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Writer of things. https://devan-barlow.itch.io/ devanbarlow.com she/her 2025 Hugo Poetry Nominee books, dogs, fairy tales, theatre, tea, coffee, sea monsters icon:@liuet.bsky.social
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Campaign day 5 - 82% funded. Join us and back for a surge this weekend to our base goal. “Mmeory” a multi genre anthology of memory manipulation stories is live at www.kickstarter.com/projects/526.... Here is a look at the full wrap around cover #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky #fiction

Want to feel as cozy as Ben in his crochet blanket? Pick up my Curses & Curtains series! Fantasy novels about fairy tales and musical theatre, full of friends working hard to help one another devan-barlow.itch.io books2read.com/u/bzKXBj books2read.com/u/bp1nBW books2read.com/u/bOD2LE #BookSky 💙📚

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It's bad enough discovering your fiancé is a cursed prince, but then someone writes a magical musical about it... In Curses & Curtains, musical theatre is the dominant form of pop culture, and I have SO much fun developing and writing lyrics for all the in-universe musicals. #BookSky 💙📚

Anyone Can Whistle Stranger to the Rain 100 Easy Ways to Lose a Man

Ben is so skilled at snuggling!

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Writers of whom I have read more than twenty (20) books: Agatha Christie Ngaio Marsh Tanya Huff Diana Wynne Jones CLAMP Tanith Lee

Want to feel as cozy as Ben in his crochet blanket? Pick up my Curses & Curtains series! Fantasy novels about fairy tales and musical theatre, full of friends working hard to help one another devan-barlow.itch.io books2read.com/u/bzKXBj books2read.com/u/bp1nBW books2read.com/u/bOD2LE #BookSky 💙📚

For anyone needing to see a sweet pup right now!

It's time to learn the names, spore prints, habitat and ranges of many fungi, with "A Widow's Field Guide to Fungi" by @marissavu.bsky.social. Bring a canteen and something to wipe your hands: this may get messy. smallwondersmag.com/...

If you've ever belted along to an Original Broadway Cast Recording, you'll love my Curses & Curtains series!

Strange Horizons is fundraising! Please back if you can

For anyone needing to see a sweet pup right now!

Here's my story up at Trollbreath! 🐲Oh no, it's the apocalypse 🐲But it's not as advertised 🐲A whimsical amusement park 🐲Besties 🐲Epistolary stories for the win

Kobo plus is so much better than kindle unlimited from a reader perspective. I never considered signing up for unlimited because I don't read fast enough to make it financially worthwhile, but wait... kobo plus makes it possible to burn through several years of SFFH magazines? That seems good.

Stock up on my books to read this weekend!

Hard to believe the Ignyte announcement was this week but this week has also been a thousand years long! 🙃 ANYWAY help keep my kitties fed and me alive and writing! Pick up the multiply award-nominated THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST today! :D us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Only a few days left! Bid bid bid!

Ben is so skilled at snuggling!

It's bad enough discovering your fiancé is a cursed prince, but then someone writes a magical musical about it... In Curses & Curtains, musical theatre is the dominant form of pop culture, and I have SO much fun developing and writing lyrics for all the in-universe musicals. #BookSky 💙📚

Hey #ofmd fam! Can we give a little love to the #createjoy online auction benefiting the Cache Pride Center? I know we love a good online action for a good cause. www.32auctions.com/CreateJoy?r=...

Inspired by Sailor Saturn! (it's more purple in person...)

Want to feel as cozy as Ben in his crochet blanket? Pick up my Curses & Curtains series! Fantasy novels about fairy tales and musical theatre, full of friends working hard to help one another devan-barlow.itch.io books2read.com/u/bzKXBj books2read.com/u/bp1nBW books2read.com/u/bOD2LE #BookSky 💙📚

Want to feel as cozy as Ben in his crochet blanket? Pick up my Curses & Curtains series! Fantasy novels about fairy tales and musical theatre, full of friends working hard to help one another devan-barlow.itch.io books2read.com/u/bzKXBj books2read.com/u/bp1nBW books2read.com/u/bOD2LE

Buy my books, support my disgruntled hound! Fairytales-meet-musicals fantasy novels! books2read.com/u/bzKXBj books2read.com/u/bp1nBW books2read.com/u/bOD2LE Short fic/poetry retelling collection! books2read.com/u/bOqZKN

I absolutely adore this novella series

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Buy my books, support my disgruntled hound! Fairytales-meet-musicals fantasy novels! books2read.com/u/bzKXBj books2read.com/u/bp1nBW books2read.com/u/bOD2LE Short fic/poetry retelling collection! books2read.com/u/bOqZKN

Good morning, Crouton wondered around the kitchen making pitiful meows until i gave him a different, SECOND giant bowl of water to sip from and splash in 😅

I have been encouraged by communitea members to ask for help in paying down the debt that has made building up an operations buffer impossible, thus causing small setbacks to become critical. We've never been so popular, yet never more precarious. Here's the ugly side of a bootstrapped indie: 🧵

It's Friday the 13th, and you know what THAT means! This is the only day this year to pick up Lucky 13! "Tastes like Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but tea!" say our customers.

Looking for a new Arthurian read? The last piece in my collection, the novella "All the Ways We Drown" is perfect for anyone who's ever been annoyed by Lancelot AKA "Elaine of Astolat and Elaine of Corbenic take matters into their own hands" #BookSky 📚💙

Perfect spooky Friday the 13th reading! Including a story by me!

Have you read? Tree-Time by Devan Barlow at Corvid Queen A poem, a fairy tale, of choosing the life you want to live rather than the one prescribed to you. corvidqueen.com/stories/tree...

I've been threatening for a while to start a column on collections of weird fiction, and so: Profane Illuminations, a quarterly series where I'll look at a few in tandem and see what threads I can draw out about their stories and the genre at large. Quick intro here, first full entry next week.

Issue 12 includes a spooky ocean story by me!!!

Evil Under the Sun (Ustinov version) Kiss Me Kate Inside Man