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Felicia Davin
@feliciadavin.com
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I write romance & scifi/fantasy about bisexuals of various genders + a newsletter about words & books called Word Suitcase. PhD in French literature, non-practicing intellectual. Bi, she/they, www.feliciadavin.com
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Wanna read about a powerful villain meeting a violent end? Here are my books where that happens!

I’ll thread links and details below. Other authors feel free to quote with your books
Shadebloom by Felicia Davin, a purple book with white flowers on the cover Out of Nowhere by Felicia Davin, with an orange-ish image of space on the cover and a man's silhouette in blue The Mischievous Letters of the Marquise de Q by Felicia Davin. The cover shows a white hand holding a book, with the thumb inserted between pages The Anonymous Letters of C Forestier by Felicia Davin, the cover shows a white hand holding a quill
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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I'm experimenting with Ghost's new feature where you should be able to follow my newsletter directly from Bluesky! I haven't made it work yet, but in theory it's @index@feliciadavin.com
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October 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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EDGE OF NOWHERE is $0.99 as an ebook right now. A cranky smuggler gets hired to teleport an unconscious man. They get stranded in an alien wilderness, rely on each other to get home, and spend the rest of the book in varying states of horny panic.

books2read.com/edgeo...
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An image of a figure in silhouette with his back to the viewer. His silhouette is transparent and the starry void of space is visible through it. The text on the cover says "Edge of Nowhere," and below that, "Felicia Davin."
October 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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If you want to keep track of me off social media, I do write two free email newsletters: one about my books and one about other people's books. You can subscribe to either or both at feliciadavin.com. If you're not an email newsletter person, Word Suitcase is also available as an RSS feed!
FeliciaDavin.com author announcements: new books, sales, sneak peeks — maybe once a month Word Suitcase: book reviews (mostly romance) and notes on interesting words — every other Sunday
October 6, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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LIBRARIES
terrifying excited selfie in which I am holding a copy of THE ALEPH AND OTHER STORIES 1933-1969 by Jorge Luis Borges
September 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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This online event is starting shortly and should be a lot of fun if you're free and want to join us! www.thepopficcollective.org/webinars-and...
Queer Authors Speak: a panel discussion on community, audience, and publishing with The PopFic Collective, online event September 18 6:30 EDT, with Fin Leary, Karmen Lee, TJ Alexander, Anna Burke, Felicia Davin
September 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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this is, in a nutshell, why I love Mick Herron
The world is mostly awful. Innocent people suffer and die. Slimy assholes have all the power. Your boss is a miserable old piece of shit who dedicates his life to making you do pointless drudgery. But also, if anybody else tries to hurt you—and somebody else will try to hurt you—he will turn them inside out. And in this disgusting miasma of cruelty, every now and then, one character will be kind to another. It’s precious and fleeting, sneaking out just as fast as it sneaks in. Feaked up, if you ask me.
September 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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workflow
photo of my desk. my laptop is elevated on a wooden stand and my keyboard is in a drawer below the desk. in between, a black cat is sleeping on the desk.
September 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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anyway. she won
a black cat curled up on a lap
August 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Check out 300+ indie SFF books on sale this weekend! My novel THE MISCHIEVOUS LETTERS OF THE MARQUISE DE Q, about solving problems with polyamory and murder in magic 1820s Paris, is among them!

https://indiebook.sale/

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The text in the image reads "Indie Book Sale, fantasy, sci-fi, and horror, Aug 23-25." There's an illustration of a dragon surrounded by a border of different book covers.
August 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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THE MISCHIEVOUS LETTERS OF THE MARQUISE DE Q is on sale for $0.99 right now! Sunshiny rich widow full of rage + brokenhearted androgynous playboy + man who needs a hug SO bad. Magic 1820s Paris, letters, queerness, polyamory, REVENGE

find it and 300 other fab SFF ebooks at https://indiebook.sale
The Mischievous Letters of the Marquise de Q. The cover depicts a white hand resting on a pillow, holding a book, with one thumb between the pages. The title is written on ripped pieces of paper.
August 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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It's the Narratess Indie Sale this weekend! Browse 300+ discounted or free sci-fi, fantasy, and horror ebooks at https://indiebook.sale/

My novel THE MISCHIEVOUS LETTERS OF THE MARQUISE DE Q is $0.99. It's a bisexual romance about solving problems with polyamory and murder!
The Mischievous Letters of the Marquise de Q. The cover depicts a white hand resting on a pillow, holding a book, with one thumb between the pages. The title is written on ripped pieces of paper.
August 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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I’ve read HIS AT NIGHT by Sherry Thomas twice before, but I hadn’t read THE PROPOSITION by Judith Ivory then, so my third read’s the charm for catching this tribute:
The rat catcher, with his exhausted rat dogs, a triumphant ferret, and an incomprehensible accent, proudly twirled his dark, luxuriant mustache as he posed for Lord Frederick's camera, commemorating the occasion.
August 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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important announcement: train
selfie in which I’m on a train
August 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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perfect afternoon. there’s a hummingbird in the bee balm right next to me
selfie in a hammock. I’m reading an old mass market paperback of Black Silk by Judy Cuevas and it has a fantastic clinch on the cover
August 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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touching grass isn't enough these days. I need more
a red dahlia from my garden
July 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Ernest Pinard, 1857 indictment of Madame Bovary

Who is it who reads Monsieur Flaubert's novel? Are these men who concern themselves with political or social economy? No! The light pages of Madame Bovary fall into even lighter hands, into the hands of young girls, sometimes married women.
Qui est-ce qui lit le roman de M. Flaubert ? Sont-ce des hommes qui s'occupent d'économie politique ou sociale ? Non ! les pages légères de Madame Bovary tombent en des mains plus légères, dans des mains de jeunes filles, quelquefois de femmes mariées. Eh bien ! lorsque l'imagination aura été séduite, lorsque cette séduction sera descendue jusqu'au cœur, lorsque le cœur aura parlé aux sens, est-ce que vous croyez qu'un raisonnement bien froid sera bien fort comme cette séduction des sens et du sentiment ?
July 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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perhaps misleading to state that the essay is "about" the above; it's only one of her points

this part is gonna stick with me:
highlighted quote from the essay: The more I thought about it, the harder it became not to view the so-called creator economy as a blatant pyramid scheme underwritten by some of the worst corporations in the world.
July 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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extremely tasteless advertising from Title Nine. jesus. people are bleeding out. can you not use that fact to sell bikinis
swimsuit catalogue page with the text “CHOICE. WE’VE STILL GOT IT… (in most states)”
July 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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regret to report that my resolution to be a good global citizen by never buying palm oil ran up against my love of sampling international junk food, and the junk food won. but tomorrow I start again with the never-buying-palm-oil thing
a package of Lay’s chips imported from Taiwan
July 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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And Errant, a collection of five sapphic fantasy novellas following the adventures of a stoic swordswoman and a cheerful pickpocket actress!

These I co-authored with KR Collins and Valentine Wheeler and they were a ton of fun to write feliciadavin.itch.io...
cover for Errant, showing an illustration of two women embracing
June 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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French Letters, a trio of queer romances (x/x, m/f/x, f/x) set in magic 1820s France and told in letters and diary entries. Gender, magic, murder, letters feliciadavin.itch.io...
covers for The Scandalous Letters of V and J, The Mischievous Letters of the Marquise de Q, The Anonymous Letters of C Forestier
June 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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The Nowhere, a trio of m/m sci-fi romances feliciadavin.itch.io...

These are set in a world where a tiny fraction of the population can teleport through a void called the Nowhere. They're trope-filled (sex pollen! huddling for warmth!) and horny and also there's revenge against an evil trillionaire
the covers for Edge of Nowhere, Out of Nowhere, and Nowhere Else
June 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Happy Pride! A whole bunch of my books are half price on itch this month.

Queer fantasy trilogy The Gardener's Hand, in which a tiny angry mindreader enlists a sensible farm girl and a slutty poet to help her stop a magical conspiracy: feliciadavin.itch.io...
the covers of Thornfruit, Nightvine, and Shadebloom
June 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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It's not Pride yet, but let's go ahead: you can pick up this queer fantasy trilogy for half off at feliciadavin.itch.io...

It has a polyam romance at its heart (2 cis women & a genderfluid man), and it's about what if you had such a bad crush on a girl that you passed out every time she touched you
the covers for Thornfruit, Nightvine, and Shadebloom by Felicia Davin. all are a solid color with floral illustrations
May 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM