Marieke Nijkamp
@mariekeyn.bsky.social
#1 NYT bestselling author of novels, comics, and graphic novels | nonbinary | 🌈📚 | 🏳️🌈 | ♿
Out now: SPLINTER & ASH | Up next: AFTER WE BURNED
📖: mariekenijkamp.com
Out now: SPLINTER & ASH | Up next: AFTER WE BURNED
📖: mariekenijkamp.com
Dusting off my account to share that SPLINTER & ASH 2: CITY OF SECRETS is out now!
This series is my love letter to the fantasy adventures that I grew up on, but with a disabled princess and a nonbinary squire taking the lead in the fight to make their wartorn kingdom kinder and fairer. 💙
This series is my love letter to the fantasy adventures that I grew up on, but with a disabled princess and a nonbinary squire taking the lead in the fight to make their wartorn kingdom kinder and fairer. 💙
October 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Dusting off my account to share that SPLINTER & ASH 2: CITY OF SECRETS is out now!
This series is my love letter to the fantasy adventures that I grew up on, but with a disabled princess and a nonbinary squire taking the lead in the fight to make their wartorn kingdom kinder and fairer. 💙
This series is my love letter to the fantasy adventures that I grew up on, but with a disabled princess and a nonbinary squire taking the lead in the fight to make their wartorn kingdom kinder and fairer. 💙
✨️ NEW BOOK ✨️
One of the greatest joys of my career so far has been to put together UNBROKEN: 13 STORIES STARRING DISABLED TEENS.
One of my dreams has always been to edit a collection like it for middle grade readers.
So I'm *beyond* thrilled to share:
BOUNDLESS: 17 STORIES STARRING DISABLED KIDS
One of the greatest joys of my career so far has been to put together UNBROKEN: 13 STORIES STARRING DISABLED TEENS.
One of my dreams has always been to edit a collection like it for middle grade readers.
So I'm *beyond* thrilled to share:
BOUNDLESS: 17 STORIES STARRING DISABLED KIDS
May 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
✨️ NEW BOOK ✨️
One of the greatest joys of my career so far has been to put together UNBROKEN: 13 STORIES STARRING DISABLED TEENS.
One of my dreams has always been to edit a collection like it for middle grade readers.
So I'm *beyond* thrilled to share:
BOUNDLESS: 17 STORIES STARRING DISABLED KIDS
One of the greatest joys of my career so far has been to put together UNBROKEN: 13 STORIES STARRING DISABLED TEENS.
One of my dreams has always been to edit a collection like it for middle grade readers.
So I'm *beyond* thrilled to share:
BOUNDLESS: 17 STORIES STARRING DISABLED KIDS
And AFTER WE BURNED is my first YA thriller in quite a few years.
It's about truth and justice, about the secrets that burn us, and courage that can't be extinguished.
And look at these edges! They're part of a limited print run, so if you want one, preorder it now!
🔥 bookshop.org/p/books/afte...
It's about truth and justice, about the secrets that burn us, and courage that can't be extinguished.
And look at these edges! They're part of a limited print run, so if you want one, preorder it now!
🔥 bookshop.org/p/books/afte...
April 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
And AFTER WE BURNED is my first YA thriller in quite a few years.
It's about truth and justice, about the secrets that burn us, and courage that can't be extinguished.
And look at these edges! They're part of a limited print run, so if you want one, preorder it now!
🔥 bookshop.org/p/books/afte...
It's about truth and justice, about the secrets that burn us, and courage that can't be extinguished.
And look at these edges! They're part of a limited print run, so if you want one, preorder it now!
🔥 bookshop.org/p/books/afte...
SPLINTER & ASH: CITY OF SECRETS is the second book in my Splinter & Ash series.
This is my love letter to fantasy cities full of hidden passages, new friends, secrets inns, and danger.
⚔️: bookshop.org/p/books/spli...
And! If you haven't read the first book yet, the paperback comes out June 3rd!
This is my love letter to fantasy cities full of hidden passages, new friends, secrets inns, and danger.
⚔️: bookshop.org/p/books/spli...
And! If you haven't read the first book yet, the paperback comes out June 3rd!
April 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
SPLINTER & ASH: CITY OF SECRETS is the second book in my Splinter & Ash series.
This is my love letter to fantasy cities full of hidden passages, new friends, secrets inns, and danger.
⚔️: bookshop.org/p/books/spli...
And! If you haven't read the first book yet, the paperback comes out June 3rd!
This is my love letter to fantasy cities full of hidden passages, new friends, secrets inns, and danger.
⚔️: bookshop.org/p/books/spli...
And! If you haven't read the first book yet, the paperback comes out June 3rd!
Happy #IndependentBookstoreDay! Visit your favorite local indie! Buy books! (I did too!)
And if you'd like to preorder one of my upcoming books, I have two separate "the world is burning, let's fight [a treacherous conspiracy/the patriarchy] with friendship, trust, and collective action" titles!
And if you'd like to preorder one of my upcoming books, I have two separate "the world is burning, let's fight [a treacherous conspiracy/the patriarchy] with friendship, trust, and collective action" titles!
April 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Happy #IndependentBookstoreDay! Visit your favorite local indie! Buy books! (I did too!)
And if you'd like to preorder one of my upcoming books, I have two separate "the world is burning, let's fight [a treacherous conspiracy/the patriarchy] with friendship, trust, and collective action" titles!
And if you'd like to preorder one of my upcoming books, I have two separate "the world is burning, let's fight [a treacherous conspiracy/the patriarchy] with friendship, trust, and collective action" titles!
And you know what, if you love your fantasy full of gender feels but light on magic, I have the book for you too.
SPLINTER & ASH is full of swordfighting, found family, secret passages, and an intrepid nonbinary squire who plans to show the stuffy nobles around her just what legends are made of.
SPLINTER & ASH is full of swordfighting, found family, secret passages, and an intrepid nonbinary squire who plans to show the stuffy nobles around her just what legends are made of.
April 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
And you know what, if you love your fantasy full of gender feels but light on magic, I have the book for you too.
SPLINTER & ASH is full of swordfighting, found family, secret passages, and an intrepid nonbinary squire who plans to show the stuffy nobles around her just what legends are made of.
SPLINTER & ASH is full of swordfighting, found family, secret passages, and an intrepid nonbinary squire who plans to show the stuffy nobles around her just what legends are made of.
And the right response to transphobes is *always* to uplift trans voices, as a reminder that we have always been here and we will always be here.
So here's another stack of recommendations of trans and nonbinary writers writing amazing, fantastical, magical stories for kids.
So here's another stack of recommendations of trans and nonbinary writers writing amazing, fantastical, magical stories for kids.
April 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
And the right response to transphobes is *always* to uplift trans voices, as a reminder that we have always been here and we will always be here.
So here's another stack of recommendations of trans and nonbinary writers writing amazing, fantastical, magical stories for kids.
So here's another stack of recommendations of trans and nonbinary writers writing amazing, fantastical, magical stories for kids.
Hey Blueksy, if you're looking for magic books and magic school books that *aren't* horribly exclusionary, let me share some fantastic examples with you. #BookSky 💙📚
April 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Hey Blueksy, if you're looking for magic books and magic school books that *aren't* horribly exclusionary, let me share some fantastic examples with you. #BookSky 💙📚
And speaking of, happy #TransDayOfVisibility!
Protect trans kids.
Protect trans lives.
Fight for trans rights.
Celebrate trans stories.
Protect trans kids.
Protect trans lives.
Fight for trans rights.
Celebrate trans stories.
March 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
And speaking of, happy #TransDayOfVisibility!
Protect trans kids.
Protect trans lives.
Fight for trans rights.
Celebrate trans stories.
Protect trans kids.
Protect trans lives.
Fight for trans rights.
Celebrate trans stories.
AFTER WE BURNED is a story about how to survive when your whole world is falling apart.
It's about learning to trust and finding support systems.
It's about speaking the truth, for yourself, for each other.
AFTER WE BURNED, as all of my stories are in some way, is about hope. 🩵
It's about learning to trust and finding support systems.
It's about speaking the truth, for yourself, for each other.
AFTER WE BURNED, as all of my stories are in some way, is about hope. 🩵
February 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
AFTER WE BURNED is a story about how to survive when your whole world is falling apart.
It's about learning to trust and finding support systems.
It's about speaking the truth, for yourself, for each other.
AFTER WE BURNED, as all of my stories are in some way, is about hope. 🩵
It's about learning to trust and finding support systems.
It's about speaking the truth, for yourself, for each other.
AFTER WE BURNED, as all of my stories are in some way, is about hope. 🩵
I know the world is going to hell in a handbasket, and everything feels uncertain right now. But I'm holding the arcs of my upcoming YA, and I'm so grateful that I get to tell these difficult stories about hope and healing. 💙
February 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I know the world is going to hell in a handbasket, and everything feels uncertain right now. But I'm holding the arcs of my upcoming YA, and I'm so grateful that I get to tell these difficult stories about hope and healing. 💙
Hi #PortfolioDay!
I'm Marieke, and alongside my prose work, I adore writing comics and graphic novels. INK GIRLS, my first OGN, is a work of pure defiant joy. I also love writing character-driven stories in existing universes, from creepy to hopeful and everything in between.
📓: mariekenijkamp.com
I'm Marieke, and alongside my prose work, I adore writing comics and graphic novels. INK GIRLS, my first OGN, is a work of pure defiant joy. I also love writing character-driven stories in existing universes, from creepy to hopeful and everything in between.
📓: mariekenijkamp.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Hi #PortfolioDay!
I'm Marieke, and alongside my prose work, I adore writing comics and graphic novels. INK GIRLS, my first OGN, is a work of pure defiant joy. I also love writing character-driven stories in existing universes, from creepy to hopeful and everything in between.
📓: mariekenijkamp.com
I'm Marieke, and alongside my prose work, I adore writing comics and graphic novels. INK GIRLS, my first OGN, is a work of pure defiant joy. I also love writing character-driven stories in existing universes, from creepy to hopeful and everything in between.
📓: mariekenijkamp.com
It's that time of the year where I remind you that I'm happy to send you signed bookplates and swag if you gift or receive my books for the holidays!
Email me with your address and your book of choice. I'll send out as much swag as possible for the rest of the month! (Open worldwide.) 💙📚
Email me with your address and your book of choice. I'll send out as much swag as possible for the rest of the month! (Open worldwide.) 💙📚
December 17, 2024 at 2:23 PM
It's that time of the year where I remind you that I'm happy to send you signed bookplates and swag if you gift or receive my books for the holidays!
Email me with your address and your book of choice. I'll send out as much swag as possible for the rest of the month! (Open worldwide.) 💙📚
Email me with your address and your book of choice. I'll send out as much swag as possible for the rest of the month! (Open worldwide.) 💙📚
I finished THIEF OF THE HEIGHTS by @bogboogie.bsky.social and @slimyhipster.bsky.social over my lunch break today, and gosh it's spectacular. An amazing, hopeful story about justice, friendship, and revolution. Both futuristic and entirely too present. Read it now. #WeReadsComics
December 11, 2024 at 2:15 PM
I finished THIEF OF THE HEIGHTS by @bogboogie.bsky.social and @slimyhipster.bsky.social over my lunch break today, and gosh it's spectacular. An amazing, hopeful story about justice, friendship, and revolution. Both futuristic and entirely too present. Read it now. #WeReadsComics
Happy WHITESTONE CHRONICLES: RIPLEY day!
This book is gorgeous and twisted, and it was such a delight to work on this with @tylerwalpole.bsky.social.
Grab a copy at your favorite bookstore or LCS now! 🤩 @darkhorse.com @criticalrole.bsky.social
This book is gorgeous and twisted, and it was such a delight to work on this with @tylerwalpole.bsky.social.
Grab a copy at your favorite bookstore or LCS now! 🤩 @darkhorse.com @criticalrole.bsky.social
December 3, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Happy WHITESTONE CHRONICLES: RIPLEY day!
This book is gorgeous and twisted, and it was such a delight to work on this with @tylerwalpole.bsky.social.
Grab a copy at your favorite bookstore or LCS now! 🤩 @darkhorse.com @criticalrole.bsky.social
This book is gorgeous and twisted, and it was such a delight to work on this with @tylerwalpole.bsky.social.
Grab a copy at your favorite bookstore or LCS now! 🤩 @darkhorse.com @criticalrole.bsky.social
We hebben morgen ook gave SPLINTER & ASH goodies, zoals boekenleggers en exclusieve illustraties.
Dus wil je graag meer weten over het uitgeefproces of wil je een superspannend boek als cadeautje voor de feestdagen (reserveren/bestellen kan ook!) kom dan morgen vanaf 14:00u bij de Dondersteen! 😁
Dus wil je graag meer weten over het uitgeefproces of wil je een superspannend boek als cadeautje voor de feestdagen (reserveren/bestellen kan ook!) kom dan morgen vanaf 14:00u bij de Dondersteen! 😁
November 29, 2024 at 10:50 AM
We hebben morgen ook gave SPLINTER & ASH goodies, zoals boekenleggers en exclusieve illustraties.
Dus wil je graag meer weten over het uitgeefproces of wil je een superspannend boek als cadeautje voor de feestdagen (reserveren/bestellen kan ook!) kom dan morgen vanaf 14:00u bij de Dondersteen! 😁
Dus wil je graag meer weten over het uitgeefproces of wil je een superspannend boek als cadeautje voor de feestdagen (reserveren/bestellen kan ook!) kom dan morgen vanaf 14:00u bij de Dondersteen! 😁
Nederlandse Bluesky volgers!
Morgenmiddag is de boekpresentatie van SPLINTER & ASH bij De Dondersteen in Hengelo!
We hebben taart! We gaan het hebben over schrijven, en ook over hoe een boek eigenlijk vertaald en uitgegeven wordt (met vertalers & redacteur, superinteressant!) 🎉
Kom je ook? 😁
Morgenmiddag is de boekpresentatie van SPLINTER & ASH bij De Dondersteen in Hengelo!
We hebben taart! We gaan het hebben over schrijven, en ook over hoe een boek eigenlijk vertaald en uitgegeven wordt (met vertalers & redacteur, superinteressant!) 🎉
Kom je ook? 😁
November 29, 2024 at 10:46 AM
Nederlandse Bluesky volgers!
Morgenmiddag is de boekpresentatie van SPLINTER & ASH bij De Dondersteen in Hengelo!
We hebben taart! We gaan het hebben over schrijven, en ook over hoe een boek eigenlijk vertaald en uitgegeven wordt (met vertalers & redacteur, superinteressant!) 🎉
Kom je ook? 😁
Morgenmiddag is de boekpresentatie van SPLINTER & ASH bij De Dondersteen in Hengelo!
We hebben taart! We gaan het hebben over schrijven, en ook over hoe een boek eigenlijk vertaald en uitgegeven wordt (met vertalers & redacteur, superinteressant!) 🎉
Kom je ook? 😁
Hey #DutchComicCon, thank you. For flocking to the Q&As. For the signing lines. For your excitement for RIPLEY. For sharing what KITH & KIN means to you. Getting to tell these stories is a joy and a privilege. Hearing from readers is an absolute delight. My heart is full. I'm grateful. Thank you. <3
November 24, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Hey #DutchComicCon, thank you. For flocking to the Q&As. For the signing lines. For your excitement for RIPLEY. For sharing what KITH & KIN means to you. Getting to tell these stories is a joy and a privilege. Hearing from readers is an absolute delight. My heart is full. I'm grateful. Thank you. <3
It really came out so well. Your spreads look *gorgeous*. And look at the title page too!
November 23, 2024 at 6:22 PM
It really came out so well. Your spreads look *gorgeous*. And look at the title page too!
She's so gorgeous! Hey @tylerwalpole.bsky.social, look! 🤩
November 23, 2024 at 5:21 PM
She's so gorgeous! Hey @tylerwalpole.bsky.social, look! 🤩
My hair is #DutchComicCon ready.
Real talk: while I've dipped by toes back in the con waters, DCC will be my first time *guesting* in years. I'm a lot excited and a bit nervous. I've missed the energy of these spaces desperately. 💙
Real talk: while I've dipped by toes back in the con waters, DCC will be my first time *guesting* in years. I'm a lot excited and a bit nervous. I've missed the energy of these spaces desperately. 💙
November 21, 2024 at 7:20 PM
My hair is #DutchComicCon ready.
Real talk: while I've dipped by toes back in the con waters, DCC will be my first time *guesting* in years. I'm a lot excited and a bit nervous. I've missed the energy of these spaces desperately. 💙
Real talk: while I've dipped by toes back in the con waters, DCC will be my first time *guesting* in years. I'm a lot excited and a bit nervous. I've missed the energy of these spaces desperately. 💙
And this one is basically @whattheshea.bsky.social's fault and I mean that in the BEST way. FIRE & ICE is weird, fun, and one of the best superheroic friendship stories I've read in a long time. Pick it up if you haven't read it yet. #WeReadsComics
November 20, 2024 at 5:01 PM
And this one is basically @whattheshea.bsky.social's fault and I mean that in the BEST way. FIRE & ICE is weird, fun, and one of the best superheroic friendship stories I've read in a long time. Pick it up if you haven't read it yet. #WeReadsComics
Okay, two more #WeReadsComics recs for today and then I'll try to keep up on a weekly basis. (Operative word: try. 😅)
I loved this anthology by @tocomix.bsky.social. So many good short comics, such a range of feelings. Also, I *love* stories where the setting is a character.
I loved this anthology by @tocomix.bsky.social. So many good short comics, such a range of feelings. Also, I *love* stories where the setting is a character.
November 20, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Okay, two more #WeReadsComics recs for today and then I'll try to keep up on a weekly basis. (Operative word: try. 😅)
I loved this anthology by @tocomix.bsky.social. So many good short comics, such a range of feelings. Also, I *love* stories where the setting is a character.
I loved this anthology by @tocomix.bsky.social. So many good short comics, such a range of feelings. Also, I *love* stories where the setting is a character.
And WEIRDO by Tony Weaver Jr. and @jesncin.bsky.social is a perfect story about being the geeky kid, finding your place and learning what it means to be a hero in real life. It's a beautiful read. #WeReadsComics
November 20, 2024 at 3:30 PM
And WEIRDO by Tony Weaver Jr. and @jesncin.bsky.social is a perfect story about being the geeky kid, finding your place and learning what it means to be a hero in real life. It's a beautiful read. #WeReadsComics
I'm also going to drop two graphic novels on the hashtag, because I've been devouring these MG reads.
KNOTS by @colleenfrakes.bsky.social is about middle school and complicated families and carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders and it made me tear up in a good way. #WeReadsComics
KNOTS by @colleenfrakes.bsky.social is about middle school and complicated families and carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders and it made me tear up in a good way. #WeReadsComics
November 20, 2024 at 3:27 PM
I'm also going to drop two graphic novels on the hashtag, because I've been devouring these MG reads.
KNOTS by @colleenfrakes.bsky.social is about middle school and complicated families and carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders and it made me tear up in a good way. #WeReadsComics
KNOTS by @colleenfrakes.bsky.social is about middle school and complicated families and carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders and it made me tear up in a good way. #WeReadsComics