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Michael N. DeMers

@mndemers.bsky.social

I was ten when Vandar first came to me. Life took me through judo mats, lecture halls, and distant lands, but the story waited. Now retired, I'm telling the tale I've carried since childhood. It's time the world met him.

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The final cover of Vandar in the Land of Dragons. I hope you like it. It will be coming out in about 10 days, together with a republishing of Yound Vandar.

24.08.2025 02:25 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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VANDAR II: VANDAR IN THE LAND OF DRAGONS.

Coming in 2 weeks

17.08.2025 03:36 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Struggling is a kind description. I am unable to pay for such a valuable service.

11.08.2025 19:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

bsky.app/profile/mnde...

02.08.2025 05:26 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Second take of the cover of Vandar in the Land of Dragons. Slightly different font and corrected letter N.

26.07.2025 05:04 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A truer sign was never posted. Thank you, Aubree.

22.07.2025 19:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You go girl!

14.07.2025 04:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes you are young lady. Just saying.

07.07.2025 20:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Michael DeMers. The author of the Legend of Vandar series.

27.06.2025 15:03 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Bravo, Madison.

24.06.2025 20:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Welcome to Bluesky

23.06.2025 23:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Preliminary book cover for Vandar in the Land of Dragons

23.06.2025 20:51 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Donate to Support a Lifelong Educator's Literary Dream, organized by Michael DeMers I have been a highly creative, lifelong educator, now a fiction writer, se… Michael DeMers needs your support for Support a Lifelong Educator's Literary Dream

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23.06.2025 08:23 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1

Yes, young lady, you are definitely welcome.

20.06.2025 08:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Always, Katherine. Just wanted to let you know that you are a truly beautiful young woman. Best wishes to you.

20.06.2025 07:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pages coming in from the publisher. Very exciting to see the book come together for publication.

20.06.2025 06:21 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A 61-year-old dream becomes reality... with the support of family, friends, and a Dragon. I welcome you to the world of Sagaman Kessler. A saga of truth spoken by those willing to sacrifice for honor and love.
mybook.to/thesagamanse...

#Free #kindleunlimited
#epicfantasy #mustread #booksky

24.04.2025 20:52 — 👍 35    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1

I appreciate that very much.

08.06.2025 02:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Young Vandar Check out Young Vandar - Thousands of years after the global nuclear conflagration, Earth had reverted to a primitive world of sword and shield, bow and arrow. <p/>Amidst this sparsely populated world...

Looks awesome! It is also available thru Bookshop which supports small bookshops.

bookshop.org/p/books/youn...

07.06.2025 13:01 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

You are awesome!

08.06.2025 02:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you very much. And you are breathtakingly beautiful.

08.06.2025 02:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

An interesting consept. Quite intruiging.

06.06.2025 18:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Defining God Into Existence It Fails Theologians and Scientists Alike.

I recently published my 3-minute read, "Defining God Into Existence: It Fails Theologians and Scientists Alike." If you like it, please clap for it. Click & hold the applause button to fast-clap to the max of 50; it makes me very happy.
jameshollomon.medium.com/defining-god...

31.05.2025 23:35 — 👍 77    🔁 31    💬 8    📌 2

Did someone in your life teach you strength without ever saying the word?
Tell me about them.
And if this story brought someone to mind... maybe share it with them, or someone who needs to hear it.
That's how stories live on.

(7/7)

06.06.2025 15:31 — 👍 26    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

My father died before I finished writing Vandar's story.
He never saw the books.
But I hope, somehow, he'd understand.
That all the heroes I ever imagined...
Started with him.
With his silence.
With his hands.

(6/7)

06.06.2025 15:31 — 👍 39    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

When I shook hands with colleagues in Japan, or drew maps on a chalkboard in New Mexico, I'd sometimes glance at my own hands.
Scarred now.
Callused.
Familiar.
I was becoming him, one quiet day at a time.

(5/7)

06.06.2025 15:31 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Years later, I'd become a professor.
Travel the world.
Write stories.
But I never forgot that first winter morning.
And those hands.
They taught me more than any book ever could.

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06.06.2025 15:31 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I shoveled until I couldn't feel my fingers.
He never said "good job."
But when we finished, he poured me black coffee. No sugar.
I drank it like it was a medal.
That was the first time I saw him smile.
Not big. But real.

(3/7)

06.06.2025 15:31 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

His hands were red and cracked, the kind that knew tools and silence better than softness.
He never explained much.
Didn't have to.
In our house, love didn't come with hugs or words.
It came through doing. Through showing up.

(2/7)

06.06.2025 15:31 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My father's hands

I was ten when I started working.
Not because it was fun.
Because it was expected.
Minnesota winters don't care how old you are.
That morning, my dad handed me a snow shovel and said nothing...
Just nodded toward the sidewalk.

(1/7)

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