Tessa Gratton @tessagratton

My copy editor has pointed out that in book one they’re called cloud whales!!! WHOOPS 😂

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And the babes together!

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those adorable skywhales!!!

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Cover illustration by Eleonor Piteira of the book 'The Shape of Monsters' by Tessa Gratton, featuring a reddish-brown skinned young man with dark short curled hair, dressed in a sleeveless dark robe. His left eye is glowing gold and he's pulling gold geometric threads apart with this hands. Below, there is the silhouette of a city, one small moon, and two tiny sky whales.

Here's the cover illustration I had the pleasure of painting for 'The Shape of Monsters' by @tessagratton.bsky.social , for Orbit Books!

It's Book 2 of The Moon Heresies trilogy and sequel to The Mercy Makers 🌔

Out June 2026!

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oh, yes.

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WOAH!!!!! that's so awesome.

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😍

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haha, I *should* do a newsletter before the end of the year...

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cover of THE SHAPE OF MONSTERS, book 2 in the Moon Heresies Trilogy, by Tessa Gratton against a dark teal background with stars and threads of magic. Cover depicts a brown skinned young man in a sleeveless red-brown robe pulling apart threads of magic with his bare hands. His left eye is golden and possibly connected to the magical threads. Beneath him is a magical bronze city-scape, and in the gray-brown sky a single bright blue star falls.

THE SHAPE OF MONSTERS, Book 2 of THE MOON HERESIES TRILOGY, has a cover!

And it is perfect. No notes. Coming June 2026

Design by Stephanie Hess⁣
Illustration by
@eleonorpiteira.bsky.social

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Thank you!!!

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Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It.

Hard, good reading by Jeet Heer

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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this article is SO GOOD

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Donate - Authors Against Book Bans Thank you for donating to Authors Against Book Bans. Your donation directly supports the freedom to read by powering our work with our partner organizations, bringing the author muscle to the fight to...

Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!

For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.

Imagine what we could do with $$$

www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/

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yes! and I, too, am interested to find out if I manage to stick the landing, LMAO.

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Thank you!

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If you're an author of queer lit with copies burning a hole in your pocket (or tumbling off your shelves) and you want to contribute a few to the Bookish Holiday Drive, please email me at LGBTQReads@gmail.com to let me know!

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🫣😅🤩

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Thank you for letting me know too!

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Just grabbed it for the same price on Apple Books, so heads-up to non-Kindle users about that option!

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Me. I said that. ‘alight with glorious epiphanies’, and I stand by it.

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This book is one of the most stressful reading experiences I have ever had and I mean this in a good way. The best way, even.

I'm not even done yet (because i am stressed but want to SAVOR IT) and I highly urge everyone to pick up a copy!!

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Ah! I meant to follow up my post with the credit! Thanks! <3 <3 <3

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<3 <3 <3 only vaguely distracted by Arnold in the background the whole time, but then what excellent payoff!

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YouTube video by Shakespeare Network Judi Dench - Sonnet 29 - 'When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes' - 4K

Had occasion, as one does, to think on Shakespeare's sonnets this morning, which called to mind this bit of absolute gorgeousness from Judi Dench. In case you need some beauty: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XKS...

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Just finished The Mercy Makers by @tessagratton.bsky.social and it's one of the best fantasy stories I've read in a while. Queer, subversive, dreamy, tense, and spicy, with gorgeous, intriguing world-building, fascinating magic, and my favorite kind of narrator (3rd person cheeky). I'm astounded.

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Thank you! "cheeky" is a very generous way to describe Iriset's inner dialogue, lol. <3

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The Mercy Makers (The Moon Heresies Book 1) Amazon.com: The Mercy Makers (The Moon Heresies Book 1) eBook : Gratton, Tessa: Kindle Store

THE MERCY MAKERS is a Kindle Daily Deal today! Only $2.99 for six hundred pages "alight with glorious epiphanies!"
www.amazon.com/Mercy-Makers...

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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

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Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

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Honestly, this was my favorite news of the night.

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