Ephiny Gale

5 books: The Compound by Aisling Rawle, How to Survive a Horror Story by Mallory Arnold, The September House by Carissa Orlando, But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo, and We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer.

Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope you’re all having a lovely festive season. Here is my Christmas haul of horror books. 🎄📚

Cast Your Vote for the Best SFF of the Year! - Reactor Books! Movies! TV shows! Video games! Short fiction! And more!!

Please submit your favorite SFF releases of the year if you:

- Read science fiction, fantasy, or horror
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I am in favour of more public holidays in the southern winter!

Want to know Ephiny Gale's Top 3 Books of 2025? Ephiny's top 3 reads of 2025 include Discount Dan and two other amazing books. Discover what makes these books unmissable!

My top 3 (novel) reads of 2025 are up at The Shepherd.

I’m keen to hear your own favourites if you’d like to share! :)

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Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

Congrats, and that’s an amazing summary! 🎉

Thank you! ☺️ It won’t be out for quite a while!

Oh thank you! I enjoyed your own episode that came out recently! 😀

@alicedkc.bsky.social thank you for mentioning my name for this! ☺️

A photo of a smiling 30-something woman with brown hair and glasses.

Had a great time yesterday being filmed for community TV show 5 or 8, who interviewed me about my writing.

It’ll be on Channel 31, YouTube, and elsewhere - eventually!

This is what I looked like beforehand.

I hope you have a good time with them! 🙂

50% of the time, a premise. 50% of time, a series of scenes from a literal dream.

Whoa, I love this! Congrats! 😀

You smashed it! Congrats! 😀🎉

Completely understandable. Sorry things are tricky.

Please ignore this if this is an undesired/silly suggestion, but could you use the flashlight function on your phone to help illuminate things? Just a thought. I hope you’re able to get back to the movies sometime if you want to go! 💕

Thank you so much, Emmi! ☺️

Sending so much love to you. That’s heartbreaking. ❤️

I’m a writer and am potentially interested. :)

Congratulations, how wonderful! And that is super pretty! ☺️

My chunky little ferret contemplates my pencil case.

The chunky ferret chomps the hell out of my pencil case

My chunky little ferret peeks out at me from behind my pencil case, seemingly asking permission for the thing he’s about to do anyway

My chunky little ferret, successfully having lodged himself inside my pencil case

my art director is feeling especially micro manage-y today

A screenshot of the cover of Pick Your Potion from Amazon.com, with a 4.7 star rating on Amazon and a 4.0 star rating on Goodreads.

This week marks one year since Pick Your Potion was released. In that time it’s been an Aurealis Awards finalist, longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Awards, and on the Locus Recommended Reading List. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported it. That means so much to me. 💖

All the Times I’m Ten - Small Wonders The first time I turned ten was the most important one. Not because my feats in that lifetime were particularly impressive, but because of Morgan.

Need a story with your coffee break? This one's a gorgeously sweet story on finding a loved one again, by the wonderful @ephiny.bsky.social in @smallwondersmag.com

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#fantasy #cozy #flashfiction #shortstory #cozyfantasy #reincarnation

Oh, thank you so much, Emmi. ☺️💖

Discount Dan by James A Hunter, Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven, Honeycomb by SB Caves, Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett and Private Rites by Julia Armfield.

Some excellent recent reads I’ve really enjoyed.

Lovely, thank you!

Oh, amazing! 💖 I hope you enjoy! ☺️

An illustrated short story collection, open to an illustration of a girl holding a fan of cards in front of her face.

Both of my collections (including Pick Your Potion from last year) have interior illustrations! They’re done by Margot Jenner and they’re beautiful!

Sounds like lots of fun!

Foxes in space?

Thanks so much for alerting me to this, Sylvia! 💖