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Fiadh Melina | SFF Author

@fiadh.melina

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Greek-Irish writer, maker, spoonie & dreamer - writing queer books about ruin and resistance 🚫 AI
⚔️ QUIET GODS: 9th Feb 2027
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THANK YOUUUUUUUUU FOR 100+ PRE-ORDERS ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥😭💫

Giveaway rules:
- Must be following @fiadh.melina
- Share this post to your story
- Tag a friend below (comment your favourite MCs or Books for a bonus point!)
- Each comment = one entry. you can comment as many times as you like
- For an extra x5 entries, submit pre-order proof in the incentives form (link in bio)
- Open until November 1st 2026
- I will contact winners from this account only
- Open internationally

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#fantasybooks #dystopianfantasy #sffbooks #sciencefantasy #dystopianbooks soulmates forced proximity enemies to lovers slow burn rage vengeance disability rep own voice nonbinary genderfluid fantasy dark fantasy dark science fantasy by @fiadh.melina

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A little intro post to what it’s like being a writer living with MECFS (and endo but that’s for another post) 🤍 I’ve had MECFS since a covid infection in late 2021, and it has shifted to varying degrees of intensity over the last five years. At the moment it is ‘mild’ which still means about 30% the life quality of a healthy person. So I am always tired in a way sleep and rest can’t fix, always pacing in case something will tip me over another edge and make it worse 🌝 so when anyone comes at the Gen AI conversation about it making art ‘accessible’ to disabled people, I go straight into fight mode 🫩

DMs always open for any other chronically ill spoonies 🫶🏼

#mecfsawareness #writingcommunity #spoonielife #writinglife #mecfs by @fiadh.melina

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4 months ago

Despite releasing in the same week, these two upcoming fantasy debuts couldn’t be more different! ✨Let’s compare, because fantasy is a spectrum.✨

⚔️Ballad of the Silver Branch By @r.c.collinsauthor
The Cruel Prince meets Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries meets Outlander.
Róisín never meant to cross the veil into Tír na nÓg, let alone become bound to a mysterious sídhe prince after he saves her life.
Now, she must find the legendary Silver Branch and a way home, all while navigating dangerous fae, ancient magic, deadly bargains, and political intrigue. But in a world full of secrets, finding her way back might be more complicated than she ever imagined.

🐉Quiet Gods by @fiadh.melina
Gen-V meets The Handmaid’s Tale in QUIET GODS, a coming-of-rage dystopian fantasy with an MC who vows vengeance after an empire-funded priesthood takes away everything they’ve ever cared for. With the power of a shapeshifting daemon in their DNA, Ellie has more than enough strength to bring complete ruination, unless grief destroys them first.

This post was inspired by @elisabethgmark.author and @meganshadeauthor by @fiadh.melina

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They are a means to one another’s ends ⚔️

We’re gaining on 150 pre-orders! I’m completely blown away 🤯 I may add a little bonus incentive at 150 and drop some insane art of Sapphire I have sitting in my inbox 🤭

Messy messy resistant soulmates in a technocratic world where bodies are commodities and knowledge of the arcane is a danger to o km rder.

Swipe to see pre-order incentives and where to buy! All 🔗 s are on my carrd 🤍

Art by @sayaartss
Cover by @_sushinori_

🏷️ 🏷️

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#fantasybooks #dystopianfantasy #sffbooks #sciencefantasy #dystopianbooks soulmates enbyxm forced proximity enemies to lovers slow burn rage vengeance disability rep own voice nonbinary genderfluid fantasy dark fantasy dark science fantasy by @fiadh.melina

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“I can fix them.”
No Raeia. No you can’t.
Raeia has strong Virgo energy. Sapphire (Ellie) is Aries. Do what you will with that. 🌝

(Not the main romance subplot in this trilogy but still an important relationship/friendship/something)

99c pre-orders until September 13! After that it will go up to 2.99 to match kobo 🛍️

Art by @cjowoart
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#fantasybooks #dystopianfantasy #sffbooks #sciencefantasy #dystopianbooks soulmates forced proximity enemies to lovers slow burn sapphic rage vengeance disability rep own voice nonbinary genderfluid fantasy dark fantasy dark science fantasy by @fiadh.melina

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wip sneakpeak 🤍

Subter is one I’ve been noodling in my head for a couple years and I’ve gotten a some chapters down and a loose outline. It takes place in the same world as Quiet Gods, and ‘Subter’ (the underground city) is mentioned a couple of times by Sapphire 👀 you might even get to meet Ophelia and Whelan in Quiet Gods 2 👀

I think ima write standslones from now on 🌝

Art by @slightly._.toasty
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#cyberpunk #lesbian #sffbooks #sciencefantasy #sapphicbooks soulmates forced proximity sapphic wlw slow burn fantasy dark fantasy dark science fantasy

The concept

The MCs by @fiadh.melina

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Meet Project SUBTER, my cyberpunk sports fantasy wip!

Thank you @lucy_itoko for capturing the essence of these two so perfectly 🤍

What to expect:
🩷 Sport based on Hurling/Camogie
🧡 Political intrigue
🩷 Subterranean cyberpunk city
🧡 AFTG meets Gachiakuta and a touch of Irish Mythology
🩷 Lesbian x lesbian romance subplot

final slide art by @slightly._.toasty

#fantasybooks #sportsromance #cyberpunk #wlw #yuri sapphic hate-to-love heist dark fantasy science fantasy Irish mythology by @fiadh.melina

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5 days ago

QUIET GODS, the first book in the Scales of Ruin trilogy comes out in 116 days!

It’s queer, it’s got messy healing and messier vengeance, and characters that set hooks into your soul, who’ll leave you laughing and reeling and (most likely) sobbing 🌝

✨ Pre-orders are open ✨

AND
There is some crazy exciting news coming super soon 🌝💫

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#fantasybooks #dystopianfantasy #sffbooks #sciencefantasy #dystopianbooks soulmates forced proximity enemies to lovers slow burn rage vengeance disability rep own voice nonbinary genderfluid fantasy dark fantasy dark science fantasy

Gen-V meets The Handmaid’s Tale in QUIET GODS, a coming-of-rage dystopian fantasy with an MC who vows vengeance after an empire-funded priesthood takes away everything they’ve ever cared for. With the power of a shapeshifting daemon in their DNA, Ellie has more than enough strength to bring complete ruination, unless grief destroys them first.

For fans of Iron Widow, Gideon the Ninth and The Will of the Many ❤️‍🔥

Indie stores coming soon 🤍

Direct & indie store options come with extra art ✨ by @fiadh.melina

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2 days ago

The prequel is coming, I promise 🌝

For now you’ll have to do with slices of their angsty side romance in Quiet Gods ✨ don’t forget to pre-order 💫

Art by @gooddaydreamer

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#fantasybooks #dystopianfantasy #sffbooks #sciencefantasy #dystopianbooks soulmates enbyxm forced proximity enemies to lovers slow burn rage vengeance fantasy dark fantasy dark science fantasy by @fiadh.melina

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The season calls for the scariest things you’ve ever seen and now, you are chosen.

Will you fight fate or lose your life among the other challengers?

#WritersofInstagram #bookstagram #indieauthor #writingcommunity #fantasybooks by @fiadh.melina

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October is depression awareness month, so here’s a little glimpse of how it manifests in one of the MCs in QUIET GODS 🤍 Dion is so so so tired ❤️‍🩹

Quiet Gods releases 9th February 2027 💫

Dion arts by sayaartss, kri_stasss_ , jukyusama and sketchyqueen707 ❤️‍🔥 by @fiadh.melina

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The winner of my giveaway is @fiadh.melina, congrats!! ✨🎉

I had the pleasure to paint Raeia, who has such an interesting concept! The composition slowly turned into a full illustration because I got so inspired to study some pre-raphaelite paintings, in particular: "I Am Half-Sick of Shadows" by Waterhouse, one of my fav masters! 💕

Thank you to everyone who participated in the giveaway in July 🥰 It took me a while to finish and I apologize for that; you all have so many amazing characters!

I hope everyone is having a great week and are getting ready for Halloween 👀🎃

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#fantasy #bookishart #giveaway #noai #digitalart by @fiadh.melina

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