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Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · Jan 27

⚔️Release Day!!!!⚔️

IN THE NAME OF HONOR (Vows & Valor Trilogy, #1) is an adult fantasy that follows a half-elven princess and her loyal guardsman who must save her father, the king, from a fate worse than death: total corruption. Lìńks in bìö 🔗🌳⤴️ #bluesky

Graphic on a dynamic, deep blue background with gold sparkles. In the center is the book cover, dark blue with parchment accents, celtic knotwork, and horror creatures in the bottom corners. Text reads: Now Available, In the Name of Honor. There's icons for Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and direct from author at collinsauthors.com

Graphic on a duo-tone blue/green background. On the left, blue side is the title and book cover for In the Name of Honor. On the right, green side is the title and book placeholder cover for In the Name of Pride. At the top, the text reads: Vows & Valor Trilogy. For those who would be heroes in the face of tyranny. Below Honor, text says: Available Now. Below Pride, text says: Releasing January 27, 2026.

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Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · 1d

✨Attention Readers!✨ You have ONE WEEK LEFT to sign up for either the Cover Reveal Team or Street Team for the Vows & Valor Book 2, IN THE NAME OF PRIDE!

Details here: linktr.ee/collinsauthors

Forest green graphic. Text reads: In the Name of Pride, Wanted: Cover reveal team and street team members. A list of tropes read: mental health rep, don't you touch me, wounded mmc, Mr. Darcy hand flex, princess/knight slowburn, queernorm world, chaotic cousins, quid pro quo coercion, and a cheese thief. A cover placeholder features a sword lying atop snow.

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Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · 1d

“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · 8d

Cover Reveal and Street Team sign ups are open ✨for two more weeks✨ for the Vows & Valor Book 2, IN THE NAME OF PRIDE! You will _not_ want to miss this upcoming release and all the goodies you’ll receive by signing up!

Https://linktr.ee/collinsauthors

Graphic on an autumnal leaves background. In the left is a cover placeholder with a sword in snow. Text at the top reads: In the Name of Pride Cover Reveal Team and Street Team Members Wanted. A list of tropes read: fueled by spite, unsexy forced proximity, genderfluid rep, unhealthy amount of stakes, so much betrayal, a kidnapped princess, medieval therapy… and a cheese thief. At the bottom is a thumbnail book cover with text that reads: In the Name of Honor, Vows & Valor, Book 1, Available Now!

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Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · 12d

Google search: best font for manuscript revisions 👀

#booksky

Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · 13d

4 more months til our sequel, IN THE NAME OF PRIDE, is unleashed, and readers get to find out what happens when the Happily Ever After comes with ✨consequences✨

3x3 moodboard
Top left: a sword on a pile of snow
B&W keyhole
Top middle: silhouette of a man and woman embracing
Top right: hands holding a sword hilt with a flame in the forefront
Center left: male hands holding prison cell bars
Center middle: text that reads "the one place she wanted to be... is the one place she can't escape"
Center right: a princess walking in a forest
Bottom left: a campfire
Bottom center: a candle burning low
Bottom right: a snowy forest

Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · 19d

YES Kate, congratulations! Take it all the way!!!

Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · 26d

We found each other now, at least 😆

a man and a woman are sitting at a news desk with the words `` go us '' written in front of them .

ALT: a man and a woman are sitting at a news desk with the words `` go us '' written in front of them .

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Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · 26d

Do you like cover reveals? Join our cover reveal team!
Have you read IN THE NAME OF HONOR and want to be the ✨first✨ to know what devastating consequences come from the Happily Ever After? Join our street team!

Head to our bio for the 🔗 🌳 with details

Green graphic with yellow leaves. On the left is a cover placeholder featuring a sword in snow. Text reads:
In the Name of Pride
Wanted:
Cover reveal team and street team members
A list of tropes include: mental health rep, "don't you touch me", wounded MMC, Mr. Darcy hand flex, princess/knight slowburn, queernorm world, chaotic cousins, quid pro quo coercion, and a cheese thief
Text at the bottom reads: link in bio, for a limited time

Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · 26d

Wait how was I not already following you 😂

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Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · 27d

I’m excited to be a part of the cover reveal for @ashintheashes.bsky.social and her YA contemporary fantasy debut, Child of the Dragon from @inkedingraypress.bsky.social with cover art from @jv.arts.2020!

A cover with fire on the left edges and ice on the right edges centering around a girl in shorts and a tank top, raising a sword high and summoning lightning in front of a massive purple-y european dragon inside some sort of arena. The title: Child of the Dragon is written across the center in a curly, silver font, and the author name is in a smaller version of the same and says Ashley N.Y. Sheesley

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Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · 29d

Developmental edits are back for Pride, and we're ready to get to work on polishing this book!

a man with long blonde hair is standing in front of a tree

Alt: shot of Thranduil in The Hobbit movies striding in a road

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Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · 29d

Oh hey MC, how’s it going? 😁

Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · 29d

For today and today only, you may perceive us

Shadow Spark Publishing @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social · Sep 11

Today's SSP #authorspotlight goes to @collinsauthors.bsky.social

Courtney and Clarke are authors of the series Vows & Valor, this first of which, In the Name of Honor, is available now!

#shadowsparkpublishing #booksky #writesky 📚🪐💙

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Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · 29d

OHAI! Thanks so much for the shout out today 🥰 We appreciate all you do to promote authors and our works online!

Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ayyyyyy thank you for the shout out! Absolute queen behavior 👑

Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · Sep 1

street team:
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Fellowship Street Team Application

IN THE NAME OF PRIDE | Vows & Valor trilogy, Book 2 | January 27, 2026 | Shadow Spark Publishing Character art by: Killer Laurent We are looking for fans of fantasy who would be heroes to join our Fe...

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Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · Sep 1

cover reveal:
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PRIDE Cover Reveal Team

IN THE NAME OF PRIDE | Vows & Valor trilogy, Book 2 | January 27, 2026 | Shadow Spark Publishing Thank you for your interest in the cover reveal for IN THE NAME OF PRIDE! Please take a few moments to...

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Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · Sep 1

Fans of adult fantasy, time to LOCK IN🏹⚔️🛡️

Cover reveal and Fellowship street team member sign ups are NOW OPEN for the Vows & Valor Trilogy sequel, IN THE NAME OF PRIDE (January 27, 2026, @shadowsparkpub). ⤵️

Photo of a golden brown leaf on green grass. Text reads: Now open, In the Name of Pride cover reveal team and fellowship members (aka street team)

A trope board on a forest-green background with the IN THE NAME OF PRIDE placeholder cover in the center. At the top reads, In the Name of Pride, Vows & Valor Book 2, for those who would be heroes in the face of tyranny. The listed tropes are: princess/knight romance, "don't you touch me," wounded MMC, Mr. Darcy’s hand flex, mental health rep, fueled by spite, quid pro quo coercion, and a cheese thief. At the bottom reads: Releases 01/27/2026, Add to Goodreads, Shadow Spark Publishing

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Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · Aug 27

Whoa. August went by *real* fast. Our mighty countdown continues until the release of the Vows & Valor sequel, IN THE NAME OF PRIDE. Starting September 1st, we'll open sign ups for both the Cover Reveal Team and our Fellowship Street Team! We're excited! Join us!!

Green graphic with a forest photo background. Text reads: In the Name of Pride, Vows & Valor Trilogy, Book 2, only 5 months left, January 27, 2026, Add to Goodreads

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Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · Aug 25

✨Last Day✨

IN THE NAME OF HONOR is on sale through today at a sweet ✨$0.99✨! Grab a copy for yourself AND your friends/bookclub/crush so that you’re all on board when the cover reveal and street teams open up next week for the sequel, IN THE NAME OF PRIDE (01.27.2026). 💙💚

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Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · Aug 24

Feel better soon!

Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · Aug 24

When I'm working on our manuscript in google docs, I like to play a game where I see if I can beat GD to change the verb before it yells at me to do so after I've rearranged a sentence

Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · Aug 24

I love an unwanted marriage plot! I hope lots of readers find your book. Thanks for giving ours a shot!

Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · Aug 24

IN THE NAME OF HONOR is only ✨99 cents✨ right now! You need this book if you at all enjoy:

🏳️‍🌈queernorm world
👨🏽‍🤝‍👨🏻ride or díe found family
🌲eco-fantasy
💞slowww burn friends to lovers
👿a traitor
🤫stealth rescue squad
🚫”don’t you touch her”
🏹fierce archer women
😱horror creatures
🧀...and a cheese thief

Blue graphic with gold lines. At the top is the book title, IN THE NAME OF HONOR. Text reads: sale price, only $0.99, 8/23-8/25. On the right is the book cover. Tropes listed on the left are: Princess/bodyguard slowburn, literal bi daddy, dragon’s fire with a twist, unrepentant villain, competing revenge arc, and a cheese thief.

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