L.L. MacRae

GIVEAWAY TIME. Today's Big Weekend giveaway is an epic bundle courtesy of the fantastic @llmacrae.bsky.social. Details of how to enter are below! #bookgiveaway #bookevent #indiebooks #fantasy #dragons #fantasybook #amreading #bookcommunity

It is my birthday on Monday 23rd Feb, so from now until the end of the month, I'm running a sale! There's a whopping 30% off EVERYTHING on my website to celebrate!

Signed paperbacks, eBooks, audiobooks, swag, bundles - you name it!

Just use code: 30BIRTHDAY at checkout!

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The Big Indie Weekend runs 20th and 22nd February - panels and live chats, plus daily giveaways and the launch of our Patreon. Get ready for an epic indie weekend! #writingcommunity #indieauthors @bengalley.bsky.social @adrianmgibson.bsky.social @hannafordjenny.bsky.social @llmacrae.bsky.social

The Big Indie Weekend runs between 20th and 22nd February - panels and live chats all weekend, plus daily giveaways and the launch of our Patreon. Get ready for an epic indie weekend! #writingcommunity #indieauthors #readingcommunity @tdevens.bsky.social @simonkewin.co.uk @llmacrae.bsky.social

Yaaaaaaaasss!!!

It made me soooooo happy!!!

Oh yes! I posted it on Instagram - not 100% sure where else? Maybe my newsletter?

But yes! It was an AMAZING author milestone! And even more epic was how quickly all those books went to new homes 💙💙💙

The TBB Press Edition of The Shadow Gate is on general sale now!!

The Iron Crown TBB Press Edition blew me away, and book two is somehow even more epic!!

If you weren't on early access, now's your chance to grab it! 🤩🤩🔥🔥🔥

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Self Published Fantasy Releases – February 2026 Visit the post for more.

February is STACKED!

The Feb list of self published fantasy is here and we are spoilt for choice this month. Get them all!

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@tuftymctavish.com SO happy with how these biscuits came out!!

The kitchen smells wonderful :D

A promo image showing all four books from the Cruel Gods series including The Thirteenth Hour, The Children of Chaos, The End of Time, and Tales From Across the Domains, the short story collection. Text on the banner says: The Cruel Gods trilogy - Now on Itch.io! Fantasy of bad manners, tea, top hats and naughty words.

To celebrate leaving Kindle Unlimited (and also my birthday!), all of my Cruel Gods books are now on Itch.io, and for this weekend only, they're part of an Itch bundle! Get all four books with a 35% discount!

If you hate buying books on Amazon, this is for you:

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Book cover for The End of Time, Book 3 in The Cruel God's, by Trudie Skies. Two figures are on the cover, a gray woman in a gray dress with short black hair in front, a light skinned man in a dark suit with glasses standing behind. She has blue magic radiating from her hand, while he's holding a fancy pistol. A golden mechanical portal shines behind.

Halfway through book 3, despite my best efforts to pace myself. @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com writes awesome books.

The worldbuilding is well done, the characters feel real, and I am having all sorts of emotions. You should read it

#SFF #BookSky #IndieBookSky

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Hahahaha that's awesome! Never a bad time to bake imo :D

I've made some "cheats" bread rolls using flour, yoghurt, and some herbs for a warm from the oven snack (buttered, of course) :D

The colder months definitely lend themselves to baking more!

Those biscuits look AMAAAAAZING!

Awesome Anthologies!!

It's an admin day today - ready for my first wrap-up of the year, I've gone through ALL my open series, plus those I read from last year. Check out what I finished or DNFd, and what I'm continuing or am currently up to date with:
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How are your series going?

A box set image of the complete Dragon Spirits Trilogy - The Iron Crown, The Shadow Gate, The Broken Sword With the review quote: "A love letter to both epic fantasy and even more so... to dragons." www.llmacrae.com

The complete trilogy is multi-POV adult epic fantasy with underdogs, found family, talking war griffins, ancient artefacts, and basically marries my love of dragons and classic fantasy adventure with Studio Ghibli vibes and less conventional characters 🔥

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I don't really favour either. It would have been lovely to have more of the limited ones, so everyone who wanted one was able to get one, but then that defeats the point of "limited" xD

In an ideal world, there'd be both - so even if people miss out the "special" one, they can get something nice 💙

Yeah we had wanted to get Shadow Gate out in 2025 but one of the illustrators took quite a bit longer than I'd anticipated, which meant the release was pushed to 2026. Everything else was ready to go in summer 2025!

It's all down to TBB - so hoping they do finish it! 😍

Hahahaha, it's so hard to sit on exciting information sometimes xD

TBB have said they want to do the whole trilogy, but I don't know anything yet in terms of announcements or release windows. With the finale released in 2025, I'm hoping it'll be sooner rather than later!

Now it's been revealed, hahaha, I knew TBB were working on slipcases for the press editions of The Iron Crown and The Shadow Gate!

Thank you for including The Broken Sword on this list of epic reads!!

I also am super excited to read Petition and Lonely Castles!!

Reading List for 2026 — Tim Hardie As another year begins, these are the titles I’m keen to read during 2026!

At the start of another year, these are the books l'm planning to read in 2026. I'm a bit of a mood reader so I'm sure other titles will make an appearance throughout the year, but I'm going to make a special effort to pick up these.
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Oh yaaaaaayyyyy!!! 2026 winning already!!!

So, so glad you were able to see it and get your order in on time!

I am feeling so many emotions right now it's difficult to put into words. But lots of happy ones mixed in for sure :)

MOAR GLORIOUS ARTWORK!! THE LIGHTING! THE DETAIL! THE MOVEMENT! THE ATMOSPHERE!!

Ahhhh I love it so so much!!!

I'm glad I shared one of the artworks of The Shadow Gate TBB Press Edition here, then!!

Everything is so unreliable. I would love just one massive collated list of updates and posts to read through from people I follow :(

But emails and notifications are so unreliable, it's beyond frustrating!

That is... quite frustrating :(

And you'd think something as simple as being on an email list would be easy to sort, let alone the form :(

Ahh, I hope you hear back soon, because otherwise you'll be missing out on so much news and updates :(

Ahhh that's okay! 🤗 There's always lots to read and newsletters/emails/social media posts get missed!

Hopefully you have your email from TBB inviting you to pre-order :D Pretty sure it would have gone out when they announced it, so around 17th December?

If not you can always email them direct! 🥰

I included some details in my December newsletter and on Patreon (free to follow/view)! Been shouting about it everywhere I can, but the algorithm doesn't always show everything to all followers :(

I think it was posted on Dom's Discord as well 😍😍

Do take a look: www.patreon.com/posts/tbb-pr...