I'm sharing a deleted scene from the witchy botanical short story I have out on submission, cut for length and pacing. 300 words of potions and garden magic 🌿✨

As an author, I don't make a whole lot of money, but at the same time I need to read a lot of books to stay aware of trends and support my fellow authors. Obviously if I spend all my profits on other people's books, I'm not coming out ahead! So: ways to read lots of indie books for cheap.

There are some indie authors following the corporate American model of pretending their books on their websites are on sale for Black Friday by price hiking them, so if you're not a fan of that, be wary... (You can also just buy your indie books full price to support your favorite authors ✨️)

I posted this on a discord server and then figured I'd turn it into a thread for the Trans day of Remembrance. Following are some of my favorite trans authors and what they write. 1/?

THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES series is perfect for lovers of Gothic coziness. There are 4 books with 💀Pushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow vibes 🫀An autistic necromancer ⚰️His reanimated lover 🪦 Solving mysteries in 1890s NYC 🏳️‍🌈MM paranormal historical romance 🔗⬇️Available wide! #romancelandia #booksky 🌈📚

Reading Cinder by @dnbryn.bsky.social right now and it slaps. Lots of trans male joy :).

The Flaunt Your Chains audiobook is now live! Grab it for yourself anywhere audiobooks are sold, or request it from your local library ✨

If you were waiting for the Cinder physical copies to appear outside of Amazon, you should now be able to find them at your favorite online bookshop! ✨ Inside, you'll find... 🗡️ Stabbing bastards in the back 🕊️ Pigeon magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans MC ❤️‍🩹 Family Trauma 🔥 Vengeance 🌶️ Everywhere but the bed

Introducing The Knightly Forecast. Support my Patreon for $4 CAD/month, and get a weekly dose of meditative fantasy microfiction in your inbox. This series follows the changing seasons. The first is completely public and free to read, no signup required. 🍂 www.patreon.com/posts/early-...

I'm looking for ARC readers/reviewers for METROPOLIS DOWN! Coming 03 March 2026, METROPOLIS DOWN is an adult space horror novel about grief and trauma. ARCs will go out in two batches: November for eARCs, and January for physical ones (limited to 10). Link below!!

Cinder by D.N. Bryn @dnbryn.bsky.social Shout out to D.N. Bryn for serving the weird bird representation we need. I loved this take on Cinderella, especially this particular brand of familial manipulation. #arcreview #mmromance #romantasy #grimmtales

I'm so pleased to see my trans M/M Cinderella retelling out in the world! I hope ya'll enjoy this slightly darker story than my usual. (I promise it still has just as much heart 💖 ) Currently available below, but paperbacks will appear elsewhere within the week: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F26J336R

The Pumpkin is back! Today, he would very much like to read How to Bite Your Neighbor & Win a Wager by @dnbryn.bsky.social #HalloweenReads #SpookySeasonRomance #VampireRomance #ThePumpkinSaidSo

Learning to Bleed comes out March 18th and artist @scherville.com is so deeply talented I can hardly believe it! This book is the 2nd in a trilogy that explores queerness and trauma through vampire lore, all against the backdrop of an impoverished rural community that has its own monsters 👀 Links⬇️

My trans mm Cinderella retelling, CINDER, comes out on October 2nd ✨ Cin is quiet and controlled on the outside, but underneath the mask he's a bundle of rage and pain... Stay tuned for a matching Prince Lorenz board! (Art by moth.deity on IG.)

The preorder for THE REANIMATOR'S FATE (TRM #4) is officially up! Paperbacks will be up closer to release, but you can preorder the ebook, which will be out January 29th. books2read.com/trm4

Did you notice the map when reading Zel and the other books in #thegrimmtales so far? I'm actually the one who made it, and I had so much fun creating each landmark important to our tales. GRAB ZEL: mybook.to/Zel GET ALL OF GRIMM: mybook.to/GriMM ✨Where have you been in The GriMM Tales so far?🏰

Another ambiguously gay #Swordtember story! Sir Heron renews his vows of allegiance to Mister Swan, his exiled prince. As little as $4 CAD a month gets you access to exclusive queer fantasy fiction, currently posting 3x week, and helps me afford groceries ⚔️✨🦢 www.patreon.com/posts/swordt...

PAINTED FLOCK deals heavily with compulsory romance and toxic ideas around romantic relationships. "More than friends" as an expression to mean sexual-romantic partners irks me to no end, so of course it's right there in the thick of the narration. buy.bookfunnel.com/prdyz5509q

New Review of How to Flaunt Your Chains and Surrender a Vein by D.N. Bryn (Guides for Dating Vampires #4) #BookReview #BookSky 💙📚

Hey! Who wants an ARC of my gay space horror? Its got eruri-coded boys, autism and ptsd rep, blood/guts/gore, and a rescue mission that goes really bad!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

You can grab the audiobook for my mm vampire romance, How to Bare Your Neck and Save a Wreck for only $7.50 right now!! 💖 Simon Dornet does a lovely job of bringing the yearning in this book to life, just saying 😘 www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

I love audiobooks! These are some of my favorites. The narrators are so talented and bring a whole other level to the stories. Most (if not all) are available through @queerliblib.bsky.social ✨ What are some of your favorite audiobooks? (Sorry if I missed tagging anyone 🖤) #audiobooks 💙📚🌈📚🩸📚

Please send good vibes to my precious little demon; she has had such bad tummy issues this week that we're going to the vet tomorrow.

How to Sell Your Blood and Fall in Love by @dnbryn.bsky.social 🖤 💙📚🌈📚🌶️📚

I'll hit you with another indie rec since indies are the love of my life. Our Bloody Pearl by @dnbryn.bsky.social Murderous Mermaids, aro and ace rep, pirates, intrigue, found family, disability rep. One of my favourite books of all time. Another one I need to reread soon.

ARC requests for the M/M fairytale retelling series with my pigeon-whispering, trans vigilante Cinderella are available for only one more week!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Sharing a table with the amazing @dnbryn.bsky.social and I am so excited! Come visit us. #indieauthors #comiccon

Behold the cover of my next book, SHAKE OUT THE GHOSTS, coming out in March 2026 with @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social ! 👻 eccentric artists 💜 morbid humor 👻 your crush is dead (still into it) 💜 Donnie Darko vibes 👻 twists! 💜 ace MC 👻T4T romance 💜 mental health rep angryrobotbooks.com/books/shake-...

Preorder discount ends tomorrow!! I'm 5 itchio copies from the 50% on that goal and it'd be kinda nice to know I at least hit that haha :))

I still don't feel like blogging a lot but I can't let June end before I share some of my #pride recommendations. I say some because I'm sure I will forget absolutely amazing books, but I hope you'll forgive me. Let's go! Be Gay, Do Crimes!

It's that time, everyqueer! Itch bundles! Books on sale! Books for free! That's right, it's #PrideBookFair 's last week and time to fill your readers. My debut novel, first book in the Hollow-Boned trilogy, is free this week. Find it, & many others, here: pridebookfair.carrd.co#promos #PrideMonth

It's my birthday weekend! I'm doing a special sale over on Itch until the end of the month. The Infernal Contracts is my first completed series and you can grab all of them for $4.99! itch.io/s/154333/bir... 💙📚

My fave queer character would have to be Clementine aka Clem aka Lemon from @dnbryn.bsky.social How to Sell Your Blood and Fall in Love. He is just too relatable for me. I love him, your honor. #PrideBookFair

Your favourite writers can barely afford to eat.

Pride Month promo! Get a discounted sampler of my work in a 3-book bundle including a gay action/adventure fantasy novel, a queer fantasy short story collection, and a CYOA horror for 9.99, or get my latest horror romance novella on its own 🖤 ✨ ardenpowell.itch.io ✨ itch.io/s/146541/ard...

Catch Mercer and Rahil's romance now! This is the fourth novel in a series of loosely-connected standalone mm lightly paranormal romances with soft vampires. Find out more: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Happy #PrideMonth Bookwyrms! 🌈📚🐉 We’ve missed you so much! It’s high time we cosied up with a good (gay) book again, so here’s the schedule for our #Queer #BookClubPodcast over the next few months if you’d like to come and read with us! 🧵 [1/8]

Calling all trans* authors! My colleagues and I have a form up and running to which you can submit your books for possible purchase by our home institution library. 🌈📚 Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... *including agender, nonbinary, twospirit, and otherwise gender nonconforming authors!

It's ✨Cover Reveal Day✨ for PAINTED FLOCK, my latest fantasy novel!! Look at my gorgeous cover from @layahimalaya.bsky.social 💙 I'm so in love with everything about it, from the peoplez to the birds to the colours. And the wraparound has kitties!! More details / links / info below ~ 🌈📚 🌈🚀💫

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This was so fun to help in the process of and it turned out better than I could have imagined!!

Strap in for grief, hope, love, and the realities of living in a world where your best intentions don’t always have the best outcomes. Also some hilariously bad flirting 😉 www.amazon.com/dp/B0F7M16QG3

Pst, it's now live there a day early, so if you pre-ordered through itch go grab your book!

If you're trying to avoid using amazon (and give the author a higher percentage of your money in the process), you really want to grab your ebook of Flaunt Your Chains while it's still available on itch.io! ✨ dnbryn.itch.io/how-to-flaun...

Keeping it simple, but PAINTED FLOCK's cover reveal is coming soon! Aro fantasy novel - a scientist tries to undo the harm caused & live up to ols little brother's love Enjoy this peek at it, and if you want to help with the reveal and host it, you can sign up here! forms.gle/sjxaE6aWeUgf... 🌈📚♠️

Thank you so much for reading!! 💕

🥰Awww shucks.

Would you like an early review copy of Flaunt Your Chains? 👀 I have a limited number of ebook review copies up for grabs! You can also pre-order the ebook now on Itch.io and Amazon ;) (Check thread for more info.) Signup link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I finally had the spoons to setup my itch store! I set my short stories as Pay What You Want for now, might change it later. So don't wait to download your copy :) narratess.itch.io