As it's Aromantic Visibility Day of Pride Month, Authors; let's do an Aro Books thread! 🖤💚🩶 If your book(s) have significant aro rep, drop your book description, graphic & direct sales/ link to all stores! ♠️🌈📚

How did I not know that June 5th is Aromantic Visibility Day?!! I've identified as such for 6 years! (and been happily single for 40 years 😉) I'm only writing a main character struggling to figure out in what manner he loves his partner & to define his relationship! Shoutout to fellow Aros! 💜🖤💚

Te Pae Tawhiti is proud to present the finalists of the 2025 awards! See the full list at: tepaetawhitiawards.nz/2025-te-pae-... Thank you to the committee and our judges for making these awards possible! #NZBooks

Can you write Epic SciFi-Fantasy with crime & mystery threads? And a continued MC healing from trauma arc, deepening relationships & found family? With autistic, ADHD, enby, aromantic & asexual identity exploration? I hope so, because today is Launch Day! 🤞🥳 ♠️🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🧠🪐 elisecarlson.com/sythe-series/

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The Kickstarter for AN END TO SORROW will officially go live on Tuesday, June 2nd! Everything from the first two campaigns will also be available! Hit that NOTIFY ME ON LAUNCH button! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

New indie book rec, friends! Bounty Inc. by @adamholcombe.bountyink.com Take a nepo clone of Jango Fett but make him the newbiest of newbs starting up a bounty hunter business. This book was so much fun and you need to check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmU4...

No Heart for a Thief is now on audiobook. @dcmryder delivers an outstanding performance. It is available at all major audiobook retailers. Please check it out. 🔗🔽

Author dream unlocked 🔓 - a review of my novel on FanFiAddict! And by none other than @keandrewsauthor.bsky.social! Thanks so much, Katie (and FanFiAddict overlord @fanfiaddict.bsky.social)

Do you like heavy metal? Do you like epic fantasy books? If you can stay afloat after it throws you in the deep end, this is a heck of a heavy metal epic fantasy by @authorkfeller.bsky.social ! 🪐📚💙📚🇳🇿 #IndieAuthor #Reading2026

For you readers of cosy fantasy 🇳🇿📚

Today our 3rd weekly email went out offering indie #ScienceFiction #Fantasy and #Horror books to our growing community of reviewers! I've had great conversations with the community, and after a development meeting this week, here are the most requested features we're working to roll out soon: 1/4

WTF is a gronk? Unique world-building, names, nicknames, and the slang conventions of antipodean English; I've now included a Character List and Glossary to help shove The Outsiders of Orkland into your eyeballs. BookFunnel changes are live, other platforms will follow.

Sign petition against NZ1st's anti-trans bill. 🏳️‍⚧️💙🩷🤍🏳️‍⚧️ #nzpol

Check out the latest review for Bounty Inc.! Spoilers: "Bounty Inc. is a whole lot of fun and chaos, and I highly recommend it!"

Indie Authors who missed it (check lists if unsure) or put your books on Itch over the last year... 🏳️‍⚧️ Books on Itch: bsky.app/profile/elis... BIPOC 📚s: bsky.app/profile/elis... ♿Disabled MC: bsky.app/profile/elis... 🧠 Neurodivergent MC: bsky.app/profile/elis... 🏳️‍🌈 SFFH: bsky.app/profile/elis...

The first two weeks of BookMatch have been incredible, and way beyond my expectations! Something that's important to me in doing this is talking to the SFFH community and making sure we're building something that's genuinely useful, so as to get good books in the hands of the right reviewers. 1/6

Follow the links to find out about my writing!

One of my favourite series. Check it out if you like comic books and the Dresden Files. 🪐📚

After receiving feedback from a reader, I've decided to put together a glossary. All of my early readers were Aussies and Kiwis, who fuckin' loved my book, but it seems like global readers struggle with the combination of fantasy terms and antipodean English. 📚🇳🇿

All of my audiobooks—including COPPER SKIN, OAKEN LUNGS—are finally all available on @libro.fm! Pick up a new book and support independent bookstores while you're at it. If there's a specific store you'd like to support, make sure it's selected! 💙📚 #audiobook libro.fm/search?q=Ada...

We're officially on the countdown now to our first mail out on Saturday! If you want to be among the reviewers to receive a tailored selection of at least 42 books this week in your inbox, get signed up now at bookmatch.co.uk #bookreview #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #indie #selfpublished

In my deeply optimistic ideas about how BookMatch would go, I thought it would be great if we ever got to the stage where we were getting as many as 25 books a week. It's day 3, and we just saw our 30th book uploaded.

It's been a brilliant launch for BookMatch! On day two, we've already got 21 books added to the library and 10 more reviewers signed up to join the community. And we already have reviewers downloading books for review, before the first emails even go out! Thank you all for believing in this idea!

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Pre orders are now live for Together is a Distant Star! Join me on my journey as I read all 12 stories then hit that pre order button! youtu.be/zO9t_Qj4DP4?...

Authors: If you're on BookFunnel and Kobo Plus, and have a Dark SFF or Horror title, consider signing up to this promo set for July: dashboard.bookfunnel.com/bundles/boar...

I got a feature in The Ace Couple Podcast! It's a little shout-out at the end of the episode, and it made my day 🌈📚♠️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmcF...

If you love a personal story with a touch of magic, No Heart for a Thief might be a good place to start.

FYI Aussie, Kiwi, Islander and Asian Authors! I'll aim to have this blog published by the end of 2027 (as I will the Fantasy and SciFi one. This one also needs to be queer inclusive.

DANCE WITH ME did not start as a book, but as #InteractiveFiction. Interactive fiction: books where *you*—the reader—are in control of the choices. So Lyra’s falls are not just hers… but yours as well. 1/6

ATTN: Authors who sell direct (shopify, payhip, etc) or semi direct (Kofi, Patreon, Itch, etc) I have been building an app and need early alpha / beta testers. All genres. All lengths. All formats. NO GENAI. Email spideremprex (at) daxmurray (dot) com if you are interested!

Fantasy & SciFi Authors Selling Direct, It seems we need direct sales visibility, so I'm setting up a blog (inclu. small press) to share our stores! See the screenshot for eligibility. Q's welcome! If you're not on my Author Discord, I'm happy to DM you the sign up form. It'll be open 3+ months.

⭐️ COVER REVEAL ⭐️ Proudly Presenting ~ Together Is a Distant Star! This work of love encompasses the complicated emotions that surround belonging! Hitting your shelves on May 19th this incredible collaborative piece is a must read! Gorgeous art hand crafted by @cblansdell.bsky.social

I'm excited to share the new map I illustrated for Alex Perez's novel BRIDE TO THE FOX DEMON! I had a lot of fun with this one, its Japanese-inspired architecture, forests mixed with trees and mushrooms. 📚💙

The Narratess Indie Book Sale might be wrapping up, but The Outsiders of Orkland will remain on sale for the rest of the month. Links in my profile🤘 🌈📚♠️ 🩸📚 🪐📚

My autistic special interests include history from the invention of writing to sometime after WW2, & imaginary worlds. That's how I came to write an epic SciFi-Fantasy -with an autistic af main character 😉 Walking the Knife's Edge is $1.99 this month. 🌈📚🧠🪐 elisecarlson.com/sythe-series/

My debut novel Hall of Bones, an SPFBO Finalist, is on sale for 99p as part of the Narratess Indie Sale. I’m also offering a discount on the full series omnibus as well, so this is a great time to give The Brotherhood of the Eagle a try! #indieapril #NarratessIndieSale indiebook.sale

Who has books in the Narratess Indie Sale? If that's you, share your social media-sized "about my book" below! There are some incredible books included, readers! I'm going to spoil myself! #booksky #NarratessIndieSale #indiebooks #indieauthors

Path of Dreaming Souls by Kate Haley (NZ author) 222 pages, Dark fantasy It's like a 1919 version of the Witcher minus the cringe. Awesome queer rep. This is a prequel, I'm ripping into the trilogy ASAP. 🩸📚 🪐📚 🌈📚♠️

#indiebooksale 🔴 The Naratess Indie Book Sale is now LIVE! Over 200 indie and self-published fantasy, horror, & sci fi titles at discounted prices, or fr33! Load up your e-reader today! Grab the Kindle Edition of Island of the Dying Goddess for FR33! Link in comments 💬

If you’re looking to add to your #tbrpile for #indieapril look no further than the #narratessindiesale 📚 over 280+ books 🔥 $1.99, $0.99 or FREE! 🐉 #indiefantasy #indiescifi and horror ⏰ sale ends 13 April 2026 Head to indiebook.sale to check it out. 💙📚🌎📚🪐

This Saturday the 11th – Monday the 13th, my eBooks will be on sale for just ¢0.99! Pick them up wherever you get them, or at Lunar Books, an independently owned bookstore (for all of you who don't want to give your money to big corps 😉) Learn more about each book & the 280+ eBook sale! ⬇

FREE BOOK ALERT!!! To celebrate the impending release of THE LORD OF THE EMPTY MIRROR, the first novel in the slightly misnamed Obsidian Path trilogy is free! BLACK STONE HEART can be yours for the low, low price of sweet-fuck-all! You can find the ebook on your local Amazon.

I know Ace Awareness Day has recently passed, but fuck it: I'm ace, my book is ace, and I'll continue being ace for the rest of my life. The Outsiders of Orkland contains multiple a-spec characters and a society that has its own set of cultural norms. Check it out. kennethfeller.com 🌈📚♠️ 🩸📚 🪐📚

This coming weekend, 280+ small press & self-pub books will be discounted in the @narratess.com indie book sale! As usual, I've spotted more to add to my never-ending TBR list, so to get hype for Saturday, I'm sharing a few that caught my eye every day until the sale starts 🤩 🧵 👇

Will YOU agree with Sam? Only one way to find out. If you like that sort of thing, the audiobooks might still be on sale (1-4 available on Audible today!)

The massive Narratess Indie Book Sale is coming up! 📚🪐 📚🩸 I've read a few, and here's my recommendations: 🔗

280+ eBooks are going on sale this weekend, including COPPER SKIN, OAKEN LUNGS and my other books. The full list will go up on indiebook[.]sale on April 11th. Huge thanks to @narratess.com for organizing this again!

Live on Audible. www.audible.com/pd/Shadow-of...