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Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social · 1d

the thing about Fiorenzo is that it's less of a Hurt/Comfort 101 and more of a thing you injest when you've consumed so much Hurt/Comfort that you're basically immune to it and in order to feel anything you need prescription-strength maximum dose Hurt/Comfort regardless of the side effects

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Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social · 3d

This week on the Right Here Write Queer #podcast, RK Ashwick tells all about her upcoming #cozyfantasy novel A Draught for a Dragon - featuring every Dungeons & Dragons player’s dream of dragging your favorite NPCs along for the quest.

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A Draught for a Dragon with RK Ashwick

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Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social · 6d

Chapter Twenty-Seven of A Mirror for the Prince's Shadow - a historical m x nb #romantasy featuring dark academia, hurt/comfort, and dragon royalty - is now on Patreon, wherein a grand gala is anticipated.

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 8d

New Kickstarter from @acoupofowls.bsky.social, new ADHD bundle on Itch from @eliseswritings.bsky.social, some new books in paperback, some market and event stuff, and then a LOT of media recs, including some Final Fantasy thoughts and lots of movie recs!

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New Deals & New Media Recs

Hello, blog post time! Book Releases & Deals The Kickstarter is now LIVE for the A Coup of Owls 2025-2026 releases! The collections on the docket are a Horror/Romance quartet of novelettes call…

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Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social · 10d

This week on the Right Here Write Queer #podcast, @libraryofsarahzane.bsky.social discusses writing sapphic for love and spite alike, her queer take on The Great Gatsby, and the joys of (fictional) revenge.

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Sapphic Spite with Sarah Zane

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Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social · 10d

Devilish number + Gothic book + Halloween season = heck yeahhhhhhh

Screenshot of The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall by Sebastian Nothwell on Goodreads. Six hundred and sixty-six people have marked it as "To Read."

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After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 10d

Bumping for people looking for Halloween reads: don't forget to read weird collections by Black authors

After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · Feb 11

Feeling very grumpy about the void here so l've channeled that into a list of weird or weird-ish or weird-adjacent or theoretically-weird collections by Black authors (some of which I’ve read and too many of which I have not)

Text reading

Linda Addison - How to Recognize a Demon
Has Become Your Friend
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Friday Black
'Pemi Aguda - Ghostroots
Lesley Nneka Akrimah - What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky
Paula D. Ashe - We Are Here to Hurt Each Other
Eugen Bacon - A Place Between Waking and Forgetting; Chasing Whispers; etc
Andre Bagoo - The Dreaming
DeMisty D. Bellinger - All Daughters Are
Awesome Everywhere
Chesya Burke - Let's Play White
Octavia Butler - Bloodchild
Elwin Cotman - Weird Black Girls; Dance on
Saturday
Kwame Dawes - A Place to Hide Samuel R. Delany - Aye, and Gomorrah Tananarive Due - Ghost Summer; The Wishing Pool
Henry Dumas - Ark of Bones
Danielle Evans - The Office of Historical
Corrections
Dare Segun Falowo - Caged Ocean Dub

Text reading

Curdella Forbes - A Permanent Freedom
Craig Laurance Gidney - The Nectar of Nightmares; Sea, Swallow Me
Nalo Hopkinson - Skin Folk; Falling in Love With Hominids
Alex Jennings - Here I Come
Alaya Dawn Johnson - Reconstruction
Stories
Cherie Jones - The Burning Bush Women & Other Stories
RJ Joseph - Hell Hath No Sorrow Like A Woman Haunted
John Keene - Counternarratives
Jamaica Kincaid - At the Bottom of the River
Breanne Mc Ivor - Where There Are
Monsters
Mo Moshaty - Love the Sinner Kenya Moss-Dyme - Daymares
Yvette Lisa Ndlovu - Drinking from
Graveyard Wells
Tobi Ogundiran - Jackal, Jackal Ben Okri - Stars of the New Curfew; A Prayer for the Living
Nuzo Onoh - The Reluctant Dead
Vanessa Onwuemezi - Dark Neighbourhood

Text reading

Helen Oyeyemi - What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Suzan Palumbo - Skin Thief
Leone Ross - Come Let Us Sing Anyway
Eden Royce - Who Lost, I Found Sofia Samatar - Tender
Sumiko Saulson - The Void Between
Emotions; Things That Go Bump in my Head Rion Amilcar Scott - The World Doesn't Require You; Insurrections
Tamika Thompson - Unshod, Cackling, and Naked
Gianni Washington - Flowers from the Void
L. Marie Wood - The Unholy Trinity

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 10d

THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES series is perfect for lovers of Gothic coziness. There are 4 books with
💀Pushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow vibes
🫀An autistic necromancer
⚰️His reanimated lover
🪦 Solving mysteries in 1890s NYC
🏳️‍🌈MM paranormal historical romance
🔗⬇️Available wide!

Available now in ebook, audiobook, or paperback The Reanimator's Heart by Kara Jorgensen
Mm romance, forced proximity, a lavender marriage, murder/magic/mysteries, food tour of 1890s NYC, unbury your gays, an autistic necromancer, everybody's queer

The Reanimator's Soul by Kara Jorgensen is out now in ebook and paperback, book 2, autistic necromancer x undead adhd-er, mm romance, a sinister clinic, new powers, 1890s NYC, a murdered patient, a cure for magic, a horrible ex, rich people behaving badly, the tether becomes a #problem

The Reanimator's Remains by Kara Jorgensen, out now in ebook, audiobook, and paperback, book 3, mm romance, autistic necromancer x undead adhd-er, the trees are watching, dealing with trauma... poorly, dont go where I can't follow, family secrets, breaking the cycle, the dead are out for revenge

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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Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social · 11d

Happy book birthday to Fiorenzo! Today marks two years of these lads daring to love.

Fiorenzo is a fantasy-of-manners #mmromance featuring swordplay, hurt/comfort, and a happily-ever-after.

Cover art of Fiorenzo by Sebastian Nothwell. In a fantastical setting reminiscent of 18th century Venice, two men - one in working class garb, the other in an aristocratic outfit complete with bauta mask - are on the brink of embracing. The working class man is wearing a clip-art party hat incongruous with the painterly illustration style, to humorous effect. The words "Happy Book Birthday" are superimposed in brush script.

Cover art of Fiorenzo by Sebastian Nothwell.

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Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social · 12d

You can grab the full audiobook (narrated by Gary Furlong!) over on my Payhip alongside my other queer romance audiobook Mr Warren’s Profession and all of my ebooks.

(And if you type “bsky” into the coupon field you can make everything 20% cheaper.)

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Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social · 12d

Oak King Holly King is a historical fantasy #mmromance wherein a fearsome fae warrior destined for ritual sacrifice seeks a mortal clerk fated to save him. #romantasy #audiobook

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Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social · 12d

Chapter Twenty-Six of A Mirror for the Prince’s Shadow – a historical m x nb #romantasy featuring dark academia, hurt/comfort, and dragon royalty – is now on Patreon, wherein a tentative acquaintanceship is attempted.

www.patreon.com/sebastiannot...

creating queer romance

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eri (e.m. caro) @authoremcaro.com · 24d

COVER REVEAL 🔥✨🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈 I’m so excited to finally show folks this BEAUTIFUL cover!!

Stunning art by Jan (@thistlearts.bsky.social), who not only obliged me in portraying all three (!!!) of my queer, poly, radical pirates—he also absolutely nailed their dynamic!

Coming March 17, 2026!
emcaro.carrd.co

two books, one standing atop the other. Title is Rears & Vices by E.M. Caro. The cover has three men: an auburn-haired man, a black-haired man, and a blond man, all dressed in early 19th century clothing. The auburn-haired man is embracing the black-haired man and the blond is standing protectively by.

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Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social · 15d

Yessssss the Rears & Vices cover is gorgeous!

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Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social · 15d

Painted by @thistlearts.bsky.social ! He does incredible work.

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Noah Hawthorne (they/them) @noahhawthorne.bsky.social · 19d

September is Suicide Awareness Month. This is an issue that is dear to me, in case that wasn't evident by the struggles I put my characters through, Arlo Rook especially.

Please check TW as a good few of these are dark and full of angst.

Keep going book recs. The Trans Guide to Mental Health and Well Being by Katy Lees. Out of Nowhere by Roan Parish. Motel. Pool. By Kim fielding. Phantom and Rook by Aelina Isaacs. The Vampire Gideon's Suicide Hotline and Halfway House for Orphaned Girls by Andrew Katz. The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar by Sonora Reyes.

Keep going book recs. The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles. Dead Inside by Alexander Ward. Merchants of Knowledge and Magic by Erika McCorkle. Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo. The Unwanted Prophet by Carolina Cruz. Hold Fast by Sebastian Nothwell.

Keep going book recs. The Church of the Mountain Flesh by Kyle Wakefield. Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey. Jack of Thorns by A.K. Faulkner. Lore and Lust by Karla Nikole. An Unnatural Vice by KJ Charles. A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows.

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Evi 🌼 @evenlyevi.bsky.social · Aug 22

The creative process 🖌✨

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Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social · 17d

You can find the ebook and audiobook version over on my Payhip (along with my all my other queer romance ebooks and audiobooks).

And if you want it to be 20% cheaper, type "bsky" into the coupon field at check-out.

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Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social · 17d

Finally, an answer to the question, "Where do fae come from?"

Oak King Holly King is a historical fantasy #mmromance wherein a fearsome fae warrior destined for ritual sacrifice seeks a mortal clerk fated to save him.

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Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social · 18d

This week on the Right Here Write Queer #podcast, RK Ashwick talks about how she connects writing and gaming with the thread of #cozyfantasy in her new browser-based game Potion Shop Designer.

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Potion Shop Designer with RK Ashwick

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Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social · 19d

You can find the ebook and audiobook version over on my Payhip (along with my all my other queer romance ebooks and audiobooks).

And if you want it to be 20% cheaper, type "bsky" into the coupon field at check-out.

payhip.com/SebastianNot...

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jon "jonphaedrus" phaedrus @jonphaedrus.bsky.social · 20d

this is why the terror 2018 is a perfect piece of television

Lin Codega @lincodega.com · 20d

the real trick in Enemies to Lovers is not getting characters to fall in love it's getting them to truly despise each other first. vague dislike and mild distrust because of extant circumstances isn't enough. i need actual enmity, real archfoe bullshit. i need to see them make each other bleed.

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Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social · 19d

If you enjoyed this snippet, check out the full version of Oak King Holly King narrated by Gary Furlong wherever you find your fave audiobooks. #mmromance #faeromance #romantasy #cozyfantasy

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Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social · 20d

Happy Autumnal Equinox! Three years ago today, Shrike and Wren embarked on their second voyage out into the world - alongside Mr Grigsby, Daniel Durst, and all their other friends from Oak King Holly King, with new friends gathered along the way. #mmromance #faeromance #romantasy

Cover art for Tales from Blackthorn Briar by Sebastian Nothwell. A fae warrior in medieval garb and a mortal clerk in Victorian garb lounge entwined in a fantasy forest. Clip art birthday hats are on their heads, incongruous to comical effect. The text "Happy Book Birthday!" is overlaid.

Cover art for Tales from Blackthorn Briar by Sebastian Nothwell.

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Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social · 21d

You can find the ebook and audiobook version over on my Payhip (along with my all my other queer romance ebooks and audiobooks).

And if you want it to be 20% cheaper, type "bsky" into the coupon field at check-out.

payhip.com/SebastianNot...

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