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Month: March 2024

Posted on March 4, 2024

Songs of Snow Cover Reveal

I’m so excited to share the cover of my upcoming wintry, Viking Age YA Fantasy, Songs of Snow. Like the cover for The Bloody Key, Elaine Ho (Art of Elaine Ho) did the illustration and Mallory Rock (Rock Solid Book Design) did the cover design.

Without further ado… 🥁🥁🥁

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ljthomasbooks

Author of SFFH books for young adults & young-at-heart adults. Engineer, traveler, reader.
My 📚:
🏹 WE SURVIVORS
🗝️ THE BLOODY KEY
❄️ SONGS OF SNOW

If you ever find yourself in Roswell, New Mexico, If you ever find yourself in Roswell, New Mexico, you pretty much have to visit the International UFO Museum. 🛸👽 One thing that surprised me was how vast the collection was at their UFO research library! They had so many books, tapes, and other documents detailing UFO sightings, abduction reports, and the like. If I ever have a UFO story idea, I'm definitely visiting again to research! 👽🛸
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What about you? Do you think aliens exist?
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Convincing you to read my Gothic Bluebeard retelli Convincing you to read my Gothic Bluebeard retelling this spooky season based on the character art. 😍🗝️🕯️
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Reminder that anyone who orders a copy of The Bloody Key this month (ebook or paperback) can request a free, personalized character art postcard! Open worldwide. 🏰✨ If you ordered yours back in September, it's still open for you to request as well! 🖤
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Artwork by @lana_banana_arts 
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PS please ignore my poor cell phone videography skills 🥲
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Censorship is so 1984. That's this year's theme fo Censorship is so 1984. That's this year's theme for Banned Books Week, sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA). Swipe for some Fahrenheit 451 quotes and some scary stats about book banning from last year. 🔥🚫
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The reality is that 2023-2024 were some of the worst years for book bans, with coordinated partisan groups calling for mass bans of books they disagreed with, often because they spoke to the queer or BIPOC experience. Banned books week is a great time to buy and read banned books, request them at your local library, support their authors on social media, and follow @banned_books_week and @authorsagainstbookbans. I also highly recommend checking out the ALA's resources to find actions you can take to research, report, and fight censorship in your community, including materials like book resumes to help educators and librarians make educated decisions about challenged books. Together we can fight censorship and defend the right to read. 📚💪
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Happy October! 🍂🎃 Thought I'd share my tbr, Happy October! 🍂🎃 Thought I'd share my tbr, watch list, and some October book recs in honor of my favorite month of the year 😍
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What are your favorite fall books or movies? 
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Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! A few suggested rea Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! A few suggested reads 📚🍁🍂 What are you currently reading?
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#TheHacienda #RaidersoftheLostArk #TheQueenofWater #TheInheritanceofOrquídeaDivina #MexicanGothic #WoveninMoonlight #Ficciones #AnEmbroideryofSouls #CemeteryBoys
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Happy Spooky Season! 🎃👻🍁 I'm so excited t Happy Spooky Season! 🎃👻🍁 I'm so excited to celebrate with this gorgeous character art from the talented @lana_banana_arts . 😍 She did a fantastic job bringing to life a scene between the main character of The Bloody Key, Anne, and the mysterious gardener who warns her to flee the estate, Sebastian. 🌌🏰

To make everyone's spooky season extra special, I have postcards of this character art that I'll send to anyone who purchases a copy of The Bloody Key in September or October this year. Any format, and open worldwide, as long as you can receive a postcard from the US. Request yours at the 🔗 in my bio. 

This Gothic reimagining of the Bluebeard fairy tale is perfect for fans of Crimson Peak, Belladonna, or House of Salt and Sorrows. A book with a personalized character art postcard makes a great gift, too, and there's time to get it to you before Christmas if you order now!

A quick blurb:
Castle life is much easier than tending ghosts--until Anne's sister falls mysteriously ill. To save her, Anne must find the cause: her sister's wealthy new husband, the prickly housekeeper, the handsome but enigmatic gardener, or the ghosts rumored to haunt the castle. 🥀🗝️

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So excited to read @rubymartinezauthor's YA fantas So excited to read @rubymartinezauthor's YA fantasy inspired by Mexican and German lore, AN EMBROIDERY OF SOULS! 🪡🧵🐺 I'm only a few chapters in but I'm already so intrigued by the idea of thread magic--and the mysterious and gruesome murders. You won't want to miss this one!! 😍
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Recently listened to the audiobook of Fahrenheit 4 Recently listened to the audiobook of Fahrenheit 451 (narrated by Penn Badgley). 🔥📚 This was a reread for me and I think I got so much more out of it the second time around, possibly because I was a teenager last time. 😅 Worth a revisit for sure. Here are eight quotes that resonated with me this time around. 
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Screaming from the rooftops that all horror fans n Screaming from the rooftops that all horror fans need to read @stopithester's fantastic book THE FACELESS THING WE ADORE. It's got folk horror, it's got eldritch horror, it's got a hint of sporror, it's got cults, an MC with a unique and engaging voice, Mediterranean vacation vibes, sapphic relationships, and so many other things I can't mention without spoilers!! A plethora of interesting concepts within, and I made this moodboard in case anyone needs extra convincing to visit the Farmstead 🦋🍄🍋🌊
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Happy National Read a Book Day!! 📚🤓 Been sav Happy National Read a Book Day!! 📚🤓 Been saving Rachel Gillig's latest for a special occasion and I think this qualifies! So excited to dive in ⚔️🦋 What are you reading today? Let me know in the comments!
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We've got that autumn chill in the air and spooky We've got that autumn chill in the air and spooky season is officially here! Seemed like a good time to remind everyone that I have a Gothic reimagining of the Bluebeard fairytale available on all major ebook retailers and Kobo Plus! 🥀🖤👻 Perfect for anyone who loves ghost stories, murder mysteries, or women in gowns fleeing castles on a dark and stormy night! 🌩️🏰🌲
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New bookstore obsession: Hodges Figgis in Dublin! New bookstore obsession: Hodges Figgis in Dublin! 🇮🇪☘️ I was lucky enough to visit this massive three-story, over 300-year-old bookstore earlier this week and loved it so much. 😍 Isn't there something so restorative about being around thousands of books? 📚 Swipe to experience the bookstore and see my haul. Sadly it was much smaller than I would have liked--why must carry ons have a weight limit??
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