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she/her. ma and ba in creative writing. author. aroace 🏳️‍🌈. neurodivergent. dilf enthusiast. #amwriting adult gothic horror DEAD WATER DIRGE.

Delighted to announce that I am now represented by Anna at Intersaga Literary Agency Ltd. Anna really understood my “The Dragnificent Seven” manuscript, and after meeting, I know they get what this book is, and we both share a vision of how and where to take it forward together. Exciting times!

A photo of me alongside the text James A Lyons, represented by Intersaga Literary Agency. In the back ground is an image of a drag queen on stage with a microphone.

this was posted to satisfiction box's stories, so i think it's safe to finally announce that this amazing Black-owned book box will be giving THIS ENDS IN EMBERS a limited hardcover special edition, with the UK cover, to match the original SO LET THEM BURN one! details in 🧵

SO LET THEM BURN Satisfiction Box limited edition with sprayed edges, computer generated mock-upSO LET THEM BURN Satisfiction Box limited edition as it looks in real life, taken by my friend Ysa

i'm rearing my ugly head this side of severe burnout so let me introduce DEAD WATER DIRGE, the re-imagining of my ya historical fantasy that is now solidly ADULT GOTHIC HORROR with a hint of monsterfuckery. think nosferatu meets the shape of water set during the great stink 😈

an image of a white woman in an orange dress laid out on the shore with a river and a gloomy sky in the background. the text on top of the image reads: "Water devoured me as I slept. I drowned in deep, dark waves of a roiling sea. No matter how hard I swam toward the warped moon bobbing above me, I was dragged further and further into its depths. But, I wasn’t afraid. I had known terror since I’d returned to London, but in the womb of the water I was safe. A figure shrouded in shadows drifted by me, but as I turned to look it was gone. A flash of yellow, a pinprick of light in the unyielding black. Iridescent scales tickling the tips of my toes. Comfort. Joy. Home."

damn i really want to start working on my "vampires as an allegory for aromanticism and asexuality" where blood is used in place of sex for absolutely no reason at all. my most violent, angry, aggressively asexual book. hm. wonder why. strange that.

I just realized I never did a post for this so now you're getting it 16 days late. THIS ENDS IN EMBERS has been out for (over) one month! Seeing my completed Divine Traitors duology—which began with SO LET THEM BURN—on my shelf is just incredible. You can buy the books here: linktr.ee/kamilahcole

Me holding the US hardcover and UK paperback editions of THIS ENDS IN EMBERS

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Rachael A Edwards 🌙@rachaelawrites.bsky.social · 2y ago

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If I had to sum up FATED WINDS AND PROMISING SEAS in a single quote, it would probably be this one. At it's heart, it's a book about choices, about the costs of those choices, and the comfort and support of finding those who'd chose the same thing. It's out in the US on the 25th of February

‘It’s not about power,’ Sienna replied. ‘At least, not like that. It’s about making a choice, about taking something for our own. For people like us –’ she glanced at Cass and Erin– ‘for people like us, there is always going to be a cost. At least this is on our terms. Whatever the threads say, whatever we’re supposed to be, we can turn around and say, “No, this is what we are.”’

does anyone have any recs for gothic, historical (or historical adjacent) monsterfucker media or novels? preferably m/f (it's for comps and i don't wanna comp to a non-m/f book 'cause the expectations are different), nosferatu-esque would be fantastic 😌

Not everything has to be a discourse, please learn to ignore bad opinions from random people — I’ll logon and 37 people I know will be posting about the same bad opinion that is then sourced to like a few posts from people who have no expertise on the thing. Why give it any weight??