Finn McLellan

Ahoy! I'm Finn, and I'm a disabled queer transmasc butch SFF writer. My main project is an ongoing queer Gothic gaslamp fantasy serial called Argentum in Aqua, which you can read for free over on my site ( saranadosfiction.com/2023/12/11/a... ) or pick up in ebook form ( finn-mclellan.itch.io )

Art Challenge Time! Can you make James (and any other Dawn Guard crew if you want) into a KPop star? Show us for the chance to win a #DB2026 shirt! All the details can be found on the blog! #db20

Good morning, lovelies! Do you like coded messages, gemstones, and wearable magic? I make bracelets that encode a message in semiprecious stones and glass beads. payhip.com/kadeperegrin... #ukgifthour #giftideas #handmade #shopsmall #uksmallbiz #ukmakers #ukgiftam

#WIPSnips | spooky Vibes today, and Fest's attempt to spend a while staring out of the window at the snow because he can't sleep has run into an unexpected barrier. Namely, the fact that there's someone - or some*thing* - lurking in the darkness. ( saranadosfiction.com/2022/12/31/s... )

Ah, y'know what, have the link to the story that's from: saranadosfiction.com/2025/12/29/braving-lightning-sailing-the-storm/

Are you ready for an encounter with cozyness? This handmade 42" x 55" quilt is perfect to curl up in for your next Star Trek first watch, rewatch or judgement by sardonic paracosmic Entity. Every donation of $9.87 or multiples thereof gives you entries to win! Go to desertbus.org to donate!

I'm pleased to announce, I now have a website! A single place to link to where you can find all my books, my Patreon, my Redbubble store, and a little bit about me: rubyjonesauthor.github.io #books #authors #writing #romance #smut #art

We're dropping the first 34 pages for Halloween!

So @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com decided to tell the tale of the relationship between our cats: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TCC...

Look at all this Magic! Get in your donations for a chance to win the MtG prize pack that is packed full of boosters, decks, cards and value! $7.77/multiples thereof for the next 32 minutes! desertbus.org/donate #db20 #db2026

Who wants to take home a little magic? I know things have been quiet, unfortunately I'm recovering from being quite ill so stock is limited. But I do have some pendants listed and ready to travel: oishiny.etsy.com #Handmade #ShopSmall

And don't forget that there are still two silent auctions running until 12pm PST! The Desert Bus Shift Dragon Scale Bag and the Shift-themed Bookmark Set could be yours! desertbus.org/2026/prizes/silent #db20 #db2026

Slay the Princess is at an all time high discount of ~60% off~ Get one of the best reviewed games of 2023 for just $7.19! 💯 90 metacritic 🗡️ 96% positive on Steam 🗣️ Get yelled at by Jonathan Sims 👁️ Watch Jonathan Sims also get yelled at by Jonathan Sims 😓 Question every choice you make

Tchaikovsky’s joyfully off-kilter sentences and wry wordplay in the Tyrant Philosophers act as a repudiation of the absolutist ideal of “correctness” espoused by the books' primary antagonists. This quintet of novels is a joy to read. New blog post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

"Given that you just provoked me into an argument because you were upset by the fact I *wasn't* arguing with you, I feel the profanity's more than warranted." Gods, but I love writing these two.

The reason we bus is for Child's Play Charity. @childsplaycharity.bsky.social donates video games, toys, and books to children's hospitals and domestic abuse shelters worldwide This year they donated an epic pile of Avatar MTG Collector packs! Find them at childsplaycharity.org #db20 #db2026

So because it's the season for it, and because I keep forgetting they're up on my site, a couple of non-Argentum short stories for you. First off, a tale of a witch and a summer fire: saranadosfiction.com/2020/05/25/s... And then winter's chill, and wolves: saranadosfiction.com/2023/08/04/t...

Happy Ace Week! Since I know ace readers are often looking for rep, here’s my favourite fact about my upcoming THE SNAKESTONE GIRLS: The ace sensitivity reader, reading it on a commute, got so into they missed their stop. 😉

It's ace week!!! Kembral Thorne, the hero of my Echo Archives series, is a biromantic asexual (like me!), which is super important to me but can get lost in book descriptions with everything else going on (Tired mom MC! Sapphic romance! Time loops! Layered worlds! Murder! Swordfights in ballgowns!)

Live Auction in mere minutes! Gotta Catch'em All with this fabulous and intricately detailed Illustrated Map of Kanto Place your bids at twitch.tv/desertbus #db20 #db2026

There are just FIVE DAYS LEFT to grab this bundle of LGBTQIA+ vampire books! #IndieBooks #HorrorBooks

I read The Last Star in the Void by Melissa Caruso. This is the final book in an amazing trilogy. Come read my gushing review. Or, better yet, preorder the book! #booksky #echoarchives #bookblogger

Giveaway Time! Check out the gorgeous double kint scarf with Esquie and his power runes from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and wrap yourself in his warm embrace $6.33/multiples thereof for the next 50 minutes desertbus.org/donate #db20 #db2026

Here is a letter you should sign, led by intersex campaigners openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. I am intersex – and did not find out until I was 26! Intersex people are also impacted by the decision in FWS, but this is much less talked about. Intersex people continue to be subjected to non-consensual medical interventions. Intersex rights are human rights.

#AwesomeCharacters Also because I like sharing Jai's art, and I can, a spontaneous illustration they did of a moment way back in Archer and Sabbat's backstory (if you've read Braving Lightning, Sailing the Storm, you know exactly what's happening here)

This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

r.e. LRT I think it's not incorrect to say that without Susanna Clarke I wouldn't have become an author - it's *definitely* true to say that without JS&MN there'd be no Argentum, because it was the book that absolutely upturned my idea of how stories could be told and what you could do with words.

"All stories are a response to the world in some way, but fantasy is very often a response to landscape," writes Susanna Clarke in the Observer. Her new story, The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City, is out now from Bloomsbury & it's utterly wonderful. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

So because it's the season for it, and because I keep forgetting they're up on my site, a couple of non-Argentum short stories for you. First off, a tale of a witch and a summer fire: saranadosfiction.com/2020/05/25/s... And then winter's chill, and wolves: saranadosfiction.com/2023/08/04/t...

It's the last day of the SPFBO finalists' sale. If you're looking for fantastic fantasy novels, all for $2.99 or less, go grab a couple and try them out. Find a new author! Shadow of a Dead God is part of the sale, of course! The sale: mlwangbooks.com/spfbo-finali... books2read.com/ShadowGod

Or, if you'd prefer something lighter, might I recommend The Haunting of Avis Lovelock: a sardonic debunker boards a transatlantic passenger liner that's rumoured to be haunted and must contend with meddling (and attractive) Spiritualists and unexplainable deaths. Buy here: geni.us/avisl

Looking for a spooky read in the lead up to Halloween? Why not read The Needfire, a slowburn sapphic Gothic set in the far North of Scotland, where family curses run deep and the angry earth will have its revenge... Buy here: geni.us/needfire

Progress! Slow progress, admittedly, but still progress

Zeta's final giveaway is a collection of shiny DBloons from 2018-2025 from the family of Todd Williams. In memory of Chimera8990, we're asking for donations of $8.99. This giveaway is runnning until 5:20am desertbus.org/2026/prize/1...

Just 4 days until Thief of Death is available for ebook purchases! Pre-order at the link. books2read.com/u/b61YR0 #Wrencer #Booksky #Books 📚 ❤️

This dipshit feels so much better that he wants to play and we've had to sedate the butt off of him so that he doesn't hurt himself. It's just more nickels and dimes. He gave himself a seroma bc he won't stop trying to play. If he will just CHILL, it should go away on its own.

Those who have been around know I like to do thematic words around Halloween, and that's THIS WEEK! Alter as you need to, but have fun! Synonyms, variations & ✨vibes✨ are fine, include Alt Text on graphics with snip text, use Trigger/Content warnings, & no unsolicited editing on posts. #WIPSnips

Yoon Ha Lee's return to adult fiction - science-fantasy 📖CODE AND CODEX📖 - is UTTERLY MAGNIFICENT! 👁️‍🗨️fantastical linguistics 💞swoonworthy prose ☠️these people are TOXIC 🦅unreliable narrator < not-human narrator 🐈🪽one Most Excellent winged cat everybookadoorway.com/language-mag...

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Every donation of $6.10 or multiples thereof gives you entries to win! Go to desertbus.org to donate!

We have an absolute avalanche of high value cards to give away! Sixty one full collector boosters of the Avatar: The Last Airbender magic set plus the one that we're adding to every prize for a total of 62!

Alright #booksky pals, I have unlocked all 8 designs! So now you can pledge knowing you can get whatever design(s) you want 🎉💜 You have untill Saturday night 8PM GMT to get your pledge in (Pledging means you get the best price AND are the first to get the designs!) #bookishmerch