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a 3x3 moodboard including: a girl with dark hair in a white dress against a black background, a dark-haired girl staring at a marble bust, a wet hadn pressed to a shower, bruised knees, a ballerina stretching with half her face obscured, lingerie hanging on a heater, a dark-haired girl staring at herself in a mirror, a girl underwater, a ballerina's tutu and hand.

#meetmyMCs
Stubborn beyond all reason and chronically ill, Eden made it to the ballet audition of a lifetime. Now she just has to survive long enough to win it—a task complicated by her totally minor obsession-crush on her idol and the shifting, deadly architecture of a haunted house.

Cosima from the gothic fantasy novel GARNER FOR GOLD by Catherine Labadie. A lean, tan, hardy-looking woman with a a starry golden halo & living butterflies in her hair looks back over her shoulder with a frown.

Huntress & Godling Cosima loves her band of women discarded by their realm & Goddess's shining regime. Duty calls her back from her woodland haven when Goddess's preferred consort - Cosima's stepmother - entrusts her with the worst responsibility she can imagine.
#meetmyMCs

This is high on my TBR this year! I’m so excited to read!

Character art - Fount Fiammetta from Render to Silver, a gothic fantasy novel. A bust of a red-haired, amber-eyed women in her late 20s wearing a white veil with a band of silver coins to secure it. Her hands are near her face, & her expression is uneasy.

Character art - High Priest Easoren from Render to Silver, a gothic fantasy novel. He has long white hair/brows, storm blue-grey eyes, a supercilious expression, & is dressed in blue religious robes. He appears to be in his mid to late forties & he is very handsome in a cold way.

Fount Marzanna loves one thing: Fount Fiammetta. When an accidental fatal Miracle draws the attention of the God of Greed's High Priest in the church she unwillingly serves, Marzanna's cold heart begins to stir with more than simple loathing.
#meetmyMCs

So good! I love them already!

Therese is incredible!

I love her already! This is such an amazing concept!

Sierra Branham loves her family something fierce, but dreads becoming them. She’s determined not to inherit their backward ways, generational trauma, and dark magic, but when her father disappears, that determination turns deadly. #meetmymcs #YA

Art by @warickaart.bsky.social 🥰

H E R ✨ This wip is everything!

𝗔𝗟𝗬𝗦 [𝗦𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗗𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗗], head of the Experimental Division at Catherine Quay.

a libertine, renegade, and genius arithmantist; Byronic in her bearing and demeanour. drafted into the war effort for her brilliance – and then consumed by it. #MeetMyMCs #cipherwip

Obsessed with her! One of my favorite wips 🫶🏻

#meetmgmcs
#circuswip

Deemed a monster by the French nuns who raised her, Aurore is the former star & proprietor of England’s finest circus establishment. Cunning, byronic, & fiercely loyal to her troupe; she’s as sharp as the knifepoint she uses to slit the throats of robber barons & imperialists

#meetmymcs
#circuswip

A Spanish-Maghrebi acrobat with schizophrenia, Nabil runs away from more than his demons when he joins a British circus infamous for a terrifying Freakshow & a slew of unproven murders. He must distinguish between fact & falsity as he navigates Britain’s festering underbelly.

9 square moodboard Top row starting from the left corner: A dark, foggy winter lake Top middle: A veiled woman in white holding a lantern with her head down Top right corner: A key in the lock of an old door Center row left side: An old cracked mirror Middle: Black and white photo of a woman lying down, and looking at the camera through floral branches. Middle right side: A white stag with a black background. Bottom row left corner: Two women in white dresses holding hands. Bottom middle: Another image of two women in gauzy white dresses. One is blindfolding with her head leaning against the others back, following her. Bottom right corner: A woman looking through a lace curtain.

Art by Therese @Warickaart It’s a black and white illustration of three of my characters. Marzanna is in the middle with her hands held over her glass heart. She’s white with black curly hair, an oval shaped face, and dark eyes with a serious expression.

Katniss X Agnieszka X Alice (Alice in Wonderland)

Marzanna offers herself as the twenty-first sacrificial bride of winter, in hopes of freeing her sisters from an inescapable reality. Though she receives far more than she bargained for when she becomes the very monster she fears most #MeetMyMCs

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The second annual #KidLit4Ceasefire auction is starting in 4 days. At 215 items, would love to get to 300 (please consider donating 🙏🏼).

A part of the amount raised will now also go to helping those displaced by the LA fires.

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white text in the centre reads: 2 Months Gold text at the bottom reads: What Wakes the Bells Tinted purple and pink, the background shows an illustration of a girl in front of a rose window

Maya Hawke's character from Stranger Things holds up a board edited to read: Preorder campaign details next week

White text reads: Built by long-gone Saints, the city of Vaiwyn lives and breathes and bleeds. As a Keeper, Mina knows better than most what her care of Vaiwyn’s bells means for the sentient city. It’s the Strauss family’s thousand-year legacy—prevent the Vespers from ringing, or they will awake a slumbering evil. One afternoon, to Mina's horror, her bell peals thirteen times, shattering the city’s tenuous peace. With so much of the city's history and lore lost in a long-ago disaster, no one knows the danger that has been unleashed—until the city begins to fight back. As the sun sets, stone gargoyles and bronze statues tear away from their buildings and plinths to hunt people through the streets. Trapped in Mina’s bell, the soul of a twisted and power-hungry Saint festered. Now free of his prison, he hides behind the face of one of Vaiwyn’s citizens, corrupting the city and turning it on itself. As the death toll rises, the only chance Mina has to stop the destruction and horrific killings is finding and destroying the Saint’s host. Everyone is a suspect, including Mina's closest loved ones. She will have to decide how far she’ll go to save her city—and who she’s willing to kill to do it. Out March 11, 2025

✨ 2 MONTHS TO GO ✨

WHAT WAKES THE BELLS is out March 11 from Macmillan + @fiercereads and yes, I am definitely panicking now.

An FYI:
✨ Preorder campaign announcement next week!
✨ There’s a Goodreads giveaway happening right now for final copies *panic intensifies*

A trope map for MISTRESS OF LES, with the following tropes: adult gothic fantasy, slow burn M/M/F endgame, second chance romance, intrigue and politics, vampires and blood magic, Filipino and queer MCs $2.99. 12/16 - 12/22. US only.

Happy Holidays!

I'm thrilled to report that MISTRESS OF LIES has been chosen as a Kindle Holiday Read, and is discounted to $2.99 starting today! The promotion runs through 12/22, and is US only.

If you're looking for a bloody good read for the Holiday season, consider checking it out!

The LI is so misleading. Actually, every character is shady af. They need to hug more trees since the author loves to write those way too much. Blood. Blood. Blood. Cannibalism? Yuck. 1/5 stars.

If you’re looking for a free way to support an author, did you know you can ask your library to stock a book you want to read that they don’t have yet? And usually it’s a very basic online form? Google your library name plus the words “request a title” or “suggest a title” to find yours.

Are any of my mutuals apart of a writing discord that’s open to having a new member? I just finished my finals and I’m about to dive into writing again. I miss having a little discord community.

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A win is a win!