Sabrina is editing a portal romantasy ✨ (@sabrinamars) — Bluesky Profile

4 hours ago

🙌🏼killing it

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1 day ago

He WAS kind of a dick to her

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2 days ago

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity

Bit of a long one, and going back to Welcome to the Good Thyme Inn since it's my best use of 'screw' lol.

After the second inn is built, the baron's steward expects the two innkeepers to compete for customers. He thinks they'll both be capitalists, lol

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2 days ago

#WIPSnips S C R E W ✨

🌊 🐉

#writingcommunity #wip #writesky

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4 days ago

a man applauds with the #schitts creek logo behind him ALT: a man applauds with the #schitts creek logo behind him

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4 days ago

Just a little, they'll live*

(*maybe)

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5 days ago

I'm working on the beta draft now! Should be ready for betas by mid April/early May.

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5 days ago

I'm so sorry in advance 😂

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5 days ago

#WIPSnips P U R S U E ✨

fate is calling once again, magical girl....go get your crystal and don't die doing it

#writesky #writingcommunity #wip

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5 days ago

Who wants their romantic bond cemented at eighteen?

I guess the romantics out there might.

I raise my hands as if in surrender. "I can't force anyone to become my soulmate. But I'll try, okay? Meet Azura. See if sparks fly. Whatever. You guys are a little tight on your deadlines, you know?"

"It's not like you didn't know this was coming," says Hester.

I bite back a retort about being preoccupied with other things for the past year. They seem to have given up on persecuting Nico, and I don't want to give them a reason to remember.

No luck there. "We have your assurance, then. You will PURSUE a potential soulmate in Azura or Damien. And you will bring your brother here on February fourteen, or before if he shows signs of deteriorating into a monster." I look for signs of a trap in the assurance I'm about to give.

There's no definition of "PURSUE." There's no way Nico will become a monster. By the fourteenth, both things will be settled. "Sure."

I mean, Ren would want his romantic bond cemented at 18 (or even 16), but that’s a different book 😄

The Council just putting pressure on Lilia to soulmate & hating on Nico

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
From Magic in Our Bones🦴🙅‍♀️

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5 days ago

Listen, my best friend has been angry with me since she read alpha read my WIP in Sept for how it ended.

Unfortunately I am a product of 2000s anime angst and I will make everyone suffer for it

#awesomecharacters #writesky #wip #writingcommunity

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5 days ago

Why hello, Inciting Incident. #WIPSnips #amwriting #amrevising #amediting #writesky #writingcommunity #YA #NA #fantasy

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5 days ago

👀 ope

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6 days ago

"-happy sigh- Grand fucking slam, Ange"
"I LOVE YOUR BOOK"
"Jason and Ayana are both excellent characters and I want to dig into their psyches"
"ANGE FUCKIN BRAVO"
"I've seen a lot of horror movies that wanted to pull off what youd id that couldn't even come close"
"You did a great job of making me root for [the MCs] while still being like, 'This is so bad, I shouldn't want this.'"

"I had really high expectations for this and you blew past all of them"
"This is so good and also absolutely wild"
"Just absolutely phenomenal character work."
"Your dialogue is so tight & crisp"
"*thunderous applause*"
"The whole ending was so good—the writing was magnificent. I am in awe and also full of dread. Excellent work."

"Your attention to details and overall voice for Jason just have me in awe."
"GNARLY. I love it"
"[Jason and Ayana] are a power couple, and wow do they wield power well. Every scene they are in, they own, and it's perfect."
"The way this is all playing out in my head is so cinematic."
"I really hope you are proud of your skill at giving characters their own unique voices."
"The beauty in your prose is beyond description."

"I LOVE YOUR TAKE ON COSMIC HORROR SO MUCH!!!"
"I can already think of friends and family I want to recommend this book to."
"BRB SOBBING THEY ARE SO TERRIBLE AND PERFECT I LOVE THEM"
"Gruesome! (complimentary)"
"You do a great job with tailoring your word choice, your phrasing and framing, to the POV character."
"I seriously enjoyed every second reading this book."

There's still time to sign up as an ARC reader for THE DEVOURING, my Lovecraftian horror feat. John Wick-style action and married villain protagonists. Not convinced? These alpha & beta reader comments might change your mind.

Sign up here: forms.gle/SgMBu5wnhn1W...

#WritingCommunity #Booksky 💙📚

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1 week ago

#WIPSnips M E D I A ✨

have the rough draft news clip of my FMC from her world (you think everyone would buy the 'i fell through a portal' excuse if she gets back?)

#writingcommunity #wip #writesky

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1 week ago

Wouldn't that be so nice 😭

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1 week ago

YES my FMC is a botany major and loves floral and fauna...there may be a special flower that helps with magic anxiety 👀

#Marchworldbuilders

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1 week ago

#WIPSnips M O S T ✨

"dO yOu ReQuiRe pRaiSe LikE thAt?" 🙄

#writingcommunity #wip #writesky

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1 week ago

Thank you!!! It's one of my favorites now hehe

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1 week ago

My first anime love ❤️

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1 week ago

OH HUGE AGREE

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1 week ago

Magical musical portal?? 👀

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2 weeks ago

In the top corner, the text reads “Obsidian Streets.”

There are 9 images in a grid:
1. Artistic picture of a lava lamp
2. A frog in a swamp
3. A mysterious forest
4. Close-up of a synthesizer
5. Old school reel-to-reel recording equipment
6. An electric guitar
7. Deep Purple
8. A hand sliding a record out of a sleeve (the person in this photo is wearing a flannel shirt)
9. Close-up of a denim jacket

OBSIDIAN STREETS

In 1973, an unknown rock band recorded a concept album set in a fantasy world. All five members of the band disappeared and the record was never released. Decades later, the one remaining copy turns up at a record store, unleashing more than just weird old prog rock.

#WSPit #W #A

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2 weeks ago

The Lunaria
Jen Hall Smith
NA/Adult Fantasy 110k words

THE BLURB
In an ailing land where magic & Witchkind are outlawed, extroadinary powers bloom in outcast Tallitha.
When her secret is betrayed, she is forced to flee to safety and is cast into a hidden world of wild magic, covert rebellion & deadly secrets, bound to her past
&
heralding her destiny.
To take her place in the resistance working to save her people and home land, she must not only confront the dark forces seeking to destroy her, but also the darkness within,
If she is ever to gain control of her magic.

Comps

Blend of folklore & fantasy ~ “Now she is witch” by Kirsty Logan
Lush world building and lyrical style ~ “a river enchanted” by Rebecca Ross
Neurodivergent rep ~ Emily Wilde Encyclopaedia of fairies
Journey to self acceptance ~ K Pop Demon Hunters

Themes

- Neurodivergent FMC- Internalised ableism
- Yearning love - Slow burn - Prophecy -
- Grumpy/grumpier - Female friendship -
- Eldest daughter mentality -
- Found family - Prejudice - Political propaganda

FROMTHE WRITER....
The Lunaria is a lushly woven, immersive fantasy story with a romantic sub-plot.
It showcases neurodivergent characters with true depth, that delve into the complex, often contrasting emotions that can accompany finding out who you truly are.
The novel is an allegory for neurodiversity and internalised ablism, exploring the pervasiveness of prejudice and the journey to self-acceptance in an unaccepting world.
Shining a light on the experience of being intrinsically different through the accessible lens of fantasy, witchcraft, and magic.

This is my first ever #WSPit and I will probably get this wrong because technologically I am a grandma….
But I hope you enjoy my pitch!

#WSPitquerying #WSPit #A #NA #F #DIS #ND #OWN #querying

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2 weeks ago

A mood board with a light blue background and the title The Society of Curse Breakers in the center. From left two right: a picture of an old fashioned diver, the words found family, a picture of a brick mansion, the words urban fantastic a picture of a plane, the word curses, a picture or a tunnel, the word spirits, a old fashioned sailing ship, the word pirates, a picture of a lighthouse, the word strange villians and cryptids, a map of Florida’s a swamp, the word folklore, the words diverse magic systems, a capybara, a message in a bottle.

To break a curse she is wrongly accused of casting, Alice must team up with a crew of untrained magic wielders and sail treacherous seas, battling folktales and cryptids. A map of riddles guides their way, but the family secrets it reveals may be the most deadly barrier of all. #wspit #q #f #nd

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1 week ago

A collage of nine images, fireworks, a strip of fire between two people, light in the palm of someone's hand, the love and death card, floating lanterns, and romance imagery. In the middle it says WHEN LIGHT IS NOT ENOUGH

INUYASHA x SAILOR MOON x D&D WILD MAGIC

When a Midwest college student is pulled from her unraveling life into a realm that needs her as its savior, Kassidy will have to learn the balance between her volatile magic, controlling her emotions, & guarding her own heart.

#WSPit #wip #w #r #f #a #nd

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2 weeks ago

Moodboard for Eternal Flame.

First line, from left to right:
- Commissioned portrait of Ashrah (by @arcanemoon.bsky.social);
- Photo of a statue of a white dragon;
- Photo of the statue of a demon;
- Commissioned portrait of Sareena (by @meryselda.bsky.social).

Second line:
- Photo of a volcano;
- Commissioned portrait of Askaly (by @disco4ia.bsky.social);
- Commissioned art of Nitara (by @sashthesloth.bsky.social).

Last line:
- Photo of two Indonesian women dancing jaipongan;
- Photo of a Gothic cathedral;
- Commissioned portrait of Mileena (by @meryselda.bsky.social);
- Photo of a man practising martial arts.

When demon warrior Ashrah finds a sapient sword, she embarks on a quest for freedom that will change the realms of the undead and the living.

🐉 Asian-inspired
🥋 Wuxia/xianxia elements
🌈 A queernormative world with sapphic MCs
🦇 A vampire society
😈 So many demons!

#WSPit #W #A #F #LGBT #ND #In #CS

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2 weeks ago

A mood board of eight tiles and a centre square with lockpicking tools and ancient writing:
1. Always have an escape plan.
2. A swindler never lets herself feel like a fraud.
3. Don't look for the easy grab, look for the easy mark.
4. Never get involved with spirits.

The pictures depict, clockwise from upper right:
A) A city of canals and towering footbridges. There are minarets and steeples and red-tiled roofs.
B) A market selling elaborate lanterns, all aglow.
C) A porcelain and gold hand, reaching upwards.
D) Two figures leaping across rooftops against the coming dawn.
E) A pocketwatch--or is it? Constellations and continents cover the front, the body of the watch engraved with runes. It's sitting on ancient parchment.
F) A wax stamp with removable chits that function as coins in a card game.
G) The lords of the city overlooking grand canals and issuing edicts. They are dressed in fine red robes and silks.
H) Assorted bones and shells used for divination and more.

When 16-year-old Nia picks the wrong pocket, she unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had. Now she’s posing as an heiress, a con man’s gone missing, and Nia and her friends are on the run with a living doll, pursued by gangs, magehunters, and the governor herself. #WSPit #W #F #LGBT #YA

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2 weeks ago

Book cover for "Mark of the Jester" by B. van Bodegom (author of Dad Bodies). Dark fantasy novel. Features a split jester mask in black and white halves with a red smile on the white half. 'The' runs vertically down the center, with decorative silhouettes of roses framing the mask. High-contrast graphic design in black, white, and red.

THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY

When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures.

#WSPit #A #F #H #W

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2 weeks ago

A book cover with a dark purple background and moon, with soft moonlight shading a violin surrounded by bats, roses, and moonflowers.

A Vampire’s Lament 🖤🕯️🦇

Benevolent vampire Ishmael never thought he would love again, until mortal tutor Edric enters his world. Forgetting the past is difficult, but for the first time in centuries, the future seems as bright as the stars. ✨
#WSpit #A #indie #LGBT #CS

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