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Mars 🌟 GGC41 @mmarsloud.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Hollow Magic Street Team is officially open!🚨
Apply here: forms.gle/UNU47yPF7o5s...

Mars 🌟 GGC41 @mmarsloud.bsky.social · 3d

I'll also be starting my street team on Monday, 10/13 - applications will be open until all spots for physical goods are filled. More information will be in the application - link will be posted on Monday!

shares & boosts appreciated always 🌟

image of white text on a dark background. text reads "Hollow Magic street team. Applications open October 13th (10am PT). WHAT YOU'LL DO: help promote Hollow Magic on social media!. WHAT YOU'LL GET: an eARC of Hollow Magic, early pre-order goods (3 character cards), street team exclusive bookmark. Spots for physical goods will be limited!

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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 22h

I wish everyone participating in Portfolio Day a very get all the money and love and manageable workload

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Mars 🌟 GGC41 @mmarsloud.bsky.social · 21h

#portfolioday again? no problem 👌

I'm Mars and I'm always available for book covers! Particularly sci-fi, fantasy, or horror

🎨marslauderbaugh.weebly.com

front cover of CELESTIAL MONSTERS by Aiden Thomas featuring Teo and Aurelio

Alternate front cover for HELL FOLLOWED WITH US by Andrew Joseph White, for Dazzling Bookish Shop

Commissioned art featuring two sci-fi inspired men and the shadow of a space creature.

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Bex Glendining @lgions.bsky.social · 1d

hi #portfolioday 🌸 i'm bex, a UK based illustrator, comic artist and colourist. available work starting mid november and onwards! i would love to do some comic covers :3

🌐 www.lgions.com
📧[email protected]

digital illustration of a woman looking at some sea creatures swimming in the sky

digital illustration of theo teaching evelyn how to play the piano in a victorian era-ish room

digital illustration of a humanoid dragon lade in an antique shop surrounded by items

digital illustration of theo and evelyn. theo is in front, in side portrait and evelyn is facing the viewer

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Libra Summers @iliibra.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay 💗 I'm Libra, a freelance illustrator from Germany! I love working on character art and book covers, especially if they're queer 🌈

📧 [email protected]
✏️ ilibra.carrd.co#portfolio

A mock book cover with two women, standing back to back, with the text Memories of Her by Elodie Murray

A cover illustration for Wren Martin Ruins it All by Amanda Dewitt, featuring two boys on their phone walking by each other

Two boys lying in bed together, looking into each others eyes

Two boys embracing with a big scarf wrapped around them in the snow

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Mars 🌟 GGC41 @mmarsloud.bsky.social · 22h

Happy Book Birthday Rosiee!! 🦇🖤

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Rosiee "Captain" Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 23h

ITS A BAT DAMN TIME! 🦇⚰️🩸

Dead & Breakfast is out today! Vampires Arthur and Sal just want to live a quiet retirement running a B&B, but when the mayor is found dead in their garden, they must solve the crime to prove their innocence!

Get your copy: www.rosieethor.com/dead-and-bre...

Rosiee (white, nonbinary, short curly brown hair, octagonal glasses) wearing a sun hat and overalls with sunflowers on them and holding a copy of Dead & Breakfast.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 1d

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY (aka fuck Columbus day 😝)
For me making my beadwork, and for yall buying/wearing beadwork is a great way to say fuck Columbus, fuck colonizer assholes, fuck fascism. Im gonna stay celebrating my culture, the culture that they tried to wipe out from this land → cvkvlv.com

My hand holding a pair of long black beaded dangle earrings with red, orange, and yellow accents and silver bugle beads

My hand holding a pair of black beaded loop earrings with red, orange, and yellow accents and silver bugle beads

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Mars 🌟 GGC41 @mmarsloud.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Hollow Magic Street Team is officially open!🚨
Apply here: forms.gle/UNU47yPF7o5s...

Mars 🌟 GGC41 @mmarsloud.bsky.social · 3d

I'll also be starting my street team on Monday, 10/13 - applications will be open until all spots for physical goods are filled. More information will be in the application - link will be posted on Monday!

shares & boosts appreciated always 🌟

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Mars 🌟 GGC41 @mmarsloud.bsky.social · 3d

Welcome to the seaside village of Harp ❄️

When I first got the deal for Hollow Magic in 2023, I blacked out and drew a ton of things that I'd use for promo when I was finished. Now we're 10 months out from publication and I can finally start posting it 🥹
#hollowmagic

White text on dark background. Text reads: Welcome to the seaside village of Harp. The sea air will exhaust you with a deep longing for what used to be. You will not enter the castle on the farthest cliff; the doors have rotted into the earth, pushed down under the wait of frozen hands. The wind bites coldest where the dawn can see. You will not stay long.

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Mars 🌟 GGC41 @mmarsloud.bsky.social · 3d

I'll also be starting my street team on Monday, 10/13 - applications will be open until all spots for physical goods are filled. More information will be in the application - link will be posted on Monday!

shares & boosts appreciated always 🌟

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Mars 🌟 GGC41 @mmarsloud.bsky.social · 3d

I'll also be starting my street team on Monday, 10/13 - applications will be open until all spots for physical goods are filled. More information will be in the application - link will be posted on Monday!

shares & boosts appreciated always 🌟

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Mars 🌟 GGC41 @mmarsloud.bsky.social · 3d

Welcome to the seaside village of Harp ❄️

When I first got the deal for Hollow Magic in 2023, I blacked out and drew a ton of things that I'd use for promo when I was finished. Now we're 10 months out from publication and I can finally start posting it 🥹
#hollowmagic

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Mars 🌟 GGC41 @mmarsloud.bsky.social · 6d

PNW friends! in exactly one month I'll be bringing this bad boy (plus some toxic yuri) to Geek Girl Con from 11/8-11/9! I'll be posting my full catalogue and panel news as we get closer and table numbers are assigned 💙

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perpetualpages @perpetualpages.bsky.social · 12d

🔔 NEW VIDEO! Since we're in the middle of #LatineHeritageMonth, I thought I'd recommend 30 books by Latine authors for your TBR 📚📚📚 Picture Books! Horror! Romance! Short stories! You can find all that and more in my LHM reading guide 📖

📷 youtu.be/MONw0NJlvtU

Thumbnail from Adri's latest YouTube video. In the photo, Adri is smiling and holding up three books by Latine authors in either hand. The titles shown from left to right are: "The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar", "Iveliz Explains It All", "A Sunny Place for Shady People", "Flawless Girls", "The Devil Takes You Home", and "The Air You Breathe". Adri is wearing a dark grey heathered t-shirt that says "Decolonize Your Shelves," a silver chain necklace, a silver hoop earring in their left ear, a silver wire cuff on their right ear, and a silver barbell studded with a flower-shaped gem in their right eyebrow. At the top of the thumbnail in bold white text is the word "Latine", which has been edited to appear behind Adri's head and shoulders. End description.

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en nelson-correia @gipki.bsky.social · 14d

I hit 1000 sales on my etsy!! celebrate with me by shopping for 20% off. one week only! sale ends 10/08 creatoriq.cc/3Lb9DJl

pride flag cerberus greyhound sticker. 3 inches by 2 inches

the current three chapters of Boon of the Beacon Maker, a pirate horror fantasy story

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Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social · 15d

excited to share that I'm on the judging panel for this year's Otherwise awards!

AND, RELATEDLY: please recommend things for the Otherwise awards! nominations close 11/14, my reading list for this is already long but I'm stoked for it to get longer

otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...

News « Otherwise Award

All the latest news from the Otherwise Award, given to a work of science fiction or fantasy in one year which best explores & expands gender roles.

otherwiseaward.org

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Bex Glendining @lgions.bsky.social · 14d

my debut graphic novel On Starlit Shores is officially out now in the usa!! ahhh ✨🌊

cover for on starlit shores. main character alex (she/her) is a large side portrait, she's crying a mix of tears and stars. beneath her is a lighthouse and crashing waves against rocks.

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Mars 🌟 GGC41 @mmarsloud.bsky.social · Sep 11

Hollow Magic is officially 11 months away, so I thought it was time for an official publication date post ❄ I'll be posting more previews, lore, and cover (👀) on the 11th of each month going forward!

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Mars 🌟 GGC41 @mmarsloud.bsky.social · Sep 11

You can also add on Goodreads or request an ARC on Netgalley!

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Mars 🌟 GGC41 @mmarsloud.bsky.social · Sep 11

Hollow Magic is officially 11 months away, so I thought it was time for an official publication date post ❄ I'll be posting more previews, lore, and cover (👀) on the 11th of each month going forward!

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Nova & Mali @novamali.bsky.social · Aug 17

Hey you! Check out our ongoing silent auction to get your hands on beautiful queer art AND help us fundraise for Gaza Soup Kitchen!
Auction ends on August 22 - we’re halfway to our goal of $6,000.

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🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social · Aug 15

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

A decorative illustration of flowers with the caption “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser” with a severed hand with too many fingers

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Nova & Mali @novamali.bsky.social · Aug 15

PRINTS FOR PALESTINE!
Join us for a silent auction benefiting Gaza Soup Kitchen.

We've got 100+ items, including the Classics But Make It Gay trilogy, commissions, 70+ prints INCLUDING POSTER SIZE!, and merch!

Opens August 15 noon eastern USA time thru Aug 22.

www.32auctions.com/Novaandmali2...

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