For my last Narratess Indie Sale post (www.indiebook.sale), I'd like to highlight the SciFi bundle, with a mix from serious in tone space colonisation and or murder, to cozy fantasy, friendship and queer rep. 🌈📚🪐 itch.io/b/3627/narra... (Fantasy and Horror bundles also accessible via this link.)

Trans art deserves to be as big and popular and beloved as any other

The synthesizer is, culturally, a transgender instrument.

Sakura’s pokemon team 🌸 #fireemblem #pokemon

This, but applied to all fiction and not just fandoms. Let fiction be fictional. Let the bad guys be bad. It isn't real. You're not evil for liking villains in the magical world of make believe.

I guess young people either forgot or don’t actually know what the word “indie” is short for? An independent company means operating separately from larger corporations, not “providing content for free always”. Adult artists need money to live and create more art, imagine that

Hey guess what! There's this super awesome indie eBook fair going on, the bi-annual Narratess sale! From April 11th to April 13th there's hundreds of ebooks available at a steep discount over at indiebook.sale including my 54-page experimental dark fantasy novelette, LANTERN!

The Reanimators Series has brought me so many hours of joy and now you can try it out too

wanted to share that in 2025 i read 74 books, which is 2 short of the 76 i read in 2024

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

🔥 HAPPENING NOW 🔥 Gathering of the Four is once again part of the big Indie Book Sale 📚 April 11 - 14 Grab it - and a ton of other fantastic indie books - here: indiebook.sale Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror Don't miss out! @narratess.com @tessahastjarjanto.com 🎨: @ardenpowell.bsky.social

A video probably doesnt do it justice of how bad it is to constantly hear this. This is not good shit and no wonder why people are shooting at reps who vote for this shit.

ACLU Expert Explains Your Right to Record ICE Interactions

People wouldn’t have to do SPAMmy sus looking stuff if they didn’t consistently get their accounts and history deleted for the heinous crime of being Palestinian and asking for help rather than simply dying

The Backwards Knight, a classic fantasy adventure with eldritch horror twists, is waiting for you. It very well could be your next favorite fantasy novel from your not-quite-favorite fantasy author. Who knows? Only one way to tell. Buy the book. Right meow, #booksky. indiebook.sale

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Let's go! Get The Lucky Machine for just $1.99 during the #NarratessIndieSale until April 13th! Links to your preferred retailer: www.theluckymachine.com#order #Scifi #Books #IndieAuthor #Writer

Women know that speaking out will get them some delightful combo of seeing their own career ended for being difficult to torrents of hate, harassment and threats. And the harasser will do a Notes App apology, keep their head down for a year, and then be back

An ill-timed cold has meant I’ve done less promo than usual on our current Kickstarter. We’ve got 48 hours left in our campaign, and we’re about $1700 short of our goal All you need to do to help is boost this post! Ready to learn more? Visit our Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... 🌈📚

Come grab all 4 books in the Reanimator Mysteries series for $8 for a limited time! An autistic necromancer, his undead love, and the mysteries they solve together 🫀

This infuriating attitude shows up on the bookshelves in learning environments, too. We expect girls to empathize with boys, but we kneecap every opportunity to let boys empathize with girls. And look where we are.

Two great sales are happening right now for #IndieApril! Support 34 autistic indie authors with this Itchio bundle: itch.io/b/3598/autistic-sff-a-lil-romance-more Find discounted, and even free, indie and self-pub in this years Narratess Indie Sale: indiebook.sale My book: books2read.com/u/mvw8Pe

I Have No Assistant and I Must Scream

hundreds of SFFH books are on sale or free this weekend only! don't miss out! The Dragon Next Door is only $1.99! #booksky #IndieApril #NarratessIndieSale #booksky indiebook.sale

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Look at this lineup. You could read for a year on this bundle! I know $50 sounds like a lot until you remember that’s the cost of 2 paperbacks at a bookstore or 2 movie tickets

I've been slowing putting out some recommendations for the #NarratessIndieSale! I couldn't figure out how to get them to thread, so I'm gonna be embedding them here. Most of my recs are queer in some way, and many of them are fantasy. Shop all the books here: indiebook.sale

The Narratess Indie Sale starts today! For the next three days, 280+ books will be on sale, available for $1.99 or less. Even if you're on a budget or book buying ban, you can still grab the free ebooks (those don't count for your buying ban, because you're spending money!) indiebook.sale

Who has books in the Narratess Indie Sale? If that's you, share your social media-sized "about my book" below! There are some incredible books included, readers! I'm going to spoil myself! #booksky #NarratessIndieSale #indiebooks #indieauthors

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

The Narratess Indie Book Sale is starting tomorrow! We've had a quick sneak peek at some of the 300+ ebooks that'll be on sale for 0.99 or 1.99 (and FREE!) and we think you'll be very excited! 👀 #IndieApril #NarratessIndieSale

Look, I'm not saying that I think warehouses worth $650m that pay their workers $18/hr need to burn, I'm just saying I can see how if someone had brought some tea it'd be a great spot for a party.

Buying direct from authors -or small presses- is a great way to support us. But there isn't a store with everyone's direct links on it so... Direct Sales Thread! Indie Authors, Describe your books, drop a graphic & a link to your direct store/ small press! (eg. Payhip/ Kofi/ Itchio etc) 🌈📚🪐💙🏳️‍⚧️🧠

While making a colorblindness tool recently, I discovered how BS most online colorblindness tests are, so I put in some time. Here’s a real test. Citations are linked. Max your monitor brightness, and make sure any blue filters are off (no “night mode”) 👀

You know what doesn't get its support unceremoniously pulled by a tech company? Fuckin' books, brother

Thank you to the night shift for your incredible work, tonight and every night.

alt text: A white bodega cat meowing at somebody approaching the shop. Bodega cat who yells at everyone is one of the few jobs available to cats.

Gentle reminder, if you enjoyed a book by an indie author, please don't forget to leave a review! Because the trolls, racists, +haters never forget, they love to 1-star diverse stories. Reviews don't need to be long or wordy either, a simple line, "I enjoyed this book" is perfectly acceptable! 💝

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A reminder that ALL billionaires are the enemy. 'Good Guy Gabe' is every bit as loathesome as all the others. He's just smart enough to keep off social media and out of the spotlight while he enjoys the 24/7 party lifestyle on his FLEET OF MEGAYACHTS.

This bundle is still going, and we're almost 50% funded! Pick up some fantastic fiction and support a bunch of hardworking and talented autistic authors! Event Horizon is there, of course, but it's only one of the many great books in the bundle! 📚💙 itch.io/b/3598/autis...

The Last Gift-Knight A courtly intrigue fantasy where two descendants of a bitter feud are pitted against each other by a conspiracy of unlikely allies. Get it as part of this exciting bundle! itch.io/b/3598/autis... #IndieApril #booksky #WritingCommunity #bundle #sale #deal

Last week for this bundle, By Autistic Authors of: Cyber cities & soldiers. Fairies & dragons. Schools & missing students. Mercenaries & marginalisation. Feuds & conspiracies. Wars & romance. Found family & hopepunk. With autistic, & some trans/ asexual/ queer MCs 🌈📚🧠🪐💙 itch.io/b/3598/autis...

It's Indie April & Autism Awareness Month, so why not support both? Here's 34 fantastic SFF books written by autistic authors with autistic characters, including my novelette, The Sarcophagus of Lamia! itch.io/b/3598/autis... #AutismAwareness #IndieApril #SFF #BookBundle #ItchioBooks #IndieBooks

Science Fiction? ✅️ Fantasy? ✅️ Romance? ✅️ More? ✅️ ✅️ ✅️ From now until April 14th we have an itchio bundle of 34 titles that have autistic characters for only $30.00. Definitely check this out and get yourself some autistic awesomeness for #WorldAutismMonth. itch.io/b/3598/autis...

Celebrate #WorldAutismMonth with a bundle of creative works with autistic characters and/or autistic side characters. It's 34 titles for $30. Can't beat that price! #IndieApril #BookSky itch.io/b/3598/autis...

What better way to celebrate #IndieApril than with the annual #NarratessIndieSale? From April 11–13 this sale will bloat your TBR once again with hundreds of books from amazing indie SFFH authors, all discounted $1.99 to free. More details in the blog post: www.alankdell.co.uk/...#IndieApril💙📚🪐 | 📢📚

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This is what radicalized me as a native of color Seeing them send fire hoses attack dogs and sound cannons on water and land defenders during Standing rock