In true Fantasy Author Mode today, I have written a meal scene and made myself hungry

The Vatican held this Inuvialuit kayak for 100 years. Now it’s coming home #Canada #Inuvialuit Push to reclaim kayak led to historic repatriation of 62 Inuit, First Nations and Métis objects www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It was SO important to me to get to write an autistic MC in this fantasy novel because as a kid I felt like all fantasy heroes were super socially adept and able to navigate situations I could never get through. I wanted to write a hero who struggles to be seen and understood

lil dragon

Every time the Indie Next list picks are announced, I think about my last trad book and how my editor told me they wouldn’t be putting it forward for consideration on the list. I think it’s really great to have indie stores showcase books but folks should know there’s some gaming behind the scenes

I got to read an ARC of this book and I'm not quite done yet (it's long), but oh my gosh it is so fucking good. This is exactly the book my queer autistic soul needed. The worldbuilding is fantastic, the ethical problems are thorny, the interpersonal dynamics are complex, and it's! So! Good!

When you join a polycule and then later realize all the original people who were part of it when you joined are now gone, call that a relationship of Theseus.

GO READ GO READ GO READ, IT'S SO FUCKING AWESOME

SKULLRUNNER is out today! Get your morally-grey sapphic pirates hunting down their stolen memories and fighting a dictator now! Featuring: queer found family, gods that split via mitosis, sisterhood and sibling relationships, and abominable monsters from the depths of the sea!

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

hey w how trad pub is likely going to be pulling back on books by marginalized authors, now more than ever, please get over whatever roadblock exists in your mind that keeps you from branching out to indie books. if the trad space starts to look dire soon (and it will), this is gonna be the solution

A round of applause for the French is in order! 👏👏👏

“‘Take the meat from the humans,’ they said. ‘They have free food and nice fires to sleep by. What’s the worst that could happen? Let them rub your belly. Why not?’ they said.”

idk pride flags are always just stripes so I made a non-binary flag with my favorite dinosaur archaeopteryx. Two heads to symbolize balance between two genders!

Me writing this scene: hey wouldn’t it be fun if a god had ADHD? Me: oh wait that’s just Percy Jackson

I'm so honored to say I got to illustrate the cover for Villainess! It's live right now! kck.st/3JE4En9 [ #illustration #fantasyart #digitalart ]

Convincing you to read my book with the first paragraph! Share yours if you'd like.

Convincing you to read my book with the first sentence! Share yours if you would like.

I love writing autistic characters because they’ll fall really fucking far into a flooded underground cave in the middle of a battle scene and be like “goddamn I hate wet hair.”

Suffering from “I named the villain Annie” today

Absolutely wild. I posted the link to my pre-order the other day and got absolutely zero interaction.

Honestly I never planned for this one guy’s love of ducks to become such an integral part of this series

I’m working on the sequel to SKULLRUNNER and I’ve been editing the opening for a while now but I finally like where it is

Mexico Versus Nazis is a theme that’s really resonating with me of late

Here is another absolutely spectacular Mexican WWII poster

💜💜💜 I am so thrilled to share that Skullrunner has now received TWICE as many preorders as my last trad-pub book. I’m so grateful for all your support! If you would like to pre-order the ebook, you can do so here—and comment if you would like a signed paperback! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSC7MMN8

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Breaking up the doomscrolling with a little GOOD news!

Note: Skullrunner has content warnings in the front matter, so please do consult these before reading!

This time last year, I was fighting tooth and nail with a publisher who refused to believe in my queer fantasy books. Now I’ve sold more pre-order copies of my first indie book than my last trad book. 💜💜💜 I’m so thankful to everyone who has pre-ordered SKULLRUNNER!!!

so extremely excited for people to see this lurid, strange, and beautiful art by Jenna Cha

This Tuesday... THE FIRE IS COMING. Tune in for @jennacha.bsky.social's spectacular cover art for OLYOKE by @endwellian.bsky.social 🖤☠️

man, I'm still thinking about the last story in this collection, or chapter in this novella. just a great, ambivalent piece about repression and double identities that both loosely ties the rest together and (appropriately) raises some questions about things we thought we knew.

Five percent of writing any epic fantasy book (IMHO) is coming up with cool things you want to happen. Ninety-five percent is making them happen at the right time and in the right order.

Honestly the only reason I would want one of my books to be a movie would be to listen to the soundtrack on repeat

This looks so gorgeous!

To my lovely readers: I’m sorry about that epilogue 😂 and yes I’m hard at work on Book Two

i bring more women kissing to your TL

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The last Big 5 book I did got only 11 pre-orders. I was so exhausted from struggling with my publisher that I didn’t have energy to self promote. SKULLRUNNER has 5 pre-orders so far…can we get to 12?

Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm. The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now! Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows. FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

It’s getting stormy down by the seashore this evening and I can’t restrain myself from whispering “yarr mateys” in the wind

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day and may columbus be forever in the bad place!

I’m writing, or, as I call it, “describing women’s shoulders.”

Thinking about this. A year and a half before my fantasy debut, my editor left my publisher. She had been the only advocate for my queer books at the company. I knew that loss would tank my sales track and destroy my hopes of selling the sequel and I still had to launch the book with a smile.

Alright team huddle up. @aimeecozza.com is 19 followers ahead of me. 5X times the following! 2nd book vs 1st. A veteran vs the plucky upstart. WE MUST DEFEAT HER FOR FUN & GLORY. If you love lesbians who fight for love & sex & joy then FOLLOW ME TO VICTORY www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Three books that inspired SKULLRUNNER. I love books about death, adventure, and walking the knife’s edge between victory and defeat. There’s nothing like a good sword fight!

I continue to make ill-advised ads that i release late at night because this is my Brand and if you're up at midnight EST then you deserve quality late-night shitpost promos. Why see ads for injury claims lawyers when you can get quality infogayment like this?

SKULLRUNNER is a critical re-examination of a lot of mythology around the American Revolution and George Washington (featuring lesbian pirates)