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L. D. Colter - Author

@ldcolter.com

Writer of weird things. Award-winning author of The Perilous Gods set of myth-based dark fantasy from Profile Books/Solaris.

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L. D. Colter - Author@ldcolter.com · 5d ago

Looking for fantasy that's not romantasy? Mine are in this list from Solaris (bottom left - all completely standalone). While the Gods Sleep - secondary love story (not romantasy). When the Winds Sing - zero romance. Where the Shadows Dwell - very minor love interest thread.

Solaris Books@solarisbooks.bsky.social · 5d ago

Due to recent reader discussions, a selection of Solaris Fantasy Books written by women that are NOT Romantasy. Not that we don't love a good romantasy too, but there are women writers in all subgenres, from dark to eco, comic to epic, indigenous dragonriders to goblin emperors, something for all!

Fantasy written by women that is NOT romantasy: The Mirror Realm Cycle by Ariel Kaplan (THE POMEGRANATE GATE, THE REPUBLIC OF SALT and THE KINGDOM OF ALMONDS) The Hanged God trilogy by Thilde Kold Hodlt (NORTHERN WRATH, SHACKLED FATES and SLAUGHTERED GODS) The Heartwood duology by Juliet Marillier (THE AMBER OWL and THE HIDDEN WAY) The Crowns of Ishia novella trilogy by Karin Lowachee (THE MOUNTAIN CROWN, THE DESERT TALON, A COVENANT OF ICE) Between Earth and Sky trilogy by Rebecca Roanhose (BLACK SUN, FEVERED STAR and MIRRORED HEAVENS) SAINT DEATH TRILOGY by C. S. E. Cooney (SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER and SAINT DEATH'S HERALD) The Chronicles of Osreth by Katherine Addison (THE GOBLIN EMPREROR, THE WITNESS FOR THE DEAD, THE GRIEF OF STONES, THE TOMB OF DRAGONS and THE ORB OF CAIRADO) ASUNDER by Kerstin Hall CRY, VOIDBRINGER by Elaine Ho THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY by Roanne Lau THE PERILOUS GODS trilogy by L. D. Colter (WHILE THE GODS SLEEP, WHEN THE WINDS SING and WHERE THE SHADOWS DWELL) A THEORY OF HAUNTING by Sarah Monette The Tuniverse by Randee Dawn (TUNE IN TOMORROW and WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM) THE WATER OUTLAWS by S. L. Huang IF FOUND RETURN TO HELL by Em X. Liu
L. D. Colter - Author@ldcolter.com · 6d ago

Rescue and rehab, anti-poaching teams, wild animal veterinary response, and even shepherding a wild elephant herd... if you don't support Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, please consider helping.

Sheldrick Wildlife Trust@sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 7d ago

Traffic Stop – Elephants Coming Through! One of this week's missions: helping 30 bulls navigate both a railway and a highway crossing. Working with KWS, the SWT helicopter shepherded them through the railway underpass and towards the Mombasa Highway. Three hours later, all safely in Tsavo.

L. D. Colter - Author@ldcolter.com · last wk.

Hope can still float Original post by Milo for Mayor (a dog) on FB ...I, Mayor Milo, do hereby declare the Beulah Floating Unicorn an Official Symbol of Hope for our community. May it remind us that even after the darkest storms, hope can still float...

Flood waters in front of a building with a unicorn float ring in the foregroundThe same unicorn float after the flood on top of an entrance to a building
Deborah L. Davitt, Author@deborahldavitt.bsky.social · 2w ago

I love reading people's stories after @emmiechristie33.bsky.social has analyzed them; I inevitably wind up with stories I might not have read otherwise as a result. This week. . . she's turned her lens on me, and WOW. I feel. . . very *seen*. :eyes: www.emmiechristie.com/short-fictio...

Writer Spotlight: Deborah L. Davitt — Emmie Christie

Welcome to the 23rd installment of Writer Spotlight. This week’s focus is Deborah L. Davitt. I’ve reviewed 14 of Davitt’s pieces, eight of them individually on InkFoundry’s “Get WYSR” feed. (In ...

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👻 Abigail Kemske 👻@abigailkemske.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Guess what?? I did my FIRST podcast interview recently and now you can listen to it on @jessicapixie.bsky.social Substack! On this episode I also read my story “Six Things I Wish I Had Brought From Earth.” Tell me I did alright. 😅

jessicapixiestudios@jessicapixie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Enjoy @abigailkemske.bsky.social reading her short story in the recent anthology Tea or Coffee, Stars and Gravity published by @aanpress.bsky.social Next up, @leootherland.bsky.social 🤍 open.substack.com/pub/jessicap...

Elis Montgomery@elismontgomery.bsky.social · last mo.

Follow Nightraiser into the bone place, where a single floating candle flickers in the shadows. What fills the dark spaces left by devotion? New dark fantasy flash, free in Adventitious! 💀🐴🕯️✨ www.adventitious.net/stories/holl...

Image of “The Piebald Horse," an oil painting by Paulus Potter, with a brown-speckled white horse standing in a field against a cloudy sky, looking back just slightly to the viewer. Above the horse is added text from “Hollows After Bones” by Elis Montgomery: “Nightraiser paws a hoof into the harrowed earth. Every grave here is laid bare like the land’s been peeled back in great layers.”Image of a watercolour illustration by Raffaele Mainella for Nos Invisibles (1907). A dark figure stands over an open, flower-strewn casket with their hands raised to a lighter sky of dancing, white-clad figures. A dead man lies inside the casket beside a tall candle, its smoke trailing into the distance. Over the sky is added text from “Hollows After Bones” by Elis Montgomery: “Neither he nor the rider had prepared for death; it had come for them suddenly, as certain as wildfire.”Image of “The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse)” (c. 1896–1908), an oil painting by Albert Pinkham Ryder. Depicts a skeletal, scythe-wielding figure riding a galloping horse through the dark countryside. Over the sky is added text from “Hollows After Bones” by Elis Montgomery: “Horses did not have to pay their way through, but perhaps that was the way of humans.”Image of “La calavera de Don Quijote (The Skeleton of Don Quixote)” (c. 1910-1913), a print of a relief etching with engraving by José Guadalupe Posada. A hat-wearing and lance-wielding skeleton rides a skeletal horse through a crowd of smaller, fleeing skeletons. Added text reads, “Hollows After Bones” by Elis Montgomery,” and “Free to Read | Adventitious.”
Adventitious.@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Gorgeous. Dark. Sweet. Meet Nightraiser, the skeletal horse resisting the incandescent call of the afterlife to search for his rider. Hollows After Bones by Hugo finalist @elismontgomery.bsky.social. Read it if you like 🐎 very good boys 🕯️ poetic dark fantasy www.adventitious.net/stories/holl...