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Martha van Dalen

@marthavandalen.bsky.social

Speculative fiction writer (she/her), Clarion West Novel Writing Workshop alum 2025, putting the romantic in necromantic

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Martha van Dalen @marthavandalen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

GIDEON THE NINTH x THE TAINTED CUP Jona is a spy with a personality disorder and a leadership role in the cult she's supposed to betray. Her crush is a decadent ambassador with her own secrets: namely, she wants to kill and eat every last member of Jona's nation. #F #A #LGBT #OWN #ND #NA #DVPit

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Martha van Dalen @marthavandalen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

THE STARVING SAINTS x f/f Hannibal Jona has a weakness for ruthless women and a history of poor choices. But a binding contract with her political rival is her worst choice yet. Because her rival is the Queen of Death in disguise--and she wants, more than anything, to become Jona's God #F #A #DVPit

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Martha van Dalen @marthavandalen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jona’s best friend swore to only sacrifice memories that didn't matter in exchange for her spells. Then she sacrificed every memory of Jona. Jona has one month to recover their friendship. Because something is urging her ex-friend to kill her--and has plans for Jona once she's dead #A #F #H #DVPit

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Martha van Dalen @marthavandalen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

WHO WILL WIN: A woman with a personality disorder, a gambling compulsion, and a knack for cheating at cards VS The Queen of the Dead?? Get your bets in now!! The odds are long on the human winning. But we all love an underdog. #A #H #F #LGBT #OWN #DVPit #Necromantasy

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Martha van Dalen @marthavandalen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cardsharp must outwit the Queen of the Dead using only her cheating skills #A #F #H #DVPit #LGBT

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Martha van Dalen @marthavandalen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

YOUR DEATH IS NOT YOUR OWN is an adult necromantasy combining an f/f take on NBC’s Hannibal with the death magic of SABRIEL. It's a heart-worming tale of belonging and the dangers of falling in love with an undead sociopath. #A #F #H #DVPit

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Martha van Dalen @marthavandalen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

YOUR DEATH IS NOT YOUR OWN is an adult necromantic fantasy combining an f/f take on NBC’s Hannibal with the death magic of Kerstin Hall’s ASUNDER. It's a heart-worming tale of belonging and the dangers of falling in love with an undead sociopath #A #F #H #QueerPit

Fostered to the gamblers and cheats of Vegas House as a young child, Jona has little experience with the dead who plot against the living or the necromancers who fight them. But when she learns that Madai, her long-estranged father figure and legendary necromancer, has violated their culture’s greatest taboo and returned from death, Jona knows she must discover what happened to him.
Jona makes Madai’s younger sister, Renee-Lois, her first ally and falls unexpectedly in love. Renee-Lois encourages Jona to accept the darker parts of herself: her forbidden magic and her strange empathy with the dead. What Jona doesn’t know is that Madai’s sister has been dead for a long time and her body is being animated by the Godqueen of the Kingdom of the Dead, working to turn Jona’s home into her personal meat locker.
By the time Jona discovers Renee-Lois’ true identity, the Godqueen holds all the cards. There’s no honest chance of winning. But Jona is a Vegas trickster at heart and at every other suit–and she’s never played honestly.

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

but then projects like WHAT ELEGANT STARS come along, and i think--hot damn. *this* is why speculative fiction exists. (kinda. it exists for lots of other reasons, including that it's fun going "what if xyz" happened. but, you know what i mean.) www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

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What Elegant Stars

Queer Tales of Impossible Style, a fashionable space opera anthology.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 18/12/2025

Just started reading The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy and what I can say so far is that if you loved the Tamora Pierce Tortall books and wish there was a genderswapped version by a trans woman about needing to be a girl to get trained as a witch, this could very much be the book for you

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Martha van Dalen @marthavandalen.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Asunder by Kerstin Hall has left me in tatters, full of feelings and memes

Ferain reaching towards a ball labeled "his body," unexpectedly held back by a pink blob labeled "the baby herald."

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