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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 28/09/2026

🌃🃏 COVER REVEAL I'm excited to help reveal the cover for MAKING MONSTERS by @faclark.bsky.social — a grungy cyberpunk Witcher-like novel — releasing November 24, 2026. ➡️ storyoriginapp.com/universalboo... 🎨 Cover art by @martinabelli.bsky.social 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚

Cover Reveal

Making Monsters - Freddie A. Clark

A book cover mockup rests in the center of the image with a gothic-looking masc individual carrying a creatures head and smoking a cigarette while walking to a grungy neon street.

November 24, 2026

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 31/08/2026

✨️🍷🔮 DOUBLE COVER REVEAL I'm excited to help reveal the covers for both SHATTERED CITY (City of Silver, book 2) by @tallimorgan.bsky.social and THE MODERN MYTHOS CONTINUUM (The Modern Mythos, book 2) by @ardentgrove.bsky.social. Both release October 6, 2026—links & info below! 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚

Double cover reveal - T.L. Morgan - Juniper Lake Fitzgerald - october 06, 2026

The cover of Shattered City by T. L. Morgan. Main characters Cyrus and Lucien stand in a close embrace, gazing at each other intently. Lucien has his arm around Cyrus, and Cyrus is touching Lucien’s hair. They’re set against a dark blue background and surrounded by an intricate frame of silver roses and thorns.

The cover for The Modern Mythos Continuum by Juniper Lake Fitzgerald. From left to right: Aeris the vampire hunter, Python the vampire, Calysto the warlock. The trio is pictured in a tight formation. Aeris is peering into the distance and holding a thin golden necklace between her fingers. Calysto is back-to-back with her, and holds a book against his chest while staring up and out. His other arm wraps around Python who is leaning against him, seemingly in a catatonic state, his eyes are blank and/or detailed with magical light. A silhouette of a bat-like creature looms behind them.

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 28/08/2026

📚️🏷️ Narratess Indie Book Sale - August 2026 You can get Familiar, the first installment in the Occult Misadventures universe, for $2.99 during the Narratess Indie Book Sale this weekend (August 29-31, 2026)! indiebook.sale 🎨 art by @martinabelli.bsky.social 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚

Narratess Sale
auguts 29-31, 2026 - indiebook.sale

$2.99

A book cover of Familiar by Cara Nox is off to the left of the image, alongside a blurb on the right that reads: “Jules, the son of a vampire hunter and glorified admin assistant for his father’s crew, is tired of waiting to join their ranks. So when he wakes up with the mark of a familiar, he decides to prove himself by hunting down the vampire responsible. Hopefully this also doesn’t ruin his chance with his crush...".

Art by Martina Belli rests at the bottom of the image, featuring two lighter-skinned guys looking at each other and smiling while holding coffee cups.

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 05/06/2026

🌈📚 A mini guide to LGBTQIA+ and disability pride rep in my books 🖤 caranox.com/books 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

Seraphine’s Chosen
pride rep - and pairings

Book mockups of The Thirteenth Key and The Vault with circular flag icons along the right side for ace, bi, lesbian, poly, and disability pride.

ace mmc x bi fmc
disabled lesbian side character
messy bi+poly side characters

caranox.com/seraphines-chosen

The Custodians
pride rep - and pairings

Book mockup of Trick in the center, surrounded by circular flag icons for demi, pan, aroace, lesbian, gay, and disability pride.

autistic demi fmc x pan mmc
aroace mmc
gay & lesbian side characters

caranox.com/the-custodians

The Wild Hunt
pride rep - and pairings

Book mockup of A Hunt of Blood & Iron in the center, surrounded by circular flag icons for demi, gay, nonbinary, disability, and queer pride.

autistic, disabled demi mmc x gay mmc
nonbinary fae antagonist
undisclosed queer side characters

caranox.com/the-wild-hunt

Occult Misadventures
pride rep - and pairings

Book mockup of Familiar in the center, surrounded by circular flag icons for gay, bi, trans, and nonbinary pride.

gay mmc x bi li
nonbinary side character

caranox.com/occult-misadventures

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 02/06/2026

💟✨ Cover Reveal for FRUITS OF HER LABOUR by Stasia Roze 🎉 I'm happy to help show off the cover for @stasiaroze.satan.social 's debut novel—Fruits of Her Labour—a contemporary fantasy full of witchcraft, prophecies, visions, and sisterhood. Be sure to give her a follow for updates! 🖤 💙📚👀 📢📚

FRUITS OF HER LABOUR by Stasia Roze cover with pomegranates resting at the bottom of a purple, starry background and gold moon and star borders. Pomegranates decorate the background behind the cover.

Fruit of Her Labour is a contemporary fantasy full of witchcraft, prophecies, visions, and sisterhood.

Delphine often found herself alone, running a B&B out in the sticks her main companions were her chickens and goats. On a warm summer equinox eve, Delphine receives a guest who will change everything. Sarah has waited centuries to meet Delphine, to start the prophecy and counter a truly unspeakable evil. The book follows Delphines journey as she learns her new powers, meets a community like her, and finally finds a place where she belongs. But Grantor the Despiser has other plans, and both parties come to head in a battle for the world.

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 01/06/2026

I'm Cara, and I write LGBTQ+ science fiction & fantasy (often with ace and/or ND main characters) with heavily inspired themes from JRPGs and 90s/00s anime and urban fantasy shows. 🖤 I have a few books, so I can't fit all of them, but here's a link to find more info: cara.ink

The Thirteenth Key
Seraphine’s Chosen - Book One

A book cover of The Thirteenth Key by Cara Nox is in the center of the image, surrounded by tropes, rep, and other details. Clockwise, from the upper right, it reads: found family; sweet ace boy x spicy bi girl; slowburn romantic subplots; dying magic thriving tech; futuristic fantasy; traveling heist adventure; disability rep; chaotic chosen one(s); hurt / comfort; persona 5 meets final fantasy 15.

caranox.com/t13k

Familiar
Occult Misadventures - Standalone

A book cover of Familiar by Cara Nox is in the center of the image, surrounded by tropes. Clockwise, from the upper right, it reads: errand boy for vampire hunters; awkward gay mc x goth bi li; mistakes™ were made; coffee shop meet-cute turned disaster; hunters with ulterior motives; don't be suspicious; chaotic first person narration; vampires, werewolves, & witches.

caranox.com/familiar

A Hunt of Blood & Iron
The Wild Hunt - Book One

A book cover of A Hunt of Blood & Iron by Cara Nox is in the center of the image, surrounded by tropes, rep, and other details. Clockwise, from the upper right, it reads: bloodthirsty evil fae; one bed (& one motorcycle); slowburn; autistic demi mc x gay li; dual pov; love interest falls first; nonbinary antagonist; gay yearning; fae-ruled post-apocalyptic world; hurt / comfort; sacrificial trade magic; mm romance.

caranox.com/ahobai

Trick
The Custodians - Book One

A book cover of Trick by Cara Nox is in the center of the image, surrounded by tropes, rep, and other details. Clockwise, from the upper right, it reads: autistic demi girl x golden retriever pan boy; tattoo magic; disability rep; tarot cards, pocket watches, & other magic trinkets; secret societies; snarky aroace teen with too much power; questioning the system™; a dash of time travel; disney+’s loki meets shadowhunters.

caranox.com/trick

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 01/06/2026

🌈📚 Get my books at a discount through June 13th in celebration of Pride Month! caranox.com/books 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

Nox's Pride Month Sale
jun 1-13, 2026

Familiar $2.99
The Thirteenth Key $1.99
The Vault $2.99
A Hunt of Blood & Iron $1.99
Trick $1.99

caranox.com/books

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 01/06/2026

You can nab a copy of THE THIRTEENTH KEY in the PRIDE HARD bundle on itchio during Pride Book Fair through June 8th! 🖤 pridebookfair.carrd.co#promos 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

Pride Book Fair 2026 Bundle #1: Pride Hard; a black graphic with over thirty-five covers of various LGBTQIA+ fiction books available on itch.io.

Pride Book Fair 2026 Bundle #2: Pride Hard with a Vengeance; a black graphic with over thirty-five covers of various LGBTQIA+ fiction books available on itch.io.

Pride Book Fair 2026 Bundle #3: Live Free or Pride Hard; a black graphic with over thirty-five covers of various LGBTQIA+ fiction books available on itch.io.

Pride Book Fair 2026 Bundle #4: A Good Day to Pride Hard; a black graphic with over thirty-five covers of various LGBTQIA+ fiction books available on itch.io.

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 21/04/2026

🌔🐺 Cover Reveal for THE HOWLING DARK by Brittany M. Willows I'm helping @bmwillows.bsky.social with her cover reveal of THE HOWLING DARK, an adult, post-apocalyptic scifi fantasy standalone releasing November 9, 2026. You can learn more and preorder here: thehowlingdark.carrd.co 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚

Cover reveal for The Howling Dark by Brittany M Willows. Out November 9, 2026. Cover illustration for "The Howling Dark" by Brittany M. Willows (designed and drawn by the author), featuring the book’s protagonist front and center, facing the viewer with a neutral expression. He is crouching amidst leafless, snow-covered branches, a birch spear in his right hand. He wears a green parka and a brown, ribbed, turtleneck sweater. He is fair-skinned and has long wavy half-black half-white hair and a scar over his left eye.

Book description text for “The Howling Dark” by Brittany M. Willows set against a drawing of a hand touching flowers (art by demon.vinegar). Text reads: Sylvain is an eclipse-born werewolf who knows neither his bestial form nor the post-nuclear wilds his kind hail from. Raised on the orbital research station Zodiac, he’s grown accustomed to a life of peaceful predictability. Though fantasies of visiting his birthplace may be out of reach due to medical restrictions, he has a loving boyfriend and all of his essential needs are met. What more could he want?

In the opinion of his elder brother, the answer is: everything.

Believing them abducted as children, Illia has always sworn to someday return with his brother to the mountains they were taken from. And when a peculiar turn in Sylvain’s health brings to light an ugly truth, someday becomes now—whether Sylvain is ready for it or not.

Soon enough, the brothers find themselves fugitives on the planet’s surface, pursued by the governmen

A promotional graphic for “The Howling Dark” by Brittany M. Willows with the book’s cover (designed and drawn by the author), surrounded by various tropes/themes and details about the book, including: Standalone, post-nuclear earth-like setting, were-caracal bounty hunter, fugitive werewolf brothers, a dash of m.m spice and romance, corrupt space government, brother bear x wolf’s rain, doomed siblings, ragtag rebels, botanical body horror.

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 10/04/2026

📚️🏷️ Narratess Indie Book Sale - April 2026 You can get Familiar, the first installment in the Occult Misadventures universe, for $1.99 during the Narratess Indie Book Sale this weekend (April 11-13, 2026)! indiebook.sale 🎨 art of Jules & Saint by @martinabelli.bsky.social 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚

Narratess Sale
april 11-13, 2026 - indiebook.sale

$1.99

A book cover of Familiar by Cara Nox is off to the left of the image, alongside a blurb on the right that reads: “Jules, the son of a vampire hunter and glorified admin assistant for his father’s crew, is tired of waiting to join their ranks. So when he wakes up with the mark of a familiar, he decides to prove himself by hunting down the vampire responsible. Hopefully this also doesn’t ruin his chance with his crush...".

Art by Martina Belli rests at the bottom of the image, featuring two lighter-skinned guys looking at each other and smiling while holding coffee cups.

Familiar
Occult Misadventures - Standalone

A book cover of Familiar by Cara Nox is tilted off to the right of the image, alongside a few tropes and details: vampires, werewolves, & witches; errand boy for vampire hunters; coffee shop meet-cute turned disaster; awkward gay mc x goth bi li.

Art by Martina Belli rests at the bottom of the image, featuring two lighter-skinned guys looking at each other and smiling while holding coffee cups.

caranox.com/familiar

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 20/03/2026

🌃🌟 Reorganizing my timelines and writing priorities for the rest of the books currently on my WIP list, specifically so I can hopefully finish drafting SPIRITS this year 🖤 caranox.com/books caranox.com/wips 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

Trick, a book by Cara Nox, being pulled off the shelf between other books and a bookend resembling a chess piece.

The Custodians
urban fantasy - series

Book mockup of Trick is in the center.

In a world parallel to our own, a secret society, consisting of eight factions, is charged with keeping humanity on track—an even greater task with danger lurking within.

caranox.com/trick

Starry Silver
serial - early access

A black book with the title Spirits written on the cover.

When Ren accidentally witnesses a Halloween “Inked” party turn into a nightmare through the eyes of one of the victims, he’s determined to clear Lily’s name and save the guy he seemingly has a psychic link with.

caranox.com/wips

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 13/03/2026

📚️✨ Trying to get back into the rhythm of writing this week since my sleep schedule has been pretty messed up. caranox.com/books 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

Books by Cara Nox layered on top of one another, fanned out on top of black tray with white star string lights in the background.

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 06/03/2026

✨🗼 I just got back from Tokyo, so I'm mega out of it atm. But I got to visit some new places (and ones I haven't seen in nearly 15 years), including some retail stores for video game companies that inspired my writing. 🖤 caranox.com/books 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

Shelf with books by Cara Nox stacked and shelved with a black and gold mug sitting on the hardcover copies.

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 27/02/2026

Strange to think I've been a published author for nearly a year now, and it all started with THE THIRTEENTH KEY. I'm proud that I've published five books since then. I just wish there were more hours in a day to spend more time on it all. 🥹🖤 caranox.com/books 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

Copies of The Thirteenth Key and The Vault by Cara Nox. The paperbacks are standing upright against the hardbacks laying down and the gold and black teacup on top of it.

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 20/02/2026

Broke 60k on A TITHE OF SOULS & DREAMS 🎉 Getting closer to wrapping up this series! 🖤🗡️🍂 caranox.com/books 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

An open copy of A Hunt of Blood & Iron by Cara Nox, with the title "22 Grey" at the top of one of the pages. A black and gold mug sits in the background.

The Wild Hunt
achillean dark fantasy - series

Book mockup of A Hunt of Blood & Iron is in the center.

In a post-apocalyptic world reclaimed by the fae, two selected participants of a deadly Wild Hunt try to escape their fate.

caranox.com/ahobai

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 13/02/2026

You can get all of my current series-starter and standalone ebooks at a discount for Valentine's weekend! Don't miss out on paranormal meet-cutes, forbidden romantic pairings, and more 🖤 caranox.com/books 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

Valentine's Sale; Feb 13-16, 2026; tiled covers of books by Cara Nox with sale pricing sit above "Get Familiar for $3.99, Trick for $0.99, The Thirteenth Key for $1.99, & A Hunt of Blood & Iron for $1.99"; caranox.com/books

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 06/02/2026

🖤📖 Shelfie from my backlog since my books are getting packed for the move. caranox.com/books 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

A shelf of Cara Nox's paperback books next to notebooks and a fake plant.

Seraphine's Chosen
epic science fantasy - series

Book mockups of The Thirteenth Key and The Vault are in the center.

In a world where tech is replacing dying magic, a crew of thieves attempt to bring it back with the hope of using it to save themselves.

caranox.com/t13k

Occult Misadventures
paranormal urban fantasy - universe standalones

Book mockup of Familiar is in the center.

A series of independent paranormal light mysteries, featuring various supernatural and fantasy creatures set within the same fictional iteration of our universe.

caranox.com/familiar

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 30/01/2026

🌃🖤 My Urban Fantasy Books I'm excited to write more urban fantasy and urban fantasy-adjacent books like these, complete with that 90s and 00s + anime feel. caranox.com/books 🎨 art of Jules & Saint by @martinabelli.bsky.social 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

Various books by Cara Nox shelved and stacked on a shelf with a fake plant and a mug. Trick and Familiar take up the center.

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 23/01/2026

I'm still slowly working through book two of this series and loving the unsettling, gritty descent into deeper issues within the Custodians as a whole, including how the main characters are impacted by it all. 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

An image of a book page with the words "You know what to do." in an handwritten font near the bottom.

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 16/01/2026

✨ Downward into an abyss of silvery stars. My PERSONA 5 meets FINAL FANTASY XV series of LGBTQ+ disasters. 🖤 caranox.com/books 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

A stack of books along the top of the image next to a plant overtop of a woven black covering. The Thirteenth Key and The Vault flatlay on the black tray with woven star lights.

The Vault
Seraphine’s Chosen - Book Two

A book cover of The Vault by Cara Nox is in the center of the image, surrounded by tropes, rep, and other details. Clockwise, from the upper right, it reads: overcoming trauma & finding yourself; the power of forgiveness but also… the power of incredible violence; a touch of madness™; conclusion of first major story arc; social justice; they finally kiss??; facing your demons (literally).

caranox.com/tv

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 09/01/2026

🖤🩸FAMILIAR is a fast-paced, LGBTQ+ paranormal standalone you should check out if you're into vampires, vampire hunters, witches, and werewolves. caranox.com/familiar 🎨 art of Jules & Saint by @martinabelli.bsky.social 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 02/01/2026

🎉✨ Happy New Year! I'm looking forward to hopefully publishing more books this year and exploring more worlds through reading some indie books on my tbr and writing fun drafts 🖤📖 caranox.com/books 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

A collection of books by Cara Nox lined up and stacked on a bookshelf alongside a fake plant and with a black and gold mug sitting on top of a hardcover stack.

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 26/12/2025

📚 🎉 Writing Wrapped 2025 Stats I’m happy to see how much progress I’ve made, things I’ve tried, and cool new ideas I’ve jotted down for the future. Here’s to writing and publishing more next year. 🖤 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

Writing Wrapped 2025 Stats

Overlapping book cover mockups for A TRIAL OF WRATH & RUIN, SPIRITS, DEVOUR YOUR HEART, and NOVA RICHE alongside the cover for FAMILIAR.

✦ published FAMILIAR 🎉🖤🩸
✦ wrote >50k in NOVA RICHE
✦ wrote >50k in DEVOUR YOUR HEART
✦ made it ~50% way through SPIRITS
✦ finished the first draft of A TRIAL OF WRATH & RUIN
✦ wrote >20k in A TITHE OF SOULS & DREAMS

I’m happy to see how much progress I’ve made, things I’ve tried, and cool new ideas I’ve jotted down for the future. Here’s to writing and publishing more next year. 🖤

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 19/12/2025

🗝️🌌❄️ If you're looking for a found family adventure with a blend of some of the best parts of Final Fantasy 15 and Persona 5 that takes place around this time of year, then now might be the time for you to pick up copies of The Thirteenth Key & The Vault. 🖤 ✨ caranox.com/t13k 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚

An opened copy of The Thirteenth Key by Cara Nox with woven star lights overlapping the corner of the book on a dark background.

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 16/12/2025

⚔️✨ Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Blends It'll always be my favorite sort of overlap near and dear to my heart, from magical post-apocalyptic settings to futuristic fantasy worlds. 🖤 ✨ caranox.com/books 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

A gold and black mug sitting on top of a stack of hardcovers, featuring A Hunt of Blood & Iron, The Thirteenth Key, and The Vault, all by Cara Nox.

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 12/12/2025

🖤🩸FAMILIAR (aka: "That Time I Got Drunk and Accidentally Became a Vampire's Familiar") is a fast-paced, LGBTQ+ paranormal standalone you should check out if you're into vampires 🥰 caranox.com/familiar 🎨 art of Jules & Saint by @martinabelli.bsky.social 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

Familiar
Occult Misadventures - Standalone

A book cover of Familiar by Cara Nox is off to the left of the image, alongside a blurb on the right that reads: “Jules, the son of a vampire hunter and glorified admin assistant for his father’s crew, is tired of waiting to join their ranks. So when he wakes up with the mark of a familiar, he decides to prove himself by hunting down the vampire responsible. Hopefully this also doesn’t ruin his chance with his crush...".

Art by Martina Belli rests at the bottom of the image, featuring two lighter-skinned guys looking at each other and smiling while holding coffee cups.

caranox.com/familiar

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 09/12/2025

📚 🎉 Smashwords End of Year Sale 2025 Get all of my LGBTQ+ series starter ebooks for 50% off during the End of Year Smashwords sale! caranox.com/smashwords 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

End of Year Sale
Smashwords - 2025

50% off

Graphical book covers of Trick, The Thirteenth Key, and A Hunt of Blood & Iron, all by Cara Nox, tiled across the image.

Get TRICK, THE THIRTEENTH KEY, & A HUNT OF BLOOD & IRON for 50% off!

caranox.com/smashwords

Smashwords 2025 End of Year Sale

smashwords.com/sale

Ebooks discounted Between 25% - 100% off; Dec 8 - Jan 1.

Shop the Sale

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 08/12/2025

🗝️🌌 In a world where tech is replacing dying magic, a crew of thieves attempt to bring it back with the hope of using it to save themselves. 📖 caranox.com/t13k 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

Nox's Books
caranox.com/books

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 05/12/2025

🗡️🍂 Nothing comes without sacrifice Striving to focus on A TITHE OF SOULS & DREAMS (book 3) this month and work out some of A TRIAL OF WRATH & RUIN (book 2) I feel need adjustments. caranox.com/ahobai 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 04/12/2025

Regarding the fun IngramSpark price sheet debacle yesterday: someone noticed that revision fees were removed from the sheet. A sales rep at IS posted the only potential silver lining in this mess on Threads, tho I absolutely suspect IS will announce this much later to win back favor. 1/

User emilyandherindies posted: Checking threads today after the new pricing sheet dropped...
I can't say anything yet, but good news is coming.
[gif of guy walking into a chaotic apartment with pizza].

Follow up thread post:
All I'm saying is there's a reason revision fees aren't listed on there anymore.

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 03/12/2025

The price estimation calculator on their site will supposedly be updated with the new numbers starting Dec 15 as an FYI

Beginning December 15, 2025, you can use our print and ship calculator to see your updated print cost for orders placed within your IngramSpark account. You will also be able to use our publisher compensation calculator to see what you’ll earn for books sold after February 1, 2026. Need help making a list price change? View our help article.

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 02/12/2025

📖✨Books are magic From prophesies to grimoires to old tomes filled pages of un-redacted information, magic flows through all the books in THE THIRTEENTH KEY & THE VAULT. caranox.com/t13k 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 01/12/2025

🌃🌟 In a world parallel to our own, a secret society, consisting of eight factions, is charged with keeping humanity on track—an even greater task with danger lurking within. 📖 caranox.com/trick 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 28/11/2025

🛍️ Cyber Weekend nov 28 - dec 1, 2025 Get THE THIRTEENTH KEY, TRICK, and A HUNT OF BLOOD & IRON for $0.99 and THE VAULT $2.99 this weekend! Grab direct copies from me or via your favorite retailer: 🛍️ shop.cara.ink 🛒 caranox.com/books 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

Cyber Weekend
nov 28 - dec 1, 2025 | caranox.com/links

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 27/11/2025

Some LGBTQ+ books to add to your holiday wish list! ❄️ caranox.com/newlgbt112025 🌈🚀💫 💙📚👀 📢📚 🌈📚🪐

Nov 2025
New LGBTQ+ Book Releases (including Familiar!)

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 25/11/2025

✨📚 Bookstack All my in-progress series novels stacked together 🥹🖤 caranox.com/books 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 24/11/2025

🗡️🍂 In a post-apocalyptic world reclaimed by the fae, two selected participants of a deadly Wild Hunt try to escape their fate. 📖 caranox.com/ahobai 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 21/11/2025

🌃🌟 SPIRITS, the sequel to TRICK, is almost halfway complete! For working on this book every other week, it's managed to progress pretty well. I've also been posting initial draft chapters on my Patreon & Kofi for supporters! caranox.com/trick caranox.com/spirits 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 20/11/2025

New queer books for you to check out! 🌈❤️ caranox.com/newlgbt112025 🌈🚀💫 💙📚👀 📢📚 🌈📚🪐

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 19/11/2025

🫀🩷 More DEVOUR YOUR HEART for WIP Wednesday Max has some dreams of his childhood and uh... yeah caranox.com/dyh cw: implied blood description #WIPWednesday

Devour Your Heart

Max pushed on the door, putting nearly all his weight into it as the heavy slab groaned inward. His eyes adjusted to the dim light, and his heart swelled with wonder as he started for the platform, staring up at the patchwork of distorted shapes.

Devour Your Heart

Until the sole of his shoe made a light sound against something distinctly wet. Not quite a splash of a puddle or the velcro noise that made him cringe when his mom took him to the grocery and an aisle of tiles was particularly sticky from something that hadn’t been thoroughly cleaned.

Devour Your Heart

He looked down, lifting his shoe when he took in the dark substance oozing over the wood. The thick, viscus liquid slowly ate away his footprint, not nearly as quick as water. Max took a step back as he followed the trail—the puddle—whatever he might call it—to the steps he’d been heading for.

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 17/11/2025

🖤🩸 When the son of a vampire hunter accidentally becomes a familiar, he decides to prove himself by hunting down the vampire responsible for his mark. 📖 caranox.com/familiar 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 14/11/2025

🗡️🍂 Working on the final installment of The Wild Hunt feels so surreal. I remember when I was working through the initial concept in 2023, piecing together options for the ending, and now I'm here—actually writing it... 📚🌈♠️ 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 13/11/2025

If you're hunting for new LGBTQ+ books, check out some of these new releases! caranox.com/newlgbt112025 🌈🚀💫 💙📚👀 📢📚 🌈📚🪐

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 12/11/2025

💎🪐 NOVA RICHE snippet for WIP Wednesday AKA musings of a former rich boy turned thief in my space Robin Hood sci-fi book I'm reorganizing atm. #WIPWednesday

Nova Riche

When Roux was a boy, sitting on the edge of a wealthy now-dead relative’s swimming pool and listening to hissed threats from his mother about taking him inside if he got a single drop of water on his freshly-laundered trousers, he recalled his uncle giving a toast at the nearby outdoor bar: “To the bold.” It was the man’s most infamous phrase, despite a young Roux always pondering what made the great Flint Kingston actually bold after learning the full reference to that favorite toast.

Fortune favors the bold.

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Nova Riche

Now, crammed like a sardine along two crew mates in the buffer of a fire-wall-slash-maintenance-hall of an orbiting casino ship about a decade and a half later, Roux had come up with a better phrase for his uncle: fortune favors fortune. Because there was nothing innately bold about his accumulation of wealth when the house always wins and he owned said house.

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Nova Riche

The bold—or the foolish, though Roux believed the terms to be rather interchangeable—were those running their fingers along the edges of cards and worrying their lips as they tried to appease lady luck. Even if the table was rigged. All for the sake of attempting to claw their way into the class of the nouveau riche and never stress over making another nova in their life.

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 10/11/2025

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 07/11/2025

I can't believe my gay vampire book has been out for over a week. 🥹🖤🩸 I plan on diving into the next book in this universe after I get one of my other WIPs off my plate. And while it won't really be featuring vampires, I think there's a genderfluid gremlin of a demon you all might enjoy 👀🖤🔮 🌃📚

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 05/11/2025

🫀🩷 DEVOUR YOUR HEART snippet for WIP Wednesday Nothing quite like wandering through a creepy chapel at night, am I right? #WIPWednesday

Devour Your Heart

Cam’s pulse quickened as they scrambled to their feet, the room swaying as they turned to find a dozen rows of chapel pews between them and the wide set of doors at the end of the aisle. They stumbled down the shallow steps from the raised platform and bumped against the first bench, clinging to the backing to steady themself. Their knees trembled while they gulped down lungfuls of air.

You’re okay, Cam told themself. It wasn’t real. It was just in your mind.

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 04/11/2025

Some options for nominating Familiar for the Indie Ink Awards 2025 🖤🩸 indiestorygeek.com/story/10048 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 03/11/2025

Looking for some new LGBTQ+ books to add to your tbr? Check these out! caranox.com/newlgbt112025 🌈🚀💫 💙📚👀 📢📚 🌈📚🪐

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Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · 31/10/2025

🖤🩸 ICYMI FAMILIAR released just in time for Halloween!! I can't believe this is my fifth published book. 🥹 I'm looking forward to writing more within this universe about other vampires, witches, werewolves, and demons 👀 🖤 caranox.com/familiar 🌈🚀💫 🌃📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 #queerAdultSFF

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