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Melissa Caruso

@melissacaruso.bsky.social

Fantasy author (THE TETHERED MAGE, THE OBSIDIAN TOWER, THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS, etc). Tea drinker, larper, mom. Swordfights in ballgowns. THE LAST STAR IN THE VOID coming 11/26!

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Melissa Caruso@melissacaruso.bsky.social · last wk.

Hit the inevitable point in my drafting process where I realize I'm repeating the same beats in multiple places I really wish this weren't apparently my process 😅 But now that I can see it, I can fix it, which is exciting! I love when the shape of the story starts to emerge from the clouds

Melissa Caruso@melissacaruso.bsky.social · 3w ago

I have discovered recently that a bunch of people don't know that there's a third Echo Archives book, let alone that it's publishing in November! So YES!!! It exists, it's coming out this year, it's purple! It's THE LAST STAR IN THE VOID!!!

Cover for The Last Star in the Void, which has three golden chalices connected by swirly lines on a bacckground of stars, and a figure of a woman with a sword in front of the biggest chalice
Melissa Caruso@melissacaruso.bsky.social · 4w ago

HEY NERDS!!!!! IT'S TEATIME!!!! Friday Afternoon Tea makes incredibly delicious tea and some absolutely brilliantly thought out (and TASTY) fandom blends. I have loved everything I've ordered from them. Help a small business survive and treat yourself! www.fridaytea.com

Friday Afternoon Tea

Tasty teas and community events in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood. Custom blending services available! We offer retail and wholesale bulk tea.

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Friday Afternoon Tea@fridaytea.com · 4w ago

🎶Reeeeeal talk: indie 3rd place edition🎶 While Pride is typically "2nd christmas" here at the West Coast's Gayest Tea Shop, that was NOT the case this year. Everyone's numbers are down and summer is always a tight time for the specialty tea industry anyway, so we're *struggling*. (1/🧵)

Melissa Caruso@melissacaruso.bsky.social · 4w ago

If you'll be at ReaderCon this weekend, I'll be there Friday night & part of Saturday! My panel schedule: Fri: 7 PM - Why "Morally Gray" Characters Get All the Love 8 PM - Very Good Dogs In Speculative Fiction Sat: 11 AM - Beyond Coming of Age: Cultural Narratives Around Aging and Surviving

Melissa Caruso@melissacaruso.bsky.social · last mo.

Moira Quirk is my absolute favorite narrator (ever since Gideon, just wow) and when I found out she'd signed on to do the TLHBW audiobook I literally screamed and ran around my house waving my arms in the air Her narration is SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm the luckiest author ever 🤩

Fiona Hopkins 🏳️‍⚧️@fionawh.im · last mo.

If you haven’t heard Moira Quirk as whiny Gideon wanting to eat a dessert you haven’t really heard audiobooks. It’s fantastic fun to hear her read @melissacaruso.bsky.social’s The Last Hour Between Worlds, the first novel in a series that I am totally normal about right now, promise.

Melissa Caruso@melissacaruso.bsky.social · last mo.

OK so GODBURNED is by @fozmeadows.bsky.social and bluesky autofilled the wrong handle for me! I don't want to delete the post but it's by Foz Meadows, not the other person I tagged who very kindly pointed out my mistake 😅

Melissa Caruso@melissacaruso.bsky.social · last mo.

Since it's B&N preorder sale time, I just read a couple of REALLY GOOD books you can preorder now! GODBURNED by @fozrotten.bsky.social is a feelings roller coaster with fantastic worldbuilding & character work (and traumatized disaster gays with god powers): www.barnesandnoble.com/w/godburned-...

Melissa Caruso@melissacaruso.bsky.social · last mo.

Since it's B&N preorder sale time, I just read a couple of REALLY GOOD books you can preorder now! GODBURNED by @fozrotten.bsky.social is a feelings roller coaster with fantastic worldbuilding & character work (and traumatized disaster gays with god powers): www.barnesandnoble.com/w/godburned-...

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Melissa Caruso@melissacaruso.bsky.social · last mo.

Oh hey, it's B&N preorder sale time! If you get books from Barnes & Noble, it's a great time to get THE LAST STAR IN THE VOID at 25% off! Preorders send signals to bookstores on what to stock, so also a great chance to boost deubts & series-starters! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-last-s...

The Last Star in the Void

Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership.

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S.L. Dove Cooper@dovelynnwriter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ICYMI: I’m always looking to hear about (upcoming specifically in this case) aspec books to keep an eye on!

S.L. Dove Cooper@dovelynnwriter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hit me with your June (or later) aspec releases! I wanna know about them all! (And then I want to add them to my aspec releases column going up at the start of July.) (Also: if you're running an aspec crowdfunding thing it'd make sense to include in that posting time frame, let me know that too!)

K.A. Doore@kadoore.com · 2mo ago

I need to stretch my recommending muscles, so let's do this: one like, one queer adult SFF book recommendation. Bonus: If you comment with your fave book, trope, color, etc, I'll pair a rec to it. :) 🌈📚