The Egg Prime Directive

Kitty is pretty certain the person browsing her foam weapons booth at GenCon is an "egg" (a trans person who hasn't realized they are trans yet).

Kyle doesn't know why the compelling woman selling a perfect replica of the sword from "his" favorite magical girl anime wants to get "him" into a dress.

....and Kitty is realizing that if they're going to explore the growing chemistry between them she's going to have to come clean about her motives.

Now Kyla is coming face-to-face with her deeply repressed gender feels...

The Egg Prime Directive is a cozy, sexy, sapphic magical girl romance about two useless lesbians - and one of them doesn't even know she's a girl yet!

Set in the midst of a massive gaming convention, Kitty and her community of kinky, nerdy queerdos, take the lovingly force-femmed Kyle into their ranks and unpack repressed feelings, trauma, neurodivergence, and Kitty's fear of singing Karaoke to find their way to powerful awakenings, queer joy, and a happy ending. Will Kitty come clean about the whirlwind journey of self-discovery she's instigated? Will Kyla admit that she's actually trans? Will these dummies get over their insecurities and hang-ups long enough to face how hard they're falling for each other?

But there's more! The Egg Prime Directive is two books in one! Running parallel to the convention antics is the action-fantasy of Maiden's Last Stand: the fictional trans-affirming magical girl anime that first draws Kitty and Kyla together. It's a kaleidoscopic journey through a modern-day Japan where Goddesses, Yōkai, and creatures of folklore hide just beneath the surface of the mundane world. High school senior Seiko Miyagawa was looking for a purpose in life when the Goddess Inari Ōkami transformed her from an ordinary "boy" into a sword-wielding magical girl destined to fight the corruptive Shinigami Wyrm. With a mischievous kitsune familiar and a talking sword at her side, she will tame Tengu, obliterate Oni, and cleanse corrupted Kami in her quest to protect the world and (hopefully) come out along the way!

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The Egg Prime Directive
©2026, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum
Moth Mother Studios

Kogitsune-maru art & Illustrations by Allison Ashtear