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A faint floral decoration under the text. A fairy-themed authorial representation. He has long brown hair, rosy glasses, a puffy white shirt, dark pants tucked into fantasy-style boots, a longcoat that matches the pinkish background of the site, and a flower tucked behind one pointy ear. There are no features on her face except for the glasses. He sits on a floating array of roses, holding an open book in his hand. A fairy-themed authorial representation. He has long brown hair, rosy glasses, a puffy white shirt, dark pants tucked into fantasy-style boots, a longcoat that matches the pinkish background of the site, and a flower tucked behind one pointy ear. There are no features on her face except for the glasses. He sits on a floating array of roses, holding an open book in his hand.

Welcome to Our Novelry!

Hello, hello. We’re Gail, a queer little author and book designer who moved to Neocities in the summer of 2023. While we used to have a website through WordPress, we decided that we’d rather have a domain that gives us more control over our content and presentation. Making a usable website from scratch has been a fun way to test the limits of our CSS and design skills; over time, we plan to add all sorts of fun goodies here. Expect a lot of pages about our stories and some book design shenanigans.


Recent Additions: July 4th, 2024:

Lately, we've been working on lots of small quality-of-life changes for the site, amid the usual release day minutinae. We might overhaul the Our Stories and Home pages a little. Recent additions to the site include:

  • Breathing Gods is out and its main page is complete!
  • Improved mobile appearance for book pages, like Mindhive.
  • Adding a page for The Fatal Dragonnapping of Princess Magnolia. Like Solarboys, it's a work in progress.
  • Added some new covers and appearance stuff for the Design Showcase!

We're hopefully going to get around to our Sigil guide and some additional artwork soon. In the meanwhile, enjoy our other stuff, and thanks for visiting!


Let the publishing of queer little stories commence!


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The site mascot, siting on the Scribus logo. 🙥  Book Design  🙧

We’re currently in the process of crafting some scrappy little guides for book design. More specifically, we're laying out ways to create ebooks for free. We’re going have opinions on glyphs and to teach you how to use freeware like Sigil & Scribus to make ebooks with your own two hands! The EPUB guide will probably happen quicker, but the PDF guide may be more thorough.

Making eBooks: An Overview (In Progress)

How To Make PDFs In Scribus (In Progress)

How To Make EPUBs In Sigil (In Progress)

Making eBooks: A Guide To Fonts




The site mascot sits surrounded by books and butterflies. When the mouse hovers over this image, he blushes good-naturedly as a little hand comes down to pat him. 🙥  Artistry  🙧

It might be obvious from the highly-customized website, but we also do dabble in digital art every now-and-again. Feel free to browse our little galleries while you’re here. We might put up some free-to-use assets later.

Design Showcase

Heralds of Rhimn Artwork

The site mascot, sitting on blackletter uppercase and lowercase 'a's. When the mouse hovers over him, he produces a pen in a flourish of sparkles. 🙥  Writing & Self Pub  🙧

And here is where we’ll chat about writing, the editing process, and publishing. A lot of it is just gentle advice for getting unstuck, thoughts on worldbuilding, or ways to vary your sentence structure so that you don’t get stuck with basic meh text. Nothing too advanced.

Having trouble writing in general? Long-term writer’s block is often rooted in higher needs going unmet. Consider walking yourself through this self-care guide and see if that helps.

The publishing talk will specifically be about self-publishing, because that’s what we know. This isn’t an instant guide to megamillions success; it’s just a place where we explain practicalities like “here’s what an ISBN is” and “for the love of the gods don’t buy into these dumb publishing myths.”




The site mascot sits surrounded by books and butterflies. When the mouse hovers over this image, he blushes good-naturedly as a little hand comes down to pat him. 🙥  Our Stories  🙧

We do a lot of writing. When we get this page fixed up a little more, here is where links to some of our ongoing projects will go! You can also check some of these out through the ‘Our Stories’ link in the navbar, and through various other links sprinkled around the site.

Heralds of Rhimn — Sapphic dark fantasy.

Mindhive — Technocapitalist dystopia.