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#Riyati, a low contemporary dark fantasy series exploring identity, legacy, trauma, & finding one's path in life 🏠 Direct riyati.ink/store 🔗 Itch riyati.ink/itch 🛒 All retailers (ebook & print) riyati.ink/series 🔮 Riyati Discord riyati.ink/discord 🧩 More info riyati.ink Book info + specific rep 🧵👇

🌈📚 FANTASY NOVELLA SERIES In which you can find: 🧡 So much friendship! 💜 Bonding through board games 💙 A roadtrip in a sentient Wagon 🧡 Aromantic, asexual, and non-binary MCs 💜 Plenty of fantasy mysteries Hop on in :D books.bookfunnel.com/nerezia-disc...

We’re proud to unveil the contributors to Monster Smash! Our 12 writers, bringing you the spiciest monsterloving stories!!! 🦑 Watch this space for deeper dives into each story. read bios: duckprintspress.com/monster-smas... follow the campaign: duckprintspress.com/monstersmash #authorreveal

Riyati 5 draft #1 is complete 🎉 44 chapters, 75.4k words, which makes it basically the same length as Rivals’s final word count; iirc, Ripple was ~77k, but I can definitely see getting 20-30k more words in during dev edits. But that’s Dec‘s problem so for now, yay draft finished~

nature is healing also, this person is very neat, which is an admirable quality in a roofer

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

I heard a rumor some people don't spend their entire morning arguing wih an orange creature intent. I don't know intent on *what*, but he's certainly intent

Happy Intersex Awareness Day! We've put together a modest list of our favorite books featuring intersex characters. As always, we are furious we don't have way more than this to share, so let us know your faves so we can get our read on. Text version of the list: duckprintspress.com/2026/10/26/f...

...I'm finding out I really need to clean my keyboard because I have multiple keys not firing due to cat hair. Pls hold out a bit longer keyboard, trying to get down to only three chapters left T.T

Alphi and Biggs. Honestly, all things considered, there could be worse. Alphi will either be airsick or reading, and Biggs is generally responsible so might sleep on the flight. Introvert silence on flight is preserved 🫡 tagging @kana7o.bsky.social and @amagren.bsky.social

I really need to point out that the last point is essential. They want you miserable. Being happy is THE ONLY WAY you'll be able to do the rest. Also, being happy does not mean to not be angry. Be happy AND angry

Happy Ace Week from BLOODY SPADE's gray-asexual leading lady, Ellen, and demisexual deuteragonist, Kyani!! 🖤🤍💜

🎃🦇👻Halloween Sale!👻🦇🎃 Looking for a new read this spooky season? Browse the Halloween Sale on itch for a full selection or go to my page for a deal on my books! Happy Halloween! alyssa-lauseng.itch.io #BookSky #ReadSky #FantasyBooks #QueerBooks

You know, I wrote this essay two days ago. And thanks to the kindness and generosity of @queerspecfic.bsky.social we are no longer at 831 books. We're at 933. Just thought I'd throw that out there this #AceWeek. dovelynnwriter.medium.com/asexuality-a...

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Something jolly for #SpookySunday. Anything with 'Live Laugh Love' on it deserves a good poltergeisting.

Find more Goodreads alternatives here! 💜

My weekly writer burnout recovery update. All the thoughts I've had and media I've taken in on my road to recovering my love for this industry Liminal Haunted House WIP is coming along nicely, and I'm pleased (but scared) that the first readers have chapters ✨

The latest reviews are in and posted on the SFINCs4 page! We also did some author link updates that were requested. :) #booksky💙📚🪐 www.sfincscompetition.com/copy-of-sfin...

I've been watching the cats for the past 15 minutes because the utter bliss Shyama and Krishna are in from the silvervine catnip is great. We have rolled in nip, we have snorted nip, we have eaten nip, we have groomed in nip, and now, we shall nap in nip. There are clearly zero regrets

FREE BOOK: A dark fantasy novel about dying empire, forbidden desire, and how much it hurts to change. dl.bookfunnel.com/45kvhoa2x1 ⚔️ protag is hapless twink ⚔️ surprisingly steamy ⚔️ looks like m/m until it's m/x ⚔️ GoT-style "nobody is safe" ⚔️ viciously hates empire ⚔️ complicated women

Ace Week is upon us!! Everything I write has ace rep so I put a selection of them down 60%! Including the short stories! Hopefully I can make a nice lil graphic of them later but if ya wanna support and get good books 💜 itch.io/s/208981/cla...

Today, we debut a new and - for us - unusual series of blog posts by Rascal Hartley: a how-to guide for people who have grown dependent on generative AI to help them write. Dear AI users: you want to stop? We want to help. Read the series introduction today: duckprintspress.com/2026/10/23/h...

It'll definitely need refining, but I really, *really* like the chapter I got out today. I can't share basically any of it bc Major Spoilers but wheee I can't wait for people to read this eventually 👀

I can tell I really need to write this chapter because I've never craved folding laundry more than right now 🥲 why are brains like this?

#booksky 📚💙 📚🩸 There is nothing better than a book completely surprising you and Aidol 100% did that. I read it for the horror but ended up with a brilliant sci-fi detective story as a bonus!

It's so close! Five days before Artemis, my, & a bunch of other projects go live! Check out the collection!

I've got 8 chapters left of Riyati 5 and like all of them are intense (the finale/climax-esque chapters). I'm both scared and excited because a few of these are going to be rather painful to write oh boy 🥲 (1 in particular I am *dreading* but it's so important)

...I just heard a crash down the stairs that I can only assume was cat related and I'm Just Not Asking tm. Nope, I know better than to ask questions of my feline roommates when I certainly won't like the answer

I love how utterly annoyed and inconvenienced Krishna is when I need to go to the bathrooom. I don’t poke him or anything when I get up from my desk, but he must drag himself up the stairs to follow me, grudgingly, interrupting his 5th morning nap, and it’s clearly all my fault

All set up at the Beef Barn Fall Artisan Fair in North Smithfield today! Myself and two fields’ worth of vendors will be here from 10:00-4:00. Come say hi!!!

Okay, you probably all know already, but here goes nothing. One like, one queer indie book/series I love.

Soooo let's get this started join me over at my patreon for a month of novella reading! No patreon? Join the challenge directly on TSG: app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal... Let's get out of the reading slump as a team! (And yeah I didn't want to do it alone xD)

Hey fam, Bookshop.org is selling almost all my ebooks at a significant discount right now. Not sure why, but roll up and buy a goodly portion of my catalogue for like almost half-price while it's happening bookshop.org/shop/mcburnell

Guest blogger Max Jason Peterson (author of our soon-to-be-release novelette THE ADVENTURE OF THE HIDDEN LANE) has created a set of Halloween and spooky prompts! Read all the prompts here: duckprintspress.com/2026/10/21/h... Pre-order the novelette here: duckprintspress.com/product/pre-...

I can't believe October is about over. I'm so not ready for November 🥲 (but also, I'm ready for October to be over. I just need something between the two insert crying noises)

#SFFChat Thank you for hosting! Not to beat a dead horse, but I've got a Backerkit campaign starting soon! I have stickers! I have a short story! And I aim to get #EchoSight into physical print! Follow it here! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... #💙📚 #📚🪐 #📚🩸 #📚🌈 #indie #reading #queer #LGBTQIA+

#booksky 📚💙 📚🪐 This week I am asking Why Haven't You Read Thieftess by @aletheakontis.com!?

#booksky 📚💙 📚🩸 Cho Yeeun has now made jelly terrifying which is a sentence I never expected to write!

I've been working on drafting most of the day, and I got in 3.5k words/~3 chapters done! I have 8 planned chapters left for Riyati 5, so I might make my end of month deadlilne after all somehow 👀 (As long as I quit adding chapters like I did today whoops)

Guest blogger Max Jason Peterson (author of our soon-to-be-release novelette THE ADVENTURE OF THE HIDDEN LANE) has created a set of Halloween and spooky prompts! Read all the prompts here: duckprintspress.com/2026/10/21/h... Pre-order the novelette here: duckprintspress.com/product/pre-...

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Currently in a reading slump, so maybe going for novella's in november can help me out of it: Give me your recs! Love: spec, queer, a bit weird (no hard core horror)

Krishna: I want on the porch I want sniffs Me: okay fine, you know what, it’s a nice day, I’ll write outside for a few. He keeps hiding under my seat. He’s not even sunning. Why did you want out if you’re just gonna hide???

FRIENDS: recommend some trans-authored books (including yours!) in the comments! And if you've never read a book by a trans person, browse the comments and you may find your next great read. No time like the present to stick it to the pieces of shit who think we ought neither to be seen or heard

I always get lost here!!