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#FantasyIndiesApril 30 & #QueerPrompts April 30: Monthly wrap-up 🗓️🎁

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#FantasyIndiesApril Free Friday & #QueerPrompts April 26: Share a book-related video 📺

How did #GravitysFire 🌿🔥 get its cover? It's magic! Okay, no, but close! Check out this video I made in Canva about the journey to the cover!

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#FantasyIndiesApril 23: Last 5-Star Read & #QueerPrompts April 23: Queer book you reviewed

I almost never really give 5 stars, but since Goodreads doesn't have half stars, I tend to round up my 4.5 star reviews. 🐲Under the Dragon Moon🌕 by @mawcewrites is definitely close to that illusive 5 stars though! Check out my review:

C.J. Aralore's review of Under the Dragon Moon

5/5: This is a review based on an advanced reader copy I received. I've rounded 4.5 stars up to 5. Under the Dragon Moon by Mawce Hanlin is

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#FantasyIndiesApril Free Friday & #QueerPrompts April 19: Favorite queer art/artist 🏳️‍🌈🖼️

Not only does @artcoffeecats illustrate covers, but they make art inside their books too! It also happens to be cover reveal day for the third and final book in their MM romantasy series The Heartwood Trilogy, coming out on the Summer Solstice, June 21!

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#FantasyIndiesApril 14: What do your characters do on a hot day? 🥵💦

When Nix arrives in Ember Crater, it's late September and hot out, so his first glimpse of Max and the other tamers is them shirtless on the school field using water to stay cool. Though, he's not sure where the water comes from.

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#FantasyIndiesApril Free Friday & #QueerPrompts April 12: Share a queer short story 🏳️‍🌈📄

Trapped in a world where being queer is seen as a sickness, Acum must choose between life and love in the magical fairytale ✨Like Stars on the Wind💫.

Read it FREE:

Spring 2024, Like Stars on the Wind

Orion's Beau is a free digital arts & literary journal specializing in LGBTQ+ works of fantasy and speculative fiction. By publishing short

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#FantasyIndiesApril 6: Saturday Snippet: Demand 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨

Apparently this is the only time "demand" appears in Gravity's Fire, but it's the best way it could be used. 😉 That's right, yet another almost kiss! 😆

(Also, I tweaked my shading approach and like this better.)

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#FantasyIndiesApril Free Friday & #QueerPrompts April 5: Queer book publisher(s)? 📚

Midnight Meadow Publishing is a small, neurodiverse queer publisher that is accepting submissions until April 15th. Find out more:

Also, I took their logo and animated it! Now share queer publishers you know!