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Kris Madigan
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queer author of f/f novellas & short stories | fantasy and historical fiction | she/her | #LesFic | #BookSky | fuck Gen AI

✨OF ALL THE STARS✨ out now!!
🌊 New Novella 🌊 TBA 2026

https://kris-madigan.itch.io/
https://linktr.ee/krismadigan
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Kris Madigan @krismadigan.bsky.social · 26d
I'm Kris! Writer, gamer, archer, occasional crafter, & critter enthusiast. I write sapphic short stories & novellas where things always turn out okay & the yearning is abundant!

Check out my work or come say hi :)

✏️ kris-madigan.itch.io
✏️ linktr.ee/krismadigan

#BookSky #WriteSky #IndieAuthor
Text on a deep grey blue marble background that reads: Kris Madigan If you’re interested in... sapphics, folklore & mythology, journeys of self discovery, yearning, supporting queer authors ...then you might like my stories! itch.io (logo) ko-fi (logo)
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To Sleep
A sheep flying amongst white birds and clouds, over fields, carrying a sleeping boy on its back
December 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Another dear friend of mine could use help! We survived the 2010s Avengers fandom together & stayed besties. She finally got her knee fixed but can't work just yet.

Email krismadiganwrites (@) gmail.com w/ proof of donation & I'll send you free copies of my books!

www.gofundme.com/f/support-ca...
Two ebook covers for a novella and short story by Kris Madigan frame a Go Fund Me square, to support Cailin's recovery and living expenses.
December 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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#sketchaday #artsky #blueskyart #bskyart #art #frog #forg #Xmas

The Xmas tree frog hides somewhere in your house and scares the crap out of you on Xmas morning.

If you’ve been very, very good. 🤭😁💜🐸🎄
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a squirrel tree frog in a Santa hat clinging to a post wrapped in multicolour Christmas lights. The frog is facing left. They have a round green body with darker green blobs, and yellow-green underside. They have gold eyes with a horizontal black pupil, and their mouth is shaped in a slight smile. Their paws are clinging to the post above and below their body. The Santa hat is red with white fluffy edging and pompom on the pointed tip, which is folded down in front of them. The Christmas lights are pink, blue, purple, orange, and yellow, with white bases on a white wire in a spiral around the yellow-green post. They have haloes of colour around them, to indicate their glow. Background colour is deep green. Photo reference: John White, from “A Guide to the Frogs and Toads of Virginia” Special Publication #3 by the Va Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries (date unknown, about 2010).
December 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Shop's open!

houndsaint.etsy.com

Dec 17th is USPS's cutoff date for holiday shipping this year!
December 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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iridescentdreams.bsky.social
friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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In case you missed it, there is in fact still time to grab the end-of-year indie fantasy mega bundle from itch-io! 64 books by 64 awesome indie authors, what's not to like? The meme summarises it pretty well I think.

itch.io/b/3409/end-o...

#BookSky 🩵📚 📢📚 📦📚
A remix of the Drake meme where he rejects one thing but approves of another. Rejection image is captioned "buying a bunch of ebooks separately to read over the holidays" while the approving image is captioned "buying the itch.io indie fantasy bundle so you can have 64 books at once". A scaled down, green-themed graphic for the bundle, featuring a silhouette of a man and a dragon, has been photoshopped on top.
December 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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"You have to use AI."

...why?
People keep saying that AI is inevitable. Like Bartleby, I'd prefer not to... We "have to use it!" My response to that is simply... WHY? Why is it being pushed so much and into so many things? Once you've gotten people to cede their decision making to an algorithm, eventually they'll stop thinking for themselves. Why would I outsource thinking for myself to a machine? I have a brain.
December 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
krismadigan.bsky.social
Another dear friend of mine could use help! We survived the 2010s Avengers fandom together & stayed besties. She finally got her knee fixed but can't work just yet.

Email krismadiganwrites (@) gmail.com w/ proof of donation & I'll send you free copies of my books!

www.gofundme.com/f/support-ca...
Two ebook covers for a novella and short story by Kris Madigan frame a Go Fund Me square, to support Cailin's recovery and living expenses.
December 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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to be cringe is to be free and we all had to start somewhere but I pulled out the "book" I wrote when I was 11 and I'm losing my shit
December 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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This year, I'm joining the Smashwords End of Year Sale! All my books at 75% off! Most of my books are short story collections, but I have a few novels here and there too. I dabble in all sorts of things, so maybe you'll find something you like?

#booksky #booksale

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Alina Lee
Alina Lee is a fan of the fantasy genre and tabletop RPG player, dabbles occasionally in video games, and watches more educational youtube content than most people expect. It prefers to write the kind...
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December 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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I am just *two* sales away from hitting 150 KDP sales for The Strange Grey Everything!!! 💪🥳

Check it out if you like werewolves and romance in small, gothic towns 🐺🤍

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/aBMB
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
Ebook cover for The Strange Grey Everything by Rebecca Crunden; cover shows a shadow of a grey wolf above a forest that's dark green and black and foggy. Text is gold and greyish-white. 148 sales on KDP
December 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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It's December. The street I'm driving down is lined with golden and red trees. It is 85 degrees out.
December 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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"I wish all companies insisting on AI a very bankruptcy"
December 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Ciri
#witcher #art
digital illustration drawing of ciri from witcher games
December 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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i do wish more people understood that what makes writing "poetic" has much less to do with the word choice and much more to do with the pacing and structure of sentences and paragraphs. the rhythm of the language is absolutely vital to the feel of the text.
December 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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So, it's been 6 months of Itch ignoring my payouts & refusing to even answer why they won't give me the money I'm owed for my *own* sales.

If y'all would like to help me out, direct sales from my Ko-Fi shop get paid out immediately so please consider buying my books (ebook & print) there!
Visit Emery Lee's Shop!
I've opened a shop. Come take a look!
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December 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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ardenpowell.bsky.social
Every book I have discounted at Smashwords this month until Jan 1st!

✨Southern gothic horror
✨Western horror-romance
✨SFFH short story collection
✨Action/adventure fantasy romance
✨Choose-your-path horror
✨Everything is queer
✨All under $2.99

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The Bayou $2.99 USD. Words: 32,680. A queer southern gothic horror novella set in Louisiana, 1935. Haunted journalist Eugene Reveur is held hostage by a deadly and charismatic bank robber as his childhood memories of a missing girl unravel, and his town disappears one person at a time. Flesh and Bone $1.49 USD. Words: 14,470. A queer western-gothic horror-romance set in the shadows of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, 1889. The Carnelian King and Other Stories $1.99 USD. Words: 58,560. A collection of 15 queer fantasy short stories introducing dazzling new worlds. Obsidian Island $2.99 USD. Words: 93,260. Four shipwrecked sailors. An island of unimaginable beauty. And a nightmare determined to hunt them down and consume them, bodies and souls. A multi-POV MM action/adventure fantasy romance with horror elements. In the Pit of Your Stomach $1.49 USD. Words: 17,380. You are being hunted by a bloodthirsty monster. Your choices: Escape to survive another day. Romance your best and only friend while you both still have the chance. Meet a violent death, ripped apart by the creature's needle-sharp teeth. Succumb to infection and give in to your new cannibalistic urges. A short, interactive choose-your-own-horror story with 18 possible endings.
December 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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The Smashwords holiday sale is going on right now, and I see a lot of my indie author friends have some awesome discounts 👀 I wrote this guide to putting non-Amazon ebooks onto your Kindle ereader back when itchio was the hot new thing, but it should apply to Smashwords ePub files too!
The easiest way to transfer non-Amazon ebooks to your Kindle - Alex Pendragon
Just because you read on a Kindle, doesn't mean you have to buy Amazon ebooks. Transferring itch.io purchases is surprisingly easy.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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adwills.bsky.social
just know, when you say you like a character I created, I will remember it forever, brother. I will ride out and fight for you should you need me, defending you to my last breath.
November 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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krismadigan.bsky.social
I'm Kris! Writer, gamer, archer, occasional crafter, & critter enthusiast. I write sapphic short stories & novellas where things always turn out okay & the yearning is abundant!

Check out my work or come say hi :)

✏️ kris-madigan.itch.io
✏️ linktr.ee/krismadigan

#BookSky #WriteSky #IndieAuthor
Text on a deep grey blue marble background that reads: Kris Madigan If you’re interested in... sapphics, folklore & mythology, journeys of self discovery, yearning, supporting queer authors ...then you might like my stories! itch.io (logo) ko-fi (logo)
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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i changed my pfp and keep getting jumpscared by it 😂
December 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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I have 2 therapy sessions between now and going to my parents' place for Christmas. Hopefully enough time to make a contingency plan to go along with my peace offerings 🤞
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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I have 5 books in Smashwords' big End of Year Sale! Queer horror, fantasy, and romance $2.99 or less all month 🎄✨

THE BAYOU and OBSIDIAN ISLAND - $2.99
THE CARNELIAN KING - $1.99
FLESH AND BONE and IN THE PIT OF YOUR STOMACH - $1.49

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Cover art for The Carnelian King and Other Stories by Arden Powell: fantasy illustration of a red and gold dragon with a snakelike head, catfish whiskers and koi scales, looking at a knight in golden armour. The knight is riding a dappled grey horse, who is rearing to meet the dragon. They are against a dreamy, romantic background of painted trees and sky. The Bayou illustrated cover art: a minimalist black church surrounded by bare trees in front of a full moon or a pale sun, with a staring alligator underneath. Obsidian Island cover art: title over a golden compass surrounded by flowering crimson tree branches, on a navy blue background of swirling tentacles. 2025 End of Year Sale on Smashwords. December 8-January 1, ebooks discounted between 25-100% off!
December 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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My FFXIV-inspired debut, Inarora's Excursion, is available for Pre-Order now! Don't miss the first chapter of Ina's story, where she is sent into the past and meets her great-grandpas. Meanwhile, her father is left in the present, desperately searching for her.

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A graphic featuring a physical mock up of Inarora's Excursion, with several logos to the side indicating where you can pre-order your eBook copy today!
December 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM