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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

happy bi visibility day 💖💜💙 anyway here's a persuasive essay about why you should add Shadecaller on Goodreads! 🙏🕯(1/2) #fantasybooks

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I've been keeping this secret for over a year, but— My dark fantasy debut will be published by Penguin Random House next summer! It's a Belle Epoque-flavored setting rife with creepy theaters, monsters, and a music-based magic system. with a dash of romance~ so excited for this next chapter!

publishers marketplace announcement for SHADECALLER by claire winn with random house CA. background is artwork of the main characters--a scowling, tattooed girl and a young man with horns and claws--along with a flying bird-skull-headed monster.

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SFF Addicts Podcast @sffaddictspod.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

🦾 LAUNCH PARTY LIVESTREAM 🦾 Our very own @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social and friends @adrianmgibson.bsky.social @jsdewes.com & @clairewinn.bsky.social will be chatting LIVE to celebrate the release of MJ’s new novel KILLSWITCH PROTOCOL! Join them on July 7 at 8:30pm EST: www.youtube.com/live/N97fSDO...

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

started #PrideMonth the right way by proving love at the World's Greatest Book Tour! 🌈 Chuck Tingle is a riot, and knowing which movie monster the greater Ann Arbor area would date is very important information.

Photo of Claire holding a copy of Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle, standing next to Chuck with his signature pink "LOVE IS REAL" bag over his head and sunglasses.

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

May recap, author adventures edition! ~ i'm trying to be better about sharing my writing/author journey, but there's been a LOT happening lately. 🥰 hoping to pick my newsletter back up soon and start sharing more about author business and creative work!

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I am so behind on posting, but thanks to Northwest Ohio Teen Bookfest for having me! It was a great time signing for readers, meeting some incredible authors (whose books I now NEED to read), and finally doing panels with my queen Susan Dennard! 📚🥰

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Steve Postman 🇨🇦 @steve1970peng.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I didn't make one of these posts last year. But 2025 has been pretty great, despite uncertainties. I visited Tokyo, Kyoto, Toronto, & Chicago with friends, played 3 different LARPs, got some great book news I can't talk about yet, and am hard at work on the next things. Here's to a good one, 2026. 🖤

Collage of photos from Claire's 2025 - with friends in Tokyo/Golden Gai, at a neon-lit bar, in Nara, at Shibuya Crossing, with friends at DragonCon, and at a carnival-themed Halloween party

Collage of photos, including Claire as Magik from Marvel Rivals with friends cosplaying Squirrel Girl, Moon Knight, and Iron Man; photo of Claire and husband Drew at work Christmas party, and photo of Claire and friends in costumes at Halloween

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Ren Hutchings @voidcricket.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

My surreal roadtrip novella is out soon! Enormous thanks goes out to the brilliant SFF authors who read this weird little book & gave it such heartfelt blurbs. Please follow them & check out their books! (Tagging them below) 🧭 THE LEGEND LIMINAL is out Sep 30th from @starsandsabers.bsky.social 💫

A stack of books piled up on a wooden desk with a blue cosmic backdrop. THE LEGEND LIMINAL by Ren Hutchings is facing out. Books in the stack are: Down in the Sea of Angels by Khan Wong, A Palace Near The Wind by Ai Jiang, The Iron Children by Rebecca Fraimow, City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn, We Who Hunt The Hollow by Kate Murray.

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Ren Hutchings @voidcricket.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Thank you to these incredible authors who blurbed THE LEGEND LIMINAL 🥹 @khanwong.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social @clairewinn.bsky.social @katemurray.bsky.social

Check out these SFF books for your TBR! Image: book covers arranged against the backdrop of an empty nighttime highway. The books are Down in the Sea of Angels by Khan Wong, A Palace Near The Wind by Ai Jiang, The Iron Children by Rebecca Fraimow, City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn, We Who Hunt the Hollow by Kate Murray.

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

TODAY! You can snag a signed + personalized full series of the Requiem Dark books (plus ebook novella, art, and sticker pack) for a great cause! Includes U.S. or int'l shipping. 💜

AUCTION IS NOW LIVE lettering - Unbound for Gaza

Featured Author: Claire Winn. City of Shattered Light & City of Vicious Night + Digital Novella, signed and personalized. Includes author photo of Claire and photos of her books

Bookbindsforacause on 32auctions.com. September 26-28EST. This item will be available in the Unbound for Gaza charity auction; all proceeds go directly to humanitarian relief efforts.

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

happy #bivisibilityday from your neighborhood disaster bi and her disaster bi books (and her OTHER disaster bi books that haven't been announced yet!) 💗💜💙

photo collage: selfie of claire in puff-sleeved black shirt and black goth kilt, with bi flag in background, her books City of Shattered Light and City of Vicious Night in front of a bookshelf, and photos of gothic architecture and bird in flight

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Huge happy book bday to @voidcricket.bsky.social and An Unbreakable World! Ft. the gorgeous Illumicrate Starbright edition 🤩 this is the perfect character-driven scifi for fall!

Photo of An Unbreakable World in front of bookshelf with two characters and foiled leaved on cover

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Ren Hutchings @voidcricket.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

🪐💫 AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD is out now! @solarisbooks.bsky.social It's a standalone space opera set in the same universe as Under Fortunate Stars. I hope you'll love Page, Maelle, Dalya & the Storyteller! September 9th: 📱🎧 Ebook & audiobook 📖 US/Canada paperback September 11th: 📖 UK/Europe paperback

Ren holds up a copy of An Unbreakable World against a pink cosmic background. The book cover features a planet with an orbiting moon, seen from above through the window of a spacecraft.

A new standalone space opera set in the same universe as Under Fortunate Stars, available in ebook, audio & paperback. Out now from Solaris Books!

Image: A hand holds up a copy of AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD, against a pink cosmic background. The book cover features a planet with an orbiting moon, seen from above through the window of a spacecraft.

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

DragonCon was a riot, as always ⚡ didn't realize how much i needed a weekend of dancing, gaming, and cosplaying with friends!

selfie of Claire and friends on dance floor at DragonCon's goth rave

photo by Eleven Thirteen Social, of Claire as Magik from X-Men/Marvel Rivals and holding a large cosplay sword; she stands with a Squirrel Girl cosplayer with a slingshot and an Iron Man cosplayer

blurry photo of Claire at a blacklit DragonCon rave, playing her Magik Soul Sword like a guitar

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Ren Hutchings @voidcricket.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I want to send out a huge thank you to all the incredible SFF authors who read AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD early & offered such lovely words about it in their blurbs!📖💫 Please give them a follow & check out their fab books (I'll tag them all below!) 🪐 AUW is out on Sep 9th from @solarisbooks.bsky.social

A stack of books is piled up on a wooden desk with a blue cosmic backdrop. AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD by Ren Hutchings is facing out; the cover features an image of a planet with an orbiting moon seen from above through the window of a spacecraft.

Books in the stack are: These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs, Nophek Gloss by Essa Hansen, The Immortality Thief by Taran Hunt, Down in the Sea of Angels by Khan Wong, Lady Eve’s Last Con by Rebecca Fraimow, Future’s Edge by Gareth L. Powell, City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn, We Who Hunt The Hollow by Kate Murray, Star Trek Picard: Second Self by Una McCormack, Hold Fast Through the Fire by K.B. Wagers.

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

life lately 🌊 summer always slips by so quickly! i did detroit bookfest, visited chicago and my former college campus (northwestern! 💜), and saw the harold washington library for the first time. guess who i saw on the shelf! i'm currently back on deadline (!👀) but will be at dragoncon this weekend!

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

bday weekend 🎉 saturday was a semi-costumed bar outing after a session of our sci-fi TTRPG game. love this group ❤️

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The only thing that will stop Trump is a grassroots movement using diverse tactics. (not just protests! We need boycotts, strikes, slowdowns, guerrilla art, disruptions, gumming the works from the inside, etc) from a cross-section of society. It’s on us. A few skeets here with resources: 1/x

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On Organizing

time to level up / an early draft of a playbook

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Was making sauce yesterday when I tore the spout of a paper carton of cream. Husband gently took it and pried it open. Then handed it back to me with a shy smile. "You forget I used to teach middle school." 🥺💕

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

one year since our romantasy wedding (complete with sword fight first dance). ~10 years of adventures together. ⚔️❤️‍🔥

photo of Claire and husband Drew on their wedding day: him in black-and-silver jacket with cape and pauldrons and holding a greatsword, her in a shimmery periwinkle-blue dress and crown

photo of Claire and husband Drew, both wearing black leather armor and lying together at the edge of the woods at twilight

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

late to posting, but I'll be doing my first big book festival this weekend! come say hi to me and @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social at Detroit Festival of Books!

graphic showing letters "DETROIT FESTIVAL OF BOOKS" with photo of author Claire Winn. Sunday, July 20, 2025. Eastern Market in Detroit, MI.

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Been reading The Devils lately, after a lovely launch/signing event with Joe Abercrombie and Evan Leikam! The Devils is delightful--a grimy, low-fantasy Suicide Squad with a team of surprisingly lovable assholes & Abercrombie's signature wit. 💀🔥

photo of the books "Anji Kills a King" and "The Devils" on a rock wall in a forest

signature page of book "The Devils" by Joe Abercrombie

photo of Claire and Joe Abercrombie at signing event

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Bill Adams - Willow Wraith Press author/owner @williamjadams3.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

📢📗Book Sale!📗📢 In two weeks, The Godsblood Tragedy will be a year old (craziness...), so from now until July 23, the ebook will stay at $0.99! If you haven't picked this chonky boi up, what better time than now! I have a few other birthday things in the works 👀👀👀 books2read.com/u/bwgk09

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Stars and Sabers @starsandsabers.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Welcome to ultimate #liminalspace: THE LEGEND LIMINAL by @voidcricket.bsky.social. @clairewinn.bsky.social calls the book “an ambitiously original novella about the strength of familial bonds in all the strangest, coldest corners of spacetime." Out September 30 and available for preorder! #books

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

date night ~ finally got photos of my FairyLoot editions of Divine Rivals & Ruthless Vows! I loved these books, partially because they remind me of how my now-husband and I fell for each other: late-night messages, exchanged manuscripts, and guiding each other through big life uncertainties. 🎀🖤

Photo of Claire with red hair and a black puff-sleeved dress, holding copies of Divine Rivals & Ruthless Vows and standing in front of a fantasy landscape painting

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

happy first day of summer! 🌼 I'm not great about posting books I've read, but here's one that feels like a cozy-fantasy version of the Witcher with tons of folklore (and a very good dog!)

Photo of Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries book surrounded by blue orchids and bright, sunlit woods

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

happy priDEMONth to these prickly, bi-furious disasters, whom I'm thinking about again lately 😈👀 stock images don't really capture their grimy, monster-haunted world, so you'll have to see it for yourselves.

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Happy book bday to another incredible queer book I had the pleasure of blurbing, by @julesarbeaux.bsky.social! 😍🌈 I adored these characters, and this is one of my faves of the year. Pick it up if you're a fan of yearning, hurt/comfort (Sena, my poor soft-boy punching-bag!), and lush prose.

Cage of Starlight by Jules Arbeaux on a shelf with greenery and flowers

"Atmospheric, beautifully written, and achingly romantic, Cage of Starlight ignites bone-deep yearning and searing hope against a bleak dystopian fantasy backdrop. Punctuated with biting wit, and showcasing deep love in all its forms, this is a must for fans of queer love stories." - Claire Winn, on Cage of Starlight

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

(probably)-final glimpse at Japan pics? 🌸 this trip was nonstop and mind-blowing and spent with some of my favorite people. will definitely be back someday.

photo of Claire sitting in hotel windowsill, silhouetted by Tokyo at night

fox statue at Fushimi Inari Taisha at sunset

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la loca toñ @apriego87.eurosky.social · 10/06/2025

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Two of the pretty queer books on my TBR for #pridemonth! 🏳️‍🌈

Photo of The Sins on Their Bones by Laura Samotin with green candles and lantern in background

Photo of the book Bl00d Beneath the Snow in front of a flowering clematis

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

This game has me over-analyzing every cryptic piece of NPC dialogue and still gutting me at every plot twist Still have all of Act III to go, but damn. GOTY contender for sure. and the MUSIC-- www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r2i...

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Clair Obscur - Renoir II Battle Theme OST

YouTube video by JungTutis

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Brittany M. Willows 🐝🌻▶️ Can*Con soon!! @bmwillows.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH 🌈✨ To celebrate this colorful occasion, my anime-inspired urban fantasy duology about a boy touched by darkness and a girl with the power to cleanse it is $0.99 for the whole month! ITCHIO: brittanymwillows.itch.io AMZN: amazon.com/dp/B08QG76CRH #booksky #queerbooks #indiebooks

A promo graphic with 3D mock-ups of Bloody Spade's and Bleeding Heart's covers surrounded by text and set against a blurry drawing of the main characters. Covers depict a black cat-eared silhouette of a boy with a purple spade and a white antlered silhouette of a girl with a red heart. Text reads: Pride Month Ebook Sale, June 1st to 30th, 99 cents each. A list of things to be found in the books includes: snarky pansexual thief, scythe-wielding ace girl, aro-bi wayward golden boy, demisexual/demiromantic bird girl, overt flirt x oblivious flirtee, a balanced diet of humor and angst and yearning, a corrupt celestial deity with a penchant for murder, ink magic + inky body horror. On Amazon & Itch.io.

A drawing of the Cardplay Duology's main duo, Ellen and Iori, smiling at each other with paint in pride flag colors smeared on their faces and hands. Ellen has the black, gray, white, and purple of the asexual flag. Iori has the pink, yellow, and blue of the pansexual flag, and his nails are painted in the same colors. Ellen is a white girl with long, wavy white hair and red eyes, a pair of stubby deer antlers on her head, and a rainbow halter top. Iori is an East Asian-coded boy with a warm complexion, short tousled black hair, cat ears, and dark crimson eyes, wearing a black sleeveless turtleneck shirt.

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

happy #pridemonth! it feels especially important this year, & a little heavier. i'm so grateful to all the readers & publishers who take chances on queer books, & to all the queer authors out here with me. here's a reintro to the squad of my YA debut, City of Shattered Light, w/ art by Dri Gomez! 💜

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

teamLab Planets Tokyo deserves its own post 💜 coolest interactive art exhibit you'll ever see

selfie of Claire and husband Drew in teamLab holographic forest

a hand interrupting a stream of neon-lit water

selfie on a mirrored floor of LED light strips hanging from ceiling

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Nara 🦌 I always thought deer were skittish and gentle, but these jerks will come up and bite your butt for snacks (some are polite and will bow, though!) The botanical gardens were gorgeous.

photo of Claire and husband Drew looking out at a rainy pond in Nara botanical gardens

photo of a baby deer in front of stone pillars in a forest in Nara

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

kyoto is dreamy 🌸⛩ we saw several thousand Torii gates and some cherry blossoms! Mount Inari is one of the coolest places I've ever been, especially with twilight falling on the shrines in the forest, and the city lighting up below.

Torii gates at Fushimi Inari Taisha at night

overhead photo of Claire and friend Dana

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

are you the kind of person who lugs your debut novel halfway across the world for photo ops or are you normal? thanks also to the TCG Bar in Shinjuku for making a CoSL-themed cocktail! 🤩🍸

photo of Claire in a Tokyo observation deck in front of the city skyline at night, wearing a leather jacket and holding a copy of City of Shattered Light

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Tokyo was vibrant and gorgeous and everything I'd dreamed of. 🌸⛩🗻 in Kyoto now!

Claire and friend Dana in Tokyo rooftop bar

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Brittany M. Willows 🐝🌻▶️ Can*Con soon!! @bmwillows.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

On the fifth anniversary of THE HOWLING DARK's conception, I bring you an official back cover blurb reveal + a quote! 🌓 COMING 2026 🌓 thehowlingdark.carrd.co | #booksky

A promotional graphic with the book's description backed by a drawing of Sylvain with flowers (commissioned from demon.vinegar) and framed in branches. The book's title, THE HOWLING DARK, sits above the description, and my name, Brittany M. Willows, sits below it. The description reads:

Sylvain is an eclipse-born werewolf who knows neither his bestial form nor the post-nuclear wilds his kind are 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 essentials 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 government and bloodthirsty huntsmen, and under the unexpected guidance of the rebel Sundogs. All that lies between them and home is miles of unfamiliar countryside, toxic wastelands, a parasitic garden of death . . . and the question of how much they’re willing to risk in order to get there.

A promotional graphic with a quote from THE HOWLING DARK, backed by the same drawing in the previous image and framed with sketched flowers. Quote reads: A cage is a cage, no matter how pretty the bars

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

🚨ICYMI COVER REVEAL🚨 Our friends over at The Nerd Daily revealed the cover for AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD! bit.ly/3EoJxT9 @voidcricket.bsky.social returns to the universe of UNDER FORTUNATE STARS with a brand new, standalone Sci-Fi heist! Out August 2025. Cover by Dominic Forbes. Preorder geni.us/unbrw

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Ren Hutchings @voidcricket.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

It's cover reveal day for An Unbreakable World! Another stunning design by @domforbes.bsky.social— see it at The Nerd Daily 🚀 #AnUnbreakableWorld is a standalone novel set in the same universe as Under Fortunate Stars, out this fall from @solarisbooks.bsky.social 💫 thenerddaily.com/exclusive-co...

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Exclusive Cover Reveal: An Unbreakable World by Ren Hutchings | The Nerd Daily

We are delighted to be revealing the cover for An Unbreakable World by Ren Hutchings, which follows a petty thief who is kidnapped to take part in the heist of a lifetime in this space opera from the ...

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

🕰⏳ time bending books ~ i loved Time War and was excited when I saw Our Infinite Fates has a similar premise! Another fave time-travel story (complete with ensemble cast and sci-fi hijinks!) is Under Fortunate Stars, which has an exciting reveal coming soon 👀

Photo of bookshelf with Under Fortune Stars, Our Infinite Fates, and This is How You Lose the Time War displayed

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