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Posts by TF Burke | YA Fantasy Author

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Prophecy Dissolution: Breaking Destiny Without Breaking the Story A chosen one will rise.

Prophecy Dissolution: Breaking Destiny Without Breaking the Story

Sometimes breaking your prophecy better serves your story.

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12 hours ago 2 0 0 0

Some faeries will guide you.
Others? You run. Beauty doesn’t mean safety in fae lore.

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1 day ago 4 0 0 0
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Fantastic Fantasy Sale! Find your next favorite read here! I'm happy to say that 2 of my books from the Heart of the Worlds series are featured in this promo.

👉🏼 Go here to browse: storyoriginapp.com/to/vcgZ1fF

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5 days ago 11 4 0 0
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Ever feel like something's watching you... but nothing's there?

That chill on the back of your neck? Might be a bodach.

And if you read closely, you just might find them inside my Heart of the Worlds series

#HeartoftheWorlds #YAfantasybooks #faeries #fairies #bookstagram #booktok #blueskybooks

1 week ago 8 0 1 0
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Discover enchanted bargains like my 1st book in my Heart of the Worlds series "Faeries Don't Lie" where prophecy, betrayal, and faeblood secrets collide.

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#FaeriesDontLie #YAFantasy #BookSale #IndieAuthor #EpicFantasy #bookstagram #blueskybooks

1 week ago 5 5 0 0
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Legend tells of a faery known for its otherworldly mastery of the violin. Playing beneath cascading waters, the Fossegrimen lures travelers with melodies so hauntingly beautiful they stir the soul.

#Fossegrimen #faery #fairy #fantasy #bookstagram #booktok #blueskybooks

2 weeks ago 2 0 0 0
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3 weeks ago 6 2 0 0
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If your book had a “save for later” button in the real world, this would be it.
A place where readers collect stories that feel worth their time.
Authors: list your book on Read & Save.
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2 months ago 161 83 4 1
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Most stories aren’t written for everyone.
They’re written for someone.

Your Story Match exists to help that meeting happen—
quietly, intentionally, and without pressure.

Authors are welcome to place their books here:
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3 months ago 299 165 0 1
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Ever heard whispers at night? Felt a sudden chill in your warm home? It might be your Domovoy, an old Slavic house spirit said to protect (or punish!) the household.

#yafantasy #fantasy #bookstagram #booktok #blueskybooks #faery #fairy #faerylore #faery

3 weeks ago 8 0 0 0
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6 Secrets to Creating and Sustaining Suspense How can you create and maintain suspense in your fiction story? Here are six great tips: • How to create suspense in your story  • Use reversals to increase suspense in story  • Give readers sleepl…

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3 weeks ago 5 3 0 0
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✨ The time of reckoning was barely avoided... so the people and faeries thought....

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3 weeks ago 7 0 0 0
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The magic of your book is real.
But it needs to be visible.
List it where parents, teachers, and librarians actually go to discover books for children.
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7 months ago 101 31 2 0
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Step through the veil and discover enchanted bargains—all genres. Many discounted.

Don’t miss my Heart of the Worlds series where prophecy, betrayal, and faeblood secrets collide.

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#YAFantasy #BookSale #IndieAuthor #EpicFantasy #bookstagram #blueskybooks

3 weeks ago 6 0 0 0

Thank you for posting this. It helps the more aware the community is.

4 weeks ago 1 0 0 0
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For writers working in series—
what’s harder: keeping the antagonist central, or escalating the conflict?

4 weeks ago 0 0 0 0

Most writers don’t notice this until book 3—
when the antagonist is still present, but no longer essential.

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Villain Drift and the Architecture of Deepening Most long fantasy series don’t collapse because the world grows too large.

If you removed your antagonist…would your story still have a problem?

If yes, you may be dealing with Villain Drift.

I break it down here: open.substack.com/pub/mythicob...

4 weeks ago 0 0 2 0
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Light as breath and quick as a passing idea, sylphs are said to dance along the edges of storms and ride the hush before a breeze turns wild.

#TFBurkeauthor #Faeriesdontlie #WoTH #YAfantasybooks #faeries #fairies #bookstagram #booktok #blueskybooks

4 weeks ago 5 1 0 0
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One of the best things about being an author is playing WHAT-IF games with storytelling & I've certainly done a lot of that while working in the Ahnu-Endynia universe.

#FaeriesDontLie #yafantasy #yafantasybooks #faeries #fairies #fantasybooks #yareads #bookstagram #booktok #blueskybooks

1 month ago 7 0 0 0
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Indie Fantasy Sale! Find your next favorite read here!

I'm happy to say that two of my books from the Heart of the Worlds series are featured in this promo.

👉🏼 Go here to browse: storyoriginapp.com/to/y0YLVrN

#FantasyBooks #scifibooks #promos #IndieAuthor #BookTok #bookstagram #blueskybooks

1 month ago 11 3 0 0
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Leprechauns are known for guarding pots of gold, granting tricky wishes, and pulling pranks on anyone who tries to outsmart them. But did you know they didn't always wear green?

#HappyStPatricksDay #faery #fairy #booktok #bookstagram #blueskybooks

1 month ago 4 0 0 0
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Aunia thought she understood the faery world. She was wrong.

One moment, she’s saved by an ancient marble giant... the next she's betrayed.

Why are so many hunting her? What secrets does she carry that even the most powerful fear?

#yafantasy #bookstagram #booktok #blueskybooks

1 month ago 5 1 1 0
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Book Madness! Find your next favorite read here!

I'm happy to say that two of my books from the Heart of the Worlds series are featured in this promo.

👉🏼 Go here to browse: books.bookfunnel.com/bookmadness/...

#FantasyBooks #scifibooks #promos #IndieAuthor #BookTok #bookstagram #blueskybooks

1 month ago 8 1 0 0
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Dryads & Woodwives: Forest guardians of myth.
Mischievous, magical, and known to reward kindness

There is a dryad sighting in my 3rd book in the Heart of the Worlds series.

#faery #HeartOfTheWorlds #yafantasy #bookstagram #booktok #blueskybooks

1 month ago 4 0 0 0
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Every villain begins somewhere. For Pogonias Cromis, better known as the Boggleman, it began in a fishing village many centuries earlier.

#yafantasy #villains #bookstagram #booktok #blueskybooks

1 month ago 5 0 0 0
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Many of us wear identities others handed to us. But that is not who we are.

In my stories I always come back to this: Believe in yourself.
The very things that make you unique are not flaws… they’re your value.
#BelieveInYourself #YouAreEnough #FantasyAuthor #HeartOfTheWorlds #blueskybooks

1 month ago 0 0 0 0
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Getting close to the halfway point in Act 1 for Faeries Don't Love. Love spending time in the cloud castle! ✨

#HeartOfTheWorlds #yafantasy #FantasyBooks #ReadMoreFantasy #bookstagram #booktok #blueskybooks

1 month ago 6 0 0 0
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Happy Read an Ebook Week!

To help you find a book to celebrate, you can find my entire collection at a promotional price at @Smashwords from March 1 - March 7.

Find my books and many more at www.smashwords.com/sale

#ebookweek26 #Smashwords
#sale #booktok #blueskybooks #bookstagram

1 month ago 4 3 0 0
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The Cŵn Annwn (koon AH-noon)—white hounds with glowing red ears—ride with the Wild Hunt across stormy skies and shadowed woods. Their howls, oddly distant when close, are said to foretell death.

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