Just a few more hours to go on this sale!!!

Asking not for myself but for a very offline person:

Do you have recs for cover editors (especially those who are also confident typographers) who do photoedited covers using stock or client-supplied photos? Do YOU do this?

I’m trying to help an old lady figure out her options and budget 😆

Reviewers! Any of y'all wanna review my novella FES IS A MIRROR? It has no serious reviews. Sad face. Tiny press life. I long for it to have some reach. Hit me up if you write reviews of fiction (with practice doing so) & want to write & publish one!

aaa thank you 🙏❤️

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Cover for the book "First Light: Book 1: Event Horizon" by Dan F. Bispo, showing a starship flying across space, with stars and a space station in the background.

Event Horizon is proudly, yet humbly, part of the Narratess April Sale! That's right, you can purchase the ebook version of this beautiful novella for a very cool 0.99$!

You can also get it as part of two of the bundles: Sci-fi, and Short Fiction and Novellas! 📚💙

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I am halfway through this just now, and I am absolutely loving it! I really can't recommend it enough, it's like a warm hearth for the soul.

You (yes, you!) should definitely grab yourself a copy if you haven't already.

First Light Book I: Event Horizon by Dan F. Bispo A sci-fi novella about finding happiness in space.

I ALMOST MISSED THIS!

Event Horizon is in fact in the sale! I tried to round it down to .99$ but the closest I could make it was .98$, which is a HORRIBLE looking price lol but we make do.

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Also, no interspecies reproduction in First Light's setting, at least not without a heavy dose of gengineering on top. Relationships happen, but usually if they want children, they just adopt.

🧵 7/7

Humans, who do not register as prey to them, find them to be intelligent, curious, and friendly animals with a playful streak, who just happen to look like ten-foot-at-the-shoulder, six-legged, saber-toothed lizard-spiders.

🧵 6/7

Visitors to Tel Prime are advised to be careful if they're ever to venture in the world's more rural areas. Anything that can fell a Tel is likely to find humans easy quarry... save for the Galloping Calamity, which is such a Tel specialist that they are tended to by humans when in captivity.

🧵 5/7

This means a Tellari is still very much the favored prey of many lifeforms in Tel Prime (the names of some of them have lovely and evocative translations such as Galloping Calamity, Skewer-Bird, and The Gnashing From Below).

🧵 4/7

Also of note is the fact that, unlike humans, or species like the Io'Tur or Extali, the Tellari never established themselves as apex predator of their world. Instead of exterminating the species that predated on them, they simply became more adept at protecting themselves.

🧵 3/7

By the time the Tellari had evolved into their modern forms, their caretaking of the grun'hn had allowed the beasts to grow even larger than before--large enough to carry entire cities upon their plated backs.

🧵 2/7

#AprilWorldbuilders

The Tellari were originally parasites, nesting among the scales of the titanic grun'hn and feeding on their blood. Eventually, this developed into a symbiosis, as the proto-Tellari that didn't overwhelm and kill their host would have an evolutionary advantage.

🧵 1/7

HELLO!!!

100% of proceeds from sales of these phone wallpapers go to the Snow Leopard Trust for Earth Month!!

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Me too! As an immigrant myself, who sometimes spends years on end not using my native language, I have sometimes had pretty shocking moments of "Oh. I'm completely disconnected from this." or "Oh. I am losing touch with my own language."

I guess I was in one of those moods when I wrote this? 😅

Thank you! I spent a lot of time tinkering with this paragraph, and I'm super happy that it seems to have been worth it ❤️

Thank you! It's one of those moments that sneaked up on me when writing something completely unrelated, and I couldn't help myself and add to add it in 😁

Exactly. Exactly!

She realized now, that for all her time spent sitting across tables from the children of Tel Prime, she had never truly paid attention to Tellari speech before. Sure, she had heard it, the words had entered her ears, but they had gotten only as far enough as her implant, and once there, they were gone—their vibrations reduced to bio-electrical impulses that she could intuit as easily as she could a smile, or wink. But what of the words, the music, sacrificed at the altar of convenience? How she took it for granted, that technology, the same way her ancestors must have felt about fire, the wheel, the alphabet, the transistor. All it took was someone without a working linguistic implant, and confusion set in at once—after all, as everyone knew, there could be no communication without two subjects, be they lifeforms or little nodes of plasteel and circuitry connected to the prefrontal cortex, or closest applicable analogue. If she heard her tongue—her mother tongue, the musical tones her grandmother had whispered to soothe her when she was small—would she even recognize it anymore? What words came out of her lips when she spoke. Would they be the same words that once echoed through the galleries of Vara IX, or had that history, too, been diluted by years of denial?

#WIPSnips

Can you believe I completely forgot about children as a concept for all 50.000 (so far) words of this series? I do use the word a few times, but only to refer to metaphorical children, and never the real deal.

Interesting!

She realized now, that for all her time spent sitting across tables from the children of Tel Prime, she had never truly paid attention to Tellari speech before. Sure, she had heard it, the words had entered her ears, but they had gotten only as far enough as her implant, and once there, they were gone—their vibrations reduced to bio-electrical impulses that she could intuit as easily as she could a smile, or wink. But what of the words, the music, sacrificed at the altar of convenience? How she took it for granted, that technology, the same way her ancestors must have felt about fire, the wheel, the alphabet, the transistor. All it took was someone without a working linguistic implant, and confusion set in at once—after all, as everyone knew, there could be no communication without two subjects, be they lifeforms or little nodes of plasteel and circuitry connected to the prefrontal cortex, or closest applicable analogue. If she heard her tongue—her mother tongue, the musical tones her grandmother had whispered to soothe her when she was small—would she even recognize it anymore? What words came out of her lips when she spoke. Would they be the same words that once echoed through the galleries of Vara IX, or had that history, too, been diluted by years of denial?

#WIPSnips

Can you believe I completely forgot about children as a concept for all 50.000 (so far) words of this series? I do use the word a few times, but only to refer to metaphorical children, and never the real deal.

Interesting!

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Check out my new release Bear My Heart, yall!

It’s an enchanting book 🖤✨✨✨

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A green background with the cover of Named By Love (a book cover showing a human child kissing the nose of a red feather-dragon) in the center, & the following words (to show what’s featured in the story) scattered on the outside: "A selfless rescuer who may be fated to die" "Found family" "Child POV" "Hair kisses" "Almost cozy" "Living in the wilderness" "Commonplace hardships" "Emotional interaction" "Trauma from the past haunts both present & future"

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Just a reminder that Named By Love is in the #NarratessIndieSale & is free most places but amazon.

If you like deeply emotional dialogue, adorable feather-dragons, & no fighting, you might want to check out my book. books2read.com/u/3nqlOo

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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping 55% off in the Steam Lovecraftian Days sale! 💀⛏️🩸

It's a great time to check out our folk horror adventure set on the moors of Northern England. The answers lie in the soil...

Thank you! 🙏

aaa thank you Pamela ❤️

Ah, I still have to watch that one! 😅

Graphic of a person sitting against a bookshelf with books and plants. Merchants of the Pentagonal Dominion On Sale Now! -Epic, Dark Fantasy -Queernormative World -Worldbuilding Galore -Nonhuman characters, too human problems Merchants of Knowledge and Magic is 99 cents this weekend only Merchants of Light and Bone is $1.99 this weekend only

Both my books are ON SALE until Monday!

These are Dark and Epic Fantasy in a secondary world featuring hella queer characters (intersex ace in MoKaM, bisexual polyamorous in MoLaB) and unique worldbuilding unlike anything you've ever seen

MoKaM:
MoKaM link: mybook.to/OirI