Any guesses? 🔥 ARCs for Arrow of Fortune are coming soon. Apply for my Street Team now to get in on the fun. forms.gle/86HLXFgpnTeL...

It's here! We have cover art for the 1898 Edition of Arrow of Fortune! Gold and black foil design on purple cloth by Averil. And I love that we're featuring Neil and Constance on this one. Follow the campaign at jacquelynbenson.com/1898

your regular friendly reminder that algorithms are the devil

It's our monthly party day on the Lamplighters gaslamp fantasy Discord! Join in by subscribing to the Patreon of any of the author-hosts, including me: patreon.com/stephanieburgis Other awesome hosts include @booksbyintisar.bsky.social , @oliviaatwater.com , @jbensonink.bsky.social , & more.

So ACOFAE podcast did an episode on Empire of Shadows and I cackled. A few favorite quotes. Find it here: beacons.ai/acofaepodcast

My lovely PA put this list together for me, and I was so delighted to see some friends and favs on there... but really it's like X-Men and Sherlock had a moody, spooky book baby. Series complete. Find it anywhere they have books.

Only 5 days from wide publication day, this week's Wednesday snippet comes from A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence! Preorder now for the special advance price of $2.99/£2.49: books2read.com/honeymoonGrave #romancelandia

Meet the cast of Arrow of Fortune! Who's your favorite? Coming at you Nov 18: 🌿 legendary demon haunted forest 🐅 surprise tigers 🧪 experiments in kissing 🏹 epic Indian history 👖 everybody's in trousers ✊ giving imperialists hell 🪩 Bollywood dance moves ⚗️ even more practical chemistry

... But did he really? 😂🧪🧨🔥 Pick it up now if you like the sound of: 🔥 The Mummy but with more kissing 🌀 Mesoamerican history ✊ fighting the patriarchy 🪲 danger bugs 🌊 oops there's a waterfall ✨ all the witty banter 👕 shirts? Who needs 'em? Book Three coming in November!

Want to curl up with the Raiders of the Arcana on a frosty fall morning? US folks can grab signed copies of Empire of Shadows and Tomb of the Sun King from jacquelynbenson.com ...with Arrow of Fortune coming soon!

The first step in conquering your brain squirrels is admitting that you have brain squirrels.

At laaaaaast! Paperback, hardcover, and ebooks of Raiders Book 3 should be available for preorder now everywhere books are sold! (With some possible stragglers outside the US.) Get links at books2read.com/raidersarcana3 Coming November 18, or get it early through my Renegade Scholars Club.

Dying to get your hands on Arrow of Fortune? My Renegade Scholars subscribers on Patreon get the ebook free a month early. Join the club at patreon.com/jacquelynben....

Here for any of these tropes? Just still gushing over the London Charismatics series glow-up. These new covers are killing me. 😍

Today we're excited to host a cover re-reveal with these gorgeous new covers for The London Charismatics series by @jbensonink.bsky.social! These are a four-book spooky, surreal fantasy series starting with The Fire in the Glass! 🔥 www.readindiefantasy.com/cover-re-rev...

Love the idea of having these gorgeous vintage-inspired special edition hardcovers on your shelf? Follow the campaign for Book 3 now at jacquelynbenson.com/1898. (And yes, you'll be able to catch up on the whole series.)

My first book babies just got a glow-up! What do you think of these new covers? Check it out if you like the sound of a found family of occult X-Men running around WWI-era London. Think weird birds, strange magic, dark conspiracies, and the most exquisite slow burn romance.

Attention Audible Plus listeners: Amazon is auto-adding all AI-generated audiobooks made via their platform to the Audible Plus catalog. Prepare for your listening options to be flooded with AI-voiced crap. Oh—and they're planning to steal revenue from other authors to subsidize it.

When the hero can sense your heart with his touch. 🔥😭❤️ The London Charismatics is my slow burn Edwardian X-Men historical fantasy epic. It's getting gorgeous new covers next month - and did I mention the series is complete?

Tomb of the Sun King: The 1898 Edition will be shipping out to backers shortly, months ahead of schedule! Did you miss out on these gorgeous vintage-inspired special editions? We're doing a campaign for Book 3—and yes, you'll be able to catch up. Follow it at jacquelynbenson.com/1898

The new covers for the London Charismatics are going live next month! I can't wait to share these beauties with you. The London Charismatics is my spooky Edwardian X-Men meets Sherlock historical fantasy series stuffed with strange magic, dark conspiracies, slow burn romance, and weird birds.

Like the sound of spooky Edwardian X-Men unraveling dark conspiracies and weird murders plus the most achingly delicious slow burn forbidden romance? (Think Rogue-Gambit meets Jane Eyre.) My London Charismatics series is getting a glow-up. Stay tuned for the reveal!

By popular demand... let's just say we more or less blow the "closed door" off its damned hinges. Because who says your tomb-raiding historical adventure can't also be spice as hell? Find it here. Mature readers only. www.patreon.com/posts/mature...

Lil peek at what y'all are in for with Arrow of Fortune.

But please listen to the audio. @nicholasatwater.com's narration is out of this world.

I dunno about being a teenager in my twenties but otherwise this feels pretty accurate.

Who's here for it? 🐍💀🔥🌴🧨 Dive in if you like the sound of: • The Mummy but with more kissing • it's totally not a treasure map • fighting the patriarchy • we're not wasting this rum • oops there's a waterfall • only one inescapable waterlogged center cenote

Please call your senators right now and urge them to support @sanders.senate.gov 's efforts to block arms sales to Israel. ✊🍉

Did you know I have a completed spooky Edwardian fantasy series with weird mysticism, magic birds, martial arts, and slow burn romance & that it takes place in the same world as my Raiders of the Arcana? The London Charismatics is getting a glow up. Sneak peek at www.patreon.com/JacquelynBen...

Every single elected official in the US should make the same statement, and none of us should give any of them a dime or a vote until they do.

Wanna take a peek inside the 1898 Edition of Tomb of the Sun King? Of course you do. Late backer store closing soon - snag your copy here: tomb-of-the-sun-king-the-1898-edition.pledgebox.com/preorder

Did you know that Empire of Shadows has a prequel novella? And you can grаb it for frеe when you sign up at jacquelynbenson.com/subscribe-to-the-newsletter. Comes with even more danger gnome. #jacquelynbenson #empireofshadows #raidersofthearcana

Does a special edition adventure romance novel with all the vintage book vibes make your fingers itchy? The late backer store for my 1898 editions is closing soon. Bust over to tomb-of-the-sun-king-the-1898-edition.pledgebox.com/preorder to snag this beauty before it's gone.

Were you here for all the angsty Rogue-Gambit forbidden romance vibes? Me toooooo. Now transport them to Edwardian London and give everybody a bunch of weird spooky murders to solve. The London Charismatics novels are the occult gothic cousins of my Raiders of the Arcana series, and the books are

So much thanks to the Freedom to Read coalition here in NH who helped make this veto happen.

Gerrymandering has been eroding our democracy for a long time. It's about to get a lot worse. This administration has been operating as though it will never have to be held accountable at the ballot box, and this is why. There's an end game here, and it's not pretty.

For just 5 more days, you can snap up the audiobooks of my frothy Regency fantasy rom-com Claws & Contrivances AND my cozy-spooky fantasy rom-com Good Neighbors for just $5 apiece as part of the Fantasy Audiobooks sale! Find them all here: books.bookfunnel.com/buydirectaud... #romancelandia

I've teamed up with a set of great fantasy writers to entice you into the wonderful world of buying audio direct from the author! You get your audiobooks for less and more of your $$ goes to creators and not Venice weddings. Hit it up at books.bookfunnel.com/buydirectaud...

Big news coming soon about my London Charismatics series! Want a sneak preview? Check it out on my Renegade Scholars Club on Patreon. I like to think of this series as the angsty Gothic cousins to my Raiders of the Arcana books. Think spooky Edwardian X-Men meets Sherlock Holmes in pre-WWI England

This is the sort of bullshit we'll be seeing in NH if Ayotte signs HB 324. demand a veto now.

Empire of Shadows is on sale for $1.49 today for the Zon's Prime Day. But I know some of y'all are boycοtting the Big River for the month, so I decided to offer to discοuոt on my wẹb stοre as well. Grab it now through July 9 at JacquelynBenson.com/Empire-of-Shadows.

What are you most excited to find in Arrow of Fortune? I'm deep in edits on the manuscript and can't wait to share this story with you all. Raiders #3 comes November 18! Get it at jacquelynbenson.com/arrow-of-fortune. #arrowoffortune #raidersofthearcana #jacquelynbenson

Get your copies of my Raiders of the Arcana books hand-signed *and* help support the author when you bυy direct from jacquelynbenson.com. And right now, it's the only place you can preorder physical copies of Arrow of Fortune. (Regular retailer preorders are coming in September.)

Did you know that I have other book babies? My London Charismatics books are the WWI-era gothic angsty second cousins to the Raiders of the Arcana—and I have some fun news about them coming soon. Want a sneak preview? Pop on over to my Renegade Scholars Club on P@treon & check it out.

Definitely not a recipe for trouble here. These two kill me. Like your artifact-chasing adventure stories with a generous dose of slow burn, witty banter romance? Empire of Shadows just might be your catnip. #jacquelynbenson #empireofshadows #raidersofthearcana

New bonus scene now live! See what sort of trouble Ellie and Constance get into on a trip to Cairo's famous book market. Find it now at my Renegade Scholars Club: patreon.com/jacquelynben...

I'll be joining this event at the NH Statehouse on Thursday morning to help stop book banning in the Granite State. Bring a banned book and read with me!

We've got bad news for you, buddy... 😂💀🐍 So excited for you all to see what I'm subjecting poor Neil to in Arrow of Fortune. But what else can one expect when one is on a swashbuckling historical fantasy adventure?

“There’s countless other people that we don’t know. We don’t know their names, we don’t know how many have been detained, and they’re just lost in this system, which seems designed to make them disappear.” This is full-on concentration camp bullshit. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...