S. A. MacLean | THE PHOENIX KEEPER out now!!! 🔥

This beautiful illustration by the supremely talented
@fdasuarez.bsky.social

Cover design by Rachael Lancaster

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VOIDWALKER, my spicy romantasy in a sweeping new world, arrives AUGUST 19!

A smuggler crossing the Void between worlds, caught in a cutthroat coup. A carnivorous immortal lord with everything to lose. A temptation, for how sweet the monster’s fangs might feel...

From the author of the Sunday Times-bestselling #ThePhoenixKeeper, comes a sizzling fantasy romance in a sweeping new world 😈

Walk the void on 19 August 2025.

Pre-order VOIDWALKER by @authorsamaclean.bsky.social: geni.us/VoidwalkerHB

Illustration: @fdasuarez.bsky.social
Design: Rachael Lancaster

Pinterest. I swear to god.

Don't walk in here with that "review your reports and violations" nonsense for an image I pinned because YOU showed it to ME.

I need all these pictures of shirtless men for ART 😭

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Do you ever find the perfect announcement song for a book that's like, five releases in the future, so now you've got to sit on it for the next few years like

Look at all these lovely cozies 🥰

Oh wow that sounds AMAZING??? Will definitely have to look into earl gray syrup!

I finally did it.

I bought lavender syrup.

Let the winter of lavender matcha lattes begin.

I really wish my cat's single brain cell could process that chomping on the plastic christmas tree makes him throw up.

But alas.

I'm just saying that she could probably wipe the floor with him, and he'd let her 😌

VOIDWALKER 2025 😇

(love me a monster boi who is utterly pathetic for the MC)

YES PLEASE 👏👏👏

Do I REALLY need to look at my Spotify Wrapped when I already know it's going to be filled with nothing but edgy monster smut bait???

Delightfully, this is an amalgamation of playlists from all three different books I've been working on 🤣

(#1 and 5 are VOIDWALKER, #2 and 6 are Voidwalker sequel 😇)

Yesss the bi panic 😈

Fionamara “Fi” Kolbeck
- Smuggles contraband between parallel worlds
- Horse girl (but it’s a scaled Void horse from liminal space)
- Accidentally blew up an immortal’s capitol (oops)
- About to unlock a fang fetish she never knew she had
- 113 “fucks” in this book, and they’re almost all hers

Antal
- Carnivorous immortal woven from the depthless Void beyond reality
- The monster from your childhood folktales
- But also a wet cat sulking in your bathtub
- Thinks he’s in charge of this snarling human woman (is very wrong)
- Knows how to use those claws

🚨VOIDWALKER CHARACTER ART🚨

I’ve been drawing VOIDWALKER art for over a year, and I finally get to start sharing it! Drumroll please, as I introduce:

Truly! A good romantasy has the romance and world and plot all strengthening each other, the romance as a driving force that shapes how the plot progresses. I'm always disappointed when the romance gets all the focus, and the world and character arcs are left flimsy.

These are the ones that make me stop and think: WOULD I sell feet pics?

No, no, of course not.

Unless...

Anyway, VOIDWALKER is a single-POV romantasy, but you can bet your ass that the scary monster LI is actually just a baker's dozen worth of traumas hiding in a trench coat, each progressively unraveled when the MC so much as breaths softly in his direction.

Give me an MC and LI whose character arcs mirror, intertwine, build off of each other in such an inseparable way, that by the time their bodies finally come together, it's like they're desperately weaving their sinews into a single beating heart.

Give me those raw character moments! Give me a love interest who is lethal and cold, so it slices even deeper when they crack into a million pieces for the person they love! Give me those viciously soft moments of vulnerability that are so much more terrifying than any antagonist!

To be clear, I love romantasy! It's hands down my favorite genre! But it's frustrating when the hot, mysterious love interest ends up being just hot and a little too mysterious, without a solid character arc to stand alongside the MC's own. There's SO MUCH potential to be seized here!

This thread is focused on contemporary romance, but a lot of the points hit home for why romantasy feels like such a feast or famine genre to me, why a ship either falls flat, or turns me feral for days.

A woman with a shocked expression, holding a hand up to her mouth, and holding a copy of the book The Phoenix Keeper.

Today, I'm thankful for . . . all of YOU! 🥰

All the readers who've picked up The Phoenix Keeper, and all the reviewers who have shared your wonderful thoughts on the book. I get to write and share more stories because of YOU supporting me and believing in my words.

So truly, thank you ❤️

Watching Arcane finale.

Me: I need at least one couple to survive this show.
My very straight boyfriend: I don't think Jayce and Viktor count as a couple.
Me: . . .
Him: . . .
Me: . . .
Him: They're just good bros.

Ok, buddy. Whatever you say.

It's truly the best and worst feeling to be in the middle of revisions, but also constantly inundated with fun new ideas for this book (and for the other book I'm drafting, setting those aside as a December treat...)

🥰🥰🥰

Hmm, if I think real hard, I'd probably recommend it 😇 If you like cozy fantasy with lower stakes, a slowburn sapphic romance, a socially anxious MC. And especially if you're a wildlife lover with a thylacine profile pic, since the magical creatures are based on real conservation and zookeeping!

Thank you so much! I can't wait to share the next book with you 🥰