#indie authors

[leebrontide]

Pray for me, writeblr, I'm migrating from KDP to IngramSpark.

[goodluckclove]

A note to anyone who wants to read any of my books when they get released but can't order one for some reason: literally ask me and I'll just send you the doc. You don't have to give me anything in return.

Want to read Blind Trust or any future Songbird Elegy, but the price point of a new book isn't feasible, or you're in a place where ordering even a non-erotic queer romance could make things sketchy? Legitimately my DMs are open and I will send you the file myself. Fuck it, I'll send it tomorrow. Consider it an Advance Reader Copy, I don't know.

Is it a good business practice for someone hoping to be a successful writer? I don't know. I don't care. Aspec representation sucks so hard that if it's between me making a few dollars and you reading my book I'd rather you just read the book. In fact I'd be thrilled.

Let Scott and Edgar into your computer. They'll make you snacks and ask you about your day. Meaningful questions, too. They're both good listeners.

[writingquestionsanswered]

Just a quick reminder that I will not tolerate bad-mouthing of traditional, indie, hybrid, online, fan-fiction, or any other type of writing and publishing on my blog, in asks, in the replies, or in the reblogs.

Furthermore, anyone who feels the need to disparage any type of writing or publication should take some time to educate themselves and do some self-reflection. What insecurities are these feelings masking? Why are they not confident enough in their own writing or path to publishing to be supportive of all types of writing and publishing? Why do they feel the experiences of some are enough to invalidate the experiences of many?

There is room for everyone in the world of writing and publishing. There's no reason not to be inclusive of everyone, all types of writing, all paths of publishing, and advice from every background and level of experience.

~ with love, WQA

[b-a-pigeon]

Seeking beta readers for a queer fantasy romance novel

Fell A. Marsh's Taker of the Third Path follows Linmiru, a hedgewitch led by his god to an abandoned inn at an ancient crossroads. His task there is to meet the next person to take the overgrown "third path."

Months pass, and a growing connection with one of the inn's guests leads Lin to question his devotion to destiny—but the fate of the world rests on his prophesied meeting with the taker. And when the day finally comes, Linmiru must confront the reality that nothing at the old crossroads has been as it seemed.

If you're into character-driven fantasy, romance that explores darker, heavier themes, queer and trans characters, and some unique and vibrant world building, you'll probably love this book as much as I do!!

No experience required—the goal here is to get authentic feedback from real readers. All you need to apply for a free copy is a love of fantasy and/or queer romance and the willingness to give your honest opinion! The beta reading period begins later this month, so get in while signups are still open!

✨ Learn More & Sign Up Here ✨

[djrusso-romance]

Art by Mon Reyes (do not use without permission! Reblogs only!)

Book is: Stroopwafels & Starlight by D.J. Russo

Five (left) and Sanne! (right)

[noahhawthorneauthor]

The Trans Rights Readathon starts next Friday, March 22nd. Here's 30 trans books to get your motor running.

[stanningjay]

Auro, the God of Spring, turns to stone each year at his season’s end, only awakening the following year at its beginning.

For four hundred years, it has been a dreamless sleep for Auro.

This year, he knows he will dream of Alexios until he can walk the earth again.

🖼️ by @crossroadart-seabear

[writeblrfantasy]

Indie authors let me talk to ya!

If you're an indie author, please, promote your book here! This post is both a boost, and an opportunity for me to gather a list of indie books from my writeblr friends that I want to get my best friend for their birthday! If you write queer (ESPECIALLY sapphic) books, that is an added plus!

[shiraglassman]

fluffy f/f, a small promo post since sales are low

sales are merp, here’s a plot-focused book pitch. Side note all these have Jewish heroines.

The Olive Conspiracy cozy fantasy setting that’s somehow both high-stakes and high-comfort. Queen Shulamit uncovers an international plot to ruin her country’s economy by sabotaging all the farms. Is her straight-girl crush from when they were both teenaged princesses, Queen Carolina, involved or is she just an innocent bystander? $4 here and also Kindle

Cinnamon Blade: Knife in Shining Armor high-heat superhero romance between a snarky ex-jewel-and-art-thief (who is now sidekick to the heroic Captain Werewolf) and the nerdy damsel in distress she keeps rescuing. The plot is basically: ok now that I’ve asked her out, will we ever get to have a normal date or will aliens and vampires keep interrupting? $2 here and also Kindle

Knit One Girl Two Clara finds the perfect solution to her ‘what will my next line of sock yarn look like’ problem when she sees Danielle’s wildlife paintings. The rest of the story is “oh shit my small business succeeded too quickly HALP” and the girls stumbling around a budding romance while Danielle deals with Family Shit. $2 here and also Kindle. Also comes in a $3 bundle with other f/f stuff.

also, Olive is part of a series of four standalones and some short stories, all of which are here for $17 if you like bundles

Please signal boost if you’ve enjoyed these!

[apolline-lucy]

my sad (but happy!!!) little sapphic book THE ANATOMY OF DYING is coming out FEB 2 and it would mean the world to me if you could add it to your tbr ♡

[marydublinauthor]

Sylvia x Poptarts coming at you MAY 14!!

Preorder (ebook) available now!

SYNOPSIS:

Welcome to a world where fairies and monsters roam alongside mournful spirits.

For decades, no threat has touched Elysia. The underground village where Sylvia has lived alongside her fellow fairies is well-fortified, providing safety in its earthen walls.

But Sylvia craves more.

Her curiosity leads her to trespass the strict boundaries of her village, leading her to cross paths with violent creatures she has heard of only by firelight whispers.

Human hunters— Jon and Cliff— who suspect Sylvia’s involvement in a string of gruesome disappearances.

A harrowing captivity transforms into an unlikely alliance when Sylvia saves Jon’s life by sealing a magical pact with the enigmatic Ancients— fae powers who demand a cryptic price.

Sylvia is left with no choice but to stay by Jon’s side while he and Cliff hunt for a ruthless werewolf, determined to free herself from the Ancients’ settlement.

As the dangerous hunt unfolds, Sylvia finds that not all legends about hunters are true.

The world is wider than she ever could have imagined in Elysia.

She realizes she and Jon may have more in common than she ever could have imagined— and icy hostility melts into forbidden attraction.

But… that’s impossible.

Can Sylvia sever the enigmatic bond in time— protecting her own heart in the process?

Find out SHOT IN THE DARK, our Supernatural meets Fern Gully urban fantasy novel.

SHOT IN THE DARK is an action-packed novel that explores the courage it takes to embrace our true identity entwined with haunting themes of forbidden love and found family.

@kendsleyauthor

[leebrontide]

Hi everyone!

I'm asking for a (free) favor from y'all.

I'm trying to get more people to sign up for my free monthly author newsletter, and I'd love for you to help me find people who might enjoy it.

Every month, I write an essay about a subject. I'm not just collecting contacts to send ads to!

Sometimes it's about writing process

A Unique Character Development Technique 

The Golden Girls, D&D, and The Newest Way I’m Refusing to Make Writing Solitary 

The Bananabook Method

Lies I Tell Myself, Security Blankets and Backstitch Drafting

And other times it's a deep dive into a research topic for my books

Why I’m Researching a 19th Century Cult This Month

Spider Goat is Real but is Not Marvel Affiliated

People Just Really Want to Say "Enhance"

That Most Intimate of Thrones

Whose Side is Your House On?

The Care and Feeding of Dream Homes

What Arguing About Captain America Taught Me About Psychotherapy

Sometimes it's about mental health, especially through the lenses of fantasy and scifi

Of Flesh and Gundams

What Feeling Are You Most Afraid Of?

Sometimes it's even about legal systems and their interactions with the medical field and expanding medical technologies

Tractors, Cybernetics and the Radical at the Radioshack

Because Everybody Was Calling for YA Scifi About HIPAA, Right? 

Or queer stuff

What Do We Celebrate?

What Stories Are You Made Of?

Or disability

Another Kind of Coziness 

Tinkering With Cyberpunk

Things I Stole from Julian Bashir

Or it could be anything else that I'm willing to think deeper about that month. You can browse the full archive over here.

AND it almost always includes pictures of my very cute cats!

So could you please boost, if you feel your followers might be into that?

The subscription signup is right here.

Help an indie author out?

[tafferling]

Book Release: Aphelion, The City of a Billion Stolen Souls

Aphelion is a love letter. In incomplete one at that, which is still being written as I make my way through the series. But as each of its seasons is finished, a book gets released! And here we are! My first official 'omg I published something' novel: Aphelion, The City of a Billion Stolen Souls

If you like science-fantasy with soul-harnessing magic and tech, a cyberpunk (or aetherpunk, those two are having fisticuffs) flair, and a slow burn simmering away in the middle of a (mysterious) zombie apocalypse, then Aphelion may just be right for your bookshelf. Literally, because you can buy all of book one's 531 pages in gorgeous print!

What's in it?

In a world where tech runs off the concept of one's soul and where dragons steady cosmic scales, heroes are shaped in the shadow of an ancient grudge. Horizon's Crown was an Earther triumph; a stage at the frontier of the settled systems, a city of hope and dreams and infinite potential. Now, under the watchful eye of its orbital island, it straddles the line between dead and dying; a city of nightmares and endless sorrow. Varrett Vild Vickers belongs into a pilot's chair. He's meant to dodge asteroids, to race dragons, not chase credits so he can pay rent while HC's major demographic clicks its teeth at him and tries to eat his face off. But it's fine. Really. He copes. Or that's what he tells himself, all the way until a woman falls from the sky and turns his already upside-down life very sharply sideways. Armed with nothing but her worst-kept secret and a ledger of lies, Sophya Soulwright tricks her way into Horizon's Crown, looking for not only her sister, but for redemption and a meaning to a life she’s never held dear.  What she finds instead is a city trying its hardest to live, and a man who courts death every step of the way. He's infuriating, tireless, and after a glitch binds their souls together, he is now stuck with her. 

Don't want this chunky darling on your shelf and prefer to read it digitally? Dontchu worry, Taff has you covered. I release Aphelion as a free-to-read web serial, both on Campfire (where you can tip me if you like to get world building extras) and Archive of Our Own. 'cause like I said; Aphelion is a love letter. I just want to write it and share it.

But that doesn't mean I don't want to hear from you if you choose to give it a chance.

Where to find Aphelion:

On Amazon (531 pages, paperback).

On Goodreads (oh gosh I have an author profile there now).

On Campfire Explore (where, if you choose to tip, you may feel the sudden sensation of an ethereal cat slinking around your ankles in appreciation).

And on Archive Of Our Own (where it all started).

BIG BIG BIG thanks to @hermit-writes for her amazing typesetting skills (and book photography) and of course @drawinglinestoconstellations for the cover and interior art.

[b-a-pigeon]

Hierarchy of the Unseen e-books are $2.99 all month!

Hierarchy of the Unseen is a character-driven fantasy about a devout demon hunter who isn't fully human and a lackluster demon who isn't quite committed to his role in the world. Reviewers have called it “immersive,” “complex,” and “page-turning” and compared it (too kindly!) to Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, and Good Omens.

🌞 🌑 Read a full summary & grab your copy wherever you buy ebooks! 🌑 🌞

[winterandwords]

✍🏻 WRITEBLR INTRO

👋🏻 Hi, I’m Winter. I write emotionally intense character-driven fiction inspired by city streets and stormy seas, scars and synchronicity, synesthesia and l’appel du vide.

📲 I'm writing-related ask and tag game friendly and I love reblogging your WIP snippets.

📚 You can download my books at 🔗winterandwords.com. It's the only place they're available. More information about each book can also be found further down this post.

☕ If you enjoy my writing and would like to offer support, you can do that via 🔗Ko-fi. I share my books for free with the option to donate if you can afford to rather than selling them for an upfront payment, so your contributions are super appreciated!

🌈 It always makes happy to encounter queer characters whose identity and narrative aren’t limited to or by their queerness, so I’m writing the characters I want to see in the stories I want to read.

📝 I write for an adult audience, but my stories don’t include explicit sexual content because it’s not my vibe (not a genital in sight here, folks). That said, if you’re uncomfortable with fiction that's frequently dark, sometimes spicy, and often chemically enhanced, I might not be the ideal writer for you to follow. Not everything is for everyone and that’s OK.

🛑 I would prefer if minors didn't follow me. I don't follow minors, at least not intentionally. Sometimes it's not obvious and I'm not the age-in-bio police. In the kindest possible way, if you're under eighteen, my writing is not for you and I'd rather engage with other adults only.

💜 My reblogs tend to be writing-related, with a few exceptions. My likes are (mostly) non-writing-related things I get a kick out of, or personal posts that I want to acknowledge but that don’t feel appropriate to reblog.

💌 If, for some reason, you need to contact me outside of the hellsite, you can do that at winterandwords[at]gmail[dot]com

🌊 NOVEMBER BREAKS (complete)

BASICS Genre: Transgressive, literary Audience: Adult Length: Approx 52k words Working title: Project Storm Tags: #november breaks and #project storm More: Book summary

💻 To download as a PDF and EPUB, please visit winterandwords.com

VIBE Crime, weather symbolism and questionable life choices. Hurt me, I need to feel alive. Violence is a drug. Also, drugs are drugs. This is a love story like crude oil is a tea. #ThatShouldNotBeHot. Nothing’s real anyway.

INTRO No conscience, no problem. Noah kills for money. Brett hides a life of crime behind a successful career. Officially, they both protect people from people like themselves. Unofficially, everything is falling apart. Until they meet. And it all gets worse.

🔪 BRIDGE FROM ASHES (complete)

BASICS Genre: Cyberpunk, neon-noir Audience: Adult Length: Approx 70k words Working title: Project Frequency Tags: #bridge from ashes and #project frequency More: Book summary

💻 To download as a PDF and EPUB, please visit winterandwords.com

VIBE High-rise buildings and low-life scum. Everything hurts, but not enough to feel good. Yes, that’s a gun in my pocket and no, I’m not pleased to see you. If mind control is real, why do I still have to make decisions?

INTRO Too useful for prison and too dangerous for freedom, underworld assassin Rafael Turner is sentenced to serve in a secretive military agency. When a mission to infiltrate a criminal operation drags his past to the surface and someone he thought he’d lost forever unexpectedly returns, how much is Rafe willing to risk to settle old scores and have a chance at a future he’d given up hoping for?

💀 FIVE (complete)

Genre: Various Audience: Adult Length: Approx 6.5k words Tags: #five More: Book summary

💻 To download as a PDF and EPUB, please visit winterandwords.com

INTRO A collection of short science fiction, experimental, urban fantasy, and horror stories exploring themes of loss, transition, and altered states.

🚬 SPIN CYLINDER (WIP)

BASICS Genre: Transgressive, literary Audience: Adult Tags: #spin cylinder More: WIP summary

Spin Cylinder is the sequel to November Breaks.

VIBE Slice of life, but life is drugs and crime. They deserve each other (derogatory). Violence as a substitute for therapy. Very elegantly wasted. My favourite mistake, my weapon of choice and the parts of ourselves that we can’t leave behind.

INTRO Contract killer Noah and white-collar criminal Brett retire from successful but stressful careers to build a home together on a foundation of obsession, shared secrets and murder. But when they start to feel restless and the downward spiral beckons them deeper, how far will they go to find their way back to themselves?

🔫 NAME FROM NOWHERE (WIP)

BASICS Genre: Cyberpunk, neon-noir Audience: Adult Working title: Project Aria Tags: #name from nowhere and #project aria More: WIP summary

Name From Nowhere takes place in the same world as Bridge From Ashes.

VIBE Found crime family. Memory is a curse, but it’s also a weapon. What doesn’t kill you makes you deadly. No identity, still a crisis. Life may be more than survival, but survival is a good place to start. Because fuck you, that’s why.

INTRO Imprisoned for a crime or five that she definitely committed, Aria made it through her sentence remembering more than she was supposed to but not enough to make sense. An illicit trade syndicate gives her a fresh start and the acceptance she won’t admit she craves, but her blood family’s betrayal is seared into her mind and revenge is only ever an opportunity away.

📇 TAG INDEX

#the shit in my head | rants, rambles and writer life

#november breaks and #project storm | WIP excerpts, updates etc for November Breaks (working title Project Storm), the prequel to Spin Cylinder

#spin cylinder | WIP excerpts, updates etc for Spin Cylinder, the sequel to November Breaks

#bridge from ashes and #project frequency | WIP excerpts, updates etc for Bridge From Ashes (working title Project Frequency), set in the same world as Name From Nowhere

#name from nowhere and #project aria | WIP excerpts, updates etc for Name From Nowhere (working title Project Aria), set in the same world as Bridge From Ashes

#five | excerpts from and references to Five

#my writing | snippets and other wordstuff

#your writing | other people’s words

#writeblr tags | tag games and memes

#answered asks | replies to your questions and messages

#writeblr connect | boosting writeblrs for the community

#reblogs | what it says on the tin

#reblogs plus | reblogs with my additions

#tumblr meta | hellsite stuff'n'things

#calmwrimo | info, updates and reblogs for CalmWriMo, a chilled-out November writing and self-care experience

📸 IMAGE CREDITS

Profile picture My own

Header and background Original photo by Yaroslav Shuraev on Pexels, edited under license

Five My own

November Breaks My own

Bridge From Ashes Original photo by Drew Dizzy Graham on Unsplash, edited under license

Spin Cylinder Original photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash, edited under license

Name from Nowhere Original photo by Wilmer Martinez on Unsplash, edited under license

[noahhawthorneauthor]

I am finalizing Matsdotter and Adrastus this week! Which means I'll be pretty quiet, so to make up for it I present: 60 books which are organized by ✨vibes.✨

You've got tragic and messed up gays. (Red Rising isn't gay, but you can only hate him so much before it gets a little gay)

You've got the paranormal and/or mystery gay disasters.

You've got the I'm figuring things out queers.

You've got the what the f*ck did I just read horror babes. (Who are, you guessed it, queer)

You've got kids versus gender and/or neurodivergencies.

You've got queer witches finding themselves, and love.

You've got gorgeous worlds cheering on even more beautiful romances.

You've got people who will do anything for those they love, no matter the distance.

You've got epic stories with stabby characters, and a lot of sailing.

You've got the mutants, the weirdos who know they have to break things to truly fix them.