S.M. Stevens
@authorsmstevens.bsky.social
Author of contemporary fiction that makes you think, animal lover, yoga practitioner, music nut. Social justice novel "Beautiful & Terrible Things" out now. More at AuthorSMStevens.com.
The EBOOK of Beautiful & Terrible Things is now available through local libraries! If you haven’t read Indies Today's Best Literary Book of 2024, you can borrow it for free. Tell your librarian "Beautiful and Terrible Things: A Novel" is now on OverDrive. 😀 📚 #LibraryLove #BorrowBooks #OverDrive
October 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The EBOOK of Beautiful & Terrible Things is now available through local libraries! If you haven’t read Indies Today's Best Literary Book of 2024, you can borrow it for free. Tell your librarian "Beautiful and Terrible Things: A Novel" is now on OverDrive. 😀 📚 #LibraryLove #BorrowBooks #OverDrive
WIN 13 BOOKS! It's LGBT History Month, and AuthorsXP is holding a Book Giveaway to celebrate. You'll find my "Beautiful & Terrible Things" and "The Wallace House of Pain" in there plus fantasy, romance, horror, thriller, and short fiction books. Enter here: buff.ly/GQx8bi0 #lgbtbooks #lgbtfiction
October 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
WIN 13 BOOKS! It's LGBT History Month, and AuthorsXP is holding a Book Giveaway to celebrate. You'll find my "Beautiful & Terrible Things" and "The Wallace House of Pain" in there plus fantasy, romance, horror, thriller, and short fiction books. Enter here: buff.ly/GQx8bi0 #lgbtbooks #lgbtfiction
If you like detective stories and mysteries, check out "Death Grip" by Travis Tougaw, just released today. I LOVED the last book I read from his Marcotte and Collins series, so can recommend the new one without hesitation! buff.ly/Rf9EWmB
September 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If you like detective stories and mysteries, check out "Death Grip" by Travis Tougaw, just released today. I LOVED the last book I read from his Marcotte and Collins series, so can recommend the new one without hesitation! buff.ly/Rf9EWmB
Win a free copy of Beautiful and Terrible Things, and/or many other great novels that are perfect for Book Clubs and people who love books that make you think as well as laugh and cry! Go to AuthorsXP to enter: buff.ly/WC7Aplr
September 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Win a free copy of Beautiful and Terrible Things, and/or many other great novels that are perfect for Book Clubs and people who love books that make you think as well as laugh and cry! Go to AuthorsXP to enter: buff.ly/WC7Aplr
Join me tonight at 7:00 P.M. EST for a live interview with Dr. Rhonda on the Horizons Author Lounge podcast! 🎤 Psyched to share the spotlight with Nicole Cash, who narrated my "Beautiful and Terrible Things." Tune in at 7 PM on YouTube: buff.ly/6oYUkBk
August 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Join me tonight at 7:00 P.M. EST for a live interview with Dr. Rhonda on the Horizons Author Lounge podcast! 🎤 Psyched to share the spotlight with Nicole Cash, who narrated my "Beautiful and Terrible Things." Tune in at 7 PM on YouTube: buff.ly/6oYUkBk
I was asked what success as an author looks like to me in this short bit from a Compassiviste Dialogues podcast interview. The answer might surprise you!
July 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I was asked what success as an author looks like to me in this short bit from a Compassiviste Dialogues podcast interview. The answer might surprise you!
Taking a poll...which glasses should I wear in my author videos? Please let me know in the comments - thanks!
July 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Taking a poll...which glasses should I wear in my author videos? Please let me know in the comments - thanks!
Book reviews don't have to be in-depth or elaborate to matter - check out this short but oh so sweet Amazon review of "Beautiful & Terrible Things: A Novel" posted a few days ago by Stacy Sheakly. Thank you, Stacy!
July 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Book reviews don't have to be in-depth or elaborate to matter - check out this short but oh so sweet Amazon review of "Beautiful & Terrible Things: A Novel" posted a few days ago by Stacy Sheakly. Thank you, Stacy!
Nonbinary Sunny & bisexual Xander are best friends and sometimes more. In this scene from Beautiful & Terrible Things, well, they’re more. AuthorSMStevens.com. #queerbooks #nonbinarycharacter #bisexual #contemporaryfiction
July 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Nonbinary Sunny & bisexual Xander are best friends and sometimes more. In this scene from Beautiful & Terrible Things, well, they’re more. AuthorSMStevens.com. #queerbooks #nonbinarycharacter #bisexual #contemporaryfiction
My next book, which is still only a sad manuscript with no home, was a runner-up in Blydyn Square Books' First Chapter Contest! Tentatively called "The Unraveling of Caro Dunn," the story is about a successful businesswoman and grandmother harboring insane secrets about her children. buff.ly/8lqC7v7
July 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My next book, which is still only a sad manuscript with no home, was a runner-up in Blydyn Square Books' First Chapter Contest! Tentatively called "The Unraveling of Caro Dunn," the story is about a successful businesswoman and grandmother harboring insane secrets about her children. buff.ly/8lqC7v7
THANKS to all who downloaded Beautiful & Terrible Things during its 2-day sale!! Almost 1,000 people grabbed copies of the 7-time award-winning friendship/social justice novel. And you propelled the book into the #1 spot on Amazon in one category and the #2 spot in another! Power to the People.😀💪📚
July 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
THANKS to all who downloaded Beautiful & Terrible Things during its 2-day sale!! Almost 1,000 people grabbed copies of the 7-time award-winning friendship/social justice novel. And you propelled the book into the #1 spot on Amazon in one category and the #2 spot in another! Power to the People.😀💪📚
Goodreads reviewer: “If you’ve ever felt lost, if you’ve ever wrestled with who you are, if you’ve ever needed a reminder that you are more than your worst moments—read this book.” FREE today only on Amazon. bit.ly/3IqEPWQ
July 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Goodreads reviewer: “If you’ve ever felt lost, if you’ve ever wrestled with who you are, if you’ve ever needed a reminder that you are more than your worst moments—read this book.” FREE today only on Amazon. bit.ly/3IqEPWQ
I just learned you can gift an ebook, even when the ebook is free! My award-winning friendship story “Beautiful & Terrible Things” is free on Amazon TODAY AND TOMORROW ONLY. So check it out if you want to send a free copy to a friend, colleague, family member, Book Club buddy. buff.ly/tZedFtq
July 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I just learned you can gift an ebook, even when the ebook is free! My award-winning friendship story “Beautiful & Terrible Things” is free on Amazon TODAY AND TOMORROW ONLY. So check it out if you want to send a free copy to a friend, colleague, family member, Book Club buddy. buff.ly/tZedFtq
📣 Holler it from the rooftops! 🏆 7-time award-winning novel 📚 “Beautiful & Terrible Things” is FREE for 2 DAYS ONLY! Today (Friday) and tomorrow, get the contemporary novel readers say “took their breath away” free on Amazon. It’s in celebration of the book’s 1-year anniversary. 🎂 🍾 buff.ly/tZedFtq
July 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
📣 Holler it from the rooftops! 🏆 7-time award-winning novel 📚 “Beautiful & Terrible Things” is FREE for 2 DAYS ONLY! Today (Friday) and tomorrow, get the contemporary novel readers say “took their breath away” free on Amazon. It’s in celebration of the book’s 1-year anniversary. 🎂 🍾 buff.ly/tZedFtq
What Tetiana B. thought of Beautiful & Terrible Things: "This is one of those rare books that makes you feel seen—like, truly seen—and I caught myself crying and laughing in the same chapter more than once (which is kinda embarrassing but whatever)." Thank you Tetiana! Full review: buff.ly/mHlIllB
July 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
What Tetiana B. thought of Beautiful & Terrible Things: "This is one of those rare books that makes you feel seen—like, truly seen—and I caught myself crying and laughing in the same chapter more than once (which is kinda embarrassing but whatever)." Thank you Tetiana! Full review: buff.ly/mHlIllB
Reminds me of my dog Jenny (minus the spots but with an extra heaping of dirt).
July 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Reminds me of my dog Jenny (minus the spots but with an extra heaping of dirt).
"Beautiful & Terrible Things" is now officially an Underrated Read! 😀 Thanks to book blog Underrated Reads for their review of my friendship/social justice story. They gave it 4 bookmarks - and they are very particular about what they read so I am grateful! buff.ly/KWim1gw
July 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"Beautiful & Terrible Things" is now officially an Underrated Read! 😀 Thanks to book blog Underrated Reads for their review of my friendship/social justice story. They gave it 4 bookmarks - and they are very particular about what they read so I am grateful! buff.ly/KWim1gw
BEAUTIFUL & TERRIBLE THINGS: A NOVEL, Chapter 19
Readers either love Xander or he drives them crazy, with his constant and unwavering passion to make the world a better place. In this excerpt, we learn a little about how he became an activist and an advocate for equality. More at AuthorSMStevens.com
Readers either love Xander or he drives them crazy, with his constant and unwavering passion to make the world a better place. In this excerpt, we learn a little about how he became an activist and an advocate for equality. More at AuthorSMStevens.com
July 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
BEAUTIFUL & TERRIBLE THINGS: A NOVEL, Chapter 19
Readers either love Xander or he drives them crazy, with his constant and unwavering passion to make the world a better place. In this excerpt, we learn a little about how he became an activist and an advocate for equality. More at AuthorSMStevens.com
Readers either love Xander or he drives them crazy, with his constant and unwavering passion to make the world a better place. In this excerpt, we learn a little about how he became an activist and an advocate for equality. More at AuthorSMStevens.com
Come dissect Beautiful & Terrible Things in a public Book Club at indie bookstore The Bookery in Manchester, NH. Thurs. Aug. 21, 6 PM, 844 Elm Street, 603-836-6600. Save 20% on the paperback, ebook or audiobook by purchasing through The Bookery and they’ll even deliver. #bookclub #bookclubs
July 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Come dissect Beautiful & Terrible Things in a public Book Club at indie bookstore The Bookery in Manchester, NH. Thurs. Aug. 21, 6 PM, 844 Elm Street, 603-836-6600. Save 20% on the paperback, ebook or audiobook by purchasing through The Bookery and they’ll even deliver. #bookclub #bookclubs
Thanks to book blogger Heather L. Barksdale for reviewing Beautiful & Terrible Things: A Novel. She also posted an interview with me, covering the 3 things that inspired the award-winning story, how I came up with names for my characters, who I would cast in a movie version, etc.: buff.ly/RChplfl
July 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Thanks to book blogger Heather L. Barksdale for reviewing Beautiful & Terrible Things: A Novel. She also posted an interview with me, covering the 3 things that inspired the award-winning story, how I came up with names for my characters, who I would cast in a movie version, etc.: buff.ly/RChplfl
Here's a snippet from Sunny talking to Charley when they meet at the weekend away, at Buwan's family's summer home, in "Beautiful & Terrible Things." #contemporaryfiction #awardwinningfiction
July 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Here's a snippet from Sunny talking to Charley when they meet at the weekend away, at Buwan's family's summer home, in "Beautiful & Terrible Things." #contemporaryfiction #awardwinningfiction
FREE 📚 TODAY & TOMORROW: I don't plug a lot of books but I loved this psychological thriller and you will too. And you can get the ebook of DARE by Mimi Wahlfeldt for free through July 6. Click this link: buff.ly/uVpdK7i And read my review of the book here if you're interested: buff.ly/ky4LvBY
July 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
FREE 📚 TODAY & TOMORROW: I don't plug a lot of books but I loved this psychological thriller and you will too. And you can get the ebook of DARE by Mimi Wahlfeldt for free through July 6. Click this link: buff.ly/uVpdK7i And read my review of the book here if you're interested: buff.ly/ky4LvBY
So happy to be at 3 Pride Festivals during Pride Month in June, with my books! The events in Manchester, NH, Portsmouth, NH, and Windham, ME were truly inspiring! #pridemonth2025 #pride2025
July 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
So happy to be at 3 Pride Festivals during Pride Month in June, with my books! The events in Manchester, NH, Portsmouth, NH, and Windham, ME were truly inspiring! #pridemonth2025 #pride2025
I dug deep into the psychology that drives people to turn violent at a protest before writing my extended protest scene for Beautiful and Terrible Things, to ensure its authenticity. Read an excerpt from that scene here: authorsmstevens.com/book-excerpt...
June 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I dug deep into the psychology that drives people to turn violent at a protest before writing my extended protest scene for Beautiful and Terrible Things, to ensure its authenticity. Read an excerpt from that scene here: authorsmstevens.com/book-excerpt...
⌛ 🏳️🌈 LAST CALL to get LGBTQIA+ books, including "Beautiful & Terrible Things: A Novel" for 20% off in honor of Pride Month!! Go to Bookshop here: buff.ly/5BhttQH and use code PRIDE25 when checking out. Your purchase can benefit a small indie bookstore of your choice if you want. #pridemonth
June 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
⌛ 🏳️🌈 LAST CALL to get LGBTQIA+ books, including "Beautiful & Terrible Things: A Novel" for 20% off in honor of Pride Month!! Go to Bookshop here: buff.ly/5BhttQH and use code PRIDE25 when checking out. Your purchase can benefit a small indie bookstore of your choice if you want. #pridemonth