A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
2026 basically
You know, I just keep blanking on what to post on Bluesky, and it has been *months*. So, to push on through, how about this:
I blogged today! It's a mid-month sort of catch-up post, and it's right here:
isabelmurrayauthor.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/m...
#mmromance #booksky
😆❤️ Thank you!!
Yay! So glad you enjoyed it! 😆❤️
It's release day for my MM merman romcom, Catch of a Lifetime. Dave and Joe are back! (Jerry is also there.)
Expect some hurt/comfort, helpless yearning, a pinch of drama, a surprise octopus, a lot of fish, and a love that was meant to be.
#mmromance #booksky 📚💙
books2read.com/u/mYvvpo
October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy - Angela Carter
The weekend is almost upon us, prepare the books and blankets! - Michael
Glad you enjoyed spending more time with these two! 😁❤️
Thank you for the lovely review! 😁❤️
It really *was* the best Sunday! 😆 Nothing beats getting cosy with a book. And thank you—glad you’re looking forward to the release! 😁❤️
Thank you, Ellie! 😁 And it was *so* nice, seriously. I always find it’s so much easier to relax and read when it’s raining!
I’m also further along with this line edit than I thought! I’ll finish the draft today…and then go back to the beginning for another one. 😆 I’ve done all the major rewriting by now, though, so the next one should be a lot smoother. 🤞
#amwriting #mmromance
Absolute peak Sunday yesterday—I had the whole day to myself, it was raining and grey outside so I got to put on fairy lights and make a cup of hot chocolate, and I sat watching the rain with a quilt around my shoulders and my Kindle good to go.
😁 so glad you enjoyed it!! ❤️
Spider Man and Sauron meme YOU HAVE FULL CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE! YOU COULD USE IT TO ADVANCE THE PLOT! vs BUT I DON'T WANT TO ADVANCE THE PLOT. I WANT THE CHARACTERS TO FUCK I am on Sauron’s side obvs
Every now and then it's nice to pick your head up from your book, reacquaint yourself with the world, take a hard pass and immediately go right back to reading. Balance is important.
Lads the HONK I just honked
I can't keep away from these guys, it seems. This makes short number three! 😆 And yay, I'm *so* glad you enjoyed The Naiad's Lover. Thanks for reading! 😁❤️
Well well, I blogged again, once again surprising myself, and possibly also the people who subscribed to the website a couple of years ago and are now wondering what's going on with me that I'm all up in their inbox for the FOURTH time this month.
isabelmurrayauthor.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/f...
I’m making the most of working outside before the sun hits my patio full on and I run screaming for the shade. That’ll happen in about 10 mins, by my guess. Juuuust enough time to repost this. (Because I *still* keep forgetting to use tags. 🤣)
#mmromance #booksky
I also wrote a blog about it on my website, where you can *very conveniently* have a look at the other books in the Immortal Bonds series. You know. In case you haven't read them yet.
😆
Release day for my fantasy romance novella, The Naiad’s Lover! Here’s the trope thingy:
❤️ mortal 4 immortal
❤️ age gap (thousands of years)
❤️ size difference (👀)
❤️ hurt/comfort
❤️ hissy fit
And here are some links:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZ83M2PS
books2read.com/u/bMMnZa
😆❤️
If I stay on track, I'll get it done next week. Then it will be back to the final couple of proofreads of The Naiad's Lover!
The Catch and Release novella is the one I'm most excited about right now, mostly because it's the one I'm still writing and I can't wait to find out how it ends. Which will be happening very soon, as I wrote the big climactic (😆) scene this morning, and just need to wrap things up.
Friday miniblog: it's all about novellas today!
The First Dates and Birthday Cakes sale (US/CA) ends on 30th June, The Naiad's Lover will be out in a couple of weeks (😱), and I've almost finished the first draft of a novella sequel to my merman romance, Catch and Release.
#mmromance #booksky
I have a book on sale!
First Dates and Birthday Cakes is a romcom novella about a man who turns 40, loses his cool (and his phone), and finds his happily ever after.
(And his phone.)
It's a #Kindle Monthly Deal on Amazon US and CA for the month of June.
#mmromance #romcom #booksky
![The text above the image reads: Ever since I learned the word for a group of raccoons is a gaze, scenes from English literature take on whole new meanings. [laughing-emoji]
Within the image, there are four different scenes corresponding to different literary quotes. Number 1: "Your gaze is very direct, Miss Eyre" from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. In the picture, Jane Eyre is accompanied by a group of raccoons, one of whom has just said to Mr. Rochester, "We want food!" Number 2: "She returned his gaze" from Ian McEwan's Atonement shows a woman carrying a box full of raccoons back to her reluctant ex-boyfriend. Number 3: "His gaze was direct, holding my eyes" from Diana Gabaldon's Outlander shows a clustered group of racoons physically holding open a shocked woman's eyelids. And number 4: "That somber, thoughtful gaze of his did not leave her face. She did not find it embarrassing" from Agatha Christie's Towards Zero shows a woman on a sun-lounger with her face entirely covered by a swarm of raccoons.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rmjconpldkourhtggdcnweqf/bafkreicywseulbd5mze5cveupuljh3cqyga2556ijxkvvurbhvktma752y@jpeg)
The text above the image reads: Ever since I learned the word for a group of raccoons is a gaze, scenes from English literature take on whole new meanings. [laughing-emoji] Within the image, there are four different scenes corresponding to different literary quotes. Number 1: "Your gaze is very direct, Miss Eyre" from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. In the picture, Jane Eyre is accompanied by a group of raccoons, one of whom has just said to Mr. Rochester, "We want food!" Number 2: "She returned his gaze" from Ian McEwan's Atonement shows a woman carrying a box full of raccoons back to her reluctant ex-boyfriend. Number 3: "His gaze was direct, holding my eyes" from Diana Gabaldon's Outlander shows a clustered group of racoons physically holding open a shocked woman's eyelids. And number 4: "That somber, thoughtful gaze of his did not leave her face. She did not find it embarrassing" from Agatha Christie's Towards Zero shows a woman on a sun-lounger with her face entirely covered by a swarm of raccoons.
Fabulousness from @raprevec.bsky.social. ;)
Every couple of pages, I change the font colour. I'm currently cycling between orange and green, and am keeping myself just jangled enough that I can’t start coasting.
It couldn't be more different from how I write, and you know what? It's kind of fun. 📚💙
