Voices I Read
Writers from Elle Abbott’s Fantasy Romance Writers Discord and adjacent. Some I know well; all I am glad to point you toward.
Mythic Fantasy Romance
Worldbuilding, lore, and the story behind The Warden. Elle runs the Fantasy Romance Writers community on Discord and treats her own craft with the same seriousness — building a mythic-romance series in public, beat by beat.
Visit on Substack →Dark Romance
Dark romance, vampire secrets, dangerous love. B.A. Ricker is documenting her road to publication along with the stories that refuse to stay in the dark. New voice, worth following early.
Visit on Substack →Fiction in the Open
The writer who got tired of reading novels and thinking “no, that’s not how it should go,” and started writing his own instead. Here to learn, share, and connect — and he means it.
Visit on Substack →Urban Fantasy
Urban fantasy writer building her debut novel in public. Reader, artist, graphic designer. One of the easier-to-recommend Substacks to land on if you want to follow a debut from the inside.
Visit on Substack →Dark Romantasy
Dark romantasy, slow-burn reverse harem, characters who live in the grey where loyalty, desire, and betrayal collide. A world of dangerous creatures, twisted bonds, and love that always comes at a cost.
Visit on Substack →Memoir & Craft
Cassondra writes about telling stories from both her life and her imagination — healing and recovery, the road to publication, and when to cut your losses and move on. Honest at a register most writers won’t reach for.
Visit on Substack →Folklore & Craft
A magical journey through Germany — hidden creatures, urban legends, writing life, and the slow creation of stories that come from the heart. Regional folk-magic of the kind more writers ought to be paying attention to.
Visit on Substack →Fantasy, SF, Historical
Fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction — novelettes, short fiction, and serialized novels, written plainly, without filler, and with just enough longing to stay with you. The writer who believes craft is doing more with less.
Visit on Substack →Speculative Fiction
Historian of a world that isn’t yet, chronicling the failure and collapse of an unexpected golden age to come. Sci-fi, mystery, romance, death, in steady output. Future-historiography you can subscribe to.
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