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Jessie Thomas
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Paranormal & Fantasy Romance author. Ice cream enthusiast. Biromantic Ace. She/Her. | A.J. Ravenwood | Buffalo, NY 🦬📚🍉

🦇ONCE UPON A DARK OCTOBER
🩸⚔️ A RANSOM IN BLOOD (2025) — out now!
🐦‍⬛🗝️ THIS HIDEOUS HEART (2025)

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I hope we’re still going to be into gothic horror romance later this winter because I have a book that’s Edgar Allan Poe x Crimson Peak and it’s SAPPHIC 🖤

📖: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
Step into the parlor. Montresor House awaits… THIS HIDEOUS HEART Coming this winter. (Release date TBD) A graphic with the gothic book cover, rich pink with a black gothic frame adorned with candles, ravens, a heart, and skeleton keys.
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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When the rival vampire coven makes its home in the moldering ruins of a fallen castle, and the town is gothic, sea-swept, and shrouded in fog and secrets 🍂🦇🩸

📖: books2read.com/u/4AM9Qk
A paperback of Once Upon a Dark October in a brightly lit room with pink furniture
November 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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THIS CLOSE 🤏🏻 to my first ever book with 200 ratings 🥹
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November 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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From THIS HIDEOUS HEART, my reimagining of Poe’s most famous works — a sapphic, gothic horror romance set during wintertime.
The slow decay of the house crawls under my skin. I wear it like perfume now, the scent permeating as incense chokes the air at a funeral.
November 9, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Necromancy Autumn: she’s up resurrecting the dead and he’s the vampire she swears she’s not going to fall in love with while they work together against their will 💀🪦🗡️

📚: www.amazon.com/Nickel-City-...
A paperback copy of both Kiss Me Deadly and Graveyard Waltz against a pastel floral backdrop
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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My protagonist’s feminine vices include thievery, scheming against a wealthy vampire count, and (she won’t admit it) letting him feed from her.

📖: books2read.com/u/3LQoRJ
Two paperback copies of A Ransom in Blood stacked on top of each other against a pink floral rug.
November 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Ruining the workplace by plotting against the sapphic vampire coven that cursed your new vampire girlfriend and coven mates while you wash their floors and do their laundry

📖: books2read.com/u/4AM9Qk
A copy of Once Upon a Dark October on a white bookshelf surrounded by other books
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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motivational post for me (trying to get out of this low mood/SAD thing) and a little sneak peek at some things I’ve got going on 👀
A screenshot from my notes app: >This Hideous Heart >A Promise in Blood (Blood & Desire #2) >sapphic religious horror novella >start long paranormal romance/dystopian series >other gothic horror novella??
November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Oh yes 🙂‍↔️
A PVC pipe attached to the porch railing bedecked in orange Halloween lights. The candy chute delivers the goods into a bowl on top of the table at the bottom. Maximum efficiency.
November 1, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Happy 1 year to my sapphic vampire ladies!

It’s hard to believe it’s been a year already since release day. And what a wild one it’s been — thank you to everyone who’s shown this book some love. When I hit publish, I couldn’t have imagined how amazing the journey was going to be. 🖤
A copy of Once Upon a Dark October against a black backdrop will pink pumpkins
October 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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If you donate $5 or more to FeedMore WNY, I’ll send you any ebook from my backlist for FREE. All you have to do is email me a screenshot of your donation receipt. 💕

Details below ⬇️

Donate: www.feedmorewny.org/give/
A pinkish red graphic with messy handwriting font in white that says “Donate and get a free ebook!” It has an abundant cornucopia at the bottom. Please send a screenshot of your donation to jessiethomasauthor@gmail.com and you’ll receive any ebook of your choosing from my backlist.
October 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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It happened!!

My best month of KU reads since the beginning of the year 🎉🎉

Thank you all SO MUCH for reading!
A screenshot of my KU dashboard showing 50,041 page reads in Kindle Unlimited for the month of October
October 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Super close to hitting my goal of 50k page reads this month!!

Thank you to everyone who’s been reading this October 🫶🏻
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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so… this is neat.
A screenshot of the Barnes and Noble page advertising the audiobook for Once Upon a Dark October as “coming soon.”
October 27, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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I feel like I won the record store lottery today
A picture of my hand holding two vinyl records in front of a white door in a room with aqua green walls. Dookie by Green Day and the picture vinyl of The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance with James Jean’s art on it.
October 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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A meet-cute between a necromancer and a vampire in a cemetery except they can’t stand each other and trade snarky insults over a dead body 💀🪦

📖: www.amazon.com/Nickel-City-...
A pinkish orange graphic with the silhouette of a graveyard scene at the bottom. The top says “A graveyard smash” in glowing white text with a tagline, “putting the romance back in necromancy… if they don’t kill each other first.” The graphic also includes ebook mockups of KISS ME DEADLY and GRAVEYARD WALTZ
October 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Canva is down, so have this seasonally appropriate picture of my sapphic vampire book instead 🦇

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A paperback of Once Upon a Dark October on a pink blanket with vampire fangs on it and a black bat pillow. A red candle sits next to the book.
October 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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When the thief and the wealthy vampire count are tethered to each other by his ancient relic so they can feel ✨everything✨ the other does

📖: books2read.com/u/3LQoRJ
A paperback copy of A Ransom in Blood sitting on a shelf with other paperbacks
October 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Couldn’t resist putting all of them together 📚
A collage of all six of my full length novels: A Ransom in Blood, Once Upon a Dark October, This Hideous Heart, Kiss Me Deadly, Graveyard Waltz, Baptism of Fire
October 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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🕯️🫀COVER REVEAL 🕯️🫀

A big thank you to Fay Lane for creating a beautifully gothic cover for THIS HIDEOUS HEART that evokes a haunted Victorian séance parlor! The details are absolutely stunning — I can’t get enough of them.

THIS HIDEOUS HEART will be releasing this winter.
A darkly gothic pink and black book cover. The pink background has a subtle damask pattern. The design features an elegant black frame adorned with black candles dripping wax, ravens, and an anatomical heart framed by skeleton keys. THIS HIDEOUS HEART is at the center in a Victorian style font. The surrounding graphic with the blurred cover as the background reads, “ Step into the parlor. Montresor House awaits…” with “Coming this winter” at the bottom.
October 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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🐦‍⬛TOMORROW🐦‍⬛

Here’s a sneak peek at the cover reveal for THIS HIDEOUS HEART, my sapphic, gothic horror romance reimagining of Poe’s most famous works 🕯️🫀

Coming this winter! You can add it to your Goodreads TBR: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
A stylized hot pink graphic with a subtle damask pattern. The mockup of the cover includes a sliver of the actual cover. It’s surrounded by a gothic looking frame and cobwebs with a dangling spider. It says COVER REVEAL at the top and TOMORROW at the bottom, with two silhouettes of crows standing guard.
October 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Once Upon a Dark October is in the Top 100 🥹
A screenshot of the rankings showing the book at #96 in LGBTQ fantasy
October 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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ONCE UPON A DARK OCTOBER is currently only 99 cents through October 10th! 🦇

📖: books2read.com/u/4AM9Qk
A purple graphic with a Halloween background of skulls, ghosts, and candy with the cover of the book in the middle. It says Early Halloween Sale at the top and 99 cents, October 2 - 10 at the bottom
October 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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It’s finally her month 🦇
A paperback edition of Once Upon a Dark October against a pink floral rug
October 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Sooo close to 50k! That would be kind of awesome.
A screenshot showing 48,800 KU reads for the month
September 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM