anyone got a new release this year? tell me about it! don't post a link, just gush about your characters (and share art if you have it! i love character art!) 📚💙
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Oh man, I love my characters so much!!!! I had them commissioned by an artist!
Her name is Captain Millie Lapahie! The bravest captain to ever sail the seven seas! Or at least that is what she wants to be when she is older! She is courageous, fearless, and loves her pet Octopus, Ollie!
I'm currently translating a story I released in portuguese to english, about a princess, a necromancer and a fairy that go on a road trip together, it is about an established poly relationship adding a new person in ajd the characters are all sapphic! Also, there is a skeleton cat!
My YA sci-fi novel Leeta Simtar:A Life on Two Planets published in March. Born on a distant planet, Leeta is a comically unpredictable interspecies hybrid who chases the truth of her identity all the way to Earth.
Ooh, do I! Okay, I love the enemies to friends dynamic and I love vampires so I wanted to try something with it.
I actually did this drawing first and it inspired me to write something on it~
I also wanted to avoid romance in it, like... I do so much romance otherwise, so... just friends... for now
Tashi is a central figure in the events of the book, though she isn’t fully aware just how important a role she has to play. She’s an orphaned shifter raised by a witch coven who feels obligated to act as a protector of her adoptive family, but overwhelmed by what threatens them all.
I got mine, Infernulls The Golden Letter coming hopefully the end of the month
Starring Lamya Cade, adventurer for hire with a quick wit and battle expertise. She meets Eaduric, priest who is trying to get back into his holy sect by defeating the darkness. Action, comedy, drama. I loved writing it
I do but I’m not sure I’m in the gushing stage yet. Elven is in the hands of its best sensitivity reader at the moment and I won’t know if it’s ready to see the light of day until she’s done with it. But I do love my MC Reika. She’s a sun elf raised in the Swiss Alps.
I'm hoping to release the first book of my trilogy this year! The pov character is a transman who has inherited his mother's magic and has to go on an insane mission with his brother and childhood best friend to avenge her death (and more)
He's really brave, and also stupid, his name is Alistair.
Alistair's emotionally intelligent when it comes to other people's feelings, but not his own. He's desperately afraid of change, and everything has changed for him. He's gotta learn to find hope on the other side of it, and he will. Probably.
I just had a new release today! It's the book where Sarafyna, the romantic lead, is introduced. Lillith's snarky and stubborn personality plays off of Sara's more mild (except when it's not) presence.
And I just got some art of the two back a few days ago 😊
My 2nd Riyati book released this week, & my dumb teenagers got to be even more dumb with extra angst, it's great! If things go according to plan, the 3rd book will release at the end of the year where they'll be a little less dumb (kinda) but w/ more angst and trauma! MC's Kylie & Jordan 👆
Anna the arctic vixen was a very challenging character to write. She is my first female MC. She is wild -- she believes the entire purpose of her existence is to hunt for food and to have offspring. I had to keep her thoughts simple and her dialog unflowery without boring the reader.
At the same time I had to emphasize her body's visceral responses to her environment and the things she experiences. She truly tends to think with her body, more so than her mind.
Holy smoke, my epic novel The Elvenweed Chronicles (pun intended) is going to drop in June (gods willing). It’s for anyone who loves HIGH fantasy and pothead comedy. It’s my biggest adventure to date and will resonate with a large audience.
I'm releasing my debut novel later this year and I am ABSOLUTELY STOKED! I can't wait for readers to meet my investigative reporter/witch protagonist!!!
I dooooo! It's got a sad girl MC who grows stronger over the course of the book and gets a spooky (but sweet) boyfriend (I love him). They're a strange match to me because it's like, they fit together really well once they got to know each other more, but it was an ordeal to get them there. Lazyahh
If everything goes as planned, I should have a spooky novella out just in time for Halloween. Think Something Wicked This Way Comes, but with teenage girls in the 90s.🧡🖤🎃👻
It's at the usual Az/B&N/Bookshop places, but @gravesidepress.bsky.social also has a 4th Wall shop which I think is cheaper? And if you happen to be Californian, Kelley and Hannah and Steven do lot of cons and bookfairs. https://gsp-shop.fourthwall.com/en-usd/collections/books
Being Magic will be released next month! The book revolves around Elana and Jerome, who are reincarnated together. They have to save their found family from demonically inspired bigotry and persecution. Will Elana have to sacrifice herself to save her partner and their friends?
Music the Devil Cannot Hear is to be published at the end of May. Jacob and Tom are still stuck in Loomis land, so no character art yet. They are two peasants who fall in love but end up on opposite sides in the Great Uprising of 1381.
My trilogy will be complete in 3 weeks! There's Mari, the reluctant protag who has to make a choice between friends, village, or herself. Junie, the outgoing instigator! Gillian and Nix, fighting partners who are just plain cool. Fighting with mana techniques, physical combat, and one-liners! ❤️ 'em!
Again comes out in two days and I freaking love it. The main character, Emia, is the sassiest lil’ gremlin I’ve ever had the joy of writing. Officer Uly reminds me of an adorable puppy. And I’ve heard from readers that the serial killer in it is boyfriend material. So I feel accomplished.
I'm working on my next release, Cupcakes and Graveyards, aiming for Halloween! It's a cozy goth sapphic fantasy with witches, a cursed bakery, a looming feast, and a mystery of who laid the curse, and why!
Currently working on interior illustrations of locations, the bakery and the graveyard 💖
Oh boy do I have art. My latest book, The Cursèd Playground, is an illustrated adventure in which a mixed crew of different species work together to circumnavigate the galaxy. If you like spotting sci-fi tropes, this one's for you.
I've got a fighting game comic coming out at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social later this year in November, but having an early access launch party in October.
Mix of characters with a mix of martial arts inspirations (You'll be able to see some stuff in the Quote RTs)
🤞🏻 that i get all my editing done I plan to release book one of my romantasy trilogy this year! I’m honestly so juiced with the story so far. This is my FMC. She’s a rough and rowdy dragon shifter that takes no shit and loves ferociously. Queer love will save the world 💖✨
Gretchen is an absolute goblin disaster of a human, but she's a pretty great investigative reporter of the supernatural!
Her awesome mom, friend/editor, & childhood librarian commiserate with each other over her existence (& frankly they are what keeps her alive)!
I released my latest earlier this year. About 3 escaped prisoners who end up in a seaside village. Very Lovecraft meets The Wicker Man. Was an idea id had for years and finally felt like I got it “right”. Had @elainemwill.bsky.social do cover art and based the figures below on said characters.
TransCrypted book 3, Nocturne For A Body Thief is coming out in September. Transgender vampires, time travel, the Roman Empire, the Civil War, Victorian Paris, Transylvania, demons, and more 😊
Just released my debut queer fantasy romance Soul of Solace in February, has official character art (also by me) in both paperback and eBook (examples below)
My two main characters (and core couple), Athaeÿn and Shade, I love them so much. Elegant Dark Elf Vampire and big himbo Demon/Dragon man
Big time hurt/comfort vibes from these two, as they’ve each been through a lot before meeting but are there for each other when no one else can. I would die for both of them. My precious babies❤️
I have a new release in October! I'm really in love with Zephyr. He is a flying serpent that teaches the protag Shadow Magic but he does so much more than that. He's like a therapy animal and a little bit sassy too. He also breathes fire. Can't afford art yet, but hopefully soon!
Thinking about debuting it this year, A SEELIE OF EARTH AND FAE is about Rowan, a girl with Fae bloodlines, who has to face the pureblood who murdered her parents, particularly after he gets her to fake-date his new apprentice. That's Kai, and he's just a sweet kid who gets duped into being a badguy
STONELANDS releases 5 August. It's a cross-worlds fantasy about intersectionality issues in modern-day Special Operations Forces, based on my experiences advising Tier One units. It has gryphons and elves, and still had to be cleared by the Pentagon. I've also sold the movie rights. ARCs available.
I switched narrators for the third part of a trilogy but I think it paid off, Cora's simultaneously such a massive softie but also a deeply broken person, giving her the opportunity to destroy herself was too tempting
I do feel genuinely bad about some of the things I put her though lmao
just fully in 'I'm so sorry about this and I wish I could hug you better but I invented you in my brain' hours at this point, poor girl is just desperate to be loved but also very bad at telling when that's happened
it made a good book though, at least that's what my beta readers are telling me 😂
A pulp horror novella , two main characters , a poacher turned gamekeeper who's nature conservation is core to his being, and a ecologists, their relationship grows as they fight against the chitinous menace of "The Woodlice" a 1980s inspired critter horror.
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Her name is Captain Millie Lapahie! The bravest captain to ever sail the seven seas! Or at least that is what she wants to be when she is older! She is courageous, fearless, and loves her pet Octopus, Ollie!
The og cover:
I love Miranda [MC] so much! I almost feel bad for traumatizing her—almost. (it's all worth it, ...trust me...)
Oh, oh! I have art too! (...it took me forever...)
I actually did this drawing first and it inspired me to write something on it~
I also wanted to avoid romance in it, like... I do so much romance otherwise, so... just friends... for now
Tashi is a central figure in the events of the book, though she isn’t fully aware just how important a role she has to play. She’s an orphaned shifter raised by a witch coven who feels obligated to act as a protector of her adoptive family, but overwhelmed by what threatens them all.
Starring Lamya Cade, adventurer for hire with a quick wit and battle expertise. She meets Eaduric, priest who is trying to get back into his holy sect by defeating the darkness. Action, comedy, drama. I loved writing it
He's really brave, and also stupid, his name is Alistair.
And I just got some art of the two back a few days ago 😊
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She also has a microprocessor for a brain.
She'd probably stab me if I met her in the wild.
I love her to bits.
https://gsp-shop.fourthwall.com/en-usd/collections/books
Currently working on interior illustrations of locations, the bakery and the graveyard 💖
Mix of characters with a mix of martial arts inspirations (You'll be able to see some stuff in the Quote RTs)
https://bsky.app/profile/hlroberts.bsky.social/post/3lo6rnjz3n22m
Gretchen is an absolute goblin disaster of a human, but she's a pretty great investigative reporter of the supernatural!
Her awesome mom, friend/editor, & childhood librarian commiserate with each other over her existence (& frankly they are what keeps her alive)!
My two main characters (and core couple), Athaeÿn and Shade, I love them so much. Elegant Dark Elf Vampire and big himbo Demon/Dragon man
https://www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/cold-steel/
Cover art by @yasuartstudio.bsky.social
Give it All is about my favorite ace himbo Chuck and his adorable crush on his roommates best friend.
I do feel genuinely bad about some of the things I put her though lmao
it made a good book though, at least that's what my beta readers are telling me 😂
Lorenzo, his best friend, is furious at his abandonment and is drinking and being mean about it
BURN UP IN VICTORY!
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