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D. N. Bryn

@dnbryn.bsky.social

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Author of mm fantasy and paranormal romance. Mostly just reposting stuff here as I figure out what social media I want to focus on. linktr.ee/BrynBooks

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D. N. Bryn @dnbryn.bsky.social · Dec 13

Find out more about my books, the These Treacherous Tides series and the Guides for Dating Vampires series, through my website...

www.dnbryn.com

D.N. Bryn – Achillean Romance with Fangs

www.dnbryn.com

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Vesper Doom 🧡🤍🩷 @vesperdoom.com · 7d

I'm looking for ARC readers/reviewers for METROPOLIS DOWN!

Coming 03 March 2026, METROPOLIS DOWN is an adult space horror novel about grief and trauma.

ARCs will go out in two batches: November for eARCs, and January for physical ones (limited to 10).

Link below!!

Large white text on a starry black background.

The text says: ARC READERS WANTED!
SCIFI HORROR ROMANCE

White text on a starry background says:

SCIFI HORROR
M/M SECOND-CHANCE ROMANCE
STAR TREK X EVENT HORIZON
BRAINS X BRAWN
AUTISTIC X PTSD
COSMIC AND SENSORY HORRORS
FIRST IN A SERIES

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Shrike 🐦‍⬛ @shrikebait.bsky.social · 8d

Cinder by D.N. Bryn @dnbryn.bsky.social

Shout out to D.N. Bryn for serving the weird bird representation we need.

I loved this take on Cinderella, especially this particular brand of familial manipulation.

#arcreview #mmromance #romantasy #grimmtales

Cover of Cinder by DN Bryn surrounded by falling grey feathers. The text below reads "Weird birds (the queernormative world is cool too)"

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D. N. Bryn @dnbryn.bsky.social · 9d

Hehehe 😘

D. N. Bryn @dnbryn.bsky.social · 10d

I'm so pleased to see my trans M/M Cinderella retelling out in the world! I hope ya'll enjoy this slightly darker story than my usual. (I promise it still has just as much heart 💖 )

Currently available below, but paperbacks will appear elsewhere within the week:

www.amazon.com/dp/B0F26J336R

"CINDER OUT NOW!" title, with the cover of CINDER by DN BRYN and the words "If Cinderella hid a darker identity..." and "Vigilante justice, Pigeon magic, Complex & painful family dynamics, Everywhere but the bed, Aro-spec prince"

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Susan Beth Cole @susanbethcole.bsky.social · 10d

The Pumpkin is back! Today, he would very much like to read How to Bite Your Neighbor & Win a Wager by @dnbryn.bsky.social

#HalloweenReads #SpookySeasonRomance #VampireRomance #ThePumpkinSaidSo

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Cat Rector @catrector.com · 11d

Learning to Bleed comes out March 18th and artist @scherville.com is so deeply talented I can hardly believe it!

This book is the 2nd in a trilogy that explores queerness and trauma through vampire lore, all against the backdrop of an impoverished rural community that has its own monsters 👀

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The cover of Learning to Bleed by Cat Rector, the sequel to Coal Gets In Your Veins. The cover is in the style of a classical painting, with a blush-grey background. In the foreground are two characters locked in a dipping embrace. Spencer, a pale man in a dark blue turtleneck sweater and jeans, with blonde bed-head hair, is holding up another character as she loses control and seems to be falling. His expression is lost and loving as he looks down at her. Laurel is leaning back in his arms, her long brown hair in waves over her back, her face up to the sky as her expression of uncontrolled rage stares upward. Her eyes are red and her mouth is wide open, showing her vampire fangs. A pool of blood soaks into the shoulder of Spencer’s sweater, coming from Laurel’s hand as it hangs above his shoulder. Laurel wears a tank top and red and black plaid. A red mist obscures their legs, making room for the title and author text. The cover artist is Scherville.

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D. N. Bryn @dnbryn.bsky.social · 17d

My trans mm Cinderella retelling, CINDER, comes out on October 2nd ✨

Cin is quiet and controlled on the outside, but underneath the mask he's a bundle of rage and pain... Stay tuned for a matching Prince Lorenz board!

(Art by moth.deity on IG.)

Illustration of the character Cinder (a young, pretty white man with chin-length blonde hair, blue eyes, and fancy white clothing, wearing a crown and cape of feathers. Surrounding words and phrases: vigilante, buried rage, sexual fledgling, can climb anything, toxic family relationships, transman, chronic pain, magical pigeon companions.

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 17d

The preorder for THE REANIMATOR'S FATE (TRM #4) is officially up!
Paperbacks will be up closer to release, but you can preorder the ebook, which will be out January 29th.
books2read.com/trm4

cover reveal soon. preorder now, out January 29th.
autistic necromancer x undead ADHDer, mm romance, book curses and malicious magic, mutual aid, support, community, a new beginning, if im not a weapon, what good am i?, gwen to the rescue, the paranormal society is in peril, book 4 final book

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Amanda Meuwissen @amandameuwissen.bsky.social · 19d

Did you notice the map when reading Zel and the other books in #thegrimmtales so far? I'm actually the one who made it, and I had so much fun creating each landmark important to our tales.

GRAB ZEL: mybook.to/Zel
GET ALL OF GRIMM: mybook.to/GriMM

✨Where have you been in The GriMM Tales so far?🏰

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 20d

Another ambiguously gay #Swordtember story! Sir Heron renews his vows of allegiance to Mister Swan, his exiled prince. As little as $4 CAD a month gets you access to exclusive queer fantasy fiction, currently posting 3x week, and helps me afford groceries ⚔️✨🦢

www.patreon.com/posts/swordt...

Photo of a severe-looking great blue heron standing in rippled grey water. Photo credit: Mike Baird, on iNaturalist.

Photo of a beautiful white trumpeter swan rearing up out of grey water, brown grassy riverbank in the background. Photo credit: Alan D Wilson, Wikimedia Commons.

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Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · 20d

PAINTED FLOCK deals heavily with compulsory romance and toxic ideas around romantic relationships. "More than friends" as an expression to mean sexual-romantic partners irks me to no end, so of course it's right there in the thick of the narration.

buy.bookfunnel.com/prdyz5509q

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Books That Burn @booksthatburn.com · 21d

New Review of How to Flaunt Your Chains and Surrender a Vein by D.N. Bryn (Guides for Dating Vampires #4)
#BookReview #BookSky 💙📚

How to Flaunt Your Chains and Surrender a Vein by D.N. Bryn (Guides for Dating Vampires #4)

Spoiler-free and spoiler-marked book reviews. Companion to Books That Burn, a podcast about fictional depictions of trauma in books.

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Vesper Doom 🧡🤍🩷 @vesperdoom.com · 21d

Hey! Who wants an ARC of my gay space horror? Its got eruri-coded boys, autism and ptsd rep, blood/guts/gore, and a rescue mission that goes really bad!!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Metropolis Down ARC INTEREST FORM

Thank you for your interest in reading an ARC of Metropolis Down! Please read all of the below and answer the questions to be considered. <3 Vesper Doom Metropolis Down - ARCS expected no later t...

docs.google.com

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D. N. Bryn @dnbryn.bsky.social · Sep 10

Aw thanks 🥰🥰🥰

D. N. Bryn @dnbryn.bsky.social · Sep 10

I think that's pretty normal when you're just starting! ❤️

D. N. Bryn @dnbryn.bsky.social · Sep 10

You can grab the audiobook for my mm vampire romance, How to Bare Your Neck and Save a Wreck for only $7.50 right now!! 💖 Simon Dornet does a lovely job of bringing the yearning in this book to life, just saying 😘

www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

70% OFF How to Bare Your Neck and Save a Wreck

A single kiss from a masked vampire has left Shane with an obsession and a mission: uncover the secrets of the black-market blood trade and find his mystery vampire in the process. But one knock at th...

www.audiobooks.com

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D. N. Bryn @dnbryn.bsky.social · Sep 10

Honestly, if authors are asking you for tight turnarounds and then being weird about it if you can't get the review out by publication date every time, that's a them problem! You take care of yourself first and foremost ❤️

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D. N. Bryn @dnbryn.bsky.social · Sep 9

/ I've been informed that this is not actually the general consensus 🫠 It holds true for my circle of mostly disabled authors, though, so I suspect disabled and ND authors are going to be a lot more considerate in this way...

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D. N. Bryn @dnbryn.bsky.social · Sep 9

I sent out my ARCs pretty late, but there's never any expectation that people read them by the publication date. I don't think most indies care that reviews are out on pub date. We just want you to have fun reading.

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☾⊹ 𝕸𝖔𝖔𝖓 ⊹☆ @moonbooks.bsky.social · Aug 27

I love audiobooks! These are some of my favorites. The narrators are so talented and bring a whole other level to the stories.

Most (if not all) are available through @queerliblib.bsky.social ✨

What are some of your favorite audiobooks?

(Sorry if I missed tagging anyone 🖤)

#audiobooks 💙📚🌈📚🩸📚

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D. N. Bryn @dnbryn.bsky.social · Aug 15

As a young adult, what I liked about Holmes was the brilliance, but as an adult, I have learned that brilliance is most often useless without kindness, and treasure the depictions of brilliant, kind characters all the more for that.

D. N. Bryn @dnbryn.bsky.social · Aug 11

I had a lovely time hanging out with you too!! The con was so fun and everyone there was super nice 💕

D. N. Bryn @dnbryn.bsky.social · Aug 5

It is 😭 I wish our pets could tell us what's wrong!

D. N. Bryn @dnbryn.bsky.social · Aug 5

YES THIS. There's something about the show that's just so FUN in the way that the Murderbot books are. It takes what's technically a very serious and emotional story and makes it into something Murderbot itself would love, and that's exactly what I'm looking for from it.

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D. N. Bryn @dnbryn.bsky.social · Aug 5

Update!! She is feeling much better now! Apparently switching her fully to the digestive health food was actually making her tummy hurt more because of the high rice and gluten content.

Going back to all Tiki Cat food seems to have fixed things 🤞

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