Florence Chien 🗡️ REVENANT OF SUROLIFIA (07.07.26)

Please universe I would love to be noticed by Reactor Mag 🥺🙏

Thank you @marinalostetter.bsky.social!!! 🥹🫶 Really glad you enjoyed the book! For anyone else curious, e-ARCs will be available for request in the coming few weeks, and the book launches in the US and Canada on July 7, 2026 🥰

This events allows authors to pitch directly to small, indie publishers. I caught my publisher’s eye during the first-ever #SmallPitch in July 2024.

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For pitching authors, a quick update about what's new:

1) You will NOT receive a copy of your pitch submission via email. Last time, the feature wasn't reliable despite being enabled, and some people never received an email, leading to stress (understandably).

#SmallPitch, the big pitch event for small presses

SAVE THE DATE! #SmallPitch comes back for another indie/small press-focused pitch event on January 19-25, 2026 🌊

This time, it will be open to all underrepresented authors from the #WritingCommunity, agented and unagented alike.

Check our website for more details ⬇️

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Reminder that Scylla will be in #smallpitch looking for Sapphic speculative fiction with strong, diverse characters, an "un-put-downable" narrative drive, and compelling conflict! @smallpitch.org

Feels like this books would be 100% current for present events 👀

Ahhh!!! Congrats!!!! ❤️❤️ No worries about seeing it just now 😂 I'm very scatterbrained on social too lolololol

Mock cover for Hollow Whispers of the Wind

"Not a real book" bonus: HOLLOW WHISPERS OF THE WIND by @florencechien.com (historical fiction), her next novel currently on submission. I had the honor to be the first person to beta read it and it is SO GOOD. I don't understand why editors aren't fighting to death for it in a ring or something.

Cover of THE REVENANT OF SUROLIFIA

THE REVENANT OF SUROLIFIA by @florencechien.com (political fantasy): another favorite I knew I would love before reading it, but I didn't expect to love Lucas (the protagonist) so much.

It's a me! Marrriiiango 😂

My absolute honor to be on this list alongside some very amazing books! 💙📚

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Thank you friend! ❤️🥹

The Revenant of Surolifia is nominated for BroMantasy's Community Award! I'd be honored to have your vote for "Most Anticipated 2026 Release" and "Best Emotionally Impactful Characters"! Every vote count because we're up against much better names! #WritingCommunity 📚💙
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Read and preorder some indie fantasy this autumn. Book blurbs below 👇

There’s still time to get a discount!

‼️ ONLY 15 SLOTS GET IN QUICK TMR MORNING 👀 #WritingCommunity #amquerying #amwriting

Make writer friends, read each other's works and be critique partners for each other. Besides that, read books in your genre and analyze them, read craft books, self edit and infinitum. Also, you don't have to get a perfect book to your betas. It just needs to be good enough by your standards

To add: alphas and CPs are ppl I say "this is half baked, something isn't right with XYZ but I'm stumped, maybe you can have a look and we can bounce ideas?" Betas are "this is the completed and polished ms, let me know of your overall thoughts"

I typically give my betas a version of the manuscript that's as close to being final as possible. If it's literally a work in progress or an earlier rough draft, the ppl reading it are alpha readers or critique partners, and I let them know ahead of time the role they have and the state of the ms.

Love this one SO SO much 😍 so much emotion omg 🔥🔥🔥 fingers crossed the book sees the light of day in the future!

baaaaaawwwww 🥹❤️🫂

Went to Scriptus, the Toronto pen show, today, and absolutely SPLURGED. Scored myself a Nahvalur Eclipse and a seY Studio maki-e winter sparrow. I have officially achieved grail pen status! So much for no-buy 2025 lol

Must-Have Monday #259 - Every Book a Doorway Psychopomps, sacred sunflowers, and Desi mermaids!

This Must-Have Monday we have TWENTY-FIVE new books to ft, incl

🚀 paired scifi novellas from @maryrobinettekowal.com and @sentencebender.bsky.social!
💀 psychopomps with @edenroyce.bsky.social!
🩸 blood-magic and family politics by @millieabecassis.com!

The Revenant of Surolifia, by Florence Chien, comes out on July 7, 2026. Add on Goodreads now at www.revenant.one

Goodreads page here! 👇
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For fands of Death Note, Andor, Carnival Row, Les Miserables, and The Phantom of the Opera

Spycraft via art scams and bank fraud, breakneck pacing, every protagonist is also an antagonist, standalone and fully concluded ending

Featuring a magic system inspired by Nolan's Inception and opulent neoclassical and belle epoche aesthetics