Day 29- I used to be very #extroverted, but eventually learned that less than a personality trait, it was a characteristic of mania in my bi-polar. I'm much more of a homebody these days, and get a lot of my social needs met vicariously through my books. 😅 #FantasyIndiesSeptember #📚💙

"The truth is, you could write a masterpiece, but if you're hiding it under a rock, no one will ever know." - Bethany Atazadeh Don't sell yourself short. You wrote a great book, SHOUT it out, tell the world!! #indieauthors #marketing #selfbrag #booksky #writingcommunity #📚💙

Day 28- My #WIPs are in a decalogy. Some are more done than others… Book 1: 100%, ready for cover art and publishing. 2: 100%, same 3: 40%, still writing 4: 83.6% 5: 75% 6: 3%, still plotting 7: 95%, mostly editing 8: 95%, mostly editing 9: 75% 10: 10% #FantasyIndiesSeptember #📚💙 #WritingCommunity

👑 Royal family drama 💍 Arranged marriage ⚔️ War and strategy ✨ Magic 🔥 Original mythology Come join Dokiro, Ambea, Danola, and others as they set to put the right family back on the throne- whatever the cost. Book 1/10 of the series #AStoryOfDainu #IndieAuthors #📚💙 #WritingCommunity #EpicFantasy

Day 27: #SaturdaySnippet Taken from chapter 2 of #LongLivetheQueen, #AStoryofDainu #FantasyIndiesSeptember #Booksky📚💙

Day 26 I don't usually post anything unrelated to books here, but I do have huge news that I'd love to share with the group chat... WE BOUGHT A HOUSE! 🤩🤯🏡🥰 Moving, yardscaping, painting, decorating- I'm very much looking forward to all of it. Oct's gonna be busy! #FantasyIndiesSeptember #📚💙

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." - Douglas Adams #booksky #authors #writingcommunity #art #deadline #timesensitive #humor #📚💙 #lateagain

Day 25 Dokiro would be a total A+ student and extracurricular All Star. Ambea would hate public education. Her favorite subject would probably be lunch hour. Danola: history Ranala: geography Dotano: PE and wood shop. #FantasyIndiesSeptember #📚💙 #favoritesubject #WIP

Day 24: One of my favorite #WIPFacts is that all the Dainutara were made at different times. So the first creatures made, the Taifin, are about 3 thousand years older than Book 1's MCs, the Bash. This is why some seem so much more "advanced" or "modern" than others. #FantasyIndiesSeptember #📚💙

Day 23: I LOVE grammar!!! I genuinely could have coffee dates about how cool languages and their syntaxes are. Having said that, my most common pit falls are false singulars, adding commas between non-conjuncted ind clauses, and all things spelling related. #FantasyIndiesSeptember #📚💙 #Grammar #Nerd

Day 22: Dokiro loves history books, and would probably also love to write an autobiography. Ambea could probably write a good book on Zol: the language, the culture, etc. Danola would work in a library of she could- a trait she passed down through the generations. #FantasyIndiesSeptember #📚💙

“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” - Plato #books #stories #reading #writingcommunity #indieauthor #booksky #quotes #📚💙

Day 21: #AuthorWisdom I teach a whole bunch of "grammar for writers" lesson on TT, but most are summarized by "Grammar matters for voice and transparency. Omniscient narrators must be unidiomatic, which means you need to know the rules." Ex: , vs ; vs : and - vs ... #FantasyIndiesSeptember #📚💙

Across the 11 tribes of magic, three unifying principles exist: family, justice, and peace. But Dokiro, the rightful heir to the queen's throne, may only claim two of these, and no throne is claimed without consequence. #Booksky #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity #Readers #EpicFantasy #📚💙

Day 20: Saturday Snippet Taken from chap 6 of #LongLiveTheQueen, #AStoryOfDainu Dokiro has taken the palace in a flawless coup, and is having a nice little chat with the former Master of Halls. #FantasyIndiesSeptember #Snippet #BookSky📚💙

Free Friday- For those you with a long series, does the voice/tone changes from book to book? If yes, does the narrator match the characters (assuming it's not 1st POV), or is it just a different vibe? For those who don't change, is it hard to keep the tone consistent? #FantasyIndiesSeptember #📚💙

"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth." - Rumi #writingcommunity #indieauthor #booksky #readers #stories #fantasy #quotes #📚💙

Day 18: Dokiro wants his rights, but I wouldn't call him #PowerHungry per se. Danola is probably the worst in a traditional sense: willing to hurt herself and others to get what she deems to be correct/necessary. #FantasyIndiesSeptember #Books #📚💙

Day 17: #TBR Right now, I'm working through Peerless, by #MengXiShi; the last volume comes out next month. After that, I'll either pick up 定海浮生录 by #FeiTianYeXiang, cause I have Vol 1&2, or I'll start Copper Coins; I've never read #MuSuLi but I've heard GREAT things! #FantasyIndiesSeptember #📚💙

"Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow." - Sylvia Plath #booksky #stories #heartbreak #writer #poetry #beauty #sorrow #art #writingcommunity #indieauthors #📚💙

Day 16: #Marketing Golly, I wish I knew! But seriously, the best is probably just to promote yourself every. single. day. You may think it gets old, but you're gonna find a new audience each time, and having content means ppl will see it. #FantasyIndiesSeptember #indieauthor #📚💙 #writingcommunity

Day 15: I think Dokiro always held some childish desire to be "the one" that could fix the relationship with the Amaynaw in Ilinamji. Ambea probably held a similar wish to visit the Great Kings of Zol in Inizuk. Danola only ever wanted to go "back home" to Ral. #FantasyIndiesSeptember #📚💙

"Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations." ― Ray Bradbury #writingcommunity #author #character #books #stories #booksky #indieauthor #📚💙 #ForThePlot

Day 14: How dare you ask an author to pick #FavoriteBooks?? It’s impossible! This list is by NO MEANS conclusive: #OnEarthWeAreBrieflyGorgeous #魔道祖师 #TheHitchhiker’sGuide #Fahrenheit451 #AnimalFarm Literally anything by #Steinbeck #TheReaperAndTheWaiting #FantasyIndiesSeptember #📚💙 #Authors

"It’s better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of them from reading their books." - Italo Calvino

Day 12: #Autumn Could anyone not think of the #Redwall series by Brian Jacques when thinking of autumn? Of course, #ThousandAutumns by Meng Xi Shi is impossible to ignore by name alone. #HalloweenTree by Bradbury gets the spooky season going. There are so many favorites! #FantasyIndiesSeptember #📚💙

"Reading is like breathing in, and writing is like breathing out." - Pam Allyn #reading #writing #writingcommunity #art #ThisIsWhatWeStayAliveFor #booksky #quotes #📚💙

Day 11: Next WIP #AStoryOfDainu is a 10-book series. Books 1 &2 are written, edited, Beta-read, and ready for publication. I'm mostly working on 3&4 now, and they're about 50-60% done. 5&6 are about 2% done, but 7 and 8 are 95%, 9 is about 50%, and 10 is about 10%. 😅 #FantasyIndiesSeptember #WIP #📚💙

"You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." - Paul Sweeney What was the first example you thought of when hearing this quote? Answer in the comments. #Booksky #GoodBooks #Readers #IndieAuthors #Quotes

Day 10: Knowledge or Power? I think *most* all the monarchs throughout the series would argue that knowledge IS power. The question really comes down to which is more powerful: knowing the truth, or knowing how to tell a lie? #FantasyIndiesSeptember #PowerIsPower #📚💙

"One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone." - Shannon L. Alder #stories #books #writingcommunity #poetry #indieauthor #notalone #huamnity #literature #booksky #📚💙

Day 9: Bash tribes are divided by family and ai bado. Dokiro and his tribe have "Alia's Youth"- they are slow to age and live long lives. Ambea has the Ejo ai bado- they can control winds, breezes, and strong gales if well trained. #FantasyIndiesSeptember #Magic #AboutTheCharacters #📚💙

"If your library is not 'unsafe', it probably isn't doing its job." - John Berry #books #libraries #writingcommunity #readers #censorship #safespace #librarycontroversy #homeless #publiceducation #publicaccess #📚💙

Day 8: Dokiro loved his education, and enjoys learning new things every day. Ambea hated the 'classroom' aspect, but loves learning new things too. Danola considers herself something of a scholar, and probably would have made a better Master of Pen than Master of Halls. #FantasyIndiesSeptember #📚💙

“A writer is a world trapped in a person.” - Victor Hugo #writer #writingcommunity #authors #indieauthor #books #stories #poetry #literature #quotes #booksky📚💙

Day 7: I always knew this series was about family dynamics and the notion of generational trauma, but it wasn't until I wrote a dedication to my grandmothers that I noticed the overlaps in my own family's history. Genuinely shocked me to realize! #FantasyIndiesSeptember #WIP #AStoryOfDainu #📚💙

Danola spoke first. "Three hundred days you were away, but finally you came home to the Peninsula. Three hundred years Alamahs has been without her throne, but finally, her time has come to return to Ral." "Long live the Queen," Dokiro answered. #Excerpt #IndieAuthor #📚💙 #AStoryOfDainu #Querying

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👑 Royal family drama 💍 Arranged marriage ⚔️ War and strategy ✨ Magic 🔥 Original mythology Come join Dokiro, Ambea, Danola, and others as they set to put the right family back on the throne- whatever the cost. Book 1/10 of the series #AStoryOfDainu #IndieAuthors #📚💙 #WritingCommunity #EpicFantasy

Day 4: #Fandoms I am a conundrum when it comes to fandoms. I love epic fantasy literature; really don't like DnD. I like anime and donghuas; went to a Con once and hated it. Right now I'm DEEP into Danmei and K-manhuas, but I find most fans creepily imperious. #FantasyIndiesSeptember #📚💙

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all." - Oscar Wilde I know some folks disagree with our friend Mr. Wilde, but those folks are wrong. 😂 What are your favorite re-reads? #books #reading #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #booksky

Day 4. For LLtQ: Dokiro loves to read about the other Dainutara- Dost and Amayna are his favorite -but he also enjoys swimming. In the South, Ambea liked to practice her bow, but in the East, she mostly likes exploring all the nooks and crannies of the palace. #FantasyIndiesSeptember #Hobbies #📚💙

"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book." - John Green #booksky #readers #books #lifechanging #zeal #writingcommunity #📚💙

Day 3: There are fifteen races in #AStoryOfDainu, and each one has a different approach to education. Book 1's MCs, Bash, have no formal system, but royalty/clan-heads are expected to be learned in history, politics, and etiquette. #FantasyIndiesSeptember #Booksky #Readers #WritingCommunity #WIP

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his needs, is good for him." - Maya Angelou #booksky #readers #habit #books #homelibrary #quotes #reading

Day 2: I have a TBR a mile long. Since I'm a big (epic) fantasy reader, books usually come in packs. If I start Vol 1, I'll read until the series is over. After that, I volley between 'this is just like the one I finished' and 'this is entirely different'. #booksky #FantasyIndiesSeptember #WIP

“You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.” — Dr. Seuss #quotes #books #reader #writingcommunity #poetry #booksky #📚💙

My name is Duke, and I am writing a decalogy with entirely original mythology, histories, and languages. The series is called #AStoryOfDainu, and I am currently querying book 1: Long Live the Queen.

"A man who tells stories must think of who is reading them, for a story has as many versions as it has readers." - John Steinbeck #stories #readers #writtingcommunity #poetry #indieauthor #booksky #quotes #📚💙

"Limash sat on the eastern border of Brachao. It was surrounded almost completely by mountains, forests, or ocean; protected from all sides against any who would try to invade. Protected also, one might think, from any who would try to escape." #📚💙 #Excerpt #OpeningLine #IndieAuthor #Readers