Phoenix Rises Dragon Soars is in SPFBO XI!✨Charlotte Saulter✨

Back to my WIP after 1 year break:

"Spirits, but he looked…dead.
She swallowed the lump in her throat and fetched her lamp. Never assume, Himari, the Reverend Mother had said. Always confirm your diagnosis by checking symptoms and facts."

#writingcommunity #writingprompts #fantasywriters #WIPSnips

This is Kiki. Kiki is dark, like this book. Kiki can be evil, like my villainess. But she’s happy she’s already found the home my protagonist still yearns for. Want to know if he finds it? You should check out Phoenix Rises, Dragon Soars.

Here's a cat for you.
Her name is Kiki and she really wants more people to read the book her mum (that's me) wrote.
Please buy my book. It would make Kiki very happy! 😁

#SFF #Fantasy #Indieauthor #caturday #darkfantasy #booksky

Jindai lost his wife, his children. All that's left now is vengeance. And the magic he shouldn't possess.

Want to find out more?
Link in my bio!

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Sold by his father. Raised in violence.
Longwei didn't believe the world had anything good to offer him. Now he risks everything for a chance at the one thing he thought he couldn't have: a family, a home.

Phoenix Rises, Dragon Soars: Link in my bio!
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From the WIP that's going to my editor soon:
"The black-clad man pulled the tray closer and removed the cloth. Beneath it lay a selection of small knives—perhaps a surgeon’s—and a lidded ceramic pot."
If you know PRDS, you'll know this means nothing good.
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Had to use a synonym: save.
This one's from Tiger Cowers Dragon Falls, which is going to my editor next week🥳
"She still recalled the smell of burned flesh, the charred and blackened bodies she had left behind when she had used Wuxing to save herself from those bandits."
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Great Dunmow BookFest | Saturday 13 June 2026 We’re Turning our Whole Town into a Bookshop! A pro-town, pro-local event to turn the whole of Great Dunow into a bookshop for one day. We’re doing this to promote local authors, local shops and esta...

Pleased to announce I'll be one of the authors selling at Great Dunmow BookFest! It's a way off, but it's gonna be epic. They're closing the entire high street to turn the town into a bookshop.

Official info: www.talliston.com/great-dunmow...

My events page: thellian.com/events/

#dunmowbookfest

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SPFBO 11 officially starts today!

Let the reviews flow! #SPFBO

So excited about this! Good luck to us all 😁

PHOENIX RISES DRAGON SOARS Magical mentor - but she doesn't know everything Multi-POV but not just the protagonists Tortured heroes but are they heroes? Enemies to lovers but it's authentic and takes time Morally grey characters - but you root for them anyway Found family but it takes work Trauma and Redemption but it isn't a straight path Forbidden elemental magic but its mastery is hard-earned

An empire in turmoil. A forbidden magic promising death. Four lives changed forever. The Emperor is dead and his widow's rule drowns the land in fear. Soldiers terrorise the very people they should protect, taxes bleed the poor, and the executioner's blade awaits any accused of using magic. A mercenary haunted by his past risks his future for a chance at the family he thought he could never have. A noblewoman, bereft of home and memory, begins reclaiming her past to avenge those she lost. A disgraced commander hunts the truth behind his family's murders, leaving death and destruction in his wake. A shamaness is driven from sanctuary by the desperate actions of a grieving man. Through everything, the thread of a dangerous magic runs deep. Volatile as its wielder's emotions, it forges bonds of loyalty and love and holds the power to reshape the Empire's fate. But trust is fragile. And when long-buried secrets surface, bonds may shatter... And vengeance may be all that remains. Set in a world inspired by Imperial China, Phoenix Rises Dragon Soars is a character-driven epic fantasy and the unforgettable beginning of the Four Guardians Trilogy.

A mercenary looking for redemption. A noblewoman reclaiming her past. A commander driven by vengeance. A shamaness cast from sanctuary. Phoenix Rises Dragon Soars is a story of forbidden magic, the will to change and characters wrestling with grief and the weight of their pasts.
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A DEVOTION SO RUINOUS is a 90K adult fantasy following Soraya, a young woman tormented by a jinn, a dictator, and her first love, as she fights for freedom

🏳️‍🌈 LGBT characters
🧠 Mental Health Rep
🌍 Middle Eastern Setting
✨ Gods Based Magic System
❤️ Lovers To Enemies
#️⃣ Own Voices

#QuestPit #Q #F #A

Of Magic and Grief is book 1 in the Of Magic trilogy that's Cemetery Boys meets Legendborn. This is an aesthetic board for the story.

Miguel's 1st Year at LoMA:
🔪Figure out who killed Mami
👻Awaken her sleeping opía
🌬️Attune with the stubborn elements
🤝Make friends with other mages
🌌Deal with the bully
🧛🏻Don't get bit by a vamp
💘Don't fall in love! Seriously, that's not important
#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #LGBT

An empire in turmoil. A forbidden magic promising death. The lives of 4 strangers changed forever as they must learn to master their powers and confront their fears and traumas.
🔥Tortured heroes
🪵Found family
🌊East Asia
⚙️Enemies2Lovers
🐦Trauma/Redemption
💗 He falls first subplot
#QuestPit #P #A #F

Woman with black eye and tape over her mouth that says SPEAK

I asked for protection from my abuser & was told I had no proof. He made false claim about my miscarriage & I was arrested--also without proof.
True story of being silenced by justice.
#Questpit #Q #NF #M #OWN

The image, made with free non-AI stock pictures, shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color. The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects. At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END

When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign.

#QuestPit #A #H #MY #Q

An agent's guide to SEVEN DAYS ON SAMARKAND:

JURASSIC PARK x THE EXPANSE

Five thousand of Earth's best and brightest hope to coexist with an alien biosphere. But on a planet populated by dinosaurs, is that even possible? #QuestPit #SF #A #Q #U

The last of my redid agent guides, here's info on my Young Adult Urban/Contemporary Fantasy, Of Magic and Grief. Info on my other agent guides are down below.

A boy with a woolly hat shrouded in the shadow of two lit full moons and an aurora borealis, with purple and blue flames hovering over his outstretched hands. It's snowing, and a magical blue owl is displayed, wings spread wide with those same flames inside its eyes. Art by @bauxxi.bsky.social

An Owlbound Spark | Blurb Tyrus is a hot-headed boy who lost both his parents to the cold, and Lyra is a thieving girl with a knack for finding trouble. Their destinies collide when Tyrus bonds with Flake—a supposed-to-be extinct owl capable of lost fire magic—and helps Lyra as her settlement suffers a terrifying attack. Through new friendships and encounters with fantastical creatures, Tyrus and Lyra find out how to stop the eternal winter from claiming any more lives. Will they be able to collect the five splinters to the key that can save the world? Or will the world as they know it soon end as the last humans and elves perish to snow and ice? Tyrus, armed with Owlfire, and Lyra, wielding wit and daggers, are forced to face their fears and insecurities, navigate love and their sexualities, and figure out who they are, in a frozen world that is out to claim their final breaths.

Two Comp titles are displayed over a blurry blue background. The Dragon Prince (Netflix) X Celestial Monsters (by Aiden Thomas) The "witty banter character dynamic" and "found family" of The Dragon Prince, meets the "fantastical creatures" and "queer cast" of Celestial Monsters, making for a "magical adventure".

An Owlbound Spark 🦉🔥❄️

The world is ravaged by eternal winter and the magic that can end it is dead, until a crew of queer teens embark on a fantastical journey of self-discovery to thaw the seasons with the help of a mysterious owl.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F

Thank you! 😊

3x3 moodboard of the main character from my WIP featuring red themed gothic and dark romantic imagery

ANATHEMA x THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH

A fledgling vampire, tension between vampires and monster hunters, a realm of eternal night, a mysterious elven priest, and a sinister plot that threatens everything held dear.

#questpit #W #DF #A #LGBT

Illustration of a smiling bard and stern hunter standing underneath pink blossoms.

Illustration of a scared bard with a fox hovering threateningly over her shoulder, teeth open and about to devour her, next to a stern hunter.

A fox demon bard seeking to become human so she no longer has to devour hearts joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain but falls for a soft-hearted grump demon hunter—and with only one wish at the mountain’s peak, love is a weakness she can’t afford.

#questpit #Q #A #F

Moodboard images from left to right, top to bottom: Silhouetted hand controlling shadow magic, small waterfall in forest, dark stormy sea, unicorn, woman held down by hands, a pirate ship on the water in front of the sunrise, a man and woman embracing, ancient ruins, a mysterious island

THE LAST UNICORN meets LOST

A WIP Featuring:
❤️‍🔥 enemies to lovers
🐈‍⬛ shadow magic
💜 ace rep
🏝️ a mysterious island
🏴‍☠️ a cursed pirate captain
🆘 shipwrecked princesses
...and they're not alone 🧛🦄🧜‍♀️

#QuestPit #W #A #F #R

Ok, I need this! And it's not because I'm German 😄

THE HAAR x SLEWFOOT

In SHEDDING SKIN, two men forced into molds make a deal to fix them both.

🇩🇪 Germanic folklore inspired m/m romance
🩼 Disability rep
❤️‍🩹 Intimacy through healing

#WIP #HR #FR #lgbtq #questpit

An empire in turmoil. A forbidden magic promising death. Four lives changed forever. The Emperor is dead and his widow’s rule drowns the land in fear. Soldiers terrorise the very people they should protect, taxes bleed the poor, and the executioner’s blade awaits any accused of using magic. A mercenary haunted by his past risks his future for a chance at the family he thought he could never have. A noblewoman, bereft of home and memory, begins reclaiming her past to avenge those she lost. A disgraced commander hunts the truth behind his family’s murders, leaving death and destruction in his wake. A shamaness is driven from sanctuary by the desperate actions of a grieving man. Through everything, the thread of a dangerous magic runs deep. Volatile as its wielder’s emotions, it forges bonds of loyalty and love and holds the power to reshape the Empire’s fate. But trust is fragile. And when long-buried secrets surface, bonds may shatter… And vengeance may be all that remains.

A mercenary looking for redemption. A noblewoman reclaiming her past. A commander driven by vengeance. A shamaness cast from sanctuary. Phoenix Rises Dragon Soars is a story of forbidden magic, the will to change and characters wrestling with grief and the weight of their pasts.
#QuestPit #P #A #F

Oh wow, thank you so much! You just made my day 🥹 I'm crossing my fingers that it's faster than expected, and I hope you enjoy it as much as this reader did ☺️

From the moment I started reading, I couldn’t put it down. Fortunately, the author has already released the first chapter of the second book as a downloadable preview — I’m hoping the full sequel arrives soon. What stood out most to me was the strong focus on character. Four individuals begin their journeys, each trying to understand their unique abilities while living under the strict rules of a nation inspired by Imperial China. This isn’t a story with simple heroes or villains; it’s a tale of fractured loyalties, hidden truths, and people pushed far beyond who they believed themselves to be. Alongside these character arcs, the blend of magic and mystery adds real depth to the story. There’s always something unexpected waiting around the corner — especially when the ambitious shape‑shifting spirit appears. I wholeheartedly recommend this book and give it a full 5 out of 5. Happy reading!

Nothing like finding a 5* review on Amazon in the morning 😍
And if you're wondering, yes, a single line saying you enjoyed a book will make a difference too 😁
If you've read and enjoyed Phoenix Rises Dragon Soars, please consider leaving a review. Thank you ☺️

#indieauthor #booksky #darkfantasy

Thanks. Let's hope so. And I'm all good on the feedback side. Alpha readers, beta readers, editor. All sorted.

I'm all sorted on that end. Thanks.

screenshot of a list of chapters of which 2 have red flags.

OMG guys, see those red flags? Those are the 2 chapters I still need to write (late additions after beta reader feedback) before Tiger Cowers Dragon Falls is editor-ready! I'm so close and can't believe it only took 4 months to get here even with ME/CFS brain fog slowing me down!
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