an excellent endorsement of BODIES OF MAGIC right here 💀✨

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The first ⭐️ for Bodies of Magic, from Library Journal! The most personal and most ambitious book I've written, so it's a nerve-wracking joy to have it out there in the world.

I have just DNFd yet another debut novel that read like a first draft--often incoherently overwritten, inconsistent characters, agonising pacing. Great idea and obvious talent but in need of a brutal three-page dev letter they didn't get, so now the book will tank & the author will probably give up.

prestige tv adaptation of the entire Vorkosigan saga, thank you, next

I just received my PLR/ELR statement. PLR/ELR is a way that Australian writers can receive income from their books in libraries and schools. I remind writers to do your bloody paperwork so you can get paid and I remind readers if you borrow our books from libraries we still get paid.

I have been prostrate on my couch mildly expiring from bronchitis for three days, but life is about to get a WHOLE LOT BETTER (and more evil)

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Regeneration (Barker) Persuasion (Austen) Night Watch (Pratchett)

Cinder House by @freyamarske.bsky.social is sumptuous, inventive retelling of Cinderella that blew my mind at every turn. Went into it thinking it wasn't my usual cup of hot cocoa but I think I need to reevaluate that.

This is a fantastic observation and I want to join ALL the discussions in comments but dayjob is calling so I'll just say: the weirder and more specific a sex scene is the more that book lingers in my mind, every time.

Be great to see Worldcon over this side of the world *not* during a global pandemic which meant the in-person event didn't go ahead (which was what happened to Wellington in 2020). If you're in spec fic spaces, give Brisbane in 28 a follow; if you're a Worldcon site voter this year, vote Brisbane!

I'm in the middle of two ARCs which could not be more different (A Study in Sparkling by @jodimca.bsky.social and The Fall of Elvenesse by Kai Ashante Wilson) but both of them are absolutely sublime in their own way. I love genre fiction so much.

Absolutely thrilled to announce that Cinder House is a Hugo finalist! And in the best company I can imagine! Thanks so much to everyone who nominated it, and congrats to all the other finalists & categories.

Get my French up to fluent and my Italian up to mediocre. Learn acoustic guitar. Skate or do yoga every day. Read every single unread book in my house and buy more and read those too. Start writing poetry again and cheerfully burn all evidence of the learning process at the end of the year.

!!! if there is anything I know about Alex, it's their FELICITY WITH FOOTNOTES 👀

Brisbane in 28 congratulates all the Locus Awards Finalists, especially our Australasian creators! 🏆 locusmag.com/2026/04/2026... Horror Novel: The Crimson Road, A.G. Slatter (Angela Slatter) Novella: Cinder House, Freya Marske Artist: Kathleen Jennings and Shaun Tan Editor: Jonathan Strahan

Guess which novella just made it onto the 2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists??! locusmag.com/2026/04/2026...

A COMPROMISE WAS REACHED: I wrote 280 words and sulked about it. and now it's whisky time.

having a real bad case of the shoulder-devils over here; I've been sitting on more than one piece of Cool Secret Author News and the neurotic shoulder-angel is all KEEP WRITING SO THERE CAN BE MORE COOL NEWS ONE DAY!! and the devil's like, but what if we were in bed at 7pm with a glass of whisky

Dowloaded Cinder House by @freyamarske.bsky.social on borrowbox last night. Started reading, then finally had to force myself to put the phone down and go to sleep. Such a brilliant book. #Booksky 💙📚

One last boost before the Hugo nomination deadline! I'm extremely proud of this novella & would probably turn to ashes [joyful] if it made it onto the ballot!

I finished reading this about 30 seconds ago and I’m blubbering, it has just about all my favorite story ingredients in it & some *wonderful* characters for whom I would die & a deeply grounded world & *fantasy jacarandas* just as a charming cherry on top that feels tailor made for me!! so buy it!

I read an ARC of this for blurbing purposes and I will just say that it ENTIRELY lives up to that incredible cover 🔥🔥

this book is exquisite and it has my precious darling anxious high femme in it, she is a joy + a delight, it is truly unfair she lives in a word w/out gemstone fidget rings 😭 possibly Freya's messiest queers yet! murder! intrigue! sex mysteries! terrible phd advisors! daddy issues!! imperialism!!!

It's B&N preorder sale o'clock! Do consider BODIES OF MAGIC: perfect if you enjoy queer mess, murder mysteries, trauma flashbacks to finals week, or The Pitt's brand of competent, caring assholes having a horrible time. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bodies-of-...

there's something about the month of march. it's when you get asked to say yes to a lot of things, and in your head you're like "it's still the start of the year!" and "that's soooooo far away!" and I'm here to tell you that october-you is calling and she is SO MAD.

Searching for another fairytale retelling to be obsessed with? Discover Cinder House by @freyamarske.bsky.social, a Gothic reimagining of Cinderella!🔥

Edwin & Robin from The Last Binding series by @freyamarske.bsky.social ! #thelastbinding

unscheduled fannish post: I am 3/4 of the way through the latest season of bridgerton and I can't believe ao3 is down so I am unable to go and see if someone (fandom) has made my two faves (cressida and araminta) have messy nemesis sex and then fall in extremely bitchy love

Edwin Courcey and a guide light from @freyamarske.bsky.social ‘s wonderful The Last Binding trilogy 🖤 #amarvelouslight #edwincourcey

This little book won me my first Aurealis Award last night, for Best Fantasy Novella! 🥳

If you're in a position to vote on this, do the South Pacific a solid and vote for Brisbane. The last time Worldcon was scheduled down here it was 2020 in Wellington and it didn't happen in person. Will have been 18 years by 2028 since we got an accessible in-person con. Put the World in Worldcon.

So, still working on MORTAL FOLLIES, but ADHD brain does what it does, and I’ve now also read CINDER HOUSE by @freyamarske.bsky.social. What a delightful, fresh retelling of Cinderella. It beautifully incorporates the foundations of the story we love, while also reimagining the context. I loved it.

hello this is the official petition to bring back mass market paperbacks!! mmpbs are good actually and everyone should do them!! i think esp romantasy readers would really love that shit! and you can still spray those edges!!! bring back mass market paperbacks thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

social media ads are trying sooo hard to sell me on toddler dance lessons that are a 30 minute drive from my house. oh no you don't. I did that to MY parents with MY dance school and I have LEARNED from it. extremely local or bust.

OH DAMN I loved this?!? I have heard no end of good things abt @freyamarske.bsky.social and this was deliciously weird and original and gorgeously written 🔥 MOAR PLZ

Of all the easy things you can do to help the environment, conserve water for communities not corporations, not perpetuate scams, support the labor and rights of creators... *not* using generative AI is the fucking easiest. You absolutely deserve to be shamed for using it for image and text creation

olympic figure skating starts in FIVE MINUTES the toddler is ASLEEP I have a GLASS OF WINE let's GO ⛸️⛸️⛸️⛸️⛸️

oh my god PREMEE SPY NOVEL I am SO SEATED

Just finished @freyamarske.bsky.social 's wonderful novella Cinder House, a Cinderella horror romance (much like the original). Read if you miss Tanith Lee a whole bunch. #booksky #horror #romantasy

Cinder House is an Aurealis finalist! Huzzah! 🇦🇺🥳 (Now, who do I know who's going to Genrecon....?)

A reminder in time for the Hugo nomination deadline! I know 2025 was a BANGER year for novellas but I'm incredibly proud of this one, and would love to see it on the ballot 🔥👻

for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence hope that helps

currently at various stages of reading: nonfiction book on corporate espionage, margaret atwood's memoir, a literary horror novel, an ARC of a friend's deeply horny gay tennis romance, a laura kinsale romance, a poetry collection, a different romance ARC. this feels like a new record even for me.

so do we think the ice rink would mind if my 18mo and I just moved in for a week, or...

Oh my goodness, @freyamarske.bsky.social's Cinder House is SO GOOD.

BODIES OF MAGIC, out Sept 2026: Grey's Anatomy meets A Deadly Education, a mystery set during the final exam week of a magical medical school. (Or: five queer nerds solve a murder and have some feelings.) Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill. Preorder US: bit.ly/BoM-US Preorder UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK

COVER REVEAL: Call Me Traitor, my sapphic Winter Soldier-esque fantasy! Beyond delighted with this stunning @eliotbaum.bsky.social art with design by Jess Kiley. Preorders gratefully welcomed if it’s your thing! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...