I write sapphic romantasy where an all female polycule help a woman poison her abusive cishet husband on their honeymoon to stop a nation of white supremacists from invading a diverse queernormative kingdom.
And it's free!
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Don't play games in a lightning storm. Now I'm stuck in a fantasy world with my best friend. She's trying to martyr herself. And I've got to stop her, but there's these ladies. And I have to choose between my love life or my best friend. What's a lesbian to do?
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A lesbian themed promotion banner for a Lesbian Visibility Week bundle that runs on itchio until April 26, 2026
if you haven’t started my dyke knight series, you can get all 3 books as part of this bundle along with many many more
there are countless lesbians! lesbians stacked on lesbians, lesbians on top of lesbians, lesbians inside of well - you know
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There's some worldbuilding I need to clean up but I don't think it'll disrupt the experience too much. I'm hoping by getting through Admissions and into concrete outlining of Vol. 2 (tentative titles: 'Orientations' or 'Initiations') first, I'll reduce the number of total passes needed.
Ahhh yayyy!!! 🤩 I'd say go ahead whenever the time feels right for you; I'm just about done with Act 2 (and about to pause posts for a few months while I rebuild my backlog) but I've still got Act 3 (MILA) and 4 (everyone in the cocktail shaker!) to go before I plan to double back in earnest.
OMG OWEN.
Meanwhile: Kenzie 😌
yayyyyy!!! New chapter AND Anneke is in it!!!
New Fire in the Sky chapter up on Patreon! Will be up on the site on Saturday, or you can get it now by either joining or paying $3 for access (which is the lowest price it'll let me set): www.patreon.com/posts/fire-i...
#ArgentumInAqua
Wow. This is so raw and vivid, beautifully done.
#WIPSnips | deal = manage
I think I've shared this in two separate snips before... ah well. 😅 MC reflecting on parenthood, relationships, and PPD.
From my domestic suspense #WIP.
(CW: language)
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #amwriting
A digital illustration of Ashrah and Nitara, from Chronicles of the Realms, by Seph (@goethial.bsky.social). It depicts the two characters back to back, holding hands, as they prepare for another fight, Ashrah brandishing Datusha, her sentient, keris-shaped sword, and Nitara summoning her dark magic. One of Nitara's wings stands behind Ashrah, almost like a shield, while the other is behind Nitara herself, in shadows. Nitara is about a head and half taller than Ashrah.
For those who want something spicier for #LesbianVisibilityWeek, I've got three short stories from #ChroniclesOfTheRealms that can help with that:
Saga of the Kinktober (two stories): archiveofourown.org/works/714937...
Like A Prayer: archiveofourown.org/works/74103031.
#Ashtara #Taleena
This #LesbianVisibilityWeek bundle is live. Amazing works include:
🎹 Magica Riot & Full Bloom
🪷 1000 Lotuses
🙎♀️ Kotov Syndrome
🐙 Tangled in Tentacles
⚔️ This is how Immortals Die
🧛♀️ Bloodbound
🌸🎲 Lessons in Bitter Annihilation
🪓 Killing it on Campus
👩⚕️ Diagnostic Suite Three (that's me!)
🌈📚 many others
To expand:
Emotions are neither right nor wrong, but they can be informative
If being around someone always makes you feel good, that's something to pay attention to. If doing a certain thing makes you tighten up, that tells you something else.
100% I've said this before, but learning to say a project is "done enough" and moving on and also just stubbornly continuing to make shit even if it isn't good are more important than being the world's best draftsperson.
First draft is for telling yourself the story, revisions are for telling your readers the story.
planning to wait on almost all that until I get through Admissions and am in the prep stages for the next Europa Uni volume first so I can give Admissions as a whole that treatment together 😤
Reading to each other at night sounds so good and nourishing 🥹 we may live in some buckwild times but the bounty of good stories out there really does help ease the spirit!
And of course! I'm excited to get to enjoy a freshened-up version (I need to do some freshening up of act 1 myself but I'm
It's delicious 😭
Oooo well I have a couple manuscripts I should finish reading and also Boom Bride as mentioned but NS is coming up the list.... But if you're doing some updates that could be my window to get through a few other things to dive into a freshly updated version! 🤩
😁Yeah I do that sometimes and really might have to do it again..... If only I could listen to a different audiobook in each ear with one eye on a e-reader the other on a book... just drown me with words... But let me remember them later that's the flaw 😭
Also I let myself peek at some of the opening matter and have already laughed out literal loud multiple separate times (copiously on the chapter list and again at the beautifully titled Dedicationacknowledgem)
Like many wonderful Val things it managed to be so genuine and kind and also profane at the same time 😭
YAYYY and you made the acknowledgements too hell yeah! AUGH WHY CAN'T I JUST HAVE A BOOK ORGY AND READ THREE THINGS AT ONCE
OH EXCELLENT what a good and enticing chapter title 😌 AUGH I gotta get Nobody's Servant in a tab so I can peek at it when my brain wants to go to the internet instead of a book...... This might work......
PATCH NOTES!!!!!!!!! Ok that is a genius framing for tweaking a serial do u mind if I steal it for the next time I need to do a bit of delicate retcconnery and/or other narrative adjustment?
(Also WHEWF this is very fun dynamic hi is my intox kink showing or is it just hot in here 😳)
I am REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS ONE.
And holy shit my blurb is ALSO here?! First time 'Cori Catchthorne' has appeared on a physical book!!! Ahhhh!!!
(Also the note inside the cover made me tear up. See u on Europa Val, you and your incredible talent are heading STARWARD I can feel it 🥹😭🤩)
A plethora of backer rewards for Boom Goes the Bride by Valiant Evermech, including a book, two bookmarks, stickers, a small poster, and two postcards, all bedecked with vibrant sci-fi artwork featuring cool mushroomy landscapes and/or lesbians
Closeup on some backer rewards for Boom Goes the Bride by Valiant Evermech, especially the book and its sick stylized cover of two women reaching for each other across a scifi cityscape, bookmarks featuring lesbians both smutty and sweet, and a small poster of a vibrant mushroomy landscape with a fancy city beyond
Three stickers: one says BOOM, one shows a bride weightlifting, and one shows an elf woman on a toilet
Close-up of the back cover of Boom Goes the Bride by Valiant Evermech, featuring pull-quotes including one that reads "The first chapter alone fuckin' RIPS." - Cori Catchthorne
This morning I finally unpacked all my beautiful Boom Bride goodies from @valwrites.ca, and they look GORGEOUS 😭 went throught them with my housemate and selected the three stickers in the third pic to go with them to spread the word 😤 I have a couple things I am very excited to be reading and also
YES I am delighted to know I have picked up on the deeper-cut Zakariah vibes 😂 he just gives such "needs to cut loose" energy 😂😭
and yessss Not-Ivan feeding us all with thirst-bait
I look forward to Maxwell's good day, he will have EARNED IT 🥹
Let Jolanna own everyone at beach volleyball. Destroy Simon Rubra with an overhead spike
Let Zakariah get a very mild sunburn and sand in his swimtrunks and drink one too many beers and be goofy with Maxwell in a way he will be mortified by later
Let Abraham have shave-ice and a brisk swim
I really am!
...I only just want Maxwell to have one day where nothing awful happens. Give him a beach episode. Let Isra drink fancy cocktails from a fruit in a glorious cover-up and sun-hat. Let Not-Ivan attempt to simulate swimwear. LET HIM REST (slash give him a different kind of stress......)
*as the self-diagnosed high-masking AuDHDers in my world sometimes put it