HAPPY PRIDE MONTH TO MEEEEE!!! My super gay urban fantasy is coming Spring 2027! It has: - Contract Magic - Heists - and a lovable dumbass Come for the Smoky Mountain setting, stay for the M/M/M shenanigans ✨ art by the amazing @mmarsloud.bsky.social

Here it is, the gorgeous US cover for THE POISON PALACE, a re-telling of the story of Alexander's invasion of the Indian subcontinent through the point of view of a vishkanya (the poison maiden of Indian myth). This is my debut, the book I gave everything of myself to, and now I send it out to you.

Almost time ⭐️ [ #cuteart #christmas ]

My friend @esselle.bsky.social made a book trailer for #DeadMansBlood 😳 She was a creative co-conspirator for this toxic little book and a perfect cheerleader. Dead Man's Blood is an adult horror romance; it's spicy, it's angry, and it's really gay.

I wrote a toxic queer thing! Dead Man's Blood is an adult horror romance for fans of Interview with the Vampire (TV), Don't Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo, and the upcoming Spread Me by Sarah Gailey. It's spicy, it's angry, and it's really gay. On sub now!

the lesson execs should learn from sinners: people want ambitious, original, extremely hot movies with something to say the lesson they will learn, probably: people want 𝔳𝔞𝔪𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔢

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

Did not expect this random obliteration of my heart and also to say thank you afterward. Gorgeous.

Gailey 🍉@sarahgailey.bsky.social · last yr.

I am so moved to get to share this with you all: the fourth installment in the Love Letters essay series. Nell, or: This Is Practically The Way It All Happened (give or bloody take), Peter S. Beagle's reflections on a thirty-five year romance with the woman he still calls "my one love".

Thrilled to finally share the cover of my debut dark fantasy novel, HOUSE OF THE BEAST! Illustrated by @whereiseileen.bsky.social and published by @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social

Arcane,

I cannot believe I finally get to announce this. An unhinged dream, so many years and monologues in the making. I'm elate to announce my debut novel VILE LADY VILLAINS, a horromantasy about Klytemnestra and Lady Macbeth, will be published with Penguin Michael Joseph in 2026.

If you like weirdos (complimentary) and horny books (extremely complimentary) or you just want to spend A MODEST $3.99 to convince marketing that I'm a promotional genius PLEASE BUY/PREORDER THE BOOKS: amzn.to/45SEFzd Includes: bisexual hijinks, murder ladies, a horny dragon, and M A G I C ! ! !

COVER REVEAL TIME! Check out The Duke at Hazard, art by Chloe Friedlein. Coming 18th July from Orion in print, e, and audio (reader is tbc). Up for preorder in all the usual places! www.amazon.com/Duke-Hazard-... www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/... books.apple.com/us/book/the-...

I wrote a polemic today while doing a survey. It's definitely a polemic. but I was asked the question of what I wanted the researchers to understand about being a professional writer. And actually, I want everyone to understand this. I posted it on ko-fi. I'm asking for tips; I'm broke.

Art in the Time of Algorithmic Grift

C. L. Polk published a post on Ko-fi

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My partners have started reading the new WIP

Holding a Gender Conceal party, in which I climb into a cake and my gender is never mentioned again.

The insistence on "likeable characters" has really messed up novels, which are obviously best when narrated by a weird little delusional freak

Grammar matters (take a look, it's in a book) 🦋✨