Sara Omer

The Gryphon King Check out The Gryphon King - <b>The first in a sweeping Southwest Asian-inspired epic fantasy trilogy brimming with morally ambiguous characters, terrifying ghouls and deadly monsters. <br><br>Combini...

THE GRYPHON KING by @omersarae.bsky.social
- bi MC
- warrior princesses on man-eating flying horses
- need I say more
- okay fine:
- a warlord takes the kingdom and the princess vows revenge
- but djinn & ghouls & monsters are returning
- and she'll have to work with the warlord to save her people

Happy birthday!

Thanks to Rex for spotting this one! Necropolis contains 5 stories about strange, decaying cities and is now available for purchase at Hexagon's patreon!
@alexfox.bsky.social @omersarae.bsky.social @nightgleaming.bsky.social @improbablerex.bsky.social and Victoria!
cover art by @warls.bsky.social

Award eligibility post: this year I published knights and more knights

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By @/ Dilnazhanm
Commissioned by @ PedroOjeda.author

Two women in front of a pegasus

Art can’t convince you to read a book—
The art:

You have the eye 😌

COVER REVEAL

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Query letters can be the worst! Get a subscription + query letter critique from the amazing Sara Omer, author of The Gryphon King, for invaluable query letter insight! Big thank you to @omersarae.bsky.social for offering this!

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Dune by Frank Herbert alongside a bright blue cocktail in a stemmed glass rimmed with golden sugar.

NEW VIDEO ALERT! The Dune-isode has arrived! A classic’s classic of science fiction, DUNE is always a joy to revisit, especially with the arrival of Dune Part 2 in theaters. Desert worms & fanaticism abound. The Spice must flow, blue as Fremen eyes & redolent with layered flavors.

Do you want:
✨a fantasy with the same wonder of dragon riders but with flying, man-eating horses
✨lady knights in a non-European fantasy world
✨to witness the outbreak of a mythic disease that turns men into ghouls?

All this and more in The Gryphon King

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LGBT rep in TGK:

Lesbian older sister who is better than you at everything
Demisexual warlord doomed by the narrative
Nonbinary eldritch god in the sky
Bisexual girlfailure (feral)
Poly woman with game
Codependent homoerotic friendships
“Straight” couple that’s probably bi for bi

I’m so excited to finally reveal that Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love has an audiobook! 🌸📚
It’s narrated by the fabulous Cody Sloan and available now!

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Purchase links Audio All audio retailer links Major Retailers Barnes and Noble Books-a-Million Forbidden Planet Waterstones Amazon (US) Amazon (UK) Indigo ...

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If you’d like a sisterhood of female knights, political plotting, Ottoman Empire and Turkic tribe-inspired cultures, and a main character riding a man-eating pegasus, then you should read my debut adult dark fantasy The Gryphon King.

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YOU DID IT! We hit $15,000 and unlocked a bonus reprint in every issue! Our next stretch goals are all about sustainability and survival: each goal funds a Year 3 issue of OTHERSIDE! We want to keep bringing you fantastic queer art for a long, long time.

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Oooo scaaarrryyyy hallloooowwweeeen time what if you paid a ghastly $13.99 for a high quality paperback (BOOOOOO!) of Shiver Me from Amazon which is also full of horror and terror but definitely pays me the most per copy (haunted) … pirate romance not that scary unless you are avoidantly attached

A screenshot of a post that reads David Simon, creator of *The Wire*, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro, NPR And then a screenshot of a conversation that goes like this: SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot

A digitally drawn ocean background with a fake goodreads review pasted over it. It’s a one star review from Connor which says: “ The author lacks heart! Setting a MMC up for repeated embarrassment as a stand in for plot should be illegal. You'll be hearing from my lawyer. Would read more about the FMC, though...”

A digitally drawn ocean image with a fake goodreads review pasted over it. The review is from Regula and it’s a one star. It reads” Insipid excuse for a book Can't believe how much time I wasted reading about a pirate's disheveled golden hair, amber eyes struck just right by sunlight, callused hands and lightly muscled forearms. I have better things to do. Maybe I'll write my own book Thanks for the gifted copy.”

A digitally drawn ocean image with a fake goodreads review pasted over it. It’s from Rory and it’s a one star. It reads “Connor’s lawyer here. Cease and desist or else. Not enough smut either.”

A digitally drawn ocean background with a fake goodreads review pasted over the top. It’s from Odette and it is a 5 star. It reads “ Oh, what a treat! Read it in 24 hours and I swear I was holding my breath the entire time. Cannot wait for book two... there's this one character who deserves the world and I think she'll get it!”

I’m getting review bombed (by my own characters)

Ty to @omersarae.bsky.social for signing them up for goodreads 😫

I hate this 🙃

🎉🎉 COVER REVEAL TIME 🎉🎉

I am so, so hyped to bring you THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY 🥳 coming May 2026!

Enter to win THEE hiking fantasies of the year, if not the decade!!

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Hoping it will be so soon! 👀

SUMMER IN THE HOUSE OF THE DEPARTED by Josh Rountree, a coffee colored book alongside a coffee drink on a bookshelf.

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about SUMMER IN THE HOUSE OF THE DEPARTED by Josh Rountree. A sere novella of death & haunting in east Texas, a mournful & moving read, cut through with ghosts & the dry burning heat of surreality. Our drink, a mocktail, is the Safeheart.

Today we have a BONUS EPISODE! We spoke with @nghivo.bsky.social, one of our favorite authors (and panelists!). Listen to OWWR talk on A Mouthful of Dust, part of the Singing Hills series! @tordotcom.bsky.social #booksky #singinghills #pubday
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My sequel has a title and a cover (coming very soon!). You can add The Harpy Knight on Goodreads and read The Gryphon King now if you’re interested in zombie ghouls, man-eating horses, ravenous beasts, Southwest Asian inspired worldbuilding, or princess knights.

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Monthly round up! We covered five books on Bar Cart Bookshelf this September: time travel shenanigans, parallel worlds, gods, monsters, & mortals, the raddest & radish of wives, clever foxes, deadly assassins, & stalwart couriers. Have you seen all this month's episodes? Have you tried the drinks?