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Cara N. Delaney 💖💜💙
@caradelaney.bsky.social
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Bisexual gremlin. Author of queer romance, sci-fi, fantasy, horror. She/they.

OF POTIONS AND HONEY out now! 👉books2read.com/potions-and-honey

Books: books2read.com/CaraNDelaney
Contact information: caradelaney.com
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We've got a really cool bundle just for the occasion!

tinyurl.com/creator-day-25
A promotional graphic in dark blue, turquoise, and red. It reads: "Creator Day Bundle. $50. Over 70 items. One day. Support creators on Itch.io and grab your big bundle of 74 ebooks, audiobooks, TTRPGs, and more! tinyurl.com/creator-day-25"
November 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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It's Creator Day on Itch! If you're familiar with Bandcamp Friday, you know what this means: Today only, all revenue from sales goes directly to creators. So @aimeecozza.com put together a huge bundle of very cool things for the occasion! Only this Friday 🖤

tinyurl.com/creator-day-25
A promotional graphic in dark blue, turquoise, and red. It reads: "Creator Day Bundle. $50. Over 70 items. One day. Support creators on Itch.io and grab your big bundle of 74 ebooks, audiobooks, TTRPGs, and more! tinyurl.com/creator-day-25"
November 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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We're back in black!

You know the drill - it's Black Friday, it's time for deals. Snag one of the Black Friday indie book bundles over on Itch. Big or small, you decide!

As per usual, the books are DRM-free and work on all devices!

🤲 itch.io/b/3378/black...
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A Black Friday promo graphic that announces a Big Black Friday Bundle in bubbly teal letters. 41 stories for $56. 26-29 November. In the middle of the graphic is a QR code to follow. The graphic has a border comprised of the books in the bundle.
November 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Moodboard time! These are the kind of comfy, cosy vibes I've worked into OF POTIONS AND HONEY. A small, close-knit town, gentle magic, the challenge and mystery of running a potion shop... and of course, Poppy! 🐕

Get it here: books2read.com/potions-and-...

🌈📚💙 - #sapphfic #romantasy
A moodboard for the book "Of Potions and Honey" by Cara N. Delaney. Grouped around the cover in the centre are the following images (clockwise starting on the top left): A stylish quill on an old book; a bowl and several jars of potions ingredients; a loaf of bred on a wooden table; an old house near the woods; a small shop with a lot of flowers out front; a creek in the forest cascading over rocks; a golden retriever in a field of yellow grass; a, antique stove in a diamond-tiled kitchen.
November 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Look at them! ❤️

Marigold and Poppy, as you meet them in OF POTIONS AND HONEY - a nosy, needy cat, and a little (large) mischievous goblin of a dog.

Art by the amazing Gwent at instagram.com/gwentarts / ko-fi.com/gwentarts

Get the book: books2read.com/potions-and-honey
A digital drawing of a very fluffy calico cat. The cat is white with large patches of orange and brown. She is shown from the side, tail in the air, and facing the viewer. Her face has a cluster of smaller patches, with a white stripe down her nose and to the side. She's looking at the viewer with yellow eyes and a slightly smug expression. She is walking through high, green grass with patches of wispy yellow. The drawing is signed by the artist - Gwent. A digital drawing of a golden retriever sitting in a patch of green grass with wispy yellow tips. The dog's coat is a rich, varied golden colour, with lots of fluff around the chest and neck. Her tail is curled around her front paws, and her mouth is open, giving her a carefree, happy look. She's looking up and slightly off camera with unusually green eyes for a dog, which almost distracts from her having two pairs of ears. The drawing is signed by the artist - Gwent.
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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We were looking at holiday pics, and I think the lions gave him an identity crisis.
An orange and white cat is lying in a basket full of freshly folded laundry. He is staring off into space with his mouth slightly open.
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Celebratory journal doodles :D

Don't mind the green on the bottle, I grabbed the wrong pen by accident 😅
A small doodle in the corner of a journal page, made with black ballpoint pen and watercolour pens. A clay pot of honey sits next to a tiny bottle filled with a pink potion.
November 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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OUT TODAY!

Join Mira as she takes over her late uncle's potion shop and tries to build a life, friendships, and perhaps more in cosy Emberglen in OF POTIONS AND HONEY! Get it on Amazon, in Kindle Unlimited, and wherever you buy paperbacks!

books2read.com/potions-and-...

🌈📚💙 #sapphfic #romantasy
The book cover for "Of Potions and Honey" by author Cara N. Delaney. The colour scheme is earthy autumn colours with a warm reddish-brown background. A bubbling cauldron is in the centre, surrounded by foliage, flowers, and mushrooms. Hints of trees are framing the upper half. Additional decorative ornaments are framing the title and author name.
November 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Yo, hey, when did that happen? I think I blacked out for a second and then this?! 😱

Huge thanks to everyone who read my books and helped me reach this milestone! I hope you all had a lovely time with my little make-belief people ❤️
A slice of the Amazon KDP user interface, showing Kindle Unlimited page reads. It shows 503,788 pages read in 2025 for five books.
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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💿🐴 again, huh. I'm just gonna. Go to bed.
Actor Ben Affleck - a middle-aged white man with dark hair - smoking a cigarette on a rooftop. A bottle of beer sits next to him. He looks incredibly exhausted.
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Tomorrow... 👀

👉 books2read.com/potions-and-honey

#sapphfic #romantasy #romancelandia
A trope graphic for the book Of Potions and Honey by Cara N. Delaney. The cover is featured in the centre. Surrounding it are the followeing tropes: small town setting; grumpy/sunshine; bi4bi sapphic; cosy romantic fantasy; sassy cat and goblin dog; saving the town with the power of friendship (and a great plan!) A small box contains the pre-order URL: books2read.com/potions-and-honey
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Eepy ❤️
An orange and white cat asleep in a black-clad person's lap. The cat is using the person's arm as a pillow, and his eyes are almost fully closed. He looks extremely comfy.
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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With one week to go, here's a preview of the first page of OF POTIONS AND HONEY 🍯

When Mira inherits her late uncle's potion shop in sleepy Emberglen, her life is about to change dramatically.

Find pre-order links here: books2read.com/potions-and-honey

🌈📚💙 - #sapphfic #romantasy #romancebooks
A preview graphic for the first page of the book "Of Potions and Honey by Cara N. Delaney. The excerpt reads: "One After a much too crowded train ride that spit her out into a cloudy, muggy afternoon in Heartfield, a carriage ride that rattled her teeth, and a short walk up a somewhat desolate street at her final destination, Mira finally arrived, huffing and puffing and carrying a bag that felt like it was filled with bricks, at the address the solicitor had unnecessarily given her. She knew the house, even though she hadn’t been here in over fifteen years and the place had clearly seen better days. The green paint had faded, the front garden was overgrown. On her way here she’d seen far too many houses with the same kind of overgrowth, windows nailed shut, and sun-bleached ‘for sale’ signs hung on the fence. She tried not to take it as an omen when she knocked on the front door."
November 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Sorry, what? So he's saying that "I don't want to do voice work for video games because it's scary and my English has an accent", so therefore... it should be okay to use genAI so he CAN do voice work in a game?

No. If you straight-up DON'T WANT TO DO IT, have an actual voice actor do it instead!
Screenshot from a news article, citing the CEO of game studio Arrowhead. It reads: "“My thing with ARC Raiders is I think it’s a very interesting use case that actually makes gaming better,” he explained. “Now, let’s figure out the right side of it. I don’t do voice in games because I’m Swedish, communicating directly with people I don’t know is scary, I don’t want to put my voice out there with my accent or whatever it is. “I think this allows more people to connect with each other, which is ultimately a good gaming thing. Let’s just make sure that people are paid for their work. Like, surely there’s a middle ground here, come on.”"
November 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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"whether firms are actually able to monetise that expenditure has become the million (or more!) dollar question"

This just in! Experts finally agree that making a profit is kind of important for a business, actually!

Is this real? How did we get here. Why do I suddenly crave a drink at 11am... 😑
Text screenshot from a news article in The Guardian. It reads: Michael Brown, senior research strategist at brokerage Pepperstone, explains: "Those Nvidia earnings, incidentally, once again stand as a major macro risk, as enthusiasm around the whole AI frenzy seems to ebb, with the market having shifted from an ‘all capex is good capex’ mood, to one where whether firms are actually able to monetise that expenditure has become the million (or more!) dollar question. On that note, Amazon kicking-off a six-part bond sale didn’t help matters much yesterday, following hot on the heels of similar sales from Meta and Alphabet in recent weeks, and further fuelling concern that AI expansion is now being fuelled by debt, and not by free cash flow, in turn exacerbating jitters over the sustainability of all the spending that we currently see."
November 18, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Three hours? Yes, please 👀
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November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I've been flagging a little in my reading because Stuff Keeps Happening, so I figured I'd pick my holiday reads early, and you all can yell at me if I don't read any of these 😂

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A stack of four books in front of a window. There's a plant in the back climbing up the frame of faux papyrus artwork. The books are A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher, Road to Ruin by Hana Lee, The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis, and Network Effect by Martha Wells.
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Got my tiny gremlin hands on a proof, and look! She pretty! 👀

So now that I know for sure that the files are fine, everything's printing correctly, and the errors were just Ingram being pedantic, I can declare the setup final.

And now we wait for the 25th...

books2read.com/potions-and-...
A proof copy of the book Of Potions and Honey, held up by a light-skinned hand. The cover's colour scheme is earthy autumn colours with a warm reddish-brown background. A bubbling cauldron is in the centre, surrounded by foliage, flowers, and mushrooms. Hints of trees are framing the upper half. Additional decorative ornaments are framing the title and author name. A grey band runs across the design saying that the proof is "not for resale".
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Nineteen days... 👀

Pre-order: books2read.com/potions-and-honey
eARCs: booksirens.com/book/LLR1GTC/J6QF83N
Goodreads: goodreads.com/book/show/243070470-of-potions-and-honey

🌈📚 #sapphfic #romantasy
A promotional graphic in soft green hues. It showcases the cover of the book "Of Potions and Honey" by Cara N. Delaney. The caption reads: "Can I sign you up for a cosy romantic fantasy with a sapphic bi4bi couple?" There are three separate boxes with links: "Pre-order link: books2read.com/potions-and-honey" "Grab an eARC: booksirens.com/book/LLR1GTC/J6QF83N" "Add it on Goodreads: goodreads.com/book/show/243070470-of-potions-and-honey"
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Right?!

If you want to know just how hard it is when an old house and flagging potion shop are dumped in your lap when all you've ever done is work in retail, join Mira on her journey to lovely Emberglen!

books2read.com/potions-and-honey 🍯

🌈📚 - 📣📚💙
A promotional graphic in soft green hues. It showcases the cover of the book "Of Potions and Honey" by Cara N. Delaney. The caption reads: "Running a potion shop with no experience in a small town where things are not as peaceful as they see can't be that hard, right?" A separate box reads: "Only one way to find out: tinyurl.com/potions-and-honey" The graphic is decorated with a bee, a corked glass vial, and a winking calico cat.
November 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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It's here, it's cosy, it's romantic, it's OF POTIONS AND HONEY!

You can still nab an eARC, if you're so inclined: https://booksirens.com/book/LLR1GTC/J6QF83N

Or pre-order the book right now: https://books2read.com/potions-and-honey

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The book cover for "Of Potions and Honey" by author Cara N. Delaney. The colour scheme is earthy autumn colours with a warm reddish-brown background. A bubbling cauldron is in the centre, surrounded by foliage, flowers, and mushrooms. Hints of trees are framing the upper half. Additional decorative ornaments are framing the title and author name.
November 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Took me a while to get through my October review and then the November setup, but I think this month's title page turned out quite nice.

(If anyone's curious, it's a Leuchtturm 1917, regular A5 version. Thinner paper, but I like how lived-in it feels once you start using it.)
A page in a dot grid journal. In the middle, an ornamental sticker in shades of blue declares it "November 2025". The top and botom edges are lined with washi tape decoarted with leaves in blue and gold. In the corners are more flora stickers in the same colours.
November 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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The paperbacks for my little cosy romantic fantasy are beginning to trickle through the distribution channels... 👀

You can check all stores that have it here: books2read.com/potions-and-honey

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A screenshot of a universal book link page. It shows the cover of "Of Potions and Honey", featuring a bubbling cauldron surrounded by autumnal flora in front of an earthy brown background. Multiple thumbnails indicate that the book is available at Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Foyles, and Waterstones.
November 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Iris Grey returns to her hometown hoping to heal old wounds. Instead, she finds a cold welcome, a family keeping secrets, and a sinister plot at the heart of the town.

DARK HEART OF ILMOURE returns to full price tomorrow! Grab your Halloween read before it does!

tinyurl.com/ilmoure-kobo

🌈📚😱 - 📚💙
The cover for the novella "Dark Heart of Ilmoure" by author Cara N. Delaney. Pictured is a woman in white clothes with her back to the viewer. She is standing in front of a dark, foreboding house, about to enter. The windows are black and there is no view of the inside. The title is in red at the top, the author's name in white at the bottom.
October 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Happy Halloween!

Please enjoy my terrible spooky doodles from today's journal page.
A doodle of a sheet-style ghost with a wicked grin and red eyes. It was made with a black ballpoint pen and a watercolour marker. The ghost is surrounded by badly drawn dripping blood. A doodle of a carved pumpkin with a wide, toothy grin and red eyes. It was made with a black ballpoint pen and a watercolour marker. Don't mind the smudges, of course the ink wasn't dry yet.
October 31, 2025 at 9:47 AM