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Make a purchase from the shop during Pride Month and automatically be entered to win 1 of 2 Barnes and Noble Special Edition copies of Cemetery Boys! All purchases from the shop will enter you into this drawing automatically. Two winners will be chosen at the end of the month and contacted in early July. You will receive a email from our business email address notifying you.

Why are we choosing LamBda Legal? Lambda Legal has won PRECEDENT-setting civil rights cases on everything from marriage equALITy to expressions of gender identity and health care desrimination. -Lambda legal.(2025).Lambdalegal.org To find out more about Lambda Legal please visit lambdalegal.org

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️HAPPY PRIDE! let's do a book giveaway!

make a purchase from www.aiden-thomas.com/graveyard-goods during the month of June and you'll be entered to win 1 of 2 @barnesandnoble.com special editions of "Cemetery Boys"!

and this quarter, we're supporting @lambdalegal.org with proceeds from the shop!

cover illustration i illustrated for the book Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat. You can see both main character standing up. Laurent in an intricate regal blue outfit holding a gold chain. Damianos behind him, his back turned, his hands bound together wearing a simple white piece of clothe. The background is lush, a mural and marble on the wall and deep green tile flooring.

cover illustration i illustrated for the book Prince's Gambit by C.S. Pacat. You can see both main character side by side, they are dressed in intricate armor, each holding a sword. Laurent is dressed in deep marine blue with some cream and gold accent. Damianos is dressed in tans and grays. The background is an old stone wall with two windows on each side and a larger opening/door in the middle.

cover illustration i illustrated for the book Kings Rising by C.S. Pacat. You can see both main character in an embrace, Laurent has is back turned to the viewer. Laurent is dressed in light blue, cream and gold with a dolgen wreath in his hair. Damianos is dressed in roman-esque outfit with laced sandals and a pannelled skirt. He also as a wreath in his hair, in bronze. In the background, there a mutiple retunda with overgrown greenery with some wisteria flowers hanging.

All three illustrations done!!! yippiii! seeing them side by side, i really do think they look their best all together 🤌

Happy #transvisibilityday! I’m running a fanart fundraiser through my Etsy shop in support of trans mutual aid, and three days remain! See the thread for details! 🏳️‍⚧️
www.etsy.com/shop/vkelleyart

Happy Trans Day of Visibility, folks! 🩷🤍🩵

"The Prospects" by K. T. Hoffman for #transdayofvisibility 🏳️‍⚧️✨
I am still listening to it so do not spoil me!
#transright #transbook #romancebook #romanceauthor #romancelandia

He's amazing i love fanart of him! 🦄

We are incredibly excited to share our Simon Snow Box!

This will include the books Carry On, Wayward Son and Any Way the Wind Blows by @rainbowrowell.bsky.social hardcovers featuring custom printed jackets with foiling elements and book edges designed by @artsyunderstudy Instagram

More below…

A background made up of the aromantic flag which has five stripes: dark green, light green, white, gray and black. Overlaid is a translucent white square in the middle with a thin white outline surrounding the square. Text reads “24 Aromantic Books for Aromantic Awareness Week”. The 24 is in aro flag colors while the text below follows the aro flag color scheme.

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! Happy belated Aromantic Awareness Week! We are a little late, but we are here to celebrate with twenty-four aromantic books! 🧵

I need an ARC of this more than I need air. LOOK at them!?

COVER REVEAL: my next adult romcom, THE ENTANGLEMENT OF RIVAL WIZARDS, coming 9/2!!

🌶️ adult romcom
📚 magic academic rivals to lovers
✨ ali hazelwood meets dnd
💔 “who did this to you”
🔥 caleb/essek inspired

✨ Exclusive foiled print ✨

Our next reveal for the Dark Rise box is this Early Access Bonus foiled print with art by @quelmdn.bsky.social

For those who purchase the box during the Early Access weekend you'll get this exclusive bonus print!

More reveals to come!

I have a new book to announce—my first YA with a trans lead. it feels like fighting back. it feels like coming home.

trans kids exist and they’re incredible and it’s an honor to keep writing that truth into the world 🖤

I'm so in love with it so far, meeting Cinnamoroll sent me in to a FIT

this viktor frame has bewitched me body and soul. like that's my princess

Foxes
#aftg

Dark Rise & Dark Heir Box

Hello Dazzling readers. We are incredibly excited to share our Dark Rise & Dark Heir editions!

Book edges and custom jacket with foiling by @quelmdn.bsky.social

Merch art by @quelmdn.bsky.social and @purisurory.bsky.social

Further details below!

Last hours for our Remix Classics collection! Get them now before 4pm CST!

dazzlingbookishshop.com/products/rem...

I had such a good time illustrating this print for the preorder campaign, and if you haven’t preordered yet, I hope seeing it again will encourage you to do so! Links to all the participating indie bookstores are collected at the link below.
www.venessakelley.com/items-3

Queer Books Weekly. Free and Affordable Books Featuring LGBTQIA+ Protagonists. Background is a crown on an old book with a rainbow gradient over top.

It's here! Our very first weekly list of queer literature! All books are $5.99 or less and there's several FREE titles you can snag on sale!

Sorted by genre, with tags for representation and spice levels!

🌈📚💙
#booksky

queerbooksweekly.com/january-28th...

viktor and jayce from the show Arcane in an art nouveau style in bright, warm colours

jayvik nation rise up

#jayvik #arcane

All fot the game fanart. Andreil sitting together. Smiling Neil clings to Andrew from behind, while Andrew smokes. There are some bottles in the otherwise empty background. Neil has arms and legs uncovered, showing his scars.

Andreil rkgk 🦊🚬
#aftg #q

Meme. Hello Kitty sitting in an office looking at her phone with something on the desk behind her on fire. Over the fire is text THE ENTIRE WORLD RIGHT NOW. Over Hello Kitty is the word ME, and over her phone is QUEER ROMANCE BOOKS

How I feel nowadays (you gotta find a way to cope)

Monochromatic fanart of Laurent (from Captive Prince book series) posing like the painting Madame X by John Singer Sargent; Instead of a dress, he wears a translucid shirt under a black corset, black arm guard and black pants, all laced.

#caprisky #q

violet my love ❤️🦁
i drew this a while back, i love this little lioness

#dark_rise #dark_heir #CSpacat #fanart

viktor's glorious evolution
– or my illustration process from references to finished piece

#viktor #arcane

jayce! who took away your shirt!? 👀
– again, process from reference to finished piece

#jaycetalis #arcane

So many of you ask for this one ✨
I hope you like it ♥️
We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian
Available as prints:
Cleadrawshop.com
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#bookcover #coverreveal #mlm

I cannot emphasize how important it is to leave reviews for marginalized authors.

Fash and conservatives OFTEN leave negative reviews just to purposefully tank a book and give "validity" to their argument that "diverse books are badly written."

🦇 UPCOMING EDGE SALE 🦇

First Les Normaux! This graphic novel is one of our favorites here at Dazzling and we're very excited to branch further in to graphic novel edges!

On sale at the same time is Cursebound, book 2 in the Faebound series!

Custom book edges designed by @c.e.illo on Instagram