Thank you! 💙

Okay I want a gold star: I'm getting *all* the email communication (and phone calls) out of the way today. Ripping that bandaid right off to get communication channels going on things 🫡

...granted, that also means no editing has been done, but I called Spectrum. That counts for something!!!

The world has vibes of medieval/feudal China or Japan, which as an anime nerd, I'm all for. If you enjoy the aesthetics of, say, Naruto, Rurouni Kenshin (disregarding what the author of that series did), Heaven Official's Blessing, and the like, then this is a similar vibe. The characters fight with Japanese weapons (tanto, kunai) and study martial arts. On the villain's side of the story, we also get a look at the titular demons, each one associated with something 'negative' and each one with a name which is the Mandarin or Japanese word for its attribute. For instance, in this book, we meet Kanashimi (sorrow/grief), a draconic-demon who develops an interesting relationship with the villain

My friend Alyssa is about to publish the second book of her danmei-inspired Dark Fantasy series!! I'll be posting WYVERN reviews over the course of the next week, but to get started, I wanted to post the first book's reviews all in one handy thread!

Here's my review for Book 1: Dance of Demons

Every time I send an email from my author email, I remind myself I really need to set up my signature. I keep changing email clients and losing my signature and then not wanting to deal with it again.

...but not having one is both bad marketing & looks sus and yet I just hit sent again regardless

Graphic 1 of 4. A decoration of pink and orange leaves and text on the orange-white-pink gradient of a lesbian pride flag. The text reads: Our Favorite Lesbian Books for Lesbian Visibility Day.

Graphic 2 of 4. Eleven book covers and a decoration of pink and orange leaves on the orange-white-pink gradient of a lesbian pride flag. The books are: Breaking Character by Lee Winter; Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame by Neon Yang; The Girl from the Sea by Lee Knox Ostertag; But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo; Kase-San and Morning Glories by Hiromi Takashima; The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite; Goodbye, My Rose Garden by Dr. Pepperco; A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark; Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab; Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott; Matrix by Lauren Groff.

Graphic 3 of 4. Eleven book covers and a decoration of pink and orange leaves on the orange-white-pink gradient of a lesbian pride flag. The books are: Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone; The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson; One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston; The Beauty's Blade by Feng Ren Zuo Shu; Spent by Alison Bechdel; Alter Ego by Ana C. Sánchez; Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir; She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan; A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine; All the Painted Stars by Emma Denny; The Unbroken by C.L. Clark.

Graphic 4 of 4. Eleven book covers and a decoration of pink and orange leaves on the orange-white-pink gradient of a lesbian pride flag. The books are: Pembroke Park by Michelle Martin; Mrs. Martin's Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan; Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle; The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite; Navigating With You by Jeremy Whitley; Burning Roses by S.L. Huang; Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas; Yuri Espoir by Mai Naoi; Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo; Proper English by KJ Charles; Skullrunner by Vyvre Argent.

Happy Lesbian Visibility Week! Have 33 of our favorite books starring lesbian protagonists. There's a range of genres, lengths, and styles, so check um out!

text: duckprintspress.com/2026/04/20/3...
buy on bookshop.org: bookshop.org/lists/books-...
list on pagebound.co: pagebound.co/lists/692fd4...

Thank you! 💙

A pastel orange post with translucent yellow flowers in the background. Background repeats for the following five slides. This is a post about AI. More specifically, a post about myself, my writing, and how I refuse to let AI change the way I create art. Because there’s a lot of talk about how to do that as an author, and that is honestly pretty scary to me.

Every day, it feels like, something new emerges - a new way to tell AI-generated writing from real human writing. The em dash. The rule of three. “It’s not just X, but Y!” The concept of metaphors. All alleged symptoms of AI-generated text. What’s next?

(Cross-posting from Instagram, so it looks a lil clunky. Hopefully it's still decently readable.)

I genuinely hate what generative AI is doing to art - and the people who create it - and I refuse to take part in this ridiculous song and dance.

Thank you! 💙

Rebirth's in a thing! 👀

Lesbian Visibility Week Bundle. 94 Sapphic and Lesbian Books for $40. 4/20 - 4/26. Exclusively on Itchio.

Happy Lesbian Visibility Week! This week only, you can get nearly 100 books featuring sapphics and lesbians for just $40! Included in this bundle is my epic fantasy novel, STARS AND SOIL.

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#queeradultSFF #lesfic

Local cat girl complains when want brush but says doesn’t. Her human roommate is exasperated and goes to bed. Find out what happens next in this fluffy shojo romance

((The fluffy pun was not intentional but we’re going to say it was))

Shyama is learning tsunderes don’t get brushes, and it’s a rough night for her now

(If she came over here, she’d get brushes too but no, she must judge from afar while staring longingly at Krishna getting brushed while she’s not)

Cancel Spectrum (internet) is the next thing on my todo list, and I'm not trying until tomorrow

...but also, man, I'm sad that's the next thing on the list. Can I swap it around for something else instead??? (I can, but it still has to get done rip)

QTP with a video game that transports you back to your childhood

A crystal longsword with a winged hilt and purple gemstone.

The Crystal Light Blade! 1000 years before Lost Blades, Ebryn Stormlight made a deal with Hades to have the Blade forged in exchange for helping her fight Abomination.

A bit of a pretentious name! As Takeshi says:

"Naming a blade [in my country] is seen as… a bit tacky."

Premade cover with the placeholder title of "Coffee for your Thoughts" and "Author name" at the bottom. It shows a woman with olive skin, dark eyes and dark curly hair tied in a ponytail, dressed in a yellow apron and black shirt and pants, smiling and handing a cup of coffee to a white woman with long red hair and brown eyes, wearing a blue dress with a pink flower pattern at the hem. The white woman is by a table at the supposed coffee shop, the balcony and coffee machine are in the backgroun in green.

So here's my first premade cover! I'm selling it over on vgen! For $99 (or you can pay +$50 to turn this into a print cover), this baby is yours! I can fully customize all colors as well ^^

vgen.co/maybarros/pr...

#art #ForSale #PremadeCover

...I'm suddenly grateful I upgraded to my keychron in 2023. Not bc I see them avoiding the above, but bc I think I snuck in right before the above happened 🥲 I hope you can find an Actually Decent keyboard soon here

Thank you! 💙 (You definitely have more faith than I do in me on this xD)

They really, really are 🥲

"Things happen just trust me all right, kthx"

I'm having an absolutely dreadful realization: oh no, I might need to work on Recollection's blurb soon. sos send help I'm not ready

I've noticed the mild spring down here in the south comes with...direct consequences for y'all in the north. I'm sorry for relishing the non 100f weather down here and appreciate your involuntary sacrifice 🥲

And I'm basically done with the semester now \o/ I need to present on Thurs the poster I turned in just now & make any corrections people bring up on Fri, but I'm not anticipating anything huge so now I'm gonna sneak away to Riyati before my advisor knows I have a sec--

I'm sure it was auto and likely off of the back mermaid somehow, but man xD it's such a pretty piece too! Glad it's been freshly released from automod imprisonment

I'm not allowed to brush Shyama with the slicker brush on my desk anymore because she's not a responsible lady if I do: she's started demanding brushes with it and won't get out of the way so that I *must* brush her

I've never had a cat I needed caution tape around a brush for, this is new

She has a back. How dare she

Crop of a larger artwork, showing a light-skinned merperson adjusting her hair and waving toward a fisherwoman in the foreground, who has darker skin and black hair pulled back with a bandana.

We'll be launching the crowdfunding campaign for our next anthology WILD AND FULL OF MARVELS: QUEER FANWORKS INSPIRED BY FOLKLORE AND FAIRY TALES in May!

Today, meet the contributors - duckprintspress.com/2026/04/18/m...
and follow the pre-launch page - www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

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Poster for The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle. Indie Ink Award Finalist. Cryptid0hunting YouTuber investigates weird small town. DNFed in basically all other contests. Starring characters who look vaguely like Ben Whishaw, Amanda Seyfried, Steven Yeun, and Giancarlo Esposito. "It Doesn't Matter If You Believe in Monsters When They Believe in You." Reviews: “Hypnotising and lyrical prose . . . a sort of fever dream-like reading experience.” - Esmay Rosalyne, Before We Go Blog , “It's a crime this book doesn't have more exposure.” - Al Hess, author of Key Lime Sky, and “If there were Oscars for books, this one would win ‘Best Ensemble Cast’ as well as a host of others.” - Paul, Queen’s Book Asylum. Rated R for Course language, graphic violence, graphic sex, and that one scene* *you know the one

A cryptid-hunting YouTube darling follows a video of his presumed-dead mom to an isolated island that was once a gay conversion camp & may house the monsters he swears aren't real

AVAILABLE NOW!: books2read.com/u/boB9YL

steve-westenra.itch.io

Queer TWIN PEAKS x Grady Hendrix

#PosterPit #A #H

Putting out an a list of books for Autism Acceptance month for @blog.readindiefantasy.com (yes I know I'm late lol) if you're an autistic indie or self-pubbed author with a SFF book, link it here and I'll try to include it!

Hari is being exceptionally cuddly this morning which can only mean 1) he did something terrible I haven't found out about yet 2) he wants something from me 3) both (most likely)

The joys of having an orange cat in the house...