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Stephanie Burgis
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Fantasy writer, history geek, dark chocolate addict! Writes sparkling fantasy rom-coms for adults and fun MG fantasy adventures. She/her.

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OK, this may well be the most unhealthy dessert I have ever baked, but OMG it tastes so good. Zero regrets! 😍

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(I only had 100g of the roasted, salted pecans in my cupboard, so those were all that I put in. Amazing regardless!)
A chocolate tart with a chocolate oreo crust sits in a pie dish on a tablecloth beside a lovely cake slice decorated in blue and white butterflies. Paperbacks by Riley August and Llinos Cathryn Thomas sit on the table nearby. A single slice of the tart on a small plate, with the pecans visible within the chocolate tart.
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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This week's Sunday snippet comes from Enchanting the Fae Queen, which arrives in just over 2 months. Preorder here:
stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen

And if you haven't read the 1st fantasy rom-com in this series, grab that now: stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen
The illustrated cover for Enchanting the Fae Queen, by Stephanie Burgis, shows a mischievously grinning woman with long blonde curls, a moonstone crown, a pink dress and bare feet, sitting perched in a tree teasing the uniformed general who stands before her, his expression determined and one of his hands around her closest leg while she pokes his strong nose with one finger. Vines of leaves sweep magically out from the tree around her to draw him towards her. The tagline reads: All’s fae in love and war. The text beside and below it reads: Gerard didn’t shift away from her touch, but his amber eyes narrowed dangerously as he gazed down at her. “Do you even have a fixed plan at the moment, Your Majesty? Or is this all one more series of reckless leaps into the dark?” “Darling! Don’t you wish you knew?” Laughing, Lorelei retrieved her hand and blew him a taunting kiss before dancing ahead through the welcoming trees, out of reach of any more too-perceptive questions. It took very little effort to persuade these old friends to lean even closer behind her, stretching their branches in his path. As he slowed to manage the obstructions behind her, she braced herself for the next step of her challenge. Whether or not anyone else believed it, Lorelei always had a plan . . . but occasionally, it did include worryingly unreliable components.
November 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Pebbles is making very sure that we don't forget her in all of our house-packing!

(As if we ever would. ❤️)
Pebbles the tabby/bengal cat sits perched on a pile of packing boxes, half her belly hanging off the side but determined to remain!
November 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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This week's Saturday snippet comes from Wooing the Witch Queen, which you can grab in ebook, paper or audiobook now: stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen

You can preorder the 2nd in this trilogy of fantasy rom-coms, too: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen

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An image of the front cover of Wooing the Witch Queen shows a sinister witch queen in a spectacular beaded dress embracing her handsome and adoring new librarian (in a black wizard's robe) inside a library of magic filled with crows and masks and flying books. Above and beside it is this snippet from the book: “Your riding gryphons are fighting again,” Saskia informed her uninvited guests. She pressed her delicate coffee cup against her forehead, hoping that its soothing heat might make up for the racket of screeches and growls that had broken out just outside the library doors. It didn’t work—but the noise didn’t seem to bother either of the infamously wicked queens who were currently lounging about on her couches, paging through her uncle’s books without an apparent care in the world. Ugh! She squeezed her eyes closed against the sight. If it had been up to Saskia, she would still have been fast asleep in her own bed after a long night of fascinating experimentation. Adding silversand to hellbane did work every bit as well as she’d hypothesized! The possibilities opened up by that discovery were exhilarating—but nothing else seemed to be working at all, starting with today’s unexpected and unwanted meeting of the Queens of Villainy.
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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If you haven't already snapped up this @storybundle.bsky.social , check it out: it includes my complete Harwood Spellbook omnibus as well as so many other great books by @kristadb1.bsky.social , @victoriagoddard.bsky.social , @jbensonink.bsky.social & more!

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This image shows thirteen book covers around the text: The Leading Ladies Fantasy Bundle: November twelfth through December fourth. The books are: Stephanie Burgis's The Harwood Spellbook: The Complete Series, Intisar Khanani's Sunbolt, Tansy Rayner Roberts's Power and Majesty, Tilly Wallace's The Stormborne Vine, Jacquelyn Benson's The Stolen Apocalypse and Empire of Shadows, Victoria Goddard's The Sisters Avramapui Omnibus and The Redoubtable Pale Avramapui, Charlotte English's Hell and High Water, Krista Ball's The Dark Abyss of Our Sins: the Complete Series, Suzannah Rowntree's Tall and Dark, and R.J. Blain's Silent Stalker and Blood Bound.
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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This week's Friday snippet comes from A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, which is out now in ebook and paperback: books2read.com/honeymoonGrave

And if you haven't yet read the first novella in this cozy-spooky series, you can grab that, too: books2read.com/undeadInconvenience

#romancelandia
The illustrated cover for A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, by Stephanie Burgis, shows the silhouette of an elegant traveling carriage over the title and a bat with wings outstretched underneath, all of it framed by apples and with mirrors at the top and the bottom of the image. Above and beside the cover is this snippet of text: “Those absurd courtiers were all hoping for scandal and titillation,” Margaret said. “I was only documenting scientific facts, with accurate historical documents and explanations!” “Of course. No more than scientific facts, exact descriptions, and thorough historical context...around the intoxicating pleasures experienced with a vampiric lover’s bite. What could possibly be more high-minded and academic?” Lord Riven’s voice deepened; he shifted his grip downwards to rub both of his thumbs in maddeningly soft caresses against the soft hollows of her neck, and she arched like a cat in instinctive response, barely holding back a purr. “Believe me, I will never forget the process of assisting you in your research.” In a nighttime library lit only by candles, a determined-looking, dark-haired young woman in Edwardian dress brandishes a book to prove her argument to the tall vampire who stands before her, smiling down at her in delight. He is wearing a formal eighteenth century aristocratic outfit, and his long blond hair is tied back, eighteenth-century style. A pot of tea sits on a low table beside them.
November 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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This week's Thursday snippet comes from my enemies-to-lovers fantasy rom-com Enchanting the Fae Queen - which arrives in just over 2 months!

Preorder now:

stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen

#romancelandia
Against a background of dark violets and green leaves is shown the illustrated cover of Enchanting the Fae Queen, in which a mischievously grinning woman with long blonde curls, a moonstone crown, a pink dress and bare feet, sits perched in a tree teasing the uniformed general who stands before her, his expression determined and one of his hands around her closest leg while she pokes his strong nose with one finger. Above that cover image is this snippet of text: No one was allowed to kill the Golden Beacon on her watch! ...No one apart from her, obviously. But that was different.
November 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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This has been a rough week for writing, as so much of my energy is going into the upcoming house-move, but just for fun, here's a first-draft snippet from the book I'm writing right now (Melting the Ice Queen, Book 3 in the Queens of Villainy). 💙👑🧊

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Very, very quietly, Ailana asked, “Have you really just dared to insult my wife? To me?”
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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@storybundle.bsky.social along with 9 to 11 other books by amazing authors like @tansyrr.bsky.social, @kristadb1.bsky.social & more for just $25 in total!

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#romancelandia
This image shows thirteen book covers around the text: The Leading Ladies Fantasy Bundle: November twelfth through December fourth. The books are: Stephanie Burgis's The Harwood Spellbook: The Complete Series, Intisar Khanani's Sunbolt, Tansy Rayner Roberts's Power and Majesty, Tilly Wallace's The Stormborne Vine, Jacquelyn Benson's The Stolen Apocalypse and Empire of Shadows, Victoria Goddard's The Sisters Avramapui Omnibus and The Redoubtable Pale Avramapui, Charlotte English's Hell and High Water, Krista Ball's The Dark Abyss of Our Sins: the Complete Series, Suzannah Rowntree's Tall and Dark, and R.J. Blain's Silent Stalker and Blood Bound.
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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This week's Wednesday snippet comes from Woing the Witch Queen, in which Felix - a sweet, nerdy archduke in disguise - has been hired to be the witch queen's new librarian of magic.

Grab it now in ebook, paper, or audiobook:

stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen

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In one corner of this image is the British cover of Wooing the Witch Queen, by Stephanie Burgis. The illustration shows a man in a cloak riding headlong through the night towards an ominous castle with an illuminated, crowned female figure in its doorway and bats flying overhead in the moonlight. A potion vial surrounds that central image and is further framed by leaves and branches. Crows sit on the branches, and a tagline reads: Love can be a witch. A blurb from Sangu Mandanna reads: ‘Warm and lovely’. Above and around the cover is this snippet of text, with a drawing of four books piled underneath it: Carefully, he tucked those delicate, lost sheets back into their damaged casing, and gave the book a reassuring stroke. “Don’t worry,” he murmured as he rose to his feet. “You won’t be mistreated again. None of you will.” Already busy making notes in his head, he strode towards the ordinary, nonmagical satin bell pull that hung by the door, muscle weakness entirely forgotten. His attempts to sort out his own life might have gone catastrophically wrong, but with a fountain pen, a supply of black ink, and blank paper—a good deal of blank paper, he amended—he might just be able to sort out this broken library of magic after all.
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Happy book birthday to @writersofrohan.bsky.social 's Violet Thistlewaite is Not a Villain Anymore! I loved my e-ARC of this one, and I was delighted to be sent this gorgeous final copy (along with character art and sticker). 😍

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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A trade paperback copy of Emily Krempholtz's cozy romantasy Violet Thistlewaite is Not a Villain Anymore is laid on a dark blanket beside an art print showing a man and a woman joyfully embracing inside a lush greenhouse while raindrops streak down the glass and also a sticker that shows an illustration of a leafy plant wrangling a pair of scissors with one vine and daggers with two others.
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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This week's Tuesday snippet comes from A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, which you can buy now in ebook or paperback: books2read.com/honeymoonGrave

If you haven't yet read the 1st cozy-spooky novella in the series, you can grab that, too: books2read.com/undeadInconvenience

#romancelandia
The illustrated cover for A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, by Stephanie Burgis, shows the silhouette of an elegant traveling carriage over the title and a bat with wings outstretched underneath, all of it framed by apples and with mirrors at the top and the bottom of the image. Above and beside the cover is this snippet of text: “It was all mere nonsense and posturing,” she assured him. “As I reminded her myself, centuries of data have proven that nachzehrer only ever ingest dead flesh—thus why they tend to lurk about graveyards. As I am still fully alive, my flesh would hold no appeal—or use—for her.” Lord Riven didn’t relax his stance by so much as a fraction. “And how exactly did she react to that academic correction?” “By sulking, mainly.” Margaret rolled her eyes. “Needless to say, I paid her no heed and simply went back to my work.” “Of course you did.” Lines of pain formed around Lord Riven’s eyes as he closed them for a long moment. Then he let out a resigned sigh and met her gaze once more. “I suppose I can hardly pretend to be shocked that you refused to back down from vicious fangs and posturing. After all, you were recklessly fearless from the moment you met me.”
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Romantasy fans: have you already spotted this year's FaRo Society advent calendar?

Sign up to get a free romantasy story or novella delivered to your email inbox every day from December 1-24:

farosociety.com/happy-farodays/

(And I'm gifting one of my own works this year!)

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This image shows three lit candles surrounded by sparkling lights in the darkness. The text reads: Happy FaRoDays: 24 days, 24 authors, 24 free stories.
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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I am having SUCH a good time reading @julieleong.bsky.social 's The Keeper of Magical Things, which I bought for myself yesterday from my local bookshop. Just the gentle, funny comfort-read (with a lovely sapphic romance!) that I need right now. ❤️

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

#romancelandia
A photo of the UK hardcover edition of Julie Leong's The Keeper of Magical Things is illustration with drawings of a winged cat, a half-eaten apple, a cup of steaming hot tea, a mouse playing with a compass, and a lot of garlic bulbs and flowers, as well as a broom. A blurb on the front from Sarah Beth Durst says, "Bursting with happiness."
November 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Thank goodness for cafés with not only outdoor tables but a good supply of lap blankets, too! @clairefayers.bsky.social, @jotwriting.bsky.social and I braved the cold today to eat delicious food, drink hot tea, and talk writing, and it was SUCH a nice break from house-move stress. ❤️

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Steph, Claire, and Jo sit bundled up in coats and blankets at an outdoor café table with pots of tea and plates of brownies. A delicious brownie sits on a decorated china plate beside a cup of milky tea on an outdoor cafe table.
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Right now, you can snap up my complete Harwood Spellbook romantasy boxed set (usually $9.99/£7.99) in the Leading Ladies @storybundle.bsky.social along with 9 to 11 other books by amazing authors for just $25 in total! Check it out:

storybundle.com/fantasy

#romancelandia
This image shows thirteen book covers around the text: The Leading Ladies Fantasy Bundle: November twelfth through December fourth. The books are: Stephanie Burgis's The Harwood Spellbook: The Complete Series, Intisar Khanani's Sunbolt, Tansy Rayner Roberts's Power and Majesty, Tilly Wallace's The Stormborne Vine, Jacquelyn Benson's The Stolen Apocalypse and Empire of Shadows, Victoria Goddard's The Sisters Avramapui Omnibus and The Redoubtable Pale Avramapui, Charlotte English's Hell and High Water, Krista Ball's The Dark Abyss of Our Sins: the Complete Series, Suzannah Rowntree's Tall and Dark, and R.J. Blain's Silent Stalker and Blood Bound.
November 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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This week's Monday snippet comes from Enchanting the Fae Queen, which you can preorder now: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen

& if you haven't yet read the 1st fantasy rom-com in this series, you can grab that today! stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen

#romancelandia
The illustrated cover for Enchanting the Fae Queen, by Stephanie Burgis, shows a mischievously grinning woman with long blonde curls, a moonstone crown, a pink dress and bare feet, sitting perched in a tree teasing the uniformed general who stands before her, his expression determined and one of his hands around her closest leg while she pokes his strong nose with one finger. Vines of leaves sweep magically out from the tree around her to draw him towards her. The tagline reads: All’s fae in love and war. The text beside and below it reads: “I take it you abducted my travel trunk at the same time you abducted me?” he asked wryly. “It was the only polite option,” she assured him. “You see, none of the men’s clothing left with me across the years would have been nearly large enough to fit. You wouldn’t have cared for it at all.” His expression was skeptical. “And you were, of course, terribly concerned about my preferences when you chose to abduct me.” “Of course!” Lorelei said piously. “I might be wicked, darling, but it’s never necessary to be cruel.”
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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My complete Harwood Spellbook boxed set usually costs $9.99/£7.99, but right now, you can snap it up in the Leading Ladies StoryBundle along with 9 to 11 other books by amazing authors for just $25 in total! Check it out:

storybundle.com/fantasy

#romancelandia
This image shows thirteen book covers around the text: The Leading Ladies Fantasy Bundle: November twelfth through December fourth. The books are: Stephanie Burgis's The Harwood Spellbook: The Complete Series, Intisar Khanani's Sunbolt, Tansy Rayner Roberts's Power and Majesty, Tilly Wallace's The Stormborne Vine, Jacquelyn Benson's The Stolen Apocalypse and Empire of Shadows, Victoria Goddard's The Sisters Avramapui Omnibus and The Redoubtable Pale Avramapui, Charlotte English's Hell and High Water, Krista Ball's The Dark Abyss of Our Sins: the Complete Series, Suzannah Rowntree's Tall and Dark, and R.J. Blain's Silent Stalker and Blood Bound.
November 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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This week's Sunday snippet comes from A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, which you can snap up in ebook or paperback now:

books2read.com/honeymoonGrave

And if you haven't yet read the first in this cozy-spooky series, you can grab that, too!

books2read.com/undeadInconvenience

#romancelandia
The illustrated cover for A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, by Stephanie Burgis, shows the silhouette of an elegant traveling carriage over the title and a bat with wings outstretched underneath, all of it framed by apples and with mirrors at the top and the bottom of the image. Above and beside the cover is this snippet of text: Her pulse gave a sudden, panicked jolt. Clearly reflected in the mirror, the ragged duvet was curved in the shape of her husband’s form—but his pillow was empty. What foolishness! Breathing in and out with slow control, Margaret set her teeth together and forced herself not to follow the instinctive urge to twist around and urgently assure herself that her life’s partner was safe. The windows were fully shuttered with multiple layers of thick wooden slats. No sunlight could possibly reach inside this chamber, and she was no weak-nerved ingénue to be taken aback by a perfectly well-known side-effect of vampirism. She had been studying the supernatural for years. Still, she’d never anticipated quite how unnerving it might feel when applied to the single person in the world who was undeniably hers.
November 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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This week's Saturday snippet comes from Wooing the Witch Queen, in which a sweet, nerdy archduke in disguise takes a job as the witch queen's new librarian of magic. Grab it now: stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen

And preorder Book 2: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen
An image of the front cover of Wooing the Witch Queen shows a sinister witch queen in a spectacular beaded dress embracing her handsome and adoring new librarian (in a black wizard's robe) inside a library of magic filled with crows and masks and flying books. Above and beside it is this snippet from the book: Felix had never been more grateful for his concealing mask and cloak than when he'd emerged onto the tower roof to find Queen Saskia with her head thrown back, lips parted, a cloud of crows swirling around her and energy crackling so intensely through the air that it lifted the hair at the back of his neck. It should have been a terrifying sight: the wicked witch of Kitvaria no doubt summoning a terrible storm of magic to rain down upon her enemies. But it had stopped his breath for quite a different reason.
November 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Oh hey, my complete Harwood Spellbook boxed set usually costs $9.99/£7.99, but right now, you can snap it up in the Leading Ladies @storybundle.bsky.social along with 9 to 11 other books for just $25 in total! Check it out:

storybundle.com/fantasy

#romancelandia
This image shows thirteen book covers around the text: The Leading Ladies Fantasy Bundle: November twelfth through December fourth. The books are: Stephanie Burgis's The Harwood Spellbook: The Complete Series, Intisar Khanani's Sunbolt, Tansy Rayner Roberts's Power and Majesty, Tilly Wallace's The Stormborne Vine, Jacquelyn Benson's The Stolen Apocalypse and Empire of Shadows, Victoria Goddard's The Sisters Avramapui Omnibus and The Redoubtable Pale Avramapui, Charlotte English's Hell and High Water, Krista Ball's The Dark Abyss of Our Sins: the Complete Series, Suzannah Rowntree's Tall and Dark, and R.J. Blain's Silent Stalker and Blood Bound.
November 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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This week's Friday snippet is from A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, which you can snap up now in ebook or paperback: books2read.com/honeymoonGrave

And if you haven't yet read the first cozy-spooky novella in this series, you can grab that, too: books2read.com/undeadInconvenience

#romancelandia
The illustrated cover for A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, by Stephanie Burgis, shows the silhouette of an elegant traveling carriage over the title and a bat with wings outstretched underneath, all of it framed by apples and with mirrors at the top and the bottom of the image. Above and beside the cover is this snippet of text: “Those absurd courtiers were all hoping for scandal and titillation,” Margaret said. “I was only documenting scientific facts, with accurate historical documents and explanations!” “Of course. No more than scientific facts, exact descriptions, and thorough historical context...around the intoxicating pleasures experienced with a vampiric lover’s bite. What could possibly be more high-minded and academic?” Lord Riven’s voice deepened; he shifted his grip downwards to rub both of his thumbs in maddeningly soft caresses against the soft hollows of her neck, and she arched like a cat in instinctive response, barely holding back a purr. “Believe me, I will never forget the process of assisting you in your research.”
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Today's attempt to fight off the November grey with Snag Tights color!

(Sadly, this will be my last photo in the series because all of my other tights are in dark colors. I was clearly NOT thinking of November when I bought them!)

#TinyJoys
Today Steph is wearing bright teal tights beneath a white and blue flowered dress.
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Today’s attempt to ward off the November grey with color!
Today Steph’s outstretched legs are clad in lavender tights under a pale blue flowered dress.
November 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Snap up my complete Harwood Spellbook boxed set now as part of this amazing StoryBundle curated by Charlotte English, with books by @tillywallace.bsky.social , @tansyrr.bsky.social , @victoriagoddard.bsky.social, R.J. Blain, @kristadb1.bsky.social & more:

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#romancelandia
This image shows thirteen book covers around the text: The Leading Ladies Fantasy Bundle: November twelfth through December fourth. The books are: Stephanie Burgis's The Harwood Spellbook: The Complete Series, Intisar Khanani's Sunbolt, Tansy Rayner Roberts's Power and Majesty, Tilly Wallace's The Stormborne Vine, Jacquelyn Benson's The Stolen Apocalypse and Empire of Shadows, Victoria Goddard's The Sisters Avramapui Omnibus and The Redoubtable Pale Avramapui, Charlotte English's Hell and High Water, Krista Ball's The Dark Abyss of Our Sins: the Complete Series, Suzannah Rowntree's Tall and Dark, and R.J. Blain's Silent Stalker and Blood Bound.
November 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM