Merlina Garance
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Merlina Garance
@merlinagarance.bsky.social
she/they
🌈 📖 LGBTQ writer of romance books and poetry.
🇫🇷 🇬🇧 French but writes mostly in English
🐕 Proud parent of a 9yo former stray
https://merlinagarance.com/
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So after nearly 3 months I guess it's time for me to market my services again? Make some money?

So if you need help with your book on cover design/formatting, interior formatting, developmental edits, hit me up! I have references too!

All cinfo is on ko-fi.com/merlinagaran...

#booksky 🌈📚
The bundle is doing well, so first of all massive thanks to everyone who grabbed it!
It's still going until next Saturday so help us share the word and do even better!

itch.io/b/3352/trans...

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EnJOY!

💙📚👀😱📢📚 #books #book 🌈📚 🎉 📚
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Reposted by Merlina Garance
Community support is needed now more than ever, and there's an immediate need for support for resources to help keep families fed in the US. And the good news is I'm giving gifts to people who donate! See images for details.

#BookSky #ReadingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #CommunitySupport
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
💙📚 #books #book 🌈📚
Deadline 31st dec
DM/use contact form on merlinagarance.com and I'll give you my email adress
5500 words max
Remuneration: No upfront payment because I simply can't afford it.
Ideally will discuss with all authors about donating at least part of the royalties to related charities
#books #anthology
November 3, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Deadline 31st dec
DM/use contact form on merlinagarance.com and I'll give you my email adress
5500 words max
Remuneration: No upfront payment because I simply can't afford it.
Ideally will discuss with all authors about donating at least part of the royalties to related charities
#books #anthology
November 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Starting today and for 2 weeks, grab over THIRTY trans books to support authors and read about trans love and joy.

itch.io/b/3352/trans...
EnJOY!
💙📚👀😱📢📚 #books #book 🌈📚 🎉 📚
November 1, 2025 at 5:23 AM
For Halloween and because this book needs more love, have it for free! Only today and on itch!
merlina-garance.itch.io/motherly-sto...

💙📚👀😱📢📚 #books #book #fantasy 🌈📚 🎉 📚 #freebooks
October 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
#DVpit is over, thanks everyone who participated in the preDV and helped me refine my pitch, or who boosted during the events! I was unfortunately not able to do the same on the day but I'll go back and follow everyone when I have the time. I hope you all got requests and a huge thanks to organisers
October 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS x THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR

🔮 Gaslamp fantasy with crystal magic
🌈 Sapphic friends to enemies to ?
💛 NB MC
💗Sapphic mixed race MC
🧠 Traumatised grumpy x anxious sunshine
💘 Parallel romances
⚔️ Realistic class divide

#DVpit #LGBT #A #F #DIS #OWN
October 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Leaving prison, Beryl planned to get a quick revenge and disappear for good. Instead, they end up chasing a ticking time bomb with the friend that betrayed them in the first place. But they're caught up in it now and Aljaze is --unfortunately-- as gorgeous as ever.

#Dvpit #LGBT #A #F #DIS
October 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
HE'S HERE. HE'S QUEER. HE'S READY TO CLEAN.
A proud fat gay man with a deep cleaning company meets a closeted depressed bookshop owner and sparks fly around a plate of pancakes.

#Dvpit #LGBT #A #OWN #CR
October 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
2 sapphic friends-turned-enemies are forced to hunt down a dangerous crystal before its power destroys more than a few lives.
2 older gay men assist them while working on their second chance romance.
Hijinks in a zeppelin.

#Dvpit #LGBT #A #F #DIS #OWN
October 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
BLACK BOOKS IF BERNARD BLACK HAD BEEN A GOOD PERSON

🌈 MM romance
🌍 Welsh & Hungarian Mcs
📚 Cosy bookshop
🍰 Cakes & spice
💕 Found family
💅 Drag shows

#DVpit #LGBT #A #OWN #CR
October 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS x THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR

An angry NB fresh out of jail

An aristocrat woman with a dead dad and empty vaults

And the missing deadly crystal they now have to find before it kills everyone

#Dvpit #LGBT #A #F #DIS #OWN
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A grimy bookshop is no place for love. Niall is here for a deep cleaning job, so he represses his attraction for the broody owner. His life is complicated enough. However, forgetting a cute guy when Kris opens up and won't stop cooking for him, is easier said than done.

#Dvpit #LGBT #A #OWN #CR
October 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
10 years after their best friend’s betrayal, Beryl is released from the resulting prison sentence. Their revenge: steal an expensive ruby from Al, kill her and disappear. But Al’s vaults are empty, and the missing jewel might actually start a war.

#Dvpit #LGBT #A #F #DIS #OWN
October 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
And for the last day of #DVparty let me introduce the next manuscript I plan to edit and query/publish! LOVE LANGUAGE OF THE SEA is about two men who ultimately don't think they deserve the kind of love they're about to get, and work on how to accept it. It's set half in Mexico and half in France.
October 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Idk why this went online yesterday instead of today 🤫 blame being away from home a month around a big online event. So have it again on the right day!
#dvparty
And finally, have a small playlist for HEARTS OF STONE! It's very rare for me to match songs to a book but this was an easy one as it fits a lot of emotional music I love.
Any favourite songs in there?
#DVparty #LGBT
October 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
And finally, have a small playlist for HEARTS OF STONE! It's very rare for me to match songs to a book but this was an easy one as it fits a lot of emotional music I love.
Any favourite songs in there?
#DVparty #LGBT
October 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I always struggle finding memes to represent my book because I rarely think in those terms, but this sums up the central conflict quite well... (spoiler: they did)
#DVparty #LGBT
October 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
DUSTY BOOKSHOP intro! Niall can't catch a break and it's only the beginning...
#DVparty #LGBT
October 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
First lines! I'm quite proud of this intro, the first few chapters of this book show the MCs childhood before their lives fall apart and they reunite after 10 years and much tension. The very first chapter might be the softest of the book before things take a turn...
#DVparty #LGBT
October 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reposted by Merlina Garance
HEY YOU! Do you like free paperbacks? Do you like chronically ill baddies? Do you like magic schools that weren't invented by a TERF? I'm hosting a giveaway for my sapphic fantasy dark academia novel RIGHT NOW!

2 winners announced October 10th!
October 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Time to drop some identities! This book is from the pov of Niall, who is a mostly chill guy except for touchy family matters, and his budding romance with Kris... But this is still very much a cosy book so the angst will always be short-lived.
#DVparty #LGBT
October 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Today let me introduce you to the main characters of Hearts of Stone. This book has 4 different povs but Beryl and Aljaze are the main ones and I hope you'll like them!

#DVparty #LGBT
October 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Reposted by Merlina Garance
#DVparty day2

Everybody, meet HANS

Charismatic 20-year-old gymnasium student, whose hobbies include poetry, partying, and casual sex (all genders)

🧡His heart? In the right place.
🍑His decisions? Bad.

From upcoming comic “Nymfe”

#GN #NA #LGBT +Romcom that doesn't end in romance
October 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM