Whaddup Scallywags of #bookthreads! Today is the last day you can sign-up for an (a)rc of my queer af dark fantasy 'Dawn of the Obsidian Sun'. It made my PA cry, will it make you cry? forms.gle/iQaQjhfM7vQU...

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I recently visited Fireside Books in Redwood City for a comics pop-up! I got an awesome haul of Alien comics. While I was there, a couple bought my book and I signed it for them 🥰 What a great day. Support indie bookstores always! #booksky

You matter 💜 #booksky #authorsky #queersky

On today's episode of 'things my PA said to me'. It's true. #booksky #authorsky #mypasaid

If you’re a late-diagnosed AuDHD elder millenial with hyperlexia who escaped into fantasy books as a kid and always got shamed for your sex drive by the fundamentalist church you escaped during college, read Silver Star, Red Dragon Or if you just like pretty words and dragonfucking #booksky

The Raven doesn’t love. He obsesses. He worships. He’s a knife with a soft voice and a kingdom of ashes. And he only kneels for one person: Cricket. Read A Debt of Shattered Hope now on KU or grab a signed copy in bio. #DarkFantasyRomance

Gentle reminder that most of my books are available through the Queer Liberation Library! 🥰 Happy Pride 🌈📚

My PA when reading Dawn of the Obsidian Sun.... #boosky #dotos #authorsky #readersky #romantasy #diversebooks #queerbooksky #queersky

Looking for books that will emotionally wreck you, one way or another? How We End by @lmjuniper.bsky.social They came in the Night by @ravinovaiswrites.bsky.social Dawn of the Obsidian Sun by @barbosbooks.bsky.social A debt of shattered hope by @authorncaceres.bsky.social #booksky

Am I wrong though? 🤔🤭🥵 #booksky #monsterromance #authorsky #readersky

It's world building wednesday today. Have some lore about Zura, the mother of moonfire and shadow and an important goddess in 'Dawn of the Obsidian Sun'. #booksky #authorsky #readersky #loresky #worldbuilding #lore #romantasy

It's WIP Wednesday and you know what that means... unhinged quotes from the Shadow Mommy WIP. Trust me when I say y'all ain't ready for this 😏 #booksky #authorsky #readersky #wipwednesday #shadowmommy

Do you like horses? 👀 Explore paranormal shenanigans, second chance romances, and the incredible creativity of ten authors who were completely unsupervised for this whole endeavor. #booksky #anthology

According to my readers my books will get your feelings hurt, one way or another. Let me hurt you please? 👉👈 #booksky #darkfantasy #diversebooks #thisorthat

Happy Birthday to Good Mourning, Darling! A year ago today I published a cozy horror romance book about an autistic woman and the man who works for her father's funeral home. To celebrate, the ebook is on sale! Go get a copy and Happy Autism Acceptance Month! 🩸📚 🌶️📚 books2read.com/u/bPDjwA

I made it to Amsterdam for my friend’s wedding. All my friends are gonna be in one place. I’m sitting outside in the sunshine decompressing from the flight, no alc beer in hand, reading an ARC from one of my favourite authors @azaleacrowley.bsky.social. I’m on holiday!

In the mood for a 'well that escalalted quickly' dark fantasy? Look no further. Bi disaster, Gideon, got you. What Doesn't Kill You is a companion novella to Bring Her Home and focuses on Gideon, whose life isn't quite taking the turn he expected it to take. #booksky #darkfantasy #bidisaster

Welcome to Caerleon, where the vampires run the streets, the werewolves start fights, and love means never saying you won’t stab someone for them 🖤 #ParanormalMafia #DarkFantasyRomance #QueerAF #WhyChooseRomance #NeurodivergentDisaster #booksky #diversebooks

Reader: “How do you come up with these plots?” Me: [shaking a magic 8-ball that just says ‘crime’ and ‘bad decisions’]

Anything by @azaleacrowley.bsky.social @barbosbooks.bsky.social @ravinovaiswrites.bsky.social @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social @lmjuniper.bsky.social

Cyra, an elf with zero chill: What if I ignore all my problems until they become catastrophic? Ezren, the golden retriever thembo: What if we kissed? Haha, just kidding... unless? Laeroth, the emotionally constipated elf: What if I begrudgingly tolerate this and secretly care too much?

Current read: Dusk undone by @authorbrimooney.bsky.social Raeden died, but her soul can't move on because she doesn't remember anything of her former life or her death. All she remembers is pain. She is sent back to earth to unravel the mysteries surrounding her death.

The past is gone, but its ghosts still haunt her every step. 😭😭😭 Dawn of the Obsidian Sun is for romantic dark fantasy readers who want NB, queer, and marginalized rep and also like: 🌙 plot and spice 🌙 traumatized characters 🌙 hella angst 🌙 shadow magic 🌙 world building

Me, writing a romance novel: What if love wasn't about softness? What if it was power? What if it was desperation? What if it was I will burn this entire city down for you? Yeah. That’s my kind of love story. #DarkRomance #MorallyGrayMen #EnemiesToLovers #RomanceButMakeItBloody

⚠️ DATE A DANGEROUS SMUGGLER CHALLENGE (IMPOSSIBLE) ⚠️ Tatum doesn’t do casual. You’re hers now. No take-backs. 🖤 🔥 Swipe right if: You like a woman who growls when other people look at you. ❌ Swipe left if: You don’t want to wake up with bruises in fun places. #TheyCameInTheNight #TouchHerAndYouDie

Proceed with caution, adventurer. Or, y’know... just let the chaos consume you. Dawn of the Obsidian Sun — where your death is imminent, but at least the romance is hot. #darkromantasy #polyamromance #chaoticadventuringparty #whychoose

Read this as an ARC back in June 2024, re-read it this past February. ❤️🔥 What doesn’t Kill You by @barbosbooks.bsky.social is available on KU, go read it now! #booksky

Me, writing this book: What if trauma, but make it ✨romantic✨? 📢 Cyra, the FMC: What if I just run away from my problems? 📢 Her fated mates: What if we chased after you and made things worse? 📢 The relic: What if you simply ✨did not die✨?

Every time a character gets a moment of peace, a new tragedy spawns. It’s called balance.

WARNING: This book contains ☠️ Blood. Betrayal. Bisexual disasters. 💀 Characters with all the morals of a rabid raccoon. 💋 A vampire daddy who could manipulate me into signing away my soul, and I’d thank him. 🔪 The kind of romance that makes your therapist concerned. Proceed at your own risk.

💀 FOR FANS OF DARK QUEER FANTASY 💀 If you love: 🖤 The High Mountain Court (slow-burn & badass heroines) ⚔️ The Witcher (dark, violent fantasy worlds) 🐺 Underworld (shifters vs. supernatural law) 🏳️‍🌈 Gideon the Ninth (queer found family & badass MCs) Then Bring Her Home is your next read.

💀 Cyra: I don’t do feelings. 💀 Ezren: I have so many feelings, actually. 💀 Laeroth: I have one feeling, and it’s irritation. #FatedMatesOrFatedMess #ChaoticBisexualEnergy #ADHDAngst #NeurospicyAndNeedingTherapy #SendHelpNotQuests

Someone: ‘You should let your characters be happy.’ Me: ‘They are! In the two paragraphs before everything falls apart again!’

Plot structure: Act 1 - Everything is fine. Act 2 - Everything is NOT fine. Act 3 - It got worse, if you can believe it.

I say my books are about found family, but realistically, they’re about traumatized idiots with bad senses of humor fighting for their lives.

My writing process: - Introduce character. - Make them suffer. - Let them have one nice moment. - Take it away.

Do you ever think about how cute humans are? How we bond with each other is adorable. Giving each other shiny things, making things for each other, cuddling and kissing or simply touching. We make little homes and fill them with things, then share that space with those we’ve bonded with. It’s cute💕

Twice today I’ve wanted to share my thoughts and feelings about something I’m excited about, and twice today I’ve backspaced until the messages were gone. The trauma do be trauma-ing today 😵‍💫

What’s your favorite chonk of a fantasy book? #booksky Dawn of the Obsidian Sun by @barbosbooks.bsky.social, a dark romantic fantasy, is my most recent fave. I’m feral for the spicy shenanigans of this trio of a sassy, traumatized FMC, a lovable thembo, and a stone-faced pretty boy! a.co/d/eHD0gDQ

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Problem: I want to eat cheese puffs, but I don’t want to get cheese puff powder on my fingers. Solution: eat cheese puffs with chopsticks.

I say this in the most nonbinary, gender nonconforming way possible: I am a girls’ girl. ✨w o m e n✨ amirite?

Fantasy authors, I want to see your maps! I made mine on inkarnate 💕

Fantasy authors, I want to see your maps! My husband drew mine, and I love it so much. #booksky #fantasy

This is my favorite scene inn "Tangled in Fae". All of the characaters are in a meadow, just talking and getting to know each other. It's a calm moment amidst the chaos of the book and I love what a great job ranadela_x has done. You can find them on Instagram. ❤️

Can something be both angsty and cozy? Are those things too antithetical to coexist?