Luiza wants adventures, Amara just wants her safe home. 🔮 Queer latina Witches 🪐 Space travel 💚 Queerplatonic relationship ✨ Magic! Cover by Ren Nolasco 🌈📚 💙📚 📢📚 maybarros.com.br/en/journey-h...

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#AwesomeCharacters If Galen had time to kill, he’d definitely keep them talking to waste their time so they couldn’t scam anyone else. Sasha would end up on a “no-call” list because he end up yelling at them.

my new thumbnail for Love the Guard, Be the King ;) If you're looking for a queer #medievalRomance #visualnovel with #friendstolovers #knights this might be the one for you! #vndev ❤️💕 ligianunes.itch.io/love-the-gua...

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Hey all, If you'd prefer to read Daughters of the Digital Empire in epub format, it's free on the Internet Archive! archive.org/details/@d_d...

Hooray for new Girl Scout Cookie flavors! The flavor is great, even if the cookie is a bit dry, but a friend of mine told me to have them with vanilla ice cream! I’ll try that after dinner. 😋🍦

because that's what heroes do

To celebrate finishing the first round of edits, I commissioned some absolutely lovely art of Sasha and Galen from The Need for Dandelions. As you'll see in the book, Sasha loves to give Galen flowers. 🌸

if you like the ace romance and humour of someone you can build a nest in by john wiswell, the messy-queers-fighting-for-justice vibes of the kingston cycle by CL polk, and the worldbuilding of sky on fire by jenn lyons then you’re gonna love the dragon next door 🌈📚 #booksky books2read.com/u/bpVEQ6

Fantastic book mail! This is one of my most anticipated releases of 2026! I can't wait to dig into this one!

#AwesomeCharacters By the end of their story, people will know both Galen and Sasha fairly well! We get into their history, we see a lot of their personality, and get a peek at their future!

I have a potentially unrealistic goal of getting 50 people to follow my upcoming kickstarter by the end of February. Is that lofty? Objectively no. I think we can make it happen 👀 Click "notify me on launch" if a genre-blending anthology of vampire fiction piques your interest:

I realized that I forgot my plotting and planning journal at home and I’m sad because I have ideas for things to add to the dragon story, but no solid place to write them down. 😩 Sticky notes it is for now…

If you haven't met my #Portland magical girl rock band, you should change that! 💙📚 Follow new trans keytar player Claire's journey into magic music, villain smashing, and lesbian feelings in the heart of #PDX. Your support helps keep me, an indie author, alive following a layoff! magicariot.com/buy

I’m not quite done yet, but I’m currently reading Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen and I’m really enjoying it!

When I wrote WHEREVER THE STARS CALL, my main focus was the friendship between Laurel & Juniper. At the time, it felt like there wasn't enough friendship stories, & I wanted to change that. But now they're in a bundle with a bunch of friendship stories! 🚀 37 books for $35! itch.io/b/3486/frien...

no new pictures, where are you at mentally?

#AwesomeCharacters I don't think that Governor Maple is very likable. One of my beta readers told me that she felt a lot like some of our current leaders. However, I think that she's rather cathartically hateable! It's satisfying to see her get her comeuppance.

#Funguary Week 1: Decay Starting off this challenge with an autumn skullcap! (I'm following the funguary challenge made by feefal on Tumblr! Check them out if you get the chance!)

🫀 COVER REVEAL 🫀 I cannot express enough how absolutely beautiful this cover is! Its everything I wanted it to be! The absolute BIGGEST thank you to @warickaart.bsky.social for bringing my vision to reality! ARC applications are still open, so be sure to sign up! 🥀🥀🥀

today is a wonderful day to love and support trans people and trans artists 🏳️‍⚧️

My trans Catholic priest x demon romance coming on March 31st... 👀

Success! I just finished my first draft of this! It’ll need a lot more work and I could easily see this actually becoming a novella instead of a novelette. 😳

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#AwesomeCharacters To Galen, home is his district and the people there. It’s his community and the connections there. For Sasha, home was the house he grew up in, but it felt too cold without his sister. Now, if he thought about, he’d realize Galen is now his home.

It’s simple, but honestly I’d love to see Micah’s hat from Sweet & Wild!

happy bhm

Hey fellow creative folks. I hope we can collectively forgive ourselves for maybe not getting the running head start January was supposed to be. We’re doing the best we can in the times we live in and it is ROUGH out there

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH ✊🏽🤎🫶🏽 Read Black stories Uplift Black voices Celebrate Black joy Support Black creatives Protect Black narrative Honor Black resistance WE do all of this all year! But right now let's all make sure we are doing our part of amplify Big love to all my people, for real

Now that I’m all in on this Dragon Novelette (and also nearly done with the first draft) I need to take care of two important things: 1. A title other than Dragon WIP 2. A Vibes Playlist

Here's my reading wrap-up for January! I think this is the most I've ever read in a single month, and it was a pretty darn good month too! I'm also proud of myself for sticking with my non-fiction goal! Not counting poetry, I read four non-fiction books! I'm also reading more than just fantasy! 📚

just a reminder that you can request my upcoming queer cozy horror on Netgalley!

hi friends, i've put together a short collection of SFF stories and set it free—i hope it can give you some encouragement, a smile, or even just a pause in the doomscrolling. art is resistance. <3 🐺 📚 ko-fi.com/s/f0da603a0d <— support/PWYW (free!) tiny.cc/2q7y001 <— direct download

#AwesomeCharacters This is fun! Galen would be "Overworked Devotee of the Lady of Flowers" and Sasha would be "Grumpy City Guard" because whoever is interviewing him would simply *have* to acknowledge that.

In good news, I am really enjoying writing this dragon story. In bad news, I think it is probably going to end up being a novelette and not a short story anymore. Whoops.

I think I might try to finish the first draft of this story this weekend! I have an outline and know where it’s going, I’ve just got to hammer out the writing!

So excited for this! 🦋

Here are the six books that I will hopefully read in February! My January hopefuls only ended up half successful (I read three out of six) because I'm very much a mood reader. However, I'm still going for six for February! Giovanni's Room didn't happen in January, but hopefully February. 🤞

Urban legends, teen horror, missing hearts, & the truth buried in the woods. THE DEVIL IN THE WOODS is my hidden gem, and perfect for a spooky read. Check it out below! 🩸📚 books.earlronove.com/thedevilinth... (if you still have the old version w/ the old cover, lmk! I'll send you a new copy!)

I enjoyed Sister Amber so much in The Need for Dandelions that I expanded her role quite a bit. I should have known, I always love a wise, cheeky older woman.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Gender Studies and Science Fiction 2. Literature to Film: Vampires 3. Philosophy of Religion 4. Early British Literature 5. World History and Film

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I spent most of the day reading (I finished four books!) and now my eyes are tired. Who could have seen this coming? 😅

It's my sincere hope community serves as the antithesis of AI slop. Indie authors build communities with other writers and readers who trust in the stories they're telling. We grow together. We sharpen one another. We support each other.

#AwesomeCharacters I’m definitely more in the director overseeing their actions camp. I write exclusively in third-person limited, and it often feels like I’m a puppeteer telling the story. Though sometimes it’s like I’m the DM and my characters are my players, choices outside of my control!

Sasha tries to be level-headed… but that’s not really something he can do successfully

They arrested Don Lemon last night. Let me put this in context for you. The police arrested a Black gay man for protesting in a public space (a church).