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Couldn't agree more. This is the kind of novel we all need right now.
"Reading The Actual Star simultaneously destroyed me and remade me (both times I read it). That is the stuff of hope. Facing inevitabilities, destruction, and, nevertheless, opening your eyes the next day."
A gorgeous review from Terra Osterling.
A gorgeous review from Terra Osterling.
Recommended [READ]: The Actual Star - Sudden Write Turn Freelance Writing
Maybe we are always who we are throughout everything changing around us, one foot in the tense and messy present, and one foot in imagining a better future.
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January 21, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Couldn't agree more. This is the kind of novel we all need right now.
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My forthcoming book, SHE IS HERE, is a collection of different types of creative work—fiction, poetry, non-fiction, visual art. It's a keyhole window into my creative path: perhaps a 21st-century version of a creative Commonplace Book? Let me explain...
Dear Reader: a note about SHE IS HERE
My forthcoming book, SHE IS HERE, is a compilation of different forms of creative work—including fiction, poetry, non-fiction, art. In a way it's a window into my path as writer (and more): a 21st-century creative Commonplace Book.
nicolagriffith.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:00 PM
My forthcoming book, SHE IS HERE, is a collection of different types of creative work—fiction, poetry, non-fiction, visual art. It's a keyhole window into my creative path: perhaps a 21st-century version of a creative Commonplace Book? Let me explain...
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If you’ve never seen my weird TED talk, here’s a timeline cleanser
A sci-fi vision of love from a 318-year-old hologram
Science fiction writer Monica Byrne imagines rich worlds populated with characters who defy our racial, social and gender stereotypes. In this performance, Byrne appears as a hologram named Pilar, tra...
www.ted.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:00 AM
If you’ve never seen my weird TED talk, here’s a timeline cleanser
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The Actual Star is once again only $3.99 on ebook! Get it here:
The Actual Star: A Novel
A Novel
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January 2, 2026 at 12:17 PM
The Actual Star is once again only $3.99 on ebook! Get it here:
Support your favourite artists.
For the next week, to celebrate an AI-free 2026, I'm offering a 26% discount on annual memberships! Just enter "7DC67" at checkout. So if you pledge at...
Tier $1/mo --> $9/full year
Tier $5/mo --> $44/full year
...and so on. And ALL tiers get ALL things! So why not start with my January postcard?
Tier $1/mo --> $9/full year
Tier $5/mo --> $44/full year
...and so on. And ALL tiers get ALL things! So why not start with my January postcard?
January postcard: My little infant fire. | Monica Byrne
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January 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Support your favourite artists.
December is the perfect month to read this amazing book. Trust me.
Also $3.99 on Bookshop:
The Actual Star: A Novel
A Novel
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December 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
December is the perfect month to read this amazing book. Trust me.
And if you like Gothic horror you must read The Bayou by Arden.
I’ve never read a book from Arden I didn’t love! If you want gay magical Jeeves and Wooster, grab The Bachelor’s Valet; if you want The Lost World if it was really gay and really terrifying, grab Obsidian Island - but you can’t go wrong with anything!
I got hit with an unexpected $200 expense today! I need to buy software to keep my new freelance job. It would be amazing to sell some books or get some new patrons to help cover it 😬
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ardenpowell
Exclusive fiction: www.patreon.com/ardenpowell
Books on Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ardenpowell
Exclusive fiction: www.patreon.com/ardenpowell
Books on Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io
November 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
And if you like Gothic horror you must read The Bayou by Arden.
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BIG NEWS!
We’re crowdfunding for a special 5th anniversary hardback of Indie Bites!
Sign up to our prelaunch page now to be notified the moment the Kickstarter goes live:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/268...
We’re crowdfunding for a special 5th anniversary hardback of Indie Bites!
Sign up to our prelaunch page now to be notified the moment the Kickstarter goes live:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/268...
Coming soon: The Quintessential Indie Bites: Five Years of Fantasy
From quarterly fantasy magazine Indie Bites, a plush hardback featuring 20 of the editors' favourite stories from the past 20 issues.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
BIG NEWS!
We’re crowdfunding for a special 5th anniversary hardback of Indie Bites!
Sign up to our prelaunch page now to be notified the moment the Kickstarter goes live:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/268...
We’re crowdfunding for a special 5th anniversary hardback of Indie Bites!
Sign up to our prelaunch page now to be notified the moment the Kickstarter goes live:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/268...
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Today on the blog I wrote about AI and the golem, and the benefit of listening to cautionary tales from the past.
going-medieval.com/2025/10/21/o...
going-medieval.com/2025/10/21/o...
On AI and the golem
Recently I, like a lot of people who make their living by creating things, have been thinking a lot about so-called AI. I have been forced to do this because so many companies have been stealing th…
going-medieval.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Today on the blog I wrote about AI and the golem, and the benefit of listening to cautionary tales from the past.
going-medieval.com/2025/10/21/o...
going-medieval.com/2025/10/21/o...
This is my favourite novel of all time. Please go and buy it and then come back and discuss it with me. Also, anyone willing to bodyread with me please dm me. My next reread is already overdue.
The Actual Star is only $3.99 on ebook right now. Go buy it bruhs and brahs.
The Actual Star: A Novel
Amazon.com: The Actual Star: A Novel eBook : Byrne, Monica: Kindle Store
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October 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is my favourite novel of all time. Please go and buy it and then come back and discuss it with me. Also, anyone willing to bodyread with me please dm me. My next reread is already overdue.
Support your favourite artists. We need them more than ever.
I just got my royalty statement for The Actual Star for the first half of 2025. Four years after publication, it sold 492 new copies, for a take-home royalty payment of $425.46 USD.
For perspective on these figures, please read this piece I wrote last year:
For perspective on these figures, please read this piece I wrote last year:
Q: Can an author make a living from royalties?
~ free public post ~ The general population is slowly getting the message that things are really hard for traditionally published authors right now, in ways it was not hard twenty or even five year…
monicacatherine.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Support your favourite artists. We need them more than ever.
Yes! It's brilliant and my favourite novel ever.
Just wanted to mention here that I wrote an ENTIRE BOOK about a future utopian society based on perpetual mass migration. You should read it :)
The Actual Star | monicabyrne
"Wildly ambitious, wildly successful."--Cory Doctorow, author of Radicalized and Walkaway
www.monicabyrne.org
September 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Yes! It's brilliant and my favourite novel ever.
I had such a good time reading the Quicksilver books. I mean Sapphic and bi pirate vampires.... What's not to love?!
K*ll Me Quick (QuickSilver book 1) is in this bi visibility sale on itchio, featuring fifty (that's 50!!!) books from bi and pan authors!
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September 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I had such a good time reading the Quicksilver books. I mean Sapphic and bi pirate vampires.... What's not to love?!
Show some love today and support your favourite artists.
If you’ve been moved by a piece of art lately, feel free to reach out through the artist’s public contact details. Often we just really appreciate it. And especially in these times, when things for (human) artists are so hard.
September 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Show some love today and support your favourite artists.
I love this book club and the chance to attend lessons with my favourite historian.
For lovely patrons I am continuing my Malleus Maleficarum book club and thinking about free will and astrology and what that has to do with witches. You can check it out from just £1 per month which is a bargain, imo.
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Malleus Maleficarum 6 - Question Five: what is the source of the increase of works of witchcraft? Whence comes it that the practice of witchcraft hath so notably increased - Part 1 | Dr Eleanor Janega
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July 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I love this book club and the chance to attend lessons with my favourite historian.
I loved the audiobook. Highly recommend!
Want to listen to a stirring tale of magic and mystery, love, lust, and fights to the death? Sure you do! And starting today, the audiobook of SPEAR is on sale for the great price of $4.99! Go get some!
Spear audiobook sale: $4.99!
Want to listen to a stirring tale of magic and mystery, love, lust, and fights to the death? Sure you do! And starting today, the audiobook of SPEAR is on sale for the great price of $4.99! Go get some!
nicolagriffith.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I loved the audiobook. Highly recommend!
Support your favourite artists please.
If an artist is brusque with you when you inquire about rights/payment for their work, please understand it’s because we’ve been exploited, disrespected, ghosted, baited, and promised “opportunities” only for them to evaporate, so, so many times over the years. We’re bitter. We have reason to be.
June 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Support your favourite artists please.
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"biological sex" is the idea that being born with a vulva makes you female, until it doesn't because you were too good at sports.
June 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"biological sex" is the idea that being born with a vulva makes you female, until it doesn't because you were too good at sports.
Cozy fantasy at its best. I love Adie Hart's stories. Check them out please!
June’s Patreon story is…
The Exsparrowment of Evander Hale! 🪶
Journeywitch & Professional Witch tiers get an ebook copy of this cozy fantasy light academia story full of ADHD rep and queer best friends, plus lots of bonus notes about the writing process, the world, and more!
patreon.com/AdieHart
The Exsparrowment of Evander Hale! 🪶
Journeywitch & Professional Witch tiers get an ebook copy of this cozy fantasy light academia story full of ADHD rep and queer best friends, plus lots of bonus notes about the writing process, the world, and more!
patreon.com/AdieHart
June 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Cozy fantasy at its best. I love Adie Hart's stories. Check them out please!
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I just added up all the stories in all our issues so far and there are 125 free stories waiting for you in the @indiebites.bsky.social backlist!
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE FREE STORIES 😮
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE FREE STORIES 😮
Indie Bites 18: Bards & Bargains is OUT NOW! This issue is absolutely stacked with stories that explore the musical, the magical, and more - grab your copy for free from www.silversunbooks.com/post/bards-b...
(paperbacks also available, and this baby is thick!) 🥰
(paperbacks also available, and this baby is thick!) 🥰
May 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I just added up all the stories in all our issues so far and there are 125 free stories waiting for you in the @indiebites.bsky.social backlist!
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE FREE STORIES 😮
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE FREE STORIES 😮
I just got my issue of Indie Bites. It's a beauty and I can't wait to read short stories by my favourite Indie authors.
Get it please - it's free🤩🪇🎺🎸🎷
Get it please - it's free🤩🪇🎺🎸🎷
Indie Bites 18: Bards & Bargains is OUT NOW! This issue is absolutely stacked with stories that explore the musical, the magical, and more - grab your copy for free from www.silversunbooks.com/post/bards-b...
(paperbacks also available, and this baby is thick!) 🥰
(paperbacks also available, and this baby is thick!) 🥰
May 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I just got my issue of Indie Bites. It's a beauty and I can't wait to read short stories by my favourite Indie authors.
Get it please - it's free🤩🪇🎺🎸🎷
Get it please - it's free🤩🪇🎺🎸🎷
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QUICKSILVER PRE-ORDER CAMPAIGN!
Pre-order any book in the QuickSilver series, in any format, and get a QuickSilver bookmark and signed bookplate, with art by Salome Totladze!
www.josiejaffrey.com/quicksilver
Pre-order any book in the QuickSilver series, in any format, and get a QuickSilver bookmark and signed bookplate, with art by Salome Totladze!
www.josiejaffrey.com/quicksilver
May 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
QUICKSILVER PRE-ORDER CAMPAIGN!
Pre-order any book in the QuickSilver series, in any format, and get a QuickSilver bookmark and signed bookplate, with art by Salome Totladze!
www.josiejaffrey.com/quicksilver
Pre-order any book in the QuickSilver series, in any format, and get a QuickSilver bookmark and signed bookplate, with art by Salome Totladze!
www.josiejaffrey.com/quicksilver
Support your favourite artists please. In times like these we need them more than ever.
I’m now on Patreon!
I had some bad news this week, which means my publishing plans have had to change - I’m going it alone!
I’ll still be editing Indie Bites, don’t worry, but for my own cozy fantasy novels, novellas, and collections, I’ll be publishing as Witch Hart Books.
patreon.com/AdieHart
I had some bad news this week, which means my publishing plans have had to change - I’m going it alone!
I’ll still be editing Indie Bites, don’t worry, but for my own cozy fantasy novels, novellas, and collections, I’ll be publishing as Witch Hart Books.
patreon.com/AdieHart
May 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Support your favourite artists please. In times like these we need them more than ever.
My favourite cozy fantasy writer is on Itch. Check out her work please 🥰
Oh hey, I’m on Itch now! I’ve just put the Amelia stories up to start getting a feel for the place, but it’s the same deal as on my Ko-fi: pay-what-you-want (even if that’s nothing) and grab some cozy sapphic fantasy full of sassy familiars and their practical witches.
adiehart.itch.io
adiehart.itch.io
Adie Hart
adiehart.itch.io
April 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
My favourite cozy fantasy writer is on Itch. Check out her work please 🥰
This was brilliant. Had to collect my jaw a few times from the floor.
QuickSilver eARCs of all three books are available - apply now!
www.josiejaffrey.com/arcs
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Sapphic dark fantasy novels featuring vampires, zombies, pirate history and romance.
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Sapphic dark fantasy novels featuring vampires, zombies, pirate history and romance.
April 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This was brilliant. Had to collect my jaw a few times from the floor.