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Oleander Craw

@oleandercraw.bsky.social

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Author of dark SFF novels for queer and trans readers who want to chew on something weird and evocative. Keep it monstrous, y'all || 🚫NO AI || they/he 🏳️‍⚧️ THE WARDS WILL FALL releasing 10/27/2025 https://oleandercraw.carrd.co/

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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 7d

Book cover release day!! I'm thrilled to share this absolutely fantastic cover illustrated by @sorenhaxan.bsky.social. I feel so incredibly lucky!

THE WARDS WILL FALL is a fantasy novel with a mm relationship releasing October 27, 2025. Read for free on my newsletter.

www.oleandercraw.com

Book cover for the wards will fall. It features a man with dark curly hair and olive times skin on the front. He is looking concerned with a hand raised. Golden wards are tattooed on the side of his head and back of his hands. He is wearing an elaborate coat covered in silver rocs. A shadow is behind him with many horns and a golden eye. The title says the wards will fall. Underneath it says oleander craw.

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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 2h

If you ever want eyeballs on anything lemme know

Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 3h

Excuse me YES

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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 3h

Wishing you as smooth an experience as is possible with airports

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MK Hardy @mkhardywrites.com · 6h

SURPRISE! We were thrilled to contribute to Rebellion's Thirteenth Floor anthology, which sends homicidal computer Max all across the world to protect and terrorise.

Better yet, it's available to pre-order in the Waterstones sale. It's due out February 12, 2026 - perfect for Valentine's Day!

An overlay of The Thirteenth Floor anthology on a background of a red and yellow fireball. The cover features a jagged graphic face in red with distressed yellow marks across it, and computer code overlaid on top. Designed by Sam Gretton.

The Thirteenth Floor anthology cover on a Waterstone's promo graphic that states "25% off on upcoming books. Pre-order now with code: OCTOBER25. 14-17 October. Online only."

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 10h

just saw a commercial mocking chubby dads for wearing tiny shorts and this is a) not the variety of short straight heterosexual men in their late 40s wear and b) working directly against the cultural momentum we have been pressing forward sisyphean for my entire life and i WILL NOT stand for it

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👻👻👻boonoteat👻👻👻 @donoteat.bsky.social · 8h

the cheese so sharp it kills you instantly

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vampire häxan @sorenhaxan.bsky.social · 12h

be sure to tell your friends that you love them

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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 6h

Hell yeah lunar tides is so good

Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 13h

Their tails kinda form a heart :]

Two cats snuggling on a floral duvet. One is toasty cream and the other is a tuxedo.

Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 15h

Damn this is a cover

The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 22h

and the cover

Golden Maze by @carlydraws.bsky.social

$A fractured red sky, maze-like with golden fissures, surrounds a golden skull at the top of a long, golden path awaiting a lone figure.$

Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 17h

It's a good day when both starbursts in the wrapper are the fruit punch flavor

Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 17h

Damn that's good

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vampire häxan @sorenhaxan.bsky.social · 20h

yeah that's good for today

brutalism squarescape in black and reds - big snake, details from Calvary by Antonella da Messina (1475) plus a bonus sigil of count/earl bifrons from the lesser key of solomon. on the bottom it says "caught in the gallows' sway"

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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 17h

Bought it as soon as I saw it on the stack >:)

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Suzanne 🪡 in Brno: Oct 17-19🪡 @anatomoth.bsky.social · 1d

"Where are your thoughts?" original acrylic painting now available on my shop. Give it a lovely home!

ko-fi.com/s/2fb68c3300

more originals are on the way, currently working on uploading them!

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Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 23h

We don't tell young writers "You gotta be a huge freakin' weirdo!" often enough.

It's an asset!

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Jan 28

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 1d

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 1d

Yessssss. I love Tidal, really only good things to say about it

Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 1d

On my reading list for the end of October, it sounds intriguing

DR LUKANSTEIN ⚧️ @beastcutter.bsky.social · 1d

Not only is Lazarus exactly this but you can read the first 6 chapters for free right here!! beastcutter.itch.io/lazarus-teaser

Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 1d

Aaahhhh I love seeing a Tanith Lee book on this stack!!

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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 1d

Oooooh there's the seasonal depression

Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 1d

Tbh a little shocked this is not a thing

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Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 1d

We're slowly contacting people for our A Month of Rain and Reads event, but there's still a few days left before we close the sign ups. If you want to take part, read on 👇

Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 6d

We're super excited by the responses we've had so far for A Month of Rain and Reads! We're going to start contacting people soon.

If you'd like to take part, please take a look at the sign up sheet as we'll be closing sign ups on 15th October. Watch this space!

Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 14d

We've got a big announcement to make! For the entire month of November, we're going to be hosting an event celebrating indie and self-published SFF authors that we're calling... A Month of Rain and Reads!

But we'd like YOU to get involved! Find out more:
www.readindiefantasy.com/announcing-a...

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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 1d

Slowly adding to my unusual plant situation and waiting impatiently for the black bat flower I ordered to ship (photo not mine).

I love that it blooms around Halloween. A perfect plant.

a black bat flower in full bloom. It has big black petals with white tentacles. The leave are shiny and green.