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Joachim Heijndermans
@jheijndermans.bsky.social
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Writer, artist, filmmaker, designer, comic book letterer, SFWA member and collector of toys. He/him. https://linktr.ee/jheijndermans. http://www.joachimheijndermans.com
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · Apr 30
Presenting: the Beautiful Beasts imprint, a series of erotic horror, science fiction and fantasy novellas by author Joachim Heijndermans. Each a self contained story of lust with monsters ranging from the fantastical, the macabre and the eldritch.
Books 1, 2 and 3 are out now!
Art Man Carot
Beautiful Beasts logo, depicting of Venetian mask of an animal in a circle with two cursive Bs, colored black, white and red Cover to return the rose, the first Beautiful Beasts book. Colored in monochrome purple, a large beast with a lion-like face and stag antlers embraces a partially undressed woman with long flowing hair. She clutches onto his antlers, wistfully looking at her lover, the beast. Cover to Cove of the Fisherman's wife. Colored in monochrome blue, a Japanese woman looks upon the encroaching octopus arms. Her yukata is partially removed, as a lone tear runs down her cheek. Cover to Beautiful Beasts 3, The Nightstalker’s Mark, by Joahim Heijndermans. Two women coated in a red colored hue hold each other in embrace, looking at one another. One a short haired blind woman with a tank top. The other is a vampiric creature who is nude, her ears pointed and the pupils in her eyes are narrow slits like those of a serpent. Her open mouth reveals a set of fangs, her intent implied to be nefarious. The title of the book is colored with a yellow gradient, with the ‘M’ in Mark similar to a set of fangs. Small dots of Braille writing repeat the title, a reference to the one woman’s blindness.
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 6h
Oh, it's international lesbians day? Then might I recommend my novella The Nightstalker's Mark? Perfect for both that AND the spooky season. Disaster lesbians as well as sapphic love found among a bad situation. Also, blood. LOTS of it.
Cover to Beautiful Beasts 3, The Nightstalker’s Mark, by Joahim Heijndermans. Two women coated in a red colored hue hold each other in embrace, looking at one another. One a short haired blind woman with a tank top. The other is a vampiric creature who is nude, her ears pointed and the pupils in her eyes are narrow slits like those of a serpent. Her open mouth reveals a set of fangs, her intent implied to be nefarious. The title of the book is colored with a yellow gradient, with the ‘M’ in Mark similar to a set of fangs. Small dots of Braille writing repeat the title, a reference to the one woman’s blindness. Tropes: vampire smut, blood drinking, mind control, shape changing, lgbtq romance, emotional abuse, vampire violence, disability & blindness
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S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · 6h
HI CHAT. DID YOU KNOW IT IS INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN DAY? BECAUSE I TOTALLY FORGOT.

Please look at Erika, my dumpster fire lesbian lead of the Azaes Realm series, and her girlfriend Abby. Art by @bmwillows.bsky.social.

And maybe buy the books too please?

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A colored digital sketch of two women. On the left is Erika (fair-skinned, brown eyes, light brown hair tied in a messy bun, orange shirt, blue jeans). On the right is Abby (light/warm complexion, long dark straight brunette hair, gray-blue crop tank top, dark blue leggings). Erika looks somewhat coyly over her shoulder at Abby as Abby kisses her shoulder and teases down the collar of her boatneck shirt. A drawing of two women sitting on a bench. The one on the left (Abby) has very straight brunette hair. She's wearing red and black flannel with her sleeves rolled up to her elbows. She has a black shirt underneath the open flannel and black leggings. The one on the right (Erika) has light brown hair that is mostly hidden under a grey beanie hat. She's wearing an orange hoodie and blue jeans. Erika is resting her head on Abby's shoulder and looking at her lovingly.
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 6h
The Underrated bundle is live now. More than 60 books by 42 creators. Find them at the link on Itch and get all books in one fell sweep!!!
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 2d
Wednesday is the start of the Under-rated books bundle on Itch, hosted by @chiefwritesbook.bsky.social . That is more than 60(!!!) books from over 40 authors, including 2 of my short story collections. Find the bundle here: itch.io/b/3305/under...
Banner for the Under-rated bundle on itch.io, that runs from oct 9th to 13th, bringing attention to the best book you've never heard of. A slew of book covers span the rest of the banner in a mosaic of awesome. Banner for the Under-rated bundle on itch.io, that runs from oct 9th to 13th, bringing attention to the best book you've never heard of. A slew of book covers span the rest of the banner in a mosaic of awesome.
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 6h
Zeven.
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Heidi 🍉 🌍🛸 @heidivdv.bsky.social · 6h
De allerhoogste tijd om deze weer viraal te laten gaan, mensen.
Picture of a juicy vegan Hamburger with the text: "why do vegans want their food to look like meat?" For the same reason people use dildos. Looks the same, fills a hole, no hearts are broken in the process.
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 6h
A true BB (Belgian Bisexual) gun.
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 6h
For Billy, I assumed his aging is slowed by a year every time he transforms. He'll hit his teenage days centuries from "now"
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 7h
Sweet cover!!
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 7h
In case you missed it, the ADHD awareness bundle is running now. Get 22 books by ADHD authors/featuring ADHD characters. The bundle includes my latest short story collection Rage from a Cage, which contains 30 short stories of rage and a little bit of hope.
Cover for the short story collection Rage from a Cage by Joachim Heijndermans, the title in thick bold lettering. On a white background, marred with scratches and damage, is a set of black shapes of triangles and trapazoids, who together form a broken pentagon. Within the middle shapes is the skull from a sabre-toothed cat, its maw open and the broken pentagon appearing as the bar of a cage. The animal is snarling for freedom. Tropes list: 30 short stories, apocalypse parties, desolate worlds, lonely undead, norse god roommates, cat trials, clockwork gunslinger, vengeful robots, sentient zombie viruses, superhero violence, weird experiments
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 8h
Oh perf!!!
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 12h
Get on that bundle! So many good books in one massive 63 book bundle!!!
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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 13h
✨UNDERRATED BOOKS SALE✨

63 books for $38!!

The best books you’ve never heard of!!

itch.io/b/3305/under...

#booksky 💙📚
Underrated book bundle. Oct 9th - 13th. Bringing attention to the best books you’ve never heard of.
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Shimaira ⛥ @shimaira.com · 13h
Love @kurzgesagt.org 💜 great video on AI slop 🔥 support human artists! 💪
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AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel
YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 7d
two panel meme, with burning buildings on the top panel and will ferrel, his hands cupped on either side of his face, shouting in the bottom. It's captioned "YOU GUYS WANT TO READ WEREWOLF BOOKS?" and around his yelling face are the three covers in the Learn to Howl trilogy. Learn to Howl: The cover for Learn to Howl: a black wolf with blue eyes in profile on a red background, her ear pinned back and her teeth and tongue visible. Baying the Moon: the cover for Baying the Moon: a open-mouthed wolf facing you so that you're staring down its labyrinthine throat) an at all those teeth, on a red background The Company of Wolves: The Company of Wolves cover: a black wolf, head turned to the left and mouth open as though its crying out, and part of it is shattering apart like broken glass or a mirror, with a bullet hole in it, revealing a haggard-looking human face beneath, just a blue eye and some black hair painted by my cousin Hudson Fraser, who you can find at https://www.instagram.com/hudsonfraser.art .
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 14h
If given the choice between the death of my industry and the industry of polluting thieves, yes, let the AI industry die. And preferably not in any dignified way. Let it be sniveling and whimpering, pleading for the mercy it would never give others.
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Supervising Animation Wizard @brendering.bsky.social · 20h
Miyazaki survived the bombing of Utsunomiya as a child. His family escaped in a car, but left a neighbor and her daughter behind to save themselves. Miyazaki regrets this, and said this has stayed with him and shaped his film making. He hopes his audience will learn the courage he lacked in 1945.
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 14h
Im torn between Mokolo Membe, the Skunk Ape and Orang Pandek.
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 14h
When our Peri chose my shoulder for a nappy.
I miss her a lot.
A white bald man with a blue and white budgie on his shoulder
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 14h
I love Sam the Eagle.
I will also accept the Lord Chamberlain
a close up of a monster with the words i live merely to serve emperor
Alt: a close up of a monster with the words i live merely to serve emperor
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 14h
The opening track is perfect for a running soundtrack
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 15h
Art NOT by me but my cover artist Man Carot. That said, my novella DOES feature a very octopus-styled yokai.
Happy international Octopus day!
Cover to Cove of the Fisherman's wife. Colored in monochrome blue, a Japanese woman looks upon the encroaching octopus arms. Her yukata is partially removed, as a lone tear runs down her cheek.
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 15h
In the YA, yes, with the lead being an alien among a group of human pals.

In the Novel? I haven't decided. They do acknowledge stars and other planets, but they'd never have a way of getting to them, and their mythology says most of life in the universe died during a great battle.
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 17h
Do you think he heard Battle of Evermore by Led Zeppelin?
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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 1d
Worth a look, I'd say...
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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 1d
Everyone should get to see themself in fiction. But I often can't find as much neurodiverse rep as I'd like, especially in SFF.

So for ADHD Awareness Month, I've gathered 22 mainly ADHD authors & their fantasy/ other books with main/significant ADHD chars in this bundle

🪐📚💙 itch.io/b/3300/adhd-...
Adhd Awareness Month Fiction. By mostly ADHD authors, most with 1+ significant ADHD character(s) 22 Book. Oct 1st-15th Covers: The Lady and the List, Elizabeth Briars Side Tracked, S.K. Kelly The Harmony of Falling Snow, Andora Brokaw Bestiary Beas The Players Act 1, Amy Sparks The Weight of Her Gaze, RJ Martin He of the Trees, Rob Macwolf Song of the Wolf, T.C. Smith Tales of Yamato, Odessa Silver The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle, Steve Hugh Westenra Manipulator's War, Elise Carlson A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Heart of Stone, Johannes T. Evans Lantern, Burgundy Athena Pendragon Wizard's Debt, Niranjan Blood, D.C. Hart Ancient as the Stars, Maya Darjani A Dark Hole Darly, Drew Melbourne Translucent, Wayward Spark War of the Space Dargons, L'Poni Baldwin Ants Waking, R.J. Huneke Rage in a Cage, Joachim Heijndermans
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 18h
A tribe of suriving humans crosses the dried wasteland that was their ancestors world, struggling to gather ever drop of water they can.

A light chilly breeze hits them.

That one asshole: "so much for global warming, ammirite?!"
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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 2d
People keep submitting, we keep reading. Submitting, reading, submitting, reading - will it ever end?

(Yes - 15th October, be sure to submit by then as this the last submission period of 2025! We however will keep reading after that until they've all been considered.)
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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 3d
Our readers continue to work through the submissions we've received, and we still want more! Read the submission guidelines for details and a link to the portal. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
Submissions
Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]
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