skyekilaen

@skyekilaen@wandering.shop

Author of contemporary & sci-fi queer romance. Big fan of Godzilla. Bi/pan, she/her, geek mom.

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skyekilaen, to random

Authors
I am begging you
when you post promo for your book
DESCRIBE IT.

Vibes, plot, genre, characters, whatever works, but something.

"Look here's my cover" or "my book is on sale" or "my book is out now" with zero info about the content doesn't help me know whether I want to read it!

💌

skyekilaen, to queer

If you 💜 trans, nonbinary, & ace romance, BIPOC authors, queer M/F, polyam, ownvoices m/m, off-the-beaten path sapphic books, older MCs, & more, get a curated new release list monthly in your inbox: https://tinyletter.com/skyekilaen

This month's list: https://bit.ly/queer-dec

Catch up on a year's worth: https://bit.ly/queer-rom

#QueerRomance #LGBTQBooks #Romance #Bookstodon
#Sapphic #Bisexual #Polyamory #Pansexual

@lgbtqbookstodon @romancelandia @bookstodon @sapphicbooks

skyekilaen, to queer

My latest curated queer romance new release list is up now. All over the rainbow in terms of queer rep, yay! 🏳️‍🌈 📚 If you like anything from sci-fi to historical, fantasy to contemporary, there's a queer romance here for you.

Find it here: https://skyewritesromance.com/new-queer-romances-august-2023/

If you don't get it by email already, sign up now: https://tinyletter.com/skyekilaen

#QueerRomance #LGBTQBooks #Sapphic #Bisexual #Polyamory #SelfPromo #SelfPromotion @lgbtqbookstodon @sapphicbooks

skyekilaen, to random

Heya fellow bibliophiles, the Narratess Indie Sale starts today! Stock up on science fiction, fantasy, and horror books by indie authors & small presses from free to 1.99!

Check it out: https://promotions.narratess.com

My Recs: Scales & Sensibility by Stephanie Burgis (fantasy romance), Junk Junction by Sara Codair (middle grade paranormal, nonbinary MC), & Stargun Messenger by Darby Harn (sapphic sf romance).

And my novella Glorious Day (sapphic sf romance) is 99c!

skyekilaen, to sciencefiction

Anybody have recs for single-author science fiction and/or fantasy/paranormal short story collections? I'm especially interested in marginalized authors.

My faves so far:

  • 'Nathan Burgoine's Of Echoes Born (paranormal)
  • Zen Cho's Spirits Abroad (fantasy/paranormal)
  • Iona Datt Sharma's Not For Use In Navigation (mix of science fiction and fantasy)

Self-recs are cool, too!

@bookstodon @lgbtqbookstodon

ClH2OArs, to random
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Oh, it's gonna be a panic day, isn't it?

Every now and then I wake up and feel like nothing is gonna work out and I'm silly for thinking it can, and why am I not working every waking hour and if I don't it'll be my fault when I fail

It's real fun /s

skyekilaen,

@ClH2OArs 💌

skyekilaen, to random

Okay Amazon I know you prohibit personal information in book reviews but you've now rejected two of my reviews for including the main character's full name and I just don't think we have to be this concerned about doxxing fictional people.

skyekilaen,

@ClH2OArs I mean I'm pretty sure if Victor LaValle didn't want peole to know a character's full name, he simply wouldn't put it in the book!! 😂

skyekilaen, to LGBTQ

Read queer romance? :heart_pride: 📚

My monthly newsletter centers self-pub & small press queer romances that may get overlooked. Trans, nonbinary, and ace romances, BIPOC authors, queer M/F, MCs over 40, polyam, & more.

July's list: https://bit.ly/3YqHcNe

Sign up: https://tinyletter.com/skyekilaen

@lgbtqbookstodon @sapphicbooks @mmromance @bookstodon #QueerRomance #lgbtq #Bookstodon

ClH2OArs, to random
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All right, today begins the first wave of edits for Nerezia2 !

I'm hoping to get through at least a superficial pass of edits/completion on all 9 of them before the end of the year, but I'm really not sure how that'll go when October is so busy.

skyekilaen,

@ClH2OArs Rooting for you!!

ClH2OArs, to random
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LBT -- looove seeing all these beautiful reviews of Pluralities :ablobcatheartsqueeze: nothing like author friends getting appreciated for what they're worth

skyekilaen,

@ClH2OArs I had never heard about it before and it looks AMAZING.

skyekilaen, to random

Book pals, I'm looking for adult reads that meet ALL criteria:

  • sci-fi romance or sci-fi w/significant romance subplot that has HEA/HFN
  • queer
  • the MCs or MC/LI are different genders

My faves so far: Mindi Briar's Invisible Bright (ace4ace m/f) & R.M. Olson's Singularity Series (m/nb)

PLEASE NO: fantasy unless there's also a sci-fi element, YA, or books where the romance is minimal or the couple/group doesn't end up together.

skyekilaen,

@wintersweet Why wouldn't that qualify? I must have written my post wrong because that would be exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for.

rick, to photography
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It’s done! I started this Clawstrider at the beginning of the month, and finished just before midnight last night.

I didn’t work on it every night, but more than half. It’s ~7100 pieces, and probably took ~100 hours to assemble.

The instructions were … not amazing, and the kit was missing 10-20 specific pieces. It’s also fragile AF. Can’t really recommend it unless you are ready for frustration.

This shot is the reverse of the previous: still along the left side, but this time close to the tail, as the robot faces away from the camera. From this angle, you can see the wide fan of the blades along each side of the tail. The tail is articulated several times, with breaks in the armor plates, before it joins with the torso. Here, the grass obscures the hips and hind legs. Orange and yellow rips highlight the blade feathers, and almost blend into the golden grass.
A close-up of the head of the robot, in profile. The cerrated teeth stand out, while the strip of black chainsaw teeth are almost invisible in the shadow. This close, you can clearly see the grey tubes which run from the nose, back along the head, disappearing between the twin sprays of feather-blades down to the neck. Again here, the yellow and orange highlights here and there blend in well with the grass, while the otherwise glowing white armor plates stand out.
A wider profile shot, showing the robot from nose to elbows. This shows off how the feather-blades start at the top of the head, and continue down the neck, shoulders, arms, and down to the forearms. Those blades gain sharp yellow-orange tips as they cross the shoulders. Small claws tip each hand … until you look closer and see a collection of long black knife talons curled under and hiding below.

skyekilaen,

@rick It looks fantastic though, congrats!

skyekilaen, to random

My teenage son and I have started building a collaborative list of all the songs we both love and I am so happy to be included in his new Music Nerd hobby. 🥰

skyekilaen,

@ClH2OArs My overlap with kiddo seems to be very low. So part of why we're making the list is to find the commonalities!

skyekilaen, to random

I feel so embarrassed that things in this first draft don't make sense even though I write my first drafts to figure out what I want the story to be and also no one but me ever sees them.

skyekilaen, to random

The daily struggle not to buy or borrow any additional books because I am trying to read all the ones I already have!

I have hit owned-TBR zero before and I want to do it again, but eyes to-buy and to-borrow TBRs which just keep growing...

skyekilaen,

@ClH2OArs I can go even a couple of years at a time feeling cool about books stacking up but occasionally I freak out and have to Finish Them All. 😂

skyekilaen, to random

The sadness of re-reading a digital comic you got from a Kickstarter several years ago and realizing you can't recommend it to any of your friends because the creator isn't selling it anywhere... 😭

ClH2OArs, to random
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I have spent a decadent amount of time reading in the last three days. Also my kobo screen broke, so that might be ending soon :ablobcatcoffee:

skyekilaen,

@ClH2OArs Kobo, no, why??

skyekilaen,

@ClH2OArs Occupational hazard. 😭

ragnell, to mastodon

Oh #Mastodon. After last year's #TwitterMigration THIS is what you became known for.

The #Fediverse could have caught on back THEN if you were as welcoming as #Kbin/#Lemmy has been to the #Redditmigration but instead the loudest group was the Mastodon Homeowner's Association.

skyekilaen,

@ragnell That's why author Romancelandia didn't migrate. There were plenty of people helping folks find an instance, get set up, follow migration hashtags... but it was clear to many that we weren't wanted because ewww self-promotion. Even on the romance server.

skyekilaen,

@ragnell I honestly feel like I'm out of options at this point. I do make things harder on myself by choosing to write books that few people want to read, but getting the word out to those people within this new constellation of dysfunctional social media sites is just, like, how? I can't see myself publishing another full-length novel for a good long while, if ever. Maybe a few short stories.

ClH2OArs, to random
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I got 7 hours in bus ahead of me. The plan?

  • Write at least 1500 words
  • Read read read

Not sure which of SABLE DARK, THE SURVIVING SKY, THE WITCH KING or A RIVAL MOST VIAL is gonna get picked first as a read though

skyekilaen,

@ClH2OArs I read the Kindle sample for The Witch King and I shouldn't have because I have a stack of books I need to read for Goals purposes so I have to put it way down on my TBR and it hurts. 😂

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