Maggie Harlan

Image reads: New story! "Words that Wither, Words that Bloom" out now with Uncanny Magazine. It includes the story's opening sentence, which reads: By the time she was five, Vanis had heard the same joke so many times she was sick of it: Had her mother Terese not been a guest of honor at the event, not even she would have attended Vanis’s birth.

Super excited to finally shout about this. My first short fiction publication "Words that Wither, Words that Bloom" is out with @uncannymagazine.bsky.social and available to read on their website! If plant/name magic & messy feelings around family are your vibe, check it out! 🌿✨

goals for 2025:

😄 enjoy things vigorously
🍵 try a statistically unlikely number of tea blends
🐶 pet many dogs (this one is important)
📘 write some funny/spooky/vibey books
📕 READ some funny/spooky/vibey books

&& just generally be a happy human being whenever possible

stardew stardew stardew

"Benji, what do you have in your hand?" "Teeth!" "No!"
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ah thanks! 😊 i borrowed it from this really cool story/setting alignment chart (noblebright to grimdark)--shorthand for "the world's dark af, but there's good folks doing good things to try to make it better" and i just thought that was lovely

an editor's guide to A HOLLOW REFRAIN, an adult nobledark academia fantasy. monstrous magic. achillean second-chance romance. found family. magic school for grown-ups.

a nine-tiled square moodboard with aesthetic images, including apricots, two hands bound together by a ring, a clocktower, and a hand writing on a chalk board.

intro time! i'm maggie (she/her), a queer author writing fun, feelsy fantasy (with just a dash of horror, for ✨flavor✨)

my adult nobledark academia fantasy, A HOLLOW REFRAIN, will be headed on submission in 2025 ☕🍂

Mine were announced too late to make this awesome list each year, but TIL DEATH DO US BARD is
- bi for bi
- MM
- Grumpy sunshine
- necromancy and unicorns

FATED WINDS AND PROMISING SEAS is
- MM
- bi love interest
- Sapphic adopted mums
- mental health rep, dealing with trauma
- giant sea serpents

A photo of said bundle contents laid out on indigo cloth with extremely mediocre photographic & presentation skill

So how about that fiveweekiversary Xmas giveaway?

Post a 🐝 below & share by the 20th to be in the mix for this bundle -

Signed The Last To Drown & We Are All Ghosts In The Forest, 2 bookmarks, a lovingly felted bee that didn't involve me stabbing myself *at all* & a mini bee cross stitch kit!

this looks awesome! (buzz buzz 🐝)