Melissa Caruso
@melissacaruso.bsky.social
Fantasy author (THE TETHERED MAGE, THE OBSIDIAN TOWER, THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS, etc). Tea drinker, larper, mom. Swordfights in ballgowns. THE LAST SOUL AMONG WOLVES out now!
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Melissa Caruso
@melissacaruso.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Hey, welcome to all my new followers! It's so much nicer over here in Bluesky.
I'm Melissa Caruso, author of assorted fantasy books of magic, murder, and mayhem (newest: THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS). I also babble about writing craft, my dog, larping, & books.
Welcome! I hope you stay awhile!
I'm Melissa Caruso, author of assorted fantasy books of magic, murder, and mayhem (newest: THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS). I also babble about writing craft, my dog, larping, & books.
Welcome! I hope you stay awhile!
Oh wow, ugh, that really encapsulates...so much. Suffering olympics, indeed, and way to prove the point 🫠
(But also!!!
* Your daughter is awesome
* That is a KICKASS idea
* So glad you have such a great relationship and can share this stuff and ultimately laugh about it ❤️)
(But also!!!
* Your daughter is awesome
* That is a KICKASS idea
* So glad you have such a great relationship and can share this stuff and ultimately laugh about it ❤️)
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Oh wow, ugh, that really encapsulates...so much. Suffering olympics, indeed, and way to prove the point 🫠
(But also!!!
* Your daughter is awesome
* That is a KICKASS idea
* So glad you have such a great relationship and can share this stuff and ultimately laugh about it ❤️)
(But also!!!
* Your daughter is awesome
* That is a KICKASS idea
* So glad you have such a great relationship and can share this stuff and ultimately laugh about it ❤️)
Reposted by Melissa Caruso
Hello gays and theys, the end of the year approach-eth, so you know what that means:
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
Hello queers and fears, it's almost Pride Month and I've got a gift for you:
the first six months of the 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
I'm organizing this by month so click on through!
the first six months of the 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
I'm organizing this by month so click on through!
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Hello gays and theys, the end of the year approach-eth, so you know what that means:
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
Reposted by Melissa Caruso
LAST SOUL AMONG WOLVES by @melissacaruso.bsky.social
- sapphic MC
- reality comes in layers, each one more fantastic--and bizarre--than the last
- a new mom attends a will-reading with her gf
- and now has a curse to unravel
- locked room mystery but make it weeeeiiiird
- ECHO ARCHIVES #2
- sapphic MC
- reality comes in layers, each one more fantastic--and bizarre--than the last
- a new mom attends a will-reading with her gf
- and now has a curse to unravel
- locked room mystery but make it weeeeiiiird
- ECHO ARCHIVES #2
The Last Soul Among Wolves
Check out The Last Soul Among Wolves - <b><i>The Last Soul Among Wolves </i>is the brilliant second installment in Melissa Caruso's Echo Archives series, a whip-smart adventure fantasy featuring curse...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
LAST SOUL AMONG WOLVES by @melissacaruso.bsky.social
- sapphic MC
- reality comes in layers, each one more fantastic--and bizarre--than the last
- a new mom attends a will-reading with her gf
- and now has a curse to unravel
- locked room mystery but make it weeeeiiiird
- ECHO ARCHIVES #2
- sapphic MC
- reality comes in layers, each one more fantastic--and bizarre--than the last
- a new mom attends a will-reading with her gf
- and now has a curse to unravel
- locked room mystery but make it weeeeiiiird
- ECHO ARCHIVES #2
So far just a trilogy, but I'd totally write more if they got popular enough that my publisher asked for more!
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
So far just a trilogy, but I'd totally write more if they got popular enough that my publisher asked for more!
Reposted by Melissa Caruso
Recovery read-a-thon book 9: The Last Soul Among Wolves by @melissacaruso.bsky.social
I thought the first book would be hard to match, but book two is just as awesome. Ravenous for more. Any chance it's going to be more than just a trilogy? Pretty please?
#readathon #lgbtqbooks #acerep
I thought the first book would be hard to match, but book two is just as awesome. Ravenous for more. Any chance it's going to be more than just a trilogy? Pretty please?
#readathon #lgbtqbooks #acerep
November 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Recovery read-a-thon book 9: The Last Soul Among Wolves by @melissacaruso.bsky.social
I thought the first book would be hard to match, but book two is just as awesome. Ravenous for more. Any chance it's going to be more than just a trilogy? Pretty please?
#readathon #lgbtqbooks #acerep
I thought the first book would be hard to match, but book two is just as awesome. Ravenous for more. Any chance it's going to be more than just a trilogy? Pretty please?
#readathon #lgbtqbooks #acerep
Reposted by Melissa Caruso
“HOUSE OF DUSK is a novel that’s very light on angst. It’s vivid and well-paced, with complex and compelling characters.” @hawkwing_lb reviews new work from @devafagan.bsky.social
House of Dusk by Deva Fagan: Review by Liz Bourke
House of Dusk, Deva Fagan (DAW 978-0-75642-010-9, $29.99, 448pp, hc) August 2025. Deva Fagan has a track record as a writer of middle-grade novels. House of Dusk is her first novel for adults. It’s…
locusmag.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“HOUSE OF DUSK is a novel that’s very light on angst. It’s vivid and well-paced, with complex and compelling characters.” @hawkwing_lb reviews new work from @devafagan.bsky.social
My plan since I was a little kid was to teach college writing classes to support myself as an author. Tried teaching, LOVED it, was good at it...and realized I couldn't live on adjunct pay. Switched to tech writing which was soulless but paid well. I'm still mad about it.
November 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
My plan since I was a little kid was to teach college writing classes to support myself as an author. Tried teaching, LOVED it, was good at it...and realized I couldn't live on adjunct pay. Switched to tech writing which was soulless but paid well. I'm still mad about it.
Reposted by Melissa Caruso
COVER REVEAL: My next book is a standalone science fiction cyberpunk thriller starring aging corporate samurai. The Last Contract of Isako will be out on May 5, 2026 from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. Can't wait to share it with you. Thank you to @tommypocket.bsky.social for this kickass cover ⚔️
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
COVER REVEAL: My next book is a standalone science fiction cyberpunk thriller starring aging corporate samurai. The Last Contract of Isako will be out on May 5, 2026 from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. Can't wait to share it with you. Thank you to @tommypocket.bsky.social for this kickass cover ⚔️
Oooooh congratulations!!!!!!!!!!
November 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Oooooh congratulations!!!!!!!!!!
Oh cool!!! THE LAST SOUL AMONG WOLVES made the Waterstones list of best romantasy of 2025!!!
www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...
(Whether you consider it romantasy or not may vary of course, but I'm very honored regardless!!!!)
www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...
(Whether you consider it romantasy or not may vary of course, but I'm very honored regardless!!!!)
The Best Romantasy of 2025 | Waterstones.com Blog | Waterstones
From Rebecca Yarros to Stephanie Garber, here is the romantasy we've loved this year.
www.waterstones.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Oh cool!!! THE LAST SOUL AMONG WOLVES made the Waterstones list of best romantasy of 2025!!!
www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...
(Whether you consider it romantasy or not may vary of course, but I'm very honored regardless!!!!)
www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...
(Whether you consider it romantasy or not may vary of course, but I'm very honored regardless!!!!)
Oh wow!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Oh wow!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!
Reposted by Melissa Caruso
This book is a MASTERCLASS in escalating "Oh. SHIT." to "Ohhhhhhhhhhhh SHIT." *wild applause*
#booksky #lgbtq #thequicksilvercourt #fantasy #rooksandruin
#booksky #lgbtq #thequicksilvercourt #fantasy #rooksandruin
New tagline for THE QUICKSILVER COURT just dropped 😂
Seriously though, this makes me so happy because I am super proud of TQC, which is very much the pivotal book for Rooks & Ruin, and I love to see it working as designed ❤️
Seriously though, this makes me so happy because I am super proud of TQC, which is very much the pivotal book for Rooks & Ruin, and I love to see it working as designed ❤️
“Everything is worse and more complicated that we thought” might as well be the tagline for @melissacaruso.bsky.social’s The Quicksilver Court, the second book in her addictive Rooks & Ruin trilogy. Action, humor, a dash of romance, and grave portents for the future— so a great time! #Booksky
November 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This book is a MASTERCLASS in escalating "Oh. SHIT." to "Ohhhhhhhhhhhh SHIT." *wild applause*
#booksky #lgbtq #thequicksilvercourt #fantasy #rooksandruin
#booksky #lgbtq #thequicksilvercourt #fantasy #rooksandruin
OK but I don't even play this game and that's AMAZING
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
OK but I don't even play this game and that's AMAZING
New tagline for THE QUICKSILVER COURT just dropped 😂
Seriously though, this makes me so happy because I am super proud of TQC, which is very much the pivotal book for Rooks & Ruin, and I love to see it working as designed ❤️
Seriously though, this makes me so happy because I am super proud of TQC, which is very much the pivotal book for Rooks & Ruin, and I love to see it working as designed ❤️
“Everything is worse and more complicated that we thought” might as well be the tagline for @melissacaruso.bsky.social’s The Quicksilver Court, the second book in her addictive Rooks & Ruin trilogy. Action, humor, a dash of romance, and grave portents for the future— so a great time! #Booksky
November 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
New tagline for THE QUICKSILVER COURT just dropped 😂
Seriously though, this makes me so happy because I am super proud of TQC, which is very much the pivotal book for Rooks & Ruin, and I love to see it working as designed ❤️
Seriously though, this makes me so happy because I am super proud of TQC, which is very much the pivotal book for Rooks & Ruin, and I love to see it working as designed ❤️
Right?! Perfect!
November 13, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Right?! Perfect!
Alas! I've got clouds tonight too.
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Alas! I've got clouds tonight too.
Reposted by Melissa Caruso
BEING ARO lineup announcement! This YA cross genre aromantic anthology is coming your way May 2026 from Page Street!
@clh2oars.bsky.social @kashinggiwa.bsky.social @kalynjosephson.bsky.social @rukman.bsky.social @soumiroy1.bsky.social @annzhao.bsky.social
@clh2oars.bsky.social @kashinggiwa.bsky.social @kalynjosephson.bsky.social @rukman.bsky.social @soumiroy1.bsky.social @annzhao.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
BEING ARO lineup announcement! This YA cross genre aromantic anthology is coming your way May 2026 from Page Street!
@clh2oars.bsky.social @kashinggiwa.bsky.social @kalynjosephson.bsky.social @rukman.bsky.social @soumiroy1.bsky.social @annzhao.bsky.social
@clh2oars.bsky.social @kashinggiwa.bsky.social @kalynjosephson.bsky.social @rukman.bsky.social @soumiroy1.bsky.social @annzhao.bsky.social
Just add a bunch of trauma and this is the actual plot of LIBRARY OF AMORLIN by @kalynjosephson.bsky.social
Never give up.
Somewhere in the world, there's a haunted manor house on the moors with a mysterious caretaker, indifferent cats, and secret libraries within libraries, waiting for you in the darkness.
Somewhere in the world, there's a haunted manor house on the moors with a mysterious caretaker, indifferent cats, and secret libraries within libraries, waiting for you in the darkness.
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Just add a bunch of trauma and this is the actual plot of LIBRARY OF AMORLIN by @kalynjosephson.bsky.social
Nooooooooo! I hear there might be more tomorrow though!
November 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Nooooooooo! I hear there might be more tomorrow though!
Oooooh lovely!
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Oooooh lovely!
Aurora tonight in Massachusetts!
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Aurora tonight in Massachusetts!
My husband and I were discussing the amazingness of Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, as you do, and I was like "Of course, they've got competition for best muppet band from the River Bottom Nightmare Band" and he was like "the what?" and I was like OH DO I HAVE A TREAT FOR YOU
November 8, 2025 at 3:28 AM
My husband and I were discussing the amazingness of Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, as you do, and I was like "Of course, they've got competition for best muppet band from the River Bottom Nightmare Band" and he was like "the what?" and I was like OH DO I HAVE A TREAT FOR YOU