Monsters and Maidens Publishing
@monstersandmaidens.bsky.social
Independent published books from a queer and neurodivergent author. Visit us at www.monstersandmaidenspublishing.com
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Honeycomb Heart - Sapphic and Sweet Romantasy
Becoming an adult is already hard. Add in involuntary wanderlust, young love, a swarm of bees, and one extremely sassy octopus — Vivian and Frieda will have their hands full as they start new lives wi...
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Emerging out of the void to announce that HONEYCOMB HEART's crowdfunding started today! Come check out the #BookBazaar25 for a range of #books, including comics, audiobooks, and plenty of #queer and SFF fun!
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8 days remaining, we're a bit behind on funding... Come back it now for exclusive art rewards!
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#booksky #tbb25 #thebookbazaar25 #crowdfunding #scifi #queerbooks #lgbtqbooks #indieauthor #alienromance #romance #aliens #audiobooks #queerscifi
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#booksky #tbb25 #thebookbazaar25 #crowdfunding #scifi #queerbooks #lgbtqbooks #indieauthor #alienromance #romance #aliens #audiobooks #queerscifi
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
8 days remaining, we're a bit behind on funding... Come back it now for exclusive art rewards!
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#booksky #tbb25 #thebookbazaar25 #crowdfunding #scifi #queerbooks #lgbtqbooks #indieauthor #alienromance #romance #aliens #audiobooks #queerscifi
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#booksky #tbb25 #thebookbazaar25 #crowdfunding #scifi #queerbooks #lgbtqbooks #indieauthor #alienromance #romance #aliens #audiobooks #queerscifi
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'The Inheritance Experiment' is another bonus story included in Operation: Chocolate Overload. First printed in 2018, it won the publisher's Editor's Choice award.
And yeah. While Keraun's tale is fun shenanigans, Donovan's is grim misery all the way down 😢
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And yeah. While Keraun's tale is fun shenanigans, Donovan's is grim misery all the way down 😢
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November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
'The Inheritance Experiment' is another bonus story included in Operation: Chocolate Overload. First printed in 2018, it won the publisher's Editor's Choice award.
And yeah. While Keraun's tale is fun shenanigans, Donovan's is grim misery all the way down 😢
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...
💙📚🪐
And yeah. While Keraun's tale is fun shenanigans, Donovan's is grim misery all the way down 😢
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...
💙📚🪐
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The Final Countdown: The Last Week
Recounting the first two weeks of The Book Bazaar, and beyond.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Thanks to another pledge we're at 41% funded now!
Let's gooo! And don't forget there's e-book, paperback, and hardback tiers, as well as exclusive art up for grabs!
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#booksky #tbb25 #thebookbazaar25 #crowdfunding #queerscifi #lgbtqbooks #indieauthor #alienromance
Let's gooo! And don't forget there's e-book, paperback, and hardback tiers, as well as exclusive art up for grabs!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...
#booksky #tbb25 #thebookbazaar25 #crowdfunding #queerscifi #lgbtqbooks #indieauthor #alienromance
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Thanks to another pledge we're at 41% funded now!
Let's gooo! And don't forget there's e-book, paperback, and hardback tiers, as well as exclusive art up for grabs!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...
#booksky #tbb25 #thebookbazaar25 #crowdfunding #queerscifi #lgbtqbooks #indieauthor #alienromance
Let's gooo! And don't forget there's e-book, paperback, and hardback tiers, as well as exclusive art up for grabs!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...
#booksky #tbb25 #thebookbazaar25 #crowdfunding #queerscifi #lgbtqbooks #indieauthor #alienromance
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Giving this another boost for the evening crowd! We're sitting at 1/3 of our goal and I need your help to get the rest of the way. Pledge levels include:
-Just the e-book of GULA
-The e-book set of THE SINGULARITY, CARRION CITY and GULA (all very much thematically connected)
-Just the e-book of GULA
-The e-book set of THE SINGULARITY, CARRION CITY and GULA (all very much thematically connected)
Help me fund epic poem GULA: A Poem For The End Times on BackerKit! A modernist/post-modernist long-form poem, GULA explores Carrion City, a place where the lost and forsaken end up and rarely leave -- a mirror city to the world of the beloved and treasured.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Giving this another boost for the evening crowd! We're sitting at 1/3 of our goal and I need your help to get the rest of the way. Pledge levels include:
-Just the e-book of GULA
-The e-book set of THE SINGULARITY, CARRION CITY and GULA (all very much thematically connected)
-Just the e-book of GULA
-The e-book set of THE SINGULARITY, CARRION CITY and GULA (all very much thematically connected)
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Happy Monday, friends! Time is flying. We're now at 9 days until #BookBazaar25 ends.
The Dark Side of Super's audio book, while funded, still has plenty of room for more heroes!
There's swag, books, art prints, and more!
Spread the word, #Booksky, and let's go!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
The Dark Side of Super's audio book, while funded, still has plenty of room for more heroes!
There's swag, books, art prints, and more!
Spread the word, #Booksky, and let's go!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Happy Monday, friends! Time is flying. We're now at 9 days until #BookBazaar25 ends.
The Dark Side of Super's audio book, while funded, still has plenty of room for more heroes!
There's swag, books, art prints, and more!
Spread the word, #Booksky, and let's go!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
The Dark Side of Super's audio book, while funded, still has plenty of room for more heroes!
There's swag, books, art prints, and more!
Spread the word, #Booksky, and let's go!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
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Aight folks, DOUBLE announcement time.
On Nov 26th at 6PM EST i will be doing a dramatic reading on twitch on the Book Bazaar channel of Boombride Chapter 1. Voices! Mistakes! My FACE. The video will be a recording but this is only so i can BE there to MST3K my own ass with y'all. BE THERE
On Nov 26th at 6PM EST i will be doing a dramatic reading on twitch on the Book Bazaar channel of Boombride Chapter 1. Voices! Mistakes! My FACE. The video will be a recording but this is only so i can BE there to MST3K my own ass with y'all. BE THERE
Twitch
Twitch is the world
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November 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Aight folks, DOUBLE announcement time.
On Nov 26th at 6PM EST i will be doing a dramatic reading on twitch on the Book Bazaar channel of Boombride Chapter 1. Voices! Mistakes! My FACE. The video will be a recording but this is only so i can BE there to MST3K my own ass with y'all. BE THERE
On Nov 26th at 6PM EST i will be doing a dramatic reading on twitch on the Book Bazaar channel of Boombride Chapter 1. Voices! Mistakes! My FACE. The video will be a recording but this is only so i can BE there to MST3K my own ass with y'all. BE THERE
Our last interview of the day is with @monstersandmaidens.bsky.social, who is raising funds for Honeycomb Heart as part of @the-book-bazaar.com, a cozy sapphic romantasy featuring animal familiars!
www.readindiefantasy.com/amorar-inter... #AMoRaR
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November 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Babe, wake up! New sea otter just dropped 🥹
We can’t wait for you all to meet Ruby! 🦦
Ruby moved into the sea otter habitat Wednesday evening after arriving from the @montereybayaquarium.org. She's the first southern sea otter in our care, joining northern roommates Mishka and Sekiu. 👯♀️
Ruby moved into the sea otter habitat Wednesday evening after arriving from the @montereybayaquarium.org. She's the first southern sea otter in our care, joining northern roommates Mishka and Sekiu. 👯♀️
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Babe, wake up! New sea otter just dropped 🥹
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November 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Cramped in a Tent With My Love Interest, Her Octopus, and My Hundreds of Bees
#BookBazaar25
#sapphic #IndieAuthor #booksky
#BookBazaar25
#sapphic #IndieAuthor #booksky
Let's have a little fun!
Time for a Tingler your title Tingler train of my fellow @the-book-bazaar.com participants!
Rename your book in the style of a Chuck Tingle tingler!
Mine turns into...
Pounded in the Butt By The Alien With A 🌺🍆
#booksky #tbb25 #thebookbazaar25 #tingler
Time for a Tingler your title Tingler train of my fellow @the-book-bazaar.com participants!
Rename your book in the style of a Chuck Tingle tingler!
Mine turns into...
Pounded in the Butt By The Alien With A 🌺🍆
#booksky #tbb25 #thebookbazaar25 #tingler
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Cramped in a Tent With My Love Interest, Her Octopus, and My Hundreds of Bees
#BookBazaar25
#sapphic #IndieAuthor #booksky
#BookBazaar25
#sapphic #IndieAuthor #booksky
Today's writing goal: finish Vivian's heart-to-dorsal-hearts conversation with her swarm of bees. It's a convo that needs to happen, but having all those little eyes focused on her sure does amp up the pressure.
#IndieAuthor #amwriting #queerauthors #sapphic
#IndieAuthor #amwriting #queerauthors #sapphic
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Today's writing goal: finish Vivian's heart-to-dorsal-hearts conversation with her swarm of bees. It's a convo that needs to happen, but having all those little eyes focused on her sure does amp up the pressure.
#IndieAuthor #amwriting #queerauthors #sapphic
#IndieAuthor #amwriting #queerauthors #sapphic
New life hack: use fairy dust to power yourself through the horrors (you know the ones)
You can get some hot off the press right here 😉
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#BookBazaar25 #Booksky #IndieAuthor
You can get some hot off the press right here 😉
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
#BookBazaar25 #Booksky #IndieAuthor
Fairy Seasons
Fairy Seasons is an anthology of light and darkness, exploring the fickle nature of fairy kind. The stories span from delightful tales of fairy encounters to nightmarish situations within the darkest ...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
New life hack: use fairy dust to power yourself through the horrors (you know the ones)
You can get some hot off the press right here 😉
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
#BookBazaar25 #Booksky #IndieAuthor
You can get some hot off the press right here 😉
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
#BookBazaar25 #Booksky #IndieAuthor
Lots of Niranjan's books are also currently available as rewards for the crowdfunding campaign for Jaya! It's a low fantasy retelling of the Mahabharata, with all four books now available in one big, beautiful omnibus:
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#IndieAuthor #BookBazaar25 #Booksky
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#IndieAuthor #BookBazaar25 #Booksky
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Lots of Niranjan's books are also currently available as rewards for the crowdfunding campaign for Jaya! It's a low fantasy retelling of the Mahabharata, with all four books now available in one big, beautiful omnibus:
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
#IndieAuthor #BookBazaar25 #Booksky
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#IndieAuthor #BookBazaar25 #Booksky
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Almost to the end of these! This section of GULA is the only part that's ever seen prior publication -- AUGURY was printed on its own in Zoetic Press last year, but was always part of a group of four. Two others of those four have now been replaced/rewritten, but those four poems are the oldest-
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Almost to the end of these! This section of GULA is the only part that's ever seen prior publication -- AUGURY was printed on its own in Zoetic Press last year, but was always part of a group of four. Two others of those four have now been replaced/rewritten, but those four poems are the oldest-
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@wctracy.bsky.social and some of the authors from Space Wizard Science Fantasy are live now on r/Fantasy with an AMA about small presses, TBB, editing, and more! Stop in, give an updoot, ask a question!
#AmWriting #Writer #SmallPress #IndieAuthor #Booksky
#AmWriting #Writer #SmallPress #IndieAuthor #Booksky
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November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
@wctracy.bsky.social and some of the authors from Space Wizard Science Fantasy are live now on r/Fantasy with an AMA about small presses, TBB, editing, and more! Stop in, give an updoot, ask a question!
#AmWriting #Writer #SmallPress #IndieAuthor #Booksky
#AmWriting #Writer #SmallPress #IndieAuthor #Booksky
Current crafting WIP 🎃🦃🍁
November 18, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Current crafting WIP 🎃🦃🍁
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I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers:
NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.
and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.
NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.
and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.
September 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers:
NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.
and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.
NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.
and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.
Today’s Honeycomb Heart progress: worked on moving Vivian and Frieda’s first kiss to a different chapter.
#sapphic #romantasy #BookBazaar25 #IndieAuthor
Vivian right after leaning in for a kiss: oh no should I have done that did she want that what if she doesn’t oh no oh no
Frieda:
#sapphic #romantasy #BookBazaar25 #IndieAuthor
Vivian right after leaning in for a kiss: oh no should I have done that did she want that what if she doesn’t oh no oh no
Frieda:
a kitten is standing on a colorful blanket on a couch in front of a window
Alt: a kitten is standing on a colorful blanket on a couch in front of a window. It suddenly pounces on the person holding the camera
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November 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Today’s Honeycomb Heart progress: worked on moving Vivian and Frieda’s first kiss to a different chapter.
#sapphic #romantasy #BookBazaar25 #IndieAuthor
Vivian right after leaning in for a kiss: oh no should I have done that did she want that what if she doesn’t oh no oh no
Frieda:
#sapphic #romantasy #BookBazaar25 #IndieAuthor
Vivian right after leaning in for a kiss: oh no should I have done that did she want that what if she doesn’t oh no oh no
Frieda:
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The Lucky Machine: A cozy sci-fi friendship story about a robot who escapes servitude, forges friendship with a disillusioned cyborg, & helps him regain his lost passion for fashion. 🤖 Back it now in ebook, paperback, or hardcover and get it before anyone else! TheLuckyMachine.com
#ad #Booksky
#ad #Booksky
November 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The Lucky Machine: A cozy sci-fi friendship story about a robot who escapes servitude, forges friendship with a disillusioned cyborg, & helps him regain his lost passion for fashion. 🤖 Back it now in ebook, paperback, or hardcover and get it before anyone else! TheLuckyMachine.com
#ad #Booksky
#ad #Booksky
Another hour has passed, so it's time for a quick overview of the books:
*Approx 300 pages per novel
*Epic Fantasy / Adventure
*YA / Adult
*Single POV
*Tone: Plucky and hopeful (despite serious odds)
*Approx 300 pages per novel
*Epic Fantasy / Adventure
*YA / Adult
*Single POV
*Tone: Plucky and hopeful (despite serious odds)
November 18, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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The Book Bazaar is also representing on BookFunnel with a small sampling! 💪
The Book Bazaar
A world of indie books awaits you at The Book Bazaar 2025!
Join a variety of authors, small press, and indie publishers as we celebrate all things book with a number of simultaneous literary crowdfu...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:21 AM
The Book Bazaar is also representing on BookFunnel with a small sampling! 💪
I’ve got my eyes on Mothball Magic, love the idea of a bunch of old folks coming out of retirement to kick ass. Big “the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak” energy. Hoping for some fantasy flavored grudges that go back DECADES.
#BookBazaar25 #Booksky #IndieAuthor #fantasy
#BookBazaar25 #Booksky #IndieAuthor #fantasy
Space Wizard Science Fantasy's campaign is about $2,000 off from funding, but injects 7 new queer sci-fi/fantasy stories into the SFF market. Want more LGBTQ+ books? Support the people making it now while they need it so they can make MORE!!
#Booksky #LGBTQ #QueerAuthors #IndieAuthor
#Booksky #LGBTQ #QueerAuthors #IndieAuthor
Space Wizard Science Fantasy: Year 4, part 2!
We're releasing 7 new queer science fiction and fantasy books from December 2025 to June 2026! We're changing formats just a little this year so you get your rewards earlier.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I’ve got my eyes on Mothball Magic, love the idea of a bunch of old folks coming out of retirement to kick ass. Big “the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak” energy. Hoping for some fantasy flavored grudges that go back DECADES.
#BookBazaar25 #Booksky #IndieAuthor #fantasy
#BookBazaar25 #Booksky #IndieAuthor #fantasy
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Space Wizard Science Fantasy's campaign is about $2,000 off from funding, but injects 7 new queer sci-fi/fantasy stories into the SFF market. Want more LGBTQ+ books? Support the people making it now while they need it so they can make MORE!!
#Booksky #LGBTQ #QueerAuthors #IndieAuthor
#Booksky #LGBTQ #QueerAuthors #IndieAuthor
Space Wizard Science Fantasy: Year 4, part 2!
We're releasing 7 new queer science fiction and fantasy books from December 2025 to June 2026! We're changing formats just a little this year so you get your rewards earlier.
www.backerkit.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Space Wizard Science Fantasy's campaign is about $2,000 off from funding, but injects 7 new queer sci-fi/fantasy stories into the SFF market. Want more LGBTQ+ books? Support the people making it now while they need it so they can make MORE!!
#Booksky #LGBTQ #QueerAuthors #IndieAuthor
#Booksky #LGBTQ #QueerAuthors #IndieAuthor
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Pssssssssssssssssssssst.
Audio book.
Audio book.
The Dark Side of Super Audio Book
The Dark Side of Super is an interconnected collection of super-powered shorts. Each features a dark, gritty, realistic take on powers, and adding another layer to the larger story arc being told. Loo...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Pssssssssssssssssssssst.
Audio book.
Audio book.