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A Review of Love After the End: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-love-after-the-end/

#Books #LGBTQ #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #BookReview

Book cover for Love After the End - An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua Whitehead (Editor), Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler (Contributor), Darcie Little Badger (Contributor), Gwen Benaway (Contributor), Gabriel Castilloux Calderón (Contributor), Adam Garnet Jones (Contributor), Mari Kurisato (Contribuot), Kai Minosh Pyle (Contributor), David Alexander Robertson (Contributor), jaye simpson (Contributor), Nazbah Tom (Contributor). Image on cover is a drawing of two people, one Native and brown-skinned and one pale with what appear to be cat ears on their head, sitting by the side of a pool of water with their legs dangling in it. They look content.

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August is Kobo Plus Fantasy month! Got a subscription (or thinking about one) and not sure where to start? Try this selection: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/p/kobo-plus-fantasy-reads

#fantasy #scifi #amreading

KoboPlus - your portal to epic fantasy. Person in a starry tunnel with a mountain at the exit.

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Book Review: A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Hugo finalist sequel to the Hugo winning The Tainted Cup. @princejvstin.com has the review at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/08/review-drop-of-corruption-by-robert.html

@bookstodon #books #review #fantasy #bookstodon

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Chapter 16 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

Masher deals with the urgency of Annmarie's girl needing to eat, but while he leads her to a bakery, to get some bread, he's quite disturbed to see her staring at humans with a hungry look in her eyes...

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50% of @ #Smashwords : https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/2039130

Having collected the fragments of the magic city of Kurg from her home planet, Nicole turns her gaze upward, to the stars, soon coming into conflict with gun-slinging snails, aliens, the dragon she raised from an egg, some really annoying monkeys with crossbows and even fairies, all without decent sleep.

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The cover of Princess of Kurg, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a spiral galaxy with a pink color, which has been divided into hexagonal jigsaw puzzle pieces.

Near the top is an attractive woman's face framed by light blond hair that's almost colorless. She has blue eyes and looks directly ahead. Around the edges of her face, she fades away, allowing the background to be seen to either side of her head.

Below her is a group of seven hexagonal brassy coins arranged in a circular fashion, each showing a different scene at the center.

The central coin shows blood spatter on a black background. The top one has a red-haired fairy with insect wings, in a dress that looked like an upturned red flower. She stands in a forest with glowing points of light along the forest floor. Upper right shows the eye of a pink-scaled dragon. Lower right shows a monkey in a tree, eating a banana. The bottom shows a white swan floating in water, beside a reflection of the moon. Lower left is a smiling snail with little red hearts near its head. Upper left displays an alien saucer ship beaming someone into it, presumably an abduction in progress.

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Ich biete wieder eine Bestellaktion mit Goodies an, für meine #Neuerscheinung "Der Tempel der flammenden Herzen"

Alle Infos dazu hier im Thread.

Die Goodies: Tee, Sticker, hübsche Bleistifte
Auf Wunsch signiere ich euch den Roman sehr gern.
Kosten: 13 € + 2,70 € Versandkosten, also 15,70 €
Versand nur innerhalb Deutschlands.

Bitte beachten: Das Taschenbuch mit 290 Seiten hat keinen Farbschnitt, das kann ich mir finanziell nicht leisten.

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#Lesen #Buch #Fantasyroman #MMRomance #Fantasy

Der Tempel der flammenden Herzen

Einige Jahre sind vergangen, seit eine Untotenarmee das Land Vanfarin verwüstet und mit einem Krieg überzogen hat. Der junge Jhorin hat alles verloren: seine Familie, sein Heim in einem Dorf, eine mögliche Ausbildungsstelle. Mittlerweile lebt er in der Hauptstadt Semvansin auf der Straße und schlägt sich mit gelegentlichen Tagelöhnerarbeiten durch. Der Vertreter einer Sekte lockt ihn und eine Freundin in seine Gemeinschaft. Zunächst scheint dort alles ganz wunderbar zu sein, außerdem lernt Jhorin einen Mann kennen, zu dem er sich sehr hingezogen fühlt. Aber der schöne Schein trügt …

Ein in sich abgeschlossener Fantasyroman mit einer Slowburn MM Romance.

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

Two soldiers on opposite sides, pixie Commander Stargazer Candleflash and human Sergeant Edwin Harris, find their fates forever entwined, first by revenge, but as they crash together in a dangerous rainforest, they’re forced to work together, just to survive. Will they make it or will their bickering get them killed?

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(Left) The cover of Fey Fighters, by Owen Tyme.

The background is the stars of space, with nebula-like clouds, in blue. This has been divided into jigsaw puzzle pieces by dark lines marking the lines between pieces.

The foreground features an enormous, stylized phoenix, which is composed of fire. The phoenix looms over an Earth-like world heavily obscured by cloud cover.

(Right) The same world from the cover orbits a purple gas giant, with a stream of flame above it, which may be the phoenix, with the following text over the top:

“We’re in a human-made, goblin-enchanted spacecraft, powered by a dryad that’s under the mistaken impression she’s a nuclear reactor, half-piloted by a pixie and half-piloted by a human.”

“Is there anywhere we can go we won’t be shot on sight?”

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

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50% off @ #Smashwords : https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1543413
Also in Ebook omnibus (volumes 1-3): https://www.smashwords.com/books/1742997

With the return of her arch-nemesis to the world in 1972, the Hunter literally goes to war, finding herself drawn to Vietnam, once more backed up by her demon-hunting allies, but as all that faced the horrors of the Vietnam War, she finds her time there trying and emotionally difficult.

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(Left) The cover of She Goes to War, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

Three people dressed in tiger-stripe camouflage crouch near the edge of a jungle, in Veitnam. The jungle is a mixture of bamboo and ferns.

The first is a girl with brown hair and blue eyes. She wears a dress, top hat and elbow-length fingerless gloves. She points out of the jungle.

The second is a hispanic man and his skin is covered in greasepaint, to make him blend in even better. He wears a military uniform, including a hat with a round brim and leans on an AK-47 for support. His vest has pouches large enough for spare magazines for his weapon. He looks through a pair of binoculars at what the girl is pointing at.

The third is huge and has the head of a cat, with black fur and green eyes. He wears a military uniform.

(Right) The view from the back of a military cargo plane, with the rear hatch open, in flight, while cargo is dropped for descent via parachute, with the following quote over the top:

“Did you see that?”

“No! I officially *never* saw that crate! I *did not* see the flash of a sword cut the crate apart and *very specifically* didn’t see it explode into a shower of thousands of dinner rolls, with a teenage girl in the middle!”

“Good! I was afraid I was the only one that hadn’t seen that!”

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

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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 wearing an old, black dress, fingerless, elbow-length black gloves and a battered, black top hat, with a blue rose attached to the band. The tearing of her clothes hints that she's recently been in a fight. Her hair is short, but messy. Her eyes are blue. In her hands is a wakizashi, a short sword of Japanese design. The tsuba, or hilt guard, is in the shape of an opening, blue rose. The blade shines blue. The image is black and white, aside from the details in blue, hinting at film-noir influences in the art. (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. The first is a girl with brown hair and blue eyes, in a dress, top hat and elbow-length fingerless gloves. She wears a dress, top hat and elbow-length fingerless gloves. The second is is covered in greasepaint and a military uniform, who leans on an AK-47 for support. He looks through a pair of binoculars. The third is huge and has the head of a cat, with black fur and green eyes. He also wears a military uniform. (Bottom Right) The cover of the novel, Demon for President!, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson. Two politicians 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. The flag is obviously quite dirty. The democrat on the left is in a dark suit and blue tie. He has blond hair and wears brass-framed glasses. His expression is fairly serious. The republican on the right is also blond, but his expression is a smile. He wears a gray suit, a red tie and brass-framed glasses. The two men are very similar in appearance, because they're brothers. (Top Right) The cover of the book bundle, Ashen Blades: Open Wounds, by Owen Tyme, which includes volumes one through three of Ashen Blades. The cover consists of a Japanese sword with a black hilt wrapping, an M1911 pistol and a pineapple grenade lying on a somewhat rough wooden surface composed of five vertically oriented boards that have a dark stain.$

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

Nicole seeks to collect the missing fragments of the magical city of Kurg from her home world, but the remaining pieces were deactivated and are hard to find. Luckily, she just found the first piece of the Seventh Sage, an ancient stone man that knows the future, which she hopes knows where to find them.

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(Left) The cover of Stone Prophet, by Owen Tyme.

At the center is a hexagonal coin with a golden appearance,. That bears a watercolor painting of a woman's face, which drips paint as if it were fresh.

Following the edges of the coin, the background is divided by a spiral of black lines into six images representing vital pieces of the titular stone prophet.

Upper right is an attractive woman with blue eyes and blond hair that's almost white. She stands in place of Memory.

Right is an eye with a blue iris surrounded by blue skin and golden decorations, representing Vision.

Lower right is a hooded woman in darkness, partially illuminated by a purple triangle that magically restrains her. She is Skill.

Lower left is a heart made of and resting in blue sand, with yellow light inside. That shines through cracks, hinting at fragility. This is Emotion.

Left is a gray sphere covered in black zeros and ones. More zeros and ones lay over the top, in blurred white. This is Reason.

Upper Left is a brass statue of justice, wearing a robe and blindfold. She holds a sword and scales. Behind her are the stars of space. This is Heart.

(Right) The same attractive woman from the upper right section of the cover, looking right at the viewer. The following quote frames her face, above and below:

“Does the Leader make the hard choices, or do the hard choices make the Leader?”

“Will she do what must be done, for the good of all?”

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

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Major spoilers inside!

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Chapter 24 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

The invasion of Hell begins with Artemis and her team using a moon base to open a brief portal, using the raw life energy that pools on the surface during the new moon. That's followed by several other portals, backed by the magic of The Cauldron of the Elements...

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Ebook (New Release): https://books2read.com/RowleysRide

The space pirate, Captain Edwina “Roaring” Rowley wakes in the vacuum of space, in orbit of the old harvest moon, Cakana, despite the fact her body is literally frozen stiff. She’s utterly confused by the fact Nuva, the goddess of death, didn’t come for her soul.

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$The cover of Rowley's Ride, by Owen Tyme. The central image is a ghostly electric guitar composed mostly of blue and white light, with a metal plate covering a fair bit of the main body. The guitar has a bright and shiny aura, almost like electricity, though the non-metallic portions are transparent. The background is a fractal arrangement of stained-glass panels, in various shades of red.$

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Behold my awesome short story collection. It has a little bit of everything, if everything is defined as fantasy AND science fiction. Even my cat likes it.

Gandalf the Grey Cat is not for sale, but you can buy Relics From a Traveling Show:

https://kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1/p/relics-from-a-traveling-show-ebook1

kindle (DRM free)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJWQRWGY
Kobo, Nook & more:
https://books2read.com/relicsfromatravelingshow

*also on bookshop.org, Hoopla, Overdrive & Biblioboard. Ask your local library to purchase it!

#books #reading #fantasy #bookpromo

Fluffy grey kitten lying on his back on a blue blanket in a “paint me like one of your French girls” pose. A paperback book Press on the blanket behind his right shoulder.The book is titled Relics From A Traveling Show and the front cover illustration shows a wizard sitting at a desk next to a bookcase.

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Chapter 6 of The Book of Newts: Witchhome is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

Iris Blackwell stands to deliver a sermon at a funeral, a part of her duties as one of Nuva's Blessed.

However, just as she's about to begin, her chest and left arm ache and she slumps forward, over the pulpit!

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Chapter 17 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

After a conversation with Macie in the real world, Mika's knife uses a lull in the sparring match with Grace to ask some questions.

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Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TymeDarkMoon
Series Ebook omnibus: https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion

On a world thought to have no moon, its sudden appearance inspires wonder and terror. Research links the full moon and catastrophe, revealing the existence of ‘Harbingers of Doom’, creatures that harvest souls. Can everyone survive or will they be reaped like wheat?

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(Left) The cover of dark moon, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

In the foreground, a redheaded witch and a dark haired wizard fight back to back, holding some rather large pistols. The witch is in a black dress and the wizard is in a black robe with golden decorations. Both looked a bit purple, due to the lighting. The witch's hair blows on the wind and she wears a necklace of bone beads.

Behind them, there's dust, mist and fog lit by twilight as a moon rises, framing their heads. Objects that look like shooting stars fall from the moon and there's a few visible impacts.

(Right) A white moon, on a background of the stars of space, with the following quote over the top of it:

“Idiot! You’ve likely killed us both, leaving us stuck out in the open like this.”

“We’ve got incoming. I know you’re angry and I suppose you’ve got every right to be, but we need to defend ourselves.”

“ ‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend’, for now, and then we decide what to do about the conflict between us.”

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

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Bienvenue ! Je suis Marie-Gaëlle, illustratrice et autrice de fantasy (souvent érotique) à Strasbourg.

Je peins principalement des femmes, inspirées par la fantasy, la féerie et la mythologie. Mes peintures sont parfois NSFW, parfois non, au gré de mon humeur.

Je gère seule ma boutique en ligne sur https://www.aemarielle.com/ . Vous y trouverez mes aquarelles originales et des tirages d'art de qualité musée.

Mes oeuvres les plus 🔞 sont sur Secrets d'alcôve, ma galerie érotique. Pour recevoir les accès, il suffit de vous inscrire à mes emails.

#Présentation #Introduction #fantasy #MastoArt #FediArt

Une nymphe nue suspendue à une balancelle végétale au dessus d'un étang dans la forêt.

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📚 Japanese Gothic by: Kylie Lee Baker

October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to the one place that might offer refuge—his father’s new home in Japan, a house hidden by sword ferns and wil...

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October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to the one place that might offer refuge—his father’s new home in Japan, a house hidden by sword ferns and wild ginger. But something is terribly wrong with the house: no animals will come near it, the bedroom window isn't always a window, and a woman with a sword appears in the yard when night falls.

October, 1877: Sen is a young samurai in exile, hiding from the imperial soldiers in a house behind the sword ferns. A monster came home from war wearing her father’s face, but Sen would do anything to please him, even turn her sword on her own mother. She knows the soldiers will soon slaughter her whole family when she sees a terrible omen: a young foreign man who appears outside her window.

One of these people is a ghost, and one of these stories is a lie.

Something is hiding beneath the house of sword ferns, and Lee and Sen will soon wish they never unburied it.

For readers who love:
Grady Hendrix and Stephen King Japanese mythology Friendship and family themes Terrifying, gory stories Horror with heart A new take on the classic haunted house trope

USA TODAY Bestseller
New York Times Most Anticipated Book for 2026
USA TODAY Most Anticipated Books of 2026
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Book Riot "Our Most Anticipated Books of 2026"

From the critically acclaimed,

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The Wizards and the Warriors by Hugh Coock is out in audiobook format for the first time.

From: r/hughcook

[Announcement] The Wizards and The Warriors by Hugh Cook audio book now live! (Audible, Google Books and Kobo)

"Hey folks!

Morgan here, the fan narrator for Chronicles of an Age of Darkness.

I am super pleased to be able to announce that the audiobooks are now live and available for purchase!

Audible, Kobo, Google Books"

I also found it on LibroFM:

https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781963191424-the-wizards-and-the-warriors

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I've been really slow at posting AF attacks, but here's one on AmbiguousSyntax's character Trailston Hellbrow. From the character description, he can talk to animals and sometimes releases horses when they aren't happy with their owners.

(I appreciate a character who appreciates animals)

#MastoArt #ArtFight #ArtFight2026 #DnD #Fantasy #FantasyArt #Horses

Trailston Hellbrow is running away from a barn with a pair of horses and a cat. He is shouting "Go go go!" and a rancher in the background is shouting "Stop Thief"

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Eirlys, or simply "Eiry" to her friends, is a snow fairy from the far north. Eiry is a bubbly, kind and sometimes a bit childish girl, who loves nothing more than making friends with humans and listening to their various stories. She might as well be curiosity incarnate, and loves nothing more than learning new things about her human friends.

Wonderful art by CoffeeCaaat!

#Eirlys #Fairy #OC #minigirl #originalcharacter #girl #fantasy

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BCS #464 ebook is out early today at @WeightlessBooks & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories by Nat Katz and Lars Wehman Dabney, behind new cover art by Sam Jumisko.

(Buying BCS ebooks or an ebook subscription at Weightless Books gets you BCS stories a week early on your e-reader and helps us pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium. Thank you!)

https://weightlessbooks.com/fiction/beneath-ceaseless-skies-issue-464/
https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceaseless-Skies-Issue-464-ebook/dp/B0HDK8XSGK/
#fantasy #sff #shortstory #ebook

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Chapter 1 of The Book of Newts: Witchhome is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

Hobard Twoheart walks the forest in the foothills of Mount Rimestar, at night, tracking a very unusual beast, that he might claim the bounty placed on its head by Dame Amelia Blackwell, the local governor.

However, the beast is not the rabid wolf or bear he assumed it to be...

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Chapter 18 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

Oz'gozod finally gives up on her telepathic assault and retreats to her stricken and dying body.

Freed from the mental battle, Masher escapes his cell, to completely turn the tables on his tormentor...

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Half off @ #Smashwrods : https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1691775

Zechariah Jacobs has angered a vast empire that spans a third of the galaxy, which is far too much for his planet to stand against, but in a clash of wizards and magic versus technology, it’s hard to say which will win.

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(Left) The cover of Wrath of the Sky, by Owen Tyme.

On a black background, a planet much like earth burns, set aflame. The flames are on the top and sides, but haven't yet reached the bottom.

(Right) An ogre stands on a rocky cliffside path, clearly quite upset, with both his head and arms raised as he cries out! The background is blue sky with white clouds. The following quote is laid over the top of the scene:

Winzon grinned evilly. With great slowness and ceremony, he undid the draw-string of his sack and up-ended it, dropping an ogre skull at the brute’s feet!

The massive ogre’s entire demeanor changed in an instant! He backed away, carefully stepping out of reach of Winzon’s ax, even though it was still strapped to his back!

The brute whispered, “Ogre-slayer!”

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

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