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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 8h

It's book formatting software, sorry. I wasn't confident I could get the margins right in Word and Vellum only works on Macs :(

✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 9h

Atticus for eBooks 👍
Atticus for physical books 👎

Welcome to my Ted talk about how freaking slow Atticus's print preview is...

Honestly, I'm not sure I can even recommend it for eBooks at this point. Loading a chapter can take like 10 seconds. This app is costing me time.

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 12h

Good grief sorting out printed books is a different beast.

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Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 19h

Today we're hosting a spotlight for Reborn in Ash by @eldris.thellian.com, a standalone dark epic fantasy featuring a tenacious thief who must navigate the changes brought about by magic’s return. Releasing this October 23rd!

www.readindiefantasy.com/saturday-spo...

A banner image for Saturday Spotlights featuring a map in the background merged with a picture of an open book and paper flying. It also features the book cover to Reborn in Ash.

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 19h

Eeeeeee!!! 🥰 Thank you!

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 1d

📢 Are you an ARC reader or would like to become one? 📢

I'm looking for advanced readers for Reborn in Ash, my dark epic fantasy. If you're interested please check out the Google Form linked below, which includes a link to a page with the blub and content warning info

forms.gle/5vyr9oJMyC7x...

💙📚🪐

A fantasy book cover. Towards the top, large golden text reads "Reborn in Ash". Below is small white text reading "A Thellian standalone fantasy novel." At the bottom is medium white text reading "Gabrielle Steele." The background is a digital painting of small autumnal hills leading to a mountain range in the distance. In the foreground is a ledge where two characters stand. On the left, a woman wearing a dark cape wields fire in her left hand. On the right, a woman wearing a long dark coat raises her right hand which is engulfed in bright green light. Hovering near her hand are three stones. The cloak and coat at flapping in the wind. The women look down over the hills at a large chasm that stretches across the cover. A waterfall drops into the chasm on the far side.

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 1d

📢 Are you an ARC reader or would like to become one? 📢

I'm looking for advanced readers for Reborn in Ash, my dark epic fantasy. If you're interested please check out the Google Form linked below, which includes a link to a page with the blub and content warning info

forms.gle/5vyr9oJMyC7x...

💙📚🪐

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 1d

The eBook of Reborn in Ash is sorted and uploaded! You can all go and pre-order without worry now 😘

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 1d

At least I can add the other 2500 using Calibre. One of my map descriptions is 466 words.

✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 1d

Hey Atticus, why do we only get 140 characters for alt text???

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 1d

I'm publishing one this month and then I'll be working on another.

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 1d

Writing alt text for maps for the eBook is hurting my brain. I hope I've done it in a way that's understandable.

✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 1d

Fantasy

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 1d

That’s awful 😞

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 1d

Dear brain,

It’s great you understand we need more beta readers for Echoes of Chaos because of the changes, but… We still need to sort the paperbacks and hardbacks of Reborn in Ash!

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 2d

Do you love character-focused secondary-world fantasy books with thieves, elemental magic, and power struggles? Read chapter 1 of Reborn in Ash free on my website now! Plus the next 3 if you sign up to my newsletter 🥰

thellian.com/reborn-in-ash/

💙📚🪐 #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor

A book cover. Towards the top, large golden text reads "Reborn in Ash". Below is small white text reading "A Thellian standalone fantasy novel." At the bottom is medium white text reading "Gabrielle Steele." The background is a digital painting of small autumnal hills leading to a mountain range in the distance. In the foreground is a ledge where two characters stand. On the left, a woman wearing a dark cape wields fire in her left hand. On the right, a woman wearing a long dark coat raises her right hand which is engulfed in bright green light. Hovering near her hand are three stones. The cloak and coat at flapping in the wind. The women look down over the hills at a large chasm that stretches across the cover. A waterfall drops into the chasm on the far side.

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 2d

Good question! I can’t remember off the top of my head but I can tell you Asorea is about a week across on horseback.

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 2d

The land bridge isn’t explained until book 5 of the series I’m working on next 😅 But basically all the uninhabitable places used to be where immortals lived before they died out.

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 2d

Pretty chuffed with the transitions on this. Oh, and the map too!

I’m having to force myself to accept the map isn’t going to be perfect or I’ll never stop editing it.

#BookSky #IndieAuthor

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 3d

Bashed my head against my laptop for an hour trying to figure out an issue with Affinity Designer adding a text background fill when it shouldn’t have. Ended up resetting the font settings.

But my map of Thellian looks AMAZING. Now I just need to do a zoomed in one of places in Reborn in Ash. 🗺️

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 3d

Omg the new My Hero Academia episode *chef’s kiss*

✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 3d

I seem to pick up everything even if my kids aren’t particularly grotty themselves 😩

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 3d

I’m sitting in the car while husband drops the kids off at school and the number of people walking past coughing 😭😭😭 I don’t want to get ill but the kids share all the germs. ME/CFS means even colds last an age and hit harder.

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 4d

Ada was never actually meant to get a book. She was mentioned in a few epigraphs in Echoes of Chaos and I couldn’t help wondering how she <spoilers sweetie 😘>

✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 4d

I’m getting sad that in a few weeks I may never open my Reborn in Ash scrivener project again.

Who am I kidding? I can’t leave Ada behind. She’s such a fun character, she’s getting short stories at the minimum. Eventually. I bet one will try to turn into another standalone novel though. 😂

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