Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)

The ultimate trans romantasy mixing SAILOR MOON, SEX AND THE CITY, and HOUSE OF LEAVES (yes, really!) is…available for Preorder RIGHT NOW: PLASTIC, PRISM, VOID by @blipstress.bsky.social

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"Delicious, insane, intoxicating"
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Fave Five: Fantasy with Transfem MCs

Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane The Calyx Charm by May Peterson Princess of the Pomegranate Moon by Emily Wynne Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson Bonus: These are all Adult, but in Middle Grade, check…

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Just over 3 months ago Storyteller was published and interest is still going strong.
It’s has been featured on a curated list of indie publishers on Bookshop dot org!
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this was the day the good Jeanne was trapped. this was the evil Jeanne's moment.

This is my time. At no point previous have I existed, and now I am at the height of my powers. It's a good time to make the earth tremble and the stars rain down.

I'm so glad! This is absolutely what I set out to do--people exoticize much about the past/the epic that is simply contextually situated humans making human choices--but try to tame things that should give us culture shock (in the process of helping us experience them as human choices).

aha, Meryapi will be delighted to hear of this.

I'm currently writing a novel from the perspective of Bagoas set in the last year of the life of Alexander that's all about how it feels to be the anvil yearning for the hammer.

oh yeah, imagine what I am literally working on today

Tiberius Caesar's favorite trivia question: "What was the name of Achilles among the maidens?"

(I'm sharing space with @reckoningmag.bsky.social at table 28, right in front of the doors!)
@marisca.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social and Michael Yuya Montroy will read from their work, plus @carinabissett.bsky.social and I will read from two other other stories in the anthology!

6 Greek Mythology Retellings for Fans of 'Circe,' 'Hadestown' and 'Kaos' (Exclusive) We love a great myth remix — and they come in all shapes and sizes. Here are 8 stellar novels and short stories, many written by actual Greeks.

Will you look at that! Two SWSW alumni are in People! Congratulations @mayadeane.bsky.social & Ionna Papadopoulou! 😁

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6 Greek Mythology Retellings for Fans of 'Circe,' 'Hadestown' and 'Kaos' (Exclusive) We love a great myth remix — and they come in all shapes and sizes. Here are 8 stellar novels and short stories, many written by actual Greeks.

For People Magazine, I wrote about creativity in Greek Myth retellings, including stories by many actual great Greek authors of today. Behold novels and short stories by @ioannapauthor.bsky.social, @mayadeane.bsky.social, @ecastroianni.bsky.social, @nassos.bsky.social & @thisisguan.bsky.social!

A shelf of books with the spines facing out, all writtn by Tanith Lee. A postcard rests in front. The Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology is printed on the front.

1 day and counting! I just ordered a book birthday cake for Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology! This is the 1st cake I've ordered with a postcard image on top.
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Authors include @mythicdelirium.bsky.social @rinrocio.bsky.social @clhellisen.bsky.social @nisishawl.bsky.social @marthawells.com @csecooney.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social Andy Duncan, Amelia Mangan, @theodoragoss.bsky.social Getty Hesse, Alaya Dawn Johnson and more!

i love all these pieces Maya does, but this one’s my favorite

i keep getting dreamily lost in it

a stunningly beautiful abstract river rendered in backlit pastels

"the place we all return" (firecolor, 6/24/2025, currently altering the forms in eternity to usher me into a more pleasing universe)

I continue to endorse this book, which dares to ask the question "why are trees so cosmically evil?"

10 days! Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology ships JULY 1st! I'm thrilled with how it turned out. These authors are fire!
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the spear cuts through water. it beat me for a crawford a couple years ago and I am super not mad, simon jimenez is a genius.

The Spear Cuts Through Water is absolutely brilliant. I am only a fifth of the way through, and my brain is glowing.

The terminally online mind cannot comprehend this

Can confirm. I read @wiswell.bsky.social's Wearing the Lion last night on a pair of trains and wept. It's quite good--in the best way, reminded me of @mcnamaraluna.bsky.social's Psyche and Eros.

Happy book day to... me! My second novel, WEARING THE LION, is out in the world!

Come join the messy found families of monsters and gods!

I read to train precisely one intelligent agent. She doesn't actually need that much training data to do things LLMs trained on The Firehose Of Internet never can.

The cover of Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, featuring stories by CSE Cooney, Maya Deane, Andy Duncan, Theodora Goss, CL Hellisen, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Nisi Shawl, and Martha Wells, edited by Julie C Day, Carina Bissett, and Craig Laurance Gidney.

A page saying: "Though we come and go, and pass into the shadows, where we leave behind us stories told--on paper, on the wings of butterflies, on the wind, on the hearts of others--there we are remembered, there we work magic and great change--passing on the fire like a torch--forever and ever. Till the sky falls, and all things are flawless and need no words at all." -- Tanith Lee (1947-2015)

The first page of Maya Deane's "In Your Shadow": I. The air was thin this high in the Mountains of Alcar, and cold and dry, but young Alleili par Nasheliu climbed on. Her feet, alternately numb and smarting, tingled on each encounter with the black volcanic stone of Phoenix Burn Pass. Ages ago, the whole pass had been charred with fire. Some rocks had melted and flowed, others were sharp as glass, but all had been baked black. Yet Alleili felt the change when she came to the spot where the Last Breath of Winter fell. It was sacred ground. Nothing about this place looked unlike the rest of Phoenix Burn Pass, but here the cold deepened and cut like knives, piercing the youth's fur-lined cloak and numbing her bones. Alleili shivered, though she had vowed to ignore the cold and finish what she started. A thin snow began to fall. Reaching down, the child broke off a glass-sharp spike of rock. It cut her palm, and her blood dripped onto the rocks."

I received my contributor's copy of Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology today. I wept.

When I was young and in desperate need, Tanith Lee's stories came to me like a wind from another world. I hope her name lives forever. I hope I can bestow gifts like she did.

I heard posthumous rumors that it was some kind of decision from on high. But her words will be remembered long after the injustices of publishing are forgotten.

This is me denouncing "the curtains were blue." Why say they were blue if it means nothing? Just leave it out.

But if they're blue, know why. Curtains don't just randomly get to be blue for no reason. There's a whole world in the why.

The cover of Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, featuring stories by CSE Cooney, Maya Deane, Andy Duncan, Theodora Goss, CL Hellisen, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Nisi Shawl, and Martha Wells, edited by Julie C Day, Carina Bissett, and Craig Laurance Gidney.

A page saying: "Though we come and go, and pass into the shadows, where we leave behind us stories told--on paper, on the wings of butterflies, on the wind, on the hearts of others--there we are remembered, there we work magic and great change--passing on the fire like a torch--forever and ever. Till the sky falls, and all things are flawless and need no words at all." -- Tanith Lee (1947-2015)

The first page of Maya Deane's "In Your Shadow": I. The air was thin this high in the Mountains of Alcar, and cold and dry, but young Alleili par Nasheliu climbed on. Her feet, alternately numb and smarting, tingled on each encounter with the black volcanic stone of Phoenix Burn Pass. Ages ago, the whole pass had been charred with fire. Some rocks had melted and flowed, others were sharp as glass, but all had been baked black. Yet Alleili felt the change when she came to the spot where the Last Breath of Winter fell. It was sacred ground. Nothing about this place looked unlike the rest of Phoenix Burn Pass, but here the cold deepened and cut like knives, piercing the youth's fur-lined cloak and numbing her bones. Alleili shivered, though she had vowed to ignore the cold and finish what she started. A thin snow began to fall. Reaching down, the child broke off a glass-sharp spike of rock. It cut her palm, and her blood dripped onto the rocks."

I received my contributor's copy of Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology today. I wept.

When I was young and in desperate need, Tanith Lee's stories came to me like a wind from another world. I hope her name lives forever. I hope I can bestow gifts like she did.

The curtain is indigo.

the dye was extracted from I. tinctoria plants by temple dyers and applied to wool threads that dozens of temple weavers wove into a curtain.

The curtain flutters in the palace window.

King's Wife Tashlultum, ruler over the cloth production line, smiles. "All mine."