@ynsenwrites.bsky.social
Reader and writer of fantasy and queer stories ✨🌈
Lectrice et autrice de fantasy et de romans queer
ENG/FR
Lectrice et autrice de fantasy et de romans queer
ENG/FR
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OKAY GANG BUCKLE UP we are PUBLISHERS MARKETPLACE OFFICIAL for WICKHILLS
Thank you to @mkcurry.bsky.social and @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social and @torbooks.bsky.social for making it happen!
Prepare for me to NOT SHUT UP ABOUT THIS MOTHERFUPPIN BOOK (when I am less busy)
Thank you to @mkcurry.bsky.social and @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social and @torbooks.bsky.social for making it happen!
Prepare for me to NOT SHUT UP ABOUT THIS MOTHERFUPPIN BOOK (when I am less busy)
February 5, 2026 at 8:16 PM
OKAY GANG BUCKLE UP we are PUBLISHERS MARKETPLACE OFFICIAL for WICKHILLS
Thank you to @mkcurry.bsky.social and @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social and @torbooks.bsky.social for making it happen!
Prepare for me to NOT SHUT UP ABOUT THIS MOTHERFUPPIN BOOK (when I am less busy)
Thank you to @mkcurry.bsky.social and @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social and @torbooks.bsky.social for making it happen!
Prepare for me to NOT SHUT UP ABOUT THIS MOTHERFUPPIN BOOK (when I am less busy)
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🌊 🌈 Simon Jimenez's multi-award winning novel, THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER, is a sweeping adventure story, an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging and a love story to its blade-dented bone.
Buy now: https://geni.us/Spearcuts
Buy now: https://geni.us/Spearcuts
January 31, 2026 at 6:07 PM
🌊 🌈 Simon Jimenez's multi-award winning novel, THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER, is a sweeping adventure story, an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging and a love story to its blade-dented bone.
Buy now: https://geni.us/Spearcuts
Buy now: https://geni.us/Spearcuts
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New #coverdesign for the Finnish edition of @wiswell.bsky.social's Nebula and Locus winner, SOMEONE TO BUILD A NEST IN! Fun fact: the #illustration started as a cover concept for William Peter Blatty's EXORCIST. 👀 #coverart #booksky
arthouse.fi/sivu/tuote/s...
arthouse.fi/sivu/tuote/s...
January 22, 2026 at 11:42 AM
New #coverdesign for the Finnish edition of @wiswell.bsky.social's Nebula and Locus winner, SOMEONE TO BUILD A NEST IN! Fun fact: the #illustration started as a cover concept for William Peter Blatty's EXORCIST. 👀 #coverart #booksky
arthouse.fi/sivu/tuote/s...
arthouse.fi/sivu/tuote/s...
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BODIES OF MAGIC, out Sept 2026: Grey's Anatomy meets A Deadly Education, a mystery set during the final exam week of a magical medical school. (Or: five queer nerds solve a murder and have some feelings.)
Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill.
Preorder US: bit.ly/BoM-US
Preorder UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK
Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill.
Preorder US: bit.ly/BoM-US
Preorder UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK
January 16, 2026 at 7:12 PM
BODIES OF MAGIC, out Sept 2026: Grey's Anatomy meets A Deadly Education, a mystery set during the final exam week of a magical medical school. (Or: five queer nerds solve a murder and have some feelings.)
Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill.
Preorder US: bit.ly/BoM-US
Preorder UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK
Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill.
Preorder US: bit.ly/BoM-US
Preorder UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK
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✨Asunder is out in the UK today!✨
Shortlisted for the Nebula and Locus Awards, it’s a fantasy about a woman hellbent on survival…and the talkative man she accidentally binds to her shadow.*
*She was trying to extort him, one thing led to another.
Shortlisted for the Nebula and Locus Awards, it’s a fantasy about a woman hellbent on survival…and the talkative man she accidentally binds to her shadow.*
*She was trying to extort him, one thing led to another.
January 15, 2026 at 11:34 AM
✨Asunder is out in the UK today!✨
Shortlisted for the Nebula and Locus Awards, it’s a fantasy about a woman hellbent on survival…and the talkative man she accidentally binds to her shadow.*
*She was trying to extort him, one thing led to another.
Shortlisted for the Nebula and Locus Awards, it’s a fantasy about a woman hellbent on survival…and the talkative man she accidentally binds to her shadow.*
*She was trying to extort him, one thing led to another.
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This is probably the time to mention that DAGGERBOUND has a very large isopod scholar and I can’t wait for you all to meet her.
Not to be dramatic, but I would die for her
(Large Francis from Daggerbound by @tkingfisher.com )
(Large Francis from Daggerbound by @tkingfisher.com )
January 10, 2026 at 7:06 AM
This is probably the time to mention that DAGGERBOUND has a very large isopod scholar and I can’t wait for you all to meet her.
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Release date set as September 29, 2026 currently
January 10, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Release date set as September 29, 2026 currently
Loved this book!
OUT THIS MONTH!
@kerstinhall.bsky.social 's ASUNDER finally reaches the UK!
“Read this book. Let its deliciously dark world envelop you. Fall in love with its complicated, wounded, winsome characters...You’ll thank me later.” - @veronicarothbooks.com
Preorder: https://geni.us/asunder
@kerstinhall.bsky.social 's ASUNDER finally reaches the UK!
“Read this book. Let its deliciously dark world envelop you. Fall in love with its complicated, wounded, winsome characters...You’ll thank me later.” - @veronicarothbooks.com
Preorder: https://geni.us/asunder
January 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Loved this book!
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✨The everlasting✨
I’m thrilled to share the cover I did in collaboration with owlcrate and Alix E Harrow.
This is one of my fav covers I had the chance and opportunity to make this year. It’s was so fun and challenging in a good way.
Thanks a lot for having me.
#illustration #art #artwork
I’m thrilled to share the cover I did in collaboration with owlcrate and Alix E Harrow.
This is one of my fav covers I had the chance and opportunity to make this year. It’s was so fun and challenging in a good way.
Thanks a lot for having me.
#illustration #art #artwork
December 24, 2025 at 6:20 AM
✨The everlasting✨
I’m thrilled to share the cover I did in collaboration with owlcrate and Alix E Harrow.
This is one of my fav covers I had the chance and opportunity to make this year. It’s was so fun and challenging in a good way.
Thanks a lot for having me.
#illustration #art #artwork
I’m thrilled to share the cover I did in collaboration with owlcrate and Alix E Harrow.
This is one of my fav covers I had the chance and opportunity to make this year. It’s was so fun and challenging in a good way.
Thanks a lot for having me.
#illustration #art #artwork
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EXPEDITION 33 !!!!!!
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
EXPEDITION 33 !!!!!!
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I begged Jenny to write this and am so grateful she did.
Sex scene are craft. They are characterization. They are worldbuilding. They are storytelling.
The fact that we're culturally too uncomfortable with sex to recognize that is not the fault of well written sex scenes!
Sex scene are craft. They are characterization. They are worldbuilding. They are storytelling.
The fact that we're culturally too uncomfortable with sex to recognize that is not the fault of well written sex scenes!
good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
Anatomy of a Sex Scene: Heated Rivalry Edition - Reading the End
Heated Rivalry, AKA the gay hockey show, has been getting a lot of buzz for its explicit(-ish) sex scenes, and a lot of that buzz has been coming from viewers and critics whose experience with the rom...
readingtheend.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I begged Jenny to write this and am so grateful she did.
Sex scene are craft. They are characterization. They are worldbuilding. They are storytelling.
The fact that we're culturally too uncomfortable with sex to recognize that is not the fault of well written sex scenes!
Sex scene are craft. They are characterization. They are worldbuilding. They are storytelling.
The fact that we're culturally too uncomfortable with sex to recognize that is not the fault of well written sex scenes!
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Jenny is doing such incredible work writing about the work that sex scenes do and I'm so grateful for it. We need more of this, but for reasons covered in the essay, a lot of critics are afraid or ill-equipped to do it.
Anyway, this is excellent
Anyway, this is excellent
good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
Anatomy of a Sex Scene: Heated Rivalry Edition - Reading the End
Heated Rivalry, AKA the gay hockey show, has been getting a lot of buzz for its explicit(-ish) sex scenes, and a lot of that buzz has been coming from viewers and critics whose experience with the rom...
readingtheend.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Jenny is doing such incredible work writing about the work that sex scenes do and I'm so grateful for it. We need more of this, but for reasons covered in the essay, a lot of critics are afraid or ill-equipped to do it.
Anyway, this is excellent
Anyway, this is excellent
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One wrong step and the monster in Otar's veins kills.
🛣️ indiana jones but gay
🏛️ archaelogy!
🌎 rooooadtrip
♥️ third chance at love
⁉️ finding oneself
🪄 mystery
🌈 queer
Buy: jdrivers.itch.io/the-edge-of-...
books2read.com/u/mdwgNw
📚🌈📚🪐📚💙
📚 GR tinyurl.com/mrxf83ck
📚 TSG tinyurl.com/3p3n33jp
🛣️ indiana jones but gay
🏛️ archaelogy!
🌎 rooooadtrip
♥️ third chance at love
⁉️ finding oneself
🪄 mystery
🌈 queer
Buy: jdrivers.itch.io/the-edge-of-...
books2read.com/u/mdwgNw
📚🌈📚🪐📚💙
📚 GR tinyurl.com/mrxf83ck
📚 TSG tinyurl.com/3p3n33jp
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
One wrong step and the monster in Otar's veins kills.
🛣️ indiana jones but gay
🏛️ archaelogy!
🌎 rooooadtrip
♥️ third chance at love
⁉️ finding oneself
🪄 mystery
🌈 queer
Buy: jdrivers.itch.io/the-edge-of-...
books2read.com/u/mdwgNw
📚🌈📚🪐📚💙
📚 GR tinyurl.com/mrxf83ck
📚 TSG tinyurl.com/3p3n33jp
🛣️ indiana jones but gay
🏛️ archaelogy!
🌎 rooooadtrip
♥️ third chance at love
⁉️ finding oneself
🪄 mystery
🌈 queer
Buy: jdrivers.itch.io/the-edge-of-...
books2read.com/u/mdwgNw
📚🌈📚🪐📚💙
📚 GR tinyurl.com/mrxf83ck
📚 TSG tinyurl.com/3p3n33jp
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Hey US folks - want a deal on Kindle editions of my books? Both Dreadful and The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association will be on sale for $4.99 on Amazon US from Dec 1-31. 💙📚
December 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Hey US folks - want a deal on Kindle editions of my books? Both Dreadful and The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association will be on sale for $4.99 on Amazon US from Dec 1-31. 💙📚
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worth giving this another push, we're back to gouging you for the full price on monday, and if you liked the book (or hated it, it's all press), feel free to say so because I can probably leverage it to secure another deranged book deal down the line
Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil is a Kindle deal this month! it's 99p, you might as well steal it and smack me with a kipper —I move up the rankings, you get an almost-free, not-exactly cozy book about goblins, seems very fair
Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil: A delightfully witty cosy fantasy for lovers of Pratchett eBook : Darkshire, Oliver: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil: A delightfully witty cosy fantasy for lovers of Pratchett eBook : Darkshire, Oliver: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
worth giving this another push, we're back to gouging you for the full price on monday, and if you liked the book (or hated it, it's all press), feel free to say so because I can probably leverage it to secure another deranged book deal down the line
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Yooo! Someone You Can Build A Nest In was picked as a Kindle Gold Box Deal! For today only, get it for just $4.99.
A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?
A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Amazon.com: Someone You Can Build a Nest In eBook : Wiswell, John: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Yooo! Someone You Can Build A Nest In was picked as a Kindle Gold Box Deal! For today only, get it for just $4.99.
A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?
A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?
Can't wait 👀
We're really excited to be bringing @kerstinhall.bsky.social 's ASUNDER to the UK next year!
Here's why @veronicarothbooks.com and @isabelcanas.bsky.social think you should dive into to this deliciously dark fantasy...
Preorder now: https://geni.us/asunder
Here's why @veronicarothbooks.com and @isabelcanas.bsky.social think you should dive into to this deliciously dark fantasy...
Preorder now: https://geni.us/asunder
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Can't wait 👀
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Hey US and Canada folks! My Nebula, World Fantasy & Locus award nominated novel SHIGIDI will (finally!) be out in paperback on Nov 4. If you couldn't get the hardcover when it came out (understandably so!) here's your chance.
Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!
Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!
October 31, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Hey US and Canada folks! My Nebula, World Fantasy & Locus award nominated novel SHIGIDI will (finally!) be out in paperback on Nov 4. If you couldn't get the hardcover when it came out (understandably so!) here's your chance.
Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!
Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!
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what if. you asked me anything
about THE LORD OF THE WOOD, my cozy horror about a 43yo autistic guy who has a gay/lowkey monsterfucker awakening after getting lost in an enchanted forest
(both to reward me for starting line edits today and to cheer me up bc I'm Sad tonight)
#AMA
about THE LORD OF THE WOOD, my cozy horror about a 43yo autistic guy who has a gay/lowkey monsterfucker awakening after getting lost in an enchanted forest
(both to reward me for starting line edits today and to cheer me up bc I'm Sad tonight)
#AMA
October 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
what if. you asked me anything
about THE LORD OF THE WOOD, my cozy horror about a 43yo autistic guy who has a gay/lowkey monsterfucker awakening after getting lost in an enchanted forest
(both to reward me for starting line edits today and to cheer me up bc I'm Sad tonight)
#AMA
about THE LORD OF THE WOOD, my cozy horror about a 43yo autistic guy who has a gay/lowkey monsterfucker awakening after getting lost in an enchanted forest
(both to reward me for starting line edits today and to cheer me up bc I'm Sad tonight)
#AMA
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It's my birthday, so have a present. SLIPPERY CREATURES (Will Darling Adventures book 1) is going on cheap over the weekend. 1920s pulp adventure m/m romance with plots, spies, Bright Young People, and emotional support knife, all for 99p!
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles
books2read.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
It's my birthday, so have a present. SLIPPERY CREATURES (Will Darling Adventures book 1) is going on cheap over the weekend. 1920s pulp adventure m/m romance with plots, spies, Bright Young People, and emotional support knife, all for 99p!
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Shop update! Added the Hazelthorn cover plus this alternative version that got killed along the way but I still like a lot 🖤
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October 30, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Shop update! Added the Hazelthorn cover plus this alternative version that got killed along the way but I still like a lot 🖤
www.inprnt.com/gallery/chec...
www.inprnt.com/gallery/chec...
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At the moment, the plan is seven total Paladin books and three total Swordheart books! And maybe a standalone because I feel like Jorge needs his own book.
October 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
At the moment, the plan is seven total Paladin books and three total Swordheart books! And maybe a standalone because I feel like Jorge needs his own book.
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Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
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who's ready for a book trailer and cover reveal 👀 cover art by Lucy Rose!
(if you're like please I hate videos! gimme a sec, I've got a static cover reveal too)
THE LORD OF THE WOOD releases from @hanoversquarepress.bsky.social in July 2026
preorder: gatheringvolumes.com/item/44euZQq...
#author
(if you're like please I hate videos! gimme a sec, I've got a static cover reveal too)
THE LORD OF THE WOOD releases from @hanoversquarepress.bsky.social in July 2026
preorder: gatheringvolumes.com/item/44euZQq...
#author
October 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
who's ready for a book trailer and cover reveal 👀 cover art by Lucy Rose!
(if you're like please I hate videos! gimme a sec, I've got a static cover reveal too)
THE LORD OF THE WOOD releases from @hanoversquarepress.bsky.social in July 2026
preorder: gatheringvolumes.com/item/44euZQq...
#author
(if you're like please I hate videos! gimme a sec, I've got a static cover reveal too)
THE LORD OF THE WOOD releases from @hanoversquarepress.bsky.social in July 2026
preorder: gatheringvolumes.com/item/44euZQq...
#author
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Anyway I keep forgetting to yell about this book when it is 🍂seasonal 🍂 but THE APPLE-TREE THRONE (a little vanity project I self-pubbed in 2018) is also available on Kobo and in audio!
A young soldier returned from war is haunted by the ghost of his commanding officer (a posh git)
A young soldier returned from war is haunted by the ghost of his commanding officer (a posh git)
The Apple-Tree Throne
Buy The Apple-Tree Throne: Read Kindle Store Reviews - Amazon.com
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October 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Anyway I keep forgetting to yell about this book when it is 🍂seasonal 🍂 but THE APPLE-TREE THRONE (a little vanity project I self-pubbed in 2018) is also available on Kobo and in audio!
A young soldier returned from war is haunted by the ghost of his commanding officer (a posh git)
A young soldier returned from war is haunted by the ghost of his commanding officer (a posh git)