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☾ FAMILIAR eARC Sign-ups! + Summer/Winter Sale

🖤🩸 Sign up to get an eARC of FAMILIAR & check out the Smashwords July Summer/Winter Sale!
☾ FAMILIAR eARC Sign-ups! + Summer/Winter Sale

🖤🩸 Sign up to get an eARC of FAMILIAR & check out the Smashwords July Summer/Winter Sale!

In this newsletter

  1. Writing Updates
  2. FAMILIAR Street Team Recruitment
  3. Smashwords July Summer / Winter Sale
  4. Author Buddy Release: Gioele by Freddie A. Clark

Writing Updates

I'm doing a thing again. And by "a thing," I mean that I'm outlining and tinkering with another book—the next one in FAMILIAR's universe.

This idea is how I ended up deciding that FAMILIAR would even be a book within a universe anyway, so I guess it's probably good to start massaging out the details. While I don't have a strict timeline on this one yet, I'll definitely be taking it easy on progress for it while keeping deadlines for my other WIPs. Just know that it'll be showing up at some point in the future, complete with a new cast of characters and demons instead of vampires!

As always, thank you so much for supporting a neurodivergent LGBTQ+ author. ♠️🌈📚 ✦

A TRIAL OF WRATH & RUIN (The Wild Hunt, Book #2)

An Achillean Romantasy/Dark Fantasy
Status: ✅ on track at 62% complete
Read early on Patreon, Ko-fi, and Ghost for $5/month!

NOVA RICHE WIP

A sci-fi Robin Hood Retelling
Status: ✅ on track at 34% complete

SPIRITS (The Custodians, Book #2)

Urban Fantasy
Status: ✅ on track at 28% complete
Read early on Patreon, Ko-fi, and Ghost for $3/month!

FAMILIAR Street Team Recruitment

Beta reading is closed, but there's still time to participate!

Familiar: A Vampiric Mystery by Cara Nox, placeholder book cover surrounded by tropes, rep, and teasers on a bright red background. Clockwise, it reads: errand boy for vampire hunters, awkward gay mc x goth bi li, coffee shop meet-cute turned disaster, mistakes™ were made, hunters with ulterior motives, don't be suspicious, chaotic first person narration, vampires, werewolves, & witches. At the bottom, it reads: Familiar, Mystery Urban Fantasy, caranox.com/familiar

Want to nab an ARC? Or do you want to get an early look at the cover and share it around? Good news! Applications are open! ✦

FAMILIAR Reading + Announcement Team
After years of helping his father fight the monsters that killed his mother, Jules is ready to step out of his role of being a glorified errand boy for his dad and his vampire-hunting crew. But when the idea is quickly shot down for the second time, Jules lets one drink to blow off steam domino into accidentally becoming a vampire’s familiar overnight. And the biggest problem is that he can’t remember what happened. With tensions high after his father discovers the possibility of a vampire spy in their midst, Jules scrambles to keep his mark a secret and prove himself to the entire crew by hunting down his vampire, following every clue that feels familiar. — This is the first in a series of read-in-any-order mystery urban fantasy books, each featuring a different cast of characters but set in the same universe, called OCCULT MISADVENTURES.

About FAMILIAR

After years of helping his father fight the monsters that killed his mother, Jules is ready to step out of his role of being a glorified errand boy for his dad and his vampire-hunting crew.

But when the idea is quickly shot down for the second time, Jules lets one drink to blow off steam domino into accidentally becoming a vampire’s familiar overnight.

And the biggest problem is that he can’t remember what happened.

With tensions high after his father discovers the possibility of a vampire spy in their midst, Jules scrambles to keep his mark a secret and prove himself to the entire crew by hunting down his vampire, following every clue that feels familiar. ✦

Familiar
Occult Misadventures Universe ✦ Urban Fantasy
FAMILIAR Reading + Announcement Team
After years of helping his father fight the monsters that killed his mother, Jules is ready to step out of his role of being a glorified errand boy for his dad and his vampire-hunting crew. But when the idea is quickly shot down for the second time, Jules lets one drink to blow off steam domino into accidentally becoming a vampire’s familiar overnight. And the biggest problem is that he can’t remember what happened. With tensions high after his father discovers the possibility of a vampire spy in their midst, Jules scrambles to keep his mark a secret and prove himself to the entire crew by hunting down his vampire, following every clue that feels familiar. — This is the first in a series of read-in-any-order mystery urban fantasy books, each featuring a different cast of characters but set in the same universe, called OCCULT MISADVENTURES.

Smashwords July Summer / Winter Sale

Smashwords July Summer / Winter Sale

It's that time of year again! You can find all of my books from 50-75% off during the Smashwords sale! ✦

All Cara Nox books on Smashwords:

Cara Nox

More LGBTQIA+ books in the Smashwords Sale:

Smashwords S/W Sale 2025
Find these great titles on sale in the Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale On sale July 1-31 - don’t miss your chance!

All discounted books on Smashwords:

Smashwords – Sitewide Sale

Author Buddy Release

In June, an author friend of mine, Freddie A. Clark, released the second installment of their collection, Chrysalis, a series of horror stories showing the end of the world through the eyes of different people around the globe.

Both stories are name-your-own price or free, so you should check them out if you're itching for some apocalyptic horror! These stories can be enjoyed in any order.

Gioele by Freddie A. Clark
Does Salvation lie in the Flesh?
Margaret by Freddie A. Clark
A fairytale shrouded in Gigeresque horror, a dream masked as a nightmare.

Where to find Freddie A. Clark

WebsiteItch.ioInstagramGoodreadsBluesky


Read My Books!

A Hunt of Blood & Iron - Achillean (MM) Dark Fantasy - caranox.com/ahobai
Seraphine's Chosen - LGBTQ+ Epic Sci-fi Fantasy - caranox.com/t13k
Trick - LGBTQ+ Urban Fantasy - caranox.com/trick

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