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A graverobber standing at the mouth of a cave holding a jawbone like a pistol. Art by Marten Norr!

A list of comp titles for The Barrowvine Saint: Gideon the Ninth, Metal from Heaven, a Botanical Daughter, and SYCBANI

I'm absolutely THRILLED to announce that I'm now represented by the one and only @allegramartsch.bsky.social at Bookends Literary. Can't wait to see where my strange little book full of sapphic undead will go! 🌿💀

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Review: Demon Engine by Marten Norr — SFF Insiders Dark fantasy set in a post-deluge world, combining a range of themes—abyssal horrors, trauma, moral conflicts, gender transitions and complexities of emotions.

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Demon Engine (audiobook) by tRaum Books by Marten Norr || The nautical trans fantasy you didn't know you needed!

IT'S HERE!!! Our very first audiobook available on ITCH IO has gone live, @martennorr.bsky.social 's DEMON ENGINE! If you enjoy audiobooks and dark sea fantasy of the trans variety, then you should check it out! 🦑🪸⚓
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A screenshot of tRaum Book's ITCH IO landing page. All ebooks are $1 only (or cheaper!!) Sale is running until the end of June. All proceeds (and tips) go directly back to the authors. <3

We're always reading queer and trans lit, but it is that time of the year to read queer lit even HARDER!!! For Pride Month, all of our ebooks are only one buck (or less!), or you can buy them all in a bundle! Snag them all or grab that one title you've been meaning to. 🌈📚💥 traumbooks.itch.io

Cover for Marten Norr's debut fantasy, DEMON ENGINE. This is a nautical fantasy, with body horror elements and t4t friendship. The cover features organic sinews intertwining with brass elements and gears. Designed by Marten Norr. Book released by tRaum Books.

We've gotten quite a few new followers over the past week, so hey all! We're a tiny queer and trans press and our latest is a nautical trans fantasy, by @martennorr.bsky.social ! We've released extreme horror, high fantasy, literary fiction, experimental fic--we just publish what we love.

Cover for Marten Norr's debut novel DEMON ENGINE, a story in a post-post-post apocalyptic world, focusing on an unlikely friendship between a demon summoner and a demon binder, who must put aside their differences and their pasts if they want to survive. Organic sinews intertwine with brass elements and gears around a frame of the book's title and author name. Cover designed by Marten Norr. Book published by tRaum Books.

A five star Goodreads review of Marten Norr's debut novel, DEMON ENGINE. The first line is, My reoccuring thought as I read Marten Norr's Demon Engine was, "Hot damn, I wish I'd written this." Review is by author Zilla Novikov. In the background of the picture, there are octopus tentacles and wet suckers.

In our time zone, it's official: HAPPY BIRTHDAY to @martennorr.bsky.social 's DEMON ENGINE! We are so incredibly excited to share this nautical fantasy with you!!! Check it out if t4t friends, body horror, crafty world building, and endless sea puns are your thing 🥹🐳🔪
traumbooks.com/demon-engine/

Must-Have Monday #237 - Every Book a Doorway Deceased feasts, demons of several kinds, and a cat god companion!

This Must-Have Monday I have ELEVEN new SFF books you should know about, incl

🍽️ last meals with the dead from @darialavelleauthor.bsky.social
⚔️ gender-swapped Zorro + black salt magic by @sandraproudman.bsky.social
😶‍🌫️200 ghosts in your head with @martennorr.bsky.social

Cover for Marten Norr's debut novel, Demon Engine, a nautical trans fantasy. Gears and pulleys intertwine with organic-looking vines and sinews in a frame around the title and author name. In the background, the colors of the ocean. Colors are dark blue green, brass and flesh colors.

A virtual flyer for an in-person author event at the Page 42 Bookstore, in Spokane, WA. Featuring signed books and other cool stuff! A cartoon of a typewriter with flowers growing out of it is in the middle of the flyer. The event is on May 17th, from 12 PM to 5 PM.

@martennorr.bsky.social, author of our upcoming release DEMON ENGINE, will be in person with a bunch of other writers at the Page 42 Bookstore in Spokane, on May 17th! Go say hi if you're in the area! 🐳🐳
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The cover for Marten Norr's nautical horror fantasy, DEMON ENGINE. Gears, sinews and tentacles are intertwined around the letters of the title, with a sea/wave pattern in the background. Book will be released by tRaum Books on May 25th, 2025.

Yoo, check out the awesome final cover Marten Norr designed for DEMON ENGINE, our spring release coming on May 25th! If you're interested in an inventive nautical trans fantasy, you definitely should check it out! @martennorr.bsky.social
Pre-order: traumbooks.com/demon-engine/

A review of Marten Norr's DEMON ENGINE, by Zilla Novikov. Excerpt: "This book is about second chances. Whether we're given them, whether we deserve them. Whether we can remake our bodies, take new names, repair our own complicity."

Trope map for Marten Norr's DEMON ENGINE. Cover of the book (a teacup, with a tentacle, fish and lighthouse coming out of it). Tropes include: -Ghosts // platonic t4t friendship // postpostpostpost apocalyptic flooded world // queer body horror as a primal scream against a collapsing society // unique POV structure

Baby's first 10 ratings! 🐙💜We are now officially in the month of DEMON ENGINE's release~~!! "This book is about second chances. Whether we're given them, whether we deserve them. Whether we can remake our bodies, take new names, repair our own complicity."
traumbooks.com/demon-engine/

The cover for Marten Norr's debut nautical trans body-horror fantasy, DEMON ENGINE. A teacup in the foreground, with a fish, tentacle and lighthouse emerging from it. In the back, dark background and green, suggesting kelp or slime. Will be released by tRaum Books on May 25th, 2025!

Some of you are really bringing the 'I'm getting this needlepointed and framed' to your DEMON ENGINE reviews!! "Wonderful, strange, tense and intriguing!"
Pre-order this trans nautical body-horror fantasy by @martennorr.bsky.social here:
🐙 traumbooks.com/demon-engine/

So jazzed about how many great readers have come to check out DEMON ENGINE!!! If you'd like an ARC copy, the form is right here and preorders on Itch and elsewhere are up too~
ARC form: forms.gle/kVJChrB9zKT5...
Preorder: traumbooks/demon-engine

DEMON ENGINE ARC Sign-Up Form Hi there! This is a sign-up form to receive an electronic Advanced Reader Copy of Marten Norr's debut deep-sea adventure novel, DEMON ENGINE. If you would like to sign up as an ARC reader, please simp...

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anyway if you want messy queers and dark fantasy, ARC requests are open for Demon Engine

“Sally, who’s never done anything wrong in his whole life (except the murders)” is one of the aforementioned messy queers. Quote taken from Zilla Novikov‘s review, the whole of which you can find on Goodreads!

a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits on a bus with the words " chuckles i 'm in danger " below him Alt: a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sitting on a bus with the words "chuckles i’m in danger" below him

me, a queer author, writing books about evil queer people who have complicated relationships with their genders in a literary climate where a queer character is only considered “good rep” if they’re sanitized paragons of virtue and morality

Cover for Marten Norr's nautical trans fantasy debut, Demon Engine. A tea cup with ominous lighting--out of the cup a fish, tentacles and a lighthouse is emerging. The background is dark, with suggestion of slime/kelp, in green.

A picture of Marten Norr's upcoming book DEMON ENGINE and arrows pointing to interesting things. -multistructure POV -platonic t4t relationship -post-post-post apocalyptic, flooded world -ghosts who love tea -queer body horror as a primal scream against a collapsing society

"the book that would happen if China Mielville & Herman Melville had a trans fantasy baby" I can't say it better than that! Pre-orders for Marten Norr's great nautical fantasy horrorish adventure are now open!!
🐳 traumbooks.com/demon-engine/

these are the MCs of my horror fantasy novel, Demon Engine (which you can preorder now!)

give them your lunch money

Reposting for the morning crowd! Pre-orders now open for
DEMON ENGINE by @martennorr.bsky.social 🔽🔽🔽
🐳 high sea adventure
🍧 trans MCs
❣️🔪 body horror
🐙nautical abominations
traumbooks.com/demon-engine/

Cover for Marten Norr's debut, DEMON ENGINE, a nautical trans body-horror adventure!! Cover features a tea-cup (important to the story), out of which a fishhead, a tentacle, and a lighthouse are emerging. The background is dark and there is dark green slime suggested.

Well, the squid is out of the bag! The world's been NEEDING a nautical trans body-horror story, and @martennorr.bsky.social has delivered! Really excited to officially open pre-orders for DEMON ENGINE, our spring release for late May 25th!!
traumbooks.com/demon-engine/

the book cover for Demon Engine by Marten Norr against a background of underwater sea life and tentacles. the text features arrows pointing toward the book with phrases describing the story: “queer body horror as a primal scream against a collapsing society,” and “post post apocalypse flooded world” and “platonic t4t and queer found family” and ghosts are real and they love tea” and “unusual multi-POV plot structure.” it also features reviews from other authors that say “Norr’s darkly funny imaginative and trans as hell debut will have you singing his praises and cursing his name by the end” by Rachel Rosen author of Blight. The other review says “The book is about second chances, whether we’re given them, whether we deserve them. Whether we can remake our bodies, take new names, repair our own complicity” by Zilla Novikov author of Query

An old scrap of paper against a background of jellyfish. the text reads “here there be monsters…Sally Delavega, the best demon-binder the world has ever seen, would do anything to banish the two hundred ghosts trapped in his head—even if it means swimming up from the bottom of his tankard. When the Navy that destroyed his life comes sailing back to offer enough coin to get the job done, Sally agrees. All he has to do is help the crew of the Steadfast track down the ancient abyssal that lies sleeping at the heart of their drowned world. Why the Navy wants the demon isn’t Sally’s problem. But as they sail on, Sally begins to dredge up disturbing truths about how the world flooded and their ancient eldritch quarry that might just want to be found… Imaginative and poignant, funny and bizarre, Demon Engine brings us a bold, queer high-seas adventure that asks how deep we might venture for what we aren’t willing to lose.” There is a review at the bottom reading “A feat of nautical horror and dark fantasy…Its unwavering mystique is propelled by terrors of both body and mind while eldritch creatures and strange magics wind through the pages, beauty and violence all elevated by Norr’s engrossing prose.” by C.L. Methvin, author of Eusect

Text reads “paperback and ebook available for preorder now. traumbooks.com/demonengine. Releasing on amazon, ingram, and bookshop.org may 25th, audiobook coming soon.” the background is an illustration of a young man with black hair. he’s standing in the water with ghostly people reaching up to drag him down

Woe, pre-orders be upon ye. Witness my weird, queer sea horror adventure! 🐋 Releasing May 25th from @traumbooks.bsky.social

Blight by Rachel A. Rosen (The Sleep of Reason Book 2). Giant bone tentacles surround a sub in the middle of a turbulent ocean. Metal AF.

Pre-orders for my newest book, Blight, are available! It's the sequel to Cascade, and if you like revolutionary politics, chaos magick, and giant bone tentacles, check it out:

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Bursting with body horror, blood, and gore, but interrogating the existential. Intriguing and disgusting, I found EUSECT to be a strong collection of stories that may stay to incubate in your mind (with chapter art by @seraphim777s.bsky.social). My review is up now! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

a fake screencap as if from an anime of a bedraggled black-haired trans man leaning over a barrel of green grog with a cask full of the same liquid, saying "cheers, fuckers!" with a slightly unhinged look on his face

I'm having fun making fake anime screencaps for my projects hehe if anyone wants to meet this skrunkly man, hmu I need beta readers for my queer nautical horror fantasy

A group of humanoids based on moles, mice, squirrels, porcupines, capybara, and kanagroo rats gather to relax.

Coming out Nov. 27th on @DriveThruRPG is #DayLITEHlafli, a lineage expansion for #DayLITEFantasy!

@martennorr.bsky.social did this amazing art to bring these six lineages of the hlafli family to life for your table!

Play as the stoic capykaski or as the wily toposki!

See you Nov. 27th!

"Flower Prince Commissions 2023 Line art or charcoal sketch $45 simple shading simple background $80 bust $100 full body fully rendered scene $200 Add character $50"

"Cover Design Services (prices are in USD) Simple cover $50 - you fill out a form with your project's info, your vision, and any text you want included. I deliver an affordable, lovely cover that shows the promise of your story. 2 edits included. Premium cover(s) $80 - Includes the service in the above section, plus a more detailed execution of your vision with more time spent on your design, and a consult about the direction of your cover. 5 edits included and add a second version for $20. Front and back Spread $100 - Includes above services, with the addition of back cover formatting in alignment with Amazon/Kindle/Ingram requirements. Unlimited edits. Includes spine formatting as well if number of pages is known."

Hello! I have zero dollars in my bank account and would like that to change!! Please check out my website www.martennorr.com for more information on how to commission me!