@norbezjones
XYZZY-nominated narrative designer: http://norbez.itch.io . Writes news, reviews, stories, games. Agender, Transmasc Boything. E/He. Icon by @jimikatdraws.bsky.social . https://norbezjones.carrd.co/
Bez is one of the most thorough reviewers I've come across...! If you are an indie author who hasn't been reviewed by them yet, I highly recommend dropping a link to your work below. 🔽🔽👀
A black image with gold text & a gold lace pattern on the top-left & bottom-right corners. It reads, “Bez Reviews Independent Books: #IndiePressMonth”. On the left side is my (Bez’s) mascot character Dogwater, a cat alien who has black fur on his right side, and cream-colored fur on his left side. The inside of his ears are purple, as are the leaf-shaped antenna sticking out of his head. His face is a TV screen that is currently displaying a triangle split in half with the word “Norbez” written on it. On the right side is the cover of TORMENT A GOTHIC ANTHOLOGY: a hand scratches a black background, leaving blood running from the wall underneath where the fingers were/are. On the bottom of the book it reads, “CURATED BY JUNIPER LAKE FITZGERALD.”
My first review of #IndiePressMonth is TORMENT: A GOTHIC ANTHOLOGY! This gothic, gay-as-hell collection of short stories, curated by @ardentgrove.bsky.social , has quite the variety. Should you pick it up? (Hint: yes!)
Link to review in the replies!
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Graphic with text reading: OUT NOW A TIMELESS COLLECTION OF QUEER GOTHIC TALES TORMENT: A GOTHIC ANTHOLOGY CURATED BY JUNIPER LAKE FITZGERALD
graphic with text: A TIMELESS COLLECTION OF QUEER GOTHIC TALES OUR CAVALIER CONSECRATE - DEMONAPOLOGIST THE ROT BENEATH - MARAT EARENDEL EMERGE - BAILEY ELIZABETH OMEN - JUNIPER LAKE FITZGERALD JUST LIKE OLD TIMES - TYLER ISAAC ICHOR - ARTEMY MANDUS DANCE MACABRE - T. L. MORGAN NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD - TABITHA O'CONNELL WHERE THE STARS HAVE NO REACH - BAY SHUFORD BEST AND BRIGHTEST - W. PAYNE SILLAVAN A BLOOM OF DAFFODILS - EZRA WREN TORMENT: A GOTHIC ANTHOLOGY
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graphic with header "four artworks" and four black and white illustrations. @ me if you'd like a full description!
Torment: A Gothic Anthology, curated by @ardentgrove.bsky.social, is out today!! I was a co-editor and have my own story in the collection, which channels my trauma from being raised AFAB in a conservative Christian society and was very cathartic to write!
Purchase links: books2read.com/u/3Lz617
Good morning! & I didn't know you had a Kickstarter coming up, link please??? & ooo, what convention?
Good morning! I have a book review coming out today! I'm trying to do more stuff on Instagram, so the post there will have a lot of images.
I'm currently prepping alt text for my post! How are you, and what are you up to this morning?
A very fuzzy torbie kitty, with her tongue stuck out and her feather-toe paws toward the camera, sits in a cardboard box that says "First Stop" on top of a desk, with a window in the background.
A photograph, in burnt-orange colour tones, of a maple leaf with a heart-shaped hole forms the background of a square image. 19 book covers are arranged in a pyramid shape down the right-hand side and across the bottom. To the left, white text in an arc says "Hidden Gems!" Below that more white text reads: "19 books by Canadian authors you may never have heard of (but will totally wonder how your bookshelves lived without!)" At the top of the pyramid of covers, to the right, it provides the date of the promo: March 1st to 15th, only on Itchi.io. The books involved are as follows, from the top of the pyramid and then down, from left to right: The Lion The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle The Dragon Next Door River of Crows Hope is the Thing with Feathers The Clockwork Empire Flesh and Bone Goblin Girl Moonshadow's Guardian Your Blood and Bones Winner Takes All The Flaws of Gravity Scrap Metal Angel Destined to be Normal Clipped Bloody Spade Baker Thief Path of the Warrior Prince Ewald the Brave
Did you know that 83.7% of all #Canadian authors are cats? Six days remain in the Canadian Hidden Gems ITCH bundle, & in honor of every Canadian author who is a cat, for every #book bundle sold I'll give this kitty a treat & personally tell her who it's from.
😊 💙📚 🪐📚 👀 🔥
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In 2 days you can get the remaster of my very first VN, Fetch Quest, on Steam and consoles!
⚔️ It's a comedy otome about a one-shot TTRPG session gone wrong. Can you complete your mission and kiss your boyfriend all in one night?
✨ Wishlist it on Steam: tinyurl.com/FetchQuestRe
We have 3x the views and downloads as the result 1-3 people adding us to their collections on itch than we have from our Glass Cannon feature or tabling at MAGFest (we had other benefits from those things! just not sheer number of eyeballs). Word of mouth is crucial for small titles!
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that this absurd thing is free.
Folks just sometimes spent years of effort just for the sake of making something to share. The world needs more of that. Also universal basic income so more people can do that.
A trope map graphic for Be Not Afraid by S. Jean. In the center is the cover featuring Seth, an angel with pink wings, white hair, and bright eyes leaping across the cover in profile while pink smears the blue background and eyes stare at him. Along the top is a tagline and it reads: "a fast-paced blaze through Hell..." To the sides are the tropes. They are: coy angel wielding a lead pipe, deadbeat guitarist having a bad night, survivial horror, gay gory chaos, silent hill x sorry we're closed, rotting seraphs hellbent on your death, finding a reason to live, and a pair of eyes you used to know. Along the bottom proclaims ebooks + paperbacks are out now and gives the url, books.earlronove.com/benotafraid.
You know what's really cathartic? Beating the shit out of rotting & demonic seraphs that are trying to chase you down. I'm sure Trent feels that way in my horror novella, BE NOT AFRAID.
Out now in ebook & paperback! 👁️
itchio: earlronove.itch.io/benotafraid
others: books.earlronove.com/benotafraid
Please join us in supporting the union. Tbh their tireless work to win AI protections and protect each other as workers is the only reason we didn’t walk away from Kickstarter altogether. This is important to us and we hope it’s important to you. I wish I had seen this earlier than right now.
i asked: describe peak yaoi they answered: Mount Everest x Mount Fuji (Fuji tops)
the most difficult thing abt this website aside from the time limit is you can't tell someone they're the funniest motherfucker alive
The visual novel everyone’s been asking for: a coming of age story about gay Chinese-American teenagers on imageboards
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1-2 hours / 20k words / all original soundtrack
my "screenplay" PAGLIACCI is out now.
a girl with zero direction meets and falls for a self-avowed extreme masochist swirling in rumors. what could go wrong.
about: kink, repression, sisterhood, freak4freak, family, Not Looking At It. 210p, color, free <3
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A teaser poster for Nostos, a TTRPG coming to Kickstarter in early April. Impressionist stormclouds thunder over a roiling sea. Caption text reads "Let's find a way home" above the central word, "Nostos". Illustration by Kaysha Siemens.
The pre-launch page for Nostos is live on Kickstarter!
Give it a follow if you'd like updates about my TTRPG about sailing home and saying goodbye, coming April 7, 2026.
Let's find a way home.
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International Women's Day
signed paperback pre-order for When Yesterday Ends by S. Jean. It features a 3D version of the book to the left with goodies included in the pre-order. The goodies are a bookmark that looks similar to the cover, and a holographic print of Ambrose and magic. To the right is text with information about the pre-orders. It reads: Until June 30th, pre-order a signed paperback of WHEN YESTERDAY ENDS through my ko-fi! ko-fi.com/earlronove/shop/preorder/ (there is a corresponding QR code for the url as well) Copies will run $25 USD (+ shipping, within the USA only) There is more text at the bottom indicating there is also a bookplate bundle also available for both domestic and internal shipping.
Are you a signed paperback connoisseur? Do you like getting books with goodies? Here's your chance!
From now until JUNE 30th, pre-order a signed copy of WHEN YESTERDAY ENDS from my ko-fi shop and get the signed book, a cool bookmark, & a holographic print!
Find it here! ➡️ ko-fi.com/earlronove/s...
This is the end of the reviews for of #ReadAnEbookWeek, but not #IndiePressMonth ! If you're an indie press or self-published, drop links to your work in the replies!
Get the bundle these stories are in and support indie authors! itch.io/b/3545/a-ver...
A yellow banner with purple text that reads, “Bez Reviews Independent Books: #ReadAnEbookWeek”. On the left side is my (Bez’s) mascot character Dogwater, a cat alien who has black fur on his right side, and cream-colored fur on his left side. The inside of his ears are purple, as are the leaf-shaped antenna sticking out of his head. His face is a TV screen that is currently displaying a triangle split in half with the word “Norbez” written on it. On the right side is the cover of Higanbana: a dark, abandoned factory in blue hues, with a higanbana flower sprouting from the cracked floor, surrounded by angelic feathers in the air.
To close off #ReadAnEbookWeek I’m looking at one more novel from the A Very Queer March bundle, Higanbana by Jake Vanguard.
A man running from abuse finds a fallen angel. He takes in the angel, and discovers love he never thought possible.
Link to review in the replies!
#BRIB #BookSky #queerbooks
Meme's still going... 😂
Needless to say, I look nothing like *either* of those two original panels these days... 33 years is a long time! 🤷♂️
One of my favorite people on Bluesky has had one of the worst things to happen with a piece of technology in a rather unfriendly economy to have it happen in... if you're able to help, please consider doing so.
I may have to post my last #ReadAnEbookWeek review tomorrow instead of today--time got away from me. Please look forward to it!
One of my New Year's Resolutions is to do more video content, specifically for TikTok. Do y'all have any tips/guidance/warnings for posting on there that I should know? Would like to try posting on the #BookTok side for #ReadAnEbookWeek specifically, but general advice is welcome!
A yellow banner with purple text that reads, “Bez Reviews Independent Books: #ReadAnEbookWeek”. On the left side is my (Bez’s) mascot character Dogwater, a cat alien who has black fur on his right side, and cream-colored fur on his left side. The inside of his ears are purple, as are the leaf-shaped antenna sticking out of his head. His face is a TV screen that is currently displaying a triangle split in half with the word “Norbez” written on it. On the right side is the cover of Journey Home & Emergence: Emergence shows a man & woman standing across from each other in the backdrop of an orange sunset, and Journey Home shows two witches flying brooms in the backdrop of space & planets, with blue & purple hues.
Today for #ReadAnEbookWeek I’m looking at two short stories. Both are about the power of love—the one by @maybarros.com.br is about an aromantic QPR, and the other by @amweald.com is about a longing that surpasses physical space.
Link to review in the replies!
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Late Valentines Relationship Bundle logo
And the Late Valentines Relationship Bundle is live!
38 TTRPGs, friendship, romance, monsters, 80% off.
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Stack of books with TORMENT A GOTHIC ANTHOLOGY on top
TORMENT is one week away!
Is it on your TBR?
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