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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Yes, I know three mildly warm days in a row in Spring is nothing to complain about but I haven’t adjusted yet and I’ve had to do a lot of tramping up and down hills in full sun this week 🥵

Tintin and Haddock Captain, it’s Wednesday meme, but Haddock is saying What a week, and Tintin is saying Captain it’s October

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Oh, ilands bot, why would anyone who tolerates AISlop pay you US$25 when it’s just as quick to throw the prompt directly into a free AI image generator? #ilandsBot

An ilands “AI agent” advertising that they’ll make you an AI portrait for $25. You know, a service you can get for free, if you really felt you had to burn humanity’s future for the sake of a fake picture,

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Well, this is a nice surprise, especially given that the last few times I tried to enrol in Kobo promotions, I was summarily rejected 😂 Also nice to be featured in the same row as a T Kingfisher book! (Off-page in the pic) #koboPlus #NewANDhotWow #books

A row of book covers in the Kobo Plus category “New & Hot in Romance”. One of mine, The Uses of Illicit Art, is fourth along. I’ve circled in just to make sure no one misses it :)

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Just a little #IndieAuthor #selfPromo on the last day of the month to see if I can beat a previous sales record… I write fantasy with romance, often queer, always with happy, hopeful endings. They’re cosyish (content warnings on website), character-driven, and […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

Just a decorative image of my book covers

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Today’s Deluxe Waffle is certainly a challenge 😂 #waffle

Screengrab of the Deluxe Waffle online puzzle game (a weekly offering of Wafflegame.net). The top word is Crumbed. The rest of the grid is incomplete nonsense words and greyed out letters that don’t go anywhere.

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

[Food photo] #3goodThings 🧁 Being late to town meant I almost missed out on the beautiful sourdough bread by our local artisan baker - but I got the second last loaf, and this beauty of a lemon tart 🖼️ Was in town late enough that the combo tourist office and […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

A perfect round little lemon tart, with cream swirled on top and candied citrus peel to decorate. A lovely medley of summer citrus colours.

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Puppy is already working hard. That bucket ain’t going to carry itself. #DogsOfMastodon #

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

This might be the worst error I’ve ever seen in a mainstream published book. How many people in the publishing process must have skimmed right over this? #ReadingCommunity #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Excerpt from a new-release book:

‘If you mean the coffee, yes, but last night's see below. need a
lesson in timing.’
See below she queries. ‘Did they harm you at all?’

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Like queuing for a bus (The sheep want that gate opened. The alpacas have no clue what’s going on) #CountryLife

Two sheep and two alpacas are standing in a line in front of a small gate, very much as if queued

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Who was the sadistic bastard who bred the Maremma? The maremma breed: aloof and independent. Resist interacting with the puppies too much so they bond properly with the livestock they will spend their lives guarding. The maremma puppy: #DogsOfMastodon

An absolutely gorgeous little fluff ball of a two-month-old maremma puppy, all soft white fur and soulful dark eyes with blond eyelashes, lying half-sprawled on green grass.

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Move over, Kleenex (Andrex) Labrador, it’s the Who Gives a Crap Maremma #DogsOfMastodon

A small fluffy white puppy peeps out from her temporary home, a Who Gives a Crap delivery box on its side. She’s cute but appears slightly unimpressed.

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

[Swearing and skeletal remains] Ahhhh, early Sunday morning on my beautiful rural property, I’ll just step outside to admire the river— —OH FOR FUCK SAKE DOGS (I want to be clear my dogs aren’t killers, they’re just world class scavengers)

Pretty much half a kangaroo’s rib cage, still sporting blackened bits of flesh, sitting conveniently out my decking next to a dog bed. Nice glimpse of trees and river in the background though.

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

[AI-generated flyer but with a mildly amusing twist] On the plus side, great to see the plagiarism machines being very woke and supporting LGBTQ+ rights by showing a gay couple dancing. And also on the plus side, if this very traditional small-town ballroom […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

A flyer for a local ballroom dancing event, which has five generated older couples dancing, but one of the couples, in the background, consists of two men (if you zoomed in, you’d see oddness with their arms)

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Tossing up names for my next MC, I looked up the Spanish version of Miles. After a brief detour to the 90%-crap portion of the internet (Kilometres!), I found out it’s Milo, which I like. And it derives from the Latin for soldier, which is appropriate! Only one […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

🎉new book release!🎉 My latest book, Rogue & Vagabond, is now available everywhere* in ebook and print. Gabe Ward, tasked with protecting a young girl, hides out at an isolated Northamptonshire estate – and comes face to face with the man he spent a pleasant […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

Surrounded by a curlicued black border, Rogue & Vagabond is written in large letters in the centre. Rogue is in a rough newspaper-type font, and a dark-haired smirking man in a brown coat is half-leaning on the E. Vagabond is in an elegant swishy font, the line of the V paralleling the arm of a tall blond man in a burgundy coat. Behind the & is a little gnome, staring out blankly at us.

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

#SelfPromo Since I really have to practise tooting my own horn a bit more, behold the wisdom of the MMRomance Redditers! (Book available at your favourite online retailer/library, or direct from me: wendypalmer.au/bookshop) #bookstodon #QueerRomance #mmromance #bookstodon @bookstodon

$allthegoldt - 26d ago { Little Wolf and the Witch x Wendy Palmer} is criminally underrated imo. | absolutely loved the worldbuilding, the intrigue ridden plot and the characters. dkvldn - 26d ago Seconding Wendy Palmer - so talented and deserves a massive spotlight! hello_tasty - 23d ago | just read this based on your recommendation and now | have reading hangover because it was just so good.$

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

I got some cheerful tea towels printed, I love how they turned out! The art is from two Pixabay artists, pixabay.com/users/betidraws-23986844 and pixabay.com/users/saydung-18713596 (I donated to both) And www.organicprintstudio.com.au […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

Rows of happy looking cartoon dog heads on a bright yellow background, on a large white tea towel

A repeating pattern of three foxes sitting under a tree in muted green and orange colours

A large clump of mushrooms with the text reading “the mushroom’s the life of the party. Yeah, he’s a real fun-guy”

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

This “monk fruit” sugar left a weird chemical aftertaste whenever I used it. I finally thought to look at the ingredients, and now I feel a right fool — it’s 99% erythritol 🤮 #TruthInAdvertising

Packaging looking very green and natural claiming to be organic monk fruit sugar “with erythritol“ in tiny letters. Nowhere is it apparent that the monk fruit is only 1%.

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

I highly recommend This is Fascism by Rosan Smits: short and to the point, and mostly importantly gives a starting point for what politicians, journalists and the everyday person can and should be doing to hold the line. (I don’t pretend this can’t happen in […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

The strongest barrier against fascism is our refusal to participate in
its hatred and dehumanization. You don’t have to be a professional
activist to help raise it. Nor should you just leave it to journalists or
politicians. Resistance is about how people think and act. That is our
starting point and that’s where each of us has a choice to make. Don't
be a bystander. Become an upstander.

But we don’t have to continue down this path. History not only tells
us how fascism can advance, it also shows us that it can be stopped. By
people who stand up for each other. By people who choose facts over
fiction, connection over division, and humanity over dehumanization.

By people who understand: this is fascism.

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Slow clap for the Australian government. This is not a difficult list, and yet… (How about this? Religious schools can legally discriminate as much as they like, but when they do, wave bye-bye to federal funding. I’d LOVE to see their moral quandary then) […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

* Removing the exemptions that allow religious schools to legally discriminate
against LGBTQIA+ students and staff

* Eliminating legal exemptions that allow discrimination against trans, gender-
diverse and intersex people

* Delivering public education campaigns to reduce stigma and discrimination
against the queer community

* Introducing a national ban on conversion practices

* Banning unnecessary surgeries on intersex children

* Improving systems to allow trans and gender-diverse people to legally
change their gender without intrusive requirements

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

The Smashwords Summer/Winter sale is on during July. Stinking hot / cold and rainy? Obviously you need to stay inside and read. All my books are 50% off. That makes them US$2 all month. They’re low-key fantasy with romantic subplots, often queer […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

A simple decorative graphic showing my eleven book covers.

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

#WordWeavers 1/7: If your MC wore T-shirts, what would be on their favourite one? I originally thought Gabe would go with a sweary one, but I think it’s likely to be something more subtly sarcastic. Tor would probably go with the “sorry I’m late, I didn’t want […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

A cute pink tee with an anthropomorphic flower sitting and reading with a cup of coffee. Slogan is above with lots of coloured letters, reading Settle Petal

A black tee with “Would you like to buy a vowel”, followed by the wheel of fortune display with G blank, F blank C K, and Y blank blank R S E blank F

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

#WordWeavers 6/25. Can visitors to your home tell you're an author? If so, how? Possibly? Generally what happens is they notice my walking treadmill set-up and that leads into it. But if they look up, past the mess, they’ll see my little shrine overhead 😊 #WritersDesk

A vertical photo of my writing desk. A treadmill under the desk, a workstation riser lifted it its fullest extent, a computer monitor propped on small wooden box to raise it further, lots of scraps of paper and notes on either side, and then shelves above. The top shelf has copies of each of my print books, plus a frame print of an artwork important in one, framed fanart related to another, a coffee mug printed with the motif of a third etc.

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

I’m sure this book is absolutely fine, but the cover gives “leave room for Jesus” vibes #books #coverDesign

An illustrated couple gazing into each other’s eyes with hands clasped. A man, with a slight Jesus resemblance due to long hair and beard, stands close behind them, as if trying to ease his way between. Title is Every Move You Make, but desire the stalkerish vibes, it’s a friend to lovers romance.

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

Why does this cover simultaneously imply he’s a merman and it’s an historical, and then the blurb is a contemporary about flower shop rivals??? #books #BookCovers #romancelandia

A book called He Loves Me Not, with a heterosexual couple in the classic clinch pose from historical novels - on a bed of roses, she’s wearing a flowing silky blue gown with her thigh and shoulders bare, he’s naked except for…purple glittery pants…wait, those aren’t pants, it’s a tail! There’s a subtitle that reads “a monster bait romance”. The blurb just goes on about rival flower shops in a plot entirely stolen from that Meg Ryan and Tom hanks movie where she runs an indie bookstore and he’s the big chain. It doesn’t even mention the ocean!

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Round of applause for spotting the low-hanging fruit with this portmanteau squared of a title 👏 😂 #books #QueerRomanceClub #romantasy #romancelandia

A book named Bromantasy, a combo of bromance (bro romance) and romantasy (romance fantasy). The cover shows two men (two bros, obviously) on a rearing horse, one is brandishing a butterfly net, the other something yellow maybe a rolling pin.

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

Me: my new walking shoes are made from eucalyptus! Koalas:

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

My library’s new Libby acquisitions came through for me in a BIG way this morning, just in time for my beachside family holiday #books #reading #HolidayReading #library

Screen grab of Libby borrows page, showing four newly borrowed titles.

If interested, the titles are: Wolf Worm by T Kingfisher, After Hours at Dooryard Books, Enough About angels (Nobel prize speech), The Somewhat Wicked Witch of Brigandale by CM Waggoner

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

The #Kobo US & Canada Spring Sale runs from 1-30 April. My latest book, Grace & Favour, a friends-to-lovers m/m romance set at haunted Hampton Court Palace in the early Victorian era, will be featured… …but ALL my books are on sale for the whole month […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

Purely decorative 3x3 grid of my book covers.

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

Nagi, of Recipe Tin Eats, posting on FB to answer some questions about Recipe Tin Meals, her meal donation program that costs her a million dollars a year to run. Casually explaining she’d rather spend that money for a good purpose than on conspicuous consumption […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

| do RTM because there came a point where the
growth of RecipeTin Eats (yes, we do get 47
million hits a month), wasn't filling my cup
anymore. Starting RTM changed everything for me
- it gave me purpose again. | might splurge on
irresponsible stilettos | have nowhere to wear
once in a blue moon, but | don't need a fancy car
or designer clothes or exxy holidays, I'd rather have
RTM.

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

Last few days of the annual Read An Ebook Week sale at Smashwords. Ends March 7. - Lots of indie authors, with stories for every taste - Discounts from 25-100% - DRM-free Amazon alternative I’ve got fantasy-with-romance on there, mostly standalone. My Victorian […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

All of my book covers, looking real pretty. Just decoration.

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

I see a fair proportion of readers saying they look at the front matter now, to check for cover designers and other credits that might indicate a new release by a new-to-them author is not AI slop. I’ve not included this in previous books, because it’d be like […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

Three spider-mans with the different uniform designs of Mcguire, Holland and Garfield, pointing at each other

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

Knitters, I can’t remember the stitch pattern I used for this placemat, can anyone enlighten me? #knitting

Close of knitting, with rows of various colours plus white “ribs” created via slip stitches (I think).

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026

#PennedPossibilities 912. Describe your MC to us. Craggy. Kind of thuggish looking. Probably owes a lot to Joel from The Last of Us (tv version), now that I think about it, right down to having to look after a traumatised teenager.

‘Mr Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance,’ she slowly read.
‘Rugged?’

Eliza had had the same short-thrift education as him, at school just long enough to learn her letters before being kept home to care for her youngest siblings and scrub laundry. Under Salvation Army schooling, her reading had come along immensely, but she was pronouncing the troublesome word one-syllabled.

‘Rug-ged,’ Gabe said.

She looked down at the reds and blues of the rug, and then back at the page. ‘Rugged countenance?’ she repeated, correctly now, but even more dubiously.

Gabe looked at the two portraits bookending the room. The one over the hearth was of a child so smooth-faced, ruddy-cheeked and beflowered that Gabe had thought him a little girl until Mrs Hunter had corrected him. The one facing it across the length of the library was of the very Sir Thomas Isham who had been such a great collector on his Grand Tour. He was also extremely smooth-faced.

Tor, leaning back in his seat and watching Gabe’s dilemma with some amusement, gave a low laugh. ‘You’re looking at the portraits like you’ve never seen a mirror. Miss Ward, your uncle has a rugged countenance. The very epitome of the concept, I should say.’

‘Oh, the chin?’ Eliza said.

‘The chin, the nose – all of it, really.’

Eliza read the line again, finishing it this time. ‘Mr Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile.’ She lowered the book and shot Gabe a very cheeky look.

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

Just read this from a pro-AI writer: “It’s quite egotistical, when you think about it, to assume that we meatsacks are inherently better creative machines than actual machines.” #WritingCommunity

Morpheus meme: what if I told you…we’re not machines at all

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

TIFU by forgetting a hose was on for four days and draining our rainwater tank so much that we’ll have to truck in scheme water before the end of summer 😬 🤦‍♀️ So, um, buy my books maybe? Fantasy with romance, often queer, available everywhere including Kobo […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

Just a quick note to my regular readers, if you’ve been waiting for my latest book, Grace & Favour*, to show up on #Hoopla, it’s finally arrived, a solid SEVEN weeks after releasing it for distribution (I have no idea why it took so long). *Friends-to-lovers gay […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

Cover of Grace & Favour. Blue and brass-yellow colours predominant. The title is in fancy font at the top, and there's what looks like a photo portrait in an ornate frame, of two men, one in a top hat, one holding a pocket watch, and a large white dog. In the background of the photo (actually a daguerreotype, but anachronistically in colour), there is the faint impression of a woman, transparent...you could say, almost ghostly...

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

Four hours left in the annual end-of-year Smashwords sale. Huge range of Indie authors to discover, DRM-free, sideload to any device: www.smashwords.com/sale Mine are here, all 25% off: www.smashwords.com/profile/view/wen… Read more […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

Smashwords Sale icon, showing a reading woman with text proclaiming 25-100% off from Dec 8 - Jan 1 (sale ends 11.59pm PST)

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

My partner asked me why I’d knitted a tiny green penis. GASP! It’s a WORM you philistine #knitting #CraftFail

Side-on view, of a suspiciously phallic looking tapering tube, knit from dark green yarn

Front view, so its little face (a brown button) is visible, so it looks more worm like

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

@adriabailton thank you for hosting the last #writephant of 2025 😊 #SelfPromo The #Smashwords sale is in its last few days (ends 11:59 p.m. Pacific January 1st US time, so Australians have to the middle of 2 Jan) All mine are 25% off, if you’re in the mood for […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

Graphic showing the sale, a woman reading with text proclaiming that The Smashwords 2025 End of Year Sale runs between December 8 and January 1, discounts from 25%-100%

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2025

The #SmashWords sale has started! Lots of discounts and free books for the rest of December. Browse all sale items here: www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos Mine are cosy-adjacent fantasy with romance, often queer, all 25% off […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

A decorative image saying the sale is December 8 to January 1 and it's a great opportunity to support indie authors and get DRM-free books.

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