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NEW PINNED! My name is Riley A. Glasen, an LGBTQ+ (Bisexual) writer. The following is a thread of info on my novels and novellas, starting with The Grand Life of Eliese Moonsorrow series, currently my only published works, but more will hopefully be added! www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5TVZBT...

All three books in the Grand Life of Eliese Moonsorrow are out and available now! Sword Fighting in the Garden, Horse Riding Into War, and the final in the series, Surviving the Heat of Vengeance, can all be purchased off of Amazon as ebooks, or in soft or hard cover!

I write sapphic romantasy where an all female polycule help a woman poison her abusive cishet husband on their honeymoon to stop a nation of white supremacists from invading a diverse queernormative kingdom. And it's free! www.patreon.com/ddwardiswrit...

If anyone wants to write a review for my newest Novella, either on a review sight like good reads or Amazon or on your own website or Bluesky page, message me and I'll if I can send you a PDF or Epub file. This offer goes for my older books too #sapphic #novella #promo #books #bookreviews

A #shortstory I wrote a while ago. Re-reading reminded me how good it feels to write at a smaller scale (🧵1/2) #Writers #Writing.

Should I post more?

An attempt to use #HeroForge to make the main characters of my #Novellas. Princess Eliese Moonsorrow and her love interest, Sir Ruthwynn of Kirstow. #SapphicRomance #LGBTQRomance

Sorry if I annoyed anyone by reposting a bunch of my old stuff, but I figured it'd be nice to try and get some eyes on it.

Horse Riding into War Features a helmet and a horseshoe, split and merged into one. This one took me hours, but I'm still happy with how it looks! (2/2)

About the covers of my #Romance #Novella series. Sword Fighting in the Garden has a simple Sword & Rose, crossed like blades. I'm not a very good artist, so it took me some time to make it right. (1/2)

I'm so proud of having designed the covers for my Novellas myself. I know they are simple, and honestly, I don't have much talent for visual art, but it's 1000% better than AI Slop. #FuckAI #WritingCommunity

I reread books all the time. I play video games more than once, and rewatch movies, too. When I fall in love with a story, I will find as many excuses to relive it as possible.

...pretty dang close. 47,025. So that number became my goal, 3,135. If I could do that 14 more times, I could fill in the gap with a slightly shorter 'epilogue.' bam, novella done. (2/2)

#WritingCommunity This may not work for everyone, but I really find doing the math to help. When I wrote the first chapter of SFITG, it was done in a haze of inspiration. It ended up at 3,135 words. That's a far cry from my 50k goal for my Novellas, but, multiply it by 15, and you get... (1/2)

Hello, if people did any of this for me I would cry

Look, I wanted to commission an artist for the covers of my Novellas, but I couldn't afford it. So... I did that shit myself. Fuck AI. Even my simple ass emblems are more soulful than AI Slop.

This is a rare feeling for me. Most "something cool" moments in my stories I have planned before I reach them, so when a moment comes up AS IM WRITING it, it's really a special feeling.

Do you have a friend who is a #sapphic woman? Or just a friend who loves #LGBTQ+ fiction? Might I suggest my books for your Christmas Shopping consideration?

Some lore from my Novellas! In the world of SFITG and HRIW, there are two suns! Moro and Woro. Woro is the first sun to set, and Moro's light is paler that Woro's. There is also no moon! Though the word "eclipse" does exist, it simply means to "overshadow" something.

Cool, anyway, Sword Fighting in the Garden and Horse Riding Into War are both available as ebooks and physical books, and neither were made using AI Slop! Links in my pinned!

Sometimes something magical happens to me, and I can really put words on a page. The last 3 days before I finished the rough draft of Horse Riding Into War I wrote 5k a day. The last 15k was written in 3 days. It's usually much slower for me... #WritingCommunity

Do I feel bad shamelessly advertising on almost every post I make here? I do. (Links to my Novellas in my pinned, btw.) But here is the thing that makes me feel a little better about it. I'm honest about trying to sell you guys something. I make it clear the stuff I'm promoting is my own.

A very rough draft for the cover of Sword Fighting in the garden, Vs. what it ended up as.

I mostly talk about book stuff, so it feels like it needs to be said. This account is an LGBTQ+ space. You are safe here if you are gay, trans, bi, pan... You are loved and valid #lgbtq+

I SWEAR Rebecca Cruden is going to be a name to remember.

Like three by @melissajensen2014.bsky.social "The Wolf’s Jaw Inn & Tavern is not a unique sight. Resting points like this, away from any settlements, have existed for a long time, and they are all the same." --chapter 2, "The Start to a Very, Very, Long Ride"

Like Two by @bookspotlight.bsky.social "When he betrayed your father, he merely wanted to rule Lairen. When he retreated behind the Vicorn, he simply wanted to conquer the lands of man. Now, his ambition grows more. He wishes not to conquer, but to destroy." --chapter 1, "All Good Things"

Like one by @rileywrites.bsky.social (I liked my own post to at least share one) "My unconscious body hungers for her warmth, like a reptile to a hot stone. My arms and legs wrap around her, and so most mornings, like now, she has to remove herself from my grasp." --chapter 1, "all good things"

I want to share more snippets from #HorseRidingIntoWar now that I own a physical copy of it. How about this. 1 like=1 snippet from my second novella #WritingCommunity

Some fiction is very transformative. It makes you realize something. Either about yourself, the author, or the world. Some fiction, the stuff I've published, is comfort. It's not going to shake you to your core and leave an impact, but that's by design. Sometimes it's nice to not be impacted.

And to be clear, fuck AI. AI is NOT a solution for this.

Does anyone else feel like writing should be easier? I'm so tired of looking at a blinking text curser as nothing in my whirlwind mind can find its way on to the damn page.

#Promotion #Hype #NewBook #Novella

Look, this isn't that close to being done, but I wanted to get the hardest part out of the way. New emblem for a new story

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Part of "if you're transgender, you have to live" is realizing that you have to do things to survive sometimes. You have to be ready to grasp at resources, opportunities, anything that buys you another day. I ran because that was how I live on. The answer may be different for you. Live.

I think my system leans on the rational, as a lot of it gets tied to biology (and mutations!), but as far as hard/soft, it's somewhere in between. Over-easy rational, like my brain. There are irrational elements tied to the Eight, but that's expected with deity tier. #WritingCommunity #WritingQ