Want to hear me read from Blanc LaBelle and the Troll's Daughter? I was a guest on the "Indie Reads Aloud" podcast! And it's available today! YouTube: youtu.be/4BNUTmQf4ak Spotify: spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/LICGaNd5g3b

Behind the Keyboard For today, I thought I would do a bit of an about me! When I’m not writing or working my day job, I’m usually writing a tabletop campaign, reading (probably either fantasy or something historical), or spending time with my dog Ami.  The campaign I’m currently wrapping up…

Behind the Keyboard

For today, I thought I would do a bit of an about me! When I’m not writing or working my day job, I’m usually writing a tabletop campaign, reading (probably either fantasy or something historical), or spending time with my dog Ami.  The campaign I’m currently wrapping up entangles a deeply depressed individual that is causing emotion magic storms across the continent.

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One of my games is ending in a week. This is the first time I will have successfully finished a campaign on my own as a GM. This is wild. The finale notes are done for the most part. The rest is up to the gang on whether this will be successful.

Chapter 11, Respect of #LikeAFlame is now up! Aspen begins to get comfortable at The Respite and has date night. TW: Some sexual themes in this one as they go back to Basil's hotel. If this might bother you, feel free to read until Aspen heads to The Library! archiveofourown.org/works/805792...

In a "what does genderfluidity mean for you specifically," Aspen does have to explain their queerness to others. Faeries in Seattle specifically are very queer-normative, (most, but not all, of my faerie characters are queer) but some questions do come up. #QueerPrompts

🌈CJ Aralore@cjaralore.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#QueerPrompts June 6: Do your queer characters have to explain their queerness?

To name a few: Ingrid Michaelson, The "Seamstresses" of Seattle, Stonewall, the concept of keeping secrets, Generalized Anxiety Disorder. #LGBTQWriteAThon

AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#LGBTQWriteAThon June 4: Did your inspiration come from any weird or non-traditional sources? Share with us! #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity @rebeccafrostwrites.com

I'm going with carrd, which made the process nice and easy. Don't feed your info to the slop machine, gang.

Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨@unaminh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Chapter Ten of #LikeAFlame: The Respite, is now up! While Aspen just lost their job this morning, Ander manages to find him a new job within hours. TW: Mention of sex and sex work archiveofourown.org/works/805792...

Do YOU live in New York State? Do YOU want to fight the onslaught of book banning? You are needed RIGHT NOW. Critically. In the next few days. If you click this link, you will be put right through to your rep (and it provides some optional talking points): secure.ngpvan.com/EPPvPAF5FEW4...

I got art done of my main trio of characters! Click in to see the art as well as some lore drops. #LikeAFlame

Meet the Characters of Like A Flame

In a world obsessed with automating and generating pictures, I find myself going back to books and asking the kindness of strangers to draw the people I can't get out of my head. So with that, I'd like to introduce my children! All art is done by the impeccable Nilus Art, who did an absolute phenomenal job. You can commission their gorgeous full color art or get these more black and white sketches via their…

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Telling your OC lore out loud to friends is so funny because it looks cool and poignant in your head and then actively telling it makes you feel like a 3 year old holding an etch a sketch

Aspen: 25 Basil: early 30s Oleander: ??? Ages are kind of out the window and more vibes based because these are faeries as I haven't really pinned down how aging and physiology works for faeries. #AwesomeCharacters 🧵

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Here's one I asked a long time ago! But there are many new characters now, so let's revisit: How old is your character, and is that important to the story? Why did you pick that particular age group for them? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Chapter Nine: War of #LikeAFlame is up! After effects of the May 12 riot. Basil shows Aspen The Library. TW: Riot after effects, death memorial archiveofourown.org/works/805792...

Maybe it's the cusp of pride month in the air, but I'm gonna go with faerie wing pride enamel pins for Aspen and Basil! (Think insect enamel pins, but in the colors of their respective sexualities/genders.) For Oleander, a recreation of her ring. #AwesomeCharacters

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters If you ever released branded merch for your character, what's one fun, perhaps weird, thing you'd want for them? Something you think would suit them, or amuse them? Or that their fans would enjoy? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

More vibes based, but went with "important." Magnolia and Aspen make their first delivery and Magnolia has to use her customer service voice! #WIPSnips

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The #WIPSnips word for May 23rd is "vital" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Oleander's smile is more just her eyes brightening and almost twinkling (inspired by Danny, the Champion of the World). Basil has a very toothy David Tennant-esque smile, very ecstatic, taking over his entire being. So, depending on your definition, one of those two! #AwesomeChaaracters

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Welcome back to the Intermittent Character Award Ceremonies!👏 Where you choose amongst all your characters, in every work, who gets the superlative? Today's award goes to: The Best Smile! 😁 (What 'Best' means is subjective!) Please award them! 🥇

Oleander would spend it on making sure she has the ability to take care of others rent and food for a few months. Aaaand maybe a few bribes. Aspen finally gets proper clothing that aren't darned. Basil spoils himself on a fair few Fancy Meals that seemed a bit too extravagant. #AwesomeCharacters

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Your character has suddenly come into a tidy sum of money! Not never-work-again money, but enough to have fun with! What is the first thing they would spend it on? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Amaranth and Lady Lou are both agender! Amaranth has some dysphoria, but Lou would just prefer she didn't have to live in a gendered society. #QueerPrompts

🌈CJ Aralore@cjaralore.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#QueerPrompts May 19: Agender Pride Day: Agender or gender non-conforming character(s)

Craving an Urban Fantasy Story with a twist of Noir Detective? Hungry for some Blue Collar Monsters, A Found Family, or just a dynamic of an Old Curmudgeon Trying to Wrangle Two Teenagers? Blanc LaBelle and the Troll's Daughter is available now! Everywhere you buy books! #indiebooks #urbanfantasy

Oh MAN. I got the art back of all three of my main characters and lemme tell you, this slaps so hard. Very affirmed by my decision to include some art in my book. I'll do a little post about it next week on my blog.

Basil talks about his former relationship. “We’re over now. We’re still friendly, obviously, and [SPOILER REDACTED] likes you a lot. I don’t foresee her being…difficult about this, but I wanted to give you context. Do you want to be there when I tell her about us?” #QueerWriters

AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#queerwriters Sunday: Line Share Day! Today's theme: friendly #WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters

I finished editing all of part one's perspective and chapter one of part two! I did everything on my to do list for once in a hot minute! #queerwriters

AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#queerwriters Saturday: Check in Day! How was your week? Did you accomplish what you set out to do? Share your progress, encourage, cheer, and support others! #WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters

For Part One, I mixed heavy moments with romantic moments from Basil. A lot of rough things happen to Aspen during Juniper Trees and I wanted to give them a chance to have some queer joy. Most frequently used is going to a restaurant or some kind of date night. #AwesomeCharacters

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Technical question! What's your favorite way to let a character decompress? After a heavy scene, emotionally or action-wise, how do you give the character/reader a moment to breathe? Or do you at all? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Chapter 8: Euphrasia from #LikeAFlame has been posted! A riot ensues. This was a really rough chapter to write. Please take care of yourself while reading. TW: riot, violence against humans and faeries, police, incarceration archiveofourown.org/works/805792...

We’ve officially moved our campaign to BackerKit! Video games are less popular there than tabletop, so we really need y’all’s support! #Monsterhearts You can follow the pre-launch at the link below:

Monsterhearts BACKERKIT FUNDED 450%!@ludiclemur.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🩸MONSTERHEARTS BackerKit🩸 It’s done: we moved our campaign to BackerKit in solidarity with 18+ creators after the Kickstarter ban #Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake is a #horror narrative deckbuilding #VideoGame spin-off of the critically acclaimed TTRPG 🔁 RT & Follow! 🔁 #IndieDev #BackerKit

www.mountain-goats.com “Days” by the Mountain Goats is now available for pre-order. Pre-order or pre-save, go listen to the new song, we are super proud of this record and I think you will enjoy it

Aspen just wants to help everyone and give people the rights they deserve, so I'm thinking cleric. Basil is an eloquence bard, inquisitive rogue. His charisma is off the charts. Oleander is either assassin or mastermind rogue, but definitely has expertise in poisons. #AwesomeCharacters

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters What would your character's class be if you made them in DnD or a video game? Warrior, rogue, mage, healer, tank, bard, warlock, etc? Feel free to be flexible and creative and mix classes or systems! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

This is such a good book, gang. Happy release day!! BLB is so fun and I highly recommend it. Very fun and dramatic yet an absolute romp of an urban fantasy mystery. #booksky

Nick W@nickwwriter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's release day! My new book, Blanc LaBelle and the Troll's Daughter, is ready for order and waiting for you to read! If you're looking for an invitation? This is it! www.nwwestbrook-writing.us/blanc-labell...

every time we do a preorder, no matter how often @printinkling.bsky.social and i shout about it ALL OVER socials, there are ALWAYS people who are like "omg i didn't know!!!!!" and they MISS OUT and it's SAD!!!! these shirts are all CUSTOM INKED, ONE AT A TIME so you gotta order them NOW!!!!

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Edit part one so it's in the right perspective 😂 I done messed up, but at least I'm figuring it out now and not after part 2. I'd LIKE to start chapter 1 of part 2 but we'll see where my productivity lays. #QueerWriters

AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#queerwriters Monday: Goals Day! What do you hope to accomplish this week? Can be anything, big or small! Let us know so we can cheer you on! #WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters