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putting the vampires back in Romania (+ other tales) 🐸 TULLY THE TADPOLE (picture book, 2023) 🇷🇴 FROM DILL TO DRACULA (cookbook, 2020) ✍️: 🌶️ Gilgamesh romantasy reimagining #ASIN YA Rep: Mandy Hubbard/ECLA
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👑 divinity marked her; tradition damned her 🗡️ royalty made her a pawn—training made her a weapon 🔥 hunted by monsters, haunted by desire 🩸 she was never meant to rule—so she’ll burn the rules instead ✨A SAVAGE, INFINITE NIGHT✨ #QuestPit #A #RF

A SAVAGE, INFINITE NIGHT– NA romantasy born of blood, bone, & betrayal. ⚔️A princess, chosen by sacred bulls—rejected by her own blood ☠️A warrior, forged by monsters & haunted by a human past 🔥& a dying kingdom, where love might be the last rebellion...or its only hope #QuestPit #NA #Romantasy #WIP

Sharing #LinesThatDefine: A Savage, Infinite Night edition 👑 Where... 🩸 inheritance aches like a wound that never scabs 👑 devotion tastes like ash 🩸 siblings are made sharp by the same blade 👑 gods watch but do not answer 🩸 a girl bleeds, and then rises #booksky #writingcommunity

#WIPSnips from #ASIN for *talk*... “You talk of shame as if it's not written in your very blood, in your very existence." "Bold, coming from you, TKname.” (Anyone wanna offer up a name? 😅)

#IJustWrote... The longer we sit beneath the suns, the hotter the sands get. Before long, a distorted haze of heat crawls off the surface of the ground, casting everything in an almost otherworldly ripple, like reality is bending and twisting before our very eyes. #amwriting #writingcommunity

#WIPSnips for #ASIN and a little decor*ating*.... #amwriting #writingcommunity #booksky

when the first page hits like a blade to the temple 👑 (spoiler: it’s not the last time she battles someone she loves) Sharing a glimpse into #ASIN where power is inherited, challenged, and tested in the space between blade and bone This is only the beginning. The fall before the rise. #booksky

Drafting this WIP has been way too easy... what's the catch?

Alright, guys, I'm working on a new character profile. Send me all your favorite "wild and untamed" men! (I'm thinking like Geralt from The Witcher 👀) #amwriting #booksky #writingcommunity

So excited to finally talk about Neighborhood Literary, an agency with an extra focus on taking care of our local writer communities. 🏠 The door is open. 🫖 The kettle is on. ✨ Come on in. Good neighbors make good books. www.neighborhoodliterary.com/blog/come-on...

I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...

Wow, okay this is halfway sold out already. ❤️

#WIPSnips from the Folk Horror.... He catches it, studying the skin and the dimpling as if deciphering a secret language. “The tree gives it roots, but the apple holds its own life. Ripening isn’t about time—it’s about awakening the quiet magic within.”

There's no need for you to miss out on an incredible writing community and the chance to get your word count up. Come write with us! patreon.com/cknightwrites

🌈 Introducing our Book 1 feature for May! 🎉 We are so excited to feature this fantasy romance that follows an herbalist! Welcome to Where the River Meets the Soul by S. Nicole @snicoleauthor.bsky.social 🧵

#IJustWrote... Even in pleasure, I cannot escape what awaits me, a life where men will always seek to possess what they cannot truly have. #Amwriting #writingcommunity #booksky

Hey, y'all, I just wrote my first open door 🌶️ scene 🫣 #writingcommunity #amwriting

Alright, #writingcommunity: writing my first open door spicy scene... What are your favorite tips (😏), tricks, and moments to help me out? #amwriting #booksky

The Epic of Gilgamesh is obviously the biggest inspiration to my story, but it also has a sprinkling of House of the Dragon, Aladdin, and Frozen 2 (yeah, you heard me).

New pin added to the WIP sash! 20k, baby! #ASIN #amwriting

Vampires needing a verbal invitation to enter homes is vampire lore 101 I’m surprised there are people who don’t know that

#IJustWrote... Before long, the liveliness of the tavern curls around the corner—the plucky notes of a lyre with the steady thum, thum, thum of a drum—its presence felt and heard before seen.

And another #WIPSnips... But it feels like the world dulls—dims. That I’m within, but not part of it. My world has been whiplashed into a submission I truly cannot fathom, nor fight against. Ardael still stands beside me, but the chasm between us yawns as wide and deep as the Abyss of Velyr.

Oh yes! #ASIN #WIPSnips for *submission*: Though the Druvothi share a penchant for battle, the missing blade was never meant to see honorable bloodshed—only submission. A tool exploited to ensure docility; a bride will not challenge her husband's rule when its edge hovers near her neck.

"But you're a woman." ☠️

@ambucsaru.bsky.social Another writer of Romanian folklore?!?! Hello! I think we need to be friends 🥰

I have been in the weirdest listening mood switching between my A*Teens/Steps/S Club 7 playlist and a Phantom of the Opera Soundtrack playlist 😳

And one from the YA Folk Horror ⏳ As time shepherds, we’re taught the ways of the Grivșa, the nomansland between folds, where it feels like nothing and everything exists simultaneously. Like how time moves; how it deceives. How to travel within the space it wholly inhabits.

And another! #WIPSnips: His thumb grazes on the outside of my ribs, trailing to my waist. I suppress the shiver in a drawn out inhale. His touch a taunt to turn around and engage. My move. Maybe if my body weren’t bloody and raw, I would.

More #ASIN #WIPSnips... It's impossible to move without tearing through the fabric, where even a thread out of place signals disrespect to the gods and the divinity they’ve bestowed upon my family, a divinity I may bear only a fraction of.

#Writingcommunity! Would you find value in a database where you upload clips from movies/shows that demonstrate a specific action/dialogue beat/emotion/etc... and other authors can submit their interpretation of how they'd write that moment out in prose format? #BookSky

Here's a *smoke* from my YA Folk Horror 🍃 💨 🍎 #WIPSnips