“Cynthia, where have you been?” Hyperfocused on writing a shameless AU contemporary dark romance in 11 days where my dragon shifter is reimagined as an eccentric human composer living in SF. I… don’t recommend drafting that fast, but it was fun! And now ARCs are available! #booksky

Shouting out @cothillion.bsky.social , @clericofthevoid.bsky.social , @cachaplin.bsky.social , & @cmrosens.com once again!!

trying to get some more money for groceries, so just putting it out there that my crochet commissions are open and I've *finally* re-opened tarot readings over on KoFi. #bsnm #tarot #crochet #commissions

Old dragon art of the day. I guess this is old now. lol 2023 Time has flown by the last 3 years. Inked and painted for @cachaplin.bsky.social #dragon #art #fantasy

Auri did this one for Silver Star, Red Dragon too! One of my faves 😍 There’s a NSFW version too that I occasionally drop into my newsletter 😉 #booksky

Checking out UpScrolled share.upscrolled.com/en/user/588f...

#appreciateadragonday Dragons have been one of my obsessions to draw since I was a smol thing. Featuring characters from: Hachuru, Adagio, @cachaplin.bsky.social Last one was a for fun drawing

You can absolutely have literary fantasy with immersive worldbuilding *and* high spice. #romantasy a.co/d/2pFx2s6

Do you need someone to lovingly smack your fantasy manuscript about the brow and face until it shapes up? Have you had a hard time finding experienced beta readers? You should hire me. Any subgenre of fantasy, any spice level, pitch black or light and fluffy: I read them all. #author

Having a hard time finding reliable beta readers for your fantasy or romantasy manuscript? Hi, I offer low-cost, paid beta reads. I leave in-line comments and write up a short summary doc to help you balance the strengths and weaknesses in your writing. #writing www.cachaplin.com/services

What’s your favorite niche trope? Mine is the healer who isn’t at all intimidated by the big scary monster whose life she just saved. Much to his bafflement. #booksky

Having a hard time finding reliable beta readers for your fantasy or romantasy manuscript? Hi, I offer low-cost, paid beta reads. I leave in-line comments and write up a short summary doc to help you balance the strengths and weaknesses in your writing. #writing www.cachaplin.com/services

This is my all time favorite feedback on my writing 💀💀💀 #booksky Read Silver Star, Red Dragon and the sequel, The Dragon’s Maw, to get emotional about fantasy dick. a.co/d/ckFdxXk

Silver Star, Red Dragon is a finalist in 4 of the 5 Indie Ink Awards categories it was nominated for! I am so grateful to everyone who voted for my spicy dark romantic fantasy 😭🥰 The next stage is judging. If you’d like to check it out for yourself, it’s in KU: a.co/d/2mCp39j #booksky

After fighting to what he thought would finally be his death, the last thing the Red Dragon expected was to awaken to the beautiful woman who’d saved him—and she was not intimidated in the slightest. Silver Star, Red Dragon is a spicy dark romantic fantasy #bookthreads a.co/d/5wvNhbD

I'm currently working on a novel and at the end of an average day, I'm wiped out. The sheer amount of analysis, synthesis, making of connections, layering of prose, deepening of characterization, supplemental research... all the mental work is intense and exhilarating. Which is just to say, fuck AI.

As a fantasy author, I don’t want my name in lights. I want it in the liminal spaces. In dreams. In déjà vu tickling the back of your mind. Whispered in the trees. Murmured in the warm fog of a book hangover. Plinking against the glass on the perfect rainy day. #booksky

🎁 My best indies list for my 2025 reading year 🎁 Featuring authors @cachaplin.bsky.social @cmrosens.com @clericofthevoid.bsky.social @catrector.com & more! ❄️ What are some indies you loved this year? SHOW ME! (no ai slop) #booksky

Silver Star, Red Dragon was nominated for FIVE Indie Ink Awards! It would mean the world to me if you voted for my dark romantic fantasy. It’s free to make an account #booksky Best morally gray character indiestorygeek.com/a/indie-ink-... Wittiest character indiestorygeek.com/a/indie-ink-...

Silver Star, Red Dragon was nominated for FIVE Indie Ink Awards! It would mean the world to me if you voted for my dark romantic fantasy. It’s free to make an account #booksky Best morally gray character indiestorygeek.com/a/indie-ink-... Wittiest character indiestorygeek.com/a/indie-ink-...

Why do so many writers swing from thinking we’re storytelling gods to crying about being the most talentless hacks who’ve ever put pen to paper? I’m currently on the upswing. Check back in tomorrow for the weather change 😂 #booksky

My Most Anticipated books list for 2026 - do you share any anticipation for these titles? 💜 Featuring authors @cothillion.bsky.social , @cachaplin.bsky.social , @slhuang.com , @megbontra.bsky.social, & more!

Hey sorry I forget this platform exists sometimes! I was at the Love & Tech Bookfest this past weekend and had a blast 😁 also I uhhh have a blue and purple mohawk now. #booksky

Cúraniel is difficult. She lives life completely on her own terms. Quick to anger, impulsive, lacking in self-preservation skills. The only physical activity she doesn’t hate is good sex. She’s also compassionate, loyal, and a powerful healer with 2 soulmates who love her in opposing ways #booksky

Silver Star, Red Dragon is a spicy dark romantic fantasy about messy immortal soulmates. And yes, yes I am going to use this animation for every possible sound it fits 😂 thank you @axeartifex.bsky.social #booksky Sound up!

The Holy Trinity is finally complete: The Dragon Daddy The Babygirl The MakeYouSeeGod Ghost Art by Shade of Stars, characters from Silver Star, Red Dragon a.co/d/aqsPJso

I found another sound that fits this amazing animation @axeartifex.bsky.social did for me of two of my MCs from Silver Star, Red Dragon 😂😂😂 #animation a.co/d/eKqF1pF

I should be writing. Or doing laundry. Or literally anything productive. Instead, I’ve been finger painting in the photos app. Pleas enjoy the God of Carnage as a dragon loaf.

Unfortunately, I do love it when the FMC slaps the scary dragon shifter across the face, and it excites him. #booksky www.cachaplin.com/links

Love my characters or hate them - you’ll remember them: An AUDHD elf healer with outsized confidence & a spicy temper. A shapeshifting, razor-tongued dragon with severe trauma & the morals of a feral cat. An ADHD prettyboy elf king flirting his way out of disaster. #booksky www.cachaplin.com/links

Last call for 200+ free fantasy books! Today, OCR 5th, is the last day of Stuff Your Kindle with Fantasy - Free Fall. Grab all the books, including Silver Star, Red Dragon, my dark romantic fantasy about elves & dragons, before the prices go back. #booksky a.co/d/1HaFDFk stuffwithfantasy.com

Did you need another reason to get into my series? Silver Star, Red Dragon is book 1, and it’s part of Stuff Your Kindle with Fantasy! These might be my favorite comments ever 😂 #booksky a.co/d/gPfNr6W

Did you need another reason to get into my series? Silver Star, Red Dragon is book 1, and it’s part of Stuff Your Kindle with Fantasy! These might be my favorite comments ever 😂 #booksky a.co/d/gPfNr6W

Stuff Your Kindle with Fantasy is here!! Silver Star, Red Dragon, my dark romantic fantasy about an elf woman trying to keep her dragon soulmate from eating her elf king soulmate, is up for grabs along with 200+ other fantasy books! #booksky Links in thread!

Stuff Your Kindle with Fantasy is here!! Silver Star, Red Dragon, my dark romantic fantasy about an elf woman trying to keep her dragon soulmate from eating her elf king soulmate, is up for grabs along with 200+ other fantasy books! #booksky Links in thread!

!! ALERT !! If you missed it last time it was available, @cachaplin.bsky.social's Silver Star, Red Dragon is currently available *FOR FREE* during this Stuff Your Kindle with Fantasy event: stuffwithfantasy.com (I grabbed it when it was free last time, but I would absolutely pay for it 10x over)

I swallowed hard. ‘But everyone fears you! Surely the mere sight of you would route them!’ He pinned me with an implacable stare. ‘Teach them to fear you.’ With shaking hands, I took up my crescent blades. - The Dragon’s Maw #booksky Art by @prokaryartsllc.bsky.social www.cachaplin.com/links

Reading Silver Star, Red Dragon is a holy experience after all! www.cachaplin.com/links #rapture

Maybe I wasn’t chosen for the rapture because I’m an ex-evangelical AuDHD chaos gremlin. Maybe it’s because I married an ADHD bisexual disaster man. Maybe it’s because I support his having an occasional boyfriend. Probably it’s the weird elf/dragon smut I write. #booksky www.cachaplin.com/links

If I have a monster boyfriend, I don’t him to be neurotypical-coded. I want him to be a big fucking weirdo. That’s why I wrote Silver Star, Red Dragon the way I did - featuring a dragon shifter who’s a big fucking weirdo. #booksky www.cachaplin.com/links

From a certain perspective, my books are about two ancient, spicy weirdos with very big personalities inflicted on this one normal, practical guy until he buckles under the pressure. Then they get to clean up the mess. #booksky www.cachaplin.com/links

One of the best compliments I’ve received about Rafael, my dragon shifter MMC from Silver Star, Red Dragon: “He doesn’t read like a man who happens to be able to become a dragon. It’s very clear he’s always a dragon.” Art by Shade of Stars #booksky www.cachaplin.com/links

Hey hivemind, can you blow bubbles with blood? Google is not helpful - I only get results about embolism, which is not what I’m talking about. I need to know for a scene. For book 3 of my spicy dark romantic fantasy series - emphasis on “dark fantasy” 😅 #booksky

Some self-insert readers dislike a pov character because “I would never!” Yeah of course you wouldn’t. Otherwise you’d be the one telling this story. And it would be boring.

Cúraniel has witnessed a lot of nonsense in her long life, but this might take the cake. Censored for mildish gore - I’ll put the uncensored one in the comments. This scene is from The Dragon’s Maw, sequel to Silver Star, Red Dragon. Art by @dragonnan1.bsky.social #fantasy www.cachaplin.com/links

I’m writing a short about my dragon MMC from Silver Star, Red Dragon (minor spoilers) He’s inexperienced with intimacy, & stayed away after his first sexual encounter with the FMC. Now this evil nerd is like “I would have come back sooner but I didn’t have any books on s*x and I wanted to study.”

My favorite character archetype is funny asshole. Whether they’re big and scary, just a little guy, a feral urchin, or anything in between - the Soulbound Song is full of funny assholes. And they’re all immortal. #booksky www.cachaplin.com/links

As difficult as these last 2 months have been with the loss of my sister, I can’t express enough how much I appreciate my readers. August is officially my best month ever for page reads 😭😭😭🥰🥰🥰 Thank you from the bottom of my bog gremlin heart for venturing into the Soulbound Song series! #booksky

One reason of many I find redwood trees inspiring: Though they may fall after hundreds of years of growth, it doesn’t always mean defeat.

Excuse me while I boo hoo over what a reader just sent me about “The Dragon’s Maw,” my sequel to “Silver Star, Red Dragon.” Yes, she’s a friend, but she’s also a widely-read librarian 💜💜💜😭😭😭 #booksky