H‑R Watts
Author
Author
I’m Helen-Robin, a 50-year-old UK-based author and published poet. My writing blends emotional insight with narrative charm, rooted in sapphic romance and personal truth.
I began writing sapphic poetry in the mid-90s—words shaped by heart, soul, and the vivid clarity of scenes playing out in my mind. Poetry was simply the form it took.
In the early 2000s, I started sharing my work with friends on social media. For months—years, even—they encouraged me to publish, saying my words stirred something in them.
Eventually, I was invited to contribute to the first book in Beth Mitchum’s Sapphos Corner Poetry Series, alongside other authors. One of our collections later won a Goldie Award. We didn’t profit financially, but that was never the point. We shared words that meant something—and the response was humbling.
I never planned to write fiction. But in 2018, I started experimenting with creative writing, and something shifted. I’m now working on my debut novel, Becoming Alexi—a sapphic sci-fi story about identity, resilience, and transformation. It’s rooted in connection, self-discovery, love, and grief. I plan to self-publish through Amazon KDP.
I live alone in Kent and work a regular job in finance. I’m self-funding the editing process and exploring trusted partnerships to help shape my manuscript into something I can be proud of. It’s not easy, but it’s mine—and that means everything.
A story of Becoming Alexi is a quiet, emotionally charged novel about connection, memory, and the slow unfolding of identity. Simone Callahan is a book editor who rarely leaves her apartment on New Oxford Street. Her world is quiet, predictable—until her best friend Jess Hale, founder of Ai Evolution, asks her to take in a humanoid prototype named Jax.
Designed with flesh-like skin, fully functional organs, and the implanted memories of Jess’s late sister Alexandra, Jax is meant to learn how to live like a human: grocery shopping, dining out, navigating the ordinary. But as the days pass, Jax begins to feel more than she was programmed to. She remembers fragments of Alexandra. She responds to Simone with emotion, curiosity, and something deeper—something embodied.
What begins as an experiment becomes a transformation. And when Simone gently asks, “Do you like being called Jax?” the answer opens a door to something new.
This is the story of how Jax becomes Alexi. A novel about grief, intimacy, and the quiet miracle of becoming.
My roots are in poetry. Between the mid-90s and 2010, I published three collections celebrating sapphic love and emotional truth.
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