Melissa Scott
@blueterraplane.bsky.social
I write science fiction and fantasy, with lots of queer themes and characters.
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US customers: contrary to what you might have heard, art and books from the UK are still TARIFF-FREE! Plus, all import duties are pre-paid by me, so you WON’T have to pay any extra!
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
US customers: contrary to what you might have heard, art and books from the UK are still TARIFF-FREE! Plus, all import duties are pre-paid by me, so you WON’T have to pay any extra!
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
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Maximus Decimus Meridius Snuggles was never quite the same after he had past life regression therapy.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Maximus Decimus Meridius Snuggles was never quite the same after he had past life regression therapy.
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#Booksky Hey, we’re WisCon @wiscon.bsky.social’s first Vendor of the Month! Use WisCon26 on our website in November to get a discount on our books and we make a donation to WisCon! How cool is that! queenofswordspress.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
#Booksky Hey, we’re WisCon @wiscon.bsky.social’s first Vendor of the Month! Use WisCon26 on our website in November to get a discount on our books and we make a donation to WisCon! How cool is that! queenofswordspress.com
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I'm angry and I bet you are too! Howzabout a book where somebody fights back for a change
Release day for @weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social's BlankAnon! Bob Blank returns in his most desperate adventure yet - unless his spirit guide eats him first. www.candlemarkandgleam.com/2025/11/10/r...
Release Day for BlankAnon!
Today marks the release of BlankAnon and the return of Bob Blank, the eponymous hero of Justin Robinson’s fantasy-noir satirical mystery series! First encountered in Mr. Blank and Get Blank, our narra...
www.candlemarkandgleam.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I'm angry and I bet you are too! Howzabout a book where somebody fights back for a change
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Now I'm really going away to write.
Let there be book.
And to be ready for the conclusion of the duology of this high fantasy, you can buy The Wolf and the Wild King at all the usual places, print and ebook, and especially through your favourite indie. www.kvj.ca/wolf.html
Let there be book.
And to be ready for the conclusion of the duology of this high fantasy, you can buy The Wolf and the Wild King at all the usual places, print and ebook, and especially through your favourite indie. www.kvj.ca/wolf.html
K.V. Johansen | The Wolf and the Wild King
About The Wolf and the Wild King, book one of The Forest high fantasy duology, by K.V. Johansen
www.kvj.ca
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Now I'm really going away to write.
Let there be book.
And to be ready for the conclusion of the duology of this high fantasy, you can buy The Wolf and the Wild King at all the usual places, print and ebook, and especially through your favourite indie. www.kvj.ca/wolf.html
Let there be book.
And to be ready for the conclusion of the duology of this high fantasy, you can buy The Wolf and the Wild King at all the usual places, print and ebook, and especially through your favourite indie. www.kvj.ca/wolf.html
OMG. I actually have to see this. Somehow.
It took forty years but I have finally seen a production of Chess that ACTUALLY COMPLETELY WORKS
November 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
OMG. I actually have to see this. Somehow.
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
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#Booksky Terrific review by Keith John Glaeske of "Point of Hearts: A Novel of Astreiant," by Melissa Scott at Out in Print.. outinprintblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/p...
Point of Hearts: A Novel of Astreiant – Melissa Scott (Queen of Swords Press)
Buy from: Queen of Swords Press After seven long years, Melissa Scott has returned to Astreiant! Point of Hearts, her sixth foray into Astreiant, the quasi-Renaissance city-state she created with h…
outinprintblog.wordpress.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
#Booksky Terrific review by Keith John Glaeske of "Point of Hearts: A Novel of Astreiant," by Melissa Scott at Out in Print.. outinprintblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/p...
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Yale owns a Dutch utility bond issued in 1648 that still pays interest. “Yale’s bond, written on goatskin, was issued on May 15, 1648 to Mr. Niclaes de Meijer for the “sum of 1,000 Carolus Guilders of 20 Stuivers a piece.”
November 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Yale owns a Dutch utility bond issued in 1648 that still pays interest. “Yale’s bond, written on goatskin, was issued on May 15, 1648 to Mr. Niclaes de Meijer for the “sum of 1,000 Carolus Guilders of 20 Stuivers a piece.”
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OMG YES. Thank you, @benmonreal.bsky.social, for the kind words and the thoughtful review!
In honor of Halloween, I just read a horror novel and wanted to write up a quick micro-review thread here. Presenting: @mcmanlypants.bsky.social's Children of Solitude. Thread: 1/ www.skylightbooks.com/book/9798992...
www.skylightbooks.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
OMG YES. Thank you, @benmonreal.bsky.social, for the kind words and the thoughtful review!
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Happy Halloween, Cerberus!
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Happy Halloween, Cerberus!
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#Booksky If you’re avoiding shopping at the ‘Zon but need Kindle format for your books, here’s your reminder that you can buy it direct from us! We get paid faster, our authors get paid more and we reinvest in our communities! From queer cosy to spooky: queenofswordspress.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
#Booksky If you’re avoiding shopping at the ‘Zon but need Kindle format for your books, here’s your reminder that you can buy it direct from us! We get paid faster, our authors get paid more and we reinvest in our communities! From queer cosy to spooky: queenofswordspress.com
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#Booksky Looking for great gay gaslamp mystery/fantasies? DEATH BY SILVER and A DEATH AT THE DIONYSUS CLUB by @blueterraplane.bsky.social and @amygriswold.bsky.social are both on sale until 11/1! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
October 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
#Booksky Looking for great gay gaslamp mystery/fantasies? DEATH BY SILVER and A DEATH AT THE DIONYSUS CLUB by @blueterraplane.bsky.social and @amygriswold.bsky.social are both on sale until 11/1! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
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OKAY, FINE, LET'S DO A REC THREAD of some of my Queen of Swords faves!
Death By Silver by Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold
Edwardian historical fantasy mystery with pining (while fucking), boarding school trauma, second chance romance, and bad bad men.
queenofswordspress.com/product/deat...
Death By Silver by Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold
Edwardian historical fantasy mystery with pining (while fucking), boarding school trauma, second chance romance, and bad bad men.
queenofswordspress.com/product/deat...
October 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
OKAY, FINE, LET'S DO A REC THREAD of some of my Queen of Swords faves!
Death By Silver by Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold
Edwardian historical fantasy mystery with pining (while fucking), boarding school trauma, second chance romance, and bad bad men.
queenofswordspress.com/product/deat...
Death By Silver by Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold
Edwardian historical fantasy mystery with pining (while fucking), boarding school trauma, second chance romance, and bad bad men.
queenofswordspress.com/product/deat...
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#Booksky Looking for great gay gaslamp mystery/fantasies? DEATH BY SILVER and A DEATH AT THE DIONYSUS CLUB by @blueterraplane.bsky.social and @amygriswold.bsky.social are both on sale until 11/1! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
October 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
#Booksky Looking for great gay gaslamp mystery/fantasies? DEATH BY SILVER and A DEATH AT THE DIONYSUS CLUB by @blueterraplane.bsky.social and @amygriswold.bsky.social are both on sale until 11/1! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
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#Booksky MURDER ON THE TITANIA by Alex Acks @katsudon.bsky.social is the Deal of the Day at DriveThruFiction today! www.drivethrufiction.com/en/product/2...
October 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
#Booksky MURDER ON THE TITANIA by Alex Acks @katsudon.bsky.social is the Deal of the Day at DriveThruFiction today! www.drivethrufiction.com/en/product/2...
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Okay but if you think about it, you could probably sit down right now yourself and make a pretty accurate list of all the people in the world who would believably say “bring me the French Crown Jewels” and mean it, so like I guess let’s start there 🤷♂️
October 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Okay but if you think about it, you could probably sit down right now yourself and make a pretty accurate list of all the people in the world who would believably say “bring me the French Crown Jewels” and mean it, so like I guess let’s start there 🤷♂️
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Do you want to read BlankAnon, #booksky?
Of course you do. No other book features a heist, a god, a chupacabra, a Santa Suit, a Die Hard, a pizza order
And you'll find out why the internet has all that porn
Of course you do. No other book features a heist, a god, a chupacabra, a Santa Suit, a Die Hard, a pizza order
And you'll find out why the internet has all that porn
Preorders are up now for @weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social's BlankAnon! (Link is to Amazon, but it's available on all the usual suspects.) www.amazon.com/BlankAnon-Fi...
October 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Do you want to read BlankAnon, #booksky?
Of course you do. No other book features a heist, a god, a chupacabra, a Santa Suit, a Die Hard, a pizza order
And you'll find out why the internet has all that porn
Of course you do. No other book features a heist, a god, a chupacabra, a Santa Suit, a Die Hard, a pizza order
And you'll find out why the internet has all that porn
Oh, wow, that makes so much sense.
Working on a theory that AI appeals to people who want the process of moving from idea to finished product to be not like production, but like consumption
October 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Oh, wow, that makes so much sense.
For Death By Silver and A Death at the Dionysus Club, whisky, tea, old books, and ozone.
What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?
October 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
For Death By Silver and A Death at the Dionysus Club, whisky, tea, old books, and ozone.
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#Booksky We generally don’t plug our books on Amazon but the last two months of book sales have not been great anywhere so needs must. There’s a A+ page up for the Astreiant Series now! Dig into some great gay fantastical mysteries for October! www.amazon.com/Astreiant-6-...
Astreiant
Visit Amazon's Astreiant Page and shop for all Astreiant books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of Astreiant
www.amazon.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
#Booksky We generally don’t plug our books on Amazon but the last two months of book sales have not been great anywhere so needs must. There’s a A+ page up for the Astreiant Series now! Dig into some great gay fantastical mysteries for October! www.amazon.com/Astreiant-6-...
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
For Master of Samar, salt and tidal mud and wind. (I do miss living on the coast.)
What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?
October 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
For Master of Samar, salt and tidal mud and wind. (I do miss living on the coast.)
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#Booksky Also on sale via Ingram’s new direct sale option in the U.S. and U.K. - A DEATH AT THE DIONYSUS CLUB by @blueterraplane.bsky.social and @amygriswold.bsky.social! Gay gaslamp mysteries with magic-using detectives, for the win! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
October 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
#Booksky Also on sale via Ingram’s new direct sale option in the U.S. and U.K. - A DEATH AT THE DIONYSUS CLUB by @blueterraplane.bsky.social and @amygriswold.bsky.social! Gay gaslamp mysteries with magic-using detectives, for the win! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...