iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Yay!!! I'm so glad that all came well! I hope you enjoy!!

010

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

So as a trans ace person who writes about a trans ace (space) wizard, can I be JKR’s arch nemesis?

0161

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

My bi king x genderfluid princess fantasy romance The King’s Weaver went viral 4 times in a few weeks and sold out 5, I just rush ordered for more, I’m shuffling schedules to get the sequel out asap because I haven’t cover revealed and have orders THANK YOU YOU’RE MAKING THIS GENDERFLUID AUTHOR CRY

081

Reposted by Novae Caelum

Ash @ashsiobhan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

New books I am so excited. I don't know where to start. The King's Weaver by @novaecaelum.bsky.social & Go Luck Yourself by @sararaaschbooks.com 🌈 💚

041

Reposted by Novae Caelum

Rachel Simpson Writes @rachelsimpsonwrit.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Happy #TransDayofVisibility! Favorite books with trans rep this year: 1) Stars and Green Magicks by @novaecaelum.bsky.social 2) Charlie Lavender and the Origin of Everything by @carsonpatrickbowie.bsky.social 3) Pride Street Mysteries series by @thorncoyle.bsky.social How about you? #booksky

152

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

And by dismantled I mean, question everything. Why is our gendered and binary western society the way it is when humans and nature have never been binary? Why does that seem normal and natural to so many of us? What is actually going on in lived humanity, and going on in systems of oppression?

060

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I had another comment that if the patriarchy didn’t exist, we’d be a matriarchy and better for it. But that’s swapping one imperfect system for another. Any system that puts any gender above others and excludes those outside the binary is still only good for one group. It all must be dismantled.

180

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I just passed 750,000 words written so far in The Stars and Green Magics series (halfway into Book 8). That’s 750,000 words of genderfluid kings ruling kingdoms and sapphic rival princesses and trans man space mages.✨I started serializing this in 2021 as I wrote it. Hi 2021 me, thank you. ❤️

060

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Oh thanks so much! I’m so glad you’re enjoying it! 💖

010

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

My 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ romantasy with a princess who disguises as a man to take down her unwanted betrothed (but the bi king falls for her as a man, and she has a genderfluid awakening) went viral this week on Tiktok, and I sold out of books twice and working on the third time. Trans books matter. 📚The King's Weaver

0101

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Working on a new thing tonight, something I haven't really talked about before, a novella about trans angels fighting and loving and saving each other against a long cosmic war. Rereading my first draft right now and feeling this in my soul. (It'll be out when it's out, this one's therapy ❤️)

060

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This was a slow day 😅 I'm trying to get better about mixing more fun and relaxation into my super jammed schedule, though. It does help, a lot

020

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Today I: - Plotted out a bunch of Book 8 in my queer/enby/trans space fantasy series - Defeated foes in BG3 (after like 20 tries, god I was stuck) - Packed and shipped 10 book orders - Proofed and posted an early access ebook to Bookfunnel & Patreon - Watched 3 Andromeda episodes - Wrote this post

260

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I'm not saying that I *accidentally* dropped the last few chapters of The Second Ruler: Part Two and it's now all bingeable on my patron place, all 600 digital super queer pages of it (but also, it is 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨)

020

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I'm seven chonky books deep in my queer space fantasy series and the fantasy is fantasying hard and the resonance is hitting and there is *nothing* like pulling together threads you've been weaving for years into this book's finale. Absolutely nothing. (I say this every book. It's true every time.)

0141

Reposted by Novae Caelum

Escape Pod @escapepod.org · 07/02/2025

As tempting as the jolly, candy-like emergency depressurization button may be, please don't press it; instead, press the button that launches you into this week's story, "Steadyboi After the Apocalypse" by @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social! That'll be better for everyone, especially the maintenance staff.

escapepod.org

Escape Pod 979: Steadyboi After the Apocalypse

You trudge through another wasteland town, sticking to the narrow roads, trying not to make the potholes deeper or the dust clouds thicker, but it’s hard when you’re a hulking robot built for a war…

0136

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

P.S. This isn't a post about policing language so much as--think about who the language talks to? There's a lot of good alternatives. Would trans men feel at home if you say it? Would nonbinary folx? All of that.

030

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I think that might still be too gendered, alas (I always hear that as "women")

110

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

And if you haven't read any trans or nonbinary books this year, maybe pick up a few? Bump them to the top of your tbrs. Then blast them to the world to show that trans and nonbinary readers have a space in the book world, too.

140

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Entertainment is where society changes, we've seen this again and again and again. If we want to create a more inclusive world, we've gotta do it in the escapism spaces, too. We HAVE to.

110

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The amount of times I get "ew" on my posts is...disheartening. The amount of times I get "omg how did I not know these books existed???" is wonderful--but also shows the issue.

110

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I think this is SO important so I'll say it again: feature queer and trans books ALONGSIDE cishet books. Because there's a divide right now where cishet readers often will think queer and trans is not for them, and then queer and trans Booktok gets relegated to the sidelines.

120

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Many of us trans and nonbinary folx have grown up with little or no positive self-rep in what we read, we really don't buy the excuse that you can't enjoy it if you don't identity. We read and watch movies too.

130

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Have queer and trans authors do takeovers or bring them in for interviews. Reach out. Ask us for ARCs. Talk about nonbinary and trans books alongside cishet books. SQUEE about these books, too!

150

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

And INDIE books too, because a lot of the most progressive and inclusive queer stories are happening in indie spaces, but queer book spaces are overwhelmingly trad.

160

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Can we get more inclusive? Instead of saying "girlies," use something gender neutral like "readers" or "book friends." Make a point to feature and review books by queer and trans authors about queer and trans main characters.

250

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

And yet the readers are there. They are hungry, they will come in the deluge--but so many don't know that there's even a place for them in the reader community at all, they truly don't.

150

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I've been heavily on Booktok and Bookstagram for over two years with hundreds (thousands?) of hours spent across several accounts and I haven't seen more than a handful of popular trans or nonbinary booktokers who aren't also authors. (And still very few authors, too.)

140

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Yes, there are more trans and nonbinary books these days, but even on Booktok and Bookstagram, these books tend to be buried under the popular books--which, with very few exceptions, all feature cishet pairings.

150

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I write sapphic and trans and nonbinary books and one of the things I've heard consistently over the last year from so many readers is that they haven't read in years--or at all--because they didn't see books with their own rep in them. And maybe felt books weren't for them.

160

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I'm not gonna caveat this with things about spaces for women (that's all valid, it is), but I want to look at: while the US is bent on excluding trans and nonbinary folx, how can we get more gender inclusive in our escapism spaces? That's what we all need right now.

140

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

So I'm a nonbinary trans author thinking about how Booktok has created a culture around the Booktok girlies. And how I, as a trans person with no girly in me whatsoever, twinge and feel on the outside every time I hear that. (Buckle up, long 🧵)

192

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Got my shipment of The King's Weaver, bi king x genderfluid princess fantasy romance (he falls for her while she's disguised as a man to get out of marrying him; she falls for him and has a genderfluid awakening 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️) Upside down because not yet signed. Patron copies out soon, pres shortly after! <3

080

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Oh yay!! Thank you! I so hope you enjoy! <3 <3

010

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The Truthspoken Heir is the first one, and it's one big story from there! <3

000

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Oh thank you!! <3 <3 I'm so glad they helped!

010

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Casually going viral on TT right now with my queer, trans, and nonbinary books because people in fact REALLY want a world without the patriarchy. (Thank you! ❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️)

3151

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Oh thank you so much! 💖 I’m so glad you’re enjoying them!

000

Reposted by Novae Caelum

Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Trump’s anti-trans Executive Order is bad BUT it technically defines everyone as female. It states: “'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell." Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.

19561481526

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I've sold over twenty thousand copies of these books this last year. I'm an indie author, and this is my ENTIRE income. Yes, I am making an actual living off of trans, queer, and nonbinary romantic scifi, and fantasy romance. We're out here doing it. We're gonna stay out here doing it. <3

1150

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Poly rep, group marriages, and polycules they/them, fae/faer, e/eir Easy/accessible trans care No fear of queerness at all. NO FEAR OF QUEERNESS AT ALL. And that's just one series. (The Stars and Green Magics)

160

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

In my books I have: F/F enemy princesses Ace enby/trans man enemies Genderfluid king - who's aro and friends with benefits with his/her ace guard Gncf royal/transfem demigirl Enby space lieutenant/disaster bi roomate - and everyone in the space navy uses their pronouns (🧵But wait, there's more!)

1113

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

So they want us to be scared, but we'll push through. They want us to make ourselves small but we overshadow them and they know it. They want us to hide, to disappear, but we are every rainbow color and they can't hide from that. We are mirrors. We are blazing. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

0202

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

These are my warm fuzzies for the season ✨This very queer fantasy romance between a princess disguised as a man and the bi king who falls for her as a man has so much queer acceptance in a genderfluid awakening. Oh, my heart 💖 The King's Weaver is out in KU!

1100

Reposted by Novae Caelum

R. L. Davennor @rldavennor.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This year, I was privileged enough to be able to record and produce my entire backlist in audio. I dropped—and I am not exaggerating—close to 10 grand, to record 6 books. My ACX (Amazon) average royalties, per month?

131

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Thanks for asking! It's legit, unfortunately--I verified the Facebook email, my account has a flag on it, and they have help articles for the same issue. (I wish it had been a scam, alas.)

100

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I won't say butt in chair write, because it's not true for my ADHD butt, ha. But, I binge write? I don't push it unless I have a deadline. Aaaand last minute is a powerful motivator. :D

100

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Thaaaat is always the trick! :D

100

Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Yes, absolutely! I think we need these books and rep and visibility now more than ever. <3

120