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Isabel Murray

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Writer, reader, lover of love. Sometimes I write contemporary romcoms. Sometimes I write fantasy. Always MM romance, though ❤️ isabelmurray.carrd.co

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😆❤️ Thank you!!

13.10.2025 08:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yay! So glad you enjoyed it! 😆❤️

10.10.2025 17:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Catch of a Lifetime: MM Merman Romance (Ebb and Flow Book 2) Catch of a Lifetime: MM Merman Romance (Ebb and Flow Book 2) - Kindle edition by Murray, Isabel. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Catch of a Lifetime: MM Merman Romance (Ebb and Flow Book 2).

It's release day for my MM merman romcom, Catch of a Lifetime. Dave and Joe are back! (Jerry is also there.)

Expect some hurt/comfort, helpless yearning, a pinch of drama, a surprise octopus, a lot of fish, and a love that was meant to be.

#mmromance #booksky 📚💙
books2read.com/u/mYvvpo

08.10.2025 13:08 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy - Angela Carter

October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy - Angela Carter

The weekend is almost upon us, prepare the books and blankets! - Michael

03.10.2025 07:34 — 👍 66    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 3

Glad you enjoyed spending more time with these two! 😁❤️

27.09.2025 08:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for the lovely review! 😁❤️

26.09.2025 11:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It really *was* the best Sunday! 😆 Nothing beats getting cosy with a book. And thank you—glad you’re looking forward to the release! 😁❤️

15.09.2025 12:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you, Ellie! 😁 And it was *so* nice, seriously. I always find it’s so much easier to relax and read when it’s raining!

15.09.2025 10:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m also further along with this line edit than I thought! I’ll finish the draft today…and then go back to the beginning for another one. 😆 I’ve done all the major rewriting by now, though, so the next one should be a lot smoother. 🤞
#amwriting #mmromance

15.09.2025 09:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Absolute peak Sunday yesterday—I had the whole day to myself, it was raining and grey outside so I got to put on fairy lights and make a cup of hot chocolate, and I sat watching the rain with a quilt around my shoulders and my Kindle good to go.

15.09.2025 09:32 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

😁 so glad you enjoyed it!! ❤️

20.08.2025 09:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Spider Man and Sauron meme

YOU HAVE FULL CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE! YOU COULD
USE IT TO ADVANCE THE PLOT!

vs
BUT I DON'T WANT TO ADVANCE THE PLOT. I WANT
THE CHARACTERS TO FUCK

I am on Sauron’s side obvs

Spider Man and Sauron meme YOU HAVE FULL CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE! YOU COULD USE IT TO ADVANCE THE PLOT! vs BUT I DON'T WANT TO ADVANCE THE PLOT. I WANT THE CHARACTERS TO FUCK I am on Sauron’s side obvs

30.07.2025 18:26 — 👍 6467    🔁 1976    💬 44    📌 141

Every now and then it's nice to pick your head up from your book, reacquaint yourself with the world, take a hard pass and immediately go right back to reading. Balance is important.

15.08.2025 13:58 — 👍 840    🔁 108    💬 18    📌 3
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Lads the HONK I just honked

14.08.2025 18:49 — 👍 1497    🔁 499    💬 28    📌 132

I can't keep away from these guys, it seems. This makes short number three! 😆 And yay, I'm *so* glad you enjoyed The Naiad's Lover. Thanks for reading! 😁❤️

25.07.2025 20:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a man sitting on a bed with the words no clue written on the bottom Alt: a man sitting on a bed with the words no clue written on the bottom

The answer to that particular question is:

25.07.2025 13:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Well well, I blogged again, once again surprising myself, and possibly also the people who subscribed to the website a couple of years ago and are now wondering what's going on with me that I'm all up in their inbox for the FOURTH time this month.

isabelmurrayauthor.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/f...

25.07.2025 13:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I’m making the most of working outside before the sun hits my patio full on and I run screaming for the shade. That’ll happen in about 10 mins, by my guess. Juuuust enough time to repost this. (Because I *still* keep forgetting to use tags. 🤣)

#mmromance #booksky

18.07.2025 09:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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New Release: The Naiad’s Lover It’s release day, and The Naiad’s Lover is available now on Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited! 🥳 Blurb Amazon.com Books2Read This is the fourth Erik and Sayan story I’ve written (thr…

I also wrote a blog about it on my website, where you can *very conveniently* have a look at the other books in the Immortal Bonds series. You know. In case you haven't read them yet.

😆

16.07.2025 13:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Release day for my fantasy romance novella, The Naiad’s Lover! Here’s the trope thingy:

❤️ mortal 4 immortal
❤️ age gap (thousands of years)
❤️ size difference (👀)
❤️ hurt/comfort
❤️ hissy fit

And here are some links:

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZ83M2PS
books2read.com/u/bMMnZa

16.07.2025 13:39 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

😆❤️

27.06.2025 18:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If I stay on track, I'll get it done next week. Then it will be back to the final couple of proofreads of The Naiad's Lover!

27.06.2025 14:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Catch and Release novella is the one I'm most excited about right now, mostly because it's the one I'm still writing and I can't wait to find out how it ends. Which will be happening very soon, as I wrote the big climactic (😆) scene this morning, and just need to wrap things up.

27.06.2025 14:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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First Dates and Birthday Cakes: MM Romantic Comedy First Dates and Birthday Cakes: MM Romantic Comedy - Kindle edition by Murray, Isabel. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading First Dates and Birthday Cakes: MM Romantic Comedy.

Friday miniblog: it's all about novellas today!

The First Dates and Birthday Cakes sale (US/CA) ends on 30th June, The Naiad's Lover will be out in a couple of weeks (😱), and I've almost finished the first draft of a novella sequel to my merman romance, Catch and Release.

#mmromance #booksky

27.06.2025 14:32 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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First Dates and Birthday Cakes: MM Romantic Comedy First Dates and Birthday Cakes: MM Romantic Comedy - Kindle edition by Murray, Isabel. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading First Dates and Birthday Cakes: MM Romantic Comedy.

I have a book on sale!

First Dates and Birthday Cakes is a romcom novella about a man who turns 40, loses his cool (and his phone), and finds his happily ever after.

(And his phone.)

It's a #Kindle Monthly Deal on Amazon US and CA for the month of June.

#mmromance #romcom #booksky

06.06.2025 14:15 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
The text above the image reads: Ever since I learned the word for a group of raccoons is a gaze, scenes from English literature take on whole new meanings. [laughing-emoji] 
Within the image, there are four different scenes corresponding to different literary quotes. Number 1: "Your gaze is very direct, Miss Eyre" from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. In the picture, Jane Eyre is accompanied by a group of raccoons, one of whom has just said to Mr. Rochester, "We want food!" Number 2: "She returned his gaze" from Ian McEwan's Atonement shows a woman carrying a box full of raccoons back to her reluctant ex-boyfriend. Number 3: "His gaze was direct, holding my eyes" from Diana Gabaldon's Outlander shows a clustered group of racoons physically holding open a shocked woman's eyelids. And number 4: "That somber, thoughtful gaze of his did not leave her face. She did not find it embarrassing" from Agatha Christie's Towards Zero shows a woman on a sun-lounger with her face entirely covered by a swarm of raccoons.

The text above the image reads: Ever since I learned the word for a group of raccoons is a gaze, scenes from English literature take on whole new meanings. [laughing-emoji] Within the image, there are four different scenes corresponding to different literary quotes. Number 1: "Your gaze is very direct, Miss Eyre" from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. In the picture, Jane Eyre is accompanied by a group of raccoons, one of whom has just said to Mr. Rochester, "We want food!" Number 2: "She returned his gaze" from Ian McEwan's Atonement shows a woman carrying a box full of raccoons back to her reluctant ex-boyfriend. Number 3: "His gaze was direct, holding my eyes" from Diana Gabaldon's Outlander shows a clustered group of racoons physically holding open a shocked woman's eyelids. And number 4: "That somber, thoughtful gaze of his did not leave her face. She did not find it embarrassing" from Agatha Christie's Towards Zero shows a woman on a sun-lounger with her face entirely covered by a swarm of raccoons.

Fabulousness from @raprevec.bsky.social. ;)

04.06.2025 11:42 — 👍 526    🔁 218    💬 6    📌 13

Every couple of pages, I change the font colour. I'm currently cycling between orange and green, and am keeping myself just jangled enough that I can’t start coasting.

It couldn't be more different from how I write, and you know what? It's kind of fun. 📚💙

03.06.2025 11:08 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m so familiar with the words by now that my eyes keep glazing over and I know I’m missing things, so I’m using that old trick of changing the font to something wildly different from what I usually use, and making it ridiculously large. It helps!

03.06.2025 11:08 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A rainy Tuesday morning miniblog: I’m in the middle of proofreading my latest novella (The Naiad’s Lover, which I’ll publish in June or July) (probs July) and at this point, I think I’ve read it start to finish about 20 times since January. Maybe more 😆 #booksky #amwriting #amediting

03.06.2025 11:08 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
a golden retriever puppy on a bright pink rope leash prances through some tall grass. he’s wearing a brightly patterned bandana around his neck and is carrying a miniature six-stripe pride flag in his mouth. his front right paw is raised mid-stride, like he’s ready to hop into a pride parade at any second.

a golden retriever puppy on a bright pink rope leash prances through some tall grass. he’s wearing a brightly patterned bandana around his neck and is carrying a miniature six-stripe pride flag in his mouth. his front right paw is raised mid-stride, like he’s ready to hop into a pride parade at any second.

This is Bodie. He’s here to celebrate the start of Pride Month. Been working on this pose for weeks. 14/10 the parade starts right behind him 🌈🐾 (IG: hellobodie)

02.06.2025 14:49 — 👍 21147    🔁 2869    💬 267    📌 136

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