You can win a copy of my sci-fi mystery novella by participating in today's challenge! Share an indie sci-fi book you loved and maybe you'll win another one that's definitely out of this world 💎🐋🏙️

It's A Month of Rain & Reads, and somehow it's not actually raining. To tide you over until the weather cooperates, we'll share an interview with Millie Abecassis (@millieabecassis.com ecassis.com), author of A Legacy of Blood and Bone. www.readindiefantasy.com/amorar-inter... #BookSky #AMoRaR

A Legacy of Blood and Bone by @millieabecassis.com "I absolutely devoured this book. It felt fresh and unique, giving me exactly what I was looking for to kick off fall." Read Avni's full review grimoireinkreviews.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/a...

This sounds SO AMAZING!

❄️ WELCOME TO SANCTUARY ❄️ ☀️ Horror fantasy 🌙 Fairytale retelling ☀️ Astral deities 🌙 Found family ☀️ Spooky & mysterious 🌙 Quick read (novella!) Forthcoming 3/10/2025 at Anuci Press, and NOW SEEKING ARC READERS! ➡️ forms.gle/BF3zDo97tsWa... #QuestPit #P #A #H #F #DF

Do you like free fancy art prints and bookmarks? Supporting indie bookstores? Historical fantasy and sapphic romance? You can get all of that via my collaboration with Beyond Text Bookstore, my fav local indie bookstore! Buy the ebook via Bookshop while supporting the bookstore and get freebies!

If we met in another life, would you still love me? 🖤star-crossed lovers ⏳shifting timelines 💀love beyond death 🗡️price of duty 🔥touch her and the world burns LOVE LETHAL, DEATH DIVINE is a dark fantasy love story inspired by Slavic folklore. Available for preorder (bio). #QuestPit #P #A #DF #RF

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #M

THE AUGUSTINE AFFAIR Strap in for a globetrotting, high-octane spy thriller/gay romance. Fashion mogul (and undercover MI6 agent) Felix finds himself teamed up with assassin Kai to unravel a conspiracy at the heart of the fashion world. Think Mr. & Mrs. Smith, but gay #A #r #t #LGBTQ #questpit #q

❄️ WELCOME TO SANCTUARY ❄️ ☀️ Horror fantasy 🌙 Fairytale retelling ☀️ Astral deities 🌙 Found family ☀️ Spooky & mysterious 🌙 Quick read (novella!) Forthcoming 3/10/2025 at Anuci Press, and NOW SEEKING ARC READERS! ➡️ forms.gle/BF3zDo97tsWa... #QuestPit #P #A #H #F #DF

BLOOD IS LIFE. BONES ARE STRENGTH. FLESH IS CONTROL. SKIN IS DEATH. 🌹 Historical fantasy 🇫🇷 Belle Époque 🔥 Slow-burn sapphic romance 🩸 Body-based magic system 🗡️ Family feuds 🗝️ Gothic vibes Now available! A spellbinding debut brimming with intrigue and dangerous magic. #QuestPit #P #A #F #HF #R

ARC readers wanted! Do you like horror? Fairytale retellings? Found families? Spooky stories filled with dread and mystery? Join my ARC team! Fill out the form at the link below ⬇️ forms.gle/BF3zDo97tsWa... #BookSky #Horror #Fantasy #ARCReaders #Reviewers

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A recent release that is part of a series and is available in paperback and ebook

Recent release, available in ebook:

Read and preorder some indie fantasy this autumn. Book blurbs below 👇

Libraries are amazing! Request my debut novel A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE at your local library and read it for free while supporting both your library and the author! (yes, we get paid) #Fantasy #BookSky #Library

Libraries are amazing! Request my debut novel A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE at your local library and read it for free while supporting both your library and the author! (yes, we get paid) #Fantasy #BookSky #Library

It's still October! Why not try a queer horror comedy that doesn't skimp on any of the three? A cryptid-hunting skeptic follows a (fake?) video of his presumed-dead mom to a former conversion camp on an isolated island, all while fleeing the "straight" co-host he drunkenly made out with. ⬇️

#SFFChat Q4: "In the center was a pool of dark water. Malcolm stared at it, half-expecting a sea monster to come out of it to devour him. But to his surprise, the creature that emerged from the water was everything but a monster." Narrator: it was, actually, a monster, but 🤫 because spoilers.

#SFFChat Q3: My novella Daughters of the Blue Moon features lycanthropes 🐺; my novelette The Hunger of Paradise features a folklore creature from Brittany, France 🇫🇷; and The Color of Time features a giant snake from a foreign planet 🐍

#SFFChat Q2: I love stories where monsters are incomprehensible, deeply inhuman, and viciously dangerous. Like, survival horror level, with a good dose of dread and mystery.

#SFFChat Q1: Whatever the writer and the reader want it to be. I don't think a monster needs to have a role or that one role is better than another. It can be a metaphor for something or really just a good old monstrous adversary here to scare us!

#SFFChat Hey I'm Millie, and as always I'm late to the party because I'm on the West Coast. I'm originally from France and write SFFH (in English!) across many subgenres. Something spooky? My house is just in front of a cemetery 💀⚰️⚱️🪦

Announcing our fourth acquisition for 2026! www.shirakipress.com/new-acquisit...

New from @shirakipress.com:

IT'S MY BOOK BIRTHDAY! The Secret Court is now live on Wattpad. www.wattpad.com/story/390156... #newrelease #newbook #queerromance #regency #wattpad

Don't miss out! ⬇️

Hey BlueSky! On Friday, November 14th, my friend Béline and I will be chatting with a bunch of fantastic Bay Area authors at Fireside Books in Redwood City! RSVP here: luma.com/pk9do4vh

Here's the second (and very generous) review of THE KING MUST DIE, which hits shelves in less than two weeks! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... Interested? You can preorder it here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Writers, what is most often the very first whiff of a story idea you get? A vibe? Characters? A central conflict? I want to see something.

Thanks again for hosting @blackbirb.bsky.social (I need to join more often!) Today I'm shouting about my novel A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE that just released on October 21st -- the perfect cozy-but-spooky read for Halloween! Dangerous magic, sapphic romance, and family drama in Belle Époque France!

#LateNightWrite Q3 It's a hard but funny one! Aubeline would likely dress as a mad scientist/doctor about to dissect an innocent victim because she's actually a physician 😆

#LateNightWrite Q2 Not really, but you don't need to wait until it's Halloween to get spooky 😏🎃

#LateNightWrite Q1 Yes, I write horror! Upcoming horror stories: - The Hunger of Paradise, a folk horror novelette coming soon as part of an anthology by Fractured Mirror Publishing - The Seventh Sister, a fantasy horror novella coming March 2025 at Anuci Press (@tonyanuci.bsky.social)

A bit late but here I am! #LateNightWrite I'm Millie, a French-American writer of SFFH. My current WIP is a sci-fi novella -- working title: NIGHTBLOOM. I recently finished the first draft and will begin self-edits soon 😊

Slow-burn sapphic romance + unhinged dudes with unhinged plans = A Legacy of Blood and Bone, now available everywhere ebooks are sold, and soon in audiobook! #Fantasy #Booksky

When you sob over a review... Thank you, Saffron Asteria. I can’t even begin to express what your words mean to me.

My historical fantasy is now available everywhere ebooks are sold! If you like sapphic yearning, original magic systems, very French books, and LOTS of family drama, this is for you ❤️ (For audiobook enthusiasts, the audiobook is coming soon and available for preorders/presaves!) #Fantasy #BookSky

#WeeknightWrite Q4 Thankfully I'm done with my first draft already, but we shall see when I self-edit. Maybe I'll find a plot hole or realize a plot point needs to be changed! It happens sometimes.

#WeeknightWrite Q3 I used a structured outline that was sort of a long synopsis, focusing on the key events of the story but not going into the details of how things happened. I like this method because it ensures my structure is sound but also allows me for exploration when I draft.

#WeeknightWriters Q2 My first draft that I completed early this fall (started late summer and finished 10 days ago!) is a sci-fi novella featuring a protagonist who's a scientist in her fifties, a flower blooming at night whose pollen kills people in their sleep, and alien politics!

#WeeknightWriters Q1 I think the closest to my process is neutral plotter, though my outlines can sometimes take several pages. One time I ever did an Excel sheet 😂 (never again).

Hey 👋 a bit late but still made it! I'm Millie, I write adult SFF, and live in California. My current WIP is a sci-fi novella titled NIGHTBLOOM. I finished drafting it a couple of weeks ago and shall self-edit it soon! I'm a recovered planster turned plotter 🫣 #WeeknightWriters

Niche POV: me talking to my TBR pile on the eve before the Book of Dust Part 3 - ‘The Rose Field’ arrives in the post tomorrow 😆

Thanks @alexfayle.bsky.social for such a great and insightful review of my debut novel! #Fantasy #Booksky

Ooooh, Belle Époque France with blood magic and a slow-burn countess/governess romance!

Heyo! On Tuesday, 11/4 join me and *the* @hanalee.bsky.social at Books Inc. for THE KING MUST DIE’s book launch!

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