I got "The Chrysillium Tree" last week... Really enjoying it. I'm only on pg61, but things are already happening fast! Y'all need to get it.

Hello new followers! 💜 I'm Ame, a writer and artist from Sweden. Here you'll find me answering worldbuilding and character questions and drawing both OCs and fanart. I take character portrait commissions on my ko-fi: ko-fi.com/autumnchild I also have a RedBubble: www.redbubble.com/people/Autum...

✨ 4 Weeks Until Star of Shalik ✨ But first… An empire’s conquest.
A people bound to living magic.
A fragile peace centered on sacred trees. Star of Shalik arrives Feb 1 Start w/The Chrysillium Tree, available now #FantasyBooks #IndieAuthor #RebellionVsEmpire

✨ A new year, a new world to lose yourself in ✨ Whispered rebellion. Ancient magic. Sacred trees bound by a fragile treaty... If you love immersive, lyrical fantasy, The Chrysillium Tree is waiting. 🌿✨ 📖 Available now a.co/d/4i8u557

She was hidden.
She was waiting.
She was always more than she knew. ✨ Meet Rowynn— a conscript with forgotten magic and a hidden destiny. Star of Shalik
⭐ Preorders open Releases Feb 1, 2026 #FantasyBooks #BookSky #EpicFantasy

✨Moments of Inspiration✨ Today’s inspiration: 💫BOOKS💫 Here are some of my favorite indie authors: 🔥 Fire Fox duology by Amanda Sloothaak 💖 anything by E.P. Stavs 🌙 Moon Beetles duology by B. Joyce You can find them on Instagram! How about you? 📚✨ #WritingCommunity

New digital painting: The Fazl Mosque © 2025 Tanweer Dar Also known as Masjid Fazl, London & The London Mosque (the oldest mosque in London, built in 1924). Longest art project thus far - spent 10+ hours on this. #Art #DigitalArt #Krita #NoAI #London #Mosque #Building #ArtSky

I adore the world of The Chrysillium Tree… but I’d never survive it. 🌲😅 Rebellions, dangerous magic, secretive cultures, and an empire that devours people whole—here’s why my own fantasy world would absolutely take me out. Would you make it? ✨ #BookSky #FantasyBooks #IndieFantasy #Worldbuilding

✨Moments of Inspiration✨ Today’s inspiration: 💫 MUSEUMS 💫 Boston's Museum of Science - where the kiddo and I are visiting today - so inspiring! The Tower of Refraction from SoS was born here. Amongst many other ideas and inspirations. How about you? What places inspire you? 🗺️ ✨ #WritingCommunity

✨ Star of Shalik received its first 5-star review on Goodreads ✨ I’m beyond grateful to early readers who are stepping into this world with me. Seeing readers connect with this story before release means more than I can say. 🌙💫 Preorders are open — and the journey is just beginning.
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Oh damn that's a fun question and a cool thing to know about your work. Sets some interesting expectations 😁 I've been mostly influenced by the action of old school James Cameron, the slow burn world building of Ridley Scott and the hopeful aesthetic of Star Trek. That's the cocktail of Jim ha.

✨Moments of Inspiration✨ This week, I’m sharing the things that motivate me, spark that inner flame, and help shape the worlds I create. Please feel free to join in! Today’s inspiration: 💫FILMS💫 For me, it’s directors like Guillermo del Toro and Hayao Miyazaki. How about you? 🎬✨ #WritingCommunity

Today's the day. SHADOW OF THE ELDERS, a dark epic fantasy, is available wide both ebook and paperback! If you've been waiting until it left Amazon to check it out, now's the time! books2read.com/shadowoftheelders #booksky #writingcommunity #fantasy 📚🪐💙🩷🧙⚔️

Preorders for Star of Shalik are open! ✨ Order now to have the ebook delivered to your reader on Feb 1st. ⭐ Star-born magic 🖤 A demon of shadows 🌙 A dream realm w/a starry palace and mythical sea 🌿 Bioluminescent forests 💫 A conscript with an extraordinary destiny 🔗 a.co/d/fbWkMu5 #FantasyBooks

#BluePit is ready to kick off 2026! Creators in the #WritingCommunity, #GameDev & #IndieDev, #TTRPG, and #Comic communities get ready to pitch or promote your projects! #BluePit will be taking place on Jan 13th, 2026! And #BluePitHype starts January 8th! #WriteSky #Writers #AmAgenting #LitAgents

Enjoying a week off from work ✨ We’ve got some fun day trips planned with kiddo, plus a few low-key days at home. There will be writing, goal-setting, and lots of reading—I started 2 new books! No #5amWritersClub for me this week, but I will join you all again next week. Happy writing, friends! 🪄✨

Just finished The Convergence by Casie Aufenthie. A powerful, heart-wrenching conclusion that brings the trilogy full circle. An unforgettable ending to a favorite series! Looking for new series to start? I highly recommend 💙✨ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #BookReview #SciFiReads

There's no new Shadows & Sorcery this week but there are nearly 800 individual short and sweet reads in the archives (free to read btw) shadowsandsorcery.substack.com #fantasy #flashfiction #indieauthor #fantasyreads

✨ 5 weeks until Star of Shalik ✨ Reason #3 to start w/The Chrysillium Tree: the ancient lore 
A hidden library. A vanished people. A sacred grove of magical trees, slowly dying. 🌳 
Star of Shalik arrives Feb 1—set 19 years later, with familiar faces returning. #BookSky #FantasyBooks #IndieFantasy

✨KOSAL Update✨ The prequel novella is now fully available (and free) on Substack 🌒 
Uncover the origin of the Azantium arrival (from TCT) and the fall of the Shalik (SoS). 📖 Ebook releases Feb 22, 2026
✨ Includes an extra chapter not on Substack—one that changes everything #BookSky #FantasyBooks

For those in-between, post-holiday days… ❄️ 
Looking for a world to sink into—unforgettable characters, lush landscapes, and high-stakes magic? ✨ The Chrysillium Tree is on sale through the weekend.
Join the 600+ readers who’ve already picked it up this week. 🔗 a.co/d/aqoaCOw
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My ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review of 'Children of Time' by Adrian Tchaikovsky - @aptshadow.bsky.social #Books #Reading #SciFi #Fiction #BookSky www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Commission for @mycelialwriter.bsky.social. Thank you for trusting me with your book babies 🥰 I loved working on these portraits.

Too much dinner? Noise? Family? Hide in a corner, under a table, or in a bathroom, choose any issue, and take a walk through some weird worlds for a few minutes with flash fiction from Shadows & Sorcery! shadowsandsorcery.substack.com #FlashFiction #Fantasy #IndieAuthor #FantasyReads #Christmas

The final KOSAL chapter just dropped! Merry Christmas 🎄✨ It’s the only chapter in Alandiran’s POV—any guesses why? You can now read the full prequel novella, telling the origin of the Azantium Empire (TCT) and the fall of the Shalik (SoS)👇🏼 #FantasyRead open.substack.com/pub/mycelial...

Definitely, my favorite gift—maybe of all time 😆🐳📝 #WriterLife

Merry, merry! 🎄✨ A day of gift opening, endless coffee/cocoa, and eating like a hobbit 🎁♥️ Wishing you all a cozy, peaceful Christmas 🪄💫

Something nice for Christmas morning……….. youtu.be/OLHxxBTl71I?...

New character art for Star of Shalik 🖤✨ 
⭐ Rowynn: an ancient magic, a destiny hidden in time
🌙 Zi: Night Prince, demon of the dream realm
⚔️ Isaac: Lyndallian mind wizard returns bound by duty Art by @autumnchildart.bsky.social 💫
 Their story unfolds February 1st, 2026. #FantasyBooks #CharacterArt

Merry Christmas Eve! 🎄✨ My little writing nook as I settle in for the final read through of KOSAL and some beta reading. Happy writing, friends 🪄✨ #5amWritersClub

Ch7 of KOSAL just dropped 🕯️🤍✨ Azriel sat at the bedside and kissed Thelinth’s eyes. “Tell me, what haunts you so?” “A face cloaked in time and shadow… It smiles at me, Azriel, as if it knows something. It smiles just beyond the veil of this existence. It waits.” open.substack.com/pub/mycelial...

Tomorrow… ✨ I can barely contain myself and honestly don’t know if I can wait until tomorrow… but tomorrow, I have some artwork from Star of Shalik that I can’t wait to share with you! Can you guess which three characters? #FantasyReads #art #CharacterArt

✨STAR OF SHALIK✨ Conscripted into a war against the mystical Lumani, Rowynn keeps a dangerous secret: an uncontrollable magic rises within her, the very magic the army seeks to destroy. Her only solace is in the demon who visits her dreams. 💫PreOrders Open💫 #BookSky www.amazon.com/dp/B0G6VYJ6F...

I’m not feeling the magic at all this year. Maybe a lorkai got me 😝 Still trying to celebrate, so Blackened is fr33 through Christmas. #DarkFantasy #DarkRomance #DarkRomantasy #FantasyHorror #MonsterRomance #SpicyReads #BookSky

Feeling under the weather but in complete denial that I may be getting sick 2 days before Christmas! KOSAL edits are complete. Today I finish edits for the extra chapter for the ebook (the one w/the spoilers). Then it’s on to the final read through 💃✨ Happy writing, my friends! 🪄✨ #5amWritersClub

Chapter six of KOSAL just dropped on Substack 🕯️🤍✨ Selania’s eyes burned, and with a flick of her finger, the paper the artist had been sketching on went up in flames. Her eyes fell on the general. “I did not come here to sit for your pictures.” Read here: substack.com/@mycelialwri... #FantasyRead

It’s been an incredible week—thank you to all of you! After years of few sales/many doubts, I kept going, and now things are happening. If you’re where I was not long ago, please keep going. You never know what’s around the corner 💛 ✨ TCT: 649 orders this wknd ✨ SOS: 96 ARC readers #WritingCommunity

Happy Monday and merry Yuletide 🕯️✨ Editing the final chapter of KOSAL this morning. Then just the bonus ebook chapter to edit. Almost there 🙌🏼💫 Also wrote a few scenes from book 3 and jotted notes for a brand new story idea—outside the Chrysillium saga 😳☺️ Happy writing, friends! #5amWritersClub

In the new SHADOWS & SORCERY, take a walk through three old school fat lore dumps of esoteric worldbuilding and soak in some dark fantasy atmosphere! shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/shadows-an... #FlashFiction #Fantasy #IndieAuthor #SFF #WritingCommunity

TCT is ranked #26 on Amazon’s Fantasy Best Seller list✨💫 Thank you SO much to my incredible readers💛 553 copies sold on a book that’s been out for three years… truly unreal. Think we can push it into the Top 10 today? Let’s see 👀✨ And the best part? TCT is FREE today. Happy Solstice!!🕯️🤍✨ #BookSky

✨ Happy Solstice! ✨ 🎁 Solstice gifts for readers: • Star of Shalik preorder is live! • Kickstarter backers get the SoS ebook TODAY • KOSAL continues on Substack (daily chapters through Dec 25) • TCT is FREE for today only Links are here: linktr.ee/lakenhoneycu...
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Pssst… I know it’s late but I just wanted to point out The Chrysillium Tree has sold 450 copies and is #43 on the Amazon best seller list for Fantasy!!! To everyone reading, following, sharing…Thank you!!!! ✨💫✨💫✨

Omg!! 200 people just bought The Chrysillium Tree! I don’t know what’s going on but I’m here for it 💃✨ #IndieAuthor

Tomorrow… 👀🖤🌙✨ #BookSky #FantasyReaders

The small imperfections on this shell create illusion of stars #417 taken 6:24 pm #photography #abstract #art #macro #abalone

Happy December ✨❄️ Just giving my nerdy fantasy girl book update—trying not to look too uncomfortable 😅💖 📚 76 ARC readers for SoS
📖 TCT is on sale
🖤 KOSAL edits are almost done
🌞 Solstice gifts coming this Sunday Thank you, truly, for supporting my books 💛 #BookSky #FantasyBooks #AuthorUpdate

Sky Fall #1127 taken 11:09 am #art #photography #macro #abstact

Another long exhausting day but it’s okay because I have a steaming mug of tea, my warm fuzzy socks, and the latest installment of Shadows & Sorcery to cozy up to… and yes, dark wizards and armies of the undead is how I cozy 😆🖤✨ How do you like to unwind after a long day? #AmReadingFantasy

In the new SHADOWS & SORCERY, join the tomb-and-ruiner gang on three gigs below the city way outta their depth as a rogue crusader brews war with an army of the undead... shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/shadows-an... #FlashFiction #Fantasy #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity 💙📚

7 weeks until Star of Shalik... Though book 2 can be read as a standalone, here’s Reason #2 you might want to start with The Chrysillium Tree: 
✨ readers LOVE the MCs ✨ Mæve, Armaiti, and Isaac—bound by loyalty, secrets, and impossible choices. Star of Shalik arrives Feb 1st. #FantasyBooks