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[Alt text: A set of three books on a denim chair. Murder for a Song has a blue cover, witch singing and playing ukulele. Death and a Duet has a pinkish purple cover. Treble Death has a green cover.]

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🔮 Music magic
🔮 Chaotic families
🔮 A mystery to solve
🔮 Charming English village

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The illustrated cover image of Enchanting the Fae Queen, by Stephanie Burgis, shows a green background with a frame of climbing roses and branches rising through a night sky full of stars. In the center of the image, just beneath the moon, stands a massive, ominous castle with a hedge maze before it. A blonde woman in a long gown scattters sparkles in her wake as she leads her tall. uniformed male companion through the moonlit hedge maze at a run, while giant butterflies flutter overhead. The tag line reads: “All’s fae in love and war” and a blurb from Sarah Beth Durst reads: “Full of charm, wit and magic.” Beneath the cover is the publication date 29.01.2026.

I am so excited to share the UK cover of Enchanting the Fae Queen! It's coming from @panmacmillan.bsky.social in just over 6 months, on 29 January, 2026, and you can preorder it now: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/step...

I love this gorgeous cover art by @jesscruicky.bsky.social!

#romancelandia

A book cover and arrows-style meme graphic describing Cheddar Luck Next Time, citing it came out April 8, 2025, and includes an autistic female sleuth, is cheese-centric, has a megachonk orange cat, a Central California Coast murder village, a sweet romance, a mysterious grandma, the author is also autistic, and yes, there is a LOT of cheese.

On this National Wine and Cheese Day, I suggest pairing a book with your repast. Cheddar Luck Next Time is out now from @daturabooks.bsky.social! 👀

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I've got a really sad pup who had surgery yesterday and needs all the cuddles.

What Getting Chills from Music Says About Your Brain You may have a very special kind of brain if music hits you at the core.

I remember reading that only some people get chills from listening to music and wondering if it's a higher connection to the sound.

Anyway, that's one of the things that inspired the magic in my book.

What Getting Chills from Music Says About Your Brain www.discovery.com/science/Gett...

Text in a wreath - Not everyone is going to think you ate magnificent and magical. They're wrong though. Dickheads. From Alchemy for Women ellahicks.com

WOW @omgjulia.bsky.social does SUCH an amazing job of bringing Station and Kethel to life. I love this rendition of Tigers for Sale and hope you do too!

The illustration in this image shows a dragon nesting in a teacup above a magical open book. The text reads: Cozy Up with Fantasy: one-day 99-cent cozy fantasy book sale!

Huzzah - it's time for the first Cozy Fantasy Book Blast! For today only, you can find SO MANY fabulous cozy fantasy novels and novellas here for just 99c/99p, including my own Regency fantasy rom-com Claws & Contrivances.

Find them all here:

www.cozyupwithfantasy.com

Cozy Up with Fantasy: One Day 99 cent Cozy Fantasy book sale!

Hey #booksky #cozyfantasy : Today only! 50 books on sale for 99 cents each!

Mad props to @caseyblair.bsky.social for organizing cozyupwithfantasy.com, I know what organizing these takes!

Some are KU, some are multi bookstore, the listings show which. Happy #booksale browsing!

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

Two people (50s?) appear to be on a very earnest first date and as they get up to leave, she says: "I have nothing really to offer you other than a bouquet of insanity... and I do a nice roast lamb."
He belly laughs and says: "Sounds good to me." (1)

Applications for the UC / Creative NZ Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence positions for 2026 have opened today. Ōtautahi based, $84500pa pro rata across 2 x 6 month positions, closes 3 August. Please share with your writerly friends.

jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

Graphic with a blue background featuring art supplies like scissors, pencils, and paper clips. At the top, bold white text reads: “Defying the Censors! Creative Resistance in the Face of Censorship.” Below, there are ten circular photos with names and Instagram handles of featured speakers: Carly Pifer (@readaurorre), Laura Torlaschi (@lauraisloading), Reuben Johnson (@sextechnchill), Jiz Lee (@jizlee), Shine Louise Houston (@shineloise), Ada Ada Ada (@ada_ada_ada_art), Lilithfoxx (@TheLilithFoxx), Amari (@adminbyamari.agency), Hale Linnet (@halelinnetart), and Ashley Wang (@smash.wang). At the bottom, three event dates and times are highlighted: Part One on 6/27 at 1 pm ET, Part Two on 7/15 at 2 pm ET, and Part Three on 8/19 at 1 pm ET.

Thank you Woodhull Freedom Foundation for all you do! It is an honor to be included. Save the date! @woodhullfreedom.bsky.social

Defying the Censors - Part Two!
Tuesday, July 15th 11am - 12pm PDT
🎟️ RSVP for free tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/defying-th...

Foggy landscape with green land in the distance. Text overlay says Escape into modern day magic with an empath witch series like Bewitched meets The Office. Boxset only 99c today.

Read this New Zealand witches boxset for a buck: Redferne Witches Collection share.google/aqWtUq8mkeQI...

The illustrated cover for Enchanting the Fae Queen, by Stephanie Burgis, shows a mischievously grinning woman with long blonde curls, a moonstone crown, a pink dress and bare feet, sitting perched in a tree teasing the uniformed general who stands before her, his expression determined and one of his hands around her closest leg while she pokes his strong nose with one finger. Vines of leaves sweep magically out from the tree around her to draw him towards her. The tagline reads: All’s fae in love and war. Around and beneath the cover image is this text, connected by arrows to different parts of the cover image: She's a scandalous seductress; he's famously moral, virtuous and chaste; “Yes, I may kill him, but I’ll kill anyone else who tries”; Enemies to lovers; 25% off at B&N code PREORDER25 .

It's Day 2 of the B&N Preorder sale, and you can preorder Enchanting the Fae Queen for 25% off with the code PREORDER25! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/enchanting...

And of course you can preorder it everywhere else as well: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen

#romancelandia

A green and blue book cover is held against a bed of blooming coneflowers.

A green and blue book cover is held against a bed of blooming coneflowers.

Ahhh! Finished copies arrived of A House Between Sea and Sky! 🤩 Out on October 1st! Please preorder. ❤️

Mysterious Murders short story competition. Murder mystery with a fun twist. Submission open 1 July 2025 and close 1 October 2025. First prize £3000. Second prize £1500. Third prize £500. Enter now at www.mysteriousmurders.com. Photos of the five judges.

I'm helping judge the Mysterious Murders Short Story Competition and we're now open for entries! The theme is "Murder mystery with a fun twist" which is 100% my jam. So, if you have an idea and a pen, we'd love to read your story!

#ShortStoryCompetition #MysteriousMurders #WritingCommunity 🌈📚💙🔎💀📚👀

A beautiful illustration of a griffin sitting on a cat bed with a catnip mouse beside her. The illustration is signed "Tallulah" by the artist, Tallulah Cunningham.

The same griffin illustration is now surrounded by a circle of text, as in a certificate, and it reads: This emotional support griffin believes in you.

It's Disability Pride month! And guess what?

After "Mail-Order Magic" (the first short story I've written that involves M.E./CFS) came out, SO MANY readers contacted me saying they wished they had griffins of their own.

So, with wonderful artist @papertigress.bsky.social 's help...here you go! ❤️

Screen grab of Francis and Finch pre order page for Island of Dreams

@francieandfinch in Lincoln Nebraska is an awesome bookstore that I wish had been around during my college days. But it’s here for us now! If you’re thinking of ordering #TheIslandofDreams please consider ordering from them! francieandfinch.indielite.org/book/9798987...

Of Dread, Decay, and Doom: a Horror Anthology A horror-themed anthology edited by Jendia Gammon and Gareth L. Powell. | Check out 'Of Dread, Decay, and Doom: a Horror Anthology' on Indiegogo.

I’m so excited for you to read this amazing anthology! Support the fundraiser to help make it happen! (Shares also very much appreciated)
www.indiegogo.com/projects/of-...

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So it's #disabilitypride month. Anyone want a #cozyfantasy #freebook ? Sign up for an #ARCreader copy at lynnstrong.com/books/haroun

(Since I flip all the tropes, we have a seeing-eye human serving a blind dogfolk priest who has never met a crime of fashion he wouldn't commit. 😆)

Scene from the movie The Road, where the dad and kid are walking in a desolate, dead landscape of unrelenting brown and grey

"You have to understand, kid: it would write emails for me"

I like my events to be safe for people! Psyched for tomorrow night.

Much love and support to all the protesters in the US

Under the Mountain by Maurice Gee Under the Mountain is a foundational text in the King family. In 1980, my brother Jonathan and I lived in Auckland, side-eying volcanoes, and we auditioned (unsuccessfully) for the parts of Rachel and Theo in the iconic TV series. My brother went on to direct the 2009 film version. Gee, according to his biography by Rachel Barrowman, wanted to write for his own children, but also he’d heard that “children’s book as a rule sold better than adult ones”, so he turned to, of all books, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen for inspiration. It really holds up to an adult reading. Gee’s language is typically elegant and never dumbed down for its audience, and because he thought victory was often scored too easily by child heroes, he kills off cousin Ricky at the end, “floating face down in a sea as black as oil.” And then Lake Pupuke erupts causing death and destruction… it is dark. He may have regretted frightening the bejeesus out of a generation.

I wrote a brief piece on Maurice Gee’s Under the Mountain for The Spinoff. RIP you legend of children’s fiction. thespinoff.co.nz/books/29-12-...

Advance Review Copy: Haroun and the Study of Mischief Hello, readers! This is my first Advance Review Copy application form, modeled on similar forms from friends in the FaRo Society server. I hope not to mess things up too badly. About this book: Harou...

#booksky #cozyfantasy - anyone want an #ARCreader copy of Haroun?

The LOL recap: Two Very Good Boys would like to Fight Crime, maybe? (If there has been a crime other than their fashion sense.)

#Disability rep, Pratchett style hijinks, cats & dogs living together!

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Rest in Peace Maurice Gee

Congratulations!