Melissa Scott

I highly, *highly* recommend these books, truly excellent folklore-focused romances that are so beautiful that university theses have been written on them

One of my favorite moments!

Word of mouth matters! (And wouldn't I love to see the movie...)

loved this book 💙

I'm so excited to be teaching for Odyssey again!

A book so good I had to own it in both ebook and print!

Writers of fantasy, sci-fi, horror, middle grade, ya, and more, build new skills in 2027 under amazing instructors in our Winter Odyssey Online Classes: Gregory Ashe @tekhnemakre.bsky.social, Barbara Ashford, @henrylienauthor.bsky.social, & @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social! Apply today!!

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 The Astreiant Series is a glorious read! Just saying. :-)

We've discounted our fantasy ebooks to celebrate World Fantasy, exclusively at our website! www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/product...

Odyssey Online Classes start in January! Build new skills under bestselling, award-winning, and critically acclaimed instructors: Gregory Ashe @tekhnemakre.bsky.social, Barbara Ashford, @henrylienauthor.bsky.social, & editor and publisher of BCS @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social! App deadline 12/15!!

Love these quotes! (And don't miss the attached sale.)

Sadly, we're not at #WorldFantasy, but we're offering a convention discount on our fantasy ebooks, exclusively at our website. Sale lasts through the con! www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/product...

#Booksky #FridayReads Looking for a terrific gay gaslamp mystery when the protagonists solve crimes with magic? All our books, including DEATH BY SILVER by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold, are available on Kobo and KoboPlus! www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

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#Booksky More of a queer fantasy/mystery with a delightful gay romance in the mix? We have great reads for that! Check out the Lynes & Mathey books and the Astreiant Series: award-winning, acclaimed and brilliant! queenofswordspress.com

#Booksky This seems a good day to mention that POINT OF HOPES by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett (available direct from us and everywhere else from Bookshop to @weightlessbooks.bsky.social) gets a shoutout in the delightful indie Tiny Bookshop game! Support 2 indies at once! tinybookshopgame.com

Breath and Bone is currently on sale (ebook only). Link is to Smashwords but it's available all the usual places: Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/view/2...

Thanks to everyone reposting the Breath and Bone quotes and the links to the Breath and Bone ebook sale, btw. Such RTs really help get the word out. (Here's a link again, for everyone saying, what ebook sale...? Link is to Amazon US but it's all the usual places.) www.amazon.com/Breath-Bone-...

I should also add that it's currently on sale at all the usual outlets.

Oooh, this looks excellent!

And it’s finally announced! This is a weird one - basically AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS meets PIRANESI in Spaaaaaaaace.

Okay. It has taken me until yesterday to read @kvjohansen.bsky.social's Breath and Bone, which I have had for months and which I had heard about from the excellent @blueterraplane.bsky.social at Candlemark & Gleam months before that. www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

So much this! I play guitar very badly. Our "band" couldn't put together the 20 minutes of passable music needed for a gig at the town's worst venue. But the moments when we did hit a groove were so incredibly satisfying. It was worth all the frustration.

Please check out Queen of Swords Press's online shop! queenofswordspress.com/shop/ They've got pirates and werewolves, murder mysteries and adventure; they've got the acclaimed Astreiant series, which by itself is enough to recommend their catalogue. Go! Treat yourself to some books!

@blueterraplane.bsky.social wrote a book called “Dreaming Metal” that was all about this. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately.

#Booksky Amazon is keeping the lion’s share of the cover price for THE COMPLETE ASTREIANT, which means our amazing authors get paid less and we get paid less (and have to wait 2 months for it), which is why we’re asking folks to buy direct! queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...

Shh. Want to be the first to learn about Odyssey's upcoming online classes and webinar? This is our stealth early announcment. Check out our great programs here: www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli... Application deadline for classes 12/15. But don't tell anyone!

I love Asimov's Science Fiction and the magazine's editors. I've published many stories in the magazine. I subscribe to the magazine. Despite that, I'm done with the new MRM owners. This statement is BS. The new owners have squandered the goodwill of their magazines' readers, writers, and fans. 1/

#Booksky POINT OF HEARTS (Astreiant #6) by Melissa Scott is the Deal of the Day at DriveThruFiction! site.drivethrufiction.com/product/5122...

was just listening to this again, still need to read BURNING BRIGHT by @blueterraplane.bsky.social

#Booksky Bookshop is celebrating Anti-Prime Day and you can get freat deals on shipping by shopping at our Bookshop.org stores in the U.S. and the U.K.! Get some great queer reads today! bookshop.org/lists/queen-...

A daye wythout anachronisme ys lyke Oscar Wilde wythout hys cyberdeck.

Success! I spoke to a person in the Anthropic Settlement Ops office and they corrected the allocations for me. I emailed the supporting documents and I think I'm good. Also, the person I spoke to was genuinely helpful - made the process much easier than I'd feared.

#signalboost

#Booksky Gay fantastical mysteries fan? Find the Lynes & Mathey books and the Astreiant Series at our website and everywhere else from Bookshop to GooglePlay, Kobo to Smashwords! queenofswordspress.com/product-cate...

Me, too!

Aaaand the Anthropic website won't accept my corrections. Anyone else having this problem?

Does anyone know of someone at Baen and/or Tor who is handling the Anthropic claims for them? They've both claimed books of mine on which the rights reverted 30 years ago. (It's pretty obviously a mistake, but it would be easier if they'd help fix it.)

As I sat spinning this morning, I heard the blacksmith working at his forge, and it was a very weird time-slip moment.

Breath and Bone: After long years of wandering together the warrior Naskanna, aka Hedge, & Thallyn (Pony to her friends) settle in the far northwest to let the world get on without them. But a human girl named Arrany comes in search of the legendary Naskanna Deathdealer... www.kvj.ca/breathbone.h...

If you're wondering why authors are getting so rabid here: First Anthropic stole our books. Then we got denied compensation because of US unjust copyright law and publishers failing to meet their contractual obligations. Then publishers and agents apparently claimed author shares. Now this.