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Rien Joyce

@rienjoyce.bsky.social

Self-indulgent author of dark queer adult fantasy and horror erotica. Evil and in heat. Website - rienjoyce.carrd.co/ Newsletter - buttondown.com/rienjoyce Current WIP: FLESH - A queer dark erotic novella coming October 2026

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Rien Joyce@rienjoyce.bsky.social · 2d ago

The cover for my queer erotic horror novella FLESH was illustrated by the incredible @welldipper.bsky.social with typesetting by me. FLESH is about a man who makes bad decisions with his dick and ends up hunted through the woods by a Fae and their hounds. payhip.com/RienWrites

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Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨@cometkins.bsky.social · 3d ago

How about a promo day today? Share the cover (with credits!) of your most recent release, what it's about, and where to find it! #WritingPrompt

Rien Gray@riengray.bsky.social · 3d ago

Galeas the Keen is my butch/femme retelling of The Fisher King, starring a blind knight seeking the source of a cursed flood, and the wounded noblewoman trapped in the waters ⚔️ cover by me! 🔥High Heat 🌊 Lush Prose 💪 Disabled Power Couple 📱 riengray.itch.io/galeas-the-k... 📖 riengray.shop/b/wYrcg

The cover of Galeas the Keen by Rien Gray. A white marble background is overlaid with plant imagery, framed by waves, with a blank open eye in the center.
Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨@cometkins.bsky.social · 3d ago

How about a promo day today? Share the cover (with credits!) of your most recent release, what it's about, and where to find it! #WritingPrompt

Rien Joyce@rienjoyce.bsky.social · 2d ago

The cover for my queer erotic horror novella FLESH was illustrated by the incredible @welldipper.bsky.social with typesetting by me. FLESH is about a man who makes bad decisions with his dick and ends up hunted through the woods by a Fae and their hounds. payhip.com/RienWrites

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Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨@cometkins.bsky.social · 3d ago

How about a promo day today? Share the cover (with credits!) of your most recent release, what it's about, and where to find it! #WritingPrompt

🌙Lumeria🌙@lumeriadeborel.bsky.social · 3d ago

Hi everyone, just a little PSA. Artists need you now more than ever. Please share their art, shop and commission posts. For many, this is their source of income and the more eyes on their creations, the better. Remember that YOU are the algorithm. Thank you 🫶💕

Rien Joyce@rienjoyce.bsky.social · 3d ago

If you're still looking for a quick read for the end of October, my queer erotic horror novella might be what you're looking for! For lovers of pathetic men, nasty women, and people who want to be hunted through the woods like an animal. #booksky #queerhorror #erotica #adult

FLESH (ebook)

David isn't thinking with his head when a strange woman leads him into the woods behind his favorite dive bar. Lost and abandoned, the sound of the night is broken by the baying of hounds and the bell...

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Rien Joyce@rienjoyce.bsky.social · 3d ago

#LitHodgepodge 23 Oh I would love to team up with a badass leatherworker to make some cuff and collar sets based off David's work in FLESH.

Pamela Jeong 🎃🫜@pamelajeong.bsky.social · 4d ago

#LitHodgepodge 23 Your WIP is getting its own bookish merch! Tell us about an item you’d love to see made real. A heat-activated mug with a changing memorable quote? Or something a bit more out there… villain-endorsed candy heart poison tablets, perhaps? #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky

#LITHODGEPODGE Hosted by @pamelajeong.bsky.social An October Prompt Game of Miscellaneous Proportions FRIDAY FLIGHTS OF FANCY [Graphic of a winged angel holding a book] Prompt: 23 | Your book is a runaway success, and now there’s merch coming! What’s something from your book that you’d love to see in physical form? What kind of item would it be? [Graphic of a talking crow] I must confess, it is a dream of mine to see a beautifully produced wall calendar featuring yours truly, Oscrow Wilde, and my famous epigrams. “I can resist anything except temptation—the temptation to peck at those who rightly deserve it,” for example, would be perfect for March. Join tomorrow for Saturday Snap Judgments!
Ezra Arndt@arndtezra.bsky.social · 5d ago

If Sherlock Holmes retellings that are queer and awesome are your type of thing, check out @olivejkelley.bsky.social's Kickstarter campaign. Olive is running this for another twenty-eight days and is halfway there! www.kickstarter.com/projects/olivejkelley/watkins-and-hemlock-volume-one-ouroboros

Watkins & Hemlock Volume One: Ouroboros

A paperback collection of the first volume of mystery serial novel Watkins & Hemlock with cover art by M.E. Morgan.

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Johannes T. Evans@johannestevans.co.uk · last wk.

Your name is Oli, and you're a trans masc messenger who is trying to get an urgent message to the other side of this dangerous magical family's fancy gardens, through which you're trespassing. And there's monsters with their dicks out! johannestevans.co.uk/2026/10/20/t...

The Chiari Pleasure Gardens

This is just under 6k for now, but here’s a little interactive text-based game with a few endings. Your name is Oli, and you’re a trans masc messenger who is trying to get an urgent mes…

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Rien Joyce@rienjoyce.bsky.social · 7d ago

#LitHodgepodge 20 FLESH is, in the end, a monster-fucker horror. The monsters are Fae, but I'll be honest that I play really fast and loose with the lore. Otherwise, "Don't go into the Woods" and "Making Bad Decisions With My Dick" are strong contenders.

With profound relief, his aching eyes picked up a lessening of the darkness. David turned towards it, seeking the light. He broke through the edge of the tree and found himself in a moon-washed meadow. A lush field of pale blue flowers turning their faces up to the night sky. The moon dominated the sky overhead, huge and yellow. He slowed, stopped as he reached the empty center of the meadow, where the babble of a stream cut through the grass and silence. David turned a slow circle. The grass and wildflowers brushed against his knees and thighs, leaving streaks of silvery pollen. The dark trees around the edges rose like sentinels and here he got the impression of their towering tops, dark branches stretched like hands through the open dark sky above the meadow but unable to touch. Their fingers shattered the thick blanket of glittering stars. The longer he looked at them, the more he became aware of a sensation that wasn’t quiet sound, a vibration that wasn’t quiet song. It thrilled up his spine and hummed in his skull without need for his ears to hear. A celestial orchestra that threatened to take him to pieces by resonance alone. Nothing like this existed in his city of asphalt and dust. Fear dripped ice down his spine.
Pamela Jeong 🎃🫜@pamelajeong.bsky.social · last wk.

#LitHodgepodge 20 Even if it's unintentional, chances are, there are genre tropes in your WIP. Try to identify one (a good starting point can be thinking about elements that could draw comparisons to other stories). How does the trope work in your story? #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky

#LITHODGEPODGE Hosted by @pamelajeong.bsky.social An October Prompt Game of Miscellaneous Proportions TUESDAY TROPES [Graphic of an old man wanderer, with a sack on his back and a long walking stick, and a black cat] Prompt: 20 | Tell us about a genre-specific trope in your WIP. Which trope is it, and how does it function in the story? How do you utilize, and perhaps subvert, expected patterns? Feel free to share a snip. [Graphic of a talking crow] Tropes are essential to the conventions that define each genre. Fantasy tropes include the chosen one, inconvenient prophecies, and the quest. Romance has enemies to lovers, one bed, and fake dating. Mystery? We might see some cursed objects and creepy old houses. Join tomorrow for Wednesday Wordsmiths!
Kristin 🇨🇦🤓@faierius.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I enjoy writing. I primarily write with myself as the main audience. That being said, if you're reading something by an indie author (or partaking in any indie media) and you enjoy it, PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, TELL US. We LIVE for comments and gushing and all that. Even an emoji. <3

Rien Joyce@rienjoyce.bsky.social · last wk.

#LitHodgepodge 19 Oh this one's a little hard! David's not a particularly materialistic person. He is fond of his leather jacket, his truck, and his leather-working tools. He is probably more sentimental about gifts he has made and given away, such as his mentor's leather cap.

Pamela Jeong 🎃🫜@pamelajeong.bsky.social · last wk.

#LitHodgepodge 19 Most people have a few treasured possessions, even if they’re otherwise nonmaterialistic. What possession does your character hold most dear? Why is it so important to them? As always, feel free to answer for yourself as well. #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky

#LITHODGEPODGE Hosted by @pamelajeong.bsky.social An October Prompt Game of Miscellaneous Proportions MONDAYS WITH MARCEL [Black & white picture of Marcel Proust, a man of the fin de siècle who had dark hair, sleepy eyes, and a dark mustache, sitting with his elbow propped on the back of his chair and looking pensive] Prompt: 19 | Answer as one or each of your characters (as well as yourself, if you wish!): What is your most treasured possession? [Graphic of a talking crow] The Proust Questionnaire is a set of questions popularized by French writer Marcel Proust. Victorians answered these questions in parlor games, and modern interviewers now often use them. They can also be a great character development tool! Join tomorrow for Tuesday Tropes!
Rien Joyce@rienjoyce.bsky.social · last wk.

In my free time from writing, my partner snd I are starting up a campaign in Battletech. I am currently wallowing in spreadsheet hell. I need to add another unit of motorized infantry but it changes all my spare parts, fuel, and salary calculations.

Akiva Lee@akivaleewrites.bsky.social · last wk.

I haven't done self-promo in literal months, so here's a Halloween reminder: SACRIFICE THEORY, my queer vampire romance novelette, is free to read on my website. Readers describe it as "horny." Recommended for fans of graphic vampire violence, revenge, and trans guys getting the loving they deserve.

Sacrifice Theory

Cover by Brian Yaksha. This work contains explicit sexual scenes between adults, as well as graphic violence. Major themes and triggers include: blood drinking, physical/sexual abuse (off-page), se…

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V. E. Phemera@visceralhit.bsky.social · last wk.

No matter what anyone tells you in indie, “debut” day for your novel doesn’t mean shit. Keep posting it. Every day is your book’s birthday. Mine have done their best sales 3 years after release. Just keep talking about it.

Hog Wild@toadally.bsky.social · last wk.

Something I see a lot of well-meaning artists do is get discouraged when they post their work here and don’t receive feedback. You have to be social on social media. Posting and running, without ever engaging with others and their craft will not give you the results you want. Art is about community.

Emma Williams@emanemz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Please can you give my posts a boost? I’ve managed a couple of sales but in order to progress and build a business I need to sell a few little bits to be able to self fund this please help me if you can. As I’m guessing nowhere fast and I really need to prove myself right this time. 

A table with a pink cutting mat, various fabrics folded up pairs of scissors, rulers, and eight scrunchies from top to bottom a pink scrunchie, a yellow and green scrunchie with positive affirmations, a red and black dragon scrunchie, a pink and multicoloured sugar skull scrunchie, a grey and black dragon scrunchie, a aqua mermaid scrunchie, and two black and green chameleon scrunchies 
Emma Williams@emanemz.bsky.social · 2w ago

The selection of fabrics I have managed to accumulate with a Halloween theme. For scrunchies and dog bandanas. Please drop me a message 🤞🦇🎃👻🧙🏼‍♀️🕸️.

A dining room table with four fabric on it one fabric has pumpkins Mermaids and cats in pink. The next fabric has pink background with sugar skulls. The next fabric has a black background with sugar skulls and flowers and the last fabric has a black background with day of the dead Kat and fish and fish bowls. 
Rien Joyce@rienjoyce.bsky.social · 2w ago

#LitHodgepodge 16 Mercedes Lackey and Ursula K Le Guin. Massively influential to me and super interesting authors. I just want to pick their brains about craft and all sorts of subjects, haha.

Pamela Jeong 🎃🫜@pamelajeong.bsky.social · 2w ago

#LitHodgepodge 16 Pick a writer—one living, one dead—for a book tour event! Someone you admire, might vibe with, was a major influence...whatever tickles your fancy. (& we know you're not saying you're as good as them. Though you may well be closer than you think) #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#LITHODGEPODGE Hosted by @pamelajeong.bsky.social An October Prompt Game of Miscellaneous Proportions FRIDAY FLIGHTS OF FANCY [Graphic of a winged angel holding a book] Prompt: 16 | You’re on the book tour of your dreams! You get to do an event with any living writer of your choice... AND any dead writer of your choice! Who are you sitting down with? [Graphic of a talking crow] Book tour events often involve other writers, either as moderators or conversation partners. I should very much like to speak with that Edgar Allan Poe... I’ve a question or two regarding certain choices he’s made. Join tomorrow for Saturday Snap Judgments!
Rien Joyce@rienjoyce.bsky.social · 2w ago

I want to make a tea based on FLESH. I think a base of lapsang souchong with juniper berries?? Idk, ideas they float about my brain while I try and nail down the high level blurbs for the next couple books and the full outline for the sequel.