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My name is Coral Vega, author of the YA Fantasy Dawnfeather. Also currently writing adult romantasy A Dance of Fire. Aspiring to be trad published. I love dark, urban, and high fantasy as well as romantasy! #writingcommunity #amquerying #writerslift #amwriting #booksky
Today is the day! The Nexus Prince is out now. Thank you all for your support.
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#indie #author #debut #novel #fantasy #thenexusprince #johnlucyash #dragon #humor #paperback #ebook
Two or more related novels should relate on the bookshelf. Minimum they should be the same size and have relational book cover designs that are thematically similar. You want your reader to buy both particularly if they are seeing the second one first.
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Got to love VR. Researching the locations for my current project in VR Google Earth. Standing at a lakeside and looking up at the surrounding mountains - that I'll probably never visit - has helped my worldbuilding immensely.
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I'm going to have to Google the phenomenological thing...
My BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Iain M. Banks' The State of the Art can now be found and played here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
With the enshittification of everything technological that I once loved, the appeal of all things analog and offline is getting irresistible…
A question to fellow writers. How the hell do you switch off? My brain is constantly working on the next plot point.
#amwriting #writingcommunity
Portrait photo of Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb
is a
beautiful poem
written by
Amanda Gorman,
who recited it at President Biden‘s inauguration.
“When day comes,
we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade?”
—Amanda Gorman
b. March 7, 1998 🎈
#Poet #botd #poetry
Happy birthday 🎈
Amanda Gorman
«[...]Fatima. It’s a name of peace, of bread and butter, of afternoon strolls. And there she was, a vision of sin. Calling her Fatima was like calling a Doberman trained to kill “butter cake.”»
#RetroArtPrompt price to pay
👉 trombalazana.substack.com/p/butter-cake
A purple holding cover with the title and author
A new Becky Chambers book has been announced!
It's too early even for the final cover art, but As You Wake, Break the Shell is due out in October and available for preorder 🚀
Any new Chambers novel is an insta-buy for me. She hasn't let me down yet
🪐📚💙
The cover of JITTERBUG by Gareth L Powell features a stylised rocket silhouette at the centre of an orrery, with a space suited figure dangling in its wake
Just a reminder that early reviews really help new books gain visibility and readers. So if you enjoy JITTERBUG, please drop a quick review on Goodreads, Amazon, etc. I’d really appreciate it 😀
Another technology from Judgement, this time - the 'Mesh.'
#scifi #sciencefiction #worldbuilding
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The cover of USE OF WEAPONS by Iain M Banks.
For World Book Day, with very happy memories of 1990. There'll be a glass of single malt raised this evening...
Happy World Book Day! 💙📚
#writerslife
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Bath Abbey on a cloudy day
Surpringly cold & grey over the hill in Bath today.
#writerslife #Bath
The cover of JITTERBUG by Gareth L Powell features a stylised rocket silhouette at the centre of an orrery, with a space suited figure dangling in its wake
RELEASED TOMORROW!
A traumatised bounty hunter. A betrayed pirate queen. An ambitious politician. Can they somehow work together to save the human race? Published by @titanbooks.bsky.social and available through all good booksellers.
Springer Spaniel led in grass
Poised and ready for a new week.
I'll be focusing on the WIP I think.
#writerslife
Post from Julia Fine that says, "Write the book you want to read because you will have to read it 75 times."
#writerslife
I'm still going through some old images that I wanted to include Chandra data for but have only recently learned how. Look here for N49 without x-rays. This time I opted for blue-green to represent x-rays because magenta was already a prominent color in the optical image. It's harder to conflate the two this way. I will also simply reference this excellent article which more than adequately explains why this object is interesting to view in high energy wavelengths: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2010/n49/ Physics! Red: hst_08110_01_wfpc2_f673n_wf_sci + (Lighten) hst_06827_02_wfpc2_f547m_pc_sci Green: hst_08110_01_wfpc2_f656n_wf_sci + (Lighten) hst_06827_02_wfpc2_f380w_wf_sci Blue: hst_08110_01_wfpc2_f502n_wf_sci + (Lighten) hst_06827_02_wfpc2_f300w_pc_sci Blue-green: merged, broad-band (0.5-7.0 keV) data (via OpenFITS) North is NOT up, but it almost is. It's only 5.3° counter-clockwise from up.
Supernova Remnant N49 with X-Rays - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/nb5Tif
Reading and re-reading the opening chapters to Judgement, trying to second guess if it can be better. Pre-publishing nerves, anyone?
#writingcommunity #indieauthor #scifibooks
Loving my current physical read
EXILE
Book 1 of CAEIN LEGACY
by the awesome
@ajcalvin.bsky.social !
This week's blog post is about a lesson I learned as a firefighter, and became the theme for #Judgement
#writingcommunity #indieauthor
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At dawn, before the suns have risen, I climb the dune that protects the cemetery where I see half-buried pressure domes, titanium ribs exposed like a carcass cleaned by time itself.
#RetroArtPrompt before the sun
👉 trombalazana.substack.com/p/hurrrsh-5be
The Horsehead and Flame Nebula.
55 years ago I saw an image of the Horsehead in a book on Astronomy, that image sparked a lifetime love of the subject.
This is 1 hour of data from last night in SHO.
#astronomy #astrophotography
I do like a nice bookmark, the bottom design is my fave.
How about you?
#Authors #amreading #amwriting #booklovers #indieauthor #mustread #writerslift #bookworm #asmsg #WritingCommunity
Reading this myself at the moment. Agree on the characterisations.
Feeling lucky? Pretty much sums up publishing, life, the universe, and everything.
#indieauthor #selfpublishing
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