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Feel free to borrow the idea. It seemed a nice way to introduce these bits of lore.

It's fun to put these ideas across in graphics. I'm playing with Canva a bit.

This should actually be my next post: how day and night cycles work.

The need to keep some things the same is strong. I kept "year" because the meaning is the same (orbiting the sun). But "day" had to change because 1 day and night cycle takes a month (or lunar revolution) to complete. So I call days "segments". The moon turns 1 segment every 24 hours.

Thank you, Kira 🥰
I thought I needed to get back into talking about my worldbuilding.
I go down a few research rabbit holes, but there are some gaps that are either filled with magic or science I haven't yet elaborated on.

An easy way to think of time on this habitable moon is as follows: •Segment (or seg) = day (24 hours) •Phase = week (6 segments) •Revolution = month (5 phases) ... a rough estimate.

There is a lot of worldbuilding to cover in Far Removed, so I'm going to post some bite-sized guides to Knyadrea this month.

Let's start with timelines! 🌔🌓🌒
This is something I often think I should've put at the beginning of the book. I may include them in a revised version.

These are amazing!

Thanks. Time zone logistics are always a bit of a challenge since I live in South Africa, but it sounds fascinating.
Do you need your guests to be funny? I can do unintentionally funny.

Series Spotlight: The Drift, The Symbiosis, The Convergence

Our latest Series Spotlight covers a thrilling sci-fi romance, The Drift by Casie Aufenthie
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Aw, man. So sorry to hear this, Joel. That's so horrible that it had to happen at a time when you were meant to be relaxing. You gave him a good life – I know that by your newsletter updates.

Their colour schemes match! Although I'm sure Dranamir is the more powerful of the two.

Dranamir from The Relics of War and Serpentus by AJ Calvin

Colin Marsden from The Caein Legacy by AJ Calvin

Happy Halloween from my 2 main villains!

Dranamir from The Relics of War (with a cameo in Serpentus)
🎨 by Galadriel Coffeeen

and Colin from The Caein Legacy
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Thank you, Joel. It means a lot that you enjoy my worldbuilding. I feel the same about yours!

The House of Starling by Ciara Hartford review is up at Willow Wraith Press. “Mrs. Hartford puts the book’s characters through a series of adventures & several small fight scenes that were pleasantly bloody and efficiently written and would belong in any great epic fantasy book.”

How artists behind Marvel, Alien, and the Matrix movies are fighting AI With solidarity, legislation, class action lawsuits, and a little help from Guillermo del Toro. Plus, the Luddite Renaissance continues, and I open the mailbag.

Artists behind some of the most popular films of all time are also forging one of the most powerful organized resistances to AI.

With solidarity, class action lawsuits and strong legislation, they're fighting to protect their livelihoods, and pop culture, from big tech.

My latest:

Meet the writer About me: My name is Erika McCorkle, but I also go by Kira of the Wind online. Feel free to call me by either name. I’m open to cute nicknames, too I am a millennial, internetting since 2003. I have been writing/worldbuilding since the 90s I am genderfluid and fictosexual, but she/her pronouns work just fine Things I know and do: I have a Bachelor of Science in Biology Work the night shift at a blood bank as a lab tech Taught myself Japanese, but I’ve forgotten much of what I once knew Big fan of fantasy (games, books, anime, etc.) I spend free time writing, reading, watching anime, or playing video games Favorites: flower: lotus drink: coca cola food: taco animal: seal hobbies: video games and writing My books and writing I write fantasy that takes place in a queernormative world (meaning a world where being queer is normal and accepted). My books are Dark Fantasy with Adult content, extremely in-depth worldbuilding, and themes of revenge and found families I have two novels out currently and a few short stories and serials on my Patreon.

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One of the all time greats. I need to see more public figures get this aggressive about ay-eye in the arts.

Vote for November's Indie Book Club Read Hosted by Willow Wraith Press Shadow Bane by Cal Logan Far Removed by CB Lansdell Coward by Ayrton Silva

Help us choose next month's Willow Wraith book club title!

The poll is live over on GR, and the choices are:
Shadow Bane by Cal Logan
Far Removed by CB Lansdell (which I've read and loved)
and
Coward by Ayrton Silva (I've also read this one and loved it)

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This is one of my all-time favourite novellas. Do yourself a favour and pick it up 🪶🦴

Read a book’s blurb and label the story for what it is, not for who wrote it.

Buzzfest at the indieauthorhive.com

Far Removed Book 1 in the Apidecca Duology. Cover under the genre "dystopian fantasy".

Last day of the #Buzzfest event! Come and find some new ebooks at 99c or less 🐝
Mine is available wide
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Come for non-human characters, moons, and masks.
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Book cover for Queen of Thorns by Joel C. Flanagan-Grannemann. Across the top is a banner announcing "Book Five of Servants of the Moon and Sun" in a clean silvery white font. Against a deep red background with ominous dark thorny trees and fog, an armored knight dressed all in black and wearing a silver helm and breastplate rides a black horse, which is also armored at the head and body. The knight holds a crossbow loaded with a bright silver bolt in his right hand. The book's title is placed under the mounted knight in large silver letters in a fantasy font with thorn serifs. The author's name is centered below that over two lines in a smaller clean silvery white font. A cartoon raccoon looks out from behind the cover and pink Raccoon footprints circle the cover.

Manifesting sales for October.
My books are an epic fantasy reimagining of Sleeping Beauty. What if Maleficent was Aurora's mother and what if she wasn't really evil?
The latest is Queen of Thorns.

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Also keen to hear this. I have to be a morning writer. My brain picks up too many distracting ideas throughout the day to write at night. Although I can do some edits later (when I have to).

The countdown is over, the infection is loose...

Behold: The Book of Spores

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The State of My Writing (an Update) - A.J. Calvin The State of My Writing (an Update) It’s been a while since I made my last writing update post. I don’t actually know when the last one was, but I’m pretty sure it was before Wraith and the Revolution...

I realized not so long ago that it has been a while (months) since I posted an update on my writing projects and what's coming up for me soon(ish).

So this week's blog does just that. You can read it here: ajcalvin.net/the-state-of...

Excited to take a break from intensive edits and some drafting to chat about this delightful book.

I don't know what I'm excited for but the countdown has me intrigued 👀

It's coming...

I’ve been craving a cosy fantasy recently, and this was a very enjoyable read. For a story that is centred on death, it is very life-affirming.

This month's book club read was both cosy and spooky. Perfect for autumn!
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