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Freya Marske
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Writer, ice skater, gin drinker. She/her 🏳️‍🌈. THE LAST BINDING trilogy and SWORDCROSSED out now. CINDER HOUSE out October 2025.
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what ho!!

MY LITTLE SPOOKY BOOK IS A BESTSELLER 👻🥳
a graphic picturing Freya Marske's novella Cinder House, the cover of which shows a shadowy house arising from stylised flames and turning into the figure of a standing girl. above it is the very exciting news that said novella is an instant USA Today bestseller.
October 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Conflux is this weekend! Here's where to find me:
A graphic describing where Freya Marske will be at Conflux 19: Brave New Worlds, October 2025 Friday 3rd - Monday 6th. Text reads: Sunday 10:30am: GUEST OF HONOUR TALK Sunday 12:30pm: LOVE IS THE DRUG panel Monday 2:00pm: SHOOT YOUR SHOT panel Shhh... early-release copies of the brand-new novella CINDER HOUSE might be available from the convention bookseller! And don't forget daylight savings starts on Sunday!
October 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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My first novella CINDER HOUSE is nearly here! She's been quietly racking up accolades, including an amazing THREE starred reviews ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A graphic on a starry background with Cinder House's cover and flames at the bottom, with the following text: KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW: "A sharp, smart addition to the fairy-tale canon." LIBRARY JOURNAL STARRED REVIEW: "A heroine who cannot help but haunt readers." BOOKLIST STARRED REVIEW: "Impresses from its chilling opening to its inspired, polyamorous take on happily ever after." OUT OCTOBER 7
September 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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sharing the brand new novel with early readers is going well 👌
a screenshot of text that says "I love these messy exes. God they're all so depressed."
July 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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oh. no. no, thank you.
a screen grab from my weather app announcing the current temperature as hell's most freezing armpit. ie. -7.5 degrees celsius but feels like -10.4
June 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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I have the rather unfortunate name of Pope Fruit Tingle V
A picture showing the Australian lolly Fruit Tingles, which are about the size of a thick 5c coin (Americans don't @ me) and come in green, yellow, pink or orange. They tingle and fizz! Only by a very generous interpretation do they taste like fruit.
May 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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it's been an exciting morning for Books. two long-awaited library purchase requests, and the new @shelleyburr.bsky.social for my Aussie crime fix!
three books arranged on a blue couch: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke, Wild Faith by Talia Lavin, and Vanish by Shelley Burr.
May 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Coming in October 2025: CINDER HOUSE, a queer Gothic retelling of Cinderella in which our titular character is a very frustrated ghost! 🔥 Fire, skeletons, fairies, intense epistolary friendships, and lots of feelings about ballet.

Preorder US - bit.ly/CH-buyUS
Preorder UK - bit.ly/CH-buyUK
A book cover for an eerie fairytale, with absolutely rad art by Cristina Bencina. From a roiling bed of orange and yellow stylised flames arises a narrow grey-blue house, which as it rises into a star-speckled night sky becomes the shape of a woman. This woman-house is gazing in profile into the distance, with her hands touching a necklace of railings. A small figure appears backlit in one of the few windows, down in the 'skirt' of the house. Large pale green letters give the title CINDER HOUSE, and at the very top of the image it says USA Today Bestselling Author, Freya Marske.
March 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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intolerably, even the evil green owl app is now on my case about babyproofing the house
A screenshot of a translation exercise from the evil green owl app that is Duolingo: Il faudrait cacher les prises en bas du mur, sinon le bébé pourrait les toucher. We should hide the outlets at the bottom of the wall; otherwise, the baby could touch them.
February 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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my spawn is going through a phase where their favoured sleeping position can best be illustrated thusly, replacing "pencil" with "my arm (or leg)"
two of those adorable little clip-on koalas, clinging ferociously with all four limbs to white pencils
January 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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'The Agnew Clinic' by Thomas Eakins
An oil painting of an old-fashioned surgical teaching theatre with the foreground showing a patient and the operating team in shades of white, and the background entirely filled with a gallery of dark-suited dudes watching proceedings with attitudes varying between keen interest and maybe-hungover boredom.
January 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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another square graphic containing the copy for this book: Ella is a haunting. Murdered at sixteen, her ghost is furiously trapped in her father's house, invisible to everyone except her stepmother and stepsisters. Even when she discovers how to untether herself from her prison, there are limits. She cannot be seen or heard by the living people who surround her. Her family must never learn she is able to leave. And at the stroke of every midnight, she finds herself back on the staircase where she died. Until she forges a wary friendship with a fairy charm-seller, and makes a bargain for three nights of almost-living freedom. Freedom that means she can finally be seen. Danced with. Touched. You think you know Ella's story: the ball, the magical shoes, the handsome prince. You're halfway right, and all-the-way wrong.
December 9, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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oh hello 👀

can I interest you in a novella? a fairy tale retelling? a story about ghosts and grief and anger and dance?

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
a square graphic with a golden border, showing a faint sepia-toned photograph of a wooden staircase in an old-fashioned house. black fancy text overlying it reads: 10th July 2025. Cinder House by Freya Marske. Cover to be revealed.
December 9, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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NICE. my favourite is--
close up on a wooden ornament on a christmas tree, in the shape of a rather cheerful looking t-rex
December 7, 2024 at 9:35 AM
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Hello new people! I write queer SFF and romance, and am currently attempting to do so while parenting a fresh new human.

I enjoy mixology, figure skating, & giving book recs to anyone who sits still long enough.

I haven't been super active on this site, but intend to be more so!
the book covers of my four published works to date: A MARVELLOUS LIGHT, A RESTLESS TRUTH & SWORDCROSSED.
November 10, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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The Last Binding is a historical fantasy trilogy about magicians, murder, houses with personalities, high-heat queer romance and assorted hijinks in Edwardian England!

All three books are available now, buy links & more info about the first book can be found here:

freyamarske.com/books/a-marv...
Three lovely book covers with various wallpaper/Art Nouveau style covers, featuring coloured silhouettes of couples. The titles are A Marvellous Light, A Restless Truth, and A Power Unbound.
October 17, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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This one seems worth celebrating ⚔️🍾
A graphic informing you that my book Swordcrossed is an instant USA Today bestseller!
October 17, 2024 at 7:47 AM
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an apt portrait of someone whose sensitive little gut will be dictating mummy's food choices for the next year 😡
a zoomed in photo of a small and tyrannical baby, mostly showing that their onesie (patterned in blue, white and black triangles) has a little patch that reads THE BOSS
October 17, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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And finally, with only a week to go until Swordcrossed's release (!!), it's time to meet MATTINESH JAY.
A colourful illustration of a young man with neat black hair seated very upright on a bale of raw wool, holding a duelling rapier and looking back over his shoulder. He is wearing a dark blue trousers and coat over a beige waistcoat. He's surrounded by books, an ink well and abacus, and behind him is a design of a merchant ship picked out in blue-and-white tiles. On a golden chest by his feet are the words HUNA: patron of spinners and weavers.
September 30, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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accurate portrait of my 5 week old child
a cropped illustration from a Richard Scarry book featuring an anthropomorphic cat in a cute pink top, screaming out a window in a building on fire. more relevantly, the text beside her reads BEAUTIFUL SCREAMING LADY, which I tell my child she is multiple times per night.
September 27, 2024 at 3:26 AM
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We've reached the protagonists, folks! This week, say hello to LUCA PIERE.
A colourful illustration of a young man in brown trousers and a loose green shirt with red hair sticking out everywhere. He's seated and smiling back over one shoulder, holding a gold pocket watch in one hand. The other hand rests on the elaborate hilt of a duelling rapier, and there are more swords nearby. Beneath him are the words PATA: patron of soldiers, guards and duellists.
September 23, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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🥰 LIBRARIANS ARE THE BEST
A graphic announcing that Swordcrossed has been chosen as a Library Reads Hall of Fame pick for October. Because librarians are the heroes of the modern era!! Hug a librarian today. Or maybe give them some baked goods.
September 17, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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This week's character introduction is MAYANESH JAY.
A colourful illustration of a young woman with loose, wavy black hair wearing a red vest over white shirt and yellow trousers, seated with a cheese-and-herb pastry in one hand and a paintbrush in the other. Above her are drapes of rich woven fabrics, and nearby are peacock feathers and coloured dye bottles and samples. On a bolt of fabric are the words UTIS: patron of artists & painters.
September 16, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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This week, I'd like you to meet SOFIA COOPER.
A colourful illustration of a young woman with brown curly hair wearing a turquoise-green dress over white skirts and sleeves, seated under a border of roses and grape-bearing vines. She's pouring a cup of hot chocolate and looking out of frame to her left. On a barrel nearby are the words MAHA: patron of vintners & brewers.
September 9, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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⚔️ SWORDCROSSED ⚔️ - a queer fantasy of manners with mercantile intrigue, high heat and sharp steel!

Buy US - bit.ly/Sword-US
Buy UK - bit.ly/Sword-UK
Two versions of the cover for Freya Marske's novel Swordcrossed. The UK cover is green with large white text, pink flourishes and golden sword motifs. The US cover is illustrated, featuring two men in a clinch, both holding swords and staring intently at one another, surrounded by swirls of gold and red fabric.
September 4, 2024 at 10:12 PM