#mystery book series

[clarislam]

Hi! I'm a Chinese Canadian indie author & poet with three self-published amateur sleuth murder mystery books! All of them are part of the same series - the Harlow Mystery series - and I just released "Bloody Fantasia" (Book 3) earlier this year!

Also - the first two books in the series, "Winner Takes All" and "Engagement To Die For," were nominated for multiple categories in the 2023 Indie Ink Awards and the 2023 Queer Indie Awards!

Read "Winner Takes All" (Book 1): https://books2read.com/u/4EL8ro Read "Engagement To Die For" (Book 2): https://books2read.com/u/38Wn7V Read "Bloody Fantasia" (Book 3): https://books2read.com/u/38veQa

Please share this with any murder mystery reading enthusiasts! Thanks in advance for your support!

Want to check out what else I'm writing? Follow me at:

Website: https://clarislam.ca/ Newsletter:https://buttondown.email/clarislamauthor Carrd:https://clarislam.carrd.co

Indie books to support instead of NaNoWriMo

Hi, have you been watching the implosion of NaNoWriMo? I have, what a mess that is. Well I have had an idea! No, not another challenge, there are plenty of other people have already made some suggestions. What I'm proposing is that this year, instead of donating to NaNoWriMo consider buying an indie book instead. Even if you've never donated before consider supporting an indie author.

INDIE AUTHORS! ATTENTION, pitch your book in the reblogs if you would never touch AI with a ten foot barge pole! Don't forget to tell us where to buy!

READERS check out the reblogs for some cool books and consider supporting an indie author.

Also even if you're not pitching don't forget to share this around!

[ladywatereton]

Happy birthday, mystery twins🌲⭐🧢🐖

📺 Gravity Falls (2012-16).

🎶 Duvet, Bôa.

📹 Pistachio (YouTube), Disney Channel (YouTube), CoolMovieAndCartoons (YouTube), SériesFilmesDesenhosETC (YouTube).

[s-che]

Parasitic Games

So I've been rewatching Gravity Falls, right? And reading the Book of Bill, of course. And also playing a lot of Cultist Simulator? Which is a weird one but also a very specific combination of vibes.

Anyway I blacked out and finally wrote a twin pair of journaling games, A CALAMITOUS COINCIDENCE and THE ALCHEMIST. I wrote them in my dark basement research center (apartment) while remembering only occasionally to fulfill my obligations to the outside world (still going to work, I guess) while attempting to string together the clues and assemble, at last, my magnum opus (get them on the actual page, or screen I guess).

Anyway, let's do some normal ad copy.

Calamitous Coincidence is based on stories of lonely investigators, clever children, and inescapable tragedy (like A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Mysterious Benedict Society, and Gravity Falls) while The Alchemist lets you jump right in to bullshit esoteric thinking inspired by absolute freaks like John Dee and Aleister Crowley (or Cultist Simulator and Susanna Clarke's Piranesi, which are the reasons I actually wrote it).

I'm really putting that religion degree to good work, huh?

Both games give you the tools you need to figure out who you are in the world, what you're looking for, and where you think you'll find it -- neither give you the answers you're looking for. You'll have to find those yourself.

Both games are prototypes, currently available on Patreon for anyone paying $3 or more. As always with my patreon stuff, I extremely, extremely encourage you to sign up for a month, download the stuff you're interested interested in, and then cancel. It still means a lot.

Both games have been setting my brain on fire for the last month and a half, and I'm glad to get them out into the world (even if they are still a little broken).

I hope you like them:)

[blendereels]

I'm going to try to make my own designs for all the creatures in asoue/atwq. Here's my interpretation of The Great Unknown :)

design notes ↓

[bodhrancomedy]

By the way, if it was Harry Potter or Percy Jackson please don’t answer because I’m trying to see what else people loved. Also, children’s, not YA.

[hangesextra]

Nah, my comfort series literally contain a found family and murder. Um- that definitely says something about me-

[amrubrum]

reasons why thomas cresswell is one of the best and most underrated book men

has the sorest, biggest sweet tooth and is not afraid to make it known

he's quite literally the most intelligent man alive

his deductions are too impressive (seriously how can he even do that like????)

is audrey rose's number 1 fan

is SO down bad for audrey rose

audrey rose's simp

literally the biggest flirt alive

made and designed SEVERAL custom shoes and slippers that are practical and pretty for audrey rose because she missed wearing her slippers because of her injury

not to mention had a special dragon knob cane with a hidden blade inside made for audrey rose so that she'll always have a piece of him with her no matter where she is or if she's in danger (i need him so bad plss)

he is mischief personified

is a feminist

lets audrey rose be free and do whatever she pleases and is so supportive of whatever she does

never EVER thinks of audrey rose as less than just because she's a woman

is always making sure that audrey rose gives him her consent whenever they kiss and or do the deed

always making sure that audrey rose is comfortable

has the most amazing, badass, and hilarious older sister

is literally so patient

INTELLIGENT please his intelligence is so sexy

the biggest flirt EVER

outranks the wadsworths and their extended family yet you'd never even notice because he's so humble about it

"my love for you is a constant in a sea of variables."

[inkbirdie]

so like. what the fuck just happened <- me after reading three 500-page books crammed with so much information that you would think there would be some context and answers as to wHAT THE HELL IS EVEN GOING ON THE WHOLE TIME

[anakingfx]

“beside avery, jameson was looking at her like she was the sun and the moon and the stars and eternity, all rolled into one.”

[pookiebearnancy]

Men with Daddy Issues (I have them too) >>>

Kai Azer, Grayson Hawthorne, Jamieson Hawthorne, Aaron Warner, Carden Greenbriar, Josh Chen, Rhys Larsen, Percy Jackson.

[ysabellious]

a late night show!kate wetherall doodle :)

[jessread-s]

✩🕯️📜Series Review:

Core concepts

⋆ The Atlas Six - Physics

⋆ The Atlas Paradox - Psychology

⋆ The Atlas Complex - Philosophy

“The Atlas” series is so much more than dark academia or romance. This series studies what happens to human beings when they are promised access to infinite knowledge and power. It is about how quickly we turn on each other and abandon our own morals to gain. said knowledge and power. Each installment blew me away as I watched Blake’s six protagonists gradually find and/or destroy themselves. My mind was continuously expanded by her prose and it made me question my every decision. It’s a soul crushing read, but perhaps also a necessary one.

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@torpublishinggroup @olivieblake

[jessica-leatherman]

Surreal short stories from the Fore Square book series. A sampling of stories told from different times and settings.

5th book to be published January 29,2024-Kansas Day. All books available on Amazon.

What happened to Rose Manleather and her sons?

Some things belong and others do not. Can you decide which or can you come to your own Double Cola Talk epiphany and get the answers?

A curious life’s journey of the character Rose Manleather, sorted and collected together in fragmented framed form. All for a reader to enjoy piecing back together through the Fore Square series of short stories, riddles, metaphors, language, codes, innuendos, humor and interpretation.

Our main character is dyslexic and her stories and journal are unedited. Are you smart enough to figure out wha shes telling you and solve the mystery?

More FREE surreal stories HIDDEN in writers Instagram ProFile jessica_leatherman

[likeabxrdinflight]

tired of early 20-somethings acting like harry potter was never good or had no value in its day like shut the fuck up half of you weren't even there when it peaked

[thefigureresource]

Plachta [Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Dream] 1/7 scale from Design Coco coming March 2025.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Our Lady Of Mysterious Ailments & The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle

books 2 & 3 in the Edinburgh Nights series

paranormal mystery set in a climate-ravaged future Scotland, plagued by ghosts and magic

follows a 15yo Black girl who’s finally gotten an in to learn scientific magic properly - but it turns out to be an unpaid internship, so she has to take more jobs delivering ghost messages and investigating mysteries to take care of her gran and little sister

in book 2 she’s investigating a strange illness centred on a magic school for boys

and in book 3 she’s attending a global magician conference held in a creepy castle - when someone’s murdered, and they’re locked in until she figures out the culprit

Zimbabwean magic, friendship, disabled characters, no romance (so far)