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Joanna Maciejewska
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#Fantasy and #scifi author. Translator, gamer, reader, artist. European girl (Poland, Ireland) in the US.

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Joanna Maciejewska @authorjmac.bsky.social · Oct 15
Did you know I have 8 books out? Check them all out at authorjm.com/books
An image featuring 8 books by Joanna Maciejewska: By the Pact, Scars of Stone, Shadows over Kaighal, and Demon siege as Pacts Arcane and Otherwise, complete epic fantasy series, Humanborn, Myth-Touched, and Snakebitten as Shadows of Eireland, and Scourges, Spells, and Serenades as fantasy stories, free for subscribers.
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Ghost

Sumi and liquid acrylics.

I’m not sure how to put into words the intentions of this painting, it’s just full of thoughts and emotions I felt at the time. It’s a silent painting, as silent as an owl flying through the night sky
この絵には、なに言えば正直わからない。
感情いっぱい入れているやけど、結構静か
夜の中に、梟が飛んでいるような静か
A painting of an owl taking to flight in the night in silence while a spot of light hits him
January 15, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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Human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you!

#art #dnd #myrmidiacommission
January 9, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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3 hours left! Don't miss on the deal!
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27 books for only $15 over on itch. Collect some of the best indie books of 2025. This sale ends today so DO NOT miss out.

And as always.... beware the Ibe Nire.

#BookSky #BSNM

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Promo image for an itch sale. The Best of 2025. 27 books for only $15. January 2026 1st to 15th. Features book covers for: Memories of Sorcery and Sand, Remnants of Relics, Scars of the Raven, Impostor, Love Tales from the Borun-Ma, No Love in LA, Refilling The Well, Mermaid's Blood, Fimbulvinter's Fires, The Blood Divide, Rotten Roots, Hunted by the Undead, A Demon to Save Me, Child of the Sun, Memento Moreau, Heirs of Hyarch Book Two: The Elefae Champion, Killer Debt: An Anthology of Murder, Dirt You Shall Become, Clipped, Into the Forest, Walking the Knife's Edge, Tales of Yamato, The Princess: Tales of Pern Coen, Reborn in Ash, The Backwards Knight, Moth Woods, Set in Stone.
January 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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Continuing my week of 5 year anniversary celebration, I have a game for you! Choose which characters of Pacts Arcane and Otherwise are good or evil! Reply in comments or save the image and use arrows or colors to pick! If you haven't read the full series yet, don't worry! Make a guess!
Text: Who is good and who is evil? Reply in comments or save the image and draw arrows/mark characters with colors. Image also contains a list of characters from Pacts Arcane and Otherwise series and boxes for "good," "evil," and "hard to say."
January 15, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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#Critterary 14

I GOT KRAKENS
I GOT TWO TYPES OF MERPEOPLE
I GOT A TON OF FISH-PEOPLE
I GOT SELKIES (KINDA)
I GOT SHARK-PEOPLE
I GOT ANGLERFISH-PEOPLE
I GOT PLESIOSAURUS-PEOPLE
I GOT A WHOLE-ASS OCEANIC DONUT-SHAPED PLANET FOR THEM TO LIVE ON
I GOT THE WHOLE OCEAN IS POSSESSED BY A DEMON GOD
Su drawn by Bear Pettigrew (Crossroad Art) Su from Merchants of Light and Bone, a mer-enby with a beautiful orange fish tail, close to the surface of the water. He’s tracing a hand over the water as sunlight makes dapples on the surface. He has four arms, and two of them are above his head. Another is close to a fish. He has a peaceful look on his face
January 14, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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Today is the 3d art day, and keep it in the spirit of the 5 year anniversary celebrations, I'm sharing Kamira and Veelk, the main duo of my epic fantasy series. I made it over a year ago but never shared and then, I created new characters for covers, and forgot all about this image.
Fantasy image
January 14, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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SMOKE AND STONE, the first novel in the City of Sacrifice trilogy is free!

"Mesoamerican mythology, warped through the lens of Fletcher's hyperkinetic imagination, yields hypnotic, terrifying results."
-Brian Staveley, author of THE EMPEROR'S BLADES

www.amazon.com/dp/B07W5CV3XM
Smoke and Stone (City of Sacrifice Book 1)
Amazon.com: Smoke and Stone (City of Sacrifice Book 1) eBook : Fletcher, Michael R.: Books
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January 13, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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Today, I'm hoping to power through the last round of revisions before Sanguine Scenario goes to my editor.
Realistically, since I still have one scene to fix, I won't finish it today, but "by Thursday" feels realistic.
Of course, stating that is probably a challenge to the world.
January 13, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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For today's anniversary celebration I have a bit of trivia for you. Did you know that the two books you've read in the series used to be just one book?
Text: Celebrating 5 years. Pacts Arcane and Otherwise Trivia. Did you know? Text: Celebrating 5 years. Pacts Arcane and Otherwise Trivia. Covers of By the Pact, Scars of Stone and a partial cover of Shadows Over Kaighal by Joanna Maciejewska connected with plus symbols and followed by "equals" symbol and text "first version of the book." Text: Celebrating 5 years. Pacts Arcane and Otherwise Trivia. When I first wrote book 1, back then titled "By His Will" (from Veranesh's backstage plotting), my beta readers enjoyed it, but they wanted "more." They wanted me to expand on the story, characters, world building... But the book was already very long! This is when my dear friend, Piotr, suggested I split it in two. I thought about it while I worked on other projects, and in the end, I found a good splitting point and rewrote the whole story to work as two books... and a part of the third too, because the events in the first few chapters of book 3 are the last scenes of the original first draft of the book written years earlier.
January 13, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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Not sure it was a machine... Which, I suppose, makes it even more baffling.
January 13, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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As a new year starts, here's a reminder that you can get my books nearly everywhere ebooks are sold. Except on the zon, because they suck.

The best place to buy is direct from me. You can put in a request to your local library too!

#booksky #queersky 📚💙💕🌈📚🖤♿📚🌈📚🪐📚🌈♠️
Books - Niranjan's Books
SHOP Do You Prefer Physical Books? PAYHIP KO-FI ITCH-IO ITCH-IO BUNDLES OTHER RETAILERS (NIRANJAN) OTHER RETAILERS (GEETHA KRISHNAN) OTHER RETAILERS (RARI RAJESH)   Blade of Castrial (The Echelon…
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January 13, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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TIL that By the Pact, my epic fantasy with its implied-only adult scenes and the most gory scene of eye gouging being a whole sentence long is "nsfw 18+ hard content," but if you're looking for 18+ content of either the erotic or gore nature (or both), you'll be very disappointed.
Screenshot of a redacted reader's comment from January 12, 2026 saying "nsfw 18+ hard content"
January 12, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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Thank you
January 12, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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Thank you!
January 12, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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Awww, thank you!
January 12, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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Continuing the celebration of 5 years since By the Pact, my debut and first book in Pacts Arcane and Otherwise released, here are some numbers for the whole series.
I was considering including reviews and ratings, but with 20 stores and 4 books in the series... this would be hard.
Covers for 4 books in Pacts Arcane and Otherwise series by Joanna Maciejewska and text: Celebrating 5 years. Pacts Arcane and Otherwise in numbers. Total for all books: 366,000 words, over 1,300 pages, 84 chapters, over 25 POVs, available in over 20 stores worldwide, 727 days between book 1 and book 4 release days
January 12, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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To celebrate, I'll try to share some fun tidbits about By the Pact and the series in the upcoming days, so stay tuned!
And if you want to grab book 1, it's free!
bf.authorjm.com/ByTh...
🧵3/3
Buy By the Pact
High mages lied: Veranesh, the demon who destroyed the continent is still alive. And it's up to their former student to expose the truth—even if it means another Cataclysm. When Kamira, a once high mage student turned arcanist, discovers an imprisoned demon in underground ruins, she is forced into a pact that grants her powerful magic, but also ties her to the very demon that once devastated the continent… and Veranesh wants his freedom. With one friend by her side, Veelk, a mage killer bound on protecting her, Kamira will have to outwit the archmages, other demons, and possibly her own demonic benefactor to survive. Her chances are slim, but with Veelk’s ever-present sarcastic repartee, Kamira might just pull through. Plots and schemes, power and means—sometimes the price for victory is choosing which friend will die, but when you only have one friend, the choice is… easy?
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January 11, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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It's been a wild ride at times, and I'm still stunned by the response to this book, readers' kind words and excitement they share with me, author friends I made and opportunities I participated in.
And if you've read this one or any other of my books, thank you for giving this author a chance!
🧵2/3
January 11, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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Anniversaries have a way of sneaking up on me, and this one is no different. My debut novel, By the Pact, the first in epic fantasy series was released exactly 5 years (and 1 day) ago. Since then, I finished this series, published another one, and added a standalone to the list.
🧵1/3
Cover of By the Pact by Joanna Maciejewska, small covers of the rest of the series, and text "Celebrating 5 years"
January 11, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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If you're an urban fantasy fan, don't miss this 1-day event with over a 100 free books!
And if you're new to the genre and wanting to explore it, this is the best opportunity!
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Covers of urban fantasy books by various authors and text: Urban Fantasy Free for All, 10th January 2026, urbanfantasyaddict.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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Not ready to escape to an entirely new world, but you do need an escape? Check out this collection of urban fantasy and paranormal books and find magic that might be just around the corner...
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Fantasy image and text: urban fantasy and paranormal sale
January 9, 2026 at 11:40 PM
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I slept through the previous night, so today, for a change, I woke up at 2:30am. It's almost 4am now, and I've given up on getting back to sleep, so here I am, planning to get some work done before my brain becomes mush.
January 8, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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For the first piece of 3d art this year, I'm sharing "Breaking the Curse." May it turn out an omen and we break the curse of bad news and misfortunes and see a glimmer of a brighter future.
A woman in the forest performing magic.
January 7, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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If you plan on reading more books in 2026 or you want to add more indie authors to your TBR, let me share a list of new SFF books with you:
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Browse, discover, enjoy!

#fantasy #scifi
Text on a sci-fi background: Sci-fi and fantasy
January 5, 2026 at 6:52 PM