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

📢 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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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 · 10h

📢 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 · 15h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 22h

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 · 1d

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/

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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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

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

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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

Editing/proofreading is done. eBook formatting is mostly done, I just need to write some back matter. Tomorrow, map!

I'm getting there... Physical copies will definitely be delayed though because I need to do proofs, which needs me to finalise the covers, which needs me to format the physical books

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

I also completely missed my typo 😅

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

I completely miss that Windows 10 is getting extended security updates. Thanks to @vriccithode.bsky.social for pointing this out to me 🥰 Sharing in case anyone else is trying to avoid Windows 11!

www.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

Windows 10 Extended Security Updates | Microsoft Windows

Use Windows 10 securely with the Extended Security Updates program. See how it helps protect your PC and find out how to get it.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 4d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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