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October 22, 2025

Big Big Bundle to Celebrate Ace Week!

It’s going to be easy, breezy in the newsletter today! As I’ve spent the last two weeks either in vacation or at a convention, there isn’t a ton of news.

But what there is, is a big bundle of 51 ace books that you can grab for $50 for Ace Week!

Ace Pride Week itch.io mega bundle Oct 19 - 25 | 50+ books for $50! Book covers for the following books are listed top left to bottom right: Non-player Character - Veo Corva A Dragon’s Treasure - Elis Madsen The Blood Divide - Zan Lowell The Grand Duke’s Masseur Child of the Forest - Audrey Simmons Wherever the Stars Call - S. Jean How Six Saved the Grogs - Blaine D. Arden City of Strike - Claudie Arseneault In Spite of the Inevitable - Morgan Biscup Structural Integrity - Tabitha O’Connell Of Spells and Love - Odessa Silver Inarora’s Excursion - Astrid E. Abell Puppetry - Nina Waters Sidetracked - S. K. Kelley Lost Blades - Liz Sauco Claimed by the Undead - C. L. Carhart The Star-Crossed Empire - Maya Darjani Triple Strike Threads of Fate - G. M. Grey Curse of Souls - Niranjan Courtly Love - T. D. Cloud Song of the Wolf - T. C. Smith Blood - D. C. Hart Chai and Cat-tales - Lynn Strong The Thirteenth Key - Cara Nox The Dragon Next Door - Vanessa Ricci-Thode Walking the Knife’s Edge - Elise Carlson Yours Celestically - Al Hess Pet - H. S. Kallinger The One He Brought Home - Skye Kilaen Junk Junction - Sara Codair Secondhand Origin Storie - Lee Brontido Riyati Rebirth - Kai Zeal Bridges of Smoke - Julie March The Whisperer in White - Y. R. Liu In the Eye of the Beholder - Beverly Anne Michel Peace in the Sky - Caye Marsh A Spark in Space - Janina Franck Journey Home - May Barros Doce Drosera - Anita The Audacity - Carmen Loup Bloody Space - Brittany M. Willows Enemies to Enemies - Ash Kreider Devil’s Deal - Tessa Hastjarjanto Merchants of Knowledge and Magic - Erika McCorkle A Life in Too Many Margins - S. E. Thomson Where We Converge - A. E. Bross Lantern - Burgundy Athena Pendragon A Designer Magick - Fox N. Locke The Harmony of Falling Snow - Andora Brohaw The Thread That Binds - Cedar McCloud Towers of Nine - Alyssa Louttit  All books by ace authors and/or ft. ace characters across a variety of genres! riyati.ink/acepride2025

There are some incredible books in this bundle alongside my own City of Strife: Secondhand Origin Stories, Yours Celestially, The Thread That Binds, Bloody Spade, Journey Home, Structural Integrity, to name a few I’ve read, and I’m personally very excited for The One We Brought Home, A Spark in Space, Bridges of Smoke, Non-Player Character, Wherever the Stars Call, The Thirteenth Key, The Dragon Next Door, and Star-Crossed Empire. And that’s just a fraction of them!!

Grab the Mega Bundle!

If you’re like me and already own a lot of these, or have a more limited budget, there are also two smaller bundles with half the books each, here (this is mine) and here.

There will be more exciting things in the future, but for now Happy Ace Week everyone, and may the bookish spirits bring you great reads.


A banner with "queer fantasy centering platonic relationships" at the top. On it are the covers for many of Claudie's books, namely: City of Strife, City of Betrayal, City of Deceit, City of Exile, Common Bonds, Common Bonds 2, Baker Thief, Snowstorm & Overgrowth, Awakenings, Flooded Secrets, The Sea Spirit Festival, Stories from the Deep, Motes of Inspiration, Ruinened History

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