#WIPSnips I'm going back to MEMORIES OF THE GOOD THYME INN for snippets this week, since this week's words are more common in that one🤣 Here, Shallot's life is in danger and she will only survive if Cookie can perform an illegal surgery. Grilled and Parsnips keep the inn running, making food.

I've got a new WYVERN review for you all! Thank you to @carmenloup.com who gave me an ARC of the audiobook version of The Audacity, a comedic space hijinks story with lots of gay Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy vibes! For the next 6 days, I'll post one piece at a time of my WYVERN review:

#Septopolis This answer changes by era because I have to be That Author who believes fantasy settings can change over the course of their history 😭 🍄AMANITA HEIGHTS🍄 Pre-Greed Wars, it was essentially a noble/merchant republic where the wealthiest citizens, and those with noble titles, ruled

#WIPSnips I'm going back to MEMORIES OF THE GOOD THYME INN for snippets this week, since this week's words are more common in that one🤣 Here, Shallot's life is in danger and she will only survive if Cookie can perform an illegal surgery. Grilled and Parsnips keep the inn running, making food.

It's time!!! Congratulations to our SFINCS3 authors that are now in the third year of the championship! Good luck everyone! #booksky💙📚🪐 #writers www.sfincscompetition.com/post/accepte...

#AwesomeCharacters lmao, this is basically what I did in MoLaB. The monkey's paws are spoilers (next post) Amiere is a simple family man. He would just wish for "his children to be happy and be the best they can be." Giorvi wants his daughter to grow up in a world without war.

Look at this awesome artwork Aowna made for me! This is a tro-odon, a dinosaur/bird from the Pentagonal Dominion which people can ride on. They are very smart birds and make for good companions. This one is in the Summershade Shroomery, a mushroom forest (where Amanita Heights is located)

Keeping mosquitoes away was actually something I thought about for my world. Amiere and his family keep incense burners that burn a substance called cinnadyme. it smells like cinnamon and keeps insects away. He also burns lemontine in his atelier, a substance that dehumidifies

Not only can they, but it would be very easy if they don't have the slightest knowledge of how biology works and they "heal" something incorrectly e.g. heal a bone and now its protruding into a muscle it doesn't belong in. Heal a wound before disinfecting whoops now you have sepsis

Finished a chapter! Or, what passes for a chapter in this book of unconventional formatting. I have 8 "chapter" in this "arc" 1/8 done before I begin the epic editing of this book

#Septopolis Day 21 🍄AMANITA HEIGHTS🍄 IT'S MUSHROOM VEGAS, BABY! Visitors come for the CASINOS (which, admittedly, post-Greed Wars can't directly give you money, but they have loopholes! They can give you things which are valuable and you can sell. Also, some of the prizes are houses, so... y'know.

Kinda in the mood for a story-based game. Haven't decided, but I'm leaning toward Planescape. I played it a million years ago, don't remember shit, and would like to remember it because I know it was so good, but I struggle talking about what I don't remember

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #BookSky Soon after Amiere 'adopted' the girl he'd seen being abused, she suddenly become unable to walk due to leg pain. Amiere's boss, Giorvi, is the same species as the girl and might know why her legs hurt.

Found an interesting video on daily tasks at a medieval inn. Now, mind you, the Good Thyme Inn is not medieval, and it doesn't take place on Earth, so not everything is applicable, but still, very interesting! The guy here mentioned that in some posh inns, the www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDuW...

Look at this awesome artwork Aowna made for me! This is a tro-odon, a dinosaur/bird from the Pentagonal Dominion which people can ride on. They are very smart birds and make for good companions. This one is in the Summershade Shroomery, a mushroom forest (where Amanita Heights is located)

|| Scene Commission || Art made for @kiraofthewind.com , featuring a colorful creature and location from the Pentagonal Dominion 🍄🐦 ! || #art #commission #digitalart ||

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Me, a dumbass who knows nothing about economics: *writing a chapter about economics* I bite my thumb at thee, "write what you know"

#Septopolis 🍄AMANITA HEIGHTS🍄 Locals tend to stay away from the heights where the port and all the casinos are. Instead, they stick to the lower regions. Below the waterfall, they have a variety of taverns. Their "cheap swill" is a kind of mushroom wine made from raduga polypores. In a glass, the

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #BookSky Lawkeepers don't come to Steena Village. They're not welcome. So when the government NEEDS to send a lawkeeper there, they send a Godblood, someone with magical powers who can defend himself. Of course, they also send Godbloods to deal with other Godbloods...

OC questions yoinked from Kira. 1 like = 1 answer or you can send me a number! Will answer for Narok and/or Kas.

Found a list of OC questions and I FEEL LIKE YAPPING ABOUT MY CHARACTERS I will answer for Amiere 1 like = 1 answer OR you can ask about one in particular (either on the list or on your own, if you have a specific question in mind) I'm sorry about the lack of alt text. It's too many for me

#AwesomeCharacters Well, I already wrote MoLaB, so I'll talk about the Good Thyme Inn again... Shit, it's already grimdark fantasy AND cozy slice of life🤣 I could probably whip up some kind of space opera for these characters🤔

Thinking that you HAVE to be trad pubbed and that being trad pubbed will guarantee sales. Basically, doing it for money. I don't like to be a Negative Nancy, but the likelihood that you will make 'good' money from your writing is low. Do it for the love of the game and you'll never be disappointed.

Sometimes I feel like I should talk about something other than my books. My life, what I'm doing, random other thoughts... And then I realize I'm boring as shit and I don't have any of those things. My life is "work, come home, play video games or write." My thoughts are about my books, too.🤷‍♀️

#Septopolis DAY 19 🍄AMANITA HEIGHTS🍄 Soooo many people are employed either by the port or the casinos😂 Though, there's significant upkeep. They work hard to make sure all fungi are growing where they won't be an inconvenience. And of course, the fungal farms export lots of food and drug shrooms

YES! I've been so excited for this one! I'm a sucker for characters who represent the seven deadly sins. 😍

#Septopolis 🍄AMANITA HEIGHTS🍄 Okay, bear with me, because I haven't fully fleshed this one out: I imagine that before the Greed Wars, they had a casino where if you REALLY fucked up your life, you could gamble there, with the cost being your life if you lost. Think shit like Kaiji or Squid Games.

#WIPsnips Closest I've got is a mention of the Boneyard, where the remains of Demon King Elhaim lay scattered and where his successors are bound and forced to live. He was the Demon King who Lucognidus killed, the previous Dominex (ruler of the dominion). Now, King Susan lives there. She raised Su.

#SFFChat Q4 Pre-Greed Wars Aloutia was ruled by the Imperial Adviser Anya (the Emperor was missing). She was immortal and planned to rule the country forever. Here's a snippet where she thinks about her plans for dealing with one of Aloutia's vassal queendoms (the one the Good Thyme Inn is in)

#SFFChat Q3 Going back to my answer in the intro when I mentioned Bitterblue... While I wouldn't say this is a BIG focus in the Graceling Realm series as a whole, the way Bitterblue herself thinks about it (while being a queen) was awesome. She's practically anti-royalist herself, but understands

#SFFChat Q2 I'm gonna talk about two of my books, for the "compare and contrast" aspect. On the left is pre-Greed Wars Aloutia (Memories of the Good Thyme Inn). On the right is post-Greed Wars Aloutia (Merchants of Light and Bone). cw// extreme violence mentioned in both

#SFFChat Q2 Alright, let's break it down by era and location Pre-Greed Wars Aloutia: basically the USA today. Capitalist dream, dystopia for everyone else Post-Greed Wars Aloutia: a force of good and justice. You might not like if if you're pro-capitalist or royalist, though, lmfao

#SFFChat Intro Take this opinion from an anti-royalist who generally believes the only good royal is a dead royal: The actual best fictional monarch is Queen Bitterblue. I adore her. She's one of the best characters I've had the pleasure of reading. Smart, resourceful, kind, does the right thing.

Would you rather spend an hour doomscrolling your phone & lose your faith in humanity or spend an hour enjoying some excellent prose & finding new authors to love? The choice is yours.

Today, I’m thrilled to announce the sequel series, SHADOW TWINS, will also be getting audiobook releases as well, continuing my partnership with Teagan Walsh-Davis who has brought ADJACENT MONSTERS to lyrical, nightmarish life. Stay tuned. 🫶

#WIPSnips In post-Greed Wars Aloutia, formal business attire is "bright colors" meant to imitate aposematism (when animals' coloration indicates they are poisonous/venomous/otherwise dangerous). Basically, it's customary in Aloutia for businessmen to be considered "toxic." Here, Amiere dresses up:

#Septopolis DAY 17 🍄AMANITA HEIGHTS🍄 Pic was inspo. So, mushroom forest, right? Not a lot of wood, and wood tends to get eaten by the fungus, anyway. As such, they use a lot of brick and stone in their construction. Though, a handful of the amanitas are big enough for small species like the

#Septopolis 🍄AMANITA HEIGHTS🍄 It was specifically designed to take ships from Point A at the top of the waterfalls to Point B at the bottom of the waterfalls. It's actually many waterfalls, and the river twists hard at one point, so it's not a straight shot. The city grew both along the falls and

#SeptemberWorldbuilders DAY 16: Oceanic Deities If you know about my Decatheon, you might expect me to mention Liqua, the Water Goddess. Unfortunately for her, she has next to no power over the ocean. Long before she was ever born, the ocean was imbued with demonic power and became Lord Deep Sea.

#SeptemberWorldbuilders Fell behind doing my prompts because life happened and sucked all my time away. Let's do Week 3: OCEAN! Day 1: In MERCHANTS OF LIGHT AND BONE, Amiere and his family live on the beach in a tropical region of Aloutia. They live in a whale skeleton house. Every scene is seaside

#AwesomeCharacters They're huge spoilers, and even though I'm pretty loose with saying stuff on social media that SOME might interpret as spoilers, these two instances are a no-go. Amiere goes berserk twice. The results aren't pretty.

Page 200 (currently) of Memories of the Good Thyme Inn has Shanks adjusting to life at the inn. We also get some mentions of Shallot being an oddity in her society, but if anyone dislikes it, they can hit the road

#Septopolis DAY 17 🍄AMANITA HEIGHTS🍄 Pic was inspo. So, mushroom forest, right? Not a lot of wood, and wood tends to get eaten by the fungus, anyway. As such, they use a lot of brick and stone in their construction. Though, a handful of the amanitas are big enough for small species like the

#Septopolis 🍄AMANITA HEIGHTS🍄 It was specifically designed to take ships from Point A at the top of the waterfalls to Point B at the bottom of the waterfalls. It's actually many waterfalls, and the river twists hard at one point, so it's not a straight shot. The city grew both along the falls and

The final checks are just about done! Book allocations to our judges will take place this week! Stay tuned for our announcement of our qualified novellas! #booksky💙📚🪐 #writers

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #BookSky Amiere's boss, Giorvi, is a powerful man in the guild and his signature on the right paperwork can mean life or death. So, it surprises Amiere when he learns that Giorvi taught his daughter Beatrice how to forge handwriting, including his own...

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You're not, though. You're just insulting her because you want to be an asshole. Because you want to feel like "the bigger person." Proper etiquette when giving feedback on BlueSky would involve: 1. asking her if she wants feedback. If yes, then: 2. providing actual useful feedback

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