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Direct Contact:
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bio:
Freydís is an internationally bestselling author, editor, and diviner, writing love stories in the fantasy, horror, and speculative categories. They’ve appeared in several outlets, including Strange Horizons and The Deadlands, and are a double Pushcart Prize Nominee. Recently, they launched a mentorship service for aspiring authors. They are honored to be the recipient of multiple Queer Indie Awards, Indie Ink Awards, and literary achievements under various successful pen names.
Freydís is currently closed to blurb requests for short story collections, novellas, novelettes, and novels. Please query through email. They read Gothic, Romance, Erotica, and Horror designed exclusively for the Adult market.
Indie Booksellers: Freydís offers wholesale prices (upwards of 40% off) of their paperback books for brick and mortar bookstores. Please reach out via the contact listed at the top of this page. Signed or unsigned.
Novels
With A Vengeance—Kindle Unlimited & Paperback (novel 60k: consensual explicit content, dubious consent, deadnaming, body horror, dysphoria, religious eroticism, psychosis, depressive episodes, suicide ideation, racism, police brutality)
Queer Indie Award Winner
Best Erotica 2022
The Ascendants (Fall '25)—Kindle Unlimited & Paperback (novel 90k: explicit content, deadnaming, body horror, dysphoria, religious eroticism, cannibalism, depressive episodes, murder and gore, suicide ideation)
Novelettes / Novellas
Exodus 20:3—eBook & Paperback (novelette 18.7k: explicit sexual content, off-page transphobia, mention of dug use, off-page police brutality)
Indie Ink Award Winner
Best Latine Representation '22
Best LGBTQ+ Representation '22
Most Optimistic Book of '22
Happy Marriages, Petty Temptations and Angel Sex The New York Times
Three Kings—eBook & Paperback (novelette 40k: explicit sexual content, off-page transphobia, sex pollen, themes surrounding infertility, early-stage pregnancy)
Astaroth (1.7.2025)—eBook & Paperback (novella 30k: explicit sexual content, complex ptsd, mention of abuse)
The Gideon Testaments
Heart, Haunt, Havoc—Kindle Unlimited, eBook, Audiobook Paperback (novella 35k: sexual content, murder, gore, themes surrounding racism, military industrial complex, body horror)
Selected as a New York Times best romance book of 2023
Four Thrilling New Romance Novels: The New York Times
Queer Indie Award Winner
Best Horror 2023
Wolf, Willow, Witch—Kindle Unlimited, eBook, Paperback (novella 38k: sexual content, murder, gore, animal mutilation, drowning, body horror)
Saint, Sorrow, Sinner—Kindle Unlimited, eBook, Paperback(novella 40k: sexual content, animal death, body horror, jumpscares, gore, religious abuse, familial abuse, death by drowning, mention of rape)
Short Fiction
The Angel at Harvest Church—Medium (explicit sexual content, mention of snakes/snakebites, off-page transphobia) : Pushcart Prize Nominee REPRINT—HELL IS REAL Anthology REPRINT—Devout: An Anthology of Angels Queer Indie Award Winner Best Anthology
Mage-Born—Stone of Madness Press Issue 12 : REPRINT—Otherworlds: Vol. 4
I Had Never Been A Candle—The Deadlands (themes of death, postmortem, grief)
Poetry
forbidden fruit—LUPERCALIApress: Vulcanalia '21 (references to sexual acts, light body horror)
Named Things—Strange Horizons
Pandora Moth—Ghost Orchid Press: Chlorophobia (references to body horror, animal death)
mary magdalene—Gutslut Press: Bonemilk (references to body horror, sexual content) : Pushcart Prize Nominee
molten calf—warning lines: Issue 03 FALL'N CHERUB (references to sexuality)
garden party—panorame press: The Summer Gothic Anthology (references to sexuality)
halfway to heaven—Devout: An Anthology of Angels
Editorial
Sprectrum: An Autistic Horror Anthology—Third Estate Books
#1 Bestseller
LGBTQ Horror
Guest appearances
Rose City Comic Con
The Sisters Festival of Books
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