bitysmith

Hello all!! Thank you for your continuous support and reads on THE QUEEN BELOW! I am truly so happy so many enjoy it.
          	
          	I haven’t been on the site in ages and just felt like checking in. I got engaged last year to my partner and have been busy making plans in that regard, and honestly, with over five years into bookselling, it’s contributed to major writing burnout. I still think about Two Wicked Courts every day and want to finish it, but I haven’t been able to write in years. I won’t give up on it, I just am giving myself lots of time to think things over and find my passion and regain footing.
          	
          	I still read plenty of fantasy books, and would love to share some of my favorite ones in recent years: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow, A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid, The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden, A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon, and House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson. Most recently I’ve read A Feather So Black by Lyra Selene (Swan Lake retelling with Fae) and Song of the Huntress by Lucy Holland (Wild Hunt and British folklore) and if you love Fae and folklore as much as I do, you should check those two out when they come out later this month.

bitysmith

Hello all!! Thank you for your continuous support and reads on THE QUEEN BELOW! I am truly so happy so many enjoy it.
          
          I haven’t been on the site in ages and just felt like checking in. I got engaged last year to my partner and have been busy making plans in that regard, and honestly, with over five years into bookselling, it’s contributed to major writing burnout. I still think about Two Wicked Courts every day and want to finish it, but I haven’t been able to write in years. I won’t give up on it, I just am giving myself lots of time to think things over and find my passion and regain footing.
          
          I still read plenty of fantasy books, and would love to share some of my favorite ones in recent years: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow, A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid, The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden, A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon, and House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson. Most recently I’ve read A Feather So Black by Lyra Selene (Swan Lake retelling with Fae) and Song of the Huntress by Lucy Holland (Wild Hunt and British folklore) and if you love Fae and folklore as much as I do, you should check those two out when they come out later this month.

theObong_eddie

Hey.. it's been very interesting reading TWO WICKED COURTS.. and I thoroughly enjoyed HADES and PESPHERONE story too..
          
          But please could you complete two wicked courts?? It's truly fascinating,can't wait to see how the Seelie court handles the Unseelie's especially with a very sharp minded smart mouthed Una..
          
          Love your stories much ❤️

bitysmith

Happy Pride to all my readers!!
          While I may not be sapphic, writing Persephone and Hades’ relationship helped me explore and celebrate the different ways people can love each other and come to terms with my own queer identity.
          If you liked THE QUEEN BELOW and want something else to read, check out my sapphic novelette THE DESTINED AND THE DEATHLESS, a Russian folktale retelling of The Death of Koschei the Deathless, with a female Koschei and [a lot of] spice!

-champagneroses-

@bitysmith HAPPY PRIDE!
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