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Tamara Jerée

@tamarajeree.com

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author of lesbian paranormal & gothic fantasy | bookseller by day | represented by Bethany Weaver | they/them www.tamarajeree.com art by @northyme.com

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Tamara Jerée @tamarajeree.com · Nov 18

Hi, new folks! I'm an indie author of paranormal romances about Black lesbians healing from their pasts. My current WIP is an erotic horror novel.

I started my publishing journey with short stories and poetry. My debut novel THE FALL THAT SAVED US is a winner of the 2023 Indie Ink Award.

An illustrated book cover featuring two Black figures posed like Michelangelo's painting The Creation of Adam. At the top of the cover, a horned succubus with wings reaches towards a haloed woman with braids. The angelic woman is dressed in white and holds a dagger in her right hand. Illustration by Syd Mills (@vetyyr)

An illustrated book cover featuring a background of silvery slender trees. On the right, a Black woman with short bleached hair wears an oversized leather jacket. Her eyes shine red as she meets the devoted gaze of the red wolf on her left. One hand gently holds the wolf's chin. The other is placed reverently on the wolf's mouth. The title text A WOLF STEPS IN BLOOD is set in a mysterious, sharp serif. Illustration and design by Northyme

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Tamara Jerée @tamarajeree.com · 1d

THE FLOWERS I DESERVE is an atmospheric FFF+ gothic fantasy about the weight of grief and discovering power through desire.

Cover illustration @artofelaineho.bsky.social
Cover design @opulentdesigns121.bsky.social

Direct: shop.tamarajeree.com
Retailers: books2read.com/flowers

#lesfic #booksky

a trope map with a book cover at the center. clockwise, the map reads: teatime flirting, atmospheric and lush, hot women doing gross things, the weight of unattainable atonement, hell is a fae world actually, flawed chosen one, liberators service vs punitive sacrifice, dreams as knowledge, freedom in the forbidden, homesickness for a place that never affirmed you but that you belong to all the same. book cover description: illustrated by Elaine Ho with typography by Cass at Opulent Designs. A regal Black woman gazes at the viewer. She is larger than life, towering head and shoulders above a dark castle. Her white horns are twined with flowering vines, and her red braids flow over the castle, hair transforming to a pool of blood at the foundation. She holds a white magnolia bloom. The title The Flowers I Deserve is set against the red in a sharp white serif font.

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 2d

Out of True paperbacks are live for Valerin, Martis, and Seure!

You can get them now from my personal shop or AMZ for pocket-sized paperbacks with a lot of heat, fine prose, and sapphic knights duking it out in a trans Arthuriana setting:

riengray.shop

www.amazon.com/stores/Rien-...

Three mass market sized paperbacks of Rien Gray's lesbian fantasy romance series, Out of True.

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Tamara Jerée @tamarajeree.com · 1d

thanks for sharing! 🖤🖤

Tamara Jerée @tamarajeree.com · 1d

thanks for sharing 🖤🖤

Tamara Jerée @tamarajeree.com · 1d

thank you!! i’m a fan of elaine’s work

Tamara Jerée @tamarajeree.com · 2d

Thanks so much for your support!! I hope you enjoy Flowers 🖤

Tamara Jerée @tamarajeree.com · 2d

All retailers can be found at books2read.com/flowers

Any help is greatly appreciated, however, it takes 3 months before royalties are paid out from retailers. Buying through my shop means funds are available the next day.

Thanks so much! Shares appreciated 🖤

Available now at your favorite digital store!

The Flowers I Deserve by Tamara Jerée

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Tamara Jerée @tamarajeree.com · 2d

Hi #booksky

Gonna be vulnerable for a moment—I'm losing a big chunk of income because things are rough for indie bookstores right now. I'll be depending on my royalties while I look for more work.

My new book is an atmospheric FFF+ gothic fantasy.

You can support me at shop.tamarajeree.com

A photo of THE FLOWERS I DESERVE surrounded by red carnation blooms. A gothic book cover illustrated by Elaine Ho with typography by Cass at Opulent Designs. A regal Black woman gazes at the viewer. She is larger than life, towering head and shoulders above a dark castle. Her white horns are twined with flowering vines, and her red braids flow over the castle, hair transforming to a pool of blood at the foundation. She holds a white magnolia bloom. The title The Flowers I Deserve is set against the red in a sharp white serif font.

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Wolfe 🪳 @wolfehorror.itch.io · 3d

Happy #sludgepit & yes I am still behind with Crushed Plums 🫡
Are you looking for a childhood best friends to undead lovers horromance between a trans woman with rats just trying to get by & her emotional support he/him butch?

Arcs coming soon once I recover from the ableist 28 hours of travel🧟🌸

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(V)Ladz The Impaler @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 4d

OUR CRIMSON CAGE (F/F/F horror erotic novella)
A Polish retelling of Carmilla coming Q1 2026

🩸 Perverted marriage rituals & corrupted motherhood
🩸 Fuck, marry, kill
🩸 Blood as metaphor & medium
🩸 Red wings (iykyk)
🩸 Polish Catholicism, ritual, & folklore

#sludgepit #toxicyuri #H #E #WIP

A 3x3 grid of images all sourced from Unsplash

Top row: a pale blonde woman looking out a window, an Eastern European foggy manor, a brunette in a silky robe

Middle row: snow woods, OUR CRIMSON CAGE #sludgepit, blue roses

Bottom row: A skeleton, snowy woods, a black-haired person drenched in mist and light

IF YOU LIKE... vampire teeth

Cage of Roses, the visual novel by ebi-hime
Bloodborne
A key
My Carmilla by Anita Zara
Unholy with Eyes Like Wolves by Morgan Dante
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Lefanu

Get ready for Q1 2026 with a cum splash

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🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌 @raenbowpunk.bsky.social · 8d

This Must-Have Monday I have THIRTY-THREE new releases to ft, incl

😵‍💫 queer rococo bugpunk from @hironennes.bsky.social!
🌼 Black sapphic poison-girls reclaiming pleasure with @tamarajeree.com!
🍸 QBIPOC sci fi Great Gatsby via @kmfajardo.bsky.social!

everybookadoorway.com/must-have-mo...

Must-Have Monday #258 - Every Book a Doorway

A mythological African epic, queer rococo bugpunk, and a QBPIPOC Great Gatsby!

everybookadoorway.com

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Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · Sep 19

Today's #SapphicSeptember rec:

A Wolf Steps in Blood, by @tamarajeree.com

Fated mates - a wolf shifter afraid of her power, a blood witch too reckless with hers. Community, family, queerness, grief, navigating an eating disorder, figuring out who you are, plus super romantic, hot and beautiful!

The cover of A Wolf Steps in Blood, by Tamara Jerée. It shows a black woman with short hair and a leather jacket, caressing a red wolf who looks lovingly up at her.

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Tamara Jerée @tamarajeree.com · 21d

I'm sorry I missed this! Thank you for the lovely shout out 💜

Tamara Jerée @tamarajeree.com · Aug 27

I've launched a Payhip store!

You can find lesbian demons at shop.tamarajeree.com 🖤

If you like gothic fantasy, signed paperbacks of THE FLOWERS I DESERVE are available for preorder in the US. My paranormal romance titles are available as ebooks.

Content notes are listed on my main website.

screenshot of the homepage for shop.tamarajeree.com featuring the cover art for THE FLOWERS I DESERVE with the text "a new world of gothic indulgence." Illustration by Elaine Ho

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · Aug 15

Lemme start off with shameless self promo, I have a couple werewolf stories for free right now: ko-fi.com/s/6857554943

Then I can recommend other works:

A Crimson Covenant by @aimeedonnellan.bsky.social Her Wolf in the Wild by @riengray.bsky.social and
A Wolf Steps in Blood by @tamarajeree.com

The Price of Peace - Senka Heksum's Ko-fi Shop

Ebook of: A sapphic folk horror and paranormal historical fiction double feature, The Price of Peace and A Witch's Errand! There's also a bonus teas...

ko-fi.com

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · Aug 13

Out of the ashes of itchio, I have built my own independent shop for direct sales of my books!

riengray.shop is now live, and all titles are 50% off, so get a stack of lesbian and trans romances with blood and heat to spare while you can 🔥🩸💘

#BookSky #Lesbian #Romancelandia

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Koren/K. M. Enright @kmenright.bsky.social · Aug 12

I am so thrilled and proud to be sharing LORD OF RUIN with you—it has been a labor of love in many ways, and I’ve put my whole heart and soul into bringing you Isaac’s story. Welcome back to Aeravin—the suffering is only getting started.

An image of the hardcover of LORD OF RUIN by KM Enright propped up against a black cat. The cat looks expectantly up at the camera.

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🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌 @raenbowpunk.bsky.social · Aug 11

Oh I'm sorry, did you think I was done? NEVER! My list of queer adult SFF releasing July-Dec has been UPDATED!

Now including books by @tkingfisher.com, @caitlinstarling.com, @tamarajeree.com, @artofelaineho.bsky.social, and @markwaddell.bsky.social, among PLENTY MORE!

buff.ly/STZ8yCC

Every Month is Pride: Queer Adult SFF for the Rest of 2025 - Every Book a Doorway

PRIDE LASTS ALL YEAR: or, queer Adult SFF releasing from July-December!

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Tamara Jerée @tamarajeree.com · Aug 1

thank you so much!

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · Jul 25

The motion to add poetry to the Hugo Awards has passed. Thank you to everyone who has shown support, discussed this award, sat through business meetings, and nominated/voted in the Hugo Awards. This is a huge, huge deal to poets. I am actually a bit teary. <3 #poetryhugo poetryhugo.com

Speculative Poetry Initiative

What Are the Hugo Awards and Who Can Participate?

poetryhugo.com

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Tamara Jerée @tamarajeree.com · Jul 25

I love this list! So many new-to-me books here. Thank you for pointing me to some fellow indies 💖

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🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌 @raenbowpunk.bsky.social · Jul 25

A rec list of 5-star fantasies that just happen to be self-published! Including

⚔️a queer Black nephil/succubus romance by @tamarajeree.com!
🌩️battling the sky every night with @tansyrr.bsky.social!
🖤'dark cozy' from @johannestevans.bsky.social!

everybookadoorway.com/fantastic-se...

Fantastic Self-Published Fantasies - Every Book a Doorway

20 of my favourite self-published books and series for Self-Published Authors Appreciation Week!

everybookadoorway.com

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · Jul 24

I'm on this CBC list of 10 short Canadian SFFH reads for the Summer with lots of friends.
I do think Countess is a good novella to try out Space Opera with. It's a dark book but its an emotional story and it's got good food and it is short! Trying new things is good!

www.cbc.ca/books/canadi...

Canadian sci-fi and fantasy novels under 300 pages to read this summer | CBC Books

CBC Books recommends a list of 10 Canadian speculative fiction books for the reluctant fantasy reader to try this summer.

www.cbc.ca

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Tamara Jerée @tamarajeree.com · Jul 24

aahhhh andy!!! hello thank you for the lovely post 🥹

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Dr. Andy (they/xe) @foreverinastory.bsky.social · Jul 24

I'm so excited to help reveal the breathtaking cover of The Flowers I Deserve by Tamara Jerée @tamarajeree.com ! If you know me, you know I LOVE Tamara’s writing and I couldn’t be more excited for this upcoming release, if I tried. 🧵

Three books sit above a wood slice. The books from left to right are: Rainbow Crate edition of The Fall that Saved Us, Satisfiction edition of The Fall that Saved Us, and a paperback of A Wolf Steps in Blood. Below this is The Flowers I Deserve (edited in) on the wood slice. A candle sits to the right of it. Below the book are red and black flowers.

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