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Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon

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🇨🇦 Adult dark scifantasy author, currently working on the All Our Sins Saga, the first stories of the Akrodaxis. Crocheter. Knitter. Artist. Gamer. She/her. Visit me at akairondragon.ca or preorder The First Sin at https://ubl.akairondragon.ca/tfs

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Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca · 2d

Preorder the ebook, paperback, or hardback of The First Sin!
ubl.akairondragon.ca/tfs

✨ SWAG ALERT ✨
Preorder to receive free swag! Just provide a copy of your proof of purchase in the form below. Open to readers worldwide.
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📚🩵 🪐📚 #bsnm #scifi #scifinovels #indieauthor

A mockup of The First Sin by Cheyenne Brammah.

In the sweeping expanse of the Årdrakin Empire, the people fight and die for honor as elite warriors of the galaxy. But long ago, a prophecy was spoken that presaged the apocalypse. Everyone knows and fears the truth: one day, the empire will fall.

Tårik is a guard for small, independent Clan Tsinna. Instead of pondering the end of his civilization, Tårik’s greatest concern is maintaining his honor while escorting a group of impertinent dignitaries across the treacherous Barren Gale. When the Mother Goddess speaks a passage from the prophecy to him, he has the good sense to be frightened, but he doesn’t heed the significance of Her visit.

Then disaster strikes, and Tårik is branded as an exile, leaving him with no home, no honor, and no future. Forced into a desperate struggle for survival, all Tårik can focus on is living just one more day until luck—or maybe fate—gives him the opportunity to join a new clan. But even this is fraught with danger and uncertainty, and it takes him to an inhospitable world far from the empire where survival seems all but impossible.

Faced with new challenges, including trying to navigate first contact with the low-tech locals, Tårik believes the prophecy can’t reach him. Yet it continues to loom, signaling that his fate and the fate of the empire are irrevocably entwined.

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Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca · 1h

One more crochet pumpkin finished! Two more to go for this set.

#crochet 🧶

Photo of an orange crochet pumpkin with two green leaves and a pale yellow twisted vine.

Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca · 2h

Most of the time I can find exactly what I’m looking for right away, but occasionally I have to use the search!

Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca · 2h

Thank you!

Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca · 3h

I dream a dream where, in 12 days, readers will have The First Sin in hand, whether via ebook or print, and some will choose to carry it with them on their daily commute or to a vacation spot. They'll read it and they'll love it, and they'll say, WOW LOOK AT THAT COVER.

📚🩵 🪐📚 #scifi #indiebooks

A mockup of The First Sin by Cheyenne Brammah sitting among fallen autumn leaves. The text on the left says, "12 days remain - The First Sin - Oct 23!"

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Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca · 4h

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Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca · 5h

Since The First Sin has been almost 7 years in the making, and All Our Sins has been germinating since 1991, it’s tough to show the journey. But I have this screencap. This is just written stuff. The art files live elsewhere…

Screencap of a list of file folders and files related to the All Our Sins Saga.

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Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca · 7h

"A memorable read the likes of Hugh Howey."

"The characters and worldbuilding are top notch."

"Wonderfully textured extraterrestrial world."

"It is dark, compelling...a heatbreakingly beautiful story."

By all accounts so far, The First Sin is a good book!

What are you reading this weekend?

📚🩵

A mockup of The First Sin by Cheyenne Brammah lying on fallen autumn leaves. The text at the top and bottom of the image says, "My plans for the weekend: Stay inside and read a good book".

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🌒 Mx Mary Moon 🌘 @mxmarymoon.bsky.social · 1d

if I could crowdfund like about $850 right now, I could do the funniest thing and show up to the goddamn funeral with my entire family.

(I'd need to rent a car and get a hotel room for a few days)

ko-fi.com/mxmarymoon/g...

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Kai Zeal 🐱📘🔮 | Author of Riyati @kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com · Jul 3

Looking for a new book series? Check out #Riyati!

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🧩 More info riyati.ink

Individual book info 🧵👇

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Matthew Siadak @backwardsknight.com · 23h

Friday evening, three weeks until Halloween...do you know where your candy is?

I don't either.

But I do know some good books you could read. I have two spooky-ish books: The Dark Side of Super and The Backwards Knight.

Signed copies w/swag: backwardsknight.bigcartel.com

#BookSky

Backwards Knight

Signed books and swag from indie author Matthew Siadak

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Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca · 1d

My biggest challenge is naming things, people, places…anything. Book titles too. It’s an agonizing process. Sometimes I get lucky and the name just comes to me but other times I’m Googling or have spreadsheets open and spend hours or days on it. Chapter titles? Forget it!

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 10 📚

As a #neurospicy author, I find sticking to one project is really challenging, especially if I'm in a hard slog phase that doesn't give me any dopamine.

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #findtheglimmers #adhd #dyslexia

October #writinglifemonthly Day 10 What's the hardest part about writing for you?
Build Community - Share. Like.Comment in Group. @traceyleewrites

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Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 1d

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Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca · 1d

The First Sin is a book you'll definitely want to gets your paws on!

Still not sure? Check out the first three chapters for FREE here:
akairondragon.ca/books/tfs-pr...

📚🩵 🪐📚 #scifi #scifinovels #indiebooks #indieauthor

Photo of a white cat wearing glasses and a bow tie, lounging against a book called The First Sin by Cheyenne Brammah. The text at the top and bottom says, "A book you'll definitely want to gets your paws on!"

Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca · 1d

What can I say? It happens. No, I do not apologize. 😂

The First Sin is available for preorder in ebook, paperback, and hardback!

Preorder: ubl.akairondragon.ca/tfs
Swag: ubl.akairondragon.ca/tfs-swag

📚🩵 🪐📚 #bsnm #books #scifi #indieauthor #indiebooks

Photo of a woman in a white sweater with her face stuffed inside a book (a mockup of The First Sin by Cheyenne Brammah). The meme text says, "When your favorite character gets killed off".

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Myriai @myriai.bsky.social · 1d

♥ SPECIAL STREAM: SUNUP TO SUNDOWN ♥
We ride at dawn tomorrow (or at least I do)! Stream boots up at 6:28 AM and we wind down at 5:59 PM. Join me for writing, gaming, and chatting shenanigans (and bring caffeine)!

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Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca · 1d

I have to go out with Mom today for a while but if I can tune in before you sign off for the day I will! Best of luck.

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H.S. Kallinger (he/they) @xakana.bsky.social · 1d

HERE'S THE THING I HALLUCINATED FOR HOURS. IS VERY GAY (no, gayer). PLEASE GIVE MONEY. I HOPE IT MAKES YOU CRY. 🎉🔥

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Book cover set against space with colored glows behind, blue to the left, and pink to the right. A Demon to Save Me by H.S. Kallinger. Title letters are rendered in fire inside a blood circle, with a bloody pentagram drawn with a finger on a hardwood floor. Some blood is scattered around it. A pair of amber eyes with thick, black eyelashes are just visible on the floor above the circle. Rainbow circles fade in and out around the image. Author name is in pink, blue, and white in the lower right corner. In white lettering at the top is "Book One of the Found Humanity series"

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H.S. Kallinger (he/they) @xakana.bsky.social · 1d

A Demon to Save Me is available now at all major retailers!

When life as a queer dhampir feels impossible, summoning a demon won't fix anything... right?

A queer urban sci-fantasy novel and series beginner that could stand alone, but Gabby doesn't do well alone.

www.patreon.com/posts/140772...

It's Here! Launch Day for A Demon to Save Me! | H.S. Kallinger

Get more from H.S. Kallinger on Patreon

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Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca · 2d

The First Sin is a chonker! 667 pages all told.

In the ancient interstellar Årdrakin Empire, an intrepid clan guard tries to regain his honor after being exiled for surviving a disastrous battle—all while ignoring signs he is the harbinger of the empire's apocalypse.

📚🩵 🪐📚 #scifi #indiebooks

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Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca · 2d

I’ve mentioned it before, but Margaret Weis’s Star of the Guardians series is what really made me want to write. Those books blended sci-fi and fantasy and reminded me of Star Trek and Star Wars! I wanted to craft stories like those ones. And here I am, doing exactly that!

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 2d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 09 📚

This one's not just a book you love, but one that makes you want to write. It could be fiction or non-fiction. What about it inspires you?

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat

October #writinglifemonthly Day 09 Tell us about a book that inspired your own writing.
Build Community - Share. Like.Comment in Group. @traceyleewrites

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Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca · 2d

Just 14 days remain until The First Sin is published! TWO WEEKS! It will pass really quickly. Did you get your copy preordered yet?

booksofgeronimo_author over on StoryGraph thinks that TFS is "heartbreakingly beautiful". 🥰 Read the full review here: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c55d...

📚🩵 🪐📚

A mockup of The First Sin by Cheyenne Brammah being held by a woman in a dark purple dress, with a starry background. On the right are four and a half blue stars and text which says, "Cheyenne has crafted a heartbreakingly beautiful story... — StoryGraph Review".

Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca · 2d

I can’t wait to read it!

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Hel ✨ || Untwining... 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 2d

Marketing post! But lazy, because I'm deep in edits.

Please gaze at my books. Consider them well. Perhaps read? 💜
Some people really liked them, so you might as well!

books2read.com/skylarkinthefog
books2read.com/imbued
helynalc.itch.io

#BookSky #books #scifi #fantasy #indieauthor #indiebooks

Hel ✨ || Untwining... 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · May 31

I haven't been around a lot these days, but guess what. I have books!

If you like stories featuring lost, trauma-riddled almost-adults searching for home and finding it in each other, searching for agency and trudging through messy pain to grasp it, I write that.

Links on my profile!
📚💙 📚🪐 🌈📚

A trope map for Skylark in the Fog by Helyna L. Clove.

The cover of the book featuring starry background, a bright blue, foggy rift in space shaped like a bird taking flight, and a small spaceship zooming out of it is in the middle. Around it, labels with arrows:

- a prickly space pirate with commitment issues
- a runaway queen with AI powers
- a half-brainwashed soldier trying to find himself
- shady galactic empire vs rebels
- wormhole machine shenanigans
- cute robots & alien BFFs
- Star Wars and Firefly vibes with awesome women and strong platonic bonds
- the cycle of hate and war, the meaning of home
- humanity sucks
- humanity rules
- a swashbuckling adventure, now with extra trauma! (and perhaps healing)

A trope map for Imbued by Helyna L. Clove.

The cover of the book featuring a lush scene with green-purple vegetation of leaves and thorny stalks surrounding a while calla lily which is grasped by golden, magical threads and being pulled towards the ground, is in the middle. Labels with arrows are around it:

- childhood trauma-induced amnesia
- VERY reluctant hero (crossed out) villain (crossed out) ???
- manipulation
- failed magic experiments and dead gods
- telepathic flirting
- queernormative society
- demisex romance (slowburn no spice)
- dreams & visions galore
- "I am a weapon"

Digital art of the three main characters of Skylark in the Fog by @nightshading on Twitter.

Jeane Blake is on the left, a tall, blonde, white woman in her twenties. Her hair is in a ponytail, and she's wearing a brown leather jacket that's slightly big for her, green cargo pants, and a white shirt. And also a gun holster and an unfriendly grimace on her face.

Maura Tholis is in the middle. She is a short, curvy, brown-skinned woman with light brown hair in two buns and on her shoulders. She is wearing a long red sleeveless dress. On her left hand, there is a high-tech looking black glove with blue lights on it. Her expression is kind.

Roy Philemon is on the right. He is a skinny white, short brown-haired man also in his late twenties. He's wearing a black jacket, grey T-shirt, and brown cargo pants. He's got some stubble on his face and he's holding a gun in his left hand sort of non-chalantly.

The two main characters of Imbued by Helyna L. Clove, digital art by Talli Morgan. A man and a woman stand facing each other on blue-green background. The woman, Calla, has brown skin and long auburn, wavy hair. She's wearing a long-sleeved, loose green tunic with golden embroidery on the sleeves. She's holding out her palms and concentrating on a small sphere of light hovering above her fingers with a stark expression. The man, Gray, has brown skin, black, mid-length, wavy hair, and he's wearing a black long-sleeved jacket. His hands are hovering around Calla's, focusing on the light sphere as well, but he's really looking at her with a gentle expression.

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Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca · 2d

Ugh it’s 4:30am and I can’t sleep. 😭

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Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca · 2d

Thank you! ☺️