Tempest Teapot ❌ 👑 🐸

A bastard gentrywoman, Kahyla protects her siblings against assassins, demon-eaten mages, and rivals intent on the throne. She faces a DEMON’S BARGAIN where all the options are bad: fight with soul-destroying magic or lose her family, her beloved, and her life. #BluePit 📖 #F #R #YA #A #Q

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #amquerying #writesky 💙📚 🪐📚 With ghost story vibes & a feminist journey, “Haint Blue” in VOICES LIKE THESE from @story-forge.bsky.social When you work in a haunted house, the fake monsters are your family & real props open dimensional windows. Buy indie at bit.ly/4mLwQSw

spooky vibes #WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky 💙📚 🪐📚 With ghost story vibes & a feminist journey, “Haint Blue” in VOICES LIKE THESE from @story-forge.bsky.social When you work in a haunted house, the fake monsters are your family & real props open dimensional windows. Buy indie at bit.ly/4mLwQSw

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From Epic Fantasy WIP, Waking the Saints. Zorrik the cheerful inquisitor likes Queen Lualih’s tea receptions, but not the politics that come with it.

Fun with vibes and my debut novel, "Man's Daughter." It's the story of a fugitive mage and her ancestors' cursed rifle. Think Vikings with guns. Appalachian folklore x Norse Sagas 💙📚 #darkfantasy #fantasy #gaslamp #gunpowder #norsemyth

#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. Kahyla jumped into the canal to escape Bizal but Despard was injured in the rescue boat. This is the first time Despard has seen her hair.

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From Epic Fantasy WIP, Waking the Saints. Queen Lualih considers a former friend’s request.

#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. A love language of teaching resilience.

##WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. Kahyla stumbles onto a market outside a Silva temple. In her native Huxen, any other gods must be shunned as demons.

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #amquerying #writesky 💙📚 🪐📚 With ghost story vibes & a feminist journey, “Haint Blue” in VOICES LIKE THESE from @story-forge.bsky.social When you work in a haunted house, the fake monsters are your family & real props open dimensional windows. Buy indie at bit.ly/4mLwQSw

#Octember Despard's perfect hideaway would be the one he gave away to the weird refugees he rescued. A guardroom in an abandoned warehouse & a stove for warmth & anonymity if things got too hot. Basking in the glow of Kahyla's family life, Despard discovers so much more than life as a sell-sword.

#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. Kahyla’s first meeting with the strange minstrel in the frighteningly busy city of Bivmiav. In her native Huxen, demon-eaten mages smell of sulphur, but in cosmopolitan Huxen, no one cares.

#Octember The royal guards help Despard escape the Temple goons searching for him. Despard fought to save their comrade & they hate the "cranberries" in red uniforms. They dress him in the blue royal guard uniform and hide him in group marching out, holding him up since he's injured.

Spencer is worried how his recent near-death experience will affect Wren. From book 2 of my romantic fantasy series about a priest of the dead and a thief with a heart of gold. #SundaySnips #WritingPrompts #Wrencer #Writesky

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#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. After Kahyla’s Dancing Day ceremony making Despard her Paer or spiritual father, the gang speculate on Bizal’s motives.

#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. On an errand, Abber stumbles across a street magician in cosmopolitan Bivmiav.

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #amquerying #writesky 💙📚 🪐📚 With ghost story vibes & a feminist journey, “Haint Blue” in VOICES LIKE THESE from @story-forge.bsky.social When you work in a haunted house, the fake monsters are your family & real props open dimensional windows. Buy indie at bit.ly/4mLwQSw

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From Epic Fantasy WIP, Waking the Saints. From a conquered tribe, the Northmen ambassador warns Queen Lualih of trouble on her border.

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #amquerying #writesky 💙📚 🪐📚 With ghost story vibes & a feminist journey, “Haint Blue” in VOICES LIKE THESE from @story-forge.bsky.social When you work in a haunted house, the fake monsters are your family & real props open dimensional windows. Buy indie at bit.ly/4mLwQSw

#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. Kahyla sought refuge from an assassin on the ship Despard was guarding. Has she chosen the wrong man to trust?

#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. No one has heard from the saints in centuries until Kahyla's Ordeal.

#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. Continuing the conversation between Malgrim, a foreign minstrel, and Zorrik, the cheerful Inquisitor.

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#octember Despard has lived with other religions. He'd do everything in his power to make sure all the children got their presents. Tebfin would gleefully paint toys and take care of the reindeer. Kahyla would watch for the demons following the magic. Krampus, anyone?

#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. His kinsmen want to assassinate the Tamlins, but Kalev has fallen for Abber hard.

#Octember The Eis star is the first star to appear at night. Vayhne would have a very old book that he would translate a day too late. It would show that the Eis star is where the demons are coming from and it's getting brighter.

#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. A night watch with her father’s soldier. Kahyla and her siblings are now inconvenient.

comparison = equivalent #WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. Kahyla's home country has a dim view of both minstrels and foreigners.

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 rice = grain From Epic Fantasy WIP, Waking the Saints. A borderlands horsewoman carried the news. Weather, starvation, and enemy movements threaten the King’s army.

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From Epic Fantasy WIP, Waking the Saints, Queen Lualih has finished her audience and meets an unexpected intruder. Previous skirmishes with the Northmen make this ambassador suspect.

#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. Malgrim brings Abber disguised as his apprentice to the Huxen Ambassador’s ball. Abber wants news of her father Grath. She didn’t know her copied white braids had special meaning in Ferruth.

Abber has the mouth on top, but she designed the trenchcoat so there's pockets & straps to keep everything in place & a few stashes of weapons & hidden armor. Tebfin's giggling in the middle & drumming away with the hand drum she secreted in a pocket. Despard's got the legs. Nuff said. #octember

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. A happy golden evening with the weird foreign refugees that Despard rescued.

Kahyla would find herself kidnapped and serving the witch Baba Yaga. At first, she'd try to poison the witch, pray for exorcism, or plot escape. She'd eventually end up helping her drive the chicken-house over the evil prince's castle walls and fireball Rasputin disguished as a priest. #octember

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#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. Arriving at a hostage exchange, Kahyla hopes to escape Bizal’s demands for an alliance marriage by distracting him with forbidden magic.

#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From Epic Fantasy WIP, Waking the Saints, a young horsegirl brings news of invasion to the privy council. Quimmick warned Lualih that other clans gathered & asked for a bride of royal blood to seal a treaty. Vetal wants nothing to do with demons.

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#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. Despard shows the weird foreign refugees a place to stay.

#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From Epic Fantasy WIP, Waking the Saints. Zorrik obeys the commands of Saint Podru and his god Parkith, but his prejudice against foreigners and their religion gets a shock.

#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. Honest enemies and false friends push Kahyla to discover the only way to save her family means risking Despard’s life.

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#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From Epic Fantasy WIP, Waking the Saints. King Tauno is new to diplomacy and some of his fellow barons are xenophobic.

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#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. Trying to figure out why Bizal paid for Kahyla’s location.

#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From Epic Fantasy WIP, Waking the Saints. Zorrik hunted down mages. Vayhne rose to power as the late King’s advisor, but secretly saved his fellow mages. The demons are real but the saints require a worthy body as a vessel.

Meltdown = tantrum #WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. An accusation of magery from a jealous Vetal could bring arrest. Grath wants to eliminate his bastard children as an obstacle to the crown, but the young Tebfin still trusts him.

#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. Abber escapes during the night, headed through the mountain forest by feel and horse-sense.

#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚 From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. Despard leaves his guard post to rescue drowning refugees.

#WIPSnips #amquerying #writesky 💙📚 🪐📚 With ghost story vibes and a feminist journey, “Haint Blue” in VOICES LIKE THESE from @story-forge.bsky.social When you work in a haunted house, the fake monsters are your family and real props open dimensional windows. Buy indie at bit.ly/4mLwQSw