Tomorrow, Recent Reads continues the review of the #urbanfantasy series Magnetic Magic with Book 5, Curse of the Wolf! Catch up on the reviews of the previous 4 books today! #BookReview #BookSky #indie www.joumontfort.com/recent-reads...

#wipsnips #writesky #writingprompts Day 7 -> "lock" -> "seal" “'Write nothing down. Seal the catacomb when you’re done and set a warrior-wight on it.'” - A Chime for These Hallowed Bones ( #Romantasy , #wip ), Ch. 1 A Chime for These Hallowed Bones begins 2/3! www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#januaryworldbuilders Day 8 The Kabarāhira Sultanate doesn't have the rigid social strata seen elsewhere in the Hegemony. That said, the honor system can result in individuals or entire families being ostracized by society and pushed to the margins. www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#januaryworldbuilders Day 7 I was originally inspired to create a story about mechs spawned from a mountainside after I saw Koma-ga-take in Hokkaido. From that grew a world of alchemy and magic built upon the ruins of a Precursor civilization. www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

Recent Reads has concluded the analysis of magic superpowers! Join us for Part 4, where we discuss how the mistakes of The Empyrean are repeated more intensely in Blood Heir, Alchemy of Secrets, and Lightlark. #booktwt #BookReview #BookTwitter www.joumontfort.com/recent-reads...

#januaryworldbuilders Day 6 Bhūtas can be manipulated through sonic cues. Yadleen makes use of bells, cymbals, tambourines, and chimes to control the spirits around her, both those bound into a wight and those that are unbound. www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#SundaySnips January 4th - "renew" -> "resume" "His voice shook only a little as he resumed his shrill mantra." - A Chime for These Hallowed Bones ( #Romantasy , #wip ), Ch. 1 Part 1 begins February 3rd! #WritingCommunity #Writingprompt #Writesky #HQpress www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

Tomorrow, Recent Reads will wrap up the analysis of magic superpowers with a couple more case studies! Now's a great time to flash back to the review of one of the books we'll touch upon, Alchemy of Secrets! #BookReview #BookSky www.joumontfort.com/recent-reads...

#wipsnips #writesky #writingprompts Day 5 - "benefit" --> "sake" "For Master Baig’s sake, she’d risk more nightmares tonight." - A Chime for These Hallowed Bones ( #Romantasy , #wip ), Ch. 4 Part 1 of A Chime for These Hallowed Bones begins February 3rd! www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

Next month, I'll start releasing Part 1 of my first serialized #Romantasy, A Chime for These Hallowed Bones, for free on my website! While you wait, check out my original serialized #novella, "The Unbottled Idol", set in the same world! #indie #fantasy www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

Tomorrow, Recent Reads will wrap up the analysis of magic superpowers with a couple more case studies! Now's a great time to flash back to the review of one of the books we'll touch upon, Blood Heir! #BookReview #BookSky #indie #YA www.joumontfort.com/recent-reads...

#FantasyIndiesJanuary #writingcommunity Day 5 I try to break up writing into sessions of just 1 or 2 hours. This means I can get in 3 or 4 hours per day by working around my day job. Part 1 of A Chime for These Hallowed Bones begins in February! www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#januaryworldbuilders Day 5 To be Unnamed is to receive a stigma of irrevocable dishonor. Yadleen must stand against her master' great-nephew, Rajeev, when he demands that the bones of an Unnamed relative be honored by building a wight from those bones. www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

The 4-part breakdown of magic superpowers in modern Fantasy continues! In Part 3, we do a case study with The Empyrean - not a terrible example of the trope, but one where the pattern of misuse became clear over time. #BookReview #BookSky www.joumontfort.com/recent-reads...

#wipsnips #writesky #writingprompts Day 4 --> "home" “'Someone who should not have come home,' he decreed." - A Chime for These Hallowed Bones ( #Romantasy , #wip ), Ch. 1 Part 1 of A Chime for These Hallowed Bones begins in February! www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#FantasyIndiesJanuary #writingcommunity Day 4 Yadleen's driving motivation is to protect Master Baig, both in the sense of keeping him from dishonor and shielding him from malicious actors. Part 1 of A Chime for These Hallowed Bones begins in February! www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#januaryworldbuilders Day 4 Bhûtas will seek bones to serve as a physical vessel for them. They will possess people and force their victims to relive painful memories to assess if their victims' bones are psychometrically compatible with them. www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

This Friday, Recent Reads returns to the #urbanfantasy world of Magnetic Magic for Book 5, Curse of the Wolf! Now's a great time to catch up on the series thus far! #BookReview #BookSky #indie www.joumontfort.com/recent-reads...

#wipsnips #writesky #writingprompts Day 3 -> "calm" -> "serene" "Then he serenely folded his hands into his lap." - A Chime for These Hallowed Bones ( #Romantasy , #wip ), Ch. 7 Part 1 of A Chime for These Hallowed Bones begins in February! www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts The main characters of my #Romantasy #wip are Yadleen, a journeyman necromancer in Kabarāhira, and Rajeev, a soldier from the Kimian Empire. Part 1 of A Chime for These Hallowed Bones begins in Feb! www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#FantasyIndiesJanuary #writingcommunity Day 3 "In a gentler voice, he added, 'I am Japjot Baig, the Sultan’s High Necromancer.'" - A Chime for These Hallowed Bones ( #Romantasy, #wip ), Ch. 7 Part 1 of A Chime for These Hallowed Bones begins in February! www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#januaryworldbuilders Day 3 Outside of Kabarāhira City, there is an enormous Eldest burial ground that have been overtaken by a sal grove. The power of the Eldest has altered the trees, making them grow enormous and trapping them in eternal autumn. www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

The #OnyxStorm review has wrapped! Join Recent Reads for a final retrospective and everything we know about Book 4 and the TV show! #BookReview #BookSky #FourthWing #IronFlame #RebeccaYarros www.joumontfort.com/recent-reads...

#FantasyIndiesJanuary #writingcommunity Day 1 I'm Jou Montfort, and I am working on a serialized #Romantasy to release on my website! Part 1 of this novel, A Chime for These Hallowed Bones, begins in February! www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#wipsnips #writesky #writingprompts Day 2 -> "resolution" -> "plan" "'I won’t delay Dadiji’s afterlife for some mystic’s convoluted plan.'" - A Chime for These Hallowed Bones ( #Romantasy , #wip ), Ch. 9 Part 1 of A Chime for These Hallowed Bones begins in Feb! www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

Recent Reads is going to be getting nostalgic this year! We'll be going through the (e-)books of the Weatherlight Saga. Look for the first of these reviews, The Brothers' War, in March! #MagicTheGathering #BookReview #BookSky www.joumontfort.com/recent-reads

#januaryworldbuilders Day 2 The true nature of the divine is something I intend to leave mystery. There are lesser gods who objectively exist, but they also permit conflicting beliefs about Truth, the greater gods, and their own divine natures to thrive. www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

Happy New Year, all! To kick off 2026, Recent Reads continues the discussion of magic superpowers on modern Fantasy. Today, I'll cover the trope's limitations and lay out my concerns with how it is currently being applied. #BookReview #BookSky www.joumontfort.com/recent-reads...

#wipsnips #writesky #writingprompts Day 1 --> "begin" “'Did the practice of Unnaming begin when they took over?' Oracle asked." - A Chime for These Hallowed Bones ( #Romantasy , #wip ), Ch. 6 Part 1 of A Chime for These Hallowed Bones begins in February! www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#mythdecember #writesky #prompt Day 31 I enjoyed this prompt game. The big thing for me was building discipline to keep up with it, thinking about lore to share each day. Thanks for running this month! www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#januaryworldbuilders Day 1 My name is Jou Montfort, and I'm currently working on Síderon, a #Fantasy world scarred by a precursor civilization! My current projects are set in the Kabarāhira Sultanate and Kimian Empire, inspired by Southwest Asian cultures. www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#januaryworldbuilders Part 1 of my first serialized #Romantasy novel, A Chime for These Hallowed Bones, releases in February! To prepare, I'll spend this month on worldbuilding for the world of Síderon, including the Kabarāhira Sultanate and Kimian Empire! www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#wipsnips #writesky #writingprompts Day 31 - "end" --> "finish" "To finish the sequence, she rattled the tambourine for two seconds and gave it a single firm shake." - A Chime for These Hallowed Bones ( #Romantasy, #wip ), Ch. 6 www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

This year, I read The Will of the Many (10/10) and The Strength of the Few (8.5/10), the first two books of the Hierarchy Quartet! The deep dive analysis of Few starts next month! #BookRecommendations #bookreview #BookSky www.joumontfort.com/recent-reads...

#mythdecember #writesky #prompt Day 30 Evil on Síderon is defined by willful rejection of Truth. While any mortal is capable of this, the daeva gods were the first to do so, and they seek to tempt and corrupt mortals into bringing about their vision for the world. www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#decemberworldbuilders Day 31 My goal is to publish more free fiction to my website (including the opening chapters for A Chime for These Hallowed Bones) and to finish the Romantasy novel I am preparing for trad pub. www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#wipsnips #writesky #writingprompts Day 30 --> "sun" “The office door popped open. Akal swept in, bearing a laden tea tray and beaming like the sun. 'Yes, Uncle?'" - A Chime for These Hallowed Bones ( #Romantasy , #wip ), Ch. 3 www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

It feels like there's a rise of magic systems in Fantasy that are just superpowers. Join Recent Reads for a 4-part Interlude series about a trend that concerns me but that, as we'll cover today, is not an inherently flawed idea. #BookSky www.joumontfort.com/recent-reads...

As we await any news on Book 4 of The Empyrean, now's a great time to check out the #FourthWing bonus chapters! The final retrospective for #OnyxStorm drops this Friday! #BookReview #BookSky www.joumontfort.com/recent-reads...

#decemberworldbuilders Day 29 The gods of various tribes have afterlives prepared for their followers while awaiting the remaking of the universe. For the Ātapararan people, their afterlife necessitates destroying or repurposing a corpse's bones to free the soul. www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#decemberworldbuilders Day 30 I hit a definite slow patch on my main novel while job hunting. Still, I got to finish a novella and a short story and start on a serialized piece, so overall, it was a good year. www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#wipsnips #writesky #writingprompts Day 29 - "clobber" --> "strike" --> "blow" "The force of the blow sent the man staggering towards the door to the street." - A Chime for These Hallowed Bones ( #Romantasy , #wip ), Ch. 1 www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

There's one last Spotlight Analysis for the #OnyxStorm review! Join Recent Reads as we discuss power creep, an issue #RebeccaYarros has explicitly acknowledged without resolving. #BookReview #BookSky #FourthWing #IronFlame www.joumontfort.com/recent-reads...

#mythdecember #writesky #prompt Day 28 Hyenas are associated with the Shepherd of Dust, the patron yazata of alchemy, death, and the Kimian Empire as a whole. They are seen as divine alchemists (since they "transmute" dead flesh into sustanence for life). www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#decemberworldbuilders Day 29 In my #wip #Romantasy novel, the Kimian Empire is entering an era of radioactive quackery. Alchemists have discovered radium and, since its radiation interferes with magic, deemed it a pancea for all "supernatural" illnesses. www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#wipsnips #writesky #writingprompts Day 28 - "thread" --> "wire" "His bleached skeleton was etched with prayers and wired together with copper." - A Chime for These Hallowed Bones ( #Romantasy, #wip ), Ch. 1 www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#mythdecember #writesky #prompt Day 27 It is commonly believed that the Philosopher's Stones can grant agelessness and regenerative healing. The demagogue Kir Nikbin, who synthesized several Stones, further claimed he had been blessed with resurrective immorality. www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#decemberworldbuilders Day 28 Hunting of the Kimian Empire's hippo population is tightly regulated. While the ivory is taxed, the other bones are meticulously catalogued and destroyed so Kabarāhiran necromancers can't fashion undead juggernauts from them. www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#wipsnips #writesky #writingprompts Day 27 - "doctor" --> "autopsy" "Yadleen had been Master Baig’s apprentice for half her life ... She didn’t need a full afternoon to autopsy a skeleton." - A Chime for These Hallowed Bones ( #Romantasy, #wip ), Ch. 2 www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...

#mythdecember #writesky #prompt Day 26 The Five Dark Lords myth asserts that immortal god-kings are conspiring to mold human civilization. The Lords' identities change with the times, but Archon Kadmos has been named as one since the Kimian Empire's founding. www.joumontfort.com/tales-of-the...