fantasy

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📚 In the Lives of Puppets by: TJ Klune

In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a ...

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In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe.

The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labeled “HAP,” he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio–a past spent hunting humans.

When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic’s assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.

Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?

Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, and like Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.

An epic quest of rescue and discovery [with] the author’s trademark charm, heart, and bittersweetness. Library Journal, starred review

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Manag

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1y

Pretty Peony Unicorn to start your day. Have a good one! https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/peony-unicorn-lisa-s-baker.html

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An art print of a majestic white unicorn with a golden horn prancing through a lush backdrop of pink and white peonies. The scene blends natural beauty with mythical elements, evoking a sense of magic and fantasy. Art by Lisa S. Baker.

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264d

Fae Reviews makes video book reviews, especially about romantasy books (romantic stories with a fantasy setting). You can follow at:

➡️ @faereviews

They've already uploaded 17 videos, you can browse them all at https://makertube.net/a/faereviews/videos

#FeaturedPeerTube #Books #BookReviews #Romantasy #Romance #Fantasy #PeerTube #PeerTubers

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5d

I review Entwined by H.M. Long on my reading blog. An opening to a gaslamp fantasy duology with an interesting magic system. Out today.
https://susannashore.blogspot.com/2026/03/entwined-by-hm-long-review.html

#bookreview #fantasy @bookstodon

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61d

finished reading The Strangest Criminals: A Funny and Heartwarming Cosy Fantasy Mystery About Crime, Magic, and Found Family 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
by Blake Polden.

In a world where the Occult lives along side the Ordinary, a magical mafia family turns bad. Has potential, with some fresh creativity, but the writing is too choppy & disrupted.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Fantasy #SFF

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

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61d

The epilogue of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

The Seventh Sage presents Nicole with a choice: he can explain the nature of Olyna's deception to Kurg, teaching it about the nature of a lie, or Nicole can go her own way, staying separate from the magic city.

It isn't an easy choice for her to make...

@bookstodon
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60d

Live in BCS #448 and podcast BCS 357: "Sing" by Jules Bly,

"Sing. Sing the world into being. Every action, every object, in the past and the present and the future, is in the song. As long as these events are known and described by the song of all things, they will continue to exist. The song is carried by one voice at a time. Right now, it is your voice. Do not stop singing. If your voice fails, the world vanishes."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/sing/
#fantasy #sff #shortstory #podcastfiction

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1y

The Ebook of Sky Children is now available for purchase! Print copies will be available on Friday, January 3rd!

You can learn more at my website:
https://owentyme.us/books/sky-children/sky-children.html

Or go straight to the store links:
https://books2read.com/SkyChildren

#author #indieauthor #books #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #actionadventure #fiction

The cover of the novel Sky Children, by Owen Tyme.

The cover shows the dark silhouette of a man against a night sky consisting of a view of the Milky Way, in more stunning detail than it's usually seen.

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57d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/SheSeeksPeace

The Hunter seeks peace and quiet to mourn the loss of her best friend in a world that seems bound and determined to make that task impossible. Enemies attack when she’d rather be alone, allies can’t take a hint and the arch-demon Wrath seeks the Hunter’s hand in marriage, even though she’d sooner kill him.

@bookstodon
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(Left) The cover of She Seeks Peace, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a snow-capped, craggy mountain with green, grassy hills at its base, which feature yellow and blue flowers.

The foreground is dominated by the round symbol for peace, in gold. Along the bottom of it are two olive branches. At the top is a dove in flight. Arranged on the lower three spokes of it are three figures based on the AIGA symbol for a woman. The figure on the right is blue. The one in the middle is a very dark gray, bordering on black, which includes a top hat. The figure on the left is red and has horns, like a demon.

(Right) The background is a view from the interior of a gun's barrel, with the rifling very apparent and the following quote over the top:

Reggie looked down the barrel of one of his own pistols, which the girl held in both hands, because the M1911 was a little large for someone so small.

There was a long, silent moment as the girl giggled and met his gaze. The murderous look was gone, replaced by something more playful, like a cat toying with a mouse.

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/SheSeeksPeace

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1y

A new pinned post for January! My latest spooky-cozy romantasy novella, available now: https://books2read.com/UndeadInconvenience

And my next romantasy novel, coming from Tor Bramble on February 18 in the US & February 20 in the UK! Preorder now: https://www.stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen

#fantasy #romance

The header at the top of the image reads: Out Now.
In the center of the image (which has a background of lush crimson rose blossoms) is the front cover of Stephanie Burgis’s A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience, which shows an ominously closed entrance-gate at the top of the cover and a bat with its wings outspread at the bottom, all framed by climbing roses. Four arrows point at the cover with four chunks of text, reading: “Beauty and the Beast, but he’s a vampire” “She’s brilliant, and he loves it” “Tea is very important” and “She *really* loves libraries.” At the bottom is a link to the preorder page: books2read.com/UndeadInconvenience

In the centre of the square image is the cover of Stephanie Burgis’s Wooing the Witch Queen, which 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. Around it are these bits of descriptive text: Fierce, bi witch queen; sweet, nerdy hero with a secret identity; found family; mischievous crows; magical library; flirting with fountain pens. At the bottom right corner of the image is a picture of a glittering black masquerade mask.

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16d

I just discovered the Fanart friday tag so you're going to be getting some fanart of my story The Last Philosopher on fridays 😁

This one is a map of the Sojurut continent before and after "The Spell"

@reading @fantasy @bookstodon @worldbuilding

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The digital version of this map was drawn from my pencil scribbling, which I guarantee you don’t want to see, by https://www.wattpad.com/user/edoggypaws

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59d

The prologue of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Nicole greets the Ulkun as the board Jigasw City, since there's finally room for all of them, then heads for the primary bridge, to get the city into orbit, in preparation for the next leg of their journey, which will take them all over the galaxy.

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58d

Ebook omnibus: https://books2read.com/AshenBladesOpenWounds

The arch-demon, Pride, leads demon-kind in an ancient plan to open a gate between worlds, so vast demon armies might march forth and conquer, but opening a portal requires both energy equivalent to a nuclear explosion and the cooperation of a half-demon, to stabilize it. However, the only half-demon available has made it her life mission to kill all demons.

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$(Background) A fractal pattern of red and orange that resembles a demonic portal. (Center) Pride needs a half-demon to stabilize the portal between worlds. There’s just one hitch: she hates him. One stubborn half-demon vs. all of demon-kind? It could go either way... (Top Left) The cover of She Hunts Demons, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson. Sitting on the roof of a building in New York City is a teenage girl with a Japanese short sword. The image is black and white, aside from a few details in blue. (Bottom Left) The cover of She Goes to War, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson. Three people in tiger-stripe camouflage crouch in the jungle, including a teen girl, a soldier and a huge cat-man with black fur. (Bottom Right) The cover of the novel, Demon for President!, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson. Two politicians (Democrat and Republican) shake hands, as if for a photo-op, while a city burns behind them and the flag of the United States waves in the smoke. (Top Right) The cover of the book bundle, Ashen Blades: Open Wounds, by Owen Tyme, which includes a Japanese sword, a pistol and a pineapple grenade on a wooden surface.$

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58d

📚 Dungeon Crawler Carl by: Matt Dinniman

You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systematic exploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game ...

https://bookblabla.com/book/dungeon-crawler-carl

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You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systematic exploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game show. That’s what.

Join Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, as they try to survive the end of the world—or just get to the next level—in a video game–like, trap-filled fantasy dungeon. A dungeon that’s actually the set of a reality television show with countless viewers across the galaxy. Exploding goblins. Magical potions. Deadly, drug-dealing llamas. This ain’t your ordinary game show.

Welcome, Crawler. Welcome to the Dungeon. Survival is optional. Keeping the viewers entertained is not.

Includes part one of the exclusive bonus story Backstage at the Pineapple Cabaret.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The apocalypse will be televised! Welcome to the first book in the wildly popular and addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series—now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition.

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58d

Do fantasy/sc-fi readers agree with this? I love specualtive fiction, but I also love me some good non-fiction, am I the weird one? 🤔😁

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Meme photo of two puppies each holding one end of a stick.
Caption:
Golden puppy: Fantasy readers
German shepard puppy: Sci fi readers:
Stick: Hating non fiction

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57d

Chapter 1 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

The Seelie Queen, Minerva Lovelysky, and the Unseelie Queen, Thistle Treelash, form a truce, because their world is dying and a powerful being is on his way, to consume their entire galaxy.

They face The Void as a unified front, despite how much it outclasses their queenly magic...

@bookstodon
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56d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TrollSong

Having an abusive assassin for a sister was bad enough, but when Lyra’s older sister, Nicole, becomes obsessed with killing the teenage troll, her life becomes a special kind of nightmare. Will she escape, or become just another victim of the unstoppable woman?

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(Left) The cover of Troll Song, by Owen Tyme, Illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

There's a woman in mud spattered white, leather armor crossing a pair of short swords against the neck of a terrified, shirtless dwarf.

The woman has white hair and a darker skin tone on the left side of her face. Her left eye is green and her right eye is blue.

The dwarf's hair and beard are blond.

The background is a green forest, with some flowers among the tall grass.

(Right) The background is a snow-covered forest, with a pair of dark silhouettes in it, one small and the other large, like a giant. The smaller silhouette is of a young woman walking away and the interior is filled with musical symbols, in green, white and two shades of blue. The larger silhouette is a woman wielding two swords and the interior is full of blood spatter. The larger one appears to be chasing the smaller one.

The following text is laid over the scene:

“I can’t die until Lyra takes her last breath! She’ll regret betraying her sisters!”

“There’s no price I won’t pay to see that happen, no pain I won’t endure and I’d sacrifice the whole world to seal her fate!”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TrollSong

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56d

📚 His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Book 1) by: Philip Pullman

A war is brewing in Lyra's world between those who would keep people in ignorance and those willing to fight for freedom. Lyra is thrust into the middle of the conflict when her uncle Asriel comes to Oxford, fomenting rebellion, and wh...

https://bookblabla.com/book/his-dark-materials-the-golden-compass-book-1

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A war is brewing in Lyra's world between those who would keep people in ignorance and those willing to fight for freedom. Lyra is thrust into the middle of the conflict when her uncle Asriel comes to Oxford, fomenting rebellion, and when her best friend, Roger, suddenly disappears.

Lyra learns that Roger was kidnapped by a shadowy organization that is rumored to experiment on children. To find him, she will travel to the cold, far North, where armored bears and witch clans rule—and where Asriel is attempting to build a bridge to a parallel world.

What Lyra doesn’t know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other—and that her actions will have consequences not just in her world, but in all the worlds beyond.

Look for the modern fantasy classics of HIS DARK MATERIALS:
The Golden Compass. The Subtle Knife. The Amber Spyglass

And Lyra’s adventures continue in THE BOOK OF DUST:
La Belle Sauvage. The Secret Commonwealth. The Rose Field

DON’T MISS THE EPIC FINALE TO LYRA’S STORY: THE ROSE FIELD, AVAILABLE NOW!

Discover the modern fantasy classic that kicked off the epic trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust—a world where humans have animal familiars and parallel universes are within reach.

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56d

Joined this #IndieAuthor #Fantasy Promo to start 2026 right. 🥰

We got #Books with
More Heart ❤️‍🩹,
More Helpers 🤝
More answering the Call 📢

FANTASY WITH HEALERS
Browse over 40 titles!

https://books.bookfunnel.com/fantasyhealersjan26/yl0gg573fe

#BookSale #FantasyReads #Romantasy #DarkFantasy #Epicfantasy #SwordAndSorcery @bookstodon @fantasy

A red-haired woman in a velvet blue hooded robe looks over her shoulder at the viewer, her hand lifted as if to touch gently. Background of fuzzy blue sky with white and pink clouds. Fantasy with Healers in white, January 1-31st, 2026.

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1y

Hello #portfolioday I'm Lydia. I make film noir inspired fantasy illustrations for a series I am writing (occasionally nfsw when I feel brave enough), doodle organic things, and design notebooks/ grimoires.

I don't do commissions any more, but you can buy some prints and grimoires via my website. Or just follow me here.

https://lydiavvinters.com/

#fediart #mastoart #illustration #fantasy #design

Collage of six images with people in them. They're gloomy, dark, shadowy, and aesthetic.

Left to right. Top row, a boy wearing goggles and a bowler hat, a woman standing stoically in a blue, pink and white coloured storm, a man trapped in a crystal structure.

Bottom row:
Silhouette of a male with looking at an eclipse, a man standing in a whirlwind and forest, a Stoic looking dude with yellow eyes in a forest.

Collage of six images in black and white. Left to right, top row: Woman dancing in the rain, witch holding tiny moons, three witches capturing a large forest spirit. Bottom row: A boy with wings and a prosthetic leg hovering in front of the moon, a man largely in silhouette dancing with fog/clouds. A woman casting lightning.

Collage. Two white on black organic doodles. One funky jellyfish that looks a bit like a chandelier and an organic abstract from on the right.

Collage of notebook designs. Two featuring a fairy. One of those is riding an owl. The middle one is purple and features an intricate design with stars and moons. The one on the right is an intricate design with a tree of life on purple and green.

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59d

Did you hear that?
That high pitched squeal of excitement floating through the air?

Yeah, I'm sorry to disturb your peace, but that was me...
BECAUSE I GOT THE PROOF COPY OF MY BOOK!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
I'm holding my book! I
SNIFFED it! MY words!
It's so beautiful. 😍🥲

Anyway, you can pre-order my book here: https://books2read.com/fatesalight

Also, if anyone would like to be an #ARCReader, let me know.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

#FatesAlight #FiresOfFaldon #Fantasy #Romance #Bookstadon #WritersOfMastodon

A picture of me holding a physical copy of my new book! Looking very excited and happy.

A Caucasian woman with short brown hair and blue glasses, in a green button-up shirt and grey sweater.
With a beaming smile.

She is holding a book - dark blue cover with blue and yellow flames on either side. A large blue gem in the center with a silhouette of a couple holding hands in the gem.
In big yellow words above and below the gem: FATES ALIGHT
At the bottom of the cover: A.M. Pennyfeather
At the top: Fires of Faldon book 1

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55d

Have you ever read a book set at a magical boarding school in England and wondered why the adult staff aren't doing anything about the supernatural problems the site faces? Well, then I recommend The Incandescent by Emily Tesh to you. Turns out competent adults can make a difference!

@bookstodon #fantasy #books

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54d

Chapter 2 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Nicole discusses her plans for the future with Scar and makes some small adjustments to them, based on what he says.

@bookstodon
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1y

Wrath of the Sky, the second volume of Sky Children, is available for preorder! The release date is set for February 7, 2025.

You can learn more at my website:
https://owentyme.us/books/sky-children/wrath-of-the-sky.html

Or go straight to the store links:
https://books2read.com/WrathOfTheSky

#author #indieauthor #books #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #actionadventure #fiction

The cover of Wrath of the Sky, by Owen Tyme.

The background is black and the foreground features a flaming planet that resembles Earth.

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43d

Chapter 7 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Nicole and a dwarf technician work on a new magi-tech device, because they have a need to translate never before seen languages, to speak with strangers from the many worlds they visit.

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #actionadventure #fiction #fairies #webseries

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