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freydís moon

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Direct Contact:
[email protected]


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 VengeanceKindle 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 20:3eBook & 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 KingseBook & 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, HavocKindle 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, WitchKindle Unlimited, eBook, Paperback (novella 38k: sexual content, murder, gore, animal mutilation, drowning, body horror)

  • Saint, Sorrow, SinnerKindle 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

Poetry

Editorial

#1 Bestseller
LGBTQ Horror


Guest appearances

  • Rose City Comic Con

  • The Sisters Festival of Books

  • Direbrook