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Madeline Konrad 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚢⚧🌹
@madikonrad.bsky.social
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(pen name) || (She/They)

🏳️‍⚧️⚢ enby, trans-fem, witch. I write fantasy romance. 18+

Buy my books!
https://madikonrad.me/books

Profile pic/Header by https://www.tumblr.com/queenzora
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The rewrite of my #sapphic #fantasy novel *A Demon’s Name* continues. Chapter III presents much-needed exposition, as Lucia decides on a plan of action!

(I’ll be posting the entire rewrite free on my blog below!)

madikonrad.me/posts/2025-1...

#IBlog #Writing
The cover of a book entitled A DEMON'S NAME UPON YOUR LIPS. At the bottom is the subtitle: A Sapphic Romance of Melodia, by Madeline Konrad. A woman in a red flowing corseted dress, on the right, looks longingly upon another woman in blue military dress. The woman on the left bears a hardened expression. Surrounding them is a border of various specific flowers.
October 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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The rewrite of my #sapphic #fantasy *A Demon’s Name* continues. Chapter II has our freshly-summoned demon take a peek at the world she’s been summoned into!

(I’ll be posting the entire rewrite free on my blog!)

madikonrad.me/posts/2025-1...

#writing
The cover of a book entitled A DEMON'S NAME UPON YOUR LIPS. At the bottom is the subtitle: A Sapphic Romance of Melodia, by Madeline Konrad. A woman in a red flowing corseted dress, on the right, looks longingly upon another woman in blue military dress. The woman on the left bears a hardened expression. Surrounding them is a border of various specific flowers.
October 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The steam / itch.io censorship bullshit hit my writing.

Links below.
This morning, I heard more news about the itch.io / Steam censorship situation. Controversy. Stripping of rights from marginalized creators. Whatever you want to call it. And then I realized… I sell books on itch. Two books; one novel, one 14k word novelette. Nothing explicit, nothing "objectionable," just unapologetically sapphic. And yeah. I checked. They're both delisted from itch.io's search all the same. I don't want to cast this as a case of "I was one of the good ones," or anything like that. My decision to not write pornography is just a case of, well, my lack of interest in that particular genre. Porn deserves to exist just as much as "safe for work" creative outlets. But we knew that the war on porn was really a cardboard disguise for a war on all queerness, whether or not it "qualifies" as being "safe for work". You can't separate the one from the other. Anyway. This isn't an essay, I'm not a theorist, just a creative writer who really shouldn't be surprised that her work was caught in the latest fascist wave of censorship. I don't support myself with my writing; I'm a high school substitute teacher, and my partner also works full time to support us. But I'd be lying if I said money hasn't been tight these last few months; subs don't get paid during summer vacation, and also aren't eligible for unemployment since they're just "on break" for those months. I still have a job come September. But this censorship has shone a spotlight on how precarious art really is. I made a deliberate choice to pursue a day job that would allow me to continue my creative writing. And now that writing is, in a small way, being excluded by virtue of its queerness. And that sucks. Full stop. It just sucks. Go support your favorite queer artist right now; even if they don't sell through itch (or Steam), I'm betting that they need the support now more than ever. If you wanted to support me, I'll pull together a list below of links to my work available online below the cut. Thankfully the itch.io links still work; these titles are just not listed through the search, limiting their discoverability, their reach. And thankfully other storefronts still list them, for the moment.
July 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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My bittersweet #sapphic #fantasy novelette, "The Sea", is out TODAY! Grab it at the links below!

itch link: thepinkhydra.itch.io/the-sea

books2read (including Amazon, B&N, Kobo, etc.) link: books2read.com/thesea

Aaaaah, this is so exciting!
The cover of a book entitled "The Sea: A Sapphic Romance of Melodia," by Madeline Konrad. A primarily-blue starfield is foregrounded by a shattered sphere of glass, with two red hands reaching towards it from both sides of the cover.
May 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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And the cover for The Sea is so, so good! Emmy Kotze at Pink Hydra Press handled the typography, and my wonderful fiance Stella did the art!!

(You can see more of Stella's work at @neonbreakfast on Tumblr!)
The cover of a book entitled "The Sea: A Sapphic Romance of Melodia," by Madeline Konrad. A primarily-blue starfield is foregrounded by a shattered sphere of glass, with two red hands reaching towards it from both sides of the cover.
April 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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I've gotten in the habit of writing a poem at the beginning of each prose work-in-progress. This one I wrote yesterday; it's coming at the start of a more modern #sapphic #fantasy than usual for me.

#poem
A screenshot of a word processor which reads: I dreamed of you, but only just To sell you for a silver quint. The silver quint I swiftly bet On winning players in the games. That bet won me a dangling thread Of gold and scarlet tightly twined. The thread I traded for a kiss Bought from a downtown sapphire witch. And then I started from my sleep— You were gone. — scrawled on water-damaged parchment embossed with New Caledonia letterhead Recovered and catalogued by the New Salem Historical Society, January 11th, A.C. 1473
April 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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the things I learn when researching...

#writing
a screenshot of the wikipedia page for mistletoe, under the section Cultural Importance, reading: Mistletoe is relevant to several cultures. Pagan cultures regarded the white berries as symbols of male fertility, with the seeds resembling semen. The Celts, particularly, saw mistletoe as the semen of Taranis, while the Ancient Greeks referred to mistletoe as "oak sperm". Also in Roman mythology, mistletoe was used by the hero Aeneas to reach the underworld
December 10, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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Also, this is the cover! Art by Queen Zora (her tumblr: www.tumblr.com/queenzora )
The cover of a book entitled A DEMON'S NAME UPON YOUR LIPS. At the top is the subtitle: A Sapphic Romance of Melodia, by Madeline Konrad. A woman in a red flowing corseted dress, on the right, looks longingly upon another woman in blue military dress. The woman on the left holds an early nineteenth-century style dueling pistol and bears a hardened expression. Surrounding them is a border of various specific flowers.
April 21, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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Decided to make a promo for my sapphic fantasy book, which released in January!

If this interests you, you can pick up an ebook copy here! www.tumblr.com/madi-konrad/...
A promotional image for the book A DEMON'S NAME UPON YOUR LIPS: A Sapphic Romance by Madeline Konrad. Tag Line: The Count of Monte Cristo meets... her wife? Excerpt: Demons were bound by contract. Once a demonic contract was fulfilled, they were drawn inexorably back to the Abyssal Dream. Lucia knew this in her bones. Any relationship she had with Talia was temporary [excerpt goes beyond alt text word limit]
April 21, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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Went out with my lovely girlfriend last night. I think we both look cute in this one, tbh!

#selfie #lesbian #trans
Myself (left) and my gf Stella (right) smiling in semiformal wear at a restaurant
April 14, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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Drop something yellow from your gallery...

Let's see what we have...

Zooming in, this piece is by Maxine Vee. Ugh, the shapes, the colors, the expression, so good.
A detailed digital painting of a brown skinned princess, holding a star and standing in a Middle Eastern style archway, with a golden yellow dragon circling her.
April 6, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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I always like discussions like this

#anarchism
A Tumblr post from TasteTheBloodOfMeatThawsMoth reading: "“Why do you not say how things will be operated under Anarchism?” is a question I have had to meet thousands of times. Because I believe that Anarchism can not consistently impose an iron-clad program or method on the future. The things every new generation has to fight, and which it can least overcome, are the burdens of the past, which holds us all as in a net. Anarchism, at least as I understand it, leaves posterity free to develop its own particular systems, in harmony with its needs. Our most vivid imagination can not foresee the potentialities of a race set free from external restraints. How, then, can any one assume to map out a line of conduct for those to come? We, who pay dearly for every breath of pure, fresh air, must guard against the tendency to fetter the future. If we succeed in clearing the soil from the rubbish of the past and present, we will leave to posterity the greatest and safest heritage of all ages."
April 6, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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Saturday Morning. In with the girlfriend. The clouds threatening rain. Coffee steeping and a chilly wind blowing through the window.
A view out a window on a Denver neighborhood, flowers and a greeting card on the sill. The clouds are grey and dark.
April 6, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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Visual art that inspires me.

"Axis", by Jason Anderson. (He does so many great paintings in this style).

I love how it pushes impressionist style to the limit. I love the colors. I love how it comes together on the macro level.
'A highly impressionistic painting depicting a sunrise over water along an industrial coast; all made up of large colored squares of various hues. "Axis," by Jason Anderson'
April 4, 2024 at 9:29 PM