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Gabriela Houston - Writer

@gabrielahouston.bsky.social
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Writer and Artist Author of four Slavic-folklore-inspired novels for adults and children Host of The Gabriela Houston Project:Storytelling in all its forms linktr.ee/Gabriela_Houston

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Fred Gambino @fredgambino.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Gabriela Houston’s great new YA novel with a cover by me.
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Very excited to FINALLY be able to announce my upcoming Polish-folklore-inspired YA novel, THE SEA GUARDIANS! Out from @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social in Jan 2027 Preorder now! Cover by @fredgambino.bsky.social and designs by @amycooper.bsky.social
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A little sketch. For the once and the once again
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The evening garden A digital painting
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I’m so happy to finally be able to share that a short Romantasy story of mine will be featured in a @flametreepress anthology! It’s set in the same world as Binding the Cuckoo Flame Tree Press always produces such stunning books, I can’t wait to have it in my hands!
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Getting design roughs is one of my fav parts of the publishing process! Especially when they look amazing! I can’t wait to share the news with everyone but a teaser post is all I’m allowed!
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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The gruesomeness of the female experience...
The Night of Baba Yaga and Victorian Psycho
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I’ve been experimenting with carving wax jewellery for casting. The Artemis pendent, for the Huntress and the protectress of children, especially girls. The Athena pendent, for wisdom and the waging of just wars. I’m an artist and so I process things in my own way.
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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
OMG Enchanting the Fae Queen is officially a USA Today bestseller!!!!!!! Thank you so much to every reader who made this happen. ❤️❤️❤️ stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen #romancelandia
A screenshot of the USA Today listing for Enchanting the Fae Queen.
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Don Lemon @donlemonofficial.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
My first remarks since being arrested last night.
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Hi, if you’re looking to outsource character art/cover design, I have the capacity for a couple more commissions atm. Email me at gabrielahouston.info@gmail.com if interested
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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Tipping points and hope from the darkest lessons of history.
This will be unlike most of my posts, though unsurprising in outlook for those familiar with my novels.
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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I just published an interview with the author @carolinehardaker.bsky.social about her stunning novel, Mothtown! Check it out! gabrielahouston.substack.com/p/mothtown-b...
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Mothtown: Blending poetic lyricism and prose. Interview with Caroline Hardaker
I first came across Caroline’s prose when we met as fellow debut authors in the middle of the pandemic.
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Working in my local art cafe is always lovely. The space, the atmosphere…
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
This article explains, very simply, why generative AI isn’t “learning” from existing art in any meaningful way, but rather creates collages of stolen stuff. Please read. open.substack.com/pub/borked/p...
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The ugly truth about using AI to create images
A lot of people using AI to create images don't understand how it works and they need to so they understand the legal risk every image potentially represents.
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Awww! What a wonderful review! I love writing people’s favourite book boyfriends! (There’s one in the works one that is positively swoon) open.substack.com/pub/jessiesr...
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Binding the Cuckoo (Daughters of Defiance, #1)
A masterful Victorian Romance set in Slavic folklore
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Awww! What a wonderful review! I love writing people’s favourite book boyfriends! (There’s one in the works one that is positively swoon) open.substack.com/pub/jessiesr...
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Binding the Cuckoo (Daughters of Defiance, #1)
A masterful Victorian Romance set in Slavic folklore
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
This honestly makes me so happy ❤️
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Today I am a goddess. Merciless, wrathful. Stalking through the house, watchful for any slight. Offerings of chocolate are encouraged.
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Check out my interview with @scribeofhades.bsky.social about his wonderful new book Daytide! open.substack.com/pub/gabriela...
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Jacqueline Thérèse @jackietwrites.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Check out my review for @gabrielahouston.bsky.social Binding the Cuckoo. A Victorian Romantasy featuring Fay and other magical creatures. It was a great read. open.substack.com/pub/pagesofp...
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
It’s a beautiful, insightful review of Binding the Cuckoo! (There are some spoilers)
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Susie Williamson @susiewilliamson.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Day 6 of Book Advent 📚 The Second Bell by @gabrielahouston.bsky.social One of my all-time-fave reads. Salka was born a striga, a girl with two hearts. In a world that believes her to be a monster, she is considered a demon, abandoned into exile. But Salka is drawn to her true nature.
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Jacqueline Thérèse @jackietwrites.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
It’s #wwwwednesday What are you currently reading? - Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas What did you recently finish reading? - Binding the Cuckoo by @gabrielahouston.bsky.social (review coming soon) What do you think you'll read next? - Destiny’s Embrace by @authormsbev.bsky.social #books
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Well, “Debbie”, I’m not sure how you will achieve your goal of making my alternative-history Romantasy a “Breakout Thriller”, but I would love to see you try.
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
@whisperingbookworm.bsky.social thank you for reposting! ❤️
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Binding the Cuckoo is discounted now! www.amazon.co.uk/Binding-Cuck...
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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Having fun in the margins.
Why writing comedic vignettes keeps this author going.
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Emma Bradley @emmaebradley.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Huge thank you to @gabrielahouston.bsky.social for a great #ukteenchat! Can't wait to romance myself up a copy! And of course to our host-mistress extraordinaire @FinlaysonPalmer 😊
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
#UKteenchat Read widely is my no one recommendation. Not just what's in now, but the works that inspired contemporary writers. Go back in history, understand the context. If you can, read translated works as well. A whole world of different points of view awaits.
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
#UKteenchat I'm in the process of writing another novel in the same series as BINDING THE CUCKOO. It's all stand-alones, but within the same social group, and with the same running theme of women hiding their true identity. The mythics liberation movement is also slowly gathering pace.
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
#UKteenchat I love working in cafes, especially if a friend can join me. Makes the process less lonely, more collaborative. Especially with BINDING THE CUCKOO, I felt that a Gilded Age romance demanded a fancy cake and coffee to accompany its creation. All about the aesthetics 😂
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
#UKteenchat I'm a complete pantser for the first 1/3 of the book. I usually begin with an image, or a poem. BINDING THE CUCKOO began with two letters: sycophantic, wheedling, somewhat manipulative. I giggled the whole way through writing them. The story tends to grow from there.
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
#UKteenchat My YT channel, THE GABRIELA HOUSTON PROJECT, explores how storytelling is a crucial part of everyone's life and many professions, more than we usually give credence to. I interviewed many artists, researchers, journalists, even a cult expert. It's been such an enriching experience
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
#UKteenchat It was always my favourite era: not just for the fabulous aesthetic of it, but for the sheer energy that permeated that time. The beginnings of women's suffrage movement, the stirrings of social conscience that finally began to address the plight of domestic workers, the science!
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
#UKteenchat Ofc! I studied the Fin de Siecle movements at uni, but when writing an (alternative) historical novel, I had to pay special attention to the everyday things: food, clothes etc. I did a fair bit of research into the social movements that inspired the narrative as well.
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
#UKteenchat BINDING THE CUCKOO is a Gilded Age historical romantasy, inspired by the early suffrage and domestic worker rights’ movement (with elements of folklore ofc). It's set in a world where we have found a way to pull creaturers of folklore—mythics— into our world and bind them to serve us.
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
All ready for the #UKTeenChat !
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Today at 8pm UK time! Join us with some questions on writing my and historical Romantasy! @finlaysonpalmer.bsky.social
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I wrote something on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/gabriela...
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Over it, a quote from the article: A little while back, I had my short poem, “To my Daughter by the Riverside” published by Odd Magazine, where I was even selected the Artist of the Month, which felt nice. Now Odd Magazine is no more, but I wanted to share the poem with you.
It belongs to the half-written collection I have provisionally called The Lies I tell. Now the title’s name came about as I reminisced about my family considering me “pathologically truthful” when growing up. It made me think of the small half-truths I tell, the stories that add colour to my life, and are true only in the feelings they leave behind.
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Was watching some foreign tv series on Netflix recently and at first I was shown the English-audio version. I was thinking, WTF is this awful dubbing, and just switched to original audio But then I googled it and it’s AI! Explains the soulless quality of the audio tbh, but how disgusting!
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Emma Finlayson-Palmer @finlaysonpalmer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Next #ukteenchat will be on Tues 25th November 8-9pm GMT with the fabulous @gabrielahouston.bsky.social who will be chatting all about her alternative-history romance with a pinch of magic - Binding the Cuckoo. All welcome to come along and join in the chat 🙂 #BindingTheCuckoo #writerslife #writing
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Susie Williamson @susiewilliamson.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
A recent read for me, Binding the Cuckoo - evocative & enchanting, sharp & filled with mystery, oozing with folklore & magic, with characters to root for, in a world reflective of modern day issues. A vivid & magical tale of love, betrayal, loyalty & survival, beautifully told.
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
If you fancy reading a free sample of Binding the Cuckoo, my alternative-history romance with a pinch of magic, you can claim it here: storyoriginapp.com/giveaways/a7... *ROMANTASY *HISTORICAL ROMANCE WITH MAGIC *EDWARDIAN *FOLKLORE *WOMEN-HELPING-WOMEN
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
If you fancy reading a free sample of Binding the Cuckoo, my alternative-history romance with a pinch of magic, you can claim it here: storyoriginapp.com/giveaways/a7... *ROMANTASY *HISTORICAL ROMANCE WITH MAGIC *EDWARDIAN *FOLKLORE *WOMEN-HELPING-WOMEN
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Binding the Cuckoo is a love story set in an alternative-history Gilded Age London. But it’s also a story of women trying to help and lift each other up. Women supporting women is kinda my jam ❤️ #QOTD what’s your fav women-helping-women book?
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Wooing the Witch Queen by @stephanieburgis.bsky.social is a cosy, humorous romp of a fantasy romance. Light and witty, it keeps you turning the pages just to see what delight awaits next. I’ve already preordered book 2! QoTD: what fantasy creature would you be in the court of the witch queen?
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Gabriela Houston - Writer @gabrielahouston.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I wish professional writing was a bit more like in the 20s, where if you got a short story published, you could support your whole family for a few months. Meanwhile I’m here, on my 5th novel, trying to understand Facebook ads Anyway, please look, please buy, please enjoy. Link below ⬇️
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