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Arden Powell 🎄❄️✨
@ardenpowell.bsky.social
Queer SFF author + artist, they/them 🇨🇦 Flos Magicae, The Carnelian King, Faerie Hounds, The Bayou. March 2025: Flesh & Bone
Patreon: https://patreon.com/ArdenPowell
Itchio: https://ardenpowell.itch.io
Book Links: https://ardenpowell.mailerpage.io
It's December, which means it's time for holiday romance novellas! THE SOLSTICE CABIN is a gay historical romance set in Canada's far north. Ghosts, snow magic, northern lights, and best friends to lovers with mutual pining 🎄❄️

✨$2.99 on Amz and KU: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN6W753D
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I got hit with an unexpected $200 expense today! I need to buy software to keep my new freelance job. It would be amazing to sell some books or get some new patrons to help cover it 😬

Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ardenpowell
Exclusive fiction: www.patreon.com/ardenpowell
Books on Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
It's Creator Day on Itchio! Today 100% of earnings go to indie creators, so it's the perfect day to stock up on ebooks. Gift them to friends for the holidays, hoard them for later, read them immediately, have books ✨🖤

All my books on Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io
3 for $9.99: itch.io/s/146541/ard...
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
New flash fic! A Band of Bluejays in Snow-Capped Rosehips.

"The birds’ underbellies were puffed up against the cold, but their dapper blue jackets were sleek and stylish, and they put the knight in mind of the last company of royal guards with whom he’d served."

www.patreon.com/posts/band-o...
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
It's my giveaway day! Share your favourite book by a trans author or featuring a trans character on the original post below and win an ebook copy of my queer fantasy short story collection THE CARNELIAN KING. Open internationally, winner chosen randomly. Rec some indie trans books! 🌈💜 🌈🚀💫 🌈📚
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Itchio is back up! ardenpowell.itch.io

✨You own the ebook files for keeps
✨I make the highest royalties on Itchio compared to any other storefront
✨You can tip creators above the sale price if you want to give extra support
✨Buy queer indie books from a queer indie author
🌈📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈💜
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
...Off screen.
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
New flash fiction: A Murmuration of Starlings, 300 words. A wandering knight witnesses an omen foretelling the death of a king, and is glad for it.

"A witch could tell him the starlings’ secrets, but he had been alone for days, and the land around him was empty."

www.patreon.com/posts/murmur...
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This week's short fiction is something spectral for Halloween, in memory of the best boy, Grim, who would have spent this rainy day tucked up in bed fast asleep, refusing to go outside where his paws would get wet.

Read Allhallows (550 words) here: www.patreon.com/posts/allhal...
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Queer author writing queer horror! FLESH AND BONE is a gothic western horror-romance with cis gay MCs and physical disability rep. CWs for homophobia, gore, and werewolf body horror.

Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io/flesh-and-bone
Amz: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1M52FFX
Wide: books2read.com/u/3yxrDV
October 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It's Halloweentime! Come get some queer horror for the weekend! Southern gothic, historical western, horror-romance, folkloric fae, and it's all gay 🖤🎃🍂

Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io
Amz/KU: www.amazon.com/stores/Arden...
October 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Hell yeah hell yeah, if you liked IWtV you should definitely read THE BAYOU!!
October 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Shameless marketing to say that if you love a jewel heist, you should read my mm romance A THIEF AND A GENTLEMAN! Set in 1920s London with magic, a con artist robs the National Gallery of its Cheapside Hoard jewellery exhibit 💎✨

Ebook, paperback, and KU: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCCC9YPD
October 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Introducing The Knightly Forecast. Support my Patreon for $4 CAD/month, and get a weekly dose of meditative fantasy microfiction in your inbox.

This series follows the changing seasons. The first is completely public and free to read, no signup required.

🍂 www.patreon.com/posts/early-...
October 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
bookshop.org has free shipping Oct 7-8 for their anti-prime sale! They have 10 of my paperbacks in stock so you can support indie authors and bookstores while collecting pretty books for your shelves at the same time ✨
October 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
ALL THE QUEER BOOKS

✨Flos Magicae: romance series in 1920s London with magic, 4 novels + 4 novellas
✨Faerie Hounds, The Bayou, Flesh & Bone: historical horror
✨Carnelian King: short stories!
✨Obsidian Island: action/adventure fantasy romance

Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io
Amz: shorturl.at/1ZD6s
October 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
September 30th / Oct 1st 🌻🍁🍂💀
October 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
May I offer you Thee silliest thing I've written all year: Fionn and Marten vs the demonic Pumpkin King.

"However many pumpkins Fionn stomped into the ground, double that number skittered forth from the field on squiddish vines to set upon him anew." #Swordtember

⚔️ www.patreon.com/posts/swordt...
September 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
And just in time for the horror season, THE BAYOU ebook is now available wide! It's slowly making its way into libraries; if it's not on Hoopla yet, it will be soon 🖤

Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io/the-bayou
Apple, Kobo Plus, Smashwords, etc: books2read.com/u/mdO9pX
Amz: www.amazon.com/dp/B08RCWTSCC
September 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Publishing news! I'm beyond thrilled to finally share that my queer southern gothic horror novella—set in 1930s Louisiana about a haunted man, a murdered child, a charismatic bank robber, and a disappearing town—THE BAYOU will be coming out in audiobook from Tantor Media.
September 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Another ambiguously gay #Swordtember story! Sir Heron renews his vows of allegiance to Mister Swan, his exiled prince. As little as $4 CAD a month gets you access to exclusive queer fantasy fiction, currently posting 3x week, and helps me afford groceries ⚔️✨🦢

www.patreon.com/posts/swordt...
September 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A demon hunter collects fantastic swords based on beetles 🪲

Every other day this month I'm posting a new prompt-based flash fiction for #Swordtember. If you join my page for as little as $4 CAD, you support me writing more queer fantasy ⚔️✨

www.patreon.com/posts/swordt...
September 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Something like this! Warmer than the other greens I've done so far, I just haven't found the perfect sample yet. It needs to go with the dark rusty orange in the next room. (Photo from some random decor site)
September 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
None of the colours on this sketch layer are going to survive into the finished piece, but I'm really enjoying the summer sunset colours here.
September 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
THE BACHELOR'S VALET is a 1920s romance between an airheaded young gentleman trying to escape an unwanted marriage foisted on him by overbearing relatives, and his supercompetent valet. Where are my Wodehouse fans? It's blatantly Jeeves & Wooster, I just added magic.

www.amazon.com/dp/B09BLH3S9P
August 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM