#Debut novel

[doubledaybooks]

"this book is so stunning yet sad and heavy yet hopeful. such breathtaking writing, every word feels so deliberate and intentional (I can’t believe this is a debut???). a brutally honest portrayal of the surveillance of muslim/arab/brown communities in a post-9/11 world" -Goodreads User on BETWEEN TWO MOONS

[enbeemagical]

lemme try this again

Hey Tumblr! I'm writing a book. It's 102k words (and counting) of pure queer fantasy and a year's worth of emotions.

It's about a queer kid finding community and support, and then stepping up to defend the people they love. And it's about falling in love and finding yourself, and it's about trust, and connection, and responsibility, and trying to do good in the world. It is also about gay.

Blurb thing:

Destiny has always been alone, self-isolating so that no one will find out about her magic, the same power that she watched a little girl dragged away for nine years ago. Then she meets Vida, a beautiful fae whose kiss sparks something inside her, and Destiny chooses to follow her.

She's not expecting Vida's family to be a werewolf pack. Or that they'll be so welcoming— she was told werewolves are monsters, after all. She's definitely not expecting them to become her own family.

But when Destiny begins to change, it's the wolves who accept him for who he is. And it's the wolves who are the first to see Destiny's magic and swear to protect them, no matter what. And it's up to Destiny to decide what that looks like.

Even if it means changing the world.

(yes the pronoun shifts in the almost-last paragraph were intentional)

And now a quote:

“Don’t you ever want to do something you’re not supposed to? Love the wrong way, be the wrong person, want the wrong things?”

If this sounds like your cup of tea, rb and let me know! I'm not sure when I'll start posting it, there's still a few edits I need to get done, but encouragement will definitely make that happen sooner~

[ouijacine]

🌆 cover design I recently did for @aj_barlowe ‘s debut novel A Series of Rooms 🌆

This was such a fun project to work on (as I very rarely draw scenery especially cityscapes)! And I’ll drop the blurb below 🍂

A SERIES OF ROOMS:

On the night of his twenty-first birthday, a domino effect of unfortunate events leads Liam Cassidy to a chance encounter with a stranger. What he thinks will be nothing more than a moment of shared refuge in a bar bathroom takes a turn when he finds the same young man waiting in his hotel room that night.

Jonah Prince is just trying to survive another night, same as he has done since his life derailed at seventeen. When his services are requested as a surprise for someone’s birthday, the last person he expects to see is the man from the bar who showed him kindness.

It doesn’t take long in a room together for Liam to see the cracks in Jonah’s facade. Hungry, guarded, and jumping at shadows, it’s clear he is in desperate need of a break, and Liam is in a unique position to grant him one-even if it’s just for a night.

Drawn together by their mutual need for escape, the two of them fall into an arrangement of weekly meetings inside the cheapest hotel rooms Chicago has to offer. The encounters are not sexual in nature, but an unexpected intimacy blossoms between them over time. For Jonah, it’s one night a week of guaranteed safety. For Liam, it’s the first real friendship he has ever known.

But soon, the circumstances that exist outside their private series of rooms begin closing in around them, reminding them that they can’t live in a bubble forever.

🍂The book will be released winter 2024 and is available to add to your TBR on storygraph 🍂

[jessread-s]

✩ 💜🐸Book Fanart:

📖: Trystan and Evie from “Assistant to the Villain” by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

This post is in collaboration with my sister @binjobo.0, who drew this lovely masterpiece as a birthday gift to me 🤩

Please click this link to show their art account some love.

Cross-posted to: Instagram | Amazon | Goodreads | StoryGraph

[authorrmbrown]

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Hi! I'm Rebecca, a 27-year-old fantasy writer from Scotland living the absolute dream because my debut novel came out on 27th June!!

Published by Ringwood Publishing, Song of the Stag is a love letter to Scotland's historic and folkloric past. From ancient kings and black-hearted patriots to bonnie princes and Jacobite songs, this book celebrates a complex, beautiful, and all too often tragic, land.

It also acts as an allegory for Scottish Independence, a subject I've been passionate about since 2014. The story is about the power of autonomy, be that of a person or a nation. Our main character, Cait, is a sheltered girl with an idyllic, conservative, rural upbringing, and her journey to personal freedom mirrors that of her nation.

I'm so excited to be able to share Cait's story with others! The novel can be purchased from Ringwood Publishing, Amazon (incl. Kindle format), or the Waterstones website. (For quickest delivery, order from Ringwood directly).

It's also on GoodReads, so please add to your want to read list, and leave a review if you read it!

[rileydaemon]

✨My YA thriller debut novel, Whispers in the Forest, is now available✨

Cursed by an Angel, saved by its Shadow.

Genesis was attacked by the wolf of legend who’s supposed to protect lost travelers. Then, because the wolf’s evil Shadow protected her, she was cast out from the town! Now the Forest that surrounds the town is dying. The trees are withering, and so are the farms. Animal attacks are becoming more common. And, as far as her town is concerned, it’s all her fault. There’s only one way to get to the bottom of this mystery:

Genesis will have to leave the home she’s known her whole life and follow the whispers in the forest.

[caitsbooks]

✨COVER REVEAL✨

I’m so excited to be revealing the cover of my debut romantic fantasy novel, MEDIEVALLY BLONDE, which will be coming out summer 2025!!!

I still can't believe this is real.⁠ I'm so grateful to my agent, Josh Adams, to the amazing people at Harper Voyager US and UK, to @elithien for making this STUNNING cover and really bringing Clía and Ronan to life, and to all of you guys for making this possible.⁠ Its because of you that my dream is coming true, and I will be forever grateful💖

MEDIEVALLY BLONDE is available for preorder now!!

About MEDIEVALLY BLONDE:

A princess desperate to win back the prince who broke her heart follows him to his kingdom’s prestigious military academy—and in doing so, falls in love, saves the realm, and continues to look fabulous, in this romantic debut fantasy loosely inspired by Legally Blonde.

Domhnall and Clía are an ideal match—or so everyone says. They are prince and princess of neighboring kingdoms. An alliance the gods will smile on. Until Domhnall ruins everything by refusing to propose.

Heartbroken but determined, Clía makes the perfect plan: Follow Domhnall to Caisleán Cósta, the military academy he’s attending. Show she can protect her kingdom. Secure the betrothal. Sure, the castle has a brutal reputation. But how hard can dueling really be?

Warrior Ronan promised himself he’d never lose his focus. He fought and sacrificed for his place at Caisleán Cósta, and he has no time for blonde princesses who waltz into arenas like they’re attending a ball. Even if she and her otter-like pet are… well, cute.

He doesn’t want to be intrigued by Clía. But her hunger to prove herself is something he understands. He tells himself there’s no harm training her. Even if his heart does race around her. Even if Domhnall is his best friend.

But as they say, love is a battlefield—and unfortunately for them all, a very real war is looming on the horizon. It’s a fight that will threaten all their kingdoms… and test all their hearts.

Other fun facts: It takes place in a queernormative world, there’s disability rep, there’s forbidden love, and it’s loosely inspired by Irish folklore!

Preorder now!

[natt-writes]

Writing is such bullshit because what do you mean I can write a weird fanfic but I can’t physically bring myself to write even one word of my novel. writers block needs to chill out!

[morganeboydauthor]

GHOSTS OF THE STEEL ROAD: NOW AVAILABLE!!!

Follow the first installment of Melandra's story starting today in paperback or ebook format! Both are available on Amazon, and as a self-published author, if you read and enjoy, please consider leaving a review.

Wondering what Ghosts of the Steel Road is about? Check out the back cover copy here:

There are two kinds of people in life: somebodies and nobodies. Know exactly which one you are. Melandra Godfrey may not have had a good life, but it was at least a predictable life. Her father, the last private detective in Zarothe, may have had his long list of rules and the money never added up right, but at least both of those factors were consistent. But when Melandra’s father goes out of town on whatat first seems like a normal job, Melandra’s world becomes unpredictable. A string of murders stokes fears of cult activity. An on-and-off friend warns of strange dangers. A mysterious man arrives at her door with an even more mysterious letter. The Steel Road, the ever-present crux of trade in Zarothe, holds the key to the mysteries around Melandra and throughout her whole life. Getting the answers she wants may mean doing the very thing Melandra hates most: becoming somebody.

[christineboyerauthor]

Available now for pre-order!

"Black Maria" is now available for pre-order from the following purveyors of fine literature in both paperback and Kindle formats:

Bookshop.org

Barnes & Noble

Amazon

[tawus]

"You’re at step 0 but you’re trying to jump to your final destination who knows how many steps away. You’re worried about taking the first step. Which is to write something, anything. Imagine if Usain Bolt, once the fastest man alive, was so worried about not being an average jogger, or so afraid that he would fall down after taking the first step at the age of 1 that he never even tried to walk and remained on all fours his entire life. That’s what you're saying. You assume the great writers you speak of were just born great or that their first writing was great. It also seems to me you assume that they intentionally planned their great works to be that great. Do you think your beloved Milan Kundera thought, “This book is gonna be a classic.” Or, “I know exactly what people will consider a classic and that is what I’m going to write.” I don’t think so. I think he just did his best with the creativity he had; not creativity someone else had. Isn’t writing a form of self-expression? Then isn’t writing something exceptional a result of an exceptional perspective written down in an exceptional way? In which case the ingredients are: having an exceptional writing ability, which is a result of relentless practice coupled with feedback and reflection on one’s work, and secondly an exceptional perspective which is the result of a life lived. Both things take time and effort and a lifelong process. It’s a journey. You want to create something that is the result of other people’s life journey and their writing journey. You have your own unique life, unique experiences, and as life goes on the pool of life experience grows. But by the time that pool of experience is full enough to create an exceptional perspective, you need to have the exceptional writing ability ready. Which is only acquired through writing. If I want to be a great boxer such as Mike Tyson, I can’t just go in the ring and start bobbing side to side trying to recreate his peek-a-boo style. I gotta first learn how to throw a punch. Learn all the basics. When you're at the start you gotta do the basic shit first. Wanna break the rules? You gotta learn them first. You gotta take the first step. The basic step. The boring step. Such as writing a book regardless of genre. If your ideas are about genres that cater to women, well that is your current life perception. Write that. It will change and you will write other things. The key is to write. This is an actual experiment that was conducted. 2 groups. One group was going to be graded based on how many clay pots they can make in a given time period. Doesn’t matter the looks as long as it can function like a pot. What matters is quantity. 2nd group can only present 1 pot to be graded after the same period of time as the first group. The result: 1st group that focused on only making as many pots as possible created much better looking pots than the 2nd group that was given a perfect excuse to overthink the quality. That’s you. You're giving yourself a great excuse to overthink the quality. Which is a trap. Action is the only way to clarity. Action solves all. Think about the best book you can ever write in your entire lifetime. I can tell you right now, the chances of that book being great, a classic, genre defining, etc., is a flat zero. Why? Because it doesn’t exist. The chance changes dramatically as soon as you write a book. You won’t know which one of your books is going to be what you want it to be. So you gotta keep trying and writing. Your books and ideas about them will keep changing along with your life, but if you don’t write anything, worrying about imaginary failures, then you won’t get anywhere. Take the leap. Your debut does not define your success."

— my brother, secretly the best pep talker

[virtuallyleslie]

Congratulations Moniquill Blackgoose!

TO SHAPE A DRAGON'S BREATH is on the official reading list for Best First Novel with the Locus Awards

The Locus Awards are reader awards! You decide the winners!

Just go through the poll: https://poll.voting.locusmag.com

[artificelux]

Unconventional literary science fiction? ☑️

Dark cyberpunk setting that oozes from each page? ☑️

Badass female main character? ☑️

Available in e-book so you don’t have to deal with international shipping? ☑️☑️☑️

Buy COLOR OF A MIRROR direct from the author (AKA: me). No bullshit. No subscriptions. No gatekeeping.

Welcome to the Dive.

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[leechjuice]

a pot-smoking arsonist. a scar-faced, cannibalistic texan. a half-blind motel cat. a road trip to hell & back in a shitty old pickup. predator and prey, hand in unloveable hand.

GRIEF. SEX. REVENGE. 🩸

IN THE END, YOU KILL US BOTH, my literary horror debut, is NOW AVAILABLE FOR E-BOOK PR-EORDER 🫀🥩

[alinacapellabooks]

IT'S FINALLY HERE! THE TENGU AND THE ANGEL IS OUT NOW!

Hello, hello, hello, everyone, I have some very exciting news to share with you all! The Tengu And The Angel, my debut novel, is now finally available to buy! That's right, you can now get your very own copy of my fluffy, angsty, gay friends-to-lovers novel! Oh, but why would you want to, you might be asking? What's the book about! Great questions, my friends, and I'll answer them both for you right now!

The Tengu And The Angel is a friends-to-lovers romance about two roommates falling in love, and learning to let go of their pasts. Eighteen year old Kunio Yoshioka has just fled his abusive mother's home in Northampton, and he's journeying up north in search of a new home, and a fresh start in life. He's armed with nothing but his dreams of being a successful artist, and his vivid imagination. He thinks of his new adult self as a tengu; strong, proud, and capable of things his child self could only dream of. Twenty year old Nathaniel seems to have it all; he's gorgeous, he lives in a beautiful apartment in the centre of Newcastle, and he's the owner and founder of Black Rose, a Victorian gothic online boutique. Kunio thinks of him as angel; he's faultlessly polite and kind, and he goes above and beyond to help him when they first meet, even though he doesn't know him. He's also painfully insecure, and he lives under the thumb of his toxic 'best friend', Theo, who uses his mental illness to control him. When Nathaniel takes Kunio in, the two form a close friendship, which slowly blossoms into love. Can the two of them learn to put their pasts behind, and make their relationship work? Well, you're going to have to read it to find out! Get your copy from Rakuten Kobo, or from the Amazon Kindle Store below!

[lilibug--xx]

*taps mic* is this thing on? for anyone still hanging around, I'm publishing an original novel on November 14th, 2024.

the idea stems from a fanfiction I was intending to write, but since have moved on from. eventually, I'll be publishing an original version of light came through next year! I'm working on that now, as well as a third novel that'll come to fruition. if you have any interest, check out my links below!

you can pre-order here - https://a.co/d/hz1NbgQ

coming to Kindle Unlimited on November 14th, 2024

paperbacks will be up for pre-order at a later date

if you like the following, you might enjoy sugar baby mine!

🌸 age gap

🌸 bdsm elements

🌸 pet names

🌸 fastburn

🌸 stern brunch daddy

🌸 mental health rep

ARC sign ups - https://www.lovenotespr.com/sugar-baby-mine

Blurb:

Somehow, my cousin convinced me to be a sugar baby. I didn’t have to go through any websites or filter through any creepy messages, just show up and meet Benjamin Reed—a whole 21 years between us. That one meeting was all it took for me to question everything I’ve ever thought about myself. I don't just need this, I want this—I want him.

But one thing that Cora stressed was don't get attached. Don't fall in love.

Simple enough.

Except I was never good at following directions.

* you can find me on instagram and threads with my handle @krianeauthor *