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My current high fantasy WIP follows an expedition through an ocean full of magical creatures and dark mysteries. Jaera, captain of the Lystiem, visits her ailing mother in the MedWing of the Threshfaerin Deep Sea Association (TDSA) to recenter herself. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #FantasyAuthor

In my independently published novel RUNEWAVE, the magical flora and fauna of the Zenithian Swamp are key elements of the ecosystem. See here an illustration from Gavin's journal, which he references to keep his children safe in the wilderness... #WritingCommunity #FantasyIndies #IndieAuthor

#QuestPit #A #F #Q #LGBTQ In order to save her Mama and her creche from the wildfire, Luka has to uncover the fire's secrets... After learning to eat the flames, Luka can move like the fire's fastest tendrils, glow with all its light, and even breathe temporary life into the lifeless.

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#QuestPit #A #F #Q #LGBTQ ON THE ORIGIN OF LIVING FLAME follows an aspiring stone age dragon-hunter who has to abandon her dream to rescue her Mama from a burning forest. Fighting through the flames, she uncovers the dark secret of the fire, and its connection to the dragon she dreamed of hunting.

ON THE ORIGIN OF LIVING FLAME: THE POET EMPRESS x BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, but 2 million years ago at the dawn of community. 😤 Audacious and based FMC 🔥 Gain magic by eating fire 🏳️‍🌈 Queer norm world ✨️ Pre-gender world 💥 Anti-capitalist Neanderthals #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

Today's creature feature: Jjj, discovered here by the protagonist of ON THE ORIGIN OF LIVING FLAME, Luka. She must maintain the fire, to bring warmth and light to her crechemates. Here she finds her first obstacle... fire-eating insects! #AmQuerying #QueerWriters #WritingCommunity #FantasyBooks

#queerwriters #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #lgbtqwriters My next project is an ensemble story following the crew of a magical deep sea submersible, with a more complicated plot than I've ever attempted before... so its time to write out a huge timeline on paper, cut it up, and figure things out!

#QueerWriters #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying Queerness embraces even the most ancient of peoples. I can't explain the context of this one without major spoilers, just know... Mama Loga and Saka have been apart for a long time. Luka is afraid of what they will do to each other. And yet... And yet.

My high fantasy, ON THE ORIGIN OF LIVING FLAME, is set in a stone age, so many of the sticky social constructs we have exist differently. This week, I had a breakthrough on how to write a genderless community in spite of gendered English! #queerwriters #WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters #AmQuerying

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying Luka, the protagonist of my adult Paleolithic high fantasy novel ON THE ORIGIN OF LIVING FLAME, needs to learn the magical secrets of the fire in order to protect her Mama and her creche... see below her very first attempt.

#questpit #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying Luka would bring a torch, for she trusts the wisdom of her elders, who tell her there is nothing more important than keeping the fire... if it gets truly dire, if she is left with no choice, then she may have to swallow the fire to fill herself with its magic

Honestly, writing this world has been one of the most valuable deconstructions I've ever undertaken. I hope readers find it just as valuable to read!

Would I time travel to before any economic and societal structures had formed just to show how absurd the ones we have now are? Alas, I can't time travel, but I can write a book about it 😁

Why thank you! There's no resource more precious to a Paleolithic community than fire... so what if they had to eat it to access its magical properties?

ON THE ORIGIN OF LIVING FLAME: THE POET EMPRESS x BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, but 2 million years ago at the dawn of community. 😤 Audacious and based FMC 🔥 Gain magic by eating fire 🏳️‍🌈 Queer norm world ✨️ Pre-gender world 💥 Anti-capitalist Neanderthals #BluePit #📖 #Q #A #F #LGBT #WritingCommunity

#BluePit #WritingCommunity #📖 #A #F #Q #LGBT In a stone age community where only the strong survive and the leader refuses to care for the weak, Luka charges into a magical wildfire to save her Mama, and in grappling with fire-addled monsters, becomes the catalyst for a new vision of community.

#BluePitHype I wrote a thesis project on The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon: the way she crafts fantasy into impermeable worlds that necessitate our crossing feels fundamentally queer to me. This potential of fantasy's queerness always inspires me towards my next book!

#BluePitHype Since the project I'm currently querying, ON THE ORIGIN OF LIVING FLAME, doesn't yet have art... here's the gorgeous cover of my self-published novel, RUNEWAVE. I am forever grateful to @avalach.bsky.social for the incredible cover. Buy Runewave now at your local independent bookstore!

#BluePitHype #AmQuerying I wrote Luka to explore the feeling of being small in a world that can be scary and cruel. She survives through the memory of a hug. She survives to hug her Mama again. Writing Luka helped me remember that the antidote to a scary world is a hug from your community.