Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They)

Screenshot of IngramSpark impersonator's contact form, with chat window where scammer sales rep "Travis Clark" claims that "We are Ingram Spark's hands-on services department. You will be able to find our information here: https://www.ingramsparkbookpublishers.com/

Scam alert: there's an IngramSpark impersonator at ingramsparkbookpublishers dot com. Part of a wave of publishing/ghostwriting scams from Pakistan that hijack authors looking to self-publish--they often "borrow" well-known publisher names but this one also "borrows" the real IngramSpark's logo

The cover to Strange Tales by Bayleigh Underwood

Hey, go buy STRANGE TALES! @jeremywhitley.bsky.social and @iceghost.bsky.social absolutely crush it! I've been lucky enough to get teases from Bayleigh for the last several months and let me tell you their art is absolutely ABSURD on this book, just stunning and kinetic in every way. BUY IT!

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
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✅ Website updated
✅ Moved to a green 🌲 webhost
✅ Moved to a safe 📣 🌈 👠 webhost

So far I can recommend (but won't link to) OrangeWebsite in Iceland. Caveat: I build my own from scratch. Ymmv if you use wordpress or website builders.

To celebrate, here's a bit of flash fiction:

I love how Russell T Davies always uses his platform to fight for progress - I hate how it is always so necessary

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

Hilariously (to me), though Hulderotica is, well, an erotica series, because Rise in Glorious Raiment has an aroace POV and no sex scenes, it didn't need tagging as 'adult' or 'erotica' on Itchio. Thus escaping delisting on the front page.

So there is *one* publicly visible title in the series. :D

A stack of the book AS THE EARTH DREAMS: BLACK CANADIAN SPECULATIVE STORIES sits on a wooden bookshelf beside a standing copy that displays the cover. The cover features bold blue text with a vibrant illustrated bug on a black background.

🪲 “As the Earth Dreams offers a distinctly Canadian vision of Black life that is as lush and expansive as it is tender and rooted.” —The Walrus

🌀 AS THE EARTH DREAMS, edited by Terese Mason Pierre (@teresempierre.bsky.social), is out October 14th, learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/as-...

It's banned books week and I promise you the only reason this book isn't banned is because they haven't heard of it yet

Because these are exactly the stories they don't want us telling #ChoicesAnthology

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Reviewer: The worst part is, they made the monster hot!

Me, kicking my feet: Oh no omg they made the monster hot?? Wow ahaha I can’t believe they did that, so uh how hot did they make the monster 👀

A sale banner with a dark background, centred on a red-hooded figure holding a long axe with its blade pointed toward the ground. They stand in an open doorway, and moths flutter around them. In the foreground is matte white text that reads: The Huldra House Samhain Sale is on now, through October 31st!

And for those who want to catch up on the entire series so far, you're in luck: the Huldra House Samhain Sale is on all October!

- 3 FREE stories!
- 50% off all subscriptions! ($9 USD for 24 stories, and the collected editions once out.)

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Rise in Glorious Raiment is also one of our last chances to pause, breathe, and gird ourselves before we move into the conclusion of year one and the chaos it heralds. (Story 22, upcoming, also technically is *half* a breath?)

Anyway. We're 20 fucking stories in now, and the final four are coming.

Whatever works in Rise in Glorious Raiment is down to @jaymgates.bsky.social as excellent series editor and friend of the show, who is amazing and whose own work (as an editor/anthologist, as a writer, in all capacities) you should seek out. And whatever doesn't work here is on me. :)

As posted about last night, Rise in Glorious Raiment went out to subscribers yesterday, and sale versions are belatedly filtering out online today - I spent most of yesterday revising the shit out of it, on an hour of sleep, crashed, finally finished uploading this morning. Living that indie life...

Is Rise in Glorious Raiment also the first aroace Hulderotica story? Yes.

The following content warning is also in effect on this one: "CW: violence against women (descriptions of witch hunts manner of death/aftermath)"

Because Maidens do not die *well* before they rise as something else.

Cover image of a book/short story called "Rise in Glorious Raiment", written by Kaya Skovdatter. At the bottom of the background is a woman with long flowing hair and a loose dress, both glowing a luminous white. Behind her are several staggered layers of ascending, angled mountain slopes, purple closer and shifting into a purple-grey as they vanish into the distance. In the sky is a flock of glowing white birds of indeterminate species, spread all across the image. The title is overlaid against the cover image, its text matte white.

*appears in a cloud of black witch moths*

Rise in Glorious Raiment, the final historical tale of Hulderotica Year One, is here. Come meet Mercy, and see how Marrowmont began from a Maiden's POV.

$1 USD for a new novelette:
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Is this also the first title in the series which doesn't actually have any sex in it, and because it's aroace POV it doesn't *really* fit any of Huldra House's release categories? Yup.

Will it most likely end up under horrorotica because of how dark some of it is? (Some CWs on this one.) Yes.

Hulderotica #20 has, very late in the day, finally gone out to subscribers.

Will it be up for sale in various places later tonight? Yes.

Has this been a long day of trying to wrangle a complicated, aroace, plot-heavy tale into, unplanned, a novelette? Also yes.

Some days that's how it goes...

Submissions are open until 15 October!

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

Homeward Books: The home for books without a home Splendor over mediocrity. Stories for the hot bath & the cold plunge. Defying the constraints of genre & delving deep into your heart.

There's a lot of stupid shit happening in the world but we still decided to start a small press. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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hey, everyone

I was accepted into the highly competitive Under the Volcano workshop and I need your help getting there. please like, share, and/or donate! thanks!

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hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

Oh ok a bill that’ll overdraft me 50 just went through lol

The Deadlands fundraiser is live! Get your 2026 coin, signed books, and other goodies, including a signed copy of my novella, FROM THESE DARK ABODES.

New subscribers will also end up with a new story in their inbox today - Hulderotica #20: Rise in Glorious Raiment is out as soon as I'm done revising it (and putting it into layout).

Been wanting to know more about the Maidens, and the founding of Marrowmont? Then you're in luck. :D

Technically, it's always "Fuck Amazon O'clock" around here. But there are few better days than Prime Day to support indie bookstores and authors directly. Just drives home the point, you know?

Also, every sub sold helps get me one step closer to yeeting my deadname into the sun. (At 8/15 of goal!)

A sale banner with a dark background, centred on a red-hooded figure holding a long axe with its blade pointed toward the ground. They stand in an open doorway, and moths flutter around them. In the foreground is matte white text that reads: The Huldra House Samhain Sale is on now, through October 31st!

Want to read something new, but don't want to support Amazon on Prime Day?

Come take advantage of Huldra House's Samhain Sale!

- 3 FREE stories!
- 50% off all subscriptions! ($9 USD for 24 stories, and the collected editions once out.)

www.huldrahouse.com/shop/samhain...
itch.io/s/160941/the...