Millie Abecassis

@millieabecassis

Author of SFFH · French & American · THE COLOR OF TIME out now at @shirakipress.com · Rep: @ajvanbelle.bsky.social · 📍 California 🌐 millieabecassis.com/link-in-bio 🌊 @smallpitch.org Founder 🏆 @specawards.bsky.social Co-Founder

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Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· 9d

1 like = 1 answer I'm on vacation in the middle of the Pacific so I'll answer whenever I'm not dying of the humid heat.

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Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· 13d

I'm super excited to share my schedule for @laworldcon.bsky.social 🎉 It will be my first Worldcon ever. #LAConV #Worldcon2026 #Worldcon #BookSky

I'm super excited to share my schedule for LACon V 🎉 It will be my first World Con ever.

I will attend the convention from Thursday to Sunday, and am scheduled for the following events:

• The Bi Standard: Respecting Bisexual Identity in Storytelling (panelist)
Thursday, August 27, 2026, 6:00 PM PDT

Bisexual identity in media is too often erased or misrepresented. Explore how bisexual representation is portrayed in storytelling, why authentic imagery matters, and how creators can move beyond stereotypes to depict bisexual characters with nuance and respect.

• Women and Nonbinary Folks in Historical Fantasy (panelist)
Friday, August 28, 2026, 9:00 AM PDT

Women and other marginalized genders are part of historical fantasies, but how have they changed over time? What books and shows showcase historical these folks realistically?

• Book Launch: Shiraki Press
Friday, August 28, 2026, 7:30 PM PDT

Shiraki Press invites you to join them at a book launch for author Ian Patterson, with several other Shiraki Press authors.

• Global Voices in an English-Language Market (round table moderator)
Saturday, August 29, 2026, 4:30 PM PDT

What does it mean to write speculative fiction in English while coming from a non-Anglophone country? How do geography, culture, and language shape the futures we imagine? This panel invites writers, especially those writing in English as a second language, to discuss the unique opportunities and constraints of working from outside the UK/US market.

Register at https://lacon.org/

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Jul 13

JANE EYRE x STARLING HOUSE 🌹 Historical fantasy 🇫🇷 France, Belle Époque 🩸 Body-based magic system 🗡️ Family feuds 🗝️ Gothic vibes A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE offers a unique magic system and swooning sapphic romance. Available in ebook and audiobook 🎧 #BluePit #📖 #P #A #F #HS #LGBT

Cover of the audiobook version of A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE by Millie Abecassis, showing the silhouette of a woman over a red and gold background.

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Jul 13

OUT NOW at @shirakipress.com, DONKEY SKIN meets DUNE in 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘾𝙊𝙇𝙊𝙍 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙄𝙈𝙀, a short novel featuring: ✨ Fairytale retelling 💜 Sapphic romance 💫 Space opera 💚 Hopepunk 🖋 Unique storytelling "A tour de force that pulses with political intrigue." — Jason Denzel #BluePit #📖 #P #A #F #SF #LGBT

Front cover of The Color of Time. Cover art by Alyssa Winans.

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· May 19

TODAY! My novel THE COLOR OF TIME is now available everywhere good books are sold 🥳

A visual showing the book The Color of Time with labels reading: science fantasy, fairytale retelling, dune-inspired, hopepunk, space opera, and sapphic romance. Under the book is the text "releasing 5.19.26, preorder today."

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· May 18

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Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· May 12

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Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Apr 18

Can't wait for Franchaela in Bridgerton's fifth season? While you wait, shall I suggest my sapphic historical fantasy filled with family drama, dangerous magic, and so much yearning? 🌹 1908, Belle Époque, France 🔥 Slow-burn sapphic romance 🗝️ Cozy *and* Gothic #PosterPit #P #A #F #HF #LGBT

A poster, featuring an illustrated portrait of Aubeline de Sterraux from A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE. She is a white woman with brown hair tied in an intricate hairstyle. She wears a black dress with puffed sleeves and white earings. Aubeline is shown kneeling and praying, her head looking up. The top of the poster is colored, and the bottom part is black and white, the two part being separated by a red stain reminiscent of blood. The title of the book is in the center. Underneath is more text reading "A novel by Millie Abecassis," then a quote by April Yates reading "A gothic gem, rich with dread, desire, and a magic system as haunting as it is original." Under the quote are the names of several characters, listed as if they were actors: Aubeline de Sterraux, Vinnie Anneton, Damarisse de Sterraux, and "unhinged dudes." At the top are Cannes festival-style quotes reading "dangerous body-based magic" and "slow-burn sapphic romance."

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Apr 18

🩸 WELCOME TO SANCTUARY 🩸 Chased by a jealous superior who wants her dead, Seer Éliane finds refuge in Lady of Clairemont's mysterious house, Sanctuary, among 6 women living as sisters. When the sisters begin to disappear, Éliane must find the truth before she disappears too. #PosterPit #P #A #F #H

A poster with an illustration of Eliane, the protagonist of The Seventh Sister, looking up while kneeling. She has light brown skin, long brown hair tied in a braid, and golden eyes. She wears a green dress. The yellow and orange background represents the sun.

Text on the poster reads as follows, top to bottom:
Fairytale retelling, horror fantasy
The Seventh Sister
A novella by Millie Abecassis
“The Seventh Sister gripped me from the first sentence and didn’t let go.” — Koji A. Dae, author of Casual
Now available everywhere books are sold

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Apr 18

"Your story begins with death." DONKEYSKIN meets DUNE in this sci-fi retelling of a classic tale filled with whimsy, yearning, and hope. Forthcoming 5/19/26 at @shirakipress.com 💚 ✨ Science fantasy 🌌 Distant planets 🚀 Interstellar travel 🐍 Giant snake 🌹 Sapphic romance #PosterPit #SO #A #SF #FT

A poster featuring an illustration of the two main characters of the book, Cyrelle and Sianna facing each other, looking at the "camera", and holding hands. Cyrelle has pale skin, blue eyes, and long brown hair; Sianna has brown skin, brown eyes, and black hair at shoulder-length. A snake is wrapped around them.

Text on the poster reads as follows, from top to bottom:
Coming Soon
The Color of Time
A Novel by Millie Abecassis
"A tour de force that pulses with political intrigue and pioneers a daring expansion of the genre" — Jason Denzel, author of The Mystic Trilogy
Starring
Pricess Cyrelle of Cicia, Lady Avasiannata, A pantheon of deities, Celadon the giant snake from space, A very, very unhinged king

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Apr 17

Enjoy this picture of Maui being bothered by me calling his name to take yet-another-picture of him.

A white and orange cat on a couch staring at the camera with a mildly annoyed look.

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Apr 15

How cool is that? Ad for THE COLOR OF TIME in @locusmag.bsky.social 💜

An advertisement for The Color of Time in a page of Locus Magazine

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Apr 11

An author in her natural environment.

A picture of Millie Abecassis, a white woman with long brown hair, blue glasses, wearing jeans and a blue hoodie. She sits on the floor in front of a book case filled with various books and comics. She holds a copy of the book THE COLOR OF TIME, and piles of the same book are on the floor next to here.

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Feb 21

Want an ARC of The Color of Time? It's available on NetGalley + you can also fill out the sign up form below 👇 forms.gle/RA4mPX7CzC3L...

A science-fantasy retelling of Charles Perrault’s fairy tale “Peau d'Âne,” The Color of Time blends the whimsy of classic fairy tales with the sapphic romance of Fable for the End of the World and the large-scale politics of The Mercy of Gods.

Princess Cyrelle has always been faithful and true to her family, country, and Goddess. But now her brother, King Elias of Cicia, has asked for—no, commanded—her hand in marriage.

Desperate to avoid this incestuous union, Cyrelle requests a series of increasingly impossible gifts and petitions the Goddess for a sign to sway her resolute brother’s proposal. As Elias persists undeterred, Cyrelle must risk everything to escape the only life she’s ever known.

Soon, she becomes Green Scales, hiding and struggling to survive on her own, far across the galaxy. But Phau isn’t the peaceful refuge Cyrelle had hoped for, and when the leader of its burgeoning rebel faction recognizes the runaway princess, she is forced to choose between safety and freedom. With the fate of two kingdoms on the line and nowhere left to run, Cyrelle must decide what it means to be true to herself, to her people, and to her heart.

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Feb 14

Happy Valentine's Day! Meet Cyrelle and Sianna from THE COLOR OF TIME, my Donkeyskin retelling and Dune-inspired #scifi novel coming out May 19, 2026 at @shirakipress.com. Art by the amazing @hajima7.bsky.social 💙

A painterly illustration showing two women facing each other and holding hands, and a large snake wrapped around them. The woman on the left is Cyrelle. She is white, has blue eyes, long brown/auburn hair, and wears a green attire. The woman on the right is Sianna. She has brown skin, brown eyes, black hair to her shoulders, and wears a black attire with golden touches.

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Feb 9

It's COVER REVEAL TIME! Look at this GORGEOUS illustration by @alawinans.bsky.social 💙 THE COLOR OF TIME releases May 19, 2026 at @shirakipress.com 🐍

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Jan 13

JANE EYRE x STARLING HOUSE 🌹 Sapphic historical fantasy 🇫🇷 France, Belle Époque 🩸 Body-based magic system 🗡️ Family feuds 🗝️ Gothic vibes A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE offers a unique magic system and swooning romance. Available in ebook and audiobook 🎧 #BluePit 📖 #P #A #F #HS #LGBT

Cover of the audiobook A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE by Millie Abecassis, showing the silhouette of a woman over a red and gold background.

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Jan 13

An underground lab. A dead chemist. A strange machine he tried to destroy. 🕴️ A mobster family 🔪 Everyone hates each other ⌛ A mysterious time machine 🦠 A deadly pathogen killing everyone 🚫 A claustrophobic huis-clos setting An unhinged short story free on Kobo Plus 🖤 #BluePit 📖 #P #A #T #SF

A moodboard featuring 7 different images: a male & a female mobsters, an hourglass, a gun, a table with various instruments on it, an underground facility, and blood.

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Jan 13

DONKEY SKIN x DUNE Sianna is set to free her city from the grip of the greedy emperor, even if she must strike a deal with Elias, the king of a rival country. That was before she fell in love with Cyrelle, the runaway princess who fled a marriage with Elias. #BluePit 📖 #P #A #F #SF #LGBT

A moodboard with various pictures such as a snake, pictures from space, a woman wearing a spacesuit, a clock; "the color of time" is written in the moodboard.

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Jan 13

SNOW WHITE x BLUEBEARD Chased by a jealous superior who wants her dead, Seer Éliane finds refuge in Lady of Clairemont's mysterious house, Sanctuary, among six women living as sisters. When the sisters begin to disappear, Éliane must find the truth before she disappears too. #BluePit 📖 #A #P #F #H

Cover of THE SEVENTH SISTER by Millie Abecassis, showing a woman wearing a white dress walking toward an eerie mansion in the night. At the windows are the silhouette of six women. Above the mansion shines a crescent moon.

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Dec 23

For those of you over on Instagram, I'm giving away 5 codes to get a free audiobook of A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE! Enter here: www.instagram.com/p/DSnU28vjz_...

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Dec 20

"Not a real book" bonus: HOLLOW WHISPERS OF THE WIND by @florencechien.com (historical fiction), her next novel currently on submission. I had the honor to be the first person to beta read it and it is SO GOOD. I don't understand why editors aren't fighting to death for it in a ring or something.

Mock cover for Hollow Whispers of the Wind

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Dec 20

CHANGING PLANES by @ursulakleguin.com (science fiction, short stories): I try to read one book by Ursula sensei per year and this one did not disappoint. An amazing of collection of interconnected short stories!

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Dec 20

LOVE LETHAL, DEATH DIVINE by @jelenawrites.bsky.social (dark fantasy): I gobbled it up! It's so good.

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Dec 20

THE REVENANT OF SUROLIFIA by @florencechien.com (political fantasy): another favorite I knew I would love before reading it, but I didn't expect to love Lucas (the protagonist) so much.

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Dec 20

RAGE OF THE RAVEN QUEEN by @andrewlivecchi.bsky.social (epic fantasy): a glorious sequel to SON OF THE THUNDER GODDESS. If you like epic fantasy with gripping battle scenes and a lovely cast, run to read this series!

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Dec 20

TO BE TAUGHT, IF FORTUNATE by Becky Chambers (science fiction): I'm in love with Becky Chambers's novellas.

Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis· Dec 20

THE FLOATING CASTLE by @lnholmeswriter.bsky.social (epic fantasy): another great surprise. I didn't know I would love it so much when I started it. My self-pub book of the year!