🍵 & 🐱 Had Fantastic And Creative Debuts!

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Just a quick note from your friendly neighborhood bookworm/indie author

if you use kindle for the majority of your library, they will be shutting down the function that allows you to download your files and transfer them via USB on the 26th of February. Which doesn't sound like a huge deal, but this also means that if a book is taken off Amazon for any reason—like it being banned—they can scrape it off your kindle as well. So maybe backup your library?

Edit: as an indie author I feel like I should make a small note that this is not an excuse to say “fuck Amazon I’ll just pirate my books”. Please don’t do that. No one’s reaction so far has been that but I’m begging you not to react that way. That doesn’t hurt Amazon it hurts authors.

Some alternatives are

- check and see if the author sells their books on other marketplaces. Hint: any not enlisted on Ku are probably wide

- check your library. If they’re not at your library request them.

- if all else fails, reach out to the author. I have 100% hunted down a way for my book to be available to a reader that couldn’t access it for whatever reason. And I’d do it again.

Just for the love of 🧀 don’t pirate them.

Queer Fantasy Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries below:

Crier's War duology (Crier's War, Iron Heart) by Nina Varela

Impossible love between two girls —one human, one Made. A love that could birth a revolution. After the War of Kinds ravaged the kingdom of Rabu, the Automae, Designed to be the playthings of royals, took over the estates of their owners and bent the human race to their will. Now, Ayla, a human servant rising the ranks at the House of the Sovereign, dreams of avenging the death of her family… by killing the Sovereign’s daughter, Lady Crier. Crier, who was Made to be beautiful, to be flawless. And to take over the work of her father. Crier had been preparing to do just that—to inherit her father’s rule over the land. But that was before she was betrothed to Scyre Kinok, who seems to have a thousand secrets. That was before she discovered her father isn’t as benevolent as she thought. That was before she met Ayla. Set in a richly-imagined fantasy world, Nina Varela’s debut novel is a sweepingly romantic tale of love, loss and revenge, that challenges what it really means to be human. Fantasy, epic fantasy, science fiction, young adult, secondary world, romance

The Burning Kingdoms series (The Jasmine Throne, The Oleander Sword, The Lotus Empire) by Tasha Suri

Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy set in a world inspired by the history and epics of India, in which a captive princess and a maidservant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies on a dark journey to save their empire from the princess's traitor brother. Imprisoned by her dictator brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once the source of the powerful, magical deathless waters — but is now little more than a decaying ruin. Priya is a maidservant, one among several who make the treacherous journey to the top of the Hirana every night to clean Malini’s chambers. She is happy to be an anonymous drudge, so long as it keeps anyone from guessing the dangerous secret she hides. But when Malini accidentally bears witness to Priya’s true nature, their destinies become irrevocably tangled. One is a vengeful princess seeking to depose her brother from his throne. The other is a priestess seeking to find her family. Together, they will change the fate of an empire. Fantasy, epic fantasy, politics, romance, adult, secondary world, series

Doodles from when I was reading GtN. _(:3」∠)_

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Here are families who have reached out to me for support this week; please share and donate! (all converted to USD for simplicity)

Mohamed, Diana, and their children - $662 out of $20k goal

Mahmoud Ayyad and family - $10,136 out of $58,167 goal

Sami Hamad and family - $9,200 out of $15K goal

Mahmoud Jehad and family - $10,330 out of $25k goal

The Safaa Family - $2713.77 out of $52,879 goal

Osama Basil - $5,125.07 out of $15,863 goal

Rima and family - $610.23 out of $52,879 goal

Alaa Alseer and family - $948.79 out of $38,206 goal

Jaber AlHaj and family - $3,443 out of $29k goal

Anas Basil and family - $11,896.11 out of $30,670 goal

Ola and family - $66,908 out of $85k goal

Kawthar Ramadan and family - $5,679 out of $52,881 goal

Basma and daughters - $6,670 out of $25k goal

Heba and family - $3,973 out of $30k goal

Eslam and family - $45,455 out of $100k goal

Mariam and family - $957 out of $30k goal

Hussam Al-Qazzaz and family - $615.21 out of $70,055.26 goal

Maram Rafat and family - $6,375.03 out of $57.317 goal

Mohanad and Farah - $5,340 out of $35k goal

Ghazal Naseer and family - $20,364 out of $31,843 goal

Zain and Lana - $3,175.95 out of $105,760 goal

Ahlam - $1,994 out of $50k goal

Ashraf and family - $12,384 out of $21,151.84 goal

Shadi Issa and family - $3,460.35 out of $18,360 goal

Aya and family - $1,534.06 out of $37,030 goal

I saw this back piece on Etsy, and couldn’t stop picturing her in it so I kinda threw one on her and added my own flare.

mercymorn projecting her period cramps onto augustine