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Across a glittering ballroom, a conscientious objector catches the eye of a spy bent on revenge…but it's not the first time they've met. The Rose Ball Rebels is first in a novella series of fractured fairy tales masquerading as political fantasy, seeking reviews: kelefox.com/arc-team/

Cover of The Rose Ball Rebels by Kel E Fox. Cover shows an art nouveau style illustration of flowers and butterflies and has the tagline: Dancing is rebellion

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 7h

"What, you thought I was going to share the private tragedies of my brothers? Because they are that to me, now, whatever Raphael says, although I suspect I know why Raphael chafes at the term." I don't want to say this is found family because, as usual, I twist tropes, but friendship is big.

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘He shouldn’t have died. I know it’s a war, but this isn’t the war we thought we signed up for. He shouldn’t have died.’ She pauses, and when she speaks again, her voice is rougher. ‘I never said that out loud, before.’ She's a soldier bent on revenge. He's a conscientious objector. 💙📚🪐

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 29/09/2026

I don't talk about myself a lot, because I think my books and art are way more interesting, but it's been a hot minute since I did anything like this so here we go. #BookSky Also, the apps kinda' suck at showing my posts to people, so consider following my newsletter! adamcbassett.substack.com

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AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers @amaralynn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🧙TIS TIME 🎃 Join us for #LGBTQWriteAThon October 1-31! Answer each day or just the days you like. Have fun & make friends while working on your WIP! Prompts repost daily to @queerwriters.bsky.social (follow & turn on notifications for reminders!)! @rebeccafrostwrites.com #queerwriters #writesky

#LGBTQWRITEATHON
Use the tag and follow the feed on Bluesky! Tag @lgbtqwriteathon in photos on Instagram!

1. Introduce yourself & goal
2. Introduce your WIP moodboard
3. Check in day
4. Line share — foreboding
5. Goals day
6. Bugbears/fears
7. Does your MC wear a mask?
8. Favorite outfit
9. Skeletons in the closet
10. Check in day
11. Line share — mysterious
12. Goals day
13. Share a treat
14. Ghouls/anxieties
15. Never has your MC ever...
16. Thing MC would protect with their life
17. Check in day
18. Line share — creepy
19. Goals day
20. Genre swap!
21. Monsters/antags
22. Tingler your title
23. MC's most embarrassing memory
24. Check in day
25. Line share — terror
26. Goals day
27. Favorite spooky pastime?
28. Favorite fantasy creature
29. Most haunting thing you've written/read?
30. Brain worms — writing songs
31. Was your month a treat or tricky?

Hosts:
Bluesky: @amaralynn, @rebeccafrostwrites.com
Instagram: @lgbtqwriteathon, @amaralynn, @krakengoddess

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Spooky Pickle 🧚‍♀️Beware the Fairy Seasons🧚‍♂️ @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#SpoonieAuthChat I do have Neurodivergent characters in my stories and books! Not all of them are, but many are. I am some sort of ND for sure, so that ends up in my writing. I also want to, in future writing, represent different types of ND (without tokenism, of course).

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Suzannah Rowntree @suzannahrowntree.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

OK this is THE WEREWOLF OF WHITECHAPEL, my bestselling novel and #1 in the Miss Sharp's Monsters trilogy! DRACULA meets ENOLA HOLMES in this tongue in cheek romp set in a version of 1890s Europe where all the ruling families are monsters. It's a hoot, get it here: books2read.com/u/mYAjLG

Image showing THE WEREWOLF OF WHITECHAPEL by Suzannah Rowntree against a red background, surrounded by tropes: "1890s Europe, if the royals were monsters!" "slowburn romance" "female friendship" "Dracula vibes" "who dun it?" "intrepid lady's maid" and "witty banter"

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I did not know we needed this word but now it is obvious. Santo: charming, caring, wants everyone to feel looked after, appreciates beauty. Suffered institutional abuse at boarding school. Jairo: quiet, intense, kind, doing his best to fix the world. Is an amnesiac god and it's bad.

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'As if we are, for this one glorious moment, not a bunch of discarded and disobedient misfits come here to make small our troubles, but united in an act of rebellion that is more important than all the power all the realms are fighting over. 'We are what they should be fighting for.' 💙📚🪐

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Marcelle sings a slow foxtrot, which is my favourite, and I’m a fair dancer, but it’s as if I’ve forgotten how to use my feet. Or my ankles. Or my knees. The first thing I do is step on my masked partner's toes. ‘Fuck!’ I blurt. ‘Sorry.’ I did say 'fractured' fairy tales. With fucks. 💙📚🪐

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here we go again! This one will be FUN ✨ ✔️Fractured fairy tales ✔️Political intrigue ✔️Snarky, angsty, wild, thoughtful ✔️Love in a world at war ✔️Six-book omnibus with historical art ✔️Fancy special edition #booksky #sff #readingcommunity #fantasy #queermf 💙📚🪐

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Coming soon: Cursed Princes: The Art Nouveau Edition

An epic romantic fantasy series of fractured fairy tales illustrated with historical art nouveau pieces in a special edition omnibus

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Love. I don’t think I’d know love if it landed on my head with the weight of all Noah’s books." (Noah has a lot of books) Grab a review copy and be ready for the series finale ARC in November!

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 23/09/2026

LOLOL. What about that email I got from you this morning re: creating audiobooks using AI slop "narrators"?

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Ashley Capes @ashcapes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Final week on this cool promo that I'm part of over at Itchio - if a story has "punk" as is suffix, you'll find it here as part of the bundle :D itch.io/b/3913/punk-...

Punk Spec Fic Book Bundle Graphic, bordered by 24 covers, with bright blue, purple, pink, orange background.

Text: Punk Spec Fic, 24 books for $24, Sept 20-30.

Books & Authors;
Walking the Knife's Edge (Sythe Series #1), Elise Carlson.

CyberSnow, A.E. Bross.

Memento Moreau. Conrad Altmann.

Sting of the Shore: Stories & Poems. Devan Barlow.

Visual Snow. L. B. Shimaira.

Snowstorm & Overgrowth, Claudie Arseneault.

Run With the Hunted, Jennifer R. Donohue.

The Thirteenth Hour, Trudie Skies.

Erosion, Mcburnell.

Broken Sky, Morgan K. Bell.

Aether Beyond the Binary, Duck Prints Press.

Woodspell, Kapeo Press.

The Daily To-Do List, Rob MacWolf.

The Neon Garden, Alina Lee.

The Red Hourglass - Slaves of the New World #1, Ashley Capes.

A Study on Magic and Crystals, May Barros.

The Diamond Device, Mhthaung.

A Place of Refuge Omnibus, Victoria Janssen.

Grave Cold, Shannon Knight.

Punk Means Cuddle, A. Lee Welles Fiction.

War of the Space Dragons (An Empire of Dragons Collection), L’Poni.

Black Sails to Sunward, Sheila Jenné.

Locker's Rebellion, Jesse Pohlman.

Netwalk, Joyce Reynolds Ward.

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Such is my contribution to the war effort: ensuring six princes don’t go mad with boredom. And since one of them is me and the rest my peers, it is, I feel, an investment in my future. If this fucking war ever ends and we have a fucking future to worry about. "Happy ever fucking after." #arc

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do you love a good series? Check out this list of series starters all FREE or 99c! www.indieauthorcollective.com/live-event Hosted by the Indie Author Collective #booksky

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

kickstarter.com

Coming soon: Cursed Princes: The Art Nouveau Edition

An epic romantic fantasy series of fractured fairy tales illustrated with historical art nouveau pieces in a special edition omnibus

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

‘Brother mine,’ says Hugo, standing stiffly on the steps outside the Rose Border Ballroom and watching Raphael descend with the body of a smartly dressed man slumped in his arms, ‘you can’t keep killing people.’ Chapter 1 of Rebels. Get your review copy now! #readingcommunity #sff #booksky

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📖Calling all ARC readers!📖 Rebels is a weird romantic fantasy intrigue piece. Think Novik meets Schwab, but short. First in a series of fractured fairy tales with subverted gender roles, war and romance. Join the team and read them all. Sign up➡️ kelefox.com/arc-team/ #readingcommunity 💙📚🪐

The Rose Ball Rebels by Kel E Fox. Trope map with twelve dancing princesses deconstruction, genderswapped, rebel princes, music, summer masquerade, joke about sex on the beach, betrayal, spies

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Slowly realising that what I'm dealing with now (in edits) is an Angsty Heist. Did anyone ever want their heists with more angst?

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Narratess Indie Book Sale is on! Browse hundreds of books priced at $2.99, $1.99, or even FREE. Stuff your ereader and start my fractured fairy tale series (Another World's Stars) while you're at it ;) indiebook.sale #BookSky #IndieAugust #sff

Indie Book Sale - fantasy, sci fi and horror, 29-31 August. Picture of a cool dragon and the covers of several books in the sale, including:
Stephanie Burgis - Scales and Sensibility
Kia Leep - Nyte in Shining Armor
Kel E Fox - Another World's Stars
Skyler Nightshade - Merman's Delight
Sage T. Greene - Touched
Dee Lyle - Fiery Deeps
Jayme Hunt - Marked by Fate
Dax Murray - Stars and Soil
R. A. Sandpiper - A Pocket of Lies
Hannah E. Carey - The Successor
Emmylou Kotze - Forest of the Morning Trilogy
Miriam Yvette - AfterDark
Elizabeth Schechter - Written in Water

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The 3rd Annual LGBTQIA+ Book Blast is officially happening today, August 26, and this year we have more than 200 books waiting for you! ✨ FREE ✨ $0.99 ✨ $1.99 ALL the genres Browse the Book Blast: YearofQueerLit.com #readingcommunity #yearofqueerlit #queerromance

Year of Queer Lit 3rd annual book blast, featuring The Rose Ball Rebels by Kel E Fox, 8.26.26. www.yearofqueerlit.com. Over 200 books available! Free, 99c or $1.99

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The worst thing about losing a piece of work is when you do it again (after having an existential meltdown) and it comes out better. RUDE is what it is

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🎉40 chapter header sketches are complete! 🎉 See them all in the Operation: Magic School edition of Everfire, on Kickstarter for a couple more days 📖🪄 Check it out: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kel... #booksky #sff #sciencefantasy #yafantasy #urbanfantasy

Sketch of a young man and young woman kissing on a couch

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Mark your diaries! The Year of Queer Lit annual book blast approaches... (this time with alt text) #yearofqueerlit #booksky #sff #readingcommunity #fantasy #romantasy #queermf

A rainbow clouds background with the book "The Rose Ball Rebels" by Kel E Fox centered on it, and the words Year of Queer Lit 3rd Annual Book Blast, 8.26.26, www.yearofqueerlit.com, over 200 books available! Free, 99c or $1.99

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Mark your diaries! The Year of Queer Lit annual book blast approaches... #yearofqueerlit #booksky #sff #readingcommunity #fantasy #romantasy #queermf

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

3 days left to back! And 3 days to finish the drawing...

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🚫No AI🚫 was or will be used in this book! Words by me, edits by humans, art and design by me. Every syllable and scratchy line. Are there some dodgy hands in the sketches? YOU BET, 'cause I'm human, baby. (But if there are specific fingers, there will be the correct number of them)

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Everfire Operation: Magic School features INDIVIDUAL chapter headers! That's 40 separate illustrations hand-drawn by me. Past Fox: this is a great idea 🦊 Present Fox: send help 😅 But they are fun! Get the book➡️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/kel... #booksky #yafantasy #urbanfantasy #sff

Chapter header illustrations by Kel E Fox featuring:
A thunderstorm, a rabbit, a big top, someone getting smacked in the face by a door, a bicep curl

Chapter header illustrations by Kel E Fox featuring:
a toaster, boot prints, a dog on a sofa, some scruffy trees and a pin up board

Chapter header illustrations by Kel E Fox featuring:
a candle, a woman taking a difficult test, a coffee machine, two women hugging, two women flying through the air and a messy desk

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Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Good morning! It's #WriterShareWednesday ! Share a pitch for your WIP or one of your published works (including links if you have them) and we'll give it a boost! Please use alt text in your images for accessibility & note that AI "work" will not be shared

Photo of a sunny beach overlaid with the words "Good morning! It's #WriterShareWednesday! Share a pitch for your WIP or something you've recently published and be sure to include links if you have them!"

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Epic fantasy romance readers assemble! This collection features To Steal A Rogue's Heart, a queer rogues gallery of daring romances. Pick it up for free! 📚⚔️🧙‍♀️💕 #booksky #fantasy #romancelandia #romantasy #readingcommunity #queerromance

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2026 FaRoSociety Free Fantasy Romance - Epic

Epic Fantasy Romance

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Are you ready for ✨MORE✨ superhumans, sass and snacking?⚡😜🍫 Special Operation edition of book 2 in the Lightless Prophecy is launching soon. Follow now! (yes you can also get book 1) Decisions are tough. Dealing with the consequences? Tougher. #yafantasy #urbanfantasy #booksky #sff #kickstarter

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Coming soon: Everfire: Operation Magic School – Special Edition Hardcover

Scholomance snark meets Agents of Shield secrecy in a sassy YA urban fantasy full of superhumans, conspiracy, adventure & found family

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Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 13/07/2026

Today we’re excited to host a cover reveal for the special edition hardcover to Everfire – Operation: Magic School by @kelefox.bsky.social, second in The Lightless Prophecy series of urban fantasy, launching on Kickstarter! www.readindiefantasy.com/cover-reveal...

A banner image for the cover reveal of Everfire. The background shows a giant hand holding an open book in a forest with a blurry version of the cover.

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Queer is queer enough! This small yet precious collection features stories that often get excluded from marketing events because they're not 'queer enough' - the couples are straight-passing or don't fit the typical MM, FF or poly pairings. 🏳️‍🌈Celebrate queer joy in all its myriad forms 💙📚

queerenoughbookblast.com

June 26, 2026 Event - Queer Enough Book Blast

Click on the BOOK COVER or BUTTON to visit the link. DOWNLOAD Against The Boards by Danica Flynn She hates him. He thinks she’s a sexy amazon. Can they survive being temporary roommates? Genres: Conte...

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Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Good morning! It's #WriterShareWednesday ! Share a project you've published OR a pitch for your WIP and we'll give it a boost! (No AI, and please add alt text to any images you post)

Close-up of blooming yellow flowers on a green background overlaid with the words "Good morning! It's #WriterShareWednesday! Share a project you've published OR a pitch for your WIP and we'll give it a boost!"

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Are you ready for ✨MORE✨ superhumans, sass and snacking?⚡😜🍫 Special Operation edition of book 2 in the Lightless Prophecy is launching soon – follow now! (yes you can also get book 1) Decisions are tough. Dealing with the consequences? Tougher. #yafantasy #urbanfantasy #booksky #sff #kickstarter

kickstarter.com

Coming soon: Everfire: Operation Magic School – Special Edition Hardcover

Scholomance snark meets Agents of Shield secrecy in a sassy YA urban fantasy full of superhumans, conspiracy, adventure & found family

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Has anyone in the history of office admin ever downloaded a mailing label template, merged addresses and had it print perfectly the first time? Anyone?!

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Personally I find a lot of fantasy is (often frighteningly) close to real life, but it's also a fantastical escape! And we sure do need some of that these days. Check out the free/discounted books: www.indieauthorcollective.com/live-event #booksky #readingcommunity #sff

Image is a watercolour painting of a mermaid with the text: Fantastical Escape: A fantasy book blast. June 10-13 on kobo and kindle, www.indieauthorcollective.com

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AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers @amaralynn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It’s release day for Gems and Star Flowers! I’m bad at marketing because of spoons and ADHD LOL but any love is appreciated! #writesky #books #queerwriters @prosealynn.bsky.social books2read.com/gemsandstarf...

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

Gems and Star Flowers by Amara Lynn, Primrose Song

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

✨🏳️‍🌈It's a book bundle for Pride!🏳️‍🌈✨ With my MMF book, As I Command 🧚Fairy-pirate island ⚔️World at war 👠Very twisted genderswapped Cinderella 🔥Feminine rage 🙃Am I the villain Check it out➡️ itch.io/b/3675/pride... #booksky #sff #readingcommunity #fantasy #romantasy #queerromance 💙📚🪐

Pride Book Fair 2026 Bundle #1: Pride Hard
A Gaze So Longing River Flynn; A Lion Among Mice David Hardie; A Promise Broken S L Dove Cooper; Blood on the Snow Finn McLellan; Carved Water M K Nedjelkovic; Cherry Kicks Red Meat Mitch Miller; Cyber Snow A E Bross; Enemies to Enemies Ash Kreider; Graft Madeline Marie Rose; Have It All Beverly Anne Michael; Hurt To Kill Piamo; Hypatos Rey Rider; Iron Spirit Linn Foster; Javawocky Lou Ella Stone; Jevin Dark Joanna Masters; Lamb Stag Wolf Airic Fenn; Mind Pacc Sloane TVBand; Night Live Alba V Sarria; Non Player Character Veo Corva; Pirates and Poise Zach Prince; Saoirse Kennedy Old Ghosts Janina Franck; Scholarly Pursuits A Queer Anthology of Cozy Academia Stories; Silver Blood T L Morgan; Spice of Life ACM; Still So Illegible M K Zariel; Tales of Yamato Odessa Silver; The Edge of a World JD Rivers; The Emerald Hymnal Dylan Cassidy; The Hand That Feeds Sass Everett; The Modern Mythos Anomaly Juniper Lake Fitzgerald; The Thirteenth Key Cara Nox; The World of Juno Daniel Eavenson; Troubled Bodies Jake Vanguard; Unchain My Heart RJ Martin; Winner Takes All Claris Lam; Woman of Sorrow and Blood Dianna Gunn; As I Command Kel E Fox

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A.M. Obst - Fantasy Author & Editor 🪐📚 @amobstwriter.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

You can get my queer Aussie urban fantasy DEMON IN THE NETWORK for less than the price of a good caffè latte (though seriously, why not have both?) books2read.com/DemonInTheNetwork Also on Kindle Unlimited.

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Quarterly queer pride promo time! Check out the books: www.mnbennet.com/pride-promo REBELS: angsty epic gaslamp romantasy with twisted fairy tales SECRETS: gaslamp romantic fantasy full of mystery, murder and dangerous politics #sff #readingcommunity #fantasy #romantasy #queermf 💙📚🪐

Queer Indie Book Sale - All Books 99c June 2-4 at mnbennet.com/pride-promo. Titles featured are The Rose Ball Rebels and The Secrets We Save by Kel E Fox

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