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Calling all AuDHDers! I want to avoid an overwhelming task, distract me in the comment please

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Can I just say, it is a genuine DELIGHT to see a review from you pop up. Obviously, it feels great that you love the book (AND THANK YOU), but it's also so validating and motivating as an author to see readers like you really pick up what I'm putting down.

A Villain's Hope Check out A Villain's Hope - <p>When mages come to collect on the deal that brought Elias Batesian back from the dead with deadly supernatural powers, he, his mage-king Beau, and brilliant queen Penny...

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Read the Heart-Mage Trilogy for:
- Slow-burn polyam romance
- High-stakes fantasy politics
- Queer-norm world
- Autistic & ADHD rep
- Magic woven quietly into everything until it's...not quiet 👀

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A King's Trust Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The spare becomes the heir and, on his path to the throne, discovers magical intrigue, a secret society pulling political strings, and not one, but two love...

As a special treat (and definitely not because Amazon does whatever it wants with dates), the audiobook of book 1 of the Heart-Mage Trilogy, A King's Trust, dropped early! Get it today, and you've got just enough time to finish before tomorrow's launch of book 2, A Villain's Hope!

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Surpassed My Every Wish: A Villain’s Hope by S.E. McPherson My favourite poly fantasy shifts gears into Epic Fantasy!

🥀VILLAIN'S HOPE🥀 by @semcpherson.bsky.social sees my fave queer auADHD poly fantasy level UP, and I saw none of it coming but I loved every second!

~Heart-Mages = 😱
~who had matrilineality on their bingo card
~Eliasss 😭
~WHY IS THE END OF THE WORLD SUDDENLY ON THE TABLE

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I saw a video the other day that said, "Humpback whales are not only enormous, they're also enormously bi," and I have thought about it near constantly every day since.

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Y'all on Punch-the-monkey-Tok? Trying to decide why I'm so deeply attached, I realized he's just like Prince Beau: abandoned by would-be family until he finally found "his monkeys." 😭

So anyway, if you're invested in lil monkey's saga, you might be the same sort of sap I am and enjoy my book lol

They're all in love! The boyfriends are boyfriends! The kingdom is threatened and these stubborn asses are going to do something about it!

Start the series with, A King's Trust, named to Top 100 Best Indie Books of 2025 and Top LGBTQ+ Indies of 2025 by Kirkus Reviews!

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Victoire Penamour, Queen and perpetual bad-ass, stunning as ever as she rules Granvallée while long-lost magic returns to threaten it.

(A Villain's Hope by S.E. McPherson, book 2 in the Heart-Mage Trilogy)

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Beau Highput, Swain mage-king, now marked with his former guard's many, MANY scars, opalescent because they're ✨magic✨

(A Villain's Hope by S.E. McPherson, book 2 in the Heart-Mage Trilogy)

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Look at these STUNNERS. Fresh character art drop from
@wendibones.bsky.social!

Elias Batesian, recently resurrected revenant and once-Watcher, now wearing his heart-mage's scars and tattoos as magic brands.

(A Villain's Hope by S.E. McPherson, book 2 in the Heart-Mage Trilogy)

A Peek Behind the Publishing Industry Curtain: How Ingram F#CKED Indie Bookstores To get our books from finished manuscript to physical copy in a bookstore, most self-published authors select a print-on-demand provider who can print and distribute books as they're ordered. There ar...

If you happened to be wondering why you saw a sudden influx of indie bookstores asking authors for wholesale links in January:

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We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE.

They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.

Anti-gen-AI folks get called "Luddites." Do you know who Luddites were? They weren't anti-tech—they destroyed machines in textile factories circumventing labor protections to harm workers. It was the only threat that made business owners listen to demands for fair treatment.

We need more Luddites.

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You like reading books early (for free)?
You like fantasy romance with intrigue, magic, spice & complex characters?
You want it all from the perspective of the "touch him and die" MMC?

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May I introduce my bi, AuDHD prince who ran away from home, met an innkeeper who said “mine now, bitches” & became his Ma, then a slew of friends, lovers, adopted family, and an extremely loyal guard—all of whom will GO TO F*CKING WAR FOR HIM.

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So #booksky, your favorite trope is found family because you:
- Are LGBTQ+ and/or neurodivergent
- Had a difficult home life
- Long for people who won't leave you?

The Good Advice I'm Glad I Didn't Take When A King's Trust was in the editing phase, the first couple of beta readers immediately disliked Beau. "He's too much," they said. "He takes up too many causes, he gets too easily overwhelmed, he'...

The good advice about my AuDHD, cinnamon roll main character Beau I'm glad I DIDN'T take before I hit publish on A King's Trust:

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Oh, I'm so glad you loved A King's Trust! Thanks for including it in your round-up!

Why don't we have a word for that kind of laugh where you just exhale through your nose pretty hard? Why isn't there a word for that sound you make in your throat that's like a laugh but the situation is not at all funny and you're about to say something deeply bitter?

Writers, feel my pain! Why aren't there more good synonyms for "laughed"? Like "giggled," "chuckled," "chortled," "guffawed"--these all have extremely specific use cases that usually aren't right.

While ferociously swordfighting a neighbor child, my 8yo called him a "rapscallion," a "miscreant," and a "dishonorable rogue."

I'm amused and delighted.

Every full moon I send a slightly(?) unhinged newsletter. For the Flower Moon subscribers got a sneak peek snippet from A Villain's Hope, the upcoming sequel to A King's Trust.

For hot character art, witchy shit, insider info on publishing & exclusive lore drops, sign up for my newsletter! #booksky

Text exchange between a guard and a prince. Prince: Man, that guy was so mean. What the hell did I do to piss him off? Guard: Which guy Short blond or tall bald? Prince: Are you here?? You're suppose to be taking today off Guard: Which guy? Fuck it. Prince: Elias. Are you here?? Elias where did the ambassadors go

Text exchange between a guard and a prince. Guard: Don't freak out but Lady Penamour will be there Prince: oh my gods oh my gods Guard: I said don't freak out Prince: She's going to be so pretty and so mean Guard: Your favorite Prince: Elias this is serious Guard: If it helps, she didn't send either of this morning's assassins Prince: wait what

Text exchange between a guard and a prince. Prince: Don youi likee boys? Guard: ...are you drunk? Prince: Nooooooooo maybve Guard: Where are you? I left you in the common room 2 seconds ago, where the hell are you? Prince: Roof Guard: Beau. Get down. Use the stairs omg

Text exchange between a guard and a prince. Guard: Beau looks so hot tonight Prince: ??!? Guard: No No that wasn't meant for you. Different Beau! Prince: Oh. Yeah, I figured. Ok Guard: No holy shit please don't make that sad face I was talking about you. I don't even know another Beau

Prince Beauregard would never have a fully charged phone. Elias definitely has Life360 set up to track his disaster bi.

A King's Trust by S.E. McPherson

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AND it's a love stories to love stories (I heard you liked love stories, so I put a love story in your love story and made it a poly love story) because we need more love stories 🤷

Here's to a great first month and hopefully many more to come 🥂(3/3)

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It's a love story to 'touch them and die's who are gooey-soft on the inside because that's what I married.

To badass, witty women who know what they deserve & carve it out for themselves.

To every queer person, but especially the bi disasters who gotta figure things out. (2/3)

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Over a thousand copies of my debut novel A King's Trust were bought or downloaded in its first month out, and I want to CELEBRATE!

This book is a love story to AuDHDers w/ no idea what's going on half the time who still deserve the world bc I KNOW we can make great leaders. (1/3)

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Elias Batesian, the man that you are.

A King's Trust by S.E. McPherson
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Better believe that drama fueled four entire loads of laundry.

Get you some imagination-fuel INTRIGUE in A King's Trust by S.E. McPherson.