Conflux is this weekend! Here's where to find me:

my toddler has worked out how to lull me into a false sense of security by demanding snuggles and then gently, one-handedly remove my fitbit. I expect her to star in her own leverage spin-off by age 5.

Swords, con artists & arranged marriages. SWORDCROSSED by @freyamarske.bsky.social is out in paperback! It’s a super fun, fast-paced romantacy, perfect for fans of low-conflict, queer & cozy fantasy romance, secrets, swords & smut. Sound like fun? Grab a copy here: proud-geek.co.uk/product-page...

On the latest episode of #MindTheTagsPod, Vee and Emily interview romance and fantasy author @freyamarske.bsky.social to chat about her fanfic writing experience and her original works. Check out our interview with Freya below! mindthetagsofficial.podbean.com/e/interview-...

My first novella CINDER HOUSE is nearly here! She's been quietly racking up accolades, including an amazing THREE starred reviews ⭐️⭐️⭐️

"There were fifteen stairs; she struck her head on the seventh." We're sharing a delicious (and dark) excerpt from @freyamarske.bsky.social's upcoming sapphic Cinderella novella Cinder House! Things are looking awfully Gothic in here. reactormag.com/excerpts-cin...

Coming in October 2025: CINDER HOUSE, a queer Gothic retelling of Cinderella in which our titular character is a very frustrated ghost! 🔥 Fire, skeletons, fairies, intense epistolary friendships, and lots of feelings about ballet. Preorder US - bit.ly/CH-buyUS Preorder UK - bit.ly/CH-buyUK

👻🔥🏳️‍🌈 (honestly, Cinder Hous is the easiest of all my books thus far to capture in emoji form)

It’s funny because promoting and marketing a book in any way, shape, or form is actually NOT the author’s job. At all. It is unpaid labor we’ve been forced to do for so long the expectation has mutated like a virus into “okay now you also have to be a TikTok sensation to do this as a job.”

In my latest review for @locusmag.bsky.social, I discuss @freyamarske.bsky.social's upcoming gorgeously poignant novella CINDER HOUSE--a haunted house story, a ghost story and a queer Cinderella retelling all at once!

1) very cool anthology idea 2) anyone who attended my (australian) uni will be able to peer at certain details in my upcoming magical medical school novel like 🤔 HMM, SEEMS FAMILIAR 🤔

I took August as a month of deliberately Not Writing, not editing, nothing; and after four weeks of delicious rest my brain has clicked into gear and is now trying to outline my next four books all at once. every single one is a different genre 🤷‍♀️

five more days of my official ""rest"" month before I have to start writing again, and the universe has delivered unto me an ARC of the new @catswrites.bsky.social book 😭 BLISS

I wasn't sure how I would get on with Tom Clancy novels (first on the list for my survey of spy fiction) but so far it's like sitting next to someone at a party who really really REALLY wants to tell you all about his special interest, which is nuclear submarines. great fun. keep talking tommy.

This review cuts perfectly and generously to the heart of Cinder House; everything a writer could ask for!

Welp, time to blowup my notifs! Thesis: Worldcon COULD be good, but we may have to drag it there kicking and screaming.

hauntings! fairies! fire! ballet! the existential angst of being a horny bisexual ghost! 100% REAL HUMAN CREATIVITY, FUCK YOU GEN-AI freyamarske.com/books/cinder...

SWORD CROSSED by @freyamarske.bsky.social I was absolutely giddy the whole way through.

trying to plan out my writing for the rest of 2026 and I feel like I'm sitting in front of a hole trying to coax my most 'commercial' idea to fully emerge, like it's a reclusive badger. setting out little treats. making quiet tutting sounds.

Little doodle of the ladies from The Restless Truth by @freyamarske.bsky.social #myart

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

greatest thing about being an author is getting to read your most anticipated books so early. the next @freyamarske.bsky.social is sooooo extremely delicious I want to curl up inside it like a dormouse

The Bendigenocide Festival. It seems Australian arts and cultural institutions haven’t had their fill yet of humiliating themselves, trashing their reputation, and harming their relationships with staff, authors, and audiences all to satisfy Zionists who are mass murdering kids every day.

MACEY BOOK!! 🔥 Do you like INTRIGUE and CON ARTISTS and FUCKED UP NECROMANCY and SHIT-TALKING HENRY THE EIGHTH? This is the book for you. It's so chewy and queer and lush and fun.

Cinder House on a most anticipated list! 🔥 Ella would be THRILLED at the profusion of lady knights she's keeping company with here. And by thrilled I mean doing her utmost to hit on all of them. theportalist.com/most-anticip...

starting to recognise a direct relationship between how little time I get to sit down on a saturday & how much I then spend on treats at the farmers market on sunday morning

😍😍😍

a bitter, tenacious and lovely piece of writing which also recommends some incredible queer books! (yes, including mine)

just DNFed a book on page 3, I'm getting better at this 💪

Latest book read - A Marvellous Light by @freyamarske.bsky.social Beautiful prose, spent the entire time jealous of her writing. Great chemistry between the characters, fun spice, and a creative magic system.

I told an EGREGIOUS LIE in this episode: I actually own three copies of Howl's Moving Castle (to read, to lend, fancy Folio Society edition)

Half way through and I need to retire to my fainting couch. If you haven’t read this series (the last binding by @freyamarske.bsky.social ) you absolutely need to. The first book is A Marvellous Light and it’s Edwardian romantasy. This one is the best so far but after a natural build.

sent a very angry email about mandatory GenAI training to one of my two dayjobs, universe has rewarded me with a full rainbow visible from the office window.

WCK can use your donations. They are on the ground in Gaza, doing what they can in the face of a staggering and ongoing crime against humanity.

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

This terrible genocide will be a stain on Netanyahu's Israel and its enablers, the complicit & desultory world leaders, for generations. It's truly wicked. Deliberately starving to death thousands of families & the people who can tell us it's happening, to eradicate them.

I only have ONE SCENE left to revise in this cursèd novel that I have been working on since - oh god - February 2023. and then it's all done bar line edits and copy edits, ie. the fun parts. The Cursèd Novel (title needs work): coming to you in 2026!

sharing the brand new novel with early readers is going well 👌

I realise that reading vast amounts of fiction, and buying about three times more than even I can read, is neither a substitute for therapy nor a solution to everything out there. However, in my defence, just fucking *look* at everything out there.

recently I've been stuck in a morass of guiltily half-reading five things at once in the spare minutes at the end of the day, but I have to tell you: I have the new @everinamaxwell.bsky.social book and it's taking ALL I HAVE not to abandon my worldly duties until I'm finished. it's SO good.

Whether it’s taking you somewhere escapist or using genre to dig its teeth into gnarly realities, it’s more important than ever to actively support queer fiction, so take a look at my list of scifi, fantasy, and horror and see what calls to you! theafictionado.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/f...

#Booksky #Pride Day 25: Swordcrossed by @freyamarske.bsky.social is a decadent delight: deception, duels, and mercantile sabotage in a queernorm society, with a climax that had me cackling. Marske, as always, delivers a lovely central relationship worth cheering over. I adored my time with it.

i am a horribly picky and judgemental reader, it's not enough if the characters are gay the book also has to be good, im sorry

oh. no. no, thank you.

sorry I didn't get enough of my edits done today but I can't currently breathe through my nose. I tried to focus on this scene and instead was too busy NOT BEING ABLE TO BREATHE THROUGH MY NOSE. childcare viruses, one day I will be revenged upon you.

Freedom in the genocide

[baby shark tune] ed-it NOTES do do do do do do

The two hardest things in writing are starting and finishing. So many people want to, but so few start. Then of all the people who start, so few finish. Start the thing, then finish the thing. Everything else comes after. Finished can be made good, but it must be finished first.

I'm so excited to share this: a 5th Saturday bonus! @celialake.bsky.social and @freyamarske.bsky.social in conversation with each other, discussing Edwardian England as a setting for their magical societies... Read now: www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/celia-lake-and-freya-marske

I think @emilytesh.net and @singlecrow.bsky.social are both utter geniuses and am humbled to get to read their stuff and call them friends. Em's works are getting the recognition they deserve; Iona's are not, as yet, but ONE DAY THEY WILL, even if I have to punch the universe in the teeth myself.