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Stephanie Burgis

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Fantasy writer, history geek, dark chocolate addict! Writes sparkling fantasy rom-coms for adults and fun MG fantasy adventures. She/her. linktr.ee/stephanieburgis

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · Feb 20

It's time for a new pinned thread now that Wooing the Witch Queen is out in the US and the UK!

stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen

An image of the North American front cover of Wooing the Witch Queen shows a sinister witch queen in a spectacular beaded dress embracing her handsome and adoring new librarian (in a black wizard's robe) inside a library of magic filled with crows and masks and flying books. The tagline reads: Love can be a witch. A blurb from Sarah Beth Durst (New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop) reads: “Full of charm, wit, and magic… I loved it!”
Around the image, against a starry night background, are various pieces of text connected to it by arrows. They read: “bi villainous heroine,” “sweet cinnamon-roll hero with a fake identity,” “crow friends,” “found family,” and “flirting with fountains pens.” At the bottom of the image are the words: Out now!

In the centre of this image is the beautiful British cover of Wooing the Witch Queen, by Stephanie Burgis. The illustration shows a man in a cloak riding headlong through the night towards an ominous castle with an illuminated, crowned female figure in its doorway and bats flying overhead in the moonlight. A potion vial surrounds that central image and is further framed by leaves and branches. Crows sit on the branches, and a tagline reads: Love can be a witch. A blurb from Sangu Mandanna reads: ‘Warm and lovely’
On the lefthand side of the image around the cover is a stalk of herbs, surrounded by magical stars; on the righthand side is a fountain pen. The text above and below the cover reads: ‘He had to remember that she was infinitely more likely to kill him than to kiss him…’
Out Now in the UK!

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 42m

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 22h

Happy book birthday to A Mouthful of Dust, standalone novella in the Singing Hlls Cycle, out today!

This time, Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant the hoopoe memory spirit are investigating the town of Baolin, famous for its pork recipe and its famine.

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A Mouthful of Dust

Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle."Nghi Vo is so good."―NPR on The Brides of High HillWanderi...

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, that is wonderful!

Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 2h

Ugggggh I'm so sorry. This is all WAY too much! *HUGS*

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 3h

Unique IDs? Claimant types? Beneficial owners? You had questions and we’ve got answers! It’s your step-by-step guide to filing an Anthropic claim ✅

We’re covering everything you need to know and more: authorsguild.org/advocacy/art...

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement

What You’ll Need: Important Deadline: All claims must be submitted by March 23, 2026. Step 1: Check Eligibility. Start at the main settlement website. Before filing a claim, you must confirm your book...

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 4h

(Last year, when The Unexpected Adventures of Lady & Lord Riven won the poll, I ended up writing a whole second novella for them! Usually, though, the winners get a story that could range anywhere from flash fiction to a novelette.)

Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 4h

It's time to vote in my annual poll for which of my series should get the next tie-in short story!

Subscribe to my Patreon at the Dragon Ruler level to vote now: patreon.com/stephanieburgis

Creating Stories and Book Recs

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 9h

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 9h

Just to be clear, an English degree - learning to critically assess texts - is actually one of the most dangerous for people such as Badenoch.

An educated population, able to bring hundreds of years of context to statements in a dawning age of AI slop and attention-seeking dishonesty is also vital.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 11h

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 23h

Bookshop has free shipping today and tomorrow! It's a great time to pick up my latest, Wearing The Lion! (But only if you want to see Heracles adopting every monster in Ancient Greece.)

Wearing the Lion

Check out Wearing the Lion - <b>"This novel effortlessly ascends to the heights of Mount Olympus. Tough and tender and bittersweet. <i>Wearing the Lion</i> establishes Wiswell firmly on the new fantas...

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 18h

Day 7 of #witchtober2025 is "fruit," and for a witch-themed fruit, an apple just seemed right!

...and this one *probably* isn't poisoned. At least, that's what the cloaked old lady who showed up at my door to sell it to me said. ;)

On a small sketchpad, drawn in colored pencils, is a picture of a red apple with a green leaf hanging off its stem. The text, handwritten in fountain pen, reads: Witchtober Day 7: 1 apple (for "fruit")...probably not poisoned!

Year 5 of Inktober - Witch Essentials by @carmen.dmdesign . #Witchtober2025. 1 - Moon. 2 - Raven. 3 - Fairy. 4 - Ivy. 5 - Crown. 6 - Wolf. 7 - Fruit. 8 - Stars. 9 - Candle. 10 - Sea Creature. 11 - Venom. 12 - Teacup. 13 - Blade. 14 - gial. 15 - deer. 16 - secret. 17 - hearth. 18 - treasure. 19 - pet. 20 - underworld. 21 - wish. 22 - forest. 23 - pirate. 24 - dragon. 25 - herbs. 26 - horns. 27 - goblet. 28 - crystal. 29 - gothic. 30 - vampire. 31 - cemetery.

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 20h

Exciting news! My novel Plague Birds, which was a finalist for the Nebula & Philip K. Dick Awards, will be rereleased by Apex Books @apexmag.bsky.social in an new edition with extra content in June 2026. And a sequel will be published by Apex in Oct. 2026. 1/
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Cover of Plague Birds by Jason Sanford, which was a finalist for the Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 1d

This week's Tuesday snippet comes from Wooing the Witch Queen, in which Saskia is being forced to change into a more appropriate outfit for a wicked queen.

And in the UK, you can snap up the ebook this month for just 99p at any online retailer! Find them here:
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/step...

An image of the front cover of Wooing the Witch Queen shows a sinister witch queen in a spectacular beaded dress embracing her handsome and adoring new librarian (in a black wizard's robe) inside a library of magic filled with crows and masks and flying books. Above and beside it is this snippet from the book:
“...Mmm?” One bushy green eyebrow rose meaningfully.
Saskia followed his gaze across her outfit: the comfortably worn old grey gown covered by a sensible apron, which itself was covered with stains from old experiments, and a cheerful purple handkerchief that held her long, thick hair out of danger’s way.
She liked that handkerchief. It had been sewn for her by a wickedly bawdy old goblin chieftain last year. She thought it looked quite well against her pitch black hair and pale skin.
She sighed, though, as she accepted the inevitability. “You’re right, of course. As usual.” Shaking her head, she stepped back from the lectern where she kept her notes. “I’ll be ready in a quarter of an hour. If you could prepare the entrance chamber?”
“I’ll start the skulls boiling now,” said Morlokk, and bowed his way out of the room, letting the heavy wooden door fall shut behind him.

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 19h

ICYMI, SPOOKY SEASON is here again, Space Unicorns! Uncanny Magazine Issue 66 Part 2 is LIVE ON YOUR INTERNET! buff.ly/U9e7bru

Cover: Listen To Me and I’ll Tell You A Story by Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe. In an underwater scene tinted in sea green, a child-like being with flowing ochre-colored hair and dark sea green skin sits on a mass of orange-ochre and green tentacles talking to a school of salmon-color fish. In the foreground, another school of brown fish swimming away from the scene. The text "Uncanny," "September/October 2025," "Issue Sixty-Six," and the credits are in white.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 20h

Choose love.
Choose peace.
Choose kindness.
Choose to keep searching bookstores, crumbling castles, and dark parts of the forest for portals to other realms, where reading & sleeping are celebrated sports.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 20h

Ooh:

Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 22h

Happy book birthday to Phoebe and Her Unicorn book 22, Galactic Unicorn, available at book dispensaries everywhere!

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Galact...

Galactic Unicorn

With lively storytelling and a sincere portrayal of friendship, this new collection ofPhoebe and Her Unicorncomics reveals how an extroverted and e...

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 20h

Happy book birthday! It's so much fun:

Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 21h

My new book, Dealing With A Desperate Demon, is out today! Cheery curvy bookseller, grumpy curvy demon, dating lessons, a beauty and the beast style curse, lots of horniness. Perfect to curl up to for spooky season! You can grab it these places!

read.macmillan.com/lp/dealing-w...

Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 20h

Ooh, if you're in the US, you can order from @bookshop.org with free shipping today and tomorrow! Find all of my books there: bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Bookshop.org US

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Cat Rector @catrector.com · 21h

I'm thrilled to help celebrate the cover reveal for @jessiethomasauthor.bsky.social's new book This Hideous Heart! After devouring her other title A Ransom In Blood, I'm stoked to read more of her work! Give her a follow and hop onto Goodreads to add the book to your TBR!

A pink image featuring the cover for Jessie Thomas' This Hideous Heart, and the text "A sapphic clairvoyant and her wife perform seances, exorcise a haunted house, and investigate a serial killer who has seemingly returned from the grave in 1880s Buffalo, NY"

A pink background, the cover of the book, and the text "a saphhic, gothic reimagining of Poe's most famous works, coming this winter"

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Books of My Heart @booksofmyheart.net · 1d

The Unexpected Adventures of Lord and Lady Riven Series by Stephanie Burgis
@stephanieburgis.bsky.social‬ @stephanieburgis #FiveFathomsPress

The Unexpected Adventures of Lord and Lady Riven Series by Stephanie Burgis

I've enjoyed everything I have read from this author, no matter the format. Stephanie Burgis has a style or way with words that only a small group of authors have for me, which makes the words feel clear and go straight to the heart. There is often a compassionate view of characters who have their issues. A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience…

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 21h

Hooray! 8 days after it was first published, you can finally buy the paperback edition of A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence at @bookshop.org in the US. More links still to come! books2read.com/honeymoonGrave

#romancelandia

The illustrated cover for A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, by Stephanie Burgis, shows the silhouette of an elegant traveling carriage over the title and a bat with wings outstretched underneath, all of it framed by apples and with mirrors at the top and the bottom of the image.
The headline above the cover reads: “Out Now,” and various key elements of the story are arranged in a text map around the cover: “They may be married, but she’s certainly not in love…is she? Uh-oh…”
“What’s up with all the mirrors in this inn?”
“He always makes certain she has the BEST tea”
“She’ll take on any challenge to protect her vampire husband - even (gulp) socializing…”

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Bookstore Romance Day @bookstoreromanceday.org · 23h

Do you need something fun to look forward to? On Sat. 11/1 @ 3 PM Eastern, @oliviawaite.com @jessiemihalik.com @evaleigh.bsky.social @kitrocha.com @clpolk.blacksky.app @stephanieburgis.bsky.social & #LeslyePenelope will talk Lost & Found Magic on Zoom. www.eventbrite.com/e/1762356127...

Pale blue background. At the top left is the black silhouette of a hand facing downward with golden sparkles spilling from it. At the lower right is a black silhouette of a hand facing upward with golden sparkles rising from it. Gold text at top reads "Lost & Found Magic" Dark blue text below reads "A Virtual Conversation With Olivia Waite, CL Polk, Leslye Penelope, Jessie Mihalik, Eva Leigh, Kit Rocha, Stephanie Burgis" Lighter blue text reads "Sat. Nov. 1 at 3 PM Eastern on Zoom"

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 1d

Oh thank goodness! FINALLY. Thank you so much for letting me know!

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JL George @jlgeorge.bsky.social · 1d

Spent my lunch break reading about the Welsh mermaid who apparently turned up at a family's house, rifled through all their stuff, then jumped out the window and disappeared. Magpie mermaids ftw.

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