Went to my first comic con at the weekend as a trader. Was my first author event and wow was it something. I'm soooo bad at speaking irl but I managed to make 4 sales at least. Plus some sales of keyrings and a badge
This image captures a performer draped in a sumptuously detailed Noh costume, a central element of one of the world's oldest continuous theatrical traditions. The actor wears a deep indigo kariginu (broad-sleeved cloak) adorned with gold-leaf paulownia motifs and vibrant floral sprays, layered over a gold-patterned koshimaki. The ensemble is completed by an iconic Noh mask, which represents a refined sculptural tradition capable of conveying a vast spectrum of emotion through subtle shifts in the actor’s head position and light.
A performer in a Noh costume, one of Japan's oldest traditional theatrical arts. Noh is a comprehensive art form that combines music, dance, literature, and sculpture through its iconic masks.
Can I please have the link? :)
Genre Eligibility Genre Requirements & Romance: your central plot needs to be Fantasy or SciFi or a genre mashup which includes Fantasy and or SciFi. Books where the central plot is a romance (and the SciFi/ Fantasy elements are mere backdrop to it are, alas not a good fit for this blog. Books with romantic subplots are ok, so long as there's a Fantasy/ SciFi or subgenre of either main plot. Eg. Ready Player One, SciFi with a romance arc where both LI's are also saving the (future) world from a SciFi villain would be fine. Rep Eligibility Minimum Rep Requirement: Queer inclusive and normative Fantasy and SciFi. (Meaning at the very least you have queer side characters. And characters in your book do not expect everyone to be cis/ het -your book is not cis-het normative. Cis/ het and queer authors are all welcome.) Especially welcome: Queer main characters -especially trans- especially written by queer/ trans authors! Bonus Rep: found family/ friendship group rep. Disability -including neurodivergent- rep, and -if your books is set on Earth- cultural and ethnic diversity. Categories Eligible: YA and Adult Fiction, short stories, novellas and full length novels.
Fantasy & SciFi Authors Selling Direct,
It seems we need direct sales visibility, so I'm setting up a blog (inclu. small press) to share our stores!
See the screenshot for eligibility. Q's welcome!
If you're not on my Author Discord, I'm happy to DM you the sign up form. It'll be open 3+ months.
Thank you for hyping my book up <3 I was away when the sale was on so I wasn't able to do as much promoting and sharing as I wanted, so this means a lot!
A mix of being ill and going on holiday has left me faaaaar behind on all my social media stuff. Can I catch a break yet? Nope.
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Had such a horrible cold/illness thing lately, managed to lose my voice for 5 days, and it's still not back 100%. My cat has been really confused cause I haven't talked to her 😆
An unexpected week off has been annoying when I have so much to do...
A lovely watercolor pinup illustration of a transfemme angel with brown skin, curly brown hair (shaded with purple tones), deep blue wings, and a flat chest. She's reclined on her side, crushing a pink rose with a blue gloved hand and blue stockings, with petals falling between an open translucent robe. Vibrant pink orchids are painted around her, with a blue lace pattern filling the background.
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This week's blog is about why writers need to stop self-mythologizing in order to game the algorithm on social media, and there are two case studies to show how self-mythologizing leads to an inability to take responsibility. Fun stuff.
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How is it the 13th already?? Where is time disappearing to? Meanwhile: I also want Pokopia so I can play something wholesome and fun and not think about real life stuff 😆 damn the switch 2 being so pricey, I have no moneyyy
March is when we celebrate womanhood. These bundle of books encapsulate the perfect way to celebrate!
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I got stuck in one of the machines at the gym this morning 😭 now I'm afraid to use it again but it's also good for my legs
Short people problems 😭 (plus my disability got in the way too)
That's hilarious cause it's what happened to me! I thought my MC was a lesbian but noooope, she's Bi. Which is good cause the Love Interest is way too pretty to let him go.
Drop someone masked
Kuki Shinobu from Genshin Impact, badass and idiot Oni wrangler
Of Socialites and Prizefights illustrated cover art: two women in silhouette, one butch, short, and white, the femme tall, slender, and brown, dancing in a field of tiger lilies against an orange background. Sapphic fantasy romance in ebook, paperback, and kindle unlimited!
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✨Butch/femme romance
✨Lesbian awakening
✨1920s London+magic
✨Shapeshifter curse
✨Looking for true love's kiss
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That Yvetal is soooo pretty
Images of a river delta, the San Francisco Bay and the statue of daphne and apollo with the caption: Chasing the Delta
"Stay," he pleaded. "Stay and control the narrative. Use the platform to save your birds. Make me look like an idiot. I don't care. Just... don't go. Please." I looked at him. I looked at the phone. I looked at the rendering of the Delta. I hated him. I hated the heat of his hands. I hated that the internet thought we were a "ship." But Dad’s voice echoed in my head—a seat at the table. "Fine," I conceded. "But I'm tripling my hourly rate, and if you touch me again, I'm suing you for workplace harassment." Paul let go, holding his hands up in surrender. He was grinning again. "Ok," he said. Over an image of a river delta
Daphne and Apollo retelling: he's a solar techbro hopelessly in love with her. She's an environmentalist determined to stop his IPO. Trapped in a viral feud where the entire internet ships them, winning Daphne's love will require Apollo's ultimate sacrifice: his immortality. #WSPit #W #A #R #F #LGBT
DREAM NO MORE
A brother in a coma, a mage child accidentally rescued from a cult, and a monster hunter on the prowl: Dan the vampire is sure he can manage.
Except the kid is starting to feel very much like a daughter.
And that is not something he knows how to navigate.
#WSPit #W #A #PN #LGBT #ND
Shattered Souls Former rebel Maera Rhiann finds herself investigating a threat involving strange and terrible magic with one of her nation's former imperial overlords, Alestir Lycus, a man she has loathed for years and has tried to kill a definite non-zero number of times. As they chase an ancient secret that could save -- or destroy -- both their peoples, they also cut to the bone of each others' pasts. Rhiann and Lycus have to reckon with finding complexities in each other they had not imagined, amid the ratcheting tension of an attraction she refuses to admit and he refuses to let her ignore. Understanding may not lead to forgiveness -- but the jagged edges of two shattered souls could still be a perfect match.
A collage of images featuring mountainous landscapes, medieval weapons, and people in medieval clothing.
Get excited if... You yearn for an enemies-to-lovers story where they’re *actually* enemies. You like your fantasy with deep worldbuilding and multi-layered political complications. You’d like a fantasy world that’s queernorm and has no gender hierarchy. You want to read a romantasy where no one’s a dragon, no one’s a fairy, no one’s a vampire, no one is in fact any kind of immortal, and no one’s a secret heir to a throne, they’re just torn-up mortal humans in their mid-30s. You want a heroine who can set things on fire with her mind because mood. You know you shouldn’t be attracted to Magnificent Bastards, but whoops. You’re weak for battle couples who can pull off the back-to-back badasses routine. You’d like to see those characters take on a National-Treasure-esque hunt for ancient magic. You ache for the delicious torment of a slow burn... And then you want absolutely explosive fulfillment and a high-spice consummation.
A snippet Lycus had the blade flat against her skin, beneath her jaw, his forearm pushing her shoulder hard against the stone. His other hand seized her wrist before she could do anything with the knife she had managed to retrieve. “My point, Rhiann,” he said, his tone still conversationally languid, “is that I have an interest in your future because my stars and your Rivers appear to be in agreement.” “Agreement,” she hissed, drawing as shallow a breath as she could manage, “on what?” She tried to raise her wrist, but he gripped hard enough that her fingers loosened involuntarily and she dropped her blade. He’d gotten the better of her too skillfully. Fury surged in her, but it warred with a leap in her pulse, too like a sudden shock of lightning, that she couldn’t explain. “I cannot determine.” He gave the handle of the knife at her neck a quick, deft rotation, turning it from flat to point. The sharp tip rested behind the curve of her jaw, beneath her ear, just hard enough not to break skin. “Maybe the stars do favor your bloodthirsty ways, and we’re meant to pursue each other to our pyres, like some doomed heroes out of the age of myth.”
SHATTERED SOULS
Spicy political fantasy
Come for the enemies-to-lovers slow burn; stay for the exploration of culturally situational ethics & thorny issues of both individual and national self-determination. 😊
If that sentence didn't scare you off, you're my target reader. Hi!
#WSPit #W #A #F
Jade coloured background with three photos, one of two people nearly kissing, and the other two of an asian man who looks soft and gentle. On top of all this there are smaller images of a flower branch, a peacock feather, ink washed mountains, and shadows of grasses and a rose
When the tempest abates, the sea awaits, and adventure calls. When love isn't really love, just a hollow shell, the call of love will come to you.
🌊Asian inspired world
🏳️🌈 F/F, M/M, Bi leads
🌶️ Spicy inc. FFM where MC ISN'T in the middle
☠️ Leaving toxic "love"
❤️ Romantasy
🖊️ WIP
#WSPit #W #A #LGBT
A book cover with a dark purple background and moon, with soft moonlight shading a violin surrounded by bats, roses, and moonflowers.
A Vampire’s Lament 🖤🕯️🦇
Benevolent vampire Ishmael never thought he would love again, until mortal tutor Edric enters his world. Forgetting the past is difficult, but for the first time in centuries, the future seems as bright as the stars. ✨
#WSpit #A #indie #LGBT #CS
Official art of Jace's WIP, FROGBO! The title is written "Frogbo" in a mix of green and blue on the bottom-right of the image. On a circular sphere of land, walking down a dirt path between plains of grass is Frogbo; an oval shaped head, two noodly legs, a round belly with a heart mark in the center. Frogbo is walking along, passing by a lit-up series of apartment complexes displayed in a gradient of purple, curving alongside Frogbo's path. Above, the sky is a pitch black, with what looks like... a volcano with a face, fuming far-off? What is that??
HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE x HOUSE OF LEAVES x CARE BEARS
🌏An existential caper of growth and acceptance through a mysterious world
🗣️Unreliable narrator—MORE unreliable hero
👥Enigmatic friends unite across dying dreamscapes
🐸FROGBO!
🩷Written with LOVE!
#WSPit #W #A #NA #YA #F #Hu #Po #LGBT #Dis #ND #In #CS
Thank you! I really struggle with this one cause there's so much of... everything. It's hard to condense it down into the teeeeeniest of spaces and make it hooky
Thank you! I made it myself ❤️
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I'm a wide author so try to get my work everywhere I can <3
Currently running a giveaway on instagram
Image with a light grey background and gold lines to imitate kintsugi, with black ink encroaching from the top and bottom. Black text reads "Allegiance counted for nothing when survival meant everything" and below it is a book cover of Tales of Yamato, which has grey ink, a big vermillion sun and similar vibes to the image
Yamato. A land of lavish forests, surrounded by expansive seas, hiding a harsh reality: Wrathful gods, dangerous yokai, and humans who could end your life with a slice of the sword.
🌸 Mythology & Folklore
🌸 True Friendship
🌸 Human/God/Yokai POV
🌸 Will hit you in the feels
#WSpit #P #A #Hi #F #Dis
Braving the Storm is on sale for only 3 days! Sapphic book with witches, tyrants, and underground rebellions in a secondary world
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I'm writing a queer romantasy atm (f/f to m/f [both bi]) where the guy is a skinny beauty and actually delicate cause he has chronic fatigue too. So there is at least one you might be able to read (eventually once it's out) 😆
Yesssss skinny guys! They are good. I have come across many people who don't understand too. I prefer skinny guys on the femme side mostly so I get even more of a 🤨