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Lighthouse | Swallowing the Sun

Delighted that #Edinburgh's #LighthouseBookshop already offers for sale, "Swallowing the Sun"
by the UN champion of #WomensRights

...anticipating the global launch

...starting, intriguingly, in #Scotland

lighthousebookshop.com/book/9781913...
#feminist, #anticolonial #history #musicinfiction

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So cool

#YALit #Worldbuilding #MusicinFiction

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Colored pencil art of a faceless feminine god with purple-yellow wings and a thorny dress. MtG keywords and new abilities throughout. "Mia Martok, the Incessant Madness" 3/13 Legendary Sorcery Creature

Colored pencil art of a faceless feminine god with purple-yellow wings and a thorny dress. MtG keywords and new abilities throughout. "Mia Martok, the Incessant Madness" 3/13 Legendary Sorcery Creature

Custom #mtg card that became the premise for my dark fantasy book #OperaOfSouls! ♥️🔥 A Red God, a "vampir," monsters, music, & more!

Read now! Use code MIATREE to read beyond ch.3 FREE for a limited time!!💙📚👻🎄
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☝️✨
#darkfantasy #musicinfiction #fantasybooks #gothic #sff

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Book 2's band has a totally different sound

#MusicinFiction #AmWriting #BookSky

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The Fin Whales "Ghosts in the Ocean"

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#IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity #Novmember #AmWriting #MusicinFiction

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Keeping Time is a YA debut where grief, friendship, and time travel collide in a musical heartbeat with its own original music.

Consider joining as an ARC reader
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#YAfiction #IndieBooks #FoundFamily #DebutAuthor #IndieAuthor #ARCReaders #TimeTravel #MusicinFiction

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🕰 What if grief could rewind the tape?

Keeping Time is a YA debut about a girl, a Walkman, and music that breaks linear time.

ARC readers wanted. Coming Oct 21, 2025.

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#YAfiction #IndieBooks #FoundFamily #DebutAuthor #IndieAuthor #ARC #TimeTravel #MusicinFiction

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A man with dark flowing hair in a gray hoodie holding a silver horn in a grassy field under gray clouds and blue sky.

A man with dark flowing hair in a gray hoodie holding a silver horn in a grassy field under gray clouds and blue sky.

Two fantasy book covers from "Max Brassing: Music in fiction." One is colorful and bright, featuring a girl in a skirt with a clarinet and magic staff. The other is dark and fiery, featuring a faceless being in a red dress amongst ghosts and lightning.

Two fantasy book covers from "Max Brassing: Music in fiction." One is colorful and bright, featuring a girl in a skirt with a clarinet and magic staff. The other is dark and fiery, featuring a faceless being in a red dress amongst ghosts and lightning.

Quitting teaching was the bravest thing I ever did. I love 🎶 but I had to quit for my mental health, so I became an author

But I still advocate for 🎶 thru my characters & stories, because, imho, the only thing more powerful than 🎶 is a story FUELED by the power of music📚💙
#musicinfiction #TPoE #OoS

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Two fantasy book covers, one lighter with blues and planets featuring a girl with a clarinet, the other darker with reds and lava featuring a faceless figure. "Both books out now!"

Two fantasy book covers, one lighter with blues and planets featuring a girl with a clarinet, the other darker with reds and lava featuring a faceless figure. "Both books out now!"

A barefoot long-haired man in torn jeans and a tie-dyed shirt holding a silver trumpet on a piano bench.

A barefoot long-haired man in torn jeans and a tie-dyed shirt holding a silver trumpet on a piano bench.

I'm Max, former🎶teacher, now author of fantasy & horror, each w/undertones of #musicinfiction, like chosen-one clarinetist in #ThePlanetsOnEarth or fiery soprano in #OperaOfSouls

I'm also an editor, artist, play 8 insts & love #bodypositivity ( #nakededitor 😁)

#fantasybooks 📚💙 #barefoot #oos #tpoe

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Two men with long dark hair and glasses toasting with popcorn in front of a Dark Souls bonfire on the TV.

Two men with long dark hair and glasses toasting with popcorn in front of a Dark Souls bonfire on the TV.

2 yrs, 3 months & 5 days ago, my bro & I finished the penultimate edits of all 3 books of #OperaOfSouls! Fast fwd to now, and the first 2 are complete & out!

Do you dare traverse into Sauzberg? City of magic, monsters, & mayhem—skeletons, sorcery, & secrets!🏰☠️🔥 #fantasybooks 📚💙 #musicinfiction #oos

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A long-haired man smiles sitting on a couch in black shorts and a black shirt holding a book, bare feet curled inward.

A long-haired man smiles sitting on a couch in black shorts and a black shirt holding a book, bare feet curled inward.

Happy #feetupfriday! We’re aalllllmost getting to perpetual shorts weather here in Ohio.🧚🏻‍♂️🩴👋🏻☔

Check out my books if you want to give an indie author some love today 🙌🏻📚💙

reamstories.com/maxbrassing

#barefootauthor #musicinfiction #fantasybooks #horrorbooks #footsky #authorsky

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Mine is red blue black. Megan from #ThePlanetsOnEarth ❤️🎶💙

#TPoE #fantasybooks #booksky #magicalgirls #clarinet #animesky #booksky #dystopianbooks #yafantasy #nabooks #nafantasy #musicinfiction

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As a music major/teacher, I know how magical music is irl🫶

That's why when I put music in my fantasy books, I don't give it special abilities, bc it's already special.

There's something riveting about those who fall back on music in worlds w/literal magic & monsters💫🎶
#musicinfiction 📚💙 #tpoe #oos

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Two fantasy book covers by "Max Brassing, Music in Fiction. Final chapters of both books coming next week!" Each cover features a magical girl with various powers such as light, planets, lightning, and lava.

Two fantasy book covers by "Max Brassing, Music in Fiction. Final chapters of both books coming next week!" Each cover features a magical girl with various powers such as light, planets, lightning, and lava.

I’m Max, a former music teacher infusing light, darkness, passion & hope into epic stories.

Check out my 2 similar yet opposite books!

#ThePlanetsOnEarth is bright hopepunk, lush apocalyptic🕊️

#OperaOfSouls (book2) is grim gothic, brimstone and rebirth🏰

#authorsky #fantasybooks #musicinfiction 📚💙

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A woman in a red dress sits in grass with her arms around her knees. Dark fantasy book cover for Opera of Souls graphic along with a wizard and a skeleton. "Gothic dark fantasy by Max and Fox Brassing. Read today!"

A woman in a red dress sits in grass with her arms around her knees. Dark fantasy book cover for Opera of Souls graphic along with a wizard and a skeleton. "Gothic dark fantasy by Max and Fox Brassing. Read today!"

Weekly reminder to try out my books! Co-writtten with my equally amazing brother, you needn't look any further than #OperaOfSouls for my impeccable editing and juicy writing style! Check my links 🤗❤️🔥🩸💃
#booksky #darkfantasy #fantasybooks #musicinfiction #editing #authorsky #writersky #opera #gothic

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Chapter 40 of ✨🪐The Planets on Earth🌎✨ proofread and going down the publishing chute! Read it today 😊

I love when I read my chapters and can't help but think, how is this so damn good? ✌️
#booksky #yafantasy #fantasybooks #dystopian #musicinfiction #magicalgirl

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Opera of Souls just hit its 100th episode! 🔥🔥🔥 Check out my epic dark fantasy today! 📚💙
#darkfantasy #fantasybooks #ream #musicinfiction

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A white wax bust on sheet music with a silver marble. “And what sweet timbre it is—the crescendo of souls, and the silence of dolls.” -Opera of Souls

A white wax bust on sheet music with a silver marble. “And what sweet timbre it is—the crescendo of souls, and the silence of dolls.” -Opera of Souls

There’s 1 day left to read as much of #OperaOfSouls as you can free!

OoS is a lush dark fantasy—one continuous epic—w/demons, gods, angels, ghosts, & the one “vampir.” 🧛🏻‍♀️

And let’s not forget the four M’s:
Magic, monsters, mayhem, & music! 🧙🏾😈😱🎻
#booksky #fantasy #gothic #darkfantasy #musicinfiction

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A slew of fantasy book covers with Opera of Souls by Max Brassing most prominent. Purple and red backgrounds read, “FREE BOOKS Feb 13-20, Reamraid.com”

A slew of fantasy book covers with Opera of Souls by Max Brassing most prominent. Purple and red backgrounds read, “FREE BOOKS Feb 13-20, Reamraid.com”

📚💙👉 reamraid.com

Opera of Souls is a dark fantasy full of monsters, gods, gothic vibes, & music! Find out what it means when the lone “vampir” rises after 800 years of slumber in a land where the choristers, the abbey, & their Red God are law! 💃🏰🔥
#booksky #fantasybooks #musicinfiction #darkfantasy

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Dark fantasy art of a woman in a black dress with red text framed in rosy spirals: “Opera of Souls: The year 800 D.D. (of the Darker Divinity) was supposed to hold some significance to the Lodici archangels. Something about a spell that took forty generations.”

Dark fantasy art of a woman in a black dress with red text framed in rosy spirals: “Opera of Souls: The year 800 D.D. (of the Darker Divinity) was supposed to hold some significance to the Lodici archangels. Something about a spell that took forty generations.”

Looking for a dark fantasy where the 4 POVs conspire to take down their corrupt government theocracy? No parallels to a certain rogue country now at all… 😅 It’s funny how these themes are prevalent in dystopian/dark fantasy books all the time. #booksky #darkfantasy #fantasybooks #musicinfiction

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