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Stephanie Burgis
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Fantasy writer, history geek, dark chocolate addict! Writes sparkling fantasy rom-coms for adults and fun MG fantasy adventures. She/her.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · Feb 20
It's time for a new pinned thread now that Wooing the Witch Queen is out in the US and the UK!

stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen
An image of the North American front cover of Wooing the Witch Queen shows a sinister witch queen in a spectacular beaded dress embracing her handsome and adoring new librarian (in a black wizard's robe) inside a library of magic filled with crows and masks and flying books. The tagline reads: Love can be a witch. A blurb from Sarah Beth Durst (New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop) reads: “Full of charm, wit, and magic… I loved it!” Around the image, against a starry night background, are various pieces of text connected to it by arrows. They read: “bi villainous heroine,” “sweet cinnamon-roll hero with a fake identity,” “crow friends,” “found family,” and “flirting with fountains pens.” At the bottom of the image are the words: Out now! In the centre of this image is the beautiful British cover of Wooing the Witch Queen, by Stephanie Burgis. The illustration shows a man in a cloak riding headlong through the night towards an ominous castle with an illuminated, crowned female figure in its doorway and bats flying overhead in the moonlight. A potion vial surrounds that central image and is further framed by leaves and branches. Crows sit on the branches, and a tagline reads: Love can be a witch. A blurb from Sangu Mandanna reads: ‘Warm and lovely’ On the lefthand side of the image around the cover is a stalk of herbs, surrounded by magical stars; on the righthand side is a fountain pen. The text above and below the cover reads: ‘He had to remember that she was infinitely more likely to kill him than to kiss him…’ Out Now in the UK!
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Posting this again because I've been getting questions: at this moment there is no licensed merch for Murderbot or Sanctuary Moon except what is on Worldbuilders Market worldbuildersmarket.com/collections/... where it's sold for charity fundraising. And they are getting a new t-shirt design soon.
Martha Wells
Worldbuilders Market is the official online shop of Worldbuilders, a geek-centered nonprofit supporting humanitarian efforts worldwide. We carry a wide variety of officially licensed merchandise from ...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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I really, really love this housewarming gift from @tinaconnolly.bsky.social , which is cheering up our new kitchen now! ❤️

(My very favorite strip from her fabulous Robot and Kittycat comic.)

I look at it every morning as I make my first coffee of the day! 😂
The framed comic strip, hanging by shelves full of pots and cups, shows Kittycat riding their best friend Robot the roomba while Roomba goes wild with energy, saying, "This is coffee? I feel great! I can clean the curtains! Dust the ceiling! What is this called, Kittycat?" Kittycat says, "The Zoomies."
December 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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djolder.bsky.social
I'm available for developmental edits on full and partial manuscripts for a limited time! Full details here:

open.substack.com/pub/danieljo...
A type writer with the text: developmental manuscript edits available for a limited time
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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edmondsscanner.bsky.social
Relaxation tips:
- take a deep breath
- put down your phone
- find a sinister fog in the forest
- enter the fog and let it enter you, until you become one
- travel the wildlands with the other fog spirits, spreading fear & wonder in equal measure
- have some tea
December 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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older.bsky.social
This was such an amazing interview & convo - worth a listen!
December 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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This book was SO good, folks. Not just "could there be life elsewhere," but "would we even know it if we found it?" So many layers and such a fun read that really stretched my imagination.
jaimealyse.bsky.social Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 9h
You know, what? Sure! Here's a last-minute gift idea for the science- or sci fi–lover in your life. (It's my book, I wrote it) bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The book cover of The Possibility of Life by Jaime Green reviews for the book: "A wide-ranging and delightful survey, The Possibility of Life is the kind of book that makes you exclaim 'Wow!' out loud…" — The Washington Post "Green… brings her impressive talents to bear in this sweeping personal and philosophical account." — Wired "Ingenious writing about the cosmos and life itself." — Kirkus STARRED review "Alive with the color and drama of science fiction as well as scientific fact, [this book] helps us grasp that process of imagining—its limits and its greater purpose." —The Wall Street Journal "[A] refreshingly unique contribution to the extraterrestrial canon, and Green’s lifelong love of both science and science fiction permeates every sentence." — Columbia Magazine "Green’s blend of scientific facts and science fiction reveals a sense of joy and wonder beyond the usual science-based cosmological studies or speculative fiction..." —Library Journal STARRED review
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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This week's Monday snippet comes from Enchanting the Fae Queen - arriving just 6 weeks from tomorrow!

Preorder now:

stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen

And you can grab the first fantasy rom-com in this trilogy now:

stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen

#romancelandia
The illustrated cover for Enchanting the Fae Queen, by Stephanie Burgis, shows a mischievously grinning woman with long blonde curls, a moonstone crown, a pink dress and bare feet, sitting perched in a tree teasing the uniformed general who stands before her, his expression determined and one of his hands around her closest leg while she pokes his strong nose with one finger. Vines of leaves sweep magically out from the tree around her to draw him towards her. The tagline reads: All’s fae in love and war. The text beside and below it reads: “I take it you abducted my travel trunk at the same time you abducted me?” he asked wryly. “It was the only polite option,” she assured him. “You see, none of the men’s clothing left with me across the years would have been nearly large enough to fit. You wouldn’t have cared for it at all.” His expression was skeptical. “And you were, of course, terribly concerned about my preferences when you chose to abduct me.” “Of course!” Lorelei said piously. “I might be wicked, darling, but it’s never necessary to be cruel.”
December 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Right. Here we go (here we go, here we go).

It's The History of Football! Quarter of an hour of comedy charting the game from its medieval folk roots through to the game in the present day, via quarrelling Victorians & chain smoking, train building women www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
You're Dead to Me - Dead Funny History - History of Football - BBC Sounds
Fun football history for families. Presented by Greg Jenner.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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rachaeldunlop.com
We also need libraries to make those library cards at all useful. Many libraries are now volunteer-run because otherwise they’d close. Bring those back into public funding please. (This post brought to you by a community library volunteer.)
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Philip Pullman, Richard Osman, @joannechocolat.bsky.social & @katemossewriter.bsky.social are some of the authors calling for library membership to be linked to birth registration.

This is a subject very close to our hearts. Read more in @theobserveruk.bsky.social by @vanessathorpe.bsky.social
Library card plan to help write newborns’ first chapter | The Observer
observer.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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My works out this year, for award eligibility and enjoyment!

I had two short stories out this year:

'Hound of Annwn' was published in Plott Hound in September, and is free to read here! plotthoundmag.com/hound-of-ann...
“Hound of Annwn” by Rem Wigmore – Plott Hound Magazine
plotthoundmag.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
I am choosing to keep this essay permanently unpaywalled. It's about the general idea of people reaching their artistic peak later in life, and the amazing art my parents have been producing in their 60s and 70s (much of which has made its way into my books):

www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
THE MAGIC ROOM
Subscribe now I'm reposting this piece I wrote a little while ago about my mum and dad's art, which some you might have seen, but many of you won't, since I also wanted to let you know about a few bi...
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December 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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devanbarlow.bsky.social
🎉Announcement and cover!🎉

HONEY AND HARM, coming in 2026

Happiness isn’t guaranteed after a Beauty breaks a Beast’s curse...
A brutal fairy tale, for fans of Angela Carter and Tanith Lee

Cover by the amazing @ardenpowell.bsky.social
Cover for Honey and Harm by Devan Barlow, featuring three bees around a dripping honeycomb, assorted fruits, and foliage. The cover is by Arden Powell.
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
stephanieburgis.bsky.social
Tonight Patrick and I finally got to watch Wake up Dead man, and yes, it was excellent and also please can we keep on getting these new Benoit Blanc films every year forever? Please?
a man in a trench coat and tie is standing in a dark room
Alt: Benoit Blanc stands at an altar and says, “Scooby dooby doo.”
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December 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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This week's Sunday snippet comes from Wooing the Witch Queen, out now in ebook, paper, and audiobook: stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen

& the next fantasy rom-com in the trilogy arrives in just 6-1/2 weeks! Preorder: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen

#romancelandia
An image of the front cover of Wooing the Witch Queen shows a sinister witch queen in a spectacular beaded dress embracing her handsome and adoring new librarian (in a black wizard's robe) inside a library of magic filled with crows and masks and flying books. Above and beside it is this snippet from the book: “Your riding gryphons are fighting again,” Saskia informed her uninvited guests. She pressed her delicate coffee cup against her forehead, hoping that its soothing heat might make up for the racket of screeches and growls that had broken out just outside the library doors. It didn’t work—but the noise didn’t seem to bother either of the infamously wicked queens who were currently lounging about on her couches, paging through her uncle’s books without an apparent care in the world. Ugh! She squeezed her eyes closed against the sight. If it had been up to Saskia, she would still have been fast asleep in her own bed after a long night of fascinating experimentation. Adding silversand to hellbane did work every bit as well as she’d hypothesized! The possibilities opened up by that discovery were exhilarating—but nothing else seemed to be working at all, starting with today’s unexpected and unwanted meeting of the Queens of Villainy.
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
stephanieburgis.bsky.social
This week's Saturday snippet comes from A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, which is out now in ebook and paperback: books2read.com/honeymoonGrave

...As is the 1st novella in the cozy-spooky romantasy series, A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience: books2read.com/undeadInconvenience

#romancelandia
The illustrated cover for A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, by Stephanie Burgis, shows the silhouette of an elegant traveling carriage over the title and a bat with wings outstretched underneath, all of it framed by apples and with mirrors at the top and the bottom of the image. Above and beside the cover is this snippet of text: “Those absurd courtiers were all hoping for scandal and titillation,” Margaret said. “I was only documenting scientific facts, with accurate historical documents and explanations!” “Of course. No more than scientific facts, exact descriptions, and thorough historical context...around the intoxicating pleasures experienced with a vampiric lover’s bite. What could possibly be more high-minded and academic?” Lord Riven’s voice deepened; he shifted his grip downwards to rub both of his thumbs in maddeningly soft caresses against the soft hollows of her neck, and she arched like a cat in instinctive response, barely holding back a purr. “Believe me, I will never forget the process of assisting you in your research.”
December 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Thanks to @valerievaldes.bsky.social for linking me to this truly awesome photo of someone SO MUCH cooler than any AI techbro:
davidbeckler.bsky.social David Beckler @davidbeckler.bsky.social · 3d
Here he is taking the photo.
Charles Ebbets standing on a steel beam as he takes the iconic photo of construction workers having a lunch break on the beam.
December 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Hey, if you're a subscriber to my Patreon at the Dragon Lord level or above, it's time to check that I've included your name (in exactly the spelling and format you prefer) in the acknowledgements for my next patron ebook - arriving in just 8 days!

patreon.com/stephanieburgis

#romancelandia
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December 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Let's do a round-up of my writing year, which hasn't been enormously productive, but here we go anyway.

- One short story published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies: The Thirteenth Time (www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...)

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Thirteenth Time by Patrick Samphire
You know how sometimes there are things that happen that you never want to think about again? Not because they’re terrible or horrifying, and not because they were such a perfect moment that everythin...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Ooh, and for a good cause, too:
December 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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This book is so good that I bought it in paper form, ebook, and audio! Check it out!
stephanieburgis.bsky.social Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 3d
Snap up my cozy-spooky fantasy rom-com Good Neighbors (starring a grumpy metalworking heroine & a dandy necromancer hero), along with SO many other fantastic cozy fantasies, for just 99c/99p apiece, today only!

cozyupwithfantasy.com

#romancelandia
This image shows an illustration of a snowy village beneath the dragon-in-a-teacup logo of the Cozy Up with Fantasy sale and the illustrated front cover of Steph's Good Neighbors, which shows the silhouettes of an elegant gentleman and lady facing off across the title, in front of a sinister castle at night and with metal cogs and gears underneath them. Beside the cover is this text: Fake dating, duels, enemies to lovers, heat: medium, romance: MF. 99 cent sale - December 12, 2025.
December 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
stephanieburgis.bsky.social
The house move continues to be A Lot, but tonight, I snuggled up with my daughter for an hour to watch Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur episodes together, and I'm feeling so much better about everything now. ❤️

#TinyJoys
a cartoon drawing of a person rollerblading with the letters xxx on their feet
Alt: A gif of Moongirl rollerblading through a neon landscape.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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❤️🦇❤️
auferre.bsky.social Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 3d
Having spent an hour this morning reading A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience by @stephanieburgis.bsky.social, I can report that it is an excellent way to distract oneself from wanting to set fire to the last year.

(Plus I immediately bought the sequel and pre-ordered the third one.)
December 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Hey, it's Cozy Up with Fantasy!

TODAY ONLY (December 12, 2025), you can get more than 70 (!) cozy fantasy books, from all different authors, for only 99 cents.

It includes my yarn shop/witchy sapphic romance Spellcasting On.

You can find all the books at:
www.cozyupwithfantasy.com
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Welcome to Cozy Up With Fantasy! Here's a cozy holiday season gift for you. 🎁 TODAY ONLY (December 12, 2025), you can get more than 70 (!) cozy fantasy books, from all different authors, for only 99 c...
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December 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
stephanieburgis.bsky.social
Snap up my cozy-spooky fantasy rom-com Good Neighbors (starring a grumpy metalworking heroine & a dandy necromancer hero), along with SO many other fantastic cozy fantasies, for just 99c/99p apiece, today only!

cozyupwithfantasy.com

#romancelandia
This image shows an illustration of a snowy village beneath the dragon-in-a-teacup logo of the Cozy Up with Fantasy sale and the illustrated front cover of Steph's Good Neighbors, which shows the silhouettes of an elegant gentleman and lady facing off across the title, in front of a sinister castle at night and with metal cogs and gears underneath them. Beside the cover is this text: Fake dating, duels, enemies to lovers, heat: medium, romance: MF. 99 cent sale - December 12, 2025.
December 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Truly thrilled to unleash the cover of All Hail Chaos.

Publishing 12 May 2026, dive into the wicked, unmissable sequel to the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling Long Live Evil. #booksky

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December 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM