Meet my Main Female Characters this International Women’s Day! I have multiple books, both traditionally published and independently published, but here are the ones with female main characters!
You can grab my novel Yelen & Yelena for $1 in the current Itch bundle sale for International Women’s Day which runs to 10th March, so a few more days to grab 32 titles at $32! Title card graphic by Niranjan, host of the bundle.
FMCs in Eldritch Gothic Horror/Urban Weird Fantasy
Carrie Rickard is the FMC in The Crows, available now from Canelo Horror/Penguin Random House.
This is a Gothic Horror with tentacles tale, about a doomed woman dealing with trauma and a pathological need to fit into her surroundings, and a lonely eldritch abomination makes a friend and gets the house he’s always wanted.
Katy Porter is the FMC in Thirteenth, now available from Canelo Horror/Penguin Random House.
This is an urban weird fantasy featuring eldritch family drama, contemporary small town (English) Gothic undertones, body horror, and dark humour. Katy is a girl transforming into something she doesn’t understand, and her family are divided on how to handle it – some want to use her, some destroy her, and some want to help her… but none of them can stop it.
Katy and Carrie also appear as secondary characters in THE DAY WE ATE GRANDAD, which can be read as part of the Pagham-on-Sea series, but you do not not necessarily need to read them in order.
Overexposure is a short story where detail-orientated photographer, Charlie Eversley-Smith, is the FMC. Available wherever eBooks are sold.
The story is a journey of addiction and obsession, when Charlie meets a man whose image cannot be captured – and in her quest to understand him, she falls into a spiral of self-destruction.
Alice is the 10yo autistic-coded FMC in The Snow Child, who may have identified as auti-gender if she hadn’t been born in the early 1900s.
Written for Books of Horror‘s June Pride book box, but now on general sale.
This is a standalone body horror story featuring the fae, set in rural England in 1917.
FMCs in Gothic Dark Fantasy
Yelen & Yelena is a Dark Gothic Fantasy with Yelena as the titular FMC. Available in eBook, audiobook, and paperback.
This book is an aromantic version of Beauty & the Beast, where there is a deep friends-with-benefits connection but no romance. The Beast doesn’t change back into a man, and there is also bisexual and sapphic rep here too. If you’re looking for something dark, Gothic, and with some body horror, this is the book for you.
FMCs in Contemporary Queer Romances
Carrie is the FMC of Birds of a Feather, which is the contemporary romcom version of The Crows.
If eldritch horror in Gothic settings isn’t your thing, but you do want the dynamics of a traumatised woman getting over an abusive relationship with the help of a local self-employed, asexual, ADHD jack-of-most-trades and his elderly St Bernard (to whom nothing bad happens) and there’s an HEA, then try this instead.
Sarah Wheelock is the FMC of Best Friends Bury Bodies.
This is a bisexual whychoose m/m, m/f, f/f second chance romance meets Midsomer Murders novel, with both stable and somewhat messy non-monogamous relationship structures, murder, false identities, addiction recovery, and middle-aged best friends getting up to unwise shenanigans.
Check out Other Bundles and Sales
- A Very Queer March – 01-31st March 2026: 63 titles with a variety of queer rep for $60 – ON NOW.
- Ko-Fi Box Set of all my independently published work – 12 eBooks for £15, less than half what it would cost to buy them individually! This is its usual price for 12 books.
- THE SOUND OF DARKNESS will be a newsletter magnet and downloadable for free in the Occult and Supernatural Giveaway 03 Apr-03 May 2026.
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