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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 15h

The way I would have done a spit take had I been drinking something

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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Topsail, here 😂

🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

(As single drinks, I mean)

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Reposted by 🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying)

Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 1d

the scammers are back on their bullshit. if we’ve emailed you from a random hotmail account? (literally) no we didn’t.

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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Electrolit I can usually find at the gas station!

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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

I am, too. I have POTS-like symptoms since I got clobbered by COVID last year so I periodically have to use the electrolyte powders. I don't mind Electrolit but they aren't powder to my knowledge. There are a few flavors I loathe but also some I really like.

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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, that does not sound pleasant! I'll see if I notice a difference!

🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't tried Drip Drop but I might! I think I might also try the Aldi brand ones next time and I'll report back!

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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Liquid IV is my go-to (and many people with POTS swear by them!)

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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Locke Lamora X ODW
To save her sick sister, visually-impaired thief Nefeli agrees to a treasure hunt for a lost relic. As her sight declines with each use of magic, she must outwit dragons, powerful magic, and—worst of all—politicians before her world goes dark for good.
#DVpit #A #F #DIS #OWN #CI

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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH AND I HAVEN'T EVEN READ IT

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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I so want urban fantasy to come back heavy. I miss it so muchhhh. This sounds epic!

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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

You got it!!

🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Hide her abilities. Escape the war.
After her erratic magic leads to murder, conscripted mage Astraea is captured by an enigmatic enemy who understands her power better than she does. If she can’t escape, she’ll become a weapon of the queendom responsible for her father’s death.
#DVpit #A #F #MH #CI

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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

That last line is amazingggg

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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Conscripted spirit mage Astraea just wants to escape the battlefield that took her father’s life—but her magic could be the key to solving mysterious deaths on the warfront, and an enigmatic enemy is the only person who can help her understand her growing power.
#DVpit #A #F #DIS #MH #LGBT #ND #CI

🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

thank you!

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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Locke Lamora X One Dark Window
Nefeli's a thief who'd agree to anything to save her sick sister—even a treasure hunt in a dragon-riddled palace. Her sight declines with each use of magic, so she must con everyone (and avoid her ex) to find the relic before her world goes dark.
#DVpit #A #F #DIS #OWN

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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Locke Lamora X A Dance of Lies
To save her sick sister, a visually-impaired thief agrees to a lucrative treasure-hunting con amidst magic, dragons and—even worse—politicians. If only her smooth-talking former fling wasn't around and able to blow her cover at any moment.
#DVpit #A #F #DIS #MH #OWN

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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much! I was a smidge concerned because without the context I wasn't sure if it was homophobic and I was, ah, a bit hesitant if that was the case! My manuscript you liked is second world and queer-normative so I'm not sure it's the best fit! Would you be interested in seeing it anyway?

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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Captured, Astraea would rather die than ally with the country who killed her father. But when desiccated bodies burned with an ancient rune litter the warfront, her magic might be the key to finding out why. If only her enemy wasn’t the sole person who understood her magic.
#DVpit #A #F #DIS #MH #ND

Background is a watercolor made of oranges, blues, and blacks of what appears to be a cave with skulls lining the walls (an ossuary). In the foreground is a white woman with silver curly hair from mid-thigh up with one arm stretched out palm up and the other reaching out palm down. Her eyes are glowing silver and there is a bloodied symbol across her chest and abdomen. She is dressed in brown pants and a cream band across her chest. Silver threads extend from her body and hands

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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Hi Anna, I had a question about your anti-MSWL asking to not send you found family or queer-normative otherworlds. Would you mind clarifying? I don't want to risk sending something you specifically don't want! Thanks so much :)

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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Omg Nefeli's sister is named Sadiya 🥺

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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Locke Lamora X ODW
To save her sick sister, visually-impaired thief Nefeli agrees to a treasure hunt for a lost relic. As her sight declines with each use of magic, she must outwit dragons, powerful magic, and—worst of all—politicians before her world goes dark for good.
#DVpit #A #F #DIS #OWN #CI

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🕯️✨Taylor Leigh✨🕯️ (is querying) @authortaylorleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Hide a murder. Conceal her erratic magic. Escape the gods-damned war. Conscripted mage Astraea has things under control—until captured by an enemy who understands her power better than her. She’s nobody’s pawn, but if she doesn’t escape she might become her enemy’s newest weapon. #DVpit #A #F #DIS

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