MELEE WEAPONS The skarastaja favor axes and swords, though they also carry daggers. They use these weapons even when facing off against the årdrakin, who have superior energy weapons. The årdrakin also use swords and daggers. #JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚

🚨Today's the day!🚨 Here's the new 5th anniversary #CoverReveal for The Re-Emergence. The same critically acclaimed story you know and love, now much more handsome on your shelf 😁 Check it out: www.alankdell.co.uk/...#CoverRevealI'm really proud of it. Hope you like it too! 📢📚🪐 🤏📚 #SFF #BookSky

Kindle, Kobo, Nook, Google Play, Libby/Overdrive, itch. If there's a digital platform for ebooks out there, you can probably find The Dark Side of Super and The Backwards Knight. Ask your library for them. Same with physical locations, or directly through me for signed copies. #Booksky

LONG-RANGE WEAPONS All the space-faring races in the Akrodaxis are able to fight ship to ship with torpedoes, breaching pods, and advanced beam weapons. They can also bombard planet surfaces from orbit. #JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚

Have redrafted Children of Wrath up to the end of Chapter 7. New shenanigans are occurring but I’m not sure what to do with Chapter 8. The current thread needs a bit more before I switch back to the other POV.

Hey guys! My debut book, Desiccate, with @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social is coming out this June! It's a little bit Avatar the Last Air Bender, little bit absent Gods, little bit chaos. Ask me anything! I will casually slide around spoilers. #booksky #writesky 📚🪐💙

Watch out: Just one day to go! Tomorrow I'll be revealing a brand new cover for The Re-Emergence in celebration of its fifth anniversary year. 👀 I'm so excited to share it with you all. #CoverReveal 💙📚🪐 #SFF

What are five things in your upcoming release? Untwined has: ⛓️ magical torture & experimentation 💫 otherworlds and parallel dimension-sight ❄️ big ol' snowy mountain ⬛ the metaphysical manifestations of all my trauma 🍑 peach compote

Arg. The new content poster I’m using lost the ALT text I set for the images in my last post! And the hashtag bugged (isn’t clickable). Sigh…

WHAT KIND OF ARMOR? Årdrakin have highly advanced armor, whether it's generated by wetware or made traditionally. It often resembles fantasy armor and is always painted in their respective clan's colors. More info: https://ubl.akairondragon.ca/wiki #JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚

MAGICAL/IMPORTANT ARMOR It seems magical, but årdrakin battle armor is generated by wetware just like their clothing. Each clan's armor is unique and color-coded to declare the individual's allegiance. #JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚

ANTAGONIST'S WEAPON In Children of Wrath, Senmatu carries an axe but mainly uses her people, and the starship Fortune, as weapons. Her people tend to carry guns, daggers, and smaller axes. #JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚

The Friday Featured Spotlight has ALL the posts from @thewritereads.bsky.social Blog Tour of #TheFirstSin by @akairondragon.ca. Go check it out! #scifi #fantasy #Booksky 📚💙📚🪐

The shipping vendor sent me ANOTHER invoice for $52. So now I’ve been charged $282+ over and above the actual shipping costs for my books. I can’t even. 🤬

MC'S WEAPON In The First Sin, Cerobi favors an intricately carved axe. The carvings are ancient runes and the axe was created by the Whole specifically for her. #JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚

POPULAR FOOD/DRINK In årdrakin society, meat is very popular since the people are primarily carnivorous in nature. But they also enjoy fruit and fruit juices from the jungle. #JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚

The dragon is out of the cave. The Collector's Edition is here! This is one of the most special moments of my life. I am so proud of how this turned out & so grateful to @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social for everything. 💚 Friends, ordering this is now by far the best way to support me! ☺️ // #Booksky

Hi #PortfolioDay ₊˚⊹ I'm Grace, illustrator for various books and MtG. Hoping to open commissions again in the spring :) ✧ gracezhuart.com ✧ www.inprnt.com/gallery/grac...

CLOTHES IN MC'S SOCIETY In årdrakin society, people mainly wear wetware clothing, that is, clothing generated from software in their brains using a special skinsuit. For the higher castes, traditional clothing is a luxury made by grandmaster designers. #JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚

HERE. WE. GO. THE COLLECTOR'S EDITION OF THE WINDS OF WAR HAS ARRIVED! FEAST YOUR EYES! // #Writing #Booksky

Routines just don't work for neurodivergent minds, but we can build rituals to help us get into a writing mindset. This week's Patreon post is all about rituals to get more words down more consistently! And subscribing to my Patreon helps me get chemo—win-win! www.patreon.com/posts/buildi...

Don't panic! This is only a test. A test of what, you ask? I'll never tell… 😏 (Or maybe I will, if you ask nicely.)

GESTURES/GOOD MANNERS In årdrakin society, it is expected that people raise their wing tips when greeting or saluting someone of high caste, royalty, or superior rank. This requires them to have high ceilings! #JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚

One of my pet peeves in sci-fi is when aliens are just humans with purple skin (and my sci-fi writing clients know it, haha). Here are some tips on how to make them more alien! #Writing #SciFi #ScienceFiction

Day starting off well with a text from work that the new hire I’ve been training (and who was doing really well!) quit over the weekend. 😩

Need something to listen to? We're discussing A NATURAL HISTORY OF DRAGONS by Marie Brennan on the podcast! #TheWorldbuildersTavern #Podcast #Fantasy

I have tiny TBR space and would love to hear about something/someone new if possible. Please send recommendations for... Short stories, preferably by marginalized authors. Bonus points for very high heat and/or horror. Cozy horror will get you a medal. Self-pub always preferred but not required.

ISSUES IN SOCIETY The skarastaja face increasing environmental issues, as their sun is aging and slowly baking their world. This means less food and water to go around every light season, and that puts pressure on their population. #JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚

GENDER ROLES The Akrodaxis has many societies that I am still getting to know. The celaya have no gender. The årdrakin assign gender at birth but accept if the individual decides differently later. The skarastaja are fairly similar. The others? Undetermined yet! #JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚

Sent 18 attachments to the credit card company today supporting my disputes. Also discovered the vendor has disabled their fees calculator over “billing concerns”. Smells like guilt to me.

I’d really like to be working on writing right now. 😩

MC'S POSITION IN SOCIETY In The First Sin, Tårik comes from an upper midblood family, which means he has enjoyed a fair amount of wealth and privilege. This is all lost to him once he's exiled, however. #JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚

Have been on hold with my credit card company for 50+ minutes to discuss disputes against my shipping vendor. The vendor originally told me no extra fees would apply to my shipments, then 1.5 months later charged me $230 over and above what was charged up front. The dragon has not been happy.

Here's the email that goes with the Amazon impersonation scam that's going around (note the fake email address--Amazon is not going to be emailing you from a Gmail address)

SOCIAL CLASSES Årdrakin society is a stratified one, with clear distinctions between those with great wealth and influence and those with little or none. More info can be found on the wiki: akairondragon.ca/books/akroda... #JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚

INSPIRATION The Akrodaxis has been with me so long, it's difficult to pinpoint something specific as inspiration. I know I took influences from many sources, particularly Disney's Gargoyles, Star Wars, Xena, Star Trek, Mass Effect, Babylon 5, and more. #JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚

I did a thing where I drew 50 bugs. It was supposed to be 100 bugs/100 days, but that was a bit much. It also took 10 months but - I finished. You can find them all posted on Instagram and Cara. \o/ Birds are coming next! www.instagram.com/quail_creati... cara.app/stargrace #artist #pencilcrayon

A USEFUL ELEMENT In The First Sin, the MCs briefly return to society and are able to access healthcare to heal their wounds. Healthcare is freely available to all imperials. #JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚

A PROBLEMATIC ELEMENT In The First Sin, the MCs run afoul of their society's occasional tendency to exile people for committing egregious crimes. Problem is, in their case the only crime is that they survived while other (more "important") people didn't. #JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚

On my Patreon, I don't just teach you how to edit your books; I throw open the cover, spread out the notes, and show you my entire self-editing process. Want to see how a professional editor works on their own book? Want to help me get chemo?? Join now! www.patreon.com/posts/star-c...

Today I go back to work for the first time since December 23. I am not ready and don’t wanna. 😒

SOMETHING TERRIFYING I've spoken about them before... The karnikurs on Berwen have to be the most terrifying thing I've created in the Akrodaxis so far. They eat their own kind, and they eat people whole. They are basically a maw of teeth and a stomach with six legs. #JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚

Finally making some progress on the Children of Wrath rewrite! I’ve hit Chapter 6 and I think it’s going well. 😄

SOMETHING GRAND/MAJESTIC I think that the Akrodaxis itself is pretty majestic. A whole galaxy of different species! They don't always get along, but they always have grand adventures and I'm looking forward to exploring them all. #JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚

this is genuinely how it feels for me and why i plan to spend the next two months sleeping as much as possible. 🚮

Hey folks, going to be spending a day saving my voice and getting more videos up on YouTube so there won't be a stream to round off the week. Back Tuesday with a new start to RimWorld!

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I’ve been crafting 🥰🌲🍄

STAYING A MYSTERY There are probably lots of things I intend to keep mysterious in the Akrodaxis. But if I told you what those things are, they wouldn't be mysteries, now would they? #JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚

If you have a Shopify store, better go read this Reddit thread and watch the referenced Instagram reel. 😬