#independant novel

[gollancz]

Here it is! Our gorgeous cover for A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE! It's out on the 12th October 2023, with a brand new introduction from @neil-gaiman (which got me all teary-eyed while I was proofing it, ngl). Obsessed with the sunset colours, obsessed with the stunning lineart by Borg, obsessed with how this is going to sit so perfectly next to our editions of THE LAST UNICORN and THE WAY HOME.

#A Fine and Private Place #Peter S. Beagle #Cover Reveals #Independent Artists #Neil Gaiman #Fantasy novels

[pumpkin-angle]

If you like, mystery, vampires, supernatural thrillers light novels. Then I am happy to tell you that Shadows Sing Vol.2 is now available for pre-order. Follow Roxanne Van Kurt as she tries to find the truth of how her mother died and navigate in the world of the night where her father lives.

Just a quick note that there will be strong language, adult themes, discussion of violences, and further books will have fights.

Hope that all you gems enjoy.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1143974436?ean=9798218248567

#independent author #shadowssing #light novel #fiction fantasy story #supernatural #fiction mystery story #books #vampires #lgbtq+ characters #thriller

[unstablebill]

For Pride as a Special Treat™ I'm buying a BLAZE of my queer murder mystery novel! 🤩 PLEASE LOOK UPON IT!

I love cozy mysteries but there is a distinct lack of them in queer/furry spaces, so I wrote one 😌 You can find it on lovely indy press Furplanet at the link below! 4 illustrations and covers by @jayfitzmaurice

A Summer Vacation to Die For

Dr. Ino Reamer has a lot of plans for his summer vacation — relaxing, working out, trying to conquer the crushing ennui of his 30s. Solving a murder was not part of these plans. But when a colleague's grim demise very nearly ends Ino's tenure, the hyena can't help but apply the scientific method to his search for the truth. When a few suspicious characters take note of Ino's investigation, the case takes on a new urgency, and now Ino must crack the case before Finals Week becomes his final week! 😱

386 pages, rated R (murder off screen)

https://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=1202

(you CAN get it on Amazon but please support my independent publisher!!)

"Enthralling murder mystery? Check. Loveable furry characters? Check. Adorable/cheesy romance? Double-check. If you share any of these interests, I highly recommend picking up this book, you won't regret it!" - review

This is part 1 of a planned 4 part series so please watch me for updates on my upcoming books. I am a small author so I appreciate the support - please follow and reblog and like and share and subscribe and whatever else we do these days!

Thank you for reading! 😁

#murder mystery #cozy mystery #furry #hyena #novel #independent publisher #small author #anthro

[manonamora-if]

Interactive Fiction Showcase 2024

Showcase your Game!

The Interactive Fiction Showcase is a year-long "jam" meant to collect and showcase Interactive Fiction games completed in 2024, and show how diverse the Interactive Fiction scene is! And maybe: build more bridges between the community, help people finding their new favourite game/author...

Whether it is long or short, an easy adventure or a complicated puzzle, a strange experiment, a quick creation, or a years-in-the-making game, come show off what you've made!

Are you more of a player? Then, come check this page regularly for new submissions! Maybe leave a rating or a comment too :)

This is an unranked event.

Rules:

The Showcase is open to IF games in all of its forms: kinetic, choice-based, hyperlinks, parser, visual novels... As long as it is Interactive Fiction (there is interactivity and the focus of the game is on the text), the entry will be accepted.

The Showcase is open to IF games in any language.

Entries must be playable and in its complete form when submitted. Completed games in 2024, whose demo was previously public, are welcome. Games submitted to other events (jams/competitions) are welcome.

Entries can include NSFW content, as long as it is indicated in the submission.

Entries should not include any generated AI content - or it will be removed.

Spam or hateful content will be removed.

Creating Interactive Fiction:

Interactive Fiction is a text-based narrative medium, where players can interact with the story in some fashion (input commands, click a link/button, press key). There are many different ways of creating IF, and many different programs to do so. You can find some mentioned below:

Primarily HyperText/Choice-Based: Twine,  Ink, ChoiceScript, Dendry

Primarily Parser/Input: Inform 6, Inform 7, PunyInform, Adventuron, ADRIFT

Other: Bitsy, Binksi, Ren'Py

and many more can be found listed in the IF Wiki.

If you are looking for other Interactive Fiction Events, discuss general IF, or ask question, you can visit the IntFiction Forum. (we also have monthly IF events over at @neointeractives)

Interactive Fiction Database and Archive:

IFDB

The IFDB, or Interactive Fiction Database, is an IF game information catalogue, creating a historical record of the IF landscape. The database is a community project, updated by its members, by adding titles to the directory, ratings games, writing reviews... If a listing has not yet been created for your game, please consider making one!

IF Archive

The IF Archive is an archive of Interactive Fiction games, and IF-related elements (walkthroughs, interpreters, articles, collections...). The Archive’s mission is to preserve the history and practice of interactive fiction and make it freely available to the public. If you wish to, you can upload a copy of your game to the IFArchive, through the IFDB listing of your game (recommended) or directly to the archive.

The IFDB and IFArchive, as well as the IntFiction Forum and Twine, are managed by the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation. These programs are funded through individual donations.

Visual Novel Database

The VNDB, or Visual Novel Database, is a community project that strives to be a comprehensive database for information about visual novels. The database is updated by its members, by adding titles to the directory, ratings games, writing reviews... If a listing has not yet been created for your visual novel, please consider making one!

#interactive fiction showcase #itch io #interactive games #interactive fiction #interactive story #visual novel #IF #VN #IFDB #IFArhive #Sidenote: the real reason was wanting to better keep up with independent releases #(outside of competition/jams) and itch is not great at finding stuff…

[ninawolv3rina]

✨Books✨

The beginning of a trilogy about a god of death and the world who has to put up with him

Book 1: A disaster bisexual convicted of stabbing a politician gets chosen to be Prophet of Death. The priesthood is… not thrilled. Get it here

Book 2: A retired assassin gets hired to find a cure for a young lord’s poisoned daughter. Along the way he meets a nonbinary bard with the power to change people’s emotions by touching them. Maybe they fall in love? :3 Get it here

You can read them out of order, as long as you read both before book 3 (which will come out 2025)!

Read the reviews here

Trigger warnings are listed in amazon descriptions.

#queer fantasy #dark fantasy #fantasy novels #indie author #author #indie #self published #independent author #queer author #the unwanted prophet #the forgotten lyric #my characters #my shit #the creed of gethin #books #booklr #book #small author #writer #fantasy series

[copperbadge]

Oh god, February 29th is less than ten days away...

I've been hustling to get the print, epub, and Free PDF versions done, and get the sales post written up, so much so that I forgot to warn everyone that the drop is coming :D The Royals And The Ramblers, the latest volume in the Shivadh Romances, will go up for sale at 10am Central time on February 29th!

What are the Shivadh Romances? Well:

Askazer-Shivadlakia is “the little country by the sea” — a coastal micronation perched between France and Italy, with Europe’s only Jewish royal family and a distinctly queer-friendly culture. The irreverent but earnest Shivadh people have recently elected a new king, Gregory III, and the Shivadh romances follow him, his extended family, and their friends and partners as they manage love, politics, and an ever-expanding social circle.

And what is The Royals And The Ramblers about?

It's an exciting time for the Shivadh royal family! Gregory III, king of Askazer-Shivadlakia, is marrying kitschy TV chef Eddie Rambler…three times. There's the beach party in California, a private wedding for family in Europe, and a big formal blowout for everyone in Askazer-Shivadlakia to celebrate. But that's not all -- Gregory and Eddie have asked Eddie's sister, Monday, to serve as a surrogate for a royal baby, and that means Monday has to figure out life in Askazer-Shivadlakia, along with determining where she stands with her one-time fling and now full-time friend Georgie, the royal head of security.

Gregory's friends Alanna and Jerry are trying to sort out their whirlwind romance, his father Michaelis is navigating a second love and return to fatherhood with partner Jes and Jes's son Noah -- and then there's Ioanna, the bright young girl Gregory catches ditching school to watch him lead Parliament, who might need a couple of dads as much as Gregory and Eddie want a couple of kids.

It's a year for everyone to learn new roles, find surprising ways to keep growing up, and, as always, keep that irreverent Shivadh sense of humor, whether they're a Royal or a Rambler....

I'll be making a sales post with all the links here, and you can always find the latest news also at my author website. And as always I'll be offering signed bookplates for print versions as a fundraiser, this time supporting Planned Parenthood. Keep your eyes peeled!

#shivadhverse #independent publishing #self-publishing #romance novel

[rileythefool]

Polyamory, Demons, and the ordeal of being known

I made the brilliant decision to write a story for the burnt out gifted and talented, autistic, depressed, ADHD disasters who haven't picked up a book in half a decade. That is to say, I wrote a book for myself.

Check it out at www.rileyquinnthefool.com

#lgbt #independent author #paranormal romance #polyamory #romance novels

[sisterofsinsaccharine]

🍭Uscharlie🍭

✨HAPPY MAGICIAN DAY! ✨ Can we all agree that my friend @smilestrawbunny creates the COOLEST games and characters?! Magician: Day 1 is out NOW on Ich.io!!! GO CHECK IT OUT! 🤩🎀

#magician #smilestrawbunny #gamedev #independent artist #independent game #indegame #yamikawaii #psychological horror #visual novel #mahou shoujo #digital art #magician game

[luvbug724]

obsessed w jeanee Actually. she drove hours in the middle of the night for him. she organised a heist for him. she blackmails a university for him. she was willing to break into the nest w brute force for him. she was willing to rob a hardware store to do it. she seriously contemplates climbing over barbed wire fences to get to him. she handles diversions and distractions with grace for him. she has the invasive curiosity to want to know all abt his little knick knacks. she resorts to violence when someone tries to stop her from getting to him. she prays for him. she talks to him softly when the only feeling in the room is rage. she pushes his hair out of his face. she checks his pulse obsessively. YEAH………… are we all seeing this rn

its so wonderful to me too because like this is RENEE. renee, who is a bad person trying very hard to be good. there was a post going around maybe a month ago how empathy for everyone circles back around into empathy for no one i can't remember any of the specifics but it rlly did something for how i see renee because shes a protector. its defensive. its safe. she knows the limits, she knows the point of no return because shes been to rock bottom and clawed her way up but she's willing to do whatever she needs to to get jean out of the nest.

there is a big difference between cradling allison when andrew hurts her vs actively threatening eau, going on the offense to make sure jean leaves safe with her. there's something insane to me abt how a few months of texting and calling jean could push her to that point, the point where she needed to be talked down off the ledge before the plan was more natalie than renee because this was something she absolutely could not fuck up. she knew that her efforts would be worthless if she didn't create a plan that couldn't backfire, because the punishment for jean trying to leave and failing (and i'm sure that message to renee would be used against him) or leaving and coming back would be 1000x worse than whatever they could do to him from a distance.

and then when she has him in his arms and she knows he's going to be safe, he'll be okay as long as she can get him to abby, she can let herself be kind again.

#IT DRIVES ME INSANE #like helloooooo?????? #i genuinely am not sure if this makes sense or if its just wordvomit but DO YOU GET IT #it may not be love yet but it IS something worthwhile. you know #they havent even known each other for that long!!!!!!!! #i said a few tags back that renee's actions arent lesser if theyre based on romance and like i know its been maybe 2 hours since i said it #but i still agree!!!! renee i think doesnt get her due diligence for her motivations. in the pursuit of like the strong independent #woman archetype i think we've neglected the fact that you know. a woman can be motivated by romantic feelings and it doesn't make her any #less strong or liberated #having a connection with a person isn't a weakness #feminism is so nuanced! there is no one size fits all! restating this idea for the third time this post but there is no weakness in love #even though misogyny has made it so easy to get reactionary with it and claim that any show of strength isn't motivated by it at all! #do u catch my drift. i can say it a different way a fourth time if necessary i dont think i can verbalize my thoughts well #hm ok thoughts to chew on! #back to my shitty hockey novels while i wait for tsc to drop! #jeanee #asks

[onemorehit]

One More Hit | Chapter 0 | Prologue

Our plucky violence-loving hero enters the race to become the #1 ranked fighter in the dome, taking down the #6 Ranked fighter and earning her spot, and a chance to challenge the Top 5 ranked fighters! Blood, hair swords, superpowers, severe trauma to the organs! All this and more in the first pulse-pounding chapter of One More Hit!

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#art #artwork #digital art #digital illustration #drawing #original comic #original webcomic #artists on tumblr #digital painting #web comic #independent artist #indie comic #indie comics #indiecomicart #indiecomiccreator #graphic novel #comic strip #webcomics #comic art #comics #comic books #my comic #onemorehit #patreon

[the-sage-libriomancer]

I wonder what Kyoko would've thought of Shigure. She's the only non-Sohma adult who's also in his age group (albeit barely - she's about a decade older than him) and I feel like her optimism combined with her no-nonsense sensibilities would've been an interesting foil to Shigure's morally grayness hidden under a cheerful exterior.

They probably could have bonded over pursuing socially unacceptable relationships and being outcasts in their family (if Shigure was ever able to be even slightly honest with her, that is). I don't think they'd have hung out often, but in a Kyoko Lives AU where Tohru befriends Kyo and Yuki, it's likely they would've had to meet at least once or twice. I can't tell if they'd like each other or if it'd be more of a "polite acquaintances" sort of thing.

#drafting a longish post ab kyoko and this popped into my mind #kyoko is roughly 36 when she dies #and shigure is 25-26 when the story starts #so they're at least in the same generation #i think shigure would've benefited from having regular contact with an independent non-sohma adult like kyoko #though tbh i'm questioning whether kyoko would have even liked him ahdjajdjdkdjnadjdladjd #she might've guessed that he has a lot of shit brewing beneath the surface and decided his vibes were rancid #though the fact that shigure in canon has a soft spot for tohru makes me think she'd warm up to him eventually #hey wouldn't it be funny if she was secretly a huge fan of his novels #fruits basket #kyoko honda #shigure sohma #sage speaketh #au tag

[figcatlists]

Alternative comics and literary graphic novels chart

This chart is a selection from my list of 200 alternative, art, and experimental comic books, as well as graphic novels with a literary bent. I arranged the chart in reverse order of publication to highlight the more recent titles; I also excluded some of the obvious big-name classics to make it somewhat more interesting than your standard "comic books aren't just for kids starter pack".

#comics recs #comic recommendations #graphic novels #alt comics #alternative comics #fantagraphics books #drawn and quarterly #indie comics #independent comics #alt comix

[gollancz]

I bring MORE BEAUTIFUL THINGS today!

Available from the 26th October, exclusively on the Gollancz Emporium, a limited edition of THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA by Scott Lynch!

This beautiful signed, numbered deluxe edition is limited to just 750 copies and features stunning new cover artwork and endpapers, sprayed edges, ribbon marker and more. AND if you pre-order in the next 48 hours you'll get an automatic 10% discount...

The gorgeous new art is by the phenomenal Edward Bettison.

#The Lies of Locke Lamora #Scott Lynch #Special Editions #Fantasy Novels #Beautiful Books #Independent Artists #I mean honestly tho that is FIT #I'm the only Gollancz bod in the office today #sitting at my desk singing All By Myself #generally being a nuisance to everyone else around me now there isn't a buffer of my own team to protect them

[francescaswords]

Introducing ROTTING TREES, a Bezzina's Emporium of Magical Artefacts and Antiquities novel

Ta dahh! Cursenovel is called ROTTING TREES, and you can read it from 11th December at the No.1 Readers’ Club on Patreon.

All the women in Ariel Scarlet’s family die before the age of forty. Family legend blames a cursed Victorian necklace, and Ariel is determined to discover who cursed it and why. Sophey Cartwright works in Bezzina’s Emporium of Magical Artefacts and Antiquities. She can help Ariel find out the truth... but is Ariel ready to face the past and choose her own place in history?

The prologue is on Patreon now and I can’t wait for you to get to know Sophey and Ariel. I’ve put together a little info post on my blog.

#Rotting Trees #Francesca Astraea #YA novel #young adult novel #cursenovel #YA #indie author #indie novelist #independent creator #Patreon creator #YA fantasy #contemporary fantasy #Bezzina's Emporium of Magical Artefacts and Antiquities

[poorlittleyaoyao]

back on my bullshit (wondering how and when the characters who are not part of cultivation society became cultivators to begin with)

#I maintain that MY doesn’t receive full training till he’s with the Wen in CQL canon bc he has! no! weapon! before that #but in the novel it specifically SAYS he’s a cultivator when he first meets NMJ #bc WWX comments that MY’s lack of proper foundation is a deficit he can’t ever fully overcome #so on THAT note how did XY become so good at demonic cultivation that he got recruited by Jinlintai’s shady research department? #in novel canon WWX pioneers demonic cultivation so where would XY have learned it independently THAT QUICKLY as a teen? #and while demonic cultivation requires no golden core XY must have one bc he can keep up with XXC and LWJ in combat #and is totally unfazed by all the serious injuries he takes #‘golden cores are hard to forge’ and ‘standard cultivation knowledge is inaccessible to common ppl’ are both major plot points #SO WHERE DID THE FUNTIME MURDER LADS GET THEIR ABILITIES IN THE NOVEL?

[optiwashere]

Yoooooo!

You got original works somewhere we could read? :O

Nah, I'm what the girlies call a "failed novelist."

I was very nearly a published short story writer (horror). Then the small publisher working on that collection folded, the rights to that story floated around for a while, and I got so demotivated about the whole situation that I never tried short story pub again. This all happened like a decade ago and I'm still not over it lol.

#hey you can ask me things! #I have three finished (unpublished!) novels - two of which are just Bad™ and one that I think doesn't fit the current market #the current pub industry is generally moving away from grimdark-adjacent work (which is what the decent one is) #and I have neither the independent wealth nor the desire to market myself that self pub requires