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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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Cough, here are our entries into the pathetic yearning man club<3

All authors are tagged please check out their books~ all favours of yearning men for you to enjoy.

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WOULD YOU SURVIVE OUR DYSTOPIAN WORLDS?

One world. A whole lot of ways to die. And absolutely NO guarantee you’d make it out alive.

We’ve brought together a group of authors ready to throw you into their dystopian worlds… but the real question is:

Would you survive? Or would you be the reason the plot takes a darker turn?

From brutal regimes and impossible choices to dangerous worlds where survival is never guaranteed, these authors have created worlds you might want to visit… but would you actually make it out? 👀

📚 Meet the authors.
⚔️ Discover their worlds.
🔥 Decide whose dystopia you’d survive.

And tell us in the comments…

WHAT WOULD BE YOUR BIGGEST SURVIVAL SKILL?

#DystopianBooks #DystopianRomance #DystopianFiction #IndieAuthor #IndieAuthors

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✨Quiet Gods✨

By @fiadh.melina
First book in the ‘Scales of Ruin’ series.

Release date: February 9, 2027
ARC sign ups open at her bio. ✨
Pre-order your copies on Amazon / Kobo / @fiadh.melina ‘s link 🔗

Beautiful Art by:
@cjowoart
@meikkochi_

What’s inside Quiet Gods 🐉
🔥 Rage & Vengeance
🤖 Corrupt, technocratic elite
🏺 State-funded priesthood
⚔️ Hyper-militarised society ‘at peace’
🫂 Found Family
💫 Chaotic Queers
🤍 Disabled MC
📚 Banned Book Library
& Much More 🐉

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Sapphire has known only two things in their twenty-three years of life: betrayal and ruin. In Quiet Gods, they discover vengeance. Genetically modified with the DNA of a shapeshifting daemon – the mythical daeshu Saohl – Sapphire ‘Ellie’ Blake has been primed for the government’s military ranks from a young age. That is, until their family home goes up in unexplained flames and Sapphire is incarcerated for a crime they didn’t commit.

Sapphire’s sentence is decided: conscription as an Aitos to the Kagosae, a showcase and hunting ground for the Tassurian military; and a job to kill the Kagosae’s most treasured Aitos, Dion Kestales. One issue stands in Tassuri’s way. Sapphire is pregnant with an ‘illegitimate child’, and is shipped to the Arabella until they are deemed useful again. They meet Raeia, a scholar who is bound to The Arabella island, a mother and baby home used to launder unwanted babies. In defiance of Tassurian laws, Raeia secretly curates a library filled with banned books and mythologies.

But Tassuri’s plans for Sapphire won’t matter if their rage devastates the world first. When Sapphire’s baby does not survive the Arabella, and Sapphire becomes aware of the dabbling of a new empire, their need for vengeance smothers all else. Sapphire, severely disabled from their incarceration, creates an uneasy alliance with Dion Kestales and together, their connections to the arcane Lost Science threatens to destroy Tassuri’s curated reality of the past eight centuries.

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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

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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

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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

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upcoming(ish) books i cannot WAIT to read !!! 🥳

bound by the alien buckaroo by ursa dax 👽🤠

BLURB:
A black-listed bounty hunter in hiding, a bizarre alien buckaroo, and some rather frantic forced proximity...

I’ve spent the last eight years chasing scumbags to the ends of the universe in my job as a bounty hunter. Until the day there’s suddenly a new bounty on my head. But the bounty is fake. I’ve been framed. And now my entire life is falling apart.

I try to hide out on an isolated planet with a no-landing order, only to get tangled up with the strangest man I’ve ever met. His name is Xennet.

And if I want to survive on this planet, it looks like I’ll need to rely on him.

Except it turns out Xennet is precisely the same sort of person I’ve devoted my life to putting behind bars - a murderer.

And worse than that?

I’m developing feelings for this shuldu-riding, cowboy-hat-wearing, knife-obsessed convict.

I can’t stay with him. There’s only so long I can hide from this planet’s wardens and avoid capture.

And there’s only so long until Xennet marries someone else.

Because his promised human bride is coming.
And she’s coming soon.

shadow and son by gretchen powell fox 🖤🦋

BLURB:
The fragile peace forged in the wake of the Crucible is unraveling. With the rise of an old foe and ancient magic stirring, the scars dividing Arcanis have begun to bleed anew, and the future of the realm hangs by a thread. A Queen of Shadow Elyria Lightbreaker has paid a devastating price to save her loved ones. Now, she faces a whole new darkness-and must decide how much more of herself she is willing to give to save a world that has already taken so much. A Man on the Brink Rocked by the secrets of his past and the truth behind his power, Cedric Thorne scours the continent in search of the woman he loves. But as enemies emerge from hiding and Elyria is pulled ever farther from reach, he must face the terrifying possibility that saving her may mean becoming something unforgivable. And once his fire is unleashed, there may be no putting it out. A Final Reckoning Bound by love but burdened by prophecy, Elyria and Cedric stand at the crossroads of Arcanis’s future. Together,

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Ahhhh! Yes, so excited for another Gossling!! ✨

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A few ARC badges I haven't shared yet! I'm so so excited for every one of these release and I can't wait to get started on them!

🗝: ARC reader announcement | Heart of the Raven Prince by Parker A. Garner | Quiet Gods by Fiadh Melina | Until Fire Turns To Gold by Fiore Mae Belle | Sever Me Darling by Sierra Scandella | upcoming releases | indie authors | bookstagram

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Aesthetics are great, they can pull people into your feed, but if you're looking for a community of readers that stay like @fiadh.melina, it's time to think about clarifying what you and your stories are all about.

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Hi, I’m Jayde. Your social media marketing BFF, @thenarrativedept. Here to help authors turn posts into readers.

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Did I bite off more than I can chew? Maybe. But we're going to give it the old college try!

I'm excited for all the books that will distract me from reality this fall! Swipe to see some of the arc teams I'm on.

What are you most excited to read this fall?

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Yay!!! Thank you so much!!! @fiadh.melina !!!

I can’t wait!!! 💜💜

#arcreader #romantasy #quietgods #fantasyromance

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