QUEEN 👑 SHIT 👑 god I wish I could see this live. I mean I am more or less resigned to never ever seeing any international skating competition in person because [gestures in australian] but SOMETIMES, THE YEARNING--

🚨 NEW EV BOOK 🚨 Sapphic Winter Soldier! But wizards!! Another accurate way to describe it is "the best thing I read last year, hands down"; this book is SO BLOODY GOOD.

Whipped through CINDER HOUSE by @freyamarske.bsky.social this morning, then immediately reread the last 25% or so because I was so delighted with it. Loved the spin on traditional elements of the Cinderella story, clever stuff there. Really loved the ballet scenes.

I had noble intentions to never buy noisy electronic toys, but I hadn't anticipated the UTTER JOY on my toddler's face when given her very own remote control, which plays MUSIC when the buttons are pressed instead of leading to mummy swooping in with "you turned off the AIR CONDITIONING, darling"

broke my wrist skating exactly 3 weeks ago, and today I snuck back onto the ice against doctor's orders (it's me, I'm the doctor) and my mood improved INSTANTLY

Here it is! The magical medical school book I've been talking about for years! 🫀✨💀📙 BODIES OF MAGIC will be taking your pulse & injecting itself into your veins in September next year.

HELLO I made a 2025 best-of list that only features books that came out in October through December. enjoy!

feels like a good time to remind the universe at large that I have two high heat romance novels about queer ice skaters ready to go WHENEVER

haven't even watched the show yet and I am still nodding along furiously like YES YES ALL OF THIS YES

Here it is! The magical medical school book I've been talking about for years! 🫀✨💀📙 BODIES OF MAGIC will be taking your pulse & injecting itself into your veins in September next year.

I am once again asking people to stop talking as if "queer romance" and "m/f romance" are mutually exclusive categories.

Welcome to THE BEST BOOKS OF 2025: REVIEWER'S CHOICE!! Reactor's book reviewers have come together to recommend their favorite 2025 reads. How many have you picked up?

A nice simple List of One this year! My first ever novella eligibility, which I'm excited about.

Get ready for something magical! Our next Opus collection is The Last Binding Trilogy by @freyamarske.bsky.social in collaboration with Tor! Check this post for more info + sale details 💜✨ 🗓️ Early Access (subscribers): January 8th, 5pm EST 🗓️ General Sale: January 9th, 5pm EST

A nice simple List of One this year! My first ever novella eligibility, which I'm excited about.

Is it summer here? Yes. Am I making this warm cocktail anyway at the first opportunity? OF COURSE 😍

I made a real effort in soon-to-be-announced 2026 book to distinguish my five narrators by the freedom and generosity with which they strewed the fucks, but none of them refrained entirely. everyone gets a few fucks. as a treat.

last night I woke up & got annoyed because I'd dreamed a great high-concept idea for a scifi book, the kind you can describe in one sentence and everyone goes "oooh". and I couldn't remember it. I choose to believe dream-me DID in fact have a good idea and not just "what if a guy...... in space".

LINE EDITS. DONE. celebrated by making a sazarac, and no doubt I will go absolutely buck wild on the little treats at the farmer's market tomorrow. now to turn to my self-imposed deadline of getting my next novella finished by the end of the year. yes I do still have a broken wrist. shh.

it's here it's QUEER it's the 2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!! 🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈

[painful jazz hands] guess who broke her wriiiiiiist! at skating. I don't blame skating*. I blame my beloved yet cursèd 2026 novel, which saw I was nearly done with line edits and was like: this time, another toddler sleep regression** is INSUFFICIENT!!

CINDER HOUSE by @freyamarske.bsky.social - bi MC - Cinderella, but our eponymous heroine is a ghost - where the stroke of midnight forces her back to the staircase where she died - and her bargain is to be alive again - a retelling that tackles chronic illness, tinged with grief

the vast majority of authors are not rich y’all, we often work multiple jobs or rely on other people’s incomes because this industry pays us shit. i have three different contracts with three different big five publishers and i don’t make anything NEAR a living wage. but i do work seven days a week!🫠

sorry @ the online pole dance supplies shop now sending me hopeful marketing emails about platform heels and bodysuits: I need those soft knee pads to learn sliding moves at the ice rink. I am not your target customer.

This essay about Cinder House is definitely the most vulnerable, personal thing I've ever written; it took me over a year to get to the point where I wanted to tell this particular story. Thanks to @booktrib.bsky.social for giving it a home! 🏠🔥 booktrib.com/2025/11/18/h...

This essay about Cinder House is definitely the most vulnerable, personal thing I've ever written; it took me over a year to get to the point where I wanted to tell this particular story. Thanks to @booktrib.bsky.social for giving it a home! 🏠🔥 booktrib.com/2025/11/18/h...

New blog post! Check out my review of CINDER HOUSE, a spooky and sweet Cinderella retelling by @freyamarske.bsky.social: www.thegothiclibrary.com/review-of-ci... 💙📚

Alan and Jack from @freyamarske.bsky.social's the last binding trilogy. I love their whole dynamic.🥰 (sorry for the repost I found a mistake 😭) #thelastbindingtrilogy #apowerunbound

my toddler clearly views my 2026 novel as her competition, as she has cunningly arranged to have a sleep regression during every single crunch deadline for it (drafting, revision, line edits) thus far.

Cinder House by @freyamarske.bsky.social was fantastic; a precise, innovative and perfect for a novella. Just soooo juicy I immediately went back to some part of the audiobook. And the narrator!! Anna Burnett did a fantastic job!!

I read the new Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social #book "Cinder House" last night. Part Cinderella retelling, part ghost story, part chronic illness analogue. Full of lush language and fraught emotion. Easily queer. Very satisfying read.

Just finished Cinder House by @freyamarske.bsky.social and I'm blown away by the writing - it is rich with a lush, almost desperate and sensual yearning. Incredible prose that resonated all the way to my floorboards!

irrational annoyance of the day: browned some butter for baking and got overvigilant about burning so didn't let it brown enough 😡

today in spooky, chilling news: my daughter is somehow WALKING who ALLOWED THIS she is UN BÉBÉ 😱

First up in the recovery read-a-thon, Cinderhouse by the amazing @freyamarske.bsky.social A delightful novella with a fantastic twist on a classic story. I'd say I wish it was longer, but it's perfect just the way it is. #freyamarsk #cinderella #cinderhouse

If you have followed me for more than 0.04 seconds then I have tried to convince you to read KJ's books, but just in case you're new: this is a great deal on the first book in one of her absolute best series. The level of craft!! We can only read, learn, and aspire. (And go PHWAR, HOT 🥵.)

Finally got my hands on CINDER HOUSE by my dear and obscenely talented friend @freyamarske.bsky.social and predictably gobbled it up all too quickly. The romance is complicated & Spoilers, but if you and I see eye-to-eye on matters of shipping, I think you’ll be VERY pleased 😘

Just finished @freyamarske.bsky.social ‘s Cinder House and I loved it but I’ll be over here in my feels for a while 😭❤️ A very good October read for me because ghosts but not horror, it’s an especially creative Cinderella retelling that I will certainly be reading again in the future. 💙📚🪐

Cinder House in the New York Times!! with ART 🔥😍😍🔥 & some other spooky romances, too; Ladies in Hating is fantastic and I will be snapping up the other two directly

got some good book news (of the can-only-vaguepost-as-yet sort) yesterday and am going to use it as an excuse to buy things ALL WEEK. another little pastry treat? why not. expensive gin advent calendar? YES 🍸

#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 21: Cinder House by @freyamarske.bsky.social is an enticingly gothic take on a classic fairy tale that manages to feel like a full meal in under 150 pages. Lovely prose, careful characterization, and unconventional romance await (along with haunting). Another winner.

how the everloving fuck is it late october, I don't feel like I have taken a breath since JUNE 🫠

what ho!! MY LITTLE SPOOKY BOOK IS A BESTSELLER 👻🥳

The ending of @freyamarske.bsky.social’s Cinder House has turned me absolutely feral, what a fantastic spin on a familiar story.

What a wonderful and insightful review! (And yes, that yellow wallpaper...)

@freyamarske.bsky.social's Cinder House is a perfect jewel of a novella and y'all need to read it. 💖

This is out and it’s an absolute DELIGHT. I snagged a copy of the audio and the narration is truly chef’s kiss. Freya never misses!

Loved @freyamarske.bsky.social 's new novel, Cinder House. It's a beautifully written and unique retelling of Cinderella, fit for October. Six stars out of five.

Happy belated bookday to @freyamarske.bsky.social’s CINDER HOUSE, which asks “what if Cinderella were a GHOST” and then proves that that is (literally) a burning question. A perfect book for a rainy afternoon; full of heart, yearning, and love for these wonderful and limited things called bodies.