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Ash Lukens
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Writes queer, sexy SFF | hates fascists | is best friends with a rooster | they/them | repped by Lauren Bieker and Mara Hollander
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Almost time ⭐️

[ #cuteart #christmas ]
December 23, 2023 at 12:49 AM
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March 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
My friend @esselle.bsky.social made a book trailer for #DeadMansBlood 😳 She was a creative co-conspirator for this toxic little book and a perfect cheerleader.

Dead Man's Blood is an adult horror romance; it's spicy, it's angry, and it's really gay.
May 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I wrote a toxic queer thing!

Dead Man's Blood is an adult horror romance for fans of Interview with the Vampire (TV), Don't Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo, and the upcoming Spread Me by Sarah Gailey. It's spicy, it's angry, and it's really gay. On sub now!
May 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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the lesson execs should learn from sinners: people want ambitious, original, extremely hot movies with something to say

the lesson they will learn, probably: people want 𝔳𝔞𝔪𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔢
April 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Did not expect this random obliteration of my heart and also to say thank you afterward. Gorgeous.
I am so moved to get to share this with you all: the fourth installment in the Love Letters essay series.

Nell, or: This Is Practically The Way It All Happened (give or bloody take), Peter S. Beagle's reflections on a thirty-five year romance with the woman he still calls "my one love".
Nell, or: This Is Practically The Way It All Happened (give or bloody take)
A Love Letters Feature by Peter S. Beagle - February 2025
stone-soup.ghost.io
February 19, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Thrilled to finally share the cover of my debut dark fantasy novel, HOUSE OF THE BEAST!

Illustrated by @whereiseileen.bsky.social and published by @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Arcane,
November 24, 2024 at 4:29 AM
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I cannot believe I finally get to announce this. An unhinged dream, so many years and monologues in the making. I'm elate to announce my debut novel VILE LADY VILLAINS, a horromantasy about Klytemnestra and Lady Macbeth, will be published with Penguin Michael Joseph in 2026.
November 18, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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If you like weirdos (complimentary) and horny books (extremely complimentary) or you just want to spend A MODEST $3.99 to convince marketing that I'm a promotional genius

PLEASE BUY/PREORDER THE BOOKS: amzn.to/45SEFzd

Includes: bisexual hijinks, murder ladies, a horny dragon, and M A G I C ! ! !
August 2, 2024 at 3:14 AM
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COVER REVEAL TIME! Check out The Duke at Hazard, art by Chloe Friedlein.

Coming 18th July from Orion in print, e, and audio (reader is tbc). Up for preorder in all the usual places!

www.amazon.com/Duke-Hazard-...

www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/...

books.apple.com/us/book/the-...
May 24, 2024 at 10:17 AM
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I wrote a polemic today while doing a survey. It's definitely a polemic. but I was asked the question of what I wanted the researchers to understand about being a professional writer.

And actually, I want everyone to understand this.

I posted it on ko-fi. I'm asking for tips; I'm broke.
Art in the Time of Algorithmic Grift
C. L. Polk published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
April 29, 2024 at 9:58 PM
My partners have started reading the new WIP
April 29, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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Holding a Gender Conceal party, in which I climb into a cake and my gender is never mentioned again.
December 27, 2023 at 9:04 PM
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The insistence on "likeable characters" has really messed up novels, which are obviously best when narrated by a weird little delusional freak
December 14, 2023 at 1:58 PM
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Grammar matters

(take a look,
it's in a book)

🦋✨
December 2, 2023 at 2:46 AM