Ephiny Gale

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Writer of PICK YOUR POTION. Awarded 'Best of the Net' for fiction. 4x Aurealis Awards finalist. www.ephinygale.com This account contains only my personal views and is not representative of any organisation.

5 books: The Compound by Aisling Rawle, How to Survive a Horror Story by Mallory Arnold, The September House by Carissa Orlando, But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo, and We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer.
A photo of a smiling 30-something woman with brown hair and glasses.
A screenshot of the cover of Pick Your Potion from Amazon.com, with a 4.7 star rating on Amazon and a 4.0 star rating on Goodreads.
Discount Dan by James A Hunter, Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven, Honeycomb by SB Caves, Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett and Private Rites by Julia Armfield.
An illustrated short story collection, open to an illustration of a girl holding a fan of cards in front of her face.
A sign above a brown cow that reads, “I’m grumpy today please ask to pat me”.
A baby alpaca loafing in straw. It is white with brown spots.
A small spotty crocodile the size of a large cat, lying in a relaxed manner in between the hands of its human handler. Its jaws are taped shut.
A fluffy grey cat sitting on the shoulders of a hunched over woman.
Two smiling women with glasses and brown hair.
The cover of Australian Vogue, January 2025, with Margaret Qualley across the front.
5 novels: Fantasticland by Mike Bokoven, Dressed to Kill by Crown Fall, Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire, The Never-Ending End of the World by Ann Christy, and Honeycomb by SB Caves.
A stack of “Pick Your Potion” books by Ephiny Gale.
A paperback copy of The Spirit Circle by Tara Calaby. It has a dark purple cover with lit candles and flowers it.
A fluffy grey cat lying inside a human shadow, and touching the human’s foot.
“Pick Your Potion” on Goodreads, with an average rating of 4.10 from 49 ratings and 41 reviews.
Zaverr Doctor performing as "Rinaya" in "Shining Armour" (2013).
A grey fluffy cat with white socks.
A grey cat staring longingly from where she is lounging atop a cat tree.
A brown-haired woman smiling in a garden. She is wearing glasses and a green patterned dress with pink moths on it.
A dark grey cat wrapped up in a light grey blanket.
6 books: Voyage of the Damned by Frances White, The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland, The Cloud Roost by Travis M Riddle, Little Eyes by Samantha Schweblin, Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield and When Your Heart is a Broken Thing by Helen Whistberry.
A screenshot from Goodreads for Pick Your Potion, with 43 ratings and 36 reviews. The average star rating for the book is 4.21 out of 5.
A fluffy grey cat sleeping on top of a furry cat tree.
A dark grey cat wrapped in a light grey blanket.
A smiling woman in a red jumper that has mushroom-like spots holds a book with a leafy cover: “Pick Your Potion” by Ephiny Gale
A stack of paperback books with “Pick Your Potion” written across the purple and green cover.
A beautiful sunny day in a park with lots of green grass and trees.
“Pick Your Potion” with 11 ratings and reviews on Goodreads, with an average rating of 4.64 out of 5.
A fluffy grey cat lying right up against a blurry treadmill.
Several books: Rouge by Mona Awad; Hovering by Rhett Davis; An Education in Malice by S T Gibson; All’s Well by Mona Awad; Chlorine by Jade Song; Whispers from the Poisoned Isle by Travis M Riddle; Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth.
A theatre stage with “Snatch Game” written on a TV screen on the back of the stage.
A screenshot of the "Lesbian Science Fiction Advanced Reader Copies" category on Book Sirens. The book "Pick Your Potion" is the only one there.
The "Pick Your Potion" book cover, a purple background with fluorescent green leaves, with the following notes around it: weird fiction; 26 genre-blending stories; mix of fantasy, sci-fi & horror; mostly sapphic; stories shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards & 'Brave New Weird'; magical games & competitions; repeating lifetimes & time-loops; clones, androids, portals & parallel worlds.
An illustration of The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, with a witch staring at some hovering fortune-telling cards.
6 books: An Education in Malice by S T Gibson, Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell, Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White, The Hollow Places by T Kingfisher, The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz, and Turducken by Lindz McLeod.
A smiling woman with glasses sitting in the sun.
A Tasmanian devil running across sand.
A grey cat curled up next to a garden bin and rake.
A black and white illustration of someone holding a crowbar in front of a nailed-up window. Demonic limbs are reaching through the wooden planks towards our heroine.
A black and white illustration of three magical trees: one made of muscles, one made of bone, and one made of honey.
A black and white illustration of a woman lying in bed with a helmet over her head. Wires flow out of the helmet.
A black and white illustration of a girl with lit candles strapped to her head.
A black and white illustration of a girl holding cards over the lower half of her face.
5 books: Makanuele Rumble by Travis M Riddle, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett, The Ghost Sequences by A C Wise, Vita Nostra by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko, & Lute by Jennifer Thorne
The book cover for “Pick Your Potion” by Ephiny Gale: bright green leaves on a purple background with black potion bottles.
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A fluffy grey cat lying on a treadmill.
An open book with a black and white illustration of pairs of hands hanging from a tree branch with ribbons.
Photo of a smiling woman with brown hair and glasses.
Book cover for “House of Longing” by Tara Calaby, with a quill, ink pot and open book in front of a moody floral pink background.
A fluffy cat watching bubbles in the sun.
A fluffy cat approaching a flurry of bubbles.
Andy from Parks and Rec looking super excited.
Issue 7 of “The Vanishing Point” magazine.