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J.B. Thwaite
@jbthwaite.bsky.social
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🇫🇮 Napukettu (Rawrtic Fox)
🏳️‍🌈 Author, Artist, Atheist, AuDHD
📖 Gaslamp, Scifi, Fantasy, Alt History
🌶️ Queer/straight, open-door, plot-relevant
📚 Out now:
The Catnap Ramblers/Fumblers
📒 WIP: revised editions
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J.B. Thwaite @jbthwaite.bsky.social · Jan 19
⚔️ Looking for an epic & unhinged Iron Age gay enemies to enemies with benefits Scifi "romance"?
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🕯️ How about a whole Gaslamp Scifi series with a variety of queer 🏳️‍🌈 (and some not so queer) characters?
books2read.com/u/3nk1qB

💙📚👀📢📚 #books
The six book covers of the Catnap Ramblers/Fumblers spread like a hand of cards. Black background, ornate sepia frame. Map of tropes and keywords for the Catnap Ramblers. Amnesia, mind reading, dream world, multi pov, holiday read, slowburn, arctic vibes, bad things happen at night, found family, heart-warming, queer, mystery, atmospheric, whump, seasonal affective disorder, 3rd person limited, bone-chilling, traumatic past, spicy extra novella, gaslamp, insomnia, gut-wrenching, enemies to enemies with benefits, second chance, forced proximity, talking animal sidekick(s), neurodiversity, trans mc, ancient technology, severed limbs, poly, cinnamon rolls. Black background, ornate sepia frame. Five maps from the Catnap Ramblers/Fumblers books. Black background, ornate sepia frame. Character illustrations (3 photos from open books with flowery character images on them). Black background, ornate sepia frame.
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Convincing you to sign up to my newsletter or apply to beta/arc read for me with the unedited openings and the titles of the 3 new books coming next year!

🪼 Help! His D!ck is Shaped Like A Sea Anemone
🦡 Shit! I'm In L*ve With A Bloody Werebadger
🦭 Crap! How Do I Evict a Fr!gging Selkie

💙📚 #books
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November 13, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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The beta feedback for the Anemone pp book has been encouragingly positive so far. The stuff that's come up has been easy to fix save for one thing I'm troubleshooting right now, but there hasn't been any of that panicked desperation I sometimes get if a plot hole gets pointed out to me. Yay! 😅
August 9, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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I just added a 7,6k bonus chapter to the end of my upcoming anemone pp book. Is 7,6k a bit excessive? Maybe. But more is more, right? 😂
August 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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If anyone wants to beta read my alien thing for me, my signups are open... 😅 forms.gle/FhRdWfAkdzLu...
July 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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I think I might be done with draft 1 at 97k. 😮

I still have a few in-between tweaks to make, but that's basically a complete manuscript in about 2 months.
July 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Do I have any Irish friends here who like weird alien mm romance? I could use someone's help in sprinkling some subtle Irishness into my alien's speech. He's not Irish (obviously... He's an alien), so I'm not worried about it being 100% authentic.
July 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Have you pre-ordered yet??

🌈‪‪❤︎‬ We Shall Rise is a two volume series of anthologies with over 100 authors collaborating for Reproductive and LGTBQIA+ rights.

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If you're an author and you've contributed, let us know in the comments!

🌈📚 #mmromance 💙📚
Book promotion graphic featuring the We Shall Rise Volume 1 anthology. Text on the image reads: Releasing 01June25 Preorder for only $4.99 We Shall Rise Anthology Volume One All proceeds for volume one go to the center for reproductive rights Book promotion graphic featuring the We Shall Rise Volume 2 anthology. Text on the image reads: Releasing 01June25 Preorder for only $4.99 We Shall Rise Anthology Volume two All proceeds for volume two go to the Trevor Project
May 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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I'd like to give a separate special thanks to everyone who's bought a book from me this month (well, earlier months too, but sort of especially now since I had a big fat zero for 2+ weeks because I had been so incredibly tired I'd not had the spoons for anything).
April 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Huge thanks to the 236 brave souls who got Feudal Fisticuffs during the promo this week.
I hope you have a splendid time reading it! 🩵

Those of you with KU can still read it for free until the 11th of July (which is when it goes wide). 🌿
April 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Not me refreshing my dash every two seconds to see if more people have grabbed my free book. 😂
April 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Feudal Fisticuffs is book 3 of the Catnap Fumblers (extras to the Catnap Ramblers trilogy).

HOWEVER,
it can be read completely separately & on its own,

and it's FREE on Amazon right now!

books2read.com/u/bMyN07
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Feudal Fisticuffs by J.B. Thwaite
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April 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Who wants a free book?! It's UNHINGED, and it has a raven in it! ✨

books2read.com/u/bMyN07
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Feudal Fisticuffs by J.B. Thwaite
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April 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I mean, the enemies are almost never actual enemies in 'enemies to lovers', are they?

Shouldn't it seem at least bad enough for you to think these a-holes are definitely NOT going to end up together??

But then they do... 😂👌

(Feudal Fisticuffs will be free April 14-18)
April 14, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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I haven't posted much because I'm always posting about the same stuff, and I get the feeling people are probably tired of hearing about it. 😔
March 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Has anyone ordered author copies from 'zon lately? I heard they've been slow with them so I'm just wondering what to expect. I ordered two weeks ago and have heard nothing so far.
February 26, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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I'm going to go to sleep now, and please, for the love of any fictional deities out there, I would like to be able to sleep with my mouth closed tonight and without everything drying up and hurting. Thanks! 😂🤧

Ps. Feudal Fisticuffs is $0.99 on Amazon today. Go get it!
February 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Available now!

⚔️Actual feuding
❤️‍🔥Forced proximity
🐿️ Quick read
🌶️ Open-door spice (mm, ff, fm)
🚀 Alternate history scifi (late Iron Age)
🇫🇮 Folklore (ps. not accurate but cool atmosphere)
🎓 Fun teaching moments 😂
🌱 Seaweed lube...
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💙📚👀📢📚🌈📚 #books
A framed closeup of two drawn dudes, the bearded one is holding his hand on the daintier one's cheek. Text says Saturday only, $0.99 Feudal Fisticuffs, an extra novella by J.B. Thwaite. In an unhinged feud over a squirrel hide, who will come (out) on top?
February 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Got a burning question? Now's your chance to ask me. 🌸
A framed cutesy chibi avatar image of me with the text "ask me anything".
February 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I wonder if I'm reaching that age where I might enjoy cross-country skiing. 🤔
January 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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I've been busy with my own stuff for a while now, but I'm hoping to spend more time in the spring hyping up all my fellow indie authors' stuff again! 🩵

And so, feel free to post some suggestions to me in the comments!

Extra points for lgbtqia+ science fiction, fantasy and neurodiversity! 🌈🚀🐉♾️
January 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
jbthwaite.bsky.social
⚔️ Looking for an epic & unhinged Iron Age gay enemies to enemies with benefits Scifi "romance"?
books2read.com/u/bMyN07

🕯️ How about a whole Gaslamp Scifi series with a variety of queer 🏳️‍🌈 (and some not so queer) characters?
books2read.com/u/3nk1qB

💙📚👀📢📚 #books
The six book covers of the Catnap Ramblers/Fumblers spread like a hand of cards. Black background, ornate sepia frame. Map of tropes and keywords for the Catnap Ramblers. Amnesia, mind reading, dream world, multi pov, holiday read, slowburn, arctic vibes, bad things happen at night, found family, heart-warming, queer, mystery, atmospheric, whump, seasonal affective disorder, 3rd person limited, bone-chilling, traumatic past, spicy extra novella, gaslamp, insomnia, gut-wrenching, enemies to enemies with benefits, second chance, forced proximity, talking animal sidekick(s), neurodiversity, trans mc, ancient technology, severed limbs, poly, cinnamon rolls. Black background, ornate sepia frame. Five maps from the Catnap Ramblers/Fumblers books. Black background, ornate sepia frame. Character illustrations (3 photos from open books with flowery character images on them). Black background, ornate sepia frame.
January 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Anyone looking for a properly unhinged, gay enemies to lovers (enemies with benefits) "romance"? Because I have one...

🌈🚀💫💙📚 #books
January 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Are you tired of the enemies not being proper enemies before they get to the lovers part?

Don't you just love it when they're a tiny bit unhinged? And maybe also fairly ridiculous? And kinda all the way gay actually.

And what are their wives up to now? Oh my... 👀
books2read.com/u/bMyN07
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Available now at your favorite digital store!
Feudal Fisticuffs by J.B. Thwaite
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January 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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This is your friendly reminder to release that breath you didn't know you were holding. 🌬️💨
January 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Oh by the way... If you want to ARC read Feudal Fisticuffs for me, be sure to fill my ARC signup form.
If you've already filled it and didn't opt out of other ARCs, you'll get a download invitation automatically when I send them out. 💙📚
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Interested in early access to incredible 4-star books? Search no more! Next available ARC is for my unhinged Iron Age m/m (and f/f) enemies to enemies with benefits novella, Feudal Fisticuffs. It's 5...
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January 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM