I keep seeing ppl on both sides completely misunderstanding the other perspective. Yes – some people are panicking. Yes – some people are not. Neither is inherently wrong, believe it or not. [1/

Want to make your own maps? Pre-order AN AUTHOR'S GUIDE TO SETTING DESIGN. This reference guide covers everything from geography to civilization to visual design. eBooks are available at Lunar Books, with hardcovers at The Crafty Bookstore (US only). Additional storefronts will be added soon.

Happy World Art Day! Our rec lists tend to be a bit book-centric, so we thought this’d be a great chance to share some artists and artworks we love. You can check out the list of queer artworks we loved, and their artists, here: duckprintspress.com/2026/04/15/q...

I whipped up a quick, objective doc that may help Draft2Digital folks evaluate their next move. It's not perfect, but I've tried to be as comprehensive as possible. I'll likely update the 'Suggestions' section with more platform info later. Hope this helps! ❤️ docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Blades of the Goddess is a sci-fantasy series. That means it blends science fiction and fantasy elements! If that sounds interesting, Blades is a complete series, just waiting for you to binge! https://bf.lizsauco.com/lostblades

Do we like stickers?? YEAH WE LIKE STICKERS! Do we like art prints? YEAH WE LIKE ART PRINTS! Do we like candles? YEAH WE LIKE CANDLES! DO WE LIKE VAMPIRES??? YEAH WE LIKE VAMPIRES!!!!! HELL YEAH you can get ALL OF THAT when you back my Kickstarter!

Obligatory confetti screen cap of our successful campaign! Thanks so much to everyone who helped make this possible. Times are so hard right now and the Press really needed this funding, I'm so relieved.

There are easy ways to support indie authors - Read (can buy or borrow), Recommend (to a friend, or someone you think might enjoy), and Review (write a review - it can be short, even just "I loved it!" and copy/paste anywhere you buy or review books)!

Today is the last day for the #NarratessIndieSale for SFFH! Over 280 books have been priced at $1.99 or lower (a lot are even free!) There are Itch bundles by genre and length, or click the link below for the sale page for individual books. Here are some of my recs! https://indiebook.sale

Some of my favorite authors have some awesome books in the #NarratessIndieSale Indiebook.sale 🌈📚💙🪐📚🌈🚀💫

The #NarratessIndieSale is on! It's got tons of queer books for $1.99. Here's some of the ones I have enjoyed! 🌈📚💙🪐📚🌈🚀💫 indiebook.sale

Bonus! 36) Riyati Rebirth by me Available as a standalone purchase and part of the Short Novels and Fantasy 1 Narratess itch bundles

The Narratess #IndieApril SFFH sale is upon us! Almost 300 books discounted or free @ indiebook.sale from today to April 13! There’s itch bundles of genre and book size along with individual books for purchase. Looking for some recs? Check the 🧵 👇🏻 for 35 books I’m looking at 👀 #NarratessIndieSale

Interested in character profiles? I have a whole ton of them available on Campfire! Jamirh, Takeshi, Jeri, Hel, Ander and others, along with a ton of extra content like recipes, maps, item info, religion info, and more! https://www.campfirewriting.com/explore/lost-blades

Here are some chibis of some of my vampires! Fun fact: as vampires age in my world, their hair color loses saturation. Elena's hair being bright red is a product of how young she is! You might ask if Frir is also young, since his hair is a saturated brown. No. Frir just dyes his hair. He's vain.

This month's blog post is me drawing an arbitrary and unnecessary line in the sand! What is the difference between worldbuilding and writing a world? Click below to find out and get some tips! https://www.lizsauco.com/blog-1/writingaworld

What is the reading order of Blades of the Goddess? I've created a page with three options - publication order, chronological order, and my recommended order! Chrono. order also breaks down the stories in Colors and includes a couple blog posts as a bonus :) https://www.lizsauco.com/reading-order

What was a scene that didn't make the final draft? Lost Blades originally had a convo between Jeri and Jamirh discussing the politics/$$$ involved in Jamirh living in Tarvishte, but as the overall narrative veered away from politics it got cut. It was replaced with a convo about Ander instead :)

I don't know who needs to hear this, but it's not easy to write a book. The first draft always subjectively sucks to the author, whether its their first or twentieth book. It takes time to learn how to express character emotion, it takes time to learn how to describe a setting, it takes time to

If you are someone who likes subscription services for books, but is disenchanted with KU/Amazon, have you considered Kobo Plus? All my books are available there! It's like KU, but isn't terrible! Here's a collection of SFF titles all free in K+: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/p/kobo-plus-fantasy-reads

🥳 Happy April, friends! 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒉 is officially a month old and to celebrate, I'm having a little eBook sale from 1st-8th April! 🥳 Grab a copy for just 99¢ everywhere she's sold – perfect if you've been curious this whole time. 👀 books2read.com/fruitofwar www.tamarasharker.com/books

Did you know there's a free short story you can get just by signing up to my newsletter???  Subscribers also get: 💙 “No Words, Only Wargs” (A quarterly comic about wargs… solving… problems in Romanii) 💙 Latest news and updates 💙 Polls and other exclusive content https://link.lizsauco.com/news

The A Very Queer March bundle is almost done! Just over 24 hours left to go to get over 60 books for $60 on Itch.io! https://itch.io/b/3545/a-very-queer-march

Listen. My WIP is about a democracy with ranked choice voting thinking it's figured out how to not be sabotaged from within and doesn't need to be vigilant about bad faith actors anymore. And also a lesbian going through system discovery. This is nothing BUT politics and you WILL like it.

All set up at the Waterfire Arts Center in Providence for the Horror Depot Dark Reads event!! I’ll be here until 4:00!

Looking for a new fantasy series you can binge? Blades of the Goddess is a 1,482-page completed series with an additional 287 pages of related short story content! https://bf.lizsauco.com/lostblades  (or check out the whole series: https://books.bookfunnel.com/blades-series)

Our next Patreon panel is this Sunday, March 29 at 4 Eastern! Join us as we discuss APPROACHES TO CREATING COLLABORATIVELY with Sebastian Marie, Puck Malamud, Rhosyn Goodfellow, Lucy K. R. and D. A. Hernández. Only for our $7/month and up supporters on Patreon! www.patreon.com/c/duckprints...

🌊 SHE'S HERE! 🌊 The Wine-Dark Sea is officially out! When I picked a release date, I wanted something significant to Artemis, given that she is a key character. I discovered March 25 aligned with an ancient feast/festival day for the goddess, so here we are. kris-madigan.itch.io/wine-dark-sea

This is so cool! They found several new animal species. I WISH TO HOLD A GECKO. And omg that pit viper color, yessssss.

Disabled nonbinary shapeshifter hunts monsters on a deadline while suspecting they're being set up for something far bigger involving a smuggled artifact they found. Sweet but snarky protag. Found family. High fantasy in a futuristic setting. Links @ my website! Review, share, buy it—it's great!

Hello, I am a disabled author writing fantasy fiction w/ sapphic & non-binary protagonists w/ disabilities. Due to my disability, I cannot work & rely on book sales & tips to pay my medical expenses. If you want to support me, the best way to do so is joining my Ghost dreaming.daxmurray.com

COVER REVEAL! Our next two anthologies are collections of short stories from our 2021-2023 archive, a general imprint anthology of 22 stories and an explicit imprint anthology of 19 stories! KS launches March 30: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... Cover art is by @dylanmeconis.bsky.social 🌈📚 📚💙

So... Due to some recent events, if anyone wants to commission me for art or writing (I was thinking some sort of 500-1k word fanfic scene of a scenario btwn characters of your choice sorta thing? We can talk about it), then that would be awesome. Old commish sheet & more recent art below. 3 slots.

Drop 3 recs for the #transrightsreadathon! ⚔ Name Her Holy - Aubrey Ennis (Transfem Sapphic Space Fantasy) 🦊 The Wonders of Mundus - Talia Belser (Transfem MMO Isekai) 📜 Brown/Trans/Les - Talia Bhatt (Non-fiction, patriarchy, queer oppression, colonial epistemicide) More recs: tinyurl.com/trrsrc

The A Very Queer March bundle is still going on Itch.io. Over 60 books for $60! Both Lost Blades and Colors of Magic are in this bundle, along with a bunch of other really good stories! https://itch.io/b/3545/a-very-queer-march

Looking to sink your teeth into a cerebral, rich epic fantasy? 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑟𝑢𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑊𝑎𝑟: 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐹𝑙𝑒𝑠ℎ is now available in eBook and paperback! Don't forget to sign up for my newsletter! ❤️ www.tamarasharker.com/books books2read.com/fruitofwar 🪐📚 💙📚 #epicfantasy #darkfantasy #fruitofwar #indiebooks

Happy Shakespeare Week! 20% of the sales of AND SEEK (NOT) TO ALTER ME: QUEER FANWORKS INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE'S MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING will be donated to the Trevor Project as part of a fundraiser we’re doing for the Trans Day of Visibility. Get it now: duckprintspress.com/product/and-...

Gonna wax philosophical here, but a lot of this book is a conversation about unlearning the abusive "love" of cruel parents and realizing that you need to excise the abusive parents who live in your head. Their love is toxic, and if you let it fester, it will poison everything around you.

This. All of this.

It's finally done!! :D This is the updated map of Western Espon. It took me a very long time to draw and finish XD  I'll be selling these as wall hangings at events and on my site soon, and I also have a few other plans for the art ;)

Haha the statue of Hades looks very funny here among all the other pictures, but he does belong, I swear!

What sorts of things inspire you? Video games are big for me; Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy in particular.

This is such an important thing to hold onto. As the media and politicians try to go OH THESE TRANS PEOPLE ARE A PLAGUE AND/OR THERE ARE SO FEW OF THEM THEY DON'T MATTER There are nearly 3 million of us in the US alone. 3 *million*. That's almost the population of the entire state of Nevada.

Buy any of these eligible books from either our webpage or itch.io to add to your Readathon TBR, and we'll calculate 20% of the net from those sales and add them to our donation! Our webstore: duckprintspress.com/shop/?swoof=... Our itch.io: duckprintspress.itch.io (2/2)

Day 15 of #MarchWorldbuilders! I have a decent number of organized religions in Ícalar, some of which I've talked about before. While group-based worship may not be part of all of them, or even ceremony, there's common threads of prayer or small rituals. Before I get into those, however: [1/5]

Now just 2 days away! If you're specifically looking for sapphic sci fi, fantasy, and horror featuring trans and non-binary lesbians, I got a list. #trr #TransRightsReadathon #tdov 📚🌈

One of my favorite parts of storytelling lies in the worldbuilding and map design for fictional settings. I create all of my own maps, and I've illustrated maps for other authors / publishers as well. So, I wrote a book about it. Coming later in 2026. 💙📚 Keep reading to learn about pre-orders! ⬇

High science fantasy with an urban twist! Blades of the Goddess is a complete series with an extra book of short stories in case you are left wanting more! Found family, LGBTQ+ characters, reluctant chosen ones, and more! https://books.bookfunnel.com/blades-series

I'm trying a Science Experiment tm itch bundle, so tldr: Looking at fantasy morally grey asexual characters-- Aces Making Bad Decisions tm Scheduled to run May 1 - 31 with $1/book. If your book fits, sign up 👉 forms.gle/zzrAqwiWjktk... 📦📚 #WriteSky

Wanting to post more new art but in the meantime, have some pre-existing ones!