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The Kraken Collective
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Collective of queer self-publishing authors putting out queer SFF!

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The Indie Ink Awards finalists are officially up, and we have so many of them !! Thank you all for your votes and support, we wouldn't be there (again!) without you.

Let's make a short thread looking at them more closely <3

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The Kraken Logo (a kraken holding a book in each tentacle) next to the Indie Ink Awards Emblem with "2024 Finalist" written next to it. Below are five books in a line. Awakenings by Claudie Arseneault. How to Bare Your Beck and Save a Wreck by D. N. Bryn, How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wage by D. N. Bryn. Stars and Soil by Dax Murray. Yours Celestially by Al Hess.
January 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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It's time for our last #PrideMonth Bingo

This time, our card is inspired by the wonderful MOON-BRIGHT TIDES by @roannasylver.bsky.social !

As always, please recommend us queer SFF books matching the prompts!

www.krakencollectivebooks.com/books/moon-b...

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The cover of MOON-BRIGHT TIDES stands in the top right corner, over a grid of 3 x 3 squares labelled “Kraken Pride Bingo”. In the grid are the following elements: Short story (<10k), Romantic Fantasy, Human/Mermaid Romance, Ocean/Coast Setting, Nightmares, Song Magic, Delicious, delicious food, Our Merms Are Weird, Slow-ish Burn WHAT ARE THE KRAKEN PRIDE BINGOS The following text is surrounded by huge black and white tentacles and the logo, a kraken holding six books of different colours: A collection of nine tropes or elements for some of our books. Recommend us *Other* queer SFF that matches the trope (priority to indies!). At the end of the month, we’ll post the full card with given recommendations! (If your own past reads can make a bingo, please show us!!) This pride, help us celebrate other queer indie books alongside our own! We exist in a community of beautiful overlapping stories, all of which deserve your eager reader eyes.
June 8, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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Happy #PrideMonth everyone! It's another of our Bingos! This time the card is inspired by Cedar McCloud's recent cozy fantasy novella, PARTY OF FOOLS!

Don't be shy, recommend any queer SFF that fits these prompts, especially indies!

www.krakencollectivebooks.com/books/party-...

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The cover of PARTY OF FOOLS stands in the top right corner, over a grid of 3 x 3 squares labelled “Kraken Pride Bingo”. In the grid are the following elements: detailed food and drink, immortal character, airships, sapphic ace MC, Royal/Bodyguard relationship, characters over age 50, Autistic MC, Bickering Odd Couple, Evil Empire & Rebellion WHAT ARE THE KRAKEN PRIDE BINGOS The following text is surrounded by huge black and white tentacles and the logo, a kraken holding six books of different colours: A collection of nine tropes or elements for some of our books. Recommend us *Other* queer SFF that matches the trope (priority to indies!). At the end of the month, we’ll post the full card with given recommendations! (If your own past reads can make a bingo, please show us!!) This pride, help us celebrate other queer indie books alongside our own! We exist in a community of beautiful overlapping stories, all of which deserve your eager reader eyes.
June 8, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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Another round of the Kraken Pride Bingo is up!! Help us by recommending queer sff you know that fits the prompts 🌈📚

Today's card is inspired by HOW TO BARE YOUR NECK AND SAVE A WRECK by D. N. Bryn!

www.krakencollectivebooks.com/books/how-to...

🌈💫🚀 #QueerAdultSFF 💙📚
The cover of HOW TO BARE YOUR NECK AND SAVE A WRECK stands in the top right corner, over a grid of 3 x 3 squares labelled “Kraken Pride Bingo”. In the grid are the following elements: Fangs are sexy, fancy outfits, found family, pet companion, PTSD/Trauma Rep, Neck kisses, Hidden Identity, Kink, Disability Rep WHAT ARE THE KRAKEN PRIDE BINGOS The following text is surrounded by huge black and white tentacles and the logo, a kraken holding six books of different colours: A collection of nine tropes or elements for some of our books. Recommend us *Other* queer SFF that matches the trope (priority to indies!). At the end of the month, we’ll post the full card with given recommendations! (If your own past reads can make a bingo, please show us!!) This pride, help us celebrate other queer indie books alongside our own! We exist in a community of beautiful overlapping stories, all of which deserve your eager reader eyes.
June 6, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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How would YOU fill up this Kraken Pride Bringo? Recommend us any queer SFF you know that fits the prompts! (especially indies!)

Today's card is based on CHEERLEADERS FROM PLANET X by @lyssachiavari.bsky.social !

www.krakencollectivebooks.com/books/cheerl...

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The cover of CHEERLEADERS FROM PLANET X stands in the top right corner, over a grid of 3 x 3 squares labelled “Kraken Pride Bingo”. In the grid are the following elements: mixed-race MC, WLW, Aliens, Superpowers, Fictitious City in Real-World Location, Adopted Character, College-Age Characters, Shapeshifting, Grumpy/Sunshine Pairing WHAT ARE THE KRAKEN PRIDE BINGOS The following text is surrounded by huge black and white tentacles and the logo, a kraken holding six books of different colours: A collection of nine tropes or elements for some of our books. Recommend us *Other* queer SFF that matches the trope (priority to indies!). At the end of the month, we’ll post the full card with given recommendations! (If your own past reads can make a bingo, please show us!!) This pride, help us celebrate other queer indie books alongside our own! We exist in a community of beautiful overlapping stories, all of which deserve your eager reader eyes.
June 4, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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Play the Kraken Pride Bingo with us! Can you name queer indie SFF that fits these prompts? Or even trad pub queer SFF?

Today's card is based on AWAKENINGS by @clh2oars.bsky.social

www.krakencollectivebooks.com/books/awaken...

🌈📚 🌈💫🚀 #PrideMonth #AdultQueerSFF
The cover of AWAKENINGS stands in the top right corner, over a grid of 3 x 3 squares labelled “Kraken Pride Bingo”. In the grid are the following elements: novella, aroace MC, sentient object, MC with neopronouns, Road Trip, Fantasy Races, Chosen One Trope, MC with Himbo Energy, Found Family WHAT ARE THE KRAKEN PRIDE BINGOS The following text is surrounded by huge black and white tentacles and the logo, a kraken holding six books of different colours: A collection of nine tropes or elements for some of our books. Recommend us *Other* queer SFF that matches the trope (priority to indies!). At the end of the month, we’ll post the full card with given recommendations! (If your own past reads can make a bingo, please show us!!) This pride, help us celebrate other queer indie books alongside our own! We exist in a community of beautiful overlapping stories, all of which deserve your eager reader eyes.
June 3, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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Play the Kraken Pride Bingo with us! Can you name queer indie SFF that fits these prompts? Other queer SFF?

Today's card is based on STAKE SAUCE by @roannasylver.bsky.social

www.krakencollectivebooks.com/books/stake-...

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The cover of STAKE SAUCE stands in the top right corner, over a grid of 3 x 3 squares labelled “Kraken Pride Bingo”. In the grid are the following elements: Vampires!!, Physically Disabled MC, Grumpy/Sunshine, Neurodivergent MC, Fire-Forged Found Family, Trans Man MC, AroAce Spec MC, Chubby Love Interest, PTSD/Trauma Healing WHAT ARE THE KRAKEN PRIDE BINGOS The following text is surrounded by huge black and white tentacles and the logo, a kraken holding six books of different colours: A collection of nine tropes or elements for some of our books. Recommend us *Other* queer SFF that matches the trope (priority to indies!). At the end of the month, we’ll post the full card with given recommendations! (If your own past reads can make a bingo, please show us!!) This pride, help us celebrate other queer indie books alongside our own! We exist in a community of beautiful overlapping stories, all of which deserve your eager reader eyes.
June 2, 2024 at 1:34 PM
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SMOKE AND STEEL by @daxaeterna.bsky.social is out!

For the lovers of epic fantasy and sapphics & cheekily described as "a catgirl who picks up some weapons and form an army rather than go to therapy for her ptsd."

www.krakencollectivebooks.com/books/smoke-...

🌈📚 💙📚 #QueerAdultSFF 🌈💫🚀 (1/2)
A black and white tentacle wraps around a cover with three cat-eared girls. The book is described as bisexual epic fantasy and available now! Tag line: One priestess only sees a perfect past, One only sees a frightening future, Saritrah only sees betrayal
May 31, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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It's release day for FLOODED SECRETS!

Join Horace and the Wagon's crew as they find themselves attacked by a highway bandit, only to be forced to cooperate with her to unflood the way forward.

Epic fantasy with cozy gaming moments.

www.krakencollectivebooks.com/books/floode...

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Image has the cover with a humanoid cat and the pride flags for aromantic, asexual, non-binary, and sapphic. Additional text reads: In which… three friends find their magical Wagon attacked by a highway bandit, only to be forced to cooperate with her to unflood the way forward. Fantasy novellas blending the high stakes and magic of epic fantasy with the warmth of cozy fantasy (through board games! with bonus kittens!)
May 9, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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Hello! We have two this month!

1) FLOODED SECRETS by Claudie Arseneault, May 9
2) SMOKE AND STEEL by Dax Murray, May 31

Thank you! 🥰

(Apparently cats are in fashion for us this month!)
A humanoid cat hanging to a cliffside over a lush valley. Three cat ladies in epic fantasy positions with a purple sky behind and a burning ground below
April 20, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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Who doesn't enjoy a gorgeous cover spread for #IndieApril ?

👋 everyone, we're a collective of queer indie authors who put out gorgeous, often off-market queer science-fiction and fantasy!

www.krakencollectivebooks.com/books/

🌈📚 🌈🚀💫 #QueerAdultSFF
A 5 x 5 of various covers takes up most of the room, flanked by a big black and white tentacle. Title says "a whole log of queer indie sci-fi and fantasy"
April 12, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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What happens when a PARTY OF FOOLS goes adventuring?

You get a delicious fantasy adventure with older autistic queer protagonists and food puns!

Join Cedar McCloud's party today with this queer fantasy novella ✨

www.krakencollectivebooks.com/books/party-...

🌈📚 #QueerAdultSFF #AspecAuthors
Cover features three older queer adventurers eating street food sticks. Text says "A comedic fantasy novella full of queer characters and good cheese in which the chosen hero goes on a clandestine worldwide food tour!". The image also features the flags for asexual, aromantic, trans, and sapphic.
April 11, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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🌈📚 Three days until PARTY OF FOOLS releases!!

Preorder your copy of this fun food jaunt through the Capital's great delicacies as Emperor Vallora begins her clandestine world food tour -- if she can escape the city, that is.

www.krakencollectivebooks.com/books/party-...

#QueerAdultSFF 🌈🚀💫
PREORDER NOW splash A comedic fantasy adventure with plenty of good cheese and queer folks. Cover shows three adventures eating food-sticks in a city street. PREORDER NOW splash Autistic ownvoice MC. Queer ensemble cast. Big Final Fantasy vibes. The slowest (series-long) ace sapphic burn. Cover shows three adventures eating food-sticks in a city street.
April 8, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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5. STATION SIX by S. J. Klapecki.

A fast-paced novella following an indentured worker and their colleague as their strike escalates, station six skillfully opposes meaningful community action to a bleak future.
Title, cover, and blurb (see post) over a trans pride background. A black and white tentacle is at the top.
March 31, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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4. TWO DARK MOONS by Avi Silver.

This ya fantasy combines an immersive plunge into a jungle filled with giant lizards and a system of gender rooted into the phases of the moon at birth, creating a beautiful coming of age storyline between two aspec characters.
Title, cover, and blurb (see post) over a trans pride background. A black and white tentacle is at the top.
March 31, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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3. THE STORY OF THE HUNDRED PROMISES by Neil Cochrane.

Through a deep world, lush prose, and delightfully crafted characters, Cochrane employs fairytales within fairytales to explore queerness and self-realization with a delicate and honest touch.
Title, cover, and blurb (see post) over a trans pride background. A black and white tentacle is at the top.
March 31, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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2. A GLIMMER OF SILVER by Juliet Kemp.

This YA scifi is all about what it means to live in harmony with nature and what happens after first contact. It’s a thoughtful, powerful exploration of identity and society.
Title, cover, and blurb (see post) over a trans pride background. A black and white tentacle is at the top.
March 31, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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1. THE STONES STAY SILENT by Danny Ride.

A thoughtful fantasy about an aro trans man trying to live his truth, with a focus on crafts and travel that lend a warm and safe energy to a grim world.

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Title, cover, and blurb (see post) over a trans pride background. A black and white tentacle is at the top.
March 31, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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SANCTUARY by Andi C. Buchanan
HOW WE END by LM Juniper
BLOODY SPADE by Brittany M. Willows
SECONDHAND ORIGIN STORIES by Lee Blauersouth
FALLEN THORNS by Harvey Oliver Baxter
FADED MOON by T.L. Morgan
SANCTUARY by Andi C. Buchanan HOW WE END by LM Juniper BLOODY SPADE by Brittany M. Willows SECONDHAND ORIGIN STORIES by Lee Blauersouth FALLEN THORNS by Harvey Oliver Baxter FADED MOON by T.L. Morgan
March 12, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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PLURALITIES by Avi Silver
DEAL WITH THE DEMON by Chace Verity
THE CALYX CHARM by May Peterson
RIVERWITCH by Rem Wigmore
THE HERETIC'S GUIDE TO HOMECOMING by Sienna Tristen
TESTING GROUNDS by E.H. Timms
PLURALITIES by Avi Silver DEAL WITH THE DEMON by Chace Verity THE CALYX CHARM by May Peterson RIVERWITCH by Rem Wigmore THE HERETIC'S GUIDE TO HOMECOMING by Sienna Tristen TESTING GROUNDS by E.H. Timms
March 12, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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Books featured:

CUTE MUTANTS by SJ Whitby
GOLD AND JASPER by Michelle Kan
STATION SIX by S.J. Klapecki
A NOVEL ARRANGEMENT by Arden Powell
MARGINS AND MURMURATIONS by Otter Lieffe
WERECOCKROACH by Polenth Blake
CUTE MUTANTS by SJ Whitby GOLD AND JASPER by Michelle Kan STATION SIX by S.J. Klapecki A NOVEL ARRANGEMENT by Arden Powell MARGINS AND MURMURATIONS by Otter Lieffe WERECOCKROACH by Polenth Blake
March 12, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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We have three books coming up before the end of May! And funnily enough, they make sort of a sliding scale from cozy to epic fantasy! 🥰

Our books are all at krakencollectivebooks.com/books/

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[ID: Three book covers under th le title "Coming this Spring!" The books are PARTY OF FOOLS, April 11th, a cozy fantasy with aro, ace, sapphic and trans rep. FLOODED SECRETS, May 9, a cozy & epic fantasy with aromantic, asexual, and non-binary rep. SMOKE AND STEEL, May 31, an epic fantasy with bisexual and non-binary rep]
March 10, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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NEW AUTHOR, NEW BOOK!

We are so excited to welcome Cedar McCloud as part of the Kraken Collective!

Cedar McCloud is an austistic aspec queer witch and creator of queer, inclusive tarot decks, as well as the author of the Eternal Library series.

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🌈📚 🌈🚀🚀 #QueerAdultSFF
Cedar McCloud joins the Kraken Collective with an upbeat cozy fantasy novella... in which the chosen hero goes on a clandestine, worldwide food tour. Image features a book cover with a black woman in armour, a brown-skinned halfling bard, and a white, old barbarian woman enjoying food treats together. Four pride flags accompany the image: aromantic, asexual, trans, and sapphic.
February 29, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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4. A LAKE OF FEATHERS AND MOONBEAMS by Dax Murray

When a bethroted princess vanishes in the enchanted woods between two long-warring countries, the princen must gather forces to rescue her. Only, the forest witch is not what either expects...

www.krakencollectivebooks.com/books/a-lake...

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Black and white tentacle wraps around a cover, which features three characters hold hand in a circle, whisps of magic curling around them. A great white swan head overlooks. Additional text says "polyamorous f/f/nb, royalty and forest witch, swan lake retelling"
February 14, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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3. FROM THE DARK WE CAME by J. Emery ( @mixeduppainter.bsky.social )

A gothic achillean paranormal romance between vampire and hunter combining the delightful snark of enemies-to-lovers and the payoff of slow burns.

www.krakencollectivebooks.com/books/from-t...

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A black and white tentacle wrapping around a cover featuring a bright white title over a creepy, shroud-fog mansion in purple. Additional text says: "achillean, demisexual. Vampire x hunter. The snarky banter never fails"
February 14, 2024 at 3:29 PM