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Merlina Garance

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she/they 🌈 📖 LGBTQ writer of romance books and poetry. 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 French but writes mostly in English 🐕 Proud parent of a 9yo former stray https://merlinagarance.com/

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Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · May 3

So after nearly 3 months I guess it's time for me to market my services again? Make some money?

So if you need help with your book on cover design/formatting, interior formatting, developmental edits, hit me up! I have references too!

All cinfo is on ko-fi.com/merlinagaran...

#booksky 🌈📚

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Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 3h

#DVpit is over, thanks everyone who participated in the preDV and helped me refine my pitch, or who boosted during the events! I was unfortunately not able to do the same on the day but I'll go back and follow everyone when I have the time. I hope you all got requests and a huge thanks to organisers

Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 15h

Will do thank you for your interest!

Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 19h

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS x THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR

🔮 Gaslamp fantasy with crystal magic
🌈 Sapphic friends to enemies to ?
💛 NB MC
💗Sapphic mixed race MC
🧠 Traumatised grumpy x anxious sunshine
💘 Parallel romances
⚔️ Realistic class divide

#DVpit #LGBT #A #F #DIS #OWN

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Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 19h

Leaving prison, Beryl planned to get a quick revenge and disappear for good. Instead, they end up chasing a ticking time bomb with the friend that betrayed them in the first place. But they're caught up in it now and Aljaze is --unfortunately-- as gorgeous as ever.

#Dvpit #LGBT #A #F #DIS

Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 20h

HE'S HERE. HE'S QUEER. HE'S READY TO CLEAN.
A proud fat gay man with a deep cleaning company meets a closeted depressed bookshop owner and sparks fly around a plate of pancakes.

#Dvpit #LGBT #A #OWN #CR

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Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 20h

2 sapphic friends-turned-enemies are forced to hunt down a dangerous crystal before its power destroys more than a few lives.
2 older gay men assist them while working on their second chance romance.
Hijinks in a zeppelin.

#Dvpit #LGBT #A #F #DIS #OWN

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Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 21h

BLACK BOOKS IF BERNARD BLACK HAD BEEN A GOOD PERSON

🌈 MM romance
🌍 Welsh & Hungarian Mcs
📚 Cosy bookshop
🍰 Cakes & spice
💕 Found family
💅 Drag shows

#DVpit #LGBT #A #OWN #CR

Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 21h

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS x THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR

An angry NB fresh out of jail

An aristocrat woman with a dead dad and empty vaults

And the missing deadly crystal they now have to find before it kills everyone

#Dvpit #LGBT #A #F #DIS #OWN

Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 22h

A grimy bookshop is no place for love. Niall is here for a deep cleaning job, so he represses his attraction for the broody owner. His life is complicated enough. However, forgetting a cute guy when Kris opens up and won't stop cooking for him, is easier said than done.

#Dvpit #LGBT #A #OWN #CR

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Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 22h

10 years after their best friend’s betrayal, Beryl is released from the resulting prison sentence. Their revenge: steal an expensive ruby from Al, kill her and disappear. But Al’s vaults are empty, and the missing jewel might actually start a war.

#Dvpit #LGBT #A #F #DIS #OWN

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Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 1d

And for the last day of #DVparty let me introduce the next manuscript I plan to edit and query/publish! LOVE LANGUAGE OF THE SEA is about two men who ultimately don't think they deserve the kind of love they're about to get, and work on how to accept it. It's set half in Mexico and half in France.

A moodboard on a blue background with images of a church in Mexico, coral reef fish, beers, blue sea with boats, graphs, divers, and in the middle the text: LOVE LANGUAGE OF THE SEA
Paul Duval, 36, is happy with his life as an aquarium diver until he comes across the opportunity of a lifetime. Diving for a marine biology researcher off the coast of Mexico. He doesn’t think twice about applying, or getting the job.
Until he meets Pr Andrés Zamora. Who seems to have a problem with smiling, and with Paul. It seems the researcher really doesn’t like his new hire.
Or does he?

Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 2d

Idk why this went online yesterday instead of today 🤫 blame being away from home a month around a big online event. So have it again on the right day!
#dvparty

Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 3d

And finally, have a small playlist for HEARTS OF STONE! It's very rare for me to match songs to a book but this was an easy one as it fits a lot of emotional music I love.
Any favourite songs in there?
#DVparty #LGBT

On a red background are the album covers for the following songs:
Heroes by David Bowie
Mirrorball by Peter Gabriel
Deadman by Karnivool
Zero by Dorje
In your eyes by Peter Gabriel

at the bottom is the title HEARTS OF STONE

Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 3d

I always struggle finding memes to represent my book because I rarely think in those terms, but this sums up the central conflict quite well... (spoiler: they did)
#DVparty #LGBT

On a red background is the text, in the style of (you wouldn't download a car) : YOU WOULDNT BETRAY YOUR BEST FRIEND

at the bottom is the title HEARTS OF STONE

Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely! Gotta show what they lost

Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you 🥰

Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 4d

DUSTY BOOKSHOP intro! Niall can't catch a break and it's only the beginning...
#DVparty #LGBT

On a clear blue background is the text:

Niall Harper had been sitting down for five minutes, and for the first time that day, when his phone rang.
“It’s… not an easy job,” Gavin sighed on the other end of the line. Niall rubbed the sore spot under his reading glasses where they kept chafing the bridge of his nose red.
“What do you mean?”

and at the bottom:

THE DUSTY BOOKSHOP AND ITS SAD BUT SEXY OWNER

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Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 4d

First lines! I'm quite proud of this intro, the first few chapters of this book show the MCs childhood before their lives fall apart and they reunite after 10 years and much tension. The very first chapter might be the softest of the book before things take a turn...
#DVparty #LGBT

On a red background of crystals is the quote:
As a child, Aljaze Vivian Goodling always asked a lot of questions.

“And what’s this one?” she said, the fingers of one hand clutching her mother’s tunic while she pointed a plump finger at yet another rose bush. Esme Goodling, who had long ago given up on properly trimming the flowers while in the company of her daughter, crouched and helped her onto her lap.

and at the bottom: HEARTS OF STONE

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Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 5d

HEY YOU! Do you like free paperbacks? Do you like chronically ill baddies? Do you like magic schools that weren't invented by a TERF? I'm hosting a giveaway for my sapphic fantasy dark academia novel RIGHT NOW!

2 winners announced October 10th!

A celebratory image featuring balloons, candy confetti, and a cupcake. Over top is "Rules" followed by a list reading as follows:

-Must be a US resident
-Follow this account
-Comment which school of magic you would choose to study at Voterique (see next slide)
-Bonus entry: share to stories or tag a friend!

A celebratory image featuring balloons, candy confetti, and a cupcake. Over top is "Schools of magic" followed by a list reading as follows:

-Abjuration
-Conjugation
-Corpomation
-Divination
-Enchantment
-Evocation
-Illusion
-Transmutation

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Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 5d

Lived in is absolutely what I'm aiming for!

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Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you! I love using paper backgrounds, and the book is meant to be like a warm hug and a little funny too 💜

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Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 5d

It's another kind of loss 🥺

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Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 5d

Time to drop some identities! This book is from the pov of Niall, who is a mostly chill guy except for touchy family matters, and his budding romance with Kris... But this is still very much a cosy book so the angst will always be short-lived.
#DVparty #LGBT

On a clear blue background is the text:
MAIN CHARACTER

Niall Harper is a proud fat, 41 years old Welsh gay man living in London.
He left his stressful job in insurance to start up a deep cleaning business.
He loves going to his ex’s drag shows, his group of friends, getting tattoos , and enjoying life.

THE DUSTY BOOKSHOP AND ITS SAD BUT SEXY OWNER

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Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 5d

It's very much a story of forgiveness 🥰

Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social · 5d

Today let me introduce you to the main characters of Hearts of Stone. This book has 4 different povs but Beryl and Aljaze are the main ones and I hope you'll like them!

#DVparty #LGBT

On a background looking like red crystals is an art nouveau circle with the text: Beryl is 26, child of two coal miners. They spent the last 10 years of their life in prison. They are non-binary, tall and angry. They are from Hedenburg, a small town near the capital of Montem.Aljaze, often shortened Al, is mixed raced, with a father from Montem and a mother from the western land of Abbyris. Her mother died when she was very young. She was raised in wealth but when the story begins, her father has just died and left her with nothing.

They used to be best friends.

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