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Astra Crompton
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Author, editor, and illustrator of all flavours of fantasy. My work can be found in magazines, anthologies, blogs, ttrpg books, comics, and novels. Queer witchy lover of costuming, tea, my cats & books
LEGEND OF THE QUILL coming soon!
www.astracrompton.com
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I'll be giving a talk at the Jane Austen Society tomorrow!
September 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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I have my first bookstore author signing tomorrow Indigo Mayfair from noon to 3 p.m.!

I hope to see you there! I'll be in costume with behind the scenes sneak peeks.

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August 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Just over a week until the giveaway for LEGEND OF THE QUILL to celebrate launch day! If you want to be entered for the draw, you can sign up for my (very infrequent) newsletter and/or pre-order the deluxe hardcover
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March 18, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Did you know I am doing a giveaway for LEGEND OF THE QUILL?? There are two ways to enter!
(Newsletter sign-up on the front page of my website!)
March 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Finished my new website splash page, just in time to welcome new readers! If you sign up for my newsletter before March 26, you'll be entered to win a signed deluxe hardcover of LEGEND OF THE QUILL!

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February 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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I got my finished LEGEND OF THE QUILL proofs today! In celebration, I'll share random quotes. Pick a number from 1 to 343 and I'll pick an excerpt from that page 📖👀

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January 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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4 hours of work and many more to go, but progress on my new landing page illustration for my website. Have to give a bit of love to the Great Mage who started it all . . .

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January 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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I'm running a giveaway of a fancy hardcover edition of LEGEND OF THE QUILL to 1 lucky subscriber of my (infrequent) author newsletter! Sign up through my website before March 26 to enter the draw! Open internationally.

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January 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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20: The Chosen & the Beautiful by Nhgi Vo

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This concludes 20 days, 20 books that left a lasting impression, in no particular order and with no explanation, just covers!
A cream background with paper leaves cut out overtop of a realistic painting of a Vietnamese woman in 1920s flapper dress with a cropped black bob hairstyle, dangly earrings, a black shift dress with silver peacock feather motif, black satin glove half-lifted holding a cigarette holder. Black central text reads: THE CHOSEN AND THE BEAUTIFUL with NGHI VO in white text underneath.
January 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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19: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

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A dark red cover with teal stylized clouds across the top and delicate stylized trees flanking the cover with swirls between them spanning the bottom and a stylized sun rising from the centre of the swirls. Silhouetted birds take flight in the centre above teal lowercase hollow lettering reading CLOUD ATLAS with DAVID MITCHELL in white text just below and BY THE BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF NUMBER9DREAM inside the stylized sun at the bottom.
January 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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What's that? Cat tax time?
A pale mint and pink floral bedspread. Bisecting the frame is a small Abyssinian cat curled up on his right side facing left; a tuxedo cat is stretched long below, facing right, with his face resting on the other cat's thigh, his paws all curled up to his chest.
January 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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18: Persuasion by Jane Austen

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Solid sakura-pink background with a delicate frame in white and gold of entwined vines and flowers, meeting around two linked gold wedding bands in the centre. Above reads PERSUASION and below JANE AUSTEN.
January 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Today's #bookhaul

Do you have a favourite from these?

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January 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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17: The Darkness that Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker

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A black cover with conlang script scrawling in spot gloss across the entirety. In bevelled silver lettering with a drop shadow are the words: THE DARKNESS THAT COMES BEFORE, THE PRINCE OF NOTHING, BOOK ONE, R. SCOTT BAKKER
January 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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16: The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

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A maroon cover with white text at the top reading MAGGIE STIEFVATER, #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SHIVER. In the middle is a faint line of surf running across the cover with a black silhouette of a girl riding a horse towards the right. At the bottom is large bevelled gold text reading THE SCORPIO RACES.
January 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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15: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K le Guin

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January 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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14: Band Sinister by KJ Charles

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A painting of three young regency individuals: on the left, a dark-haired man with a jaunty black top hat, holding his walking stick's knob to his lips, wearing a trim burgundy riding coat, dun pants, and calf-high black riding boots with a hessian cuff, and holding a pair of brown leather gloves in his other hand, and he is turned to the left, looking away from the others. In the middle, a young woman, a head shorter than the other two stands looking forward, black curls piled under a straw bonnet trimmed with a blue ribbon tied under her chin, she is smiling and has a hand tucked around both men's elbows, she wears a floor-length white empire-waistline dress, a blue pashmina scarf with a gold paisley trim, and a coral-beaded necklace. The man on the right, faces mostly forward but with face turned slightly down to the right, looking pensive, his tousled blond hair is bare as he holds a buff top hat in his left hand, a deep blue cropped coat, cream waistcoat, orange cravat, buff breeches, white hose, and black shoes with discreet florettes. The background is dreamy yellow-brown insinuation of a hedgerow in the middle with teal above and below, with deep teal cursive lettering reading BAND SINISTER on top and KJ CHARLES on the bottom.
January 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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13: The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

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A grey-blue stone background with a close-up on a bit of carved stone frieze of stylized leaves with flaking chips of gold foil. White text says THE FIFTH SEASON, EVERY AGE MUST COME TO AN END, N. K. JEMISIN. Then the quote "One of the most celebrated new voices in epic fantasy." By Salon.com
January 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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12: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Book cover of The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow with a black background, colourful and varied painted flowers all around the edges, with 6 golden old-fashioned keys hanging from the blossoms. In the middle is an oblong brass antique doorknob, where the second O in "door" is formed by the knob itself.
January 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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11: three moments of an explosion by China Miélville

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January 18, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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A lil Back Cover Blurb for LEGEND OF THE QUILL!

If you enjoy epic second-world fantasy trilogies, especially written by queer neurodivergent Canadian witches . . . This book may just be for you!
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January 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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10. D'Aulaires' Norse Myths

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A pencil crayon drawing of Odin astride Sleipnir, his 8-legged horse. He wears golden armour and a golden, horned helm, and a blue cape spangled with yellow stars. He holds his unerring spear primed to throw in his right hand and his two ravens wheel in the swirling sky over his left shoulder. Below, a battle rages with soldiers wielding axes, shields, and bow and arrows. In the distance, the silhouettes of three Valkyrie riders on horses leap over the fray, one scooping a soldier from the field below.
January 17, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Legend of the Quill: an epic second-world fantasy out March 26!
✨️a demisexual protagonist wracked with visions
✨️non-human cultures, gods, creatures
✨️a magic system wrapped around choice & matter vs possibiliy & entropy
✨️complex antagonists, ensemble casts
✨️chapter illustrations & maps!
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Black and gold background with ink spatters and gold smoke, with the gold text: The Prophet's Tale trilogy, book one, Legend of the Quill, by Astra Crompton. 5 stars surround the title with a golden quill to the right side.
January 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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9: Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Special collector's edition of Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery #1 with a green border around a painting of Anne facing the viewer, holding books to her chest, smiling and wearing a broad straw hat, a lilac-coloured long-sleeved dress with white pinafore, her deep orange hair braided in pigtails. In the background is the building of Green Gables—white siding, peaked gables and green shutters—with a birch tree on the left and stone steps on the right where her guardians stand side by side.
January 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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8: Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

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A yellow cover with an embroidered ribbon border across top and bottom in yellow and blue. Two moons frame the title and author name: GUY GAVRIEL KAY and TIGANA, where the top is a crescent and the bottom is full. Along the botton ribbon, a painting of geometric brick towers and building with tall, thin deciduous trees, reminiscent of Italy. Includes the caption: "Packed with action...I enjoyed it all!" The Times
January 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM