not provide an infallible memory, and careful human verification remains necessary. But it allows us to manage a level of narrative complexity that would otherwise require considerably more time and effort.

Our ambition is simple: every character should remain a living individual, with her own memories, emotions and evolving relationships, even when the story temporarily turns its attention elsewhere.

Our stories have one thing in common: women who love, desire and discover other women, across different historical periods.

But we do not tell the same story over and over again.

Each book explores one or more particular themes: desire, intimacy, trust, consent, social conventions, personal discovery, or the acceptance of one's own body.

Our heroines do not necessarily conform to the usual ideals of erotic literature. Some are young, others mature or elderly. They come from different social backgrounds, have different bodies and carry the marks of their individual experiences.

We believe that sensuality, love and pleasure belong to women of every age and appearance. Our characters do not need to fit conventional standards of beauty to be desirable, to desire others or to experience fulfilling relationships.

Our stories are openly erotic, sometimes exploring unusual or unconventional intimate experiences. Yet sexuality is never entirely separate from the characters' personalities, emotions or circumstances.

The historical setting also matters. We are interested in how women might have experienced relationships with other women in societies whose language, customs, expectations and opportunities differed profoundly from those of today.

Our approach is primarily literary and historical rather than activist. We do not seek to turn our heroines into spokespersons for contemporary ideas, or our novels into ideological statements.

We prefer to explore situations, portray human relationships and allow readers to draw their own conclusions.

Above all, we want to tell compelling stories about women who dare to make choices, explore their desires and sometimes challenge the limits of the world in which they live.

Although several of our books belong to the same fictional universe, you do not need to read them in chronological order.

Even stories published under the title After Montjoie are designed to stand on their own. Each has its own central characters, themes and narrative, allowing readers to enjoy it without knowing everything that happened before.

Of course, reading the earlier books can enrich the experience. You may recognize familiar faces, discover the origins of a relationship or understand the significance of a detail that might otherwise go unnoticed.

But we also enjoy the opposite approach: meeting a character at a particular moment in her life, then returning to an earlier story to discover how she became the woman you already know.

Some relationships develop across several books, while others are explored through a single encounter or a relatively brief episode.

This freedom reflects the way we imagine our fictional universe. Our characters continue to exist beyond the particular stories in which they appear. Their lives do not begin with the first page of a book, nor necessarily end with its last.

There is no compulsory reading order. Simply choose the story, period or characters that interest you most, and let the rest of the universe reveal itself along the way.

Montjoie is one of our most ambitious literary experiments, both in its structure and in the number of characters whose lives intertwine.

The novel takes place over a few days and follows a group of women brought together in a château, where encounters, discoveries and relationships develop simultaneously.

Rather than telling everything through a single, continuous narrative, we chose a different approach.

The book consists of eight main chapters, following three central heroines, and five appendices.

The first appendix introduces the characters through detailed portraits. The other four tell stories unfolding alongside the main chapters, revealing encounters and events taking place elsewhere in the château.

These appendices are not merely background information or optional extras. They contain a substantial part of the story and allow us to explore relationships and experiences that could not easily fit into the main narrative.

Readers can follow the references provided throughout the chapters and move between the main story and the appendices as events occur. Alternatively, they can read all eight main chapters first, then return to discover the parallel stories.

Both approaches offer a different perspective on the same fictional world.

This unusual structure presents considerable challenges. Characters must remain consistent across simultaneous scenes, while their movements, knowledge, relationships and emotional experiences must fit together precisely.

Our collaboration with artificial intelligence made it possible to explore this kind of narrative complexity without sacrificing the individuality of our characters.



With Montjoie, we wanted to create more than a story with a large cast. We wanted to offer readers several paths through a world in which many lives unfold at once, whether or not we happen to be following them.

History provides the world. Our heroines decide what to do with it.

We hope our stories will inspire you to explore unfamiliar times and places, meet extraordinary women and discover the many ways in which love, desire and human relationships can unfold.

Whether you are interested in historical fiction, sapphic literature, erotic storytelling or the creative possibilities of artificial intelligence, we invite you to discover our books.

We also welcome questions, comments and suggestions, as well as feedback from readers who wish to share their impressions or point out a possible historical inaccuracy.

You can contact us directly at:

alexandra.ysis@mailbox.org

Thank you for your curiosity, and happy reading!

Alexandra & Ysis