🎉COVER REVEAL for OTHERWORLDLY🎉
My 2024 Queer YA Paranormal Fantasy
A skeptic & a supernatural being make a crossroads deal to achieve their own ends only to get more than they bargained for in this lively YA romantic adventure.
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✨SO THIS IS EVER AFTER✨ Coming 3/29/22!
Cover reveal on Riveted
Thank you so much to artist Sam Schechter & designer Becca Syracuse
Pre-order Links:
IB: indiebound.org/book/978153449
A: amazon.com/dp/1534496866/
BN: barnesandnoble.com/w/so-this-is-e
So your favorite franchise isn't making a character queer? No worries. Here is a list of SFF books that do have queer characters. I'm sure you'll find something in this list to enjoy!
🎉COVER REVEAL for SPELL BOUND🎉
4/4/23
Once again & have created a vibrant, amazing, wonderful cover! Thank you so much! I'm continually awed by the covers they create for my books. And thanks to !
It's SPELL BOUND day!
If you like:
- queer books
- humor
- cozy romantasy
- Sunshine/Grump dynamics
- morally gray mentors
- & cursed welcome mats
Then this is the book!
Arcs on my doorstep today. 😍 Aren't they gorgeous? I'm really the luckiest person alive when it comes to cover art. Seriously. Can't thank and enough!
SO THIS IS EVER AFTER is out now! It's a love letter to all my favorite things:
🎇 romcom tropes
🎇 fantasy
🎇 questing groups w/ D&D vibes
🎇 moat monsters
Purchase HERE:
malaprops.com/book/978153449
barnesandnoble.com/w/so-this-is-e
mystgalaxy.com/book/978153449
amazon.com/This-Ever-Afte
🎉SO THIS IS EVER AFTER is out today!!🎉
If you enjoy:
🎇 romance tropes
🎇 fantasy tropes
🎇 bottle episodes
🎇 RPGs
🎇 questing groups of characters w/ wildly different personalities
Then STIEA is for you! It's a love letter to everything I adore.
malaprops.com/book/978153449
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✨DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT!✨
Spell Bound is coming for Spring 2023!
This book has:
- Rivals to lovers
- A sunshine/grump dynamic
- Magic
- A cursed welcome mat with a penchant for tripping people
- A found magic family
- And a lot of puns
Can't wait to share it w/you!
❤🧡💛💚💙💜
I can't believe it's already been a month since release day for both SO THIS IS EVER AFTER and the paperback of IN DEEPER WATERS!
I've struggled to write this tweet since Saturday & I still don't know how or even if I should.
But my mom passed away on Saturday.
I've been holding together pretty well until today. Her obit went live (that my brother & I wrote) & I'm a mess of a lot of conflicting emotions.
"Two rival apprentice sorcerers must team up to save their teachers & protect their own magic in this lively young adult romantic adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of In Deeper Waters & So This Is Ever After."
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I’m so excited @simonteen has finally revealed @sam_schechter and @BookDesignBee’s lastest masterpiece for @ftlukens’ forthcoming 2023 YA fantasy SPELL BOUND. Look at how gorgeous it is…
Hey friends - I have some news. 🎉A deal announcement! 🎉 Thanks so much to my amazing agent and I'm so exited to be working with on two more books! FUN FACT: I drafted The Future Tense before Wednesday aired. 😂
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SPELL BOUND is a NYT Bestseller and an Indie Bestseller. Thanks to so many people for their support of this book! ❤️
Just a reminder while we all impatiently wait for OTHERWORLDLY to release in Spring 2024- I have three other books with beautiful covers and fun queer stories!
SPELL BOUND - contemporary fantasy
SO THIS IS EVER AFTER - fantasy romcom
IN DEEPER WATERS - fairy tale fantasy
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COVER REVEAL for OTHERWORLDLY
My 2024 Queer YA Paranormal Fantasy
A skeptic & a supernatural being make a crossroads deal to achieve their own ends only to get more than they bargained for in this lively YA romantic adventure.
Art by @sam_schechter
Design by @BookDesignBeeWow. Just realized it's been 7 months as of today that IN DEEPER WATERS was released. 🤯
So it's a great time to remind folks that it exists. 😁
If it's cold where you are and you're missing summer and the beach, then it's the perfect escape. 🤴🧜♂️🌈🌊
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SO THIS IS EVER AFTER comes out this month! 😱🤯 Kirkus called it "the love child of a late-night D&D session gone awry and a romantic drama" 😂 And they are not wrong.😉 There is still time to order a signed copy from - malaprops.com/book/978153449
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I crocheted these bees recently and knew they needed a photo shoot and had the perfect book to do it with.
Spell Bound releases in two weeks & I've never been this nervous about a release before.
There are many factors but the biggest is that SB is very personal in regards to themes & characters.
I also am going on a tour & am traveling. Which is terrifying.
ICYMI: Yesterday, the cover for my 2024 release OTHERWORLDLY was revealed!
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COVER REVEAL for OTHERWORLDLY
My 2024 Queer YA Paranormal Fantasy
A skeptic & a supernatural being make a crossroads deal to achieve their own ends only to get more than they bargained for in this lively YA romantic adventure.
Art by @sam_schechter
Design by @BookDesignBee who is extremely talented and who has made the most beautiful artwork for my last two books and who brings the characters to life in a way that always takes my breath away
I mean, JUST LOOK at these!
Hi! It's my birthday! Which means it's #giveaway time!
1) RT & comment with a '22 release you're excited about for a chance to win an ARC of SO THIS IS EVER AFTER for US folks
2) RT & comment for a chance to win a '22 release through book depository for Int'l
Ends 11:59pm 1/16
I know folks post their Wordles on here all the time so I figured I'd post mine. 😁
Look at this amazing animated book cover for SO THIS IS EVER AFTER 😍 A reminder that signed pre-orders are available at bookstore! And pre-orders make great gifts!
malaprops.com/book/978153449
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I just saw a shirt that said "I'm not procrastinating, I'm doing side quests." and honestly, I must own it.
I love how IN DEEPER WATERS, A CLASH OF STEEL by , and THE MERMAID, THE WITCH and THE SEA by are often given as recommendations for folks who loved Our Flag Means Death. 🏴☠️☠️
I saw this pattern on Tiktok and knew I had to make one. Behold the giant jellyfish! It's massive. I love it. But I don't know what to do with it other than pose it with IN DEEPER WATERS and SO THIS IS EVER AFTER. 😂
Since we're still here for a moment - just a reminder that SPELL BOUND is coming APRIL 4th 2023 & there is a B&N Special Edition with really cool extra content that I had so much fun developing.
barnesandnoble.com/w/spell-bound-
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I'm absolutely in love w/the character designs & that all 6 of the mains are featured.
SO THIS IS EVER AFTER is about a chaotic group of questors who find themselves at a loss when the quest ends & they are suddenly in charge of running a kingdom. It's a romcom in a castle.
!!! Giveaway !!!
RT, Follow, & comment w/ '22 release you're excited about for a chance to WIN an ARC of IDW & either shark's tooth necklace, crocheted jellyfish, or crocheted bb octo. Tag a friend for xtra entry. USA for ARC/items. Int'l can receive signed bookplate. Ends 8/25
That moment when your nephew texts you to tell you he and his boyfriend are going to cosplay the characters from your book at DragonCon.
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More advanced praise for SO THIS IS EVER AFTER! I love this quote so much. It perfectly encapsulates the whole vibe of the book. 🥰
Lego ship in a bottle! Look how cool it is... next to that stack of books. 😉
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IN DEEPER WATERS
If you enjoy:
- a cinnamon roll character just trying to do his best
- a mysterious love interest
- sibling relationships
- pirates!
- MAGIC!
- romance!
Then this book is for you!
bookshop.org/books/in-deepe
amazon.com/Deeper-Waters-
malaprops.com/book/978153448
Hey friends, something is being REVEALED TOMORROW. I wonder what it could be????
UPDATE: MONDAY is a reveal of a thing that is cover-shaped for my next release OTHERWORLDLY. so like, watch this space. 😉
*stares at first draft*
Me: I don't like you and you don't like me. but we're in this together. And for some reason you won't finish writing yourself so I guess it's up to me.
#amwriting
SO THIS IS EVER AFTER is nominated for a #GoodreadsChoice award in BEST YA FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION! I'm absolutely floored! If you would like to see it in the finals, please vote! goodreads.com/choiceawards/b
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I never know how to answer the "next project" question.
Do you mean the book coming out next? The one I'm supposed to be working on? Or the one living rent free in my head that I shouldn't be thinking about but has consumed my every waking moment?
🎉ANNOUNCEMENT TIME! 🎉Guess what book has a sequel? If you guessed the award-winning Rules and Regs you would be correct! Coming in October - MONSTER OF THE WEEK
I can't wait to celebrate the launch of SPELL BOUND with on Saturday 4/1 at the Union Square B&N in NYC!!! Only a week away! But still time to sign up here:
eventbrite.com/e/ft-lukens-na
Please RT and share!
I am not a fan of purchase minimums for free shipping when online shopping.
In other news, I have bought $75 worth of yarn.
I received a copy of the UK edition of SPELL BOUND yesterday, so I have all the current printed editions! Aren't they gorgeous?
Pictured: regular edition, B&N special edition, Fae Crate edition, the arc, UK edition.
Also available as ebook and glorious audio.
Because I'm ridiculous - book pics with newest amigurumi.
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Hey all, if you're at #NYCC2022 today, is doing an ARC DROP of SPELL BOUND at 2pm!
rivetedlit.com/2022/09/30/eve
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I have one! SPELL BOUND, a YA contemporary fantasy, comes out 4/4/23. "Two rival apprentice sorcerers must team up to save their teachers and protect their own magic in this lively young adult romantic adventure."
In store - I bought:
This is Why They Hate Us by
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by
The Weight of Blood by
The Sunbearer Trials by
Hell Followed With Us by
and then followed up with four more books online
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I bought so many books today.
Happy Pre-Order season! 25% OFF at B&N through 1/27. This includes both the B&N special edition of SPELL BOUND and the regular edition. Also the SO THIS IS EVER AFTER paperback. Use the code PREORDER25 at checkout.
barnesandnoble.com/w/spell-bound-
barnesandnoble.com/w/so-this-is-e
I have finished and turned in edits for SO THIS IS EVER AFTER. Now to get back to working on SPELL BOUND. Am a little behind thanks to being sick this week but am hopefully on the upside of this.
Picked this up today at the bookstore. Can't wait to dive in!
This axolotl turned out super cute but omg it took forever. I don't think I'll be making this pattern again.
That was probably one of the hardest fought "The Ends" I've written yet.
But yay! The END!
Proof you are a fandom old - you understand this meme 😉😂
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Happy four month anniversary to SO THIS IS EVER AFTER! ❤️ I can't believe it's already been four months! but also can't believe it's only been four months. 😂
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SO THIS IS EVER AFTER is out now! It's a love letter to all my favorite things:
romcom tropes
fantasy
questing groups w/ D&D vibes
moat monsters
Purchase HERE:
malaprops.com/book/978153449
barnesandnoble.com/w/so-this-is-e
mystgalaxy.com/book/978153449
amazon.com/This-Ever-Afte
romcom tropes
fantasy
questing groups w/ D&D vibes
moat monsters
Purchase HERE:
malaprops.com/book/978153449
barnesandnoble.com/w/so-this-is-e
mystgalaxy.com/book/978153449
amazon.com/This-Ever-AfteSO THIS IS HAPPENING - a launch event for SPELL BOUND! in NYC!
eventbrite.com/e/ft-lukens-na
The virtual event I had with for STIEA was so fun, I can't wait until we're in person together!
Thanks to everyone who made SO THIS IS EVER AFTER's release day yesterday so wonderful! Special thanks to and for our fun virtual event last night!
Full disclosure - I cried writing this. I cried editing this. I am unable to read it again (especially right now since I'm sitting in an airport.) But if you want to know how I've been doing since January, feel free to read.
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SPELL BOUND and Processing Grief, a guest post by F. T. Lukens
Grief is weird. It’s hard. It’s a process.
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In cased you missed it - last night The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic won an award! The IBPA Benjamin Franklin award for Teen Fiction. I'm honored that my little book with a bisexual teen and an angry unicorn was recognized. :) :) :)
I was just minding my own business, stumbled upon this post, and now I have a giant plot bunny.
It's very difficult to work a full time job and be a parent and then sit down and try to be creative at the end of the day when you're just so tired.
Releases in exactly one month!
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It’s been a weird week so I was thrilled to dive back into this story. @ftlukens’ books bring me joy! High stakes magic & adventure. Snarky protagonists. An adorably awkward love story. There is so much to love about Spell Bound! This YA novel releases in April. Watch for it!
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Oh, and the back cover!!!
Yes, the cat is IMPORTANT. 😉
I realize STIEA just came out less than two months ago and most of you are still just meeting the group of chaos children in that book. But I'm working on edits for Spell Bound and I really can't wait for you to meet these characters too. #amediting
Announcing again! Spell Bound coming Spring 2023! 😁🥳🤯
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Announcing new deals for @jadeadiathenerd, @ftlukens, @ream_shukairy, @StevenSSWrites + more pwne.ws/3jMQvTX
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I could keep going but I have a manuscript due in a few hours & I haven't eaten dinner. But THERE ARE A TON OF QUEER BOOKS AND QUEER CREATORS OUT THERE who you can support. Here's a great list to check out - lgbtqreads.com/sff/
And follow and for recs
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So I was pretty candid in an event I did recently about how writing has been super difficult & how I've struggled with it over the pandemic. But I'm pleased to say that I've written 10k in 4 days and I'm very excited about the project I'm working on. #amwriting
If you enjoyed IN DEEPER WATERS or just enjoyed staring at the cover (cover lust category!) then please consider nominating it in the Book Shimmy Awards. 😁
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Calling all book nerds, readers, and YA enthusiasts 
This year's *Book Shimmy* Awards are finally upon us! 
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This year's *Book Shimmy* Awards are finally upon us!
epicreads.com/bookshimmyawarWe've all heard about the supply chain problem & how IMPORTANT pre-orders are right now so here is a list of books I'm excited for (& will pre-order!)
IF THIS GETS OUT by &
IRON WIDOW by
RIGHT WHERE I LEFT YOU by
IN DEEPER WATERS ebook is on sale today! only $2.99!
An adventure on the high seas with magic, mischief, and a merman is a fantastic way to close out 2022. Or a great way to start your TBR for 2023!
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Ebook deal alert!!! You can get the ebook of #InDeeperWaters by @ftlukens for just $2.99, today only! spr.ly/60163zM2E
Y'all @kevinrfree's reading of SO THIS IS EVER AFTER is perfection. It's absolutely wonderful. I just listened to the whole thing & was utterly enraptured the entire time. Many many thanks to Kevin for sharing his talent & for bringing Arek & the others to life. ❤️
ICYMI - cover reveal for Spell Bound yesterday!
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COVER REVEAL for SPELL BOUND
4/4/23
Once again @sam_schechter & @BookDesignBee have created a vibrant, amazing, wonderful cover! Thank you so much! I'm continually awed by the covers they create for my books. And thanks to @simonteen!When your best friend and beta reader sends you an email that says "Noooooooooooooooo"
You know you've done good work.
I feel personally attacked right now.
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Writers must first and foremost procrastinate, moan, do laundry, complain about not having enough time to write, and occasionally write.
🎉It's B&N 25% off sale time🎉
🪄SPELL BOUND 4/4/23🪄
Pre-order if you are a fan of:
- magic!
- haunted houses!
- puns!
- found magical families!
- queer romance!
- contemporary fantasy!
barnesandnoble.com/w/spell-bound-
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Two rival apprentice sorcerers must team up to save their teachers & protect their own magic in this lively young adult romantic adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of In Deeper Waters & So This Is Ever After.
Featuring:
🎇 Rivals to romance
🎇 NB MC
🎇 Magic
I'll be here until it fails. I do have an Instagram - same name. And if I join any other places I'll be sure to let everyone know somehow.
Tomorrow SO THIS IS EVER AFTER releases and I cannot wait for everyone to meet my chaotic found family of questors!
One day I'll do a whole long twitter thread about some stuff but for now, I'll just say that I'm just really really appreciative. 💛🤍💜🖤
I can't decide if this is more Sun and Rook energy from SPELL BOUND.
Or Matt and Arek from SO THIS IS EVER AFTER. 🤔
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