Sill Bihagia

Before I started querying #RedDemon, in fall '24 I'd been happily avoiding social media for several years. Face-to-face communication is easier to understand, and most people interact with me as a human not a persona or a caricature they are content to simplify as a brand. #authorsky #writersky

We CAN judge Amazon for monopolistic practices. We can hold them accountable for funding ICE, MAGA, and maintaining execs in the #EpsteinFiles. We CAN judge them for feeding all our books into AI as of Jan '26, while. I'll be judging them more than ever, and I hope you #readers will too. #abolishice

I can tell you I'll need to sell 2000 copies of my #fantasy debut #RedDemon on Amazon to break even, or 461 direct sales on #kickstarter/#bookfunnel, assuming I price the same as an audiobook credit. I'm not going exclusive, because I am confident some of y'all will buy #audiobooks direct #booksky

Readers may not know this, but #audiobook authors have to choose between keeping 40% of the revenue if they are #Amazon exclusive or 30% if they wish to sell broadly. Authors may also hire narrators through Amazon to give them revenue before a single book is sold. #booksky #authorsky #writersky

I've seen comments like "some of us can only afford to publish on #Amazon so you shouldn't judge them". Dude, Boycotters are judging Amazon, not those they are exploiting. When others try to shift the narrative, stand firm. #boycott #AbolishICE #booksky #authorsky #writersky

Public accountability might help. Please publically shame me if you don't see all these things happen in 1 week: newsletter, update on my #scifi #thriller Amber Skied World, kickstarter for the #RedDemon audiobook, 🙏 to bookstores post, & hype reels for #blackhistorymonth titles. #authosky 💙📚🚀🧠 🧬⚔️🏳️‍🌈

I’ll need ARC readers and should have preorders up within a month or so.

2 POV characters! One’s a teenage girl lying to her neurologist about her hallucinations. The other is a security officer who had been first on the scene during her first accident. He stays in touch with her mom and starts to notice a connection between the seizures and the power failures.

There are many more files/screenshots, but it's clear from my rabbitholing that Shrimp trafficked people considered disposable or those recently deceased after abuse. buff.ly/2EQDfmi is too long & disturbing to screenshot.

You know conspiracy theory about Epstein being alive, and autopsy inconsistencies? How it could be this guy instead or HC's recently deceased brother? buff.ly/fQu9wmV Well... Epstein was "dead" for 17 days when this email was sent. Ghislaine is still in prison. What does Laura know? #EpsteinFiles

You know which billionaires aren't in the Epstein files? Fictional ones. Thanks for not letting us down Rhysand. #booksky #authorsky #epsteinfiles #writersky #acotar #SJM

"Healing was learning no one has ever laid a fingerprint on the part of me that's infinite" -Andrea Gibson, the poet I really wish I read more of while they were still with us. #poetry #inspirationalquotes #trauma #healing #authorsky

🔥Vengeance of a Fallen Angel🔥 4.30.26 🥳

Vengeance of a Fallen Angel is the second book in the award-winning #urbanfantasy series, #GraySpirits. It blends #humor, supernatural action, slow-burn romance, and heartwarming #foundfamily into an epic tale of #redemption. #booksky

@rednovabooks

The secret middle grade or Amber Skied World / The scifi novella?

More Feb 📚️ goals:
An Animated trailer from Faruhar's point of view.
Kickstarter and preorders for the #RedDemon audiobook. (production in April)
Find more SFF podcasters. Know anyone?
#authorupdate #authorsky #podcast #fantasyauthor

More of my Feb writing goals:

3. Release a sci-fi thriller novella called Amber Skied World to beta readers. More on my website, but not the cover
4. A top secret writing project for kids I am having A LOT of fun with 🦄 🆚 AI🤖
#authorupdate #authorsky #indieauthor #middlegrade #SFF #scifi

Too busy for a newsletter but for Feb, here are some of my 📚️ priorities as an indie SFF writer:
1. Bookstore Outreach. Local over Monopolies!
2. Cheaper printing, ESPECIALLY in markets were my book is too expensive. India, AUS and CAN 👀
#authorupdate #supportindiebookstores#authorsky

The geography in Red Demon is (very) loosely based on the Appalachian mountains - ancient mountains worn down to wooded hills and gorges. Anyone who's been to Ithaca or the surrounding areas knows it feels like those forests belong in an epic fantasy. Now they do!

I love underground cities/ caverns in fantasy 😀

Another reason to support your local bookstore or order direct from authors? Bezos is in the Epstein files. To be fair, this evidence is not as damning as some, but... well judge for yourself. Direct link: buff.ly/M0r9jIB
#authorsky #epstein #supportlocal #supportindie #supportbookstores

This sucks. Same. I can do decent at live vendor events (i do a popup bookstore every time and carry other authors) but see about the same on Draft2digital. Might of had 6-7 for my debut. 2 were from libraries.

BandA Indivisible · Mobilize This a local Indivisible event! Join us at the Severna Park High School for sign waving on the corners of Benfield, Evergreen and Robinson Rd. Let this administration know that they’re not running th...

I'm attending Indivisible's event, “BandA Indivisible” - If you are in the US, this notifies you of peaceful protests near you. #severnapark #iceout #readingispolitical #activism #authorsky www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

12 HOURS LEFT ON BIGGEST EBOOK SALE EVER!

Why you should read Red Demon:

Bi disaster with raging ADHD and childhood trauma is not cliche yet.
Great actions
Themes of standing up to corruption, not freezing, and finding community
Not the news, but will still make you cry.
Good reviews 📚💙

I hear there’s a general strike in the US on Jan 30 from people who care about things like tens of thousands of our neighbors disappearing, or a bodyshielding nurse getting shot 10x. Not you though. My readers aren’t the type to overreact. You'll shop and work normally. #authorsky 😉 🚫🧊 - 💙📚💫🚀🧠 🧬🌶️⚔️🏳️‍🌈

Any author --- even highly successful ones --- decided at some point that their story was more important than a guaranteed income. I am proud to see so many outspoken authors make a clear stand against 🧊 even if we're told doing so is bad for business. If there was any doubt, 🖕🧊 #authorsky 💙📚

PS - 1.99 through 1.31

...See, Red Demon opens to innocent people dead in the snow and the government lying about it. It ends when the people push across cultural divides and bigotry confront corruption, and bring some hidden crimes into the light.

Completely fictional! 😉 #authorsky #SFF #readingispolitical 💙📚💫🚀🧠 🧬🌶️⚔️🏳️‍🌈

I saw a bookish fight online recently where one NYT bestselling author attacked another for self-quoting from her book in relation to current events. How tacky!

My science fantasy books have nothing to do with IRL issues. (cont)

YouTube video by Inking Neon Inking Neon Episode 6: Writing Found Family with Sill Bihagia

Inking Neon Episode 6: Writing Found Family with Sill Bihagia youtu.be/20QQVdMpzgA?...

Red Demon ebook sale: 1.99 USD

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⚔️ A🖕🧊 chapter! In this case, it's two folks fighting a corrupt government taking a break to f*ck in the ice and snow.Your soul is bruised enough this week for the other kind

#scifi #booksale #bookstagram #fantasybooks #RedDemon 💙📚💫🚀🧠 🧬🌶️⚔️🏳️🌈