Me trying to be normal:

"The prose is sharp. The structure is ambitious. The thematic reach is wide. She is writing with the confidence of an author who knows exactly what she wants to say and has found the precise language to say it."

#WritingPrompt
In my gladiator WIP, Brutus would have liked to take revenge on the Romans who captured him and killed his loved ones, but he's been broken enough not to have the means or the will to carry it through. Rufus is not vengeful, he's just grateful to survive the day.

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David is a petty, vindictive l'il sh!t who'd love to see his enemies taken out. Even when he's reached the understanding that living (well) is the best revenge, he fills his day with online feuds and trying to get people cancelled.

The person he most wants cancelled is the (1/2)

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#BonApriltit
Candy hasn't become super popular in the region the Good Thyme Inn is in yet, but I gotta talk about a region where candy IS big: There's a place on Aloutia where food is magically preserved forever: Monarchia Chocolatia. It's in a tropical area where sugar is grown/processed, so they

Fantasy Indies April prompts by @ChesneyInfalt & @LydiaVRussell 1. Introduce yourself & WIP 2. Season(s) in WIP 3. Free Friday or how do you come up with book titles? 4. Saturday Snippet 5. Where would your characters want to travel? 6. Describe your characters’ homes/homelands 7. Animals in WIP 8. Do you reread books? 9. What do your characters take for granted? 10. Free Friday or when did you first start writing stories? 11. Saturday Snippet 12. Routines in WIP 13. MC’s childhood 14. How would your characters describe themselves? 15. Preferred reading format(s) 16. Flash Fiction about a storm 17. Free Friday or how do you choose your next read or WIP? 18. Saturday Snippet 19. Nicknames in WIP 20. What words do you tend to overuse in your writing? 21. Have others ask anything about your WIP(s) 22. Tropes or subgenres you’d love to see more of 23. Plants in WIP 24. Free Friday or comfort books/movies/tv shows 25. Saturday Snippet 26. Character scars or injuries 27. Which part of the writing process is your favourite? 28. Tough decisions in WIP 29. Character habits 30. Monthly Wrap-Up

#FantasyIndiesApril // Day 21

Feel free to ask questions about my WIP "By Any Other Name"! I will also share a small detail for each like on this post.

#Writing #AmWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #IndieFantasy #AdultFantasy

Gosh darn, this was close! But #SFINCS3 has its winner!

Congratulations to Parasitic Omens by Jessica A. McMinn! #SFINCS 📚💙

This was my review for it. Pick it up if it piques your interest, awesome novella!

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Alt text: a digital illustration of two characters from the book Thief of Death by Samantha Breaux. Art is by the author as well. The illustration shows a man standing beside a brick wall with his hands on his hips, looking up at a woman who is sitting on top of the wall holding a large straw hat. The man has shoulder length, wavy black hair, and is wearing a v neck shirt with rolled up shirt sleeves, gray pants, and black boots. His is slim but muscular with light tan skin. The woman has brown hair in a long braid, darker tan skin, and a mischievous smirk on her face. She is wearing a white short sleeved shirt, a blue tunic, black leggings, and gray boots. There is a bag of dirt, a plant, and a shovel on the ground beside the wall.

I'm playing around with a simple, cartoon style sketch of Wren and Spencer. She is helping him garden by stealing his hat.

#Wrencer #OCs #Art #CharacterArt #Writesky

Ebook cover for The Strange Grey Everything by Rebecca Crunden; cover shows a shadow of a grey wolf above a forest that's dark green and black and foggy. Text is gold and greyish-white.

🥀 estranged husbands
💪 close brothers x2
🗡️ an mc who is 100% done
🐺 a love interest ready to grovel
🏫 a haunted, gothic school
🔍 buried secrets
❄️ snowy setting

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/aBMB
💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-strange-...
📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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The Unbroken anthology - featuring never before published stories from 36 of the most prominent SFF authors working today (and me) - is now live on Kickstarter.

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Cover for ‘Enlil and Aris: The Complete Collection by Rebecca Crunden’. Cover is purple, yellow and orange with white font. Image shows two silhouettes of men with a crow above them, the sun behind.

🧙 wild witches
🐦‍⬛ a crow (or two)
🔮 portal fantasy
🐈‍⬛ a cat who wanders in
👨‍❤️‍👨 true love
🗡️ revenge
👑 evil faeries

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/rlEOgP
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/enlil-aris-t...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

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This book was so good, friends! If you want a little bite of decadent gothic horror, come peek at my review and then go snag a copy of ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS 👇👇👇

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

South: A Memoir of The Endurance Voyage by Ernest Shackleton-

I enjoyed Ernest Shackleton’s account of the Endurance voyage and ordeal written in his own words. Though quite dry, I found his writing to be fascinating. If you like Alfred Lansing’s Endurance, you will love this book!
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Released 2 days after my bday and I fucking LOVE Peter Pan adaptations that acknowledge the horror of the story!! 😍 It’s gonna be a happy birthday for meeee!!!

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✨️ Deal Alert✨️ GUARDIANS OF WINTER is coming in Spring 2028 from @thenerdyalchemist.bsky.social, James Persichetti and @andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social

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#FantasyIndiesApril 21

Let's do it, ask me anything about Aloe!

Some starting points
- Contemporary dark fantasy
- two non-binary, ace-spectrum leads, multiple POVs
- Vampires have different factions
- Witches' powers based in elements
- 2nd in series

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #QueerWriters

Comedy is a subgenre in pretty much everything I write, so Horror Comedy is a favorite. Especially when tropes are used to great effect to subvert expectations.

Cabin in the Woods, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, Zombieland, and Freaky come to mind.

#CRPNightcrawlers #CampRevPit

#WIPSnips
From my gladiator WIP.
After a particularly hard day filled with getting hurt, and the shadow of being whipped to death grazing Rufus, it's dinner time at the ludus.

Hey artists, if you see this, post a dog! 💙

From Talia: On the Shore of the Sea.

This is the first appearance of Rose, wife of Bastile. Her character was set from the first moment she walked into the room.

A mermaid with teal, purple and pink tail outfit glasses and hair sitting on a pink shell surrounded by kelp

🐚💜Mermaid💜🐚
Ych commission for @mxfee.bsky.social ! #myart #art #artsky #mermaid

kindle cover for dust & lightning by rebecca crunden; image shows a dark planet in purple lighting, a moon in the background, volcano canyons below

🚀 spaceships
🌡️ dark conspiracies
🎭 brotherhood
❌ no romance
🐛 strange creatures
🤖 futuristic
🪐 other worlds
🐈 a rescue cat

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/schU
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/dust-lightning
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...

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Keep that AI shit off my feed. 🖕

Calendar for Tolkien Trewsday, full text can be found here: https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2026/03/tolkien-trewsday-year-four.html

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📆 Week 165 (21/05/26): “Ship/Boats”.

Opening the Rangers of the North Smial takeover of #TolkienTrewsday with themes selected by members of the Tolkien Society Smial based in North-west England. This week Jessica has chosen “Ship/Boats”.

#TolkienTuesday #Tolkien

#AntagonistApril 21

Istaria holds a lot of social power. She is the queen of Esrasea, and this gives her plenty of authority within the country, and military might to exercise her power beyond it.

One on one, she isn't especially threatening. She is technically a mage, but not a powerful one.🧵

Now I have started this one. It releases in June. Got an early copy through Aardvark book club. I'm only a chapter in. I'm intrigued but a little hesitant. I've heard mixed reviews. I'll keep yall updated.

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Still coming up with a name for her… (my original character, might be used for a storybook!) #art #books #childhood

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