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Queer sci-fi & fantasy romance author (Hades & Persephone retelling in the query trenches) • Librarian • Writing craft for emotionally powerful stories. she/her 🖤🩶🤍💜@margerybayne on Medium.
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Hurray to the expanded release of my short story collection Object Impermanence!

Now available beyond Amazon—find it on Kobo, B&N, Apple Books, & more.

If you like Twilight Zone or Night Vale, you’ll love these eerie tales.

$1.99 ebook thru Halloween! 🎃 books2read.com/impermanence
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Graphic reading "Now available where your favorite ebooks are sold!" It shows the book cover of Object Impermanence: Weird and Fantastic Stories by Margery Bayne, which is white with a multi-color, glitching mason jar in the center. The book cover is surrounded by tropes such as short stories, magical realism, and liminal spaces.
October 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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My collection of queer, witchy short stories will be available for just $0.99 as part of this awesome #IndieBook sale!
Buy Now: books2read.com/witchy
Check out other books on sale: indiebook.sale

#WriteSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity #LGBTQAuthors #IndieAuthors
Green Book Cover featuring a cauldron. The title is A Witch By Any Other Name: Queer & Enchanted Stories by Margery Bayne. Description reads: Three stories, three witches, and the destinies shaped by those who need them most. Additional graphic reads: Indie Book Sale, indiebook.sale, Fantasy, sc fi, & horror. August 23 through 25.
August 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Save the date, folks. The Narratess Indie Book Sale is coming. My recent book of witchy short stories and hundreds of other authors' books will be on deep discount or even free!

#WriteSky #BookSky
Graphic with a series of book covers boarding an announcement: "Indie Book Sale Fantasy, Sci fi, and horror August 23 - 25.
August 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Something needs to be said for the cultural impact of the Teen Titans cartoon from 2003-06. This is fanart from the teen room at my library in the year 2025. #TeenTitans
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July 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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"Safe Haven"

Elios is a mining colony built on gravitum — a precious resource powering the galaxy but poisoning the land.

Amid corruption and sabotage, two should-be rivals must unite science and love to save their planet.

A queer sci-fi romance.
#BluePit #SF #R #LGBT #Q #bluepit📖#AmQuerying
Collage including images of a dome, test tubes, dna, gears, molecules, stars, and an astronaut. Text overlay reads, "That's the conundrum, isn't i? Everything has a trade-off. Everything has a cost."
July 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Perry’s smile could reignite a dying star.

Too bad Haven is the coldest man in the galaxy—and his mother’s sworn enemy.

✨ Forbidden romance. Grumpy/sunshine. Redemption arc. A Hades & Persephone retelling—in space.
#BluePit #SF #R #LGBT #Q
#AmQuerying #BookPitch #WriteSky
Teal, starry background with framed book quote: Haven was astounded himself every night he went to bed beside Perry and woke up with him still there every morning. Astounded that Perry found whatever others found off-putting — his stoicism, long silences, and seeming lack of emotion — something to be learned, looked at, and cherished. Astounded that the long-hidden wells in his heart could be dredged up.
July 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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On an intergalactic mining colony, a ruthless tycoon hires the one man he shouldn't: his rival’s bright, stubborn son.

A queer Hades and Persephone retelling—together, they might just save their dying planet… if love doesn’t destroy them first.

#BluePit #SF #SP #R #LGBT #Q #LiteraryAgents
A moodboard of nine square images. First column in green scheme: hands planting a plant, a greehouse, and lab test tubes. Second column in red scheme: pomegranite seeds, intertwined hands, a galaxy. Third column in gray scheme: Gears, an underground tunnel, unclose of hands in a gray suit fixing a cufflink.
July 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Here's a mood board sneak peak for my gay, scifi Hades-and-Persephone retelling, Safe Haven. (Created in canva.)

#BluePitHype #AmQuerying
A collage of green and gray-toned images including industrial dome, petri dishes with plants, DNA strands, gears and pipes, an astronaut, and a galaxy.
July 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Have a bingo!

From Safe Haven: Haven revealed a hint of a smile before he ducked his head. A barely there husk of laughter. It stung, the casual familiarity of it.

#AmQuerying #StorySnippet #WritersLift #AuthorSky
July 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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These three queer, magical tales of love, fate, and found family celebrate the power of being true to yourself—even when the world would rather keep you in the shadows.
Buy now! books2read.com/witchy

#QueerBooks #BookLaunch #IndieBook #ShortStories #PrideBooks #Witches
Green book cover with a cauldron with title "A Witch By Any Other Name" by Margery Bayne. Cover is surrounded by tropes with arrows pointing to the cover, including: short stories, found family, quick read, cottage core, cozy, romance, happy endings, and a Pride heart.
June 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Available for Preorder now:
books2read.com/witchy

#WritingCommunity #IndieAuthors
Graphic reads "Available for preorder now!" above a book cover for "A Witch By Any Other Name" by Margery Bayne. It is surrounded by buzzwords like cottagecore, short stories, and found family with arrows pointing to the book. In the corner is a Pride heart.
May 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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My book of short stories about queer witches is available for preorder! books2read.com/witchy #BookSky #IndieAuthor #LGBTQBooks
Book cover in shades of green with a large cauldron illustration. Reads: A Witch By Any Other Name, Queer and Enchanted Stories by Margery Bayne Back book cover with synopsis. Reads: Three stories, three witches, and the destinies shaped by those who need them most. A feared sorceress secretly shelters those who have nowhere else to go. An old witch takes in a runaway princess with a kingdom on her heels. And a cursed girl makes a deal to break her family’s curse, only to find herself falling for the one person she’s supposed to hate. These three queer, magical tales of love, fate, and found family celebrate the power of being true to yourself—even when the world would rather keep you in the shadows. From the author of Object Impermanence: Weird & Fantastic Stories comes this new collection of quick reads brimming with wonder, whimsy, and heart.
May 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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These three queer, magical tales of love, fate, and found family celebrate the power of being true to yourself—even when the world would rather keep you in the shadows.

#IndieAuthor #QueerFairyTales #AmPublishing #ShortStories #BookSky #WriteSky

Preorder links coming soon!
Graphic with rainbow background reads "A Witchy Book For Pride Month! Coming June 16!" Image of smartphone and tablet with a book covers on the screens featuring a cauldron artwork. Book is "A Witch By Any Other Name by Margery Bayne."
May 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Happy to announce I'll be releasing a minicollection of witchy short stories coming this June. Keep an ear out for more details.

#WriteSky #BookSky #IndieAuthors #QueerLit #LGBTQBooks #BookAnnouncement #BookRelease
May 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
8/20
#booksky #bookchallenge
Book titled Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
December 20, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky #bookchallenge #books
Photo of book Trial by Journal by Kate Klise and M. Sarah Klise
December 18, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No reviews, no explanations, just covers.
6/20
#booksky #bookchallenge
December 17, 2024 at 11:41 PM
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Guess who left me a dead mouse under the Christmas tree?
December 17, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
5/20
#bookchallenge #booksky #books
December 16, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
4/20
#bookchallenge
December 15, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
3/20
#bookchallenge #booksky
Photo of book Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
December 15, 2024 at 2:37 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews just covers.
2/20
#booksky ##bookchallenge
December 11, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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I'm joining in on this #bookchallenge... Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20
Photo of book The Outsiders, 50th Anniversary Edition by S.E. Hinton
December 10, 2024 at 3:56 PM