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Courtney Floyd

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SFF author & audio drama creator with a PhD in trashy Victorian lit. HIGHER MAGIC (MIRA, 7 Oct 2025). VP 2022. She/her. ND 🧠. Rep: @rebeccamatte.com https://courtney-floyd.com 🎙 https://hauntnowpod.com ✉️ https://buttondown.email/wallowinginink

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 1d

It’s book day!!!

HIGHER MAGIC is out in the US today! UK readers, it’s coming your way November 20th. I’m so excited for you all to meet Bartleby, Anne, and the rest of the gang. ✨

Higher Magic propped up against a white gnarly pumpkin and a big orange pumpkin on a bed of fall leaves.

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 2h

Thank you!

Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 2h

Thank you!

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Bradford Literary Agency @bradfordagents.bsky.social · 22h

✨NEW RELEASE✨

Your newest addition to the bookshelf is here, an incisive, irreverent, and whimsical cozy dark academia from @courtney-floyd.com , HIGHER MAGIC 🔮📚💀

Out now from @mirabooks.bsky.social !

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 23h

I’m so stoked for all the VP 2022 celebrations to come 🔥🔥🔥

Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 23h

Finally hahaha

a cartoon character is wearing a hoodie and laughing

Alt: Louise Belcher from Bob’s Burgers in a hoodie laughing evilly in front of a wall of flame.

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 23h

Ngl I feel a little bit like I’m reporting on a wild animal that escaped from the zoo. 😅 It’s out and rampaging at a bookstore near you!

Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 23h

Thank you!

Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 23h

Heck yeah!!! Get all the books! ✨

Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 23h

Thank you! ✨💀✨

Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 23h

Thank you, Craig! ✨💀✨💀✨

Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 1d

It’s here!!!!

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Jarika Tucker @jarika.bsky.social · 1d

Happy 1st BOOK BIRTHDAY, @courtney-floyd.com ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️💜💙💜💙💜💙
#HigherMagic is HERE!!! 💫💫💫💫💫

Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 1d

It’s book day!!!

HIGHER MAGIC is out in the US today! UK readers, it’s coming your way November 20th. I’m so excited for you all to meet Bartleby, Anne, and the rest of the gang. ✨

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 1d

Thank you 🥹

Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 1d

Thank you ✨✨✨ excited to celebrate with you later!!!

Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 1d

Yeahhhhh 💜💀🌕✨

Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 1d

Thanks!☺️

Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 1d

Newsletter post - in which I celebrate my very first BOOK DAY, share some of the moments that made up my debut year, and remind you to claim your digital swag if you preordered.

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 1d

Thanks! It’s so cool to see copies making their way to readers 🥹

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 1d

Thank you!

Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 1d

It’s book day!!!

HIGHER MAGIC is out in the US today! UK readers, it’s coming your way November 20th. I’m so excited for you all to meet Bartleby, Anne, and the rest of the gang. ✨

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 1d

🥹🥹🥹💙💜💙

Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 2d

HIGHER MAGIC is out ✨tomorrow✨

In this snippet, Bartleby reflects about magic and how it shaped her relationship with her parents.

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A quote graphic with a decorative moon and skull featuring text that reads: HIGHER MAGIC
I'd been born on a new moon, an emergency C-section that shattered my parents' world. My life was always going to be different than theirs, though the one time they'd acknowledged that and taken me to the local diviner, they'd been so shaken by the results it was worse than if they'd never acknowledged my difference at all.
OUT IN DAY.

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 3d

HIGHER MAGIC is out in two (2!) more days!

Today’s snippet may or may not be related to yesterday’s… you’ll have to read to find out.

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A quote graphic with a moon and the skull from HIGHER MAGIC’s cover featuring text that reads: HIGHER MAGIC
His laugh was a fragile thing.
"It wasn't all bad. It's nice to get confirmation, sometimes, about what's important. I don't know about you, but I'm great at lying to myself." I risked a glance back up at him, very deliberately not thinking about two of the cards Chuck had drawn.
The lovers and the knight of cups.
OUT IN 2 DAYS.

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 4d

3 days until HIGHER MAGIC!!! I’ll just be over here walking around in excited and anxious circles.

Here’s a text or no text anxiety snippet in the meantime.

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Courtney, a white person with short brownish hair pulled back in a ponytail and a blue jacket, standing in a stairwell and making and excited wide eyed face at the camera.

HIGHER MAGIC
With a thumb hovering over the send button, I hesitated. After yesterday, was it fair for me to reach out? At the very least he'd need some time to recover.
And at worst... I deleted my message and set my phone down, reaching for my coffee.
The phone pinged. I snatched it up. A message from James, and three little dots promising more.
OUT IN 3 DAYS.

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 4d

Happy Saturday! I did a Q&A with The Nerd Daily, in which I talked about my publishing journey and disclosed what I sort of things I wrote as a 7 or 8 year old.

Q&A: Courtney Floyd, Author of 'Higher Magic' | The Nerd Daily

We chat with author Courtney Floyd about Higher Magic, which follows a struggling mage student with intense anxiety must prove that classic literature contained magic—and learn to wield her own storie...

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