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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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I wrote Wrath Goddess Sing, a book that drags other books behind its chariot and boasts about it.
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · Oct 17
I am Maya Deane, author of Wrath Goddess Sing, and, according to at least one seven-year-old, the tallest woman in the world. By the early 24th century, I will transform into a dragon and devour Jupiter. I have been spotted with swords and chariots, and also casting spells in a secret visual medium.
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Fave Five: Fantasy with Transfem MCs

Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane The Calyx Charm by May Peterson Princess of the Pomegranate Moon by Emily Wynne Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson Bonus: These are all Adult, but in Middle Grade, check…
Fave Five: Fantasy with Transfem MCs
Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane The Calyx Charm by May Peterson Princess of the Pomegranate Moon by Emily Wynne Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson Bonus: These are all Adult, but in Middle Grade, check out The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki Smith, and in Young Adult, hang tight for the upcoming Queen of Faces by Petra Lord
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October 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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thisjulieday.bsky.social
Just over 3 months ago Storyteller was published and interest is still going strong.
It’s has been featured on a curated list of indie publishers on Bookshop dot org!
You can check out the list here: bookshop.org/lists/short-...
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October 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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thisjulieday.bsky.social
(I'm sharing space with @reckoningmag.bsky.social at table 28, right in front of the doors!)
@marisca.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social and Michael Yuya Montroy will read from their work, plus @carinabissett.bsky.social and I will read from two other other stories in the anthology!
July 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Will you look at that! Two SWSW alumni are in People! Congratulations @mayadeane.bsky.social & Ionna Papadopoulou! 😁

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6 Greek Mythology Retellings for Fans of 'Circe,' 'Hadestown' and 'Kaos' (Exclusive)
We love a great myth remix — and they come in all shapes and sizes. Here are 8 stellar novels and short stories, many written by actual Greeks.
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July 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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wiswell.bsky.social
For People Magazine, I wrote about creativity in Greek Myth retellings, including stories by many actual great Greek authors of today. Behold novels and short stories by @ioannapauthor.bsky.social, @mayadeane.bsky.social, @ecastroianni.bsky.social, @nassos.bsky.social & @thisisguan.bsky.social!
6 Greek Mythology Retellings for Fans of 'Circe,' 'Hadestown' and 'Kaos' (Exclusive)
We love a great myth remix — and they come in all shapes and sizes. Here are 8 stellar novels and short stories, many written by actual Greeks.
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July 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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thisjulieday.bsky.social
1 day and counting! I just ordered a book birthday cake for Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology! This is the 1st cake I've ordered with a postcard image on top.
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@csecooney.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social @marthawells.com @mythicdelirium.bsky.social & more!
A shelf of books with the spines facing out, all writtn by Tanith Lee. A postcard rests in front. The Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology is printed on the front.
June 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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thisjulieday.bsky.social
Authors include @mythicdelirium.bsky.social @rinrocio.bsky.social @clhellisen.bsky.social @nisishawl.bsky.social @marthawells.com @csecooney.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social Andy Duncan, Amelia Mangan, @theodoragoss.bsky.social Getty Hesse, Alaya Dawn Johnson and more!
July 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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tillybridges.bsky.social
i love all these pieces Maya does, but this one’s my favorite

i keep getting dreamily lost in it
mayadeane.bsky.social Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · Jun 25
"the place we all return" (firecolor, 6/24/2025, currently altering the forms in eternity to usher me into a more pleasing universe)
a stunningly beautiful abstract river rendered in backlit pastels
June 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
mayadeane.bsky.social
"the place we all return" (firecolor, 6/24/2025, currently altering the forms in eternity to usher me into a more pleasing universe)
a stunningly beautiful abstract river rendered in backlit pastels
June 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
mayadeane.bsky.social
I continue to endorse this book, which dares to ask the question "why are trees so cosmically evil?"
haileypiperfights.bsky.social 🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · Jun 24
COVER REVEAL! 🔪🌊

It's a joy to share the glorious new cover to NO GODS FOR DROWNING! Anna Chiara Stagi has beautifully blended elements of the book into this eerie seaborne majesty.

Thank you Anna, and thank you @badhandbooks for giving it a new port in the storm.

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cover of No Gods for Drowning by Hailey Piper, art by Anna Chiara Stagi, showing a deep sea background, a bright nine-pointed star in blue, and a lithe figure posturing in front of it, a glow with eerie light. At the top is a quote from Chuck Wendig reading "This book sang to me, and if you let it, it will sing to you, too."
June 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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thisjulieday.bsky.social
10 days! Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology ships JULY 1st! I'm thrilled with how it turned out. These authors are fire!
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@marthawells.com @csecooney.bsky.social @nisishawl.bsky.social @mythicdelirium.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social and more
June 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
mayadeane.bsky.social
The Spear Cuts Through Water is absolutely brilliant. I am only a fifth of the way through, and my brain is glowing.
June 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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The terminally online mind cannot comprehend this
June 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
mayadeane.bsky.social
Can confirm. I read @wiswell.bsky.social's Wearing the Lion last night on a pair of trains and wept. It's quite good--in the best way, reminded me of @mcnamaraluna.bsky.social's Psyche and Eros.
dawbooks.bsky.social DAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social · Jun 17
The highly anticipated novel, Wearing the Lion by @wiswell.bsky.social is out today! Run to your favorite bookstore to get yourself a copy of your next favorite read that will have you roaring for more! 🦁🦁🦁

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Stacked photos of multiple copies of John Wiswell's Wearing the Lion on a green table outside
June 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Happy book day to... me! My second novel, WEARING THE LION, is out in the world!

Come join the messy found families of monsters and gods!
dawbooks.bsky.social DAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social · Jun 17
The highly anticipated novel, Wearing the Lion by @wiswell.bsky.social is out today! Run to your favorite bookstore to get yourself a copy of your next favorite read that will have you roaring for more! 🦁🦁🦁

buff.ly/o3Z4GXD
Stacked photos of multiple copies of John Wiswell's Wearing the Lion on a green table outside
June 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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I received my contributor's copy of Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology today. I wept.

When I was young and in desperate need, Tanith Lee's stories came to me like a wind from another world. I hope her name lives forever. I hope I can bestow gifts like she did.
The cover of Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, featuring stories by CSE Cooney, Maya Deane, Andy Duncan, Theodora Goss, CL Hellisen, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Nisi Shawl, and Martha Wells, edited by Julie C Day, Carina Bissett, and Craig Laurance Gidney. A page saying: "Though we come and go, and pass into the shadows, where we leave behind us stories told--on paper, on the wings of butterflies, on the wind, on the hearts of others--there we are remembered, there we work magic and great change--passing on the fire like a torch--forever and ever. Till the sky falls, and all things are flawless and need no words at all." -- Tanith Lee (1947-2015) The first page of Maya Deane's "In Your Shadow": I. The air was thin this high in the Mountains of Alcar, and cold and dry, but young Alleili par Nasheliu climbed on. Her feet, alternately numb and smarting, tingled on each encounter with the black volcanic stone of Phoenix Burn Pass. Ages ago, the whole pass had been charred with fire. Some rocks had melted and flowed, others were sharp as glass, but all had been baked black. Yet Alleili felt the change when she came to the spot where the Last Breath of Winter fell. It was sacred ground. Nothing about this place looked unlike the rest of Phoenix Burn Pass, but here the cold deepened and cut like knives, piercing the youth's fur-lined cloak and numbing her bones. Alleili shivered, though she had vowed to ignore the cold and finish what she started. A thin snow began to fall. Reaching down, the child broke off a glass-sharp spike of rock. It cut her palm, and her blood dripped onto the rocks."
June 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
mayadeane.bsky.social
I received my contributor's copy of Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology today. I wept.

When I was young and in desperate need, Tanith Lee's stories came to me like a wind from another world. I hope her name lives forever. I hope I can bestow gifts like she did.
The cover of Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, featuring stories by CSE Cooney, Maya Deane, Andy Duncan, Theodora Goss, CL Hellisen, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Nisi Shawl, and Martha Wells, edited by Julie C Day, Carina Bissett, and Craig Laurance Gidney. A page saying: "Though we come and go, and pass into the shadows, where we leave behind us stories told--on paper, on the wings of butterflies, on the wind, on the hearts of others--there we are remembered, there we work magic and great change--passing on the fire like a torch--forever and ever. Till the sky falls, and all things are flawless and need no words at all." -- Tanith Lee (1947-2015) The first page of Maya Deane's "In Your Shadow": I. The air was thin this high in the Mountains of Alcar, and cold and dry, but young Alleili par Nasheliu climbed on. Her feet, alternately numb and smarting, tingled on each encounter with the black volcanic stone of Phoenix Burn Pass. Ages ago, the whole pass had been charred with fire. Some rocks had melted and flowed, others were sharp as glass, but all had been baked black. Yet Alleili felt the change when she came to the spot where the Last Breath of Winter fell. It was sacred ground. Nothing about this place looked unlike the rest of Phoenix Burn Pass, but here the cold deepened and cut like knives, piercing the youth's fur-lined cloak and numbing her bones. Alleili shivered, though she had vowed to ignore the cold and finish what she started. A thin snow began to fall. Reaching down, the child broke off a glass-sharp spike of rock. It cut her palm, and her blood dripped onto the rocks."
June 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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mayadeane.bsky.social
The curtain is indigo.

the dye was extracted from I. tinctoria plants by temple dyers and applied to wool threads that dozens of temple weavers wove into a curtain.

The curtain flutters in the palace window.

King's Wife Tashlultum, ruler over the cloth production line, smiles. "All mine."
June 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
mayadeane.bsky.social
The curtain is indigo.

the dye was extracted from I. tinctoria plants by temple dyers and applied to wool threads that dozens of temple weavers wove into a curtain.

The curtain flutters in the palace window.

King's Wife Tashlultum, ruler over the cloth production line, smiles. "All mine."
June 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Another suggestion for #PrideMonth: I was not prepared for this story. It starts how might expect. "Hey, Athena here. Want to be a woman? Makes sense. Let's do that and also dope fighty stuff, yeah?" The offer of a child born from the girl's own body broke me. It's gorgeous and handled so well. 🌈📚
mayadeane.bsky.social Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · Jun 1
There has never been a more auspicious day to buy Wrath Goddess Sing, a book that massacres its enemies in battle and then weeps for the beauty of daylight. Buy an extra copy for your favorite enemy.

In the Iliad period, nobody put coins in the eyes of their dead. Because COINS DIDN'T EXIST YET.
Wrath Goddess Sing: A Novel
A Novel
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June 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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leemandelo.bsky.social
I am also totally floored in the best way: Amplitudes has debuted at #65 on the USA Today Bestseller list 😳😳

Thanks a million times to our contributors, whose stories made this possible, and to the team at @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social for all their hard work!!
erewhonbooks.bsky.social Erewhon Books @erewhonbooks.bsky.social · Jun 11
We are floored in the best way: AMPLITUDES: An Anthology of Queer & Trans Futurity is a USA Today Bestselling book!

We are THRILLED for @leemandelo.bsky.social, @dianapho.bsky.social, and all of our amazing contributors, and so happy to see queer & trans stories supported now more than ever! 💜
We are floored in the best way: AMPLITUDES: An Anthology of Queer & Trans Futurity is a USA Today Bestselling book! We are THRILLED for @dianapho.bsky.social, @leemandelo.bsky.social, and all of our amazing contributors, and so happy to see queer &trans art supported now more than ever!
June 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
mayadeane.bsky.social
Read this one to find out what happened after Florida sank beneath the wave.
erewhonbooks.bsky.social Erewhon Books @erewhonbooks.bsky.social · Jun 11
We are floored in the best way: AMPLITUDES: An Anthology of Queer & Trans Futurity is a USA Today Bestselling book!

We are THRILLED for @leemandelo.bsky.social, @dianapho.bsky.social, and all of our amazing contributors, and so happy to see queer & trans stories supported now more than ever! 💜
We are floored in the best way: AMPLITUDES: An Anthology of Queer & Trans Futurity is a USA Today Bestselling book! We are THRILLED for @dianapho.bsky.social, @leemandelo.bsky.social, and all of our amazing contributors, and so happy to see queer &trans art supported now more than ever!
June 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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erewhonbooks.bsky.social
We are floored in the best way: AMPLITUDES: An Anthology of Queer & Trans Futurity is a USA Today Bestselling book!

We are THRILLED for @leemandelo.bsky.social, @dianapho.bsky.social, and all of our amazing contributors, and so happy to see queer & trans stories supported now more than ever! 💜
We are floored in the best way: AMPLITUDES: An Anthology of Queer & Trans Futurity is a USA Today Bestselling book! We are THRILLED for @dianapho.bsky.social, @leemandelo.bsky.social, and all of our amazing contributors, and so happy to see queer &trans art supported now more than ever!
June 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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mayadeane.bsky.social
There has never been a more auspicious day to buy Wrath Goddess Sing, a book that massacres its enemies in battle and then weeps for the beauty of daylight. Buy an extra copy for your favorite enemy.

In the Iliad period, nobody put coins in the eyes of their dead. Because COINS DIDN'T EXIST YET.
Wrath Goddess Sing: A Novel
A Novel
bookshop.org
June 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
mayadeane.bsky.social
not with Hatshepsut!
June 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM