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Katherine Shaw

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Author of thriller, SFF and horror ✍️ Doctor of Chemistry 🧪 Nerd who never grew up & enthusiastic roller of dice 🎲 Of Serpents and Sorrow (sapphic Medusa retelling) out NOW 🩷 🐍 she/her, grey ace, bi 💜 🍉 https://linktr.ee/katherineshawwrites

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · Aug 12

LAUNCH DAY 🩷🩷🩷 Of Serpents and Sorrow is officially OUT 😍😍😍 Oh my goodness, I am thrumming with excitement. Medusa’s story is ready to be told and I am desperate to know what you think 💙📚👀

Are you ready to read Medusa’s story? 🐍 🩷

🌈📚

A graphic showing A piece of character art showing two women in an embrace. One is taller and fuller figured and has her back to the viewer, but is wearing a fancy Grecian dress with her hair finely braided with beads. The woman facing her is darker skinned with loose brown curls and a simpler dress, with a pink scar across one cheek. In the background is an Ancient Greek temple.

At the top it says “out now” and down the left it says:

Sapphic Medusa retelling
Romantic tragedy
Historical Fantasy

At the bottom right is the book cover for Of Serpents And Sorrow

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 7h

It’s an unspoken rule 😊

Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 7h

The Mummy (1999) is on TV, so of course all other plans for the afternoon are cancelled.

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ALT: a woman is smiling with the words " i am a librarian " next to her

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 13h

Today is all about painting DnD minis and watching Yu-Gi-Oh ✌🏻🥰

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 4d

Get your copy here: shorturl.at/Jv3lV

Once Upon an Autumn

Fairy Tale | Folklore | Horror | Fantasy | Romance

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 4d

Are you still looking for the perfect autumn read? I have a short story in ONCE UPON AN AUTUMN, a collection of autumnal folk and fairy tales 🥰 🍂 🎃

My story is about an orphan girl who stumbles into a fairy ring and finds herself in a magical fungal network 👀 🍄

💙📚👀

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 6d

The Halloween Hauntfest ends TODAY, so grab your copy of GLORIA (a gripping domestic thriller with heart) or THE MAJOR ARCANA (a collection of tarot card-themed short stories) for only 99p/c now! 🤩

Links to the sale and these specific books here: linktr.ee/katherinesha...

💙📚👀

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 7d

The Halloween Hauntfest continues! 📚👀

100s of books for sale or FREE, including 2 of mine!

If you like the sound of tarot card-themed short stories or a gripping thriller with heart, look:

Full sale: www.indievisibleevents.com

Gloria: mybook.to/GLORIA

The Major Arcana: mybook.to/MajorArcana

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 9d

WAY too long. It’s why I’ve never got into it. Who has the time? 😂

Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 9d

Books!

On sale!

For cheap! Or even free! 😱😱

I’m taking part in the Halloween HauntFest event this weekend, which means TWO of my books are only 99p/c right now!

Full sale: www.indievisibleevents.com

Gloria: mybook.to/GLORIA

The Major Arcana: mybook.to/MajorArcana

💙📚👀

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 10d

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 10d

The sale begins TOMORROW 👀📚

Grab two of my books for only 99p/c between 3-6 October as part of the Halloween Hauntfest! 💙📚👀

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 11d

A.M. is a terrific writer and I am super hyped for this 😍

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A.M. Weald - buy Fimbulvinter's Fires ❤️‍🔥 @amweald.com · 11d

THEY'RE HERE!!!!

Crash into this queer sci-fi snowpocalypse, a survival horror and apocalyptic romance and first contact sci-fi long novella/short novel that asked "what if you combined The Road, Brokeback Mountain, Skyrim, and The Left Hand of Darkness"?

info: amweald.com/fires
🩸📚🪐📚💙📚🌈🚀💫💜😱

amweald.com/fires
fimbulvinter's fires
Out Today!
Crash into this queer sci-fi snowpocalypse
ebook $3.99 (or 99c/p until mid october)
paperback $12.99

❉ morally grey human MC as the alien invader
❉ first contact
❉ language barrier
❉ surviving the elements
❉ kill or be killed
❉ hurt/comfort
❉ there’s only one snow shelter
❉ touch him and die
❉ instalust + spice
❉ cis m + enby
❉ gay rights, gay wrongs, gay rage

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 11d

That’s true! I hope books are helping get through it 🩷

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 11d

RELEASE DAY! Demisexuality is a complex little understood sexuality, often confused with idealised social expectations.

This short collection of poems and essays is my story.

🌈📚💙📚👀📢📚💙📚🪐♠️🌈📚

mybook.to/beingdemi
books2read.com/beingdemi
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onechaoticauthor.itch.io/being-demi

Grey background shows scrunched up paper. Text reads: Being demi. Acrostic poetry and essays on life before and after coming out.

Book cover mock up shows same background and text. Author name MG Mason. Cover also shows a black triangle pointing downwards with a white, grey, and purple ace of spades inside

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 11d

This is across all three books I have published, but you’re welcome to check them all out here:

www.katherineshawwrites.com/stories

www.katherineshawwrites.com

Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 12d

I just saw that almost NINETY PERCENT of my book sales in September were from the US.

Thank you to my American besties for taking a chance on my book babies this month when you have a lot of other shit to deal with rn 🥰

I appreciate you 🫶🏻 💙📚

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 12d

Yesssssss 💙📚

Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 13d

Eco-horror sounds good to me! 😁

Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 13d

I have a book in this 🥰

Get yourself a great deal on NINETEEN books, and maybe find a new favourite author or two in the process! 💙📚👀 🌈📚

Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · 13d

CALLING STABBY SAPPHICS!

Add 19 new swords & sapphics-themed books to your TBR this autumn with our Ultimate Book Bundle! 19 books for $22 including:

⚔️ fantasy, romance, mythology, sci-fi, & horror
⚔️ lesbian, bi, & pan women
⚔️ will definitely include sharp objects

itch.io/b/3296/the-u...

The Ultimate Swords & Sapphics Book Bundle: 19 sci-fi, fantasy, & horror books featuring weapon-wielding sapphics for $22, at tinyurl.com/sandsbundle.

Includes the following books:
Kiss of Death by Bryony Rosehurst
Tide Breaker's Curse by Ivy H. Marikova
Stars and Soil by Dax Murray
Unchain My Heart by RJ Martin
Her Lady of Steel and Fire by Fern V. Bedek
Of Serpents and Sorrow by Katherine Shaw
Shadows Dark and Deadly by Andrea Marie Johnson
Jagged Shard by Dani Finn
Valerin the Fair by Rien Gray
Dame Ophis by Merlina Garance
Soul Flames and Dawn Weaver by Issy Waldrom
The Gift of Blood and They Who Brought the Storm by Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea
Blood Bounty by Elena Abbott
Beyond Bringers by visceralhit
Born from Earth by Jake Vanguard
My Lord by L.B. Shimaira
The Price of Peace by Senka Heksum

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 13d

Oooooh! I love all your books so you better believe I’m getting this 💙📚

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A.M. Weald - buy Fimbulvinter's Fires ❤️‍🔥 @amweald.com · 14d

Why "Fimbulvinter's Fires" is my favorite of all my stories:

- it was a planster project with mostly discovery writing
- its 1st person present gives a rawness new for me
- genre blending to the extreme
- I made conlang for it!
- the ending makes me cry EVERY! TIME!

🩸📚🪐📚💙📚🌈🚀💫💜😱

amweald.com/fires

why fimbulvinter's fires s my favorite of all my stories - GET TO KNOW ASH AND LEIM FROM FIMBULVINTER'S FIRES - Art description: Ash and Leim (pronounced Lime) embracing tenderly during a blizzard wearing parkas. Ash is shorter by a head with light brown skin and dark hair and beard. Leim who is embracing Ash from behind is tall, pale-grey, with grey-blonde hair, and has a bony ridge running up the center of their forehead. Leim has their hand over Ash's, and Ash's hand is placed over his own heart. They both have their eyes closed as if relieved and taking a moment to just hold one another as a blizzard rages around them.

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Shimaira ⛥ @shimaira.com · 13d

So yeah, what's this?
A new bundle, that's what!
With sapphics & stabby things 🗡️
~for anyone who needs a reminder: sapphics are women loving women (incl nonbinary people when they say so 🌸) & includes, but is not limited to, bi, pan, lesbian, ace, aro 🏳️‍🌈☂️
itch.io/b/3296/the-u...
📢📚💙🌈📚💜 #DiscountBooks

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 15d

eye OUT* damn it 😂

Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 15d

Keep an eye on between 3-6 October because the HALLOWEEN HAUNTFEST book sale will be on! 🎃 🖤

I will have two books on sale for 99p/c 💙📚👀

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 21d

Oh no, it’s fine, this wasn’t in response to you 🩷 I start getting grumpy as soon as it starts getting dark earlier.

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