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Delighted that #Edinburgh's #LighthouseBookshop already offers for sale, "Swallowing the Sun"
by the UN champion of #WomensRights

...anticipating the global launch

...starting, intriguingly, in #Scotland

lighthousebookshop.com/book/9781913...
#feminist, #anticolonial #history #musicinfiction
Lighthouse | Swallowing the Sun
lighthousebookshop.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:30 AM
beretsandascots.bsky.social
So cool

#YALit #Worldbuilding #MusicinFiction
enaqb.bsky.social Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 17d
Rummaging through an old crate and found this.
Fiona still finds ways to talk to me from years ago.

IYKYK
#Booksky #IndieMusic #PunkRoots #MusicZines #IndiePublishing #KeepingTime
January 14, 2026 at 7:15 PM
maxbrassing.bsky.social
Custom #mtg card that became the premise for my dark fantasy book #OperaOfSouls! ♥️🔥 A Red God, a "vampir," monsters, music, & more!

Read now! Use code MIATREE to read beyond ch.3 FREE for a limited time!!💙📚👻🎄
reamstories.com/page/ltfb3e9...
☝️✨
#darkfantasy #musicinfiction #fantasybooks #gothic #sff
Colored pencil art of a faceless feminine god with purple-yellow wings and a thorny dress. MtG keywords and new abilities throughout. "Mia Martok, the Incessant Madness" 3/13 Legendary Sorcery Creature
December 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
beretsandascots.bsky.social
Book 2's band has a totally different sound

#MusicinFiction #AmWriting #BookSky
enaqb.bsky.social Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · Nov 28
#Novmemeber 28 Song from play list

Stars of Belonging - Wanderers of Wonder

open.spotify.com/track/3HHcLT...

#AmWriting #BookSky #WriteSky
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
enaqb.bsky.social
The Fin Whales "Ghosts in the Ocean"

open.spotify.com/track/40hXBH...

#IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity #Novmember #AmWriting #MusicinFiction
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
enaqb.bsky.social
Keeping Time is a YA debut where grief, friendship, and time travel collide in a musical heartbeat with its own original music.

Consider joining as an ARC reader
forms.office.com/r/x5a3ZENPAE

#YAfiction #IndieBooks #FoundFamily #DebutAuthor #IndieAuthor #ARCReaders #TimeTravel #MusicinFiction
August 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
enaqb.bsky.social
🕰 What if grief could rewind the tape?

Keeping Time is a YA debut about a girl, a Walkman, and music that breaks linear time.

ARC readers wanted. Coming Oct 21, 2025.

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#YAfiction #IndieBooks #FoundFamily #DebutAuthor #IndieAuthor #ARC #TimeTravel #MusicinFiction
August 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
maxbrassing.bsky.social
Quitting teaching was the bravest thing I ever did. I love 🎶 but I had to quit for my mental health, so I became an author

But I still advocate for 🎶 thru my characters & stories, because, imho, the only thing more powerful than 🎶 is a story FUELED by the power of music📚💙
#musicinfiction #TPoE #OoS
A man with dark flowing hair in a gray hoodie holding a silver horn in a grassy field under gray clouds and blue sky. Two fantasy book covers from "Max Brassing: Music in fiction." One is colorful and bright, featuring a girl in a skirt with a clarinet and magic staff. The other is dark and fiery, featuring a faceless being in a red dress amongst ghosts and lightning.
June 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
maxbrassing.bsky.social
I'm Max, former🎶teacher, now author of fantasy & horror, each w/undertones of #musicinfiction, like chosen-one clarinetist in #ThePlanetsOnEarth or fiery soprano in #OperaOfSouls

I'm also an editor, artist, play 8 insts & love #bodypositivity ( #nakededitor 😁)

#fantasybooks 📚💙 #barefoot #oos #tpoe
Two fantasy book covers, one lighter with blues and planets featuring a girl with a clarinet, the other darker with reds and lava featuring a faceless figure. "Both books out now!" A barefoot long-haired man in torn jeans and a tie-dyed shirt holding a silver trumpet on a piano bench.
May 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
maxbrassing.bsky.social
2 yrs, 3 months & 5 days ago, my bro & I finished the penultimate edits of all 3 books of #OperaOfSouls! Fast fwd to now, and the first 2 are complete & out!

Do you dare traverse into Sauzberg? City of magic, monsters, & mayhem—skeletons, sorcery, & secrets!🏰☠️🔥 #fantasybooks 📚💙 #musicinfiction #oos
Two men with long dark hair and glasses toasting with popcorn in front of a Dark Souls bonfire on the TV.
May 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
maxbrassing.bsky.social
Happy #feetupfriday! We’re aalllllmost getting to perpetual shorts weather here in Ohio.🧚🏻‍♂️🩴👋🏻☔

Check out my books if you want to give an indie author some love today 🙌🏻📚💙

reamstories.com/maxbrassing

#barefootauthor #musicinfiction #fantasybooks #horrorbooks #footsky #authorsky
A long-haired man smiles sitting on a couch in black shorts and a black shirt holding a book, bare feet curled inward.
May 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
maxbrassing.bsky.social
Mine is red blue black. Megan from #ThePlanetsOnEarth ❤️🎶💙

#TPoE #fantasybooks #booksky #magicalgirls #clarinet #animesky #booksky #dystopianbooks #yafantasy #nabooks #nafantasy #musicinfiction
A science fantasy book cover featuring a girl in a blue skirt and red flip-flops with a clarinet and a glowing staff facing a looming Jupiter and other planets.
May 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
maxbrassing.bsky.social
As a music major/teacher, I know how magical music is irl🫶

That's why when I put music in my fantasy books, I don't give it special abilities, bc it's already special.

There's something riveting about those who fall back on music in worlds w/literal magic & monsters💫🎶
#musicinfiction 📚💙 #tpoe #oos
Two fantasy book covers in Max Brassing's "music in fiction" collection. One features a girl with a clarinet and a magic staff, and the other features a faceless god in a red dress with lava and lightning.
May 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
maxbrassing.bsky.social
I’m Max, a former music teacher infusing light, darkness, passion & hope into epic stories.

Check out my 2 similar yet opposite books!

#ThePlanetsOnEarth is bright hopepunk, lush apocalyptic🕊️

#OperaOfSouls (book2) is grim gothic, brimstone and rebirth🏰

#authorsky #fantasybooks #musicinfiction 📚💙
Two fantasy book covers by "Max Brassing, Music in Fiction. Final chapters of both books coming next week!" Each cover features a magical girl with various powers such as light, planets, lightning, and lava.
May 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
maxbrassing.bsky.social
Weekly reminder to try out my books! Co-writtten with my equally amazing brother, you needn't look any further than #OperaOfSouls for my impeccable editing and juicy writing style! Check my links 🤗❤️🔥🩸💃
#booksky #darkfantasy #fantasybooks #musicinfiction #editing #authorsky #writersky #opera #gothic
A woman in a red dress sits in grass with her arms around her knees. Dark fantasy book cover for Opera of Souls graphic along with a wizard and a skeleton. "Gothic dark fantasy by Max and Fox Brassing. Read today!"
March 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
maxbrassing.bsky.social
Chapter 40 of ✨🪐The Planets on Earth🌎✨ proofread and going down the publishing chute! Read it today 😊

I love when I read my chapters and can't help but think, how is this so damn good? ✌️
#booksky #yafantasy #fantasybooks #dystopian #musicinfiction #magicalgirl
March 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
maxbrassing.bsky.social
Opera of Souls just hit its 100th episode! 🔥🔥🔥 Check out my epic dark fantasy today! 📚💙
#darkfantasy #fantasybooks #ream #musicinfiction
February 28, 2025 at 3:26 AM
maxbrassing.bsky.social
There’s 1 day left to read as much of #OperaOfSouls as you can free!

OoS is a lush dark fantasy—one continuous epic—w/demons, gods, angels, ghosts, & the one “vampir.” 🧛🏻‍♀️

And let’s not forget the four M’s:
Magic, monsters, mayhem, & music! 🧙🏾😈😱🎻
#booksky #fantasy #gothic #darkfantasy #musicinfiction
A white wax bust on sheet music with a silver marble. “And what sweet timbre it is—the crescendo of souls, and the silence of dolls.” -Opera of Souls
February 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
maxbrassing.bsky.social
📚💙👉 reamraid.com

Opera of Souls is a dark fantasy full of monsters, gods, gothic vibes, & music! Find out what it means when the lone “vampir” rises after 800 years of slumber in a land where the choristers, the abbey, & their Red God are law! 💃🏰🔥
#booksky #fantasybooks #musicinfiction #darkfantasy
A slew of fantasy book covers with Opera of Souls by Max Brassing most prominent. Purple and red backgrounds read, “FREE BOOKS Feb 13-20, Reamraid.com”
February 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
maxbrassing.bsky.social
Looking for a dark fantasy where the 4 POVs conspire to take down their corrupt government theocracy? No parallels to a certain rogue country now at all… 😅 It’s funny how these themes are prevalent in dystopian/dark fantasy books all the time. #booksky #darkfantasy #fantasybooks #musicinfiction
Dark fantasy art of a woman in a black dress with red text framed in rosy spirals: “Opera of Souls: The year 800 D.D. (of the Darker Divinity) was supposed to hold some significance to the Lodici archangels. Something about a spell that took forty generations.”
February 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM