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periwinkle background with golden snowflakes and a glass ornament in the center reading “Our 2026 Event List: January 30th, April 29th, July 24th, November 4th”

Seasons greetings! Our gift to you is #questpit dates for 2026! We can’t wait to reconvene next year.

Happy Holidays!

I finished the November projects and now Im working on another project to at least get it started. Im on chapter 4 of that one already.

Bluesky harvest time

I've been really bad really bad about keeping things updated, but here's my total for the month. Im proud of myself for getting these done even with everything blowing up this month at every turn.

##Writevember ##FirstDraftFall #NoNotWriMo #Nanowrimo

Black background. The top 2 corners are pictures of Moon Falls in Oregon and between them is the title The Secret of Moon Falls. In the middle are two quotes and between them is The Forest Maiden by Anne Stokes (A unicorn in a forest being held by a girl in a green dress with a butterfly over the back and a rainbow beside it.) The quotes are: “We may never know precisely when or where or how the legend of the unicorn began. It pervades recorded time and may be dimly visible even in the clouds that hover just above history's sunrise. The mystery of its origin... is one of the legend's most evident charms.” Odell Shepard, "The Gorgeous East," The Lore of the Unicorn, 1930 “I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.” Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn The bottom is another picture of Moon Falls in Oregon, The Captured Unicorn tapestry, and 2 hunters in the forest.

Top 2 pictures: The 2 Kelpie heads at Falkirk, Scotland, and a little girl in a white dress on a dock putting little paper sailboats in water. The kelpie picture has a quote: “When thowes dissolve the snawy hoord, An' float the jinglin' icy boord, Then water-kelpies haunt the foord, By your direction, And 'nighted trav'llers are allur'd To their destruction.” by Robert Burns Middle 2 pictures: A Fjord with an old castle looking building and a yellow flowering meadow in the Scottish Highlands. The fjord picture has a quote: “In the depths they await to hear the children's whispered calls.” - The Children who Whispered to Water. Bottom Picture: An art picture of a kelpie with glowing white eyes coming out of the water to a shore of a forest. At the bottom of the pic is the title in green in a watery font The Children who Whispered to Water. There is a quote: “No mortal ear could have heard the kelpie passing through the night, for the great black hooves of it were as soundless as feathers falling.” From Molly Hunter’s, The Kelpie's Pearls

These two were by and far the most liked on both platforms yesterday. I'm so excited to bring them both to you. The Unicorn one was inspired by @ameliagthorn.bsky.social and the Kelpie one was inspired by a post saying we needed more kelpies in literature (sorry I don't remember who it was, but TY!)

A statue of a man in armor holding up a dagger

A woman shrouded in black holding a flower and wearing a crown

A statue of Poseidon holding his trident

A mood board for Divine Damnation including: a limo, a group of paparazzi flashing pictures, the Greek gods standing around a dial, Mount Olympus, rain on a window pane, a long ornate hall with white marble, pillars, and gold adornments, a burning pyre and an altar

🏺DIVINE DAMNATION🏺

A Touch of Darkness x Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Most would kill for power, an honored place among the pantheon and the promise of eternal youth—but when the price is almost certainly perdition, who will pay?

#WIPPIT #NA #RF

Squeezing in this second work in progress: #A #RF #WIPPIT

a devout moon priestess (not) falling for the Daemon (hottie🔥) while saving the world.

❤️‍🔥 allies-to-lovers
🥷 secret identity 
🛏️ always two beds (but he gets cold)  
🙋🏾 dude in distress
🔪touch her, ☠️
👿/🌞 she’s the grump, he’s mr. shine

Cover mockup of Through the Cracks. The title is written at the top, and the author, @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social, is written at the bottom, but I would replace this with my name in the final version. Station 14, an ERSSHO (Enormous Rotational Space Station in Heliocentric Orbit), and one of 126 making up the ALCEFS. In the background, the constellations of Orion and Taurus can be seen, as well as Venus, Earth and the Sun. The cylindrical space station has one of its flat faces pointed at the Sun, which if shown, would be covered in solar panels. The opposite face, which is visible, has the space dock at its centre, surrounded by red text that reads 'ALCEFS' and 'Station 14', along with the anarcho-communist flag and the flag of the ALCEFS. A spaceship is currently taking off from the space dock, with a pair of glowing red heat radiators on either side. Around the rim of this face is the lookout area, a large window where residents can look out at the stars. There are more windows scattered around the curved face of the station, which would be transparent panels in the floor, again for residents to look out at the stars. Surrounding the station is the flywheel: two rings, one surrounding each circular face of the station, connected by beams (probably around five, although only two are shown). The flywheel rotates opposite the station to stabilise it. The station is around 50 km in radius, although the image is not to scale, and some aspects like the size of windows or the size of the spaceship relative to the station may not match this. Made in Krita.

Through the Cracks -Hard utopian sci-fi -If Star Trek: DS9 had the tech level of The Expanse -LGBTQ+, polyamory and disability rep -anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian, anti-ableist message Setting: The ALCEFS (Association of Libertarian Communist Employment-Free Stations) -Solar System-based space stations -anarcho-communist -values sustainability -fully-automated and jobless -focus on human creations -liquid democracy -near-utopia with a tumultuous history MC: Skylar -37 yo special ed teacher -nonbinary -aroace -has vitiligo -devoted altruist Antagonists: Kye Peterson and Erron Colborne -villains at odds -individual bad actors who fell through the cracks -both ableist in opposing ways -methods: exploitive deals and propaganda campaigns, respectively Status: 1 chapter in, a long way to go yet Check out #ThroughTheCracksIntro for more info, or follow #ThroughTheCracks for random tidbits!

Life in the decentralised, fully automated, jobless space stations of the ALCEFS is idyllic. There are no barriers to housing, food or any other essentials; everyone just receives what they need for free, without having to prove they deserve it. And so Skylar is surprised when they meet a homeless woman. A woman who gave up her home in a coercive deal with a self-styled businessman. But that is not all; Skylar will soon uncover a threat from another angle: a delegate using every trick in the book to promote themself and accumulate proxy votes. As it turns out, even in the idyllic ALCEFS, a couple independent bad actors can still slip through the cracks.

“Hi Nelly. You like it out here in the gardens? Or just couldn’t get a place in the camping grounds?” “The gardens are nice,” Nelly replied. “But yeah, the camping grounds were booked solid until tomorrow.” “The camping trip really couldn’t wait, could it?” Skylar meant it lightheartedly, but could see by Nelly’s reaction that they’d hit a nerve. “No, it couldn’t, but –” Nelly started, frustrated. “It’s not a camping trip, okay? I just need somewhere to sleep.” “You got kicked out of home?” Skylar asked. “Why not stay at the temporary shelter?” After all, it’s there for people who need a place to stay while they apply for a new home. “That’s where I was staying for the past two months,” Nelly replied. “That is, until I got into an argument with someone there and, well, we agreed to put some distance between us.” “Two months?!” Skylar repeated, shocked. “It doesn’t take that long to get a home approved.” A couple days, at most. Usually they have it done the same day. “For a supplementary home loan?” Nellie remarked. “Apparently it does.” “Supplementary?” Skylar asked. “What about primary?” If you were entirely without a home, Skylar couldn’t imagine any reason you’d apply for a loan instead of permanent housing. “Oh, I didn’t apply,” Nelly admitted. “Why not?” Skylar pursued. “If I did, I wouldn’t be able to get…” Nelly started. “It was part of the deal, okay?” “A deal? You mean someone bribed you to leave your home?” “No, it’s not like – Okay, it is that. But –” Nelly took a deep breath. “You know Kye Peterson?”

#ThroughTheCracks: Life in the decentralised, fully automated, jobless space stations of the ALCEFS is idyllic. Everyone gets what they need for free. Yet even here, a couple independent bad actors can still slip through the cracks.

#UtopianFiction #SF #LGBT #A #WIPPit 🚀🛰️🧪🟥⬛

It's nighttime on Trinity Street in Cambridge, UK, and the sky is cloudless. In the middle of the street, a circular portal opens onto a field of ferns, planted in rows, with a partially cloudy sky. This depicts a scene from The Dragonblood, although some artistic license has been taken, as the scene as written takes place in a dark alley off the beaten path, rather than a major street, but I wanted it to be at least somewhat recognisable as Cambridge. The portal is also described to warp the image of what's behind, but I simply drew the portal as overlaid on the background and fading at the edges. Made in Krita. The scene of Trinity Street was drawn from reference.

The Toronto skyline, viewed from Lake Ontario. This is the main setting of In Reverse. Made in Krita, from reference.

I wanted to share the artwork I made for #WIPPit to use as backgrounds for #TheDragonblood and #InReverse, since the versions there were desaturated and darkened, with text overlaid. Here they are in full glory.

#Art #DigitalArt #Krita

It was really fun to participate in #WIPPIT today!! ELEVATION is still far from ready, but it was good practice! I enjoyed discovering amazing stories and writers all day! See you at the next pitch event 😃

I'll be real: I completely forgot WIPPit was today. :V

But also! I think pitch event burnout is growing increasingly common on this platform. We had a *lot* of them this year, sometimes back to back. I know I'm taking a break because it's a lot, and I'd rather focus on drafting. 🫠

Black background. The top 2 corners are pictures of Moon Falls in Oregon and between them is the title The Secret of Moon Falls. In the middle are two quotes and between them is The Forest Maiden by Anne Stokes (A unicorn in a forest being held by a girl in a green dress with a butterfly over the back and a rainbow beside it.) The quotes are: “We may never know precisely when or where or how the legend of the unicorn began. It pervades recorded time and may be dimly visible even in the clouds that hover just above history's sunrise. The mystery of its origin... is one of the legend's most evident charms.” Odell Shepard, "The Gorgeous East," The Lore of the Unicorn, 1930 “I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.” Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn The bottom is another picture of Moon Falls in Oregon, The Captured Unicorn tapestry, and 2 hunters in the forest.

The Bailey School Kids x Dragon Girls x Animorphs

When Isla's school visits a history museum she is enchanted by The Unicorn Tapestries, but she never imagines they will change her. She must save herself from the hunt while also protecting the secret that she holds within her.

#W #MG #F #WIPPIT

Top 2 pictures: The 2 Kelpie heads at Falkirk, Scotland, and a little girl in a white dress on a dock putting little paper sailboats in water. The kelpie picture has a quote: “When thowes dissolve the snawy hoord, An' float the jinglin' icy boord, Then water-kelpies haunt the foord, By your direction, And 'nighted trav'llers are allur'd To their destruction.” by Robert Burns Middle 2 pictures: A Fjord with an old castle looking building and a yellow flowering meadow in the Scottish Highlands. The fjord picture has a quote: “In the depths they await to hear the children's whispered calls.” - The Children who Whispered to Water. Bottom Picture: An art picture of a kelpie with glowing white eyes coming out of the water to a shore of a forest. At the bottom of the pic is the title in green in a watery font The Children who Whispered to Water. There is a quote: “No mortal ear could have heard the kelpie passing through the night, for the great black hooves of it were as soundless as feathers falling.” From Molly Hunter’s, The Kelpie's Pearls

The Bailey School Kids x Dragon Girls x Animorphs

When Bonnie hears whispers from the Loch she learns to whisper back and may just discover the secrets held within its depths.

#W #MG #F #WIPPIT

A blue background. Left side topis a lake with fog and a foggy black shore, below that in a purple square is a quote there is a reason we are drawn to gazing at the ocean it is said the ocean provides a closer reflection of who we are than any mirror. Below that is ice with cracks in it. Below that is a purple and blue box with a quote sometimes it takes only one song to bring back a thousand memories. Bottom left is a woman sitting on rock in a river in a tan dress holding her right arm up on her head behind her and all the way down to her are waterfalls big and very small and they continue past her where the river has cut into the stone. Top right is a word in curly font part of the title Singing the other part is at the bottom Lake, so Singing Lake put together. Below singing is a stormy lake with a storm on the outskirts and a boat caught in the choppy waves. Below that is a small stormy lake scene with the words sometimes I feel if I stop and think I'll drown in a sea of grief. Below that is a girl sitting on a dock by a lake crying. Below that by lake is a small box with words she had the sea within her soul continuously.

The Bailey School Kids x Dragon Girls x Animorphs

When a mysterious voice is heard coming from the lake, Eva's parents forbid her from going back, but how can Eva stay away from what's calling to her soul even if it's the very thing that threatens to drown her?

#W #MG #F #WIPPIT

A red background. Top left pic is a choir singing and being Directed. Top right is sheet music with a red rose on it. Below that in neon white is the title in curly font A Lullaby of Silence. Middle left pic is a child in a red shirt with a grey striped blanket holding a reddish monkey. Middle middle is a cardinal on a tree branch in front of wild grassesand snow and fog with red words that say use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best. Middle right is a little girl looking down and away sadly and dragging a large white bear on stones with a moon and clouds in the background. Bottom left is a building of white stone with cut outs where white stone statues of gods and goddesses stand. Bottom right pic is a mute symbol of a sideways white bell with a red line through it.

The Bailey School Kids x Dragon Girls x Animorphs

When Melody faces a trauma that leaves her mute she must find her song within her once more to be able to sing with her choir again. Through her journey she will learn more about herself than she ever imagined.

#W #MG #F #WIPPIT

Black background with grey Bigfoot prints from bottom left to top right. Top left pic is sasquatch in the forest. Below that is a black and white Bigfoot in the forest sticker with the words When nobody believes in you believe in yourself. On the right is a half a white boy face and one blue eye. Next to that is a Bigfoot and tree in A yellow moon with Not all who wander are lost around it. Below that is the title in green Tracking Sasquatch. Below that on the right is bigfoot in the forest with the words leave no trace when camping, if bigfoot can do it, so can you. On the left and down a little is searchers in orange vests in the forest. Below the Bigfoot on the right is a boy scout camping and looking around with binoculars.

The Bailey School Kids x Dragon Girls x Animorphs

Devin is obsessed with Sasquatch. So when one shows up in his hometown he must find it if he wants to prove they're real & protect everyone.

#W #MG #F #WIPPIT

Black background. Top left pic is pink flowers. Top middle is a grey background with tan flowers to the side that reads that dream was planted in your heart for a reason. Top right is kids putting flowers in glass vases. Below those the left pic is a table with an FFA table cloth and a big horseshoe and flower arrangements in a classroom. The right pic is the words in pink shades of Dream it, Believe it, Achieve it. Below those is the title in pink Of Mushrooms and Flowers. Below that on the left is red cap mushrooms in a field and on the right is a partial of the FFA logo. Below those at the bottom left is a hedge with white wood letter reading dream and the right is a bunch of different pink and purple flowers growing together.

The Bailey School Kids x Dragon Girls x Animorphs

Brie loves flowers & now she's old enough to compete in floriculture, but when plants start reacting to her in strange ways she will have to try to keep her new power secret while also vying for what she wants most.

#W #F #MG #WIPPIT

The background is a purple geode. The top left pic is a stack of bars of gold. Below that is hills with a rainbow and rain in front of it. Below that is a castle. Below that is a grassy pic with the quote people who love collecting rocks they find are my kind of people. Below that is a pic of river rocks. Beside that are two people in front of a hill with large uare rocks. Beside that is a lake with rocks on the shore during a sunset. Above that is a geology camp and a boy looking for stuff in the dirt. Above that is a field of grasses and flowers of different colors with rocks set out as a path up the hill to another hill beyond. Above that is a light pinkish purple background with the words not all who wander are lost, some are looking for cool rocks. Above that is a bed of shamrock. Connecting that to the gold pic is a black background that reads rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them - John Mcphee.

The Bailey School Kids x Dragon Girls x Animorphs

Mason has always enjoyed collecting shiny things & he couldn't be more thrilled with the chance to go work with the top geologists over the summer, but he may find that those rocks will reveal more than just shiny things.

#W #F #MG #WIPPIT

Black background. Top picture is the eye of a Hurricane from above in space under that is yellow words reading: Chasing the wind with teal swirls that look like wind. Middle left picture is lightning behind a big city. The quote next to it in yellow is: In the eye of a Hurricane there is quiet for just a moment. Middle right picture is a storm coming in over a turquoise ocean and white sand. Below the lightning the words read: Find power in being quiet in chaos. Below the ocean one the words read: NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters, famous for flying into the world’s most ferocious weather, have a job which is not for the faint of heart, often being tossed in severe turbulence while flying at a mere 10,000 feet. The picture between them is an older child in a yellow raincoat standing at a chain link fence. Bottom left picture is an ocean surge onto a beach and winds blowing palm trees. Bottom right is a wing of a plane as seen out a window looking over clouds. The quote between them reads: It's in the darkest hours that the kindness of others brings the most light.

The Bailey School KidsxDragon GirlsxAnimorphs

Bruce wants to be a Hurricane Hunter Pilot, but when he learns that he is a thunderbird & created a massive storm, he must figure out how to use his new powers to stop it before it takes out his hometown & state.

#W #F #MG #WIPPIT

Black background. Top left is an angel statue with her head bowed. Top right is a blonde woman in a white dress walking on a cloud. Below those are quotes to each side and a white shadow man figure falling with squiggly lines in the middle of them. The left quote read: Sometimes our lives have to be completely shaken up, changed, & rearranged to relocate us to the place we're meant to be. The right reads: sometime when things are falling apart they may actually be falling into place. The title under the man reads: Falling Up. Middle left picture is a woman sitting on red rocks watching the stars and milky way. Middle left is School desks in a classroom with papers and pencils on them and green seats. Bottom left is a hooded robed man by fire. Bottom right is a bunch of hands reaching up.

The Bailey School Kids x Dragon Girls x Animorphs

When Ri has a dream about falling she learns that it means she is a FALLEN ANGEL?! WHAT?! Now she must learn how to fall up before it's too late for her and those she loves.

#W #F #MG #WIPPIT

Yep! I saw a post saying we needed more kelpies in literature and I was happy to oblige. 😁

Three sketched characters in action poses. Raph, top, a man with messy dark hair and stubble, holding a handful of blue whisky magic. Jenni, center, light hair, holding a fistful of playing cards in his right hand, stretching his left toward the viewer, blue streaks of magic around him. Frida, bottom, a dark-skinned woman with puffy curly hair holds a walking stick is pushing her hands to the ground, leaping up, surrounded by purple, static-like magic. Text around them is lyrics from AJR’s Sober Up: “and I wanna feel something again. Won’t you help me feel something again?”

Jenni discovers real magic and has a year to prove himself, working alongside new coworker Raph… but Raph has his own plans for magic-kind. Jenni and Raph grow closer; a threat to their society rears its head. Jenni must choose if being w/ Raph is worth risking his newfound way of life for. #wippit

Background, Flying sail ships amids obscuring clouds. presenting an Agents Guide to: Cavern Clipper. Status: first draft complete at 117K words Image Credit: “The Stormriders: Steampunk Pirates” by neko1206 on Deviantart.

Background, cavern lit up by bright orange-yellow light. The Pitch: WHEN SAMUEL CLARK DIES, HE AWAKENS IN A WORLD OF ENDLESS TUNNELS AND MASSIVE CAVERNS. JOINING A HUNTER CLIPPER CREW, HE GETS CAUGHT BETWEEN PIRATES AND A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER WHOSE URGENT MESSAGE COULD SAVE HUMANITY.

Background, massive square cavern in background with small forest and deer in foreground. Comps: TREASURE PLANET X A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH Tropes and themes: • TRANSMIGRATION (ISEKAI) • AIRSHIPS • PIRATES • CAT AND MOUSE BATTLES • A MESSAGE THAT MUST BE DELIVERED!

Background, Cavern with a skull face being watched by a woman. Excerpt: “CAPTAIN!” SAM SHOUTED AND POINTED TO THE SIGHT. HE SAW HER REACT, BUT DIDN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT HER RESPONSE WOULD BE. INSTEAD HE SPUN AROUND TO TRY AND FIND NYXEL. HE SPOTTED HER ON THE MAINMAST, SCANNING THE DECK AND LOOKING FOR TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY. “NYXEL! THE CABLE!” SAM SHOUTED. HE SAW HER HEAD SNAP TOWARDS HIM AND HE POINTED TOWARDS WHERE THE LAST CABLE WAS EMBEDDED INTO THE DECK, THEN SWUNG HIS HAND AROUND TO THE SLOOP. SHE FOLLOWED HIS HAND, THEN NODDED AT HIM AND LAUNCHED BACK INTO THE AIR, GRACEFULLY CURVING TOWARDS THE SLOOP ONE FINAL TIME.

G'morning #WIPPIT!

I present to you a new and improved #Agentsguide to...
CAVERN CLIPPER (Treasure Planet X Journey to the Center of the Earth) #A #SF #SFF
Join Samuel Clark as he tries to find out exactly wtf he's gotten himself into by dying, because none of this looks anything like an afterlife!

Title 'friends & roommates' overlaid on top of various photos and subheadings. Subheading: anxiety with words “Fine sounds less accurate the more you say it” and the image of a woman sitting with her head on her knees and an arm wrapped around them. Subheading: crushes with text “soulmates can be platonic” and an image of a young woman with short hair looking back over her shoulder at the camera. Subheading: university with images of woman sitting on ground in dark reading a book and sitting on the floor, typing on a laptop. Subheading: parties with images of young people sitting on the stairs with drinks, laughing. Subheading: LGBTQIA+ with text “It’s pansexual, actually” and images of two gender-nonconforming young people leaning on each other and a young woman holding a rainbow-coloured heart on a stick and smiling. Subheading: new home with images of two women laying on their backs on a bed looking at a book together with their legs up the wall and people standing and sitting on a set of outside stairs, grouped together.

Lucy just wants to get through first year university as one of the crowd.

No more talking about her. No concerned faces over her anxiety. No coming out.

But now her crush is living across the hall, newly single and snuggly and Lucy’s feelings are getting too obvious.

#WIPPit #YA #NA #Con #LGBT

Won't someone think of the poor mega-capitalists? Running a mining colony is hard. Surely a few casualties aren't that big a deal.

Well, Cary Patterson and his squad of outcasts have had enough.

OMEGA SQUAD: a novella, arriving 2026

#WIPPit #A #SF #DS #H?

Annora Rainecourt would do anything for the boy she loves - the kingdom's saviour - including defying her low-born status and the nobles who scorn her false arm to prove herself worthy. But on the eve of their wedding, Lucan betrays her, and she can't fathom why. So she escapes into the night, her life of sweet smiles and unfaltering loyalty shattered. Madoc Emory is running out of time. If he can't repay the loan on his tavern, his crew - the only family he has - loses everything. So when a beautiful, intriguing maiden appears begging for help in exchange for payment, he jumps at the chance. Problem is, she wants revenge against the untouchable. The Prince's favoured, and the man prophesied to restore magic to the realm thanks to his discovery of Scale, a weapon forged from wyvern hide. Still, Madoc's desperate and Annora impossible to deny, so they strike a deal. His crew will infiltrate Lucan's empire, and tear him down. But when they uncover a horrifying truth at the heart of Scale, Annora is faced with a choice. Vengeance, or justice. And changing paths may just unravel her fragile bond with the misunderstood Madoc, and the prophecy her entire kingdom relies on.

Comp titles: House of the Dragon, A Fate Forged in Fire, The Knight and the Moth, Throne of Glass, Six of Crows, A Tempest of Tea

Excerpt: Most brides would think a storm on the eve of their wedding an omen, but for Annora Rainecourt it was the greatest blessing she could receive. Because a storm meant chance of a sighting. And what could be more thrilling than that? She scoured the skies as lightning flashed, illuminating the distant castle and the manor dwellings around it in a shock of monochrome clarity, and there — beyond the turrets — she saw her first of the night. Thin membrane, spindly tendon and bone, that unfathomable combination of sharp claws and curved edges, swiftly flying through slick rain and thick cloud until the darkness crowded in again and she lost it. Annora smiled to herself. They always liked storms. The wyverns. “They’re quiet tonight,” she said, staring out of the lancet window as rain lashed against the panes. Lucan rolled on the bed to face her, the sheets draped between his legs as if she hadn’t been privy to what was beneath them moments ago. “Or perhaps they’re beyond sight,” he said, and ran a hand through long, light hair, pushing it back from his slim face. “The view from here is perfect,” she murmured, frowning. Lucan’s manor was on the outskirts of Gaet, the small city of Vlintlann that was home to the nobility and merchant class. The east window of his bedchamber had one of the best views of the kingdom. To the north, Annora could see the long carriageway curving round from the front entrance of the manor to the cobbled road that led to the royal castle — its sharp turrets spearing through mist like the teeth of beasts. To the south, past the gardens and a small stretch of woodland, were the mountains. The looming black rock surrounded most of Vlintlann, bar the stretch of land where the border with Coperlann and The Disputed laid. And to the east, in the distance, Annora could see the shimmering lights from the cramped streets of The Bowl, the town where those without riches in Vlintlann lived. Her old home, once upon a time.

Scale

Introducing Scale 🗡️

Betrayed on the eve of her wedding, Annora enlists charming criminal Madoc to enact her revenge, but when her quest unravels the truth of a trade in wyvern scale and a long-awaited prophecy, she must choose between vengeance and justice.

Gothic #NA #RF on sub in 2026 #WIPPIT

🖤 Gothic romantasy
🖤 Lovers to enemies
🖤 Unique twist on wyverns
🖤 Chosen one as the villain
🖤 Disabled FMC
🖤 Heists and found family
🖤 Politics, prophecies, corruption and betrayal
🖤 Female rage
🖤 Multi POV
🖤 Queernorm world

#NA #RF #WIPPIT

A mock cover for the novel THE ENGINES THAT DIVIDE, with the title over art of a dieselpunk fighter plane (art by Ryan Li), with the tagline 'Sometimes the easiest decisions to make are the hardest to live with', and the byline, 'A Novel By M. A. Holland'.

THE ENGINES THAT DIVIDE

Sometimes the easiest decisions to make are the hardest to live with.

A YA/NA dieselpunk novel about two sisters, one a mechanic, the other a pilot, following different paths through a world at war.

#WIPPIT #YA #NA #SFF