So after my pleasant indie book report yesterday...if you are an indie writer with a novella, novel, or collection out please feel free to post in reply and we can all celebrate indie books. My queer and BIPOC friends don't be shy. π€
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*slides over a cosmic horror/fantasy novella* It's a quick read and follows a lady historian and a city built on the corpse of a dead god (maybe) https://books2read.com/shatteredspirits
Thanks! My short story collection Jubilation Grove and Other Nightmares has it all: evil statues, crab monsters, unreliable realtors, the King in Yellow, and more!
My imprint, @s8cpublications.bsky.social, I have a collection out, and forthcoming in June. Iβm also rereleasing my haunted house novel in Sept; those are available on https://Bookshop.org (and anywhere else you like books). I have three novelettes on Amazon as well. My autobiography is from Anuci Press. πβ£οΈ
An anime-inspired urban fantasy series following six girls who are anything but ordinary as they uncover mysteries older than man, and fight evils new and old!!
I have a few indie novellas and a collection. In order: queer chosen family (super) slow-burn romance, disaster-cute comedic erotica gay romance, wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey gay romance, and queer holiday retellings.
Giulia is a punk rock singer chasing the stage high. After a post-concert fling, she wakes up with magic
powers over the time stream. Now she is pulled into an inter-pantheon showdown when her fling -a
chaos goddess- gets in over her head
Once Upon a Punk Show, coming this summer. Full cover soon!
Hi my Sword & Sorcery with lesbians came out this month. Novella Waste Flowers, one of a back-to-back Double of two Mongol-themed S&S novellas, my steppe brother being Dariel Quiogue. This is the first ever book from Brackenbury Books!
@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social https://newedgeswordandsorcery.com/shop/
Also, while weβre talking indie, can I just sayβ¦ meerkat is a small press that does the damn work and supports the heck out of their authors. Check out their whole catalogue, itβs a pretty cool space
Thanks for this Suzan! I contributed to and helped co-publish this diverse and wide-ranging anthology of spec fic from Elizabeth Bear, Daryl Gregory, and cutting-edge emerging SFF writers. Funded in under 12 hours on Kickstarter and is now out for everyone to read!
My first solo story collection, Strange Finds, dropped at the start of May! Horror and fantasy, almost always with a sprinkling of sapphic and queer themes!
recently released an illustrated cosmic horror romance set in 1570s Spain where the ineffable horror of what lies beyond the stars meets Christian mysticism as an asexual woman questions her faith and her attraction toward a strange celestial entity
this is it. I'm like I need to sell a book to buy a book. Please help me in my cause everyone. Then I'm like oh I might get some money. Let me selfishly boost people so I can see which books to buy.
Let's see...
-Regency-inspired romantasy, marriage of convenience with a bestial grand duke LI and a transman MC
-novella series of two aroace autistic men in the 40s falling in love for the first time with each other
-single author anthology of mostly monsterxhuman queer romances, largely transmasc
Also sent a message to Books2Read (by Draft2Digital) asking them to add Itchio as a link option for their UBLs, so if you use B2R (and you don't need to use D2D, btw!) and list your books on itchio, let them know you'd like the link option as well to keep your UBL up to date!
I have an indie novella people might like in the shape of Glunda The Veg Witch, a Pratchett inspired tale that was a finalist in the Book Blogger Novel of the Year Award 2024.
I have several queer novellas out on itch, including a paranormal romance with a nonbinary demigod, my historical romance with a trans basilisk who falls for an exiled Medusa, and three sapphic Arthuriana stories:
Thanks!
Linh & 3 classmates step from an Aussie island to a Bronze-Age world. No one knows why, and the myths a local offers as explanation don't add up.
Answers lie across a war zone, with a once in a lifetime chance to change a world. Linh seizes both.
Currently free on Smashwords! The well-known story of American inequality told from the unexplored perspective of someone living "on the inside" of privilege. Confined by his crimes and ignorance, now he has to learn what it's like living without those privileges. As karma calls, empathy follows.
How kind of you. I really don't promo my own work enough. I write #HopePunk #Fantasy adventures. More info can be found on my website: https://crcollins.org/
Hey thanks for this! Put out my solo scifi collection last year- 14 stories of consumption, devourship, and the vanished. Plus a few of my favourite cut-and-paste collage pieces, right over here https://arstp.itch.io/vore-tech
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https://bsky.app/profile/maybarros.com.br/post/3lkqkkpwgr22e
This is my indie #LolaStarke series, 3 books and counting (slowly lol)
Details & buyπ https://sgwong.com/books/lola-starke-series/
and I love when people borrow from their local library or request their library to acquire π
Background:
a lesbian sword & sorcery short here, for free: https://swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/loves-red-blossom/
a trans MC cozy romance featured in this (free if you choose it) https://wyngraf.itch.io/wyngraf-romance-special-2025
lesbians in this (free) weird western: https://www.roguesinthehousepresents.com/post/short-story-tainted-soil-by-luana-siatta
CHRONO X ANGEL: Guiding Light
An anime-inspired urban fantasy series following six girls who are anything but ordinary as they uncover mysteries older than man, and fight evils new and old!!
Book 1 is free to read on wattpad!!
https://www.wattpad.com/story/377236376?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_writing&wp_page=create&wp_uname=Reiko_Writes
Ahem. Professional writer and former bookseller. *thumbs up*
HH: https://books2read.com/u/3GAwpa
RA: https://books2read.com/u/3yzaQ6
IM: https://books2read.com/u/4DW0kQ
UtMQ: https://books2read.com/u/4X5Mk6
powers over the time stream. Now she is pulled into an inter-pantheon showdown when her fling -a
chaos goddess- gets in over her head
Once Upon a Punk Show, coming this summer. Full cover soon!
@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
https://newedgeswordandsorcery.com/shop/
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https://bsky.app/profile/parisvivian.bsky.social/post/3lpdf5o57e22r
https://bsky.app/profile/parisvivian.bsky.social/post/3lptqagfdhs2d
Itβs got a non binary MC, monsters, magic, romance, angst, all those wonderful things!
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
https://zgclover.itch.io/mystic-missi...
PROUD PINK SKY is a #cyberpunk story set in the worldβs first #gay state β complete with #bi slums and #trans ghettoes π³οΈββ§οΈ
THE GIDDY DEATH is a comedic adventure of #polyamory and #nonbinary life in Wales π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ
You can read more on my website: https://redjon.com
Emma's Story is my debut novella, it's a bit of an experiment of voices and themes, but it came out well enough and I'm still happy with it.
A wintry tale about a young woman, a big decision, friendship, and expectations. There's also a bear and a young man.
https://geni.us/emmasstory
Eek.
https://bsky.app/profile/anna-orridge.bsky.social/post/3lpr7abtqzc2n
(And found family and queerness and revolution but the space mermaids feel like the best place to start)
https://meerkatpress.com/books/twice-spent-comet/
https://books2read.com/newyearnewyoustories
itchioπ: https://krystal-a-smith.itch.io/sheila-on-the-mend
payhipπ·οΈ: https://payhip.com/b/wT3nW
Books2read: https://books2read.com/u/mda0NW
https://dracoqueen22.itch.io/
https://books2read.com/u/m08XzA
https://emrynbird.itch.io/hallowed-be-her-flesh
THE CRADLE OF ETERNAL NIGHT is angsty and illustrated by Pom Poison
π€ https://books2read.com/thecradleofeternalnight
β¨ https://ladzwriting.itch.io/the-cradle-of-eternal-night
psst... may I ... interest you ? (or anyone really!!)
https://claudiearseneault.com/my-books/
links:
https://kamielke.itch.io/goblin-girl
https://lorimer.ca/childrens/product/lonely-in-happy-town/
-Regency-inspired romantasy, marriage of convenience with a bestial grand duke LI and a transman MC
-novella series of two aroace autistic men in the 40s falling in love for the first time with each other
-single author anthology of mostly monsterxhuman queer romances, largely transmasc
The Grand Duke's Masseur: https://books2read.com/u/b5Pr1A
itchio: https://sbdrag.itch.io/the-grand-dukes-masseur
Qozy Queerotica: https://www.amazon.com/Qozy-Queerotica-Wholesome-Monster-Anthology-ebook/dp/B0DT4P5RSG
itchio: https://sbdrag.itch.io/qozy-queerotica
Demon King's Gardener (first book): https://books2read.com/links/ubl/31QvP7/
itchio: https://sbdrag.itch.io/demon-kings-gardener-volume-i
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Dee-Arbacauskas/author/B0DC4NQB1M
Itch: https://tormentedartifacts.itch.io/
Two queer cosmic horror novels, with more on the way soon. One's even fully illustrated by me as well.
If not, rip mb. ;-;
#CosyFantasy
https://riengray.itch.io/
Read these deaths and more in Killer Debt: An Anthology of Murder
Buy on Itch: https://diannagunn.itch.io/killer-debt
And elsewhere: https://books2read.com/u/bO9Ne9
Oh, and signed copies exist @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social!
Linh & 3 classmates step from an Aussie island to a Bronze-Age world. No one knows why, and the myths a local offers as explanation don't add up.
Answers lie across a war zone, with a once in a lifetime chance to change a world. Linh seizes both.
β οΈπππͺππ https://elisecarlson.com/ruarnon-trilogy/
I've got three books in a fairy tales-meet-musical theatre fantasy series, and a collection of short fiction and poetry retellings!
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https://books2read.com/uncontinented
https://hadencross.itch.io/the-uncontinented-stars
https://books2read.com/rl/fireborn-series
https://books2read.com/u/b6J2E0
Queer horror comedy about a cryptid hunter whose online persona begins to bleed into his real life: https://books2read.com/u/boB9YL
And my political epic fantasy in which a Faustian pact with a demon damns the family it was meant to protect: https://books2read.com/b/49dn8Y
Books2Read: https://books2read.com/u/mg6kl7
Itch: https://seannb.itch.io/scurry
https://queenofswordspress.com/product/little-nothing/
My first novel. Dark fantasy m/m romance with plot-relevant spice.
https://www.lulu.com/shop/simon-bransby/whyte-demon/ebook/product-rm89m6y.html
https://arstp.itch.io/vore-tech
DE also just came out in audio, and AP audio comes this summer.
Might also be working on some new stuff right now. π
https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=itF6lQ1VqsgfmfpYhwzdwIQ7qVYLRHkik9UyI8hLVK9
https://jenniferrdonohue.itch.io/exit-ghost
https://books2read.com/ExitGhost