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Eira Brand
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Writer of Cyberpunk, Gothic Fantasy, and Horror. Tabletop RPG developer, layout designer.

Run Like Hell is now available on Bookshop.org, Amazon, and Kindle Unlimited! (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Eira Brand @eirabrand.com · 17d
And voting is officially open! If you read and enjoyed RLH, or if you agree that the cover is awesome, please use the link to cast your vote for Run Like Hell!
indiestorygeek.com/a/indie-ink-...

#writingcommunity #booksky #queerwriters #indiebooks #horror #cyberpunk #IndieInkAwards🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 💙📚🪐🩸📚🌈
eirabrand.com Eira Brand @eirabrand.com · 17d
I asked, and y'all delivered, even in categories I hadn't originally posted about. Thanks so much, everyone! Finalists will be confirmed in January!

#writingcommunity #booksky #writesky #queerwriters #indieauthor #indiebooks #horror #cyberpunk #IndieInkAwards🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 💙📚🪐🩸📚🌈
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What a year. I bought a house, published my first book and took it to 4 conventions. I joined Kickstarter's community advisory council. The whole way, I met a lot of incredible people, deepened friendships, and added to my weird rag-tag found family. I'm truly grateful for all of it. #2025
January 1, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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My book, Run Like Hell, is on longer on KU as of the 27th,but it still awesome to see it on this list. Fingers crossed I make it to the next round. #spsfc #queerwriters #indiebooks #writingcommunity #booksky
December 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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r/Fantasy Mega Sale day 2! Fill your kindle with a ton of awesome books and help a good cause at the same time! Go over to the MegaSale page (megasale.yrliu.com) to start shopping!
December 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Not sure what to grab during this awesome eBook sale? Here's a few recommendations of books or authors I've personally loved!

Full list of my recommended titles and authors in the thread below. Browse all 650+ books on sale at megasale.yrliu.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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The r/Fantasy Mega Sale has begun! For the next 2 days, I'm joining a ton of other authors in donating a portion of all eBook sales to the Mary Cariola Children's Center! Head on over to the MegaSale page (megasale.yrliu.com) to grab RLH and many more to support a good cause! #booksky
December 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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And voting is officially open! If you read and enjoyed RLH, or if you agree that the cover is awesome, please use the link to cast your vote for Run Like Hell!
indiestorygeek.com/a/indie-ink-...

#writingcommunity #booksky #queerwriters #indiebooks #horror #cyberpunk #IndieInkAwards🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 💙📚🪐🩸📚🌈
eirabrand.com Eira Brand @eirabrand.com · 17d
I asked, and y'all delivered, even in categories I hadn't originally posted about. Thanks so much, everyone! Finalists will be confirmed in January!

#writingcommunity #booksky #writesky #queerwriters #indieauthor #indiebooks #horror #cyberpunk #IndieInkAwards🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 💙📚🪐🩸📚🌈
December 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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I asked, and y'all delivered, even in categories I hadn't originally posted about. Thanks so much, everyone! Finalists will be confirmed in January!

#writingcommunity #booksky #writesky #queerwriters #indieauthor #indiebooks #horror #cyberpunk #IndieInkAwards🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 💙📚🪐🩸📚🌈
December 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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My Dragonsteel book haul. After this convention season I have a good reading lineup for 2026. #dragonsteelnexus #bookhaul #writingcommunity
December 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Dragonsteel Nexus, 2025. God, what an event. Signed so many books. Met so many and incredible people. Hung out with old friends and made new ones. Opened some doors to fun opportunities and made memories. Without a doubt, book people are my people. #dragonsteelnexus #indieauthor #writingcommunity
December 8, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Wanna pick up a signed copy of Run Like Hell? If you're at Dragonsteel Nexus this weekend, stop by the @wraithmarked.bsky.social booth and grab a copy!

#writingcommunity #booksky #writesky #queerwriters #indieauthor #indiebooks #horror #cyberpunk #dsnx #wraitmarked 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 💙📚🪐🩸📚🌈
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Now on shelves over at @thesirenandthesea.bsky.social! I'm so over the moon that they wanted to stock it. 😍

#booksky #queerwriters #cyberpunk #indiebooks #horror #RocNY
December 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Reminder that my very first author event is coming up! Here in PDX at the wonderful Always Here Bookstore on N. Williams + virtual

RSVP at the link in the quote!
magicariot.com Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · Nov 21
My first author event! I'll be at Always Here Books, here in Portland at 4555 N Williams, on Dec. 5th! I'll be talking Magica Riot, Full Bloom, & the Maidensong Magica series with my editor @rowanchurch.bsky.social followed by a Q&A + book signing & photo op! RSVP plz: withfriends.co/event/270589...
An image from Always Here Bookstore in Portland, Oregon, advertising a hybrid event on December 5th at 6:30 PM Pacific! Kara Buchanan, author of "Magica Riot" and "Magica Riot: Full Bloom," in store for a discussion with her editor, audience Q&A, book signing and photo op.
November 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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📢 Nominations for the Indie Ink Awards are open until the end of this month! You can nominate each indie book for up to five award categories.

To vote for Gravity's Fire, scroll down to the bottom of the page here:

indiestorygeek.com/story/10585

(You'll need an account to vote for books.)
Indie Ink Awards (logo) Nominations Open Now! Fire surrounding Gravity's Fire book cover and the following tropes: boys in love, almost kisses, teasing each other, family secrets, love conquers all, forbidden magic, miscommunication, "Don't touch him," fake dating, mutual pining, and awkward MC.
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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In honor of Human Voices Only, I wanted to give thanks to my incredible narrators. I am so thankful to have worked with Joe James, Aven Shore, and Veronica Rotar 🙏

My cyberpunk books (DE, AP) are available wide *now*. My post-apocalyptic fantasy novel (CSOL) will be out February 3rd! #audiobook 💙📚
A graphic of Adam's audiobooks for his cyberpunk series DIGITAL EXTREMITIES (Joe James, Aven Shore) and ANIMUS PARADOX (Joe James). Available wide. A graphic of Adam's audiobooks for his post-apocalyptic fantasy book COPPER SKIN, OAKEN LUNGS (Veronica Rotar). Available wide in February 2026. Paperbacks and eBooks are available for pre-order from select locations.
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Thinking about today. Feeling the weight of it. The lives needlessly cut short. Knowing that I could have been among them. It's a lot, and it's easy to get numb to it. While we ought to honor the siblings we lost, we should also remember... #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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A reader got in touch to tell me they enjoyed RLH and loved a particular line:

“We’re agents of pure chaos that build ourselves cages of structure and calculation.”

Compliments like that are so humbling. ♥️
#booksky #indiebooks #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #queerwriters #cyberpunk 💙📚🪐📚🩸📚🌈📚
November 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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DIGITAL EXTREMITIES and ANIMUS PARADOX are on sale! Grab my cyberpunk books for ¢0.99 USD each—offer available through Monday Nov. 17 on Amazon, B&N Nook, Campfire, Kobo*, Smashwords, and more. 📚💙

*Kobo's sale won't begin until tomorrow, Nov 16.

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November 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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"Magica Riot: Full Bloom" is my second queer Portland magical girl novel and a big emotional gay adventure. And it begins arriving this weekend in print & ebook formats.

I'm building a trans-centric queer magical girl universe here, and I'd love for you to read it. magicariot.com/buy
A photo of paperback copies on a table of "Magica Riot," featuring protagonist Claire in her Riot Purple magical girl costume posing in front of the St. Johns Bridge, and "Magica Riot: Full Bloom," featuring characters Iris and Bloom laying on a bed of orange rain lilies.
November 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Always proud to work for Wraithmarked. <3
wraithmarked.bsky.social Wraithmarked Creative @wraithmarked.bsky.social · Nov 12
Apparently it continues to need repeating:

Wraithmarked Creative DOES NOT (AND WILL NEVER) knowingly commission any artist, writer, or creator of any kind who has, is, or is intending to use generative AI elements in the final iteration of their art, creations, or content.

(1/2)
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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About goddamn time.
swholocron.bsky.social Star Wars Holocron @swholocron.bsky.social · Nov 7
Sigourney Weaver says Lucasfilm is no longer trying to make “the Star Wars to end all Star Wars.”

“They’re letting the universe exist, and tell[ing] really interesting stories within that.”

(Source: Empire Magazine)
November 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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The Indie Ink Awards are now accepting nominations! If you enjoyed Run Like Hell, please consider nominating it over at indiestorygeek.com/story/10521.

#writingcommunity #booksky #writesky #queerwriters #indieauthor #indiebooks #horror #cyberpunk #IndieInkAwards🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 💙📚🪐🩸📚🌈
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Y'all I did it. It's still a little rough and will need editing, but I fucking did it. And I resisted the urge to let them have the kiss. It's gonna make the pay off so much better.
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Got about 700 words added to my next project tonight (~30k total), and I'm about to write a sapphic version of the suiting up scene from The Last Samurai, and my gay little heart can barely contain itself.
#indieauthor #queerwriters #lgbtq #booksky #writingcommunity
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Just had my first bookstore place an order for Run Like Hell!!!!!! Ahhhhhhh!!! <3
#indieauthor #queerwriters #booksky #writingcommunity
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October 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Four years ago today, I came out of the closet and became myself. It was the tail end of the darkest time of my life, and I can only say that gender affirming care saves lives. Mine was one of many. #queerauthor #lgbtq #trans #queer
October 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM