I'm doing a Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...

my fantasy short story ebook is free for a few more hours and had a chance to get #1 in some categories if anyone wants to give it a read.

What a delightful surprise to open the app to!

Subverting Tropes with Mikel D Melwasul | Episode 50 is now live! Join @mikelmelwasul.bsky.social and I as we talk about how writers and authors can play with, challenge, and reinvent tropes to keep their stories fresh and engaging. Check out the full episode below 👇

Just finished a great interview with @mikelmelwasul.bsky.social . We talked about hats, tropes, and the genre blending story that is Paragon Exordium!

Yesterday I finished Paragon Exordium by @mikelmelwasul.bsky.social An imaginative, fast-paced ride with creative worldbuilding and a gripping apocalyptic urgency. Now I’m diving back into the epic conclusion of Paternus with @undyrk.bsky.social ’s War of Gods!

Finished Wrath of Gods by @undyrk.bsky.social this morning. Every chapter seems to introduce a fresh pantheon, power set, or jaw‑dropping creature. I'll be taking a short break before I return for the exciting conclusion! Now I'm on to Paragon Exordium by @mikelmelwasul.bsky.social.

My TBR is prioritized by people who've sent me physical copies of their books. Because those cost them the most, and I've done that without the results I hoped for. Granted, I'm a ridiculously slow reader.

I haven't checked this app in a month and I have 600+ followers?!?

Did a single audiobook sale make me almost cry today? Maybe. I'm so overwhelmed. I feel like I'm losing creativity and intelligence daily. I have the tools at my fingertips for success, but I'm blocked by circumstance and luck. I can't sleep because my brain is so stressed. But I can't think.

Captain America: Brave New World. Or The Incredible Hulk 2: Sans Hulk. I like Anthony Mackie at, so it's a shame this movie wasn't as good as the previous ones. The only thing saving it from being BAD is the cast.

Someone has drawn lewd art of my book characters. Does this mean I've made it as an author?

Teaching myself to draw every day has been really helpful in grounding myself with the continuous train wreck that's been my life the last few months. But now both my thumbs are sprained. So I need to rest them. And not draw for a bit. Or game. I don't know how many straws I have left.

Having to sift through scams while trying to find a job is really taking it out of me. All four interviews I've had for jobs I really want have been scams trying to steal information from me. Applying and preparing for interviews is exhausting enough.

My last 3 sketches.

It's incredibly satisfying to watch a reader realize that your villain is actually smarter than they thought but they were too busy hating them to realize until it was too late.

Last night I received a 12 page breakdown of the board game being built based on my book world. It's nice to have a project again.

My second book is with beta readers. There are 4 main POVs, and one in particular we were a little nervous about. That POV is a teenage boy, on a very different journey from the rest of the characters. My hope was that his part of the story would give the readers a chance to breathe, cont...

If you see this, post a GIF of your favorite Disney animated film.

How I arrived on bluesky and #booksky

Book character collage! (The dog is canonically immortal, but no one knows).

Explain your username: When publishing my book I wanted something with nice alliteration for my own name which I wanted for privacy and to represent that multiple people it took to make the book beyond myself. Melwasul is taken from Tolkien's elvish and loosely translates to "Friend of the Wind."

Want your audience to be suspicious of a character? Have character B voice their suspicion of character A, and then have character C brush off that suspicion. Your audience will IMMEDIATELY relate to this experience and begin suspecting character A.

WHY DO I KEEP GETTING FOLLOWERS?!

My book is free on Amazon through tomorrow. Grab your copy now, and sink into a better version of our world where magic is hidden out of fear, but humanity grows together and learns the true power of diversity. It may give you secondhand embarrassment, sorry about that. They get better.

Well there's some good news! 📚💙 #books

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a man beyond his time, beyond even the time we live in now. Not a year should go by where his wisdom isn't forgotten. #MartinLutherKingJr

Also, my #BookTok friends, here are some great tips (more in the thread) about the unique way to adjust your account to make your #BookSky experience better. I think making Lists is essential. And fun! It’s just easier to start early.

Lúemeni Everyone! I'm OFFICIALLY an AWARD winning author! More details coming soon! I'm going to try to be more active here as well! Looking for reads and writers/enjoyers of epic fantasy, LoTR, sci-fi, dragons, sword and sorcery and so forth!

I set screentime limits for all my social apps going into this year, except this one. Because I can never scroll longer than 5 minutes on this one without being annoyed with it.

303 total copies of Paragon Exordium This year?! Word of mouth only? It's only a matter of time before my genre bending epic fantasy gets in the right hands and blows up.

Eagerly awaiting beta readers getting through chapter 6 of my book where the first moment that's going to divide them happens.

One of the small irritants of having essential tremors is food staining my clothes sometimes. If I'm wearing something I really like, I'll actively change out of it if I know I'm about to eat something that could easily slip off my utensil.

Hey everyone, Did you know that I have a wonderful audiobook available for The Masks We Wear? And if I sell 600 copies, I can work on producing book 2!!! It's available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. So grab a copy today and enjoy a unique urban fantasy in which all myths are real yet hidden.

Edited until my eyes gave out tonight. Which, hasn't happened like this before but here we are with 30 knocking on the door.

Trying so hard to get this draft ready for Beta readers by the 21st aaaaand my toddler is sick.

Took a few days to go say goodbye to my grandmother who's on her way out due to worsening dementia, she'll be gone. Anyway now, but, she knew who I was. She's been hands down one of my biggest supporters in my writing journey and I wish I'd been able to finish my series before it was too late.

10!? My readers nominated my book for 10 different categories in the Indie Ink Awards??? Surely even if I don't win any, 10 different categories round up to 1 win right? Seriously stunned right now.

Gladiator II: Some great actors doing the best they could with dialogue that felt there only to serve the plot and not the characters. But not the main one, for a man fueled by rage, the performance lacked fire internal or external. Fun action. I will rewatch the 1st movie, not rewatching this.

At what point does my time spent on writing and working on my book qualify as being a workaholic?

Started my Thanksgiving with a 14 minute mile that ended with Dangerous from Epic the Musical playing as a storm rolled in and soaked me. Genuinely fantastic start to the day.

Every time I log in to this app it takes 30 seconds to start seeing political BS. I'm not engaging with that propaganda, I'm not here for that propaganda, is that just what this app is? I want to talk about books and writing here, not propaganda. (I know books are political so don't start).

Did I mention I commissioned some new Reyja character art? My buddy from High school is super talented with pencil sketches and charcoal art. I'll share the full image of this soon! For now, enjoy the quote from Armitage (signed copies available through my website) #authorsky

Announcing a new Add-On for the Conqueror's Blood Ultimate Edition: Gunmetal Gods Golden Dinar Coin! The team and I have been working really hard on this, and I'm beyond excited. See more of the campaign here. Only 7 days remain to back it!: www.kickstarter.com/projects/zam...

Books!!!

Bookish checkpoint! 📚Last book read: Armatige by Atlas Creed. 📚Your current read: The Lighthouse At the End of the World. 📚Last book added to TBR: Not Your Mountain. 📚Next read: The Wingbreaker. #booksky #books #bookish

Hey Blue Sky, I’m new around here and looking for new friends who love classic style fantasy and goodness like: ⚔️Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit ⚔️Chronicles of Narnia ⚔️The Legend of Drizzt ⚔️Forgotten Realms ⚔️Dragonlance ⚔️Eragon Work your magic! 🧙‍♂️

Ok, new place, new algorithm. Are you a reader who enjoys: 📚 Dark Urban Fantasy 📚 Paranormal Thriller 📚 Mystery and Suspense 📚 Character Driven Plots 📚 Multi-POV 📚 Sci-Fi 📚 Horror 📚 Supernatural Come, let's be friends. #booksky

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