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Tess Carletta | cozy fantasy author
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24, she/her 🌼 demi 🌿 AuDHD 💗 Writer & Library Manager 🌻 Probably thinking about love stories & happily ever afters 📚 KIT & BASIE out now! 🍓

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Emerging from a bsky hibernation to share my most recent book cover beautifully illustrated by @thistlearts.bsky.social 🩷

GOLDHEART is an MM Romantasy with found family, and forbidden romance. I'm hosting a Kickstarter to fund it, beginning this Tuesday! :)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tes...
February 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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My book cozy fantasy romance KIT & BASIE along with 130+ others are all free today for the Fantasy Free-for-All Event! Fill your e-readers, everyone! 🐲⚔👑

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A graphic: "Fantasy Free for All. October 6th, 2023. Over 130+ fantasy novels for free." A doodled image of a castle.
October 6, 2023 at 3:05 PM
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thistlearts.bsky.social
I miss those days when I had the energy to do complex watercolours like this one.
Hope those days will be back one day!

Here's a watercolour Autumn elf for #repostober

#art #illustration #queerart 🎨
Watercolour illustration of an elf holding a magical clock in his hands. A silhouette of a raven is in the background, along with thistles and mist.
October 5, 2023 at 7:15 AM
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I’ve been finding a lot of joy in hand writing most of my current project, feels very refreshing and …. rustic? hope you all like weird seaside towns and mean merrows with a taste for jaded transmasc sailors running from old family debt 🌊 mm enemies to lovers/forced proximity/grumpy x grouchy/idk
October 3, 2023 at 8:01 PM
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I’ve seen a few posts like this going around lately, so I thought I’d join in!

Read OF KNIGHTS AND BOOKS AND FALLING IN LOVE now! 💕🌈

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Text: According to goodreads Readers who enjoy this book… Below is a 3D image of a paperback of Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love by Rita A. Rubin Text: also enjoyed these books! Below are the books covers of Kit & Basie by Tess Carletta, Providence Girls by Morgan Dante, Cursed Cocktails by S.L. Rowland, The Prince’s Dearest Guards by Beau Van Danlen, Heair to Thorn and Flame by Ben Alderson and Prince of the Sorrows by Kelley Graves.
September 11, 2023 at 1:20 PM
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I dont do scary more hum spooky-ish haha ✨👻
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September 30, 2023 at 7:17 PM
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This book has me wrapped around its masked finger 💛😭
sebastiannothwell.bsky.social Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social · Sep 30
FIORENZO is out at last! Please enjoy this queer fantasy-of-manners romance featuring secret identities, hurt/comfort, and a happily-ever-after.
Cover art for Fiorenzo by Sebastian Nothwell, showing two white men in 18th c. Venetian garb, one an unmasked working-class man, the other in aristocratic clothes and a bauta mask. The aristocrat has his arm around the working-class man's waist. The working-class man has his hands upraised to remove the aristocrat's mask. Overlaid are text bubbles listing the book's tropes: fantasy of manners, hurt/comfort, whump, masquerade, queernormative society, melodrama, secret identity, earn your HEA, revenge, and royal x commoner.
September 30, 2023 at 11:47 PM
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I've read this book and every time I think about it, my heart gives a little squeeze! 💛
ritacoolbeans.bsky.social Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · Sep 28
Spring is really springing here so have some flower photos with OF KNIGHTS 🌸
A white hand holding a copy of Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love by Rita A. Rubin in front of a bunch of white flowers A white hand holding a copy of Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love by Rita A. Rubin in front of a bunch of red azaleas
September 28, 2023 at 2:49 PM
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Hi bsky!

I'm Tess! I'm an indie author that writes LGBTQ+ adult fantasy romance! My debut book KIT & BASIE is:

🍓 cozy love & magic
🌼 grumpy immortal x sunshine golden retriever
🍓 hurt/comfort
🌻 OUT NOW and available everywhere (including KU!)
The cover of Kit & Basie by Tess Carletta An illustration of the main characters from Kit and Basie. Two men sitting on a bench against a background of greenery -- sunflowers, tall grass, a willow tree, etc. The first man, Basie, is half-mexican and half-white. He has curly brown hair and is wearing a green plaid flannel, work pants, and boots. The second man, Kit, is pale skinned, freckled, and redheaded. He wears a white button down, black pants, and dress shoes. Basie has one foot up and is holding Kit's arm, head on his shoulder. They're both smiling. An illustration of the characters Kit & Basie from the book of the same name, illustrated by Cupspoodles. Basie is a half-hispanic/half-white man with curly hair, a black button down, and brown trousers. Kit is laying in Basie's lap. He has auburn hair and business casual clothes. They're holding hands. They're sitting in a meadow with a cottage and a treeline behind them. An illustration of Kit & Basie from the book of the same name. Kit is hugging Basie from behind. Basie is holding onto Kit with a hand in his hair. Both are dressed in earth toned clothing in front of a fence and field. Orange leaves are falling.
September 28, 2023 at 1:27 PM
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lilacmilktea.bsky.social Fionn 🌙 @lilacmilktea.bsky.social · Sep 8
My copy of Kit & Basie by Tess Carletta is here and I'm so ready to curl up and get cosy with it ;; it's so pretty 🍂
September 28, 2023 at 1:04 AM
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ive been looking for another five star read all year, ive only had one this far, and i think my ARC of Kit & Basie by Tessa Carletta might be it. i literally just think about reading it all day and whine over not wanting to be done with it yet
August 13, 2023 at 1:01 PM