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20d

All my books can be found on all major online distributors and ordered from Indie bookstores.

My main SFF series starts with The Calling:

In a future ice age, Bleu’s expedition team emerges from their subterranean haven to discover humans are no longer the dominant life form on Earth.

https://books2read.com/FindingHumanityBook1
#FindingHumanitySeries #hopepunk #scifi #fantasy

An image of a paperback and ebook of The Calling in front of a blue spiral galaxy. Overhead is a quote from a five star review, “A story we’ve been waiting to be told.”
The cover features huge elevator doors opening onto a nighttime Arctic scene. A teen in an orange parka, gun strapped to their back, looks out in wonder to a strange bright star on the distant snow. Below the image is the tagline: Humanity’s wake-up call. Answered it or face extinction.

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20d

Book Review: The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman
Second person present tense is the sexiest way to tell a story.
A long and meaty review at the blog from @chloroform_tea today:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/book-review-wolf-and-his-king-by-finn.html

#books #fantasy #review #bookreview #bookstodon @bookstodon

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1y

NSFW

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17d

Chapter 44 of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Nicole flies through the air, thrown free of Olyna's attempt to step on her by the extreme air pressure!

Seeking control, she uses a little known fact: self-image determined shape within any mindscape.

Nicole forces herself to believe she's a dragon and begins to change form...

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19d

Free @ #Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1462617

Having an abusive assassin for a sister was bad enough, but when Lyra’s older sister, Nicole, becomes obsessed with killing the teenage troll, her life becomes a special kind of nightmare. Will she escape, or become just another victim of the unstoppable woman?

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(Left) The cover of Troll Song, by Owen Tyme, Illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

There's a woman in mud spattered white, leather armor crossing a pair of short swords against the neck of a terrified, shirtless dwarf.

The woman has white hair and a darker skin tone on the left side of her face. Her left eye is green and her right eye is blue.

The dwarf's hair and beard are blond.

The background is a green forest, with some flowers among the tall grass.

(Right) The background is a snow-covered forest, with a pair of dark silhouettes in it, one small and the other large, like a giant. The smaller silhouette is of a young woman walking away and the interior is filled with musical symbols, in green, white and two shades of blue. The larger silhouette is a woman wielding two swords and the interior is full of blood spatter. The larger one appears to be chasing the smaller one.

The following text is laid over the scene:

“I can’t die until Lyra takes her last breath! She’ll regret betraying her sisters!”

“There’s no price I won’t pay to see that happen, no pain I won’t endure and I’d sacrifice the whole world to seal her fate!”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TrollSong

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18d

Immortal Gifts – the Audiobook https://www.katherinevillyard.com/2025/12/24/immortal-gifts-the-audiobook/ #fantasy #bookstodon @bookstodon

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19d

I’m enjoying listening to The Gentleman and his Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide, one of the new crop of murder-mystery/fantasy mixed-genre books, with a good amateur investigatory team and a slow(ish)-burn gay romance.

But I did get very immature about this line: “…with a moan that emanated straight from his groin”.

…ah, chatty little fellow, is he? 😂

#books #fantasy @bookstodon

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17d

50% off @ #Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1559436

Spies, aliens, trolls, wizards and a disowned prince use a time machine, but Levi Jacobs stands in their way, despite having just lost his parents in war. Will he stop them or will they kill his father at a pivotal moment, on which the fate of the galaxy hangs?

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(Left) The cover of The Third Wish, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

A wizard in a black robe that glitters with hints of gold stands on a mountain and looks down at a city of sky scrapers covered in greenery. In his shadow lurks a creature with glowing red eyes.

In the background, the sun is setting and stars are becoming visible.

(Right Background) Four images separated by black lines, with the silhouette of a woman wielding two swords laid over them. She's outlined in black and her interior is yellow clock-based imagery that spirals outward from the center.

The upper left quarter is a queen in a red, furred robe, wearing a gold and diamond crown. She has dark eyebrows and blond hair.

Upper right is a planet seen from orbit.

Lower left is a symbolic wire frame representation of the view inside a wormhole, in green and yellow.

Lower right is dandelions among grass.

The angle of the planet, one of the woman's swords, the yellow highlights of the wormhole and some of the dandelions form a line that draws the eye along a sweeping curve.

(Right Foreground) The following quote:

He admired the flawless beauty of the insane swordswoman’s fluid movements as Ida took desperate step after step, backwards!

He felt waves of mental energy pour off the panic-stricken troll, but the energy bounced right off of Nicole’s mind, as though she’d shut herself inside a solid, red-hot, steel box of rage!

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheThirdWish

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1y

Chloè Faobhar, an orphaned girl, now working eagerly as a city guard in training. Despite her tragic past, she's full of energy, and brings smiles wherever she goes. Greatly looks up to the swordsman that saved her, and wishes to one day be like him. She's also quite the tomboy, and secretly really loves anal...

Split up the ref sheet because it was too loooong

Art once more by the talented Ceecee!
#Chloe_Faobhar #OC #originalcharacter #fantasy #girl

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15d

50% off @ #Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1657116

After experiencing the death of his wife and child, destruction of his home world, an addiction forced on him by the one responsible and a third of the galaxy falling under the heel of that tyrant, Levi Jacobs, a wizard, seeks to unravel the secrets of time and fate.

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(Left) The cover of The Inverted Glass, by Owen Tyme.

The Background is a pink and purple nebula in space.

The foreground is largely line art, in white, with a black shadow outline.

At the center is an hourglass. The bottom has black sand, with a white figure standing in it. The top has is an inverted mirror image of the bottom, with a black figure in white sand.

The hourglass serves as the balance point for a set of scales, which hold a heart and a feather. The heart is on the left and the feather on the right. The heart is lower than the feather.

(Right) Lying in blue sand is a heart made of the same sand, full of cracks. It glows from the inside in a warm, yellow color. Over that is the following quote:

Nicole felt an extreme kind of loss, realizing she’d been stolen away from the afterlife, just before finding out if she deserved punishment or not!

“How dare you do this to me? Why?”

“I’m always in need of strong spirits and I’ve seen none stronger. You have unique talents I refuse to see go to waste.”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass

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16d

Book Review: Making History by K. J. Parker
Another novella set in Parker's mainline secondary universe, about a group of academics tasked with a seemingly impossible task by a tyrant.
@princejvstin.com has our Boxing Day review
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/book-review-making-history-by-k-j-parker.html

#books #review #fantasy #bookstodon @bookstodon

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1y

I am in my “drawing the critters in my suburban back yard as fantasy adventurers” phase now. #MastoArt #Fantasy

A drawing of a bipedal fox standing in front of a slightly-ajar wooden door set into a stone wall. There is ivy growing on the wall and the grass on the ground around it is overgrown. The fox is gesturing to the open door, and he is wearing a mix of rustic and luxurious clothing

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16d

50% off @ #Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1604529

On a world long thought to have no moon, its sudden appearance inspires wonder and terror. Hasty research links it to catastrophe and the so-called ‘Harbingers of Doom’, creatures that harvest souls. Can everyone survive or will they become part of the dark harvest?

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(Left) The cover of dark moon, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

In the foreground, a redheaded witch and a dark haired wizard fight back to back, holding some rather large pistols. The witch is in a black dress and the wizard is in a black robe with golden decorations. Both looked a bit purple, due to the lighting. The witch's hair blows on the wind and she wears a necklace of bone beads.

Behind them, there's dust, mist and fog lit by twilight as a moon rises, framing their heads. Objects that look like shooting stars fall from the moon and there's a few visible impacts.

(Right) A white moon, on a background of the stars of space, with the following quote over the top of it:

“Idiot! You’ve likely killed us both, leaving us stuck out in the open like this.”

“We’ve got incoming. I know you’re angry and I suppose you’ve got every right to be, but we need to defend ourselves.”

“ ‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend’, for now, and then we decide what to do about the conflict between us.”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TymeDarkMoon

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1y

I started a new project titled 'Starwitch'.

It's about three sisters that launched themselves into space with magic. The novel has been named for the ship itself. The setting will be primarily fantasy, though with some minor scientific elements, mostly in the form of mathematics and orbital dynamics.

I intend to publish as an episodic web series, then as a novel, so keep an eye out for details.

https://owentyme.us/books/starwitch/index.html

#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #actionadventure #fiction #wip

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2d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/WrathOfTheSky

Zechariah Jacobs has angered a vast empire that spans a third of the galaxy, which is far too much for his planet to stand against, but in a clash of wizards and magic versus technology, it’s hard to say which will win.

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(Left) The cover of Wrath of the Sky, by Owen Tyme.

On a black background, a planet much like earth burns, set aflame. The flames are on the top and sides, but haven't yet reached the bottom.

(Right) An ogre stands on a rocky cliffside path, clearly quite upset, with both his head and arms raised as he cries out! The background is blue sky with white clouds. The following quote is laid over the top of the scene:

Winzon grinned evilly. With great slowness and ceremony, he undid the draw-string of his sack and up-ended it, dropping an ogre skull at the brute’s feet!

The massive ogre’s entire demeanor changed in an instant! He backed away, carefully stepping out of reach of Winzon’s ax, even though it was still strapped to his back!

The brute whispered, “Ogre-slayer!”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/WrathOfTheSky

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15d

Chapter 45 of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Kazic enters a looping miniature universe that resembles Relativity, by M. C. Escher.

He soon hears running footsteps and spots a terrified Ulkun looking back over their shoulder.

He works out how he might intercept them and they soon come face to face...

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13d

50% off omnibus @ #Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1733647

Levi always dreamed of being like his father, a great wizard, but had no understanding what it would be like. Follow Levi's journey from bumbling teen to great hero, while the young wizard learns to master magical powers that are barely under control.

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The ad flyer for the series The Wizard's Scion.

(Background) View of a planet from space.

(Top Center) A black flying saucer surrounded by this text:
Trolls, boogeymen and witches, oh my!
Just another day for a young wizard.

(Top Left) The cover of Troll Song displays a woman in battered, muddy armor with her two swords crossed against the neck of a dwarf.

(Lower Left) The cover of Forgotten Legends displays a child reading in bed as a black, smoky monster with red eyes peeks out from under the bed.

(Lower Center Left) The cover of The Third Wish displays a wizard on top of a mountain, looking to the sunset, over a city of sky scrapers that have plants growing on them. In his shadow is the red eyed creature from Forgotten Legends.

(Lower Center Right) The cover of Dark Moon displays a witch and wizard fighting back to back, holding pistols, while objects fall around them, with the moon behind their heads.

(Lower Right) The cover of The Inverted Glass displays a line art hourglass with a white figure in black sand at the bottom, with a black figure in white sand upside-down in the top. Balanced on a scale are a heart and a feather.

(Upper Right) The cover of The Wizard's Scion: The Complete Series displays several figures in silhouette representing the main characters, as they traverse a wormhole. Behind them is a red-eyed octopus.

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13d

@adriabailton thank you for hosting the last #writephant of 2025 😊

#SelfPromo

The #Smashwords sale is in its last few days (ends 11:59 p.m. Pacific January 1st US time, so Australians have to the middle of 2 Jan)

All mine are 25% off, if you’re in the mood for well-rated quirky/low-key/non-epic fantasy with queer romance:

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/wendylpalmer

there’s plenty more to browse too. I’ve got a few queued up, but the one I’ve already read, and really liked was, The King is Dead, by Naomi Libicki, for a not-European-set fantasy about a man who must look after his deeply traumatised cousin, while uncovering a conspiracy within his own family and beyond.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1474178

#fantasy #books #BookSale @bookstodon

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Chapter 51 of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

While Nicole, Cha'da and The Seventh Sage work to defuse the explosive spell, the rest of Nicole's team search the blasted landscape for the painted witch...

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1y

Tough day ahead. #grickledoodle #dragon #morning #fantasy #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

A cartoon illustration of a dragon coming out of his cave and being stabbed by a knight with a lance, spilling his coffee, and dropping the morning newspaper. Caption underneath reads "It was the absolute worst start to a morning he could remember in quite some time."

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11d

Christmas (miracle) review on Part One of my Fantasy/Attempted Comedy story The Last Philosopher 😊

P.S Links to places where I'm currently posting Part Two are on my profile, updated weekly.

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I really really like this
by 167five on The Last Philosopher: Part one Wednesday, December 24th, 2025.

Overall rating: 5/5 stars

Honestly, when I read the first chapter, I was like...
What the heck am I reading?
I thought that the writing was going to just be random philosophical nonsense. And for the first couple of paragraphs, that was what I recieved.
But then...
Herschel being a prisoner in a far off fantasty world really got to me. It seemed just an interesting premise, and seeing him give his satrical thoughts and ideas are just very entertaining to read.
The grammar, plot, and story are all greatly done as well.
Overall, this is a great story that I would recommend to other new readers.

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9d

What I have that is eligible for Awards, 2026 edition https://www.katherinevillyard.com/2026/01/02/what-i-have-that-is-eligible-for-awards-2026-edition/ #fantasy #bookstodon @bookstodon

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2d

Trying #Kindle Unlimited for 30 days. What authors should I check out? I read #Romance including dark Romance but I also love #Fantasy and I’m not keeping Kindle Unlimited. If you can, provide links. #RomanceReaders #RomanceLandia @bookstodon

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9d

Book Review: The Gryphon King by Sara Omer
A monster-filled secondary-world fantasy that takes its cues and worldbuilding inspirations from points east of the Bosporus Strait
@Princejvstin has our review
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/book-review-gryphon-king-by-sara-omer.html

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