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Kai Zeal 🐱📘🔮 | Author of Riyati
@kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com
32+ | She/Her | Disabled autistic ace married cat mom | 🚫 genAI
L2D Moms: @haerge23.bsky.social (A) & @solumvt.bsky.social (R)

#Riyati book 3 is out now @ riyati.ink/ripple!
Check out @ riyati.ink or join the Riyati discord @ riyati.ink/discord
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Individual book info 🧵👇 (1/5)
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So it’s happened twice this week that people in charge of creative endeavors’ use of disabilities to excuse abysmal behavior has come to light, and because I am tired of it:

Disabilities never excuse poor treatment of anyone, but especially people over whom you have power.
January 13, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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Small presses and self-published authors are still writing queer books. Support indies, because publishing sure isn't.
January 13, 2026 at 10:00 PM
As I'm learning yet again, putting things on a to do list is the best way to get me to do them. I want to cross off All The Things, doesn't matter if digital or physical, just let me cross it out
January 13, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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I took the rubber ducky shot with my TBR that I posted earlier today - here's another, this time with our publications! My lil duckies are especially excited about Commit to the Kick and Missed Fortunes - the Kickstarter for the trilogy launches tomorrow!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

🌈📚
January 13, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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THE GODS OF ATALANTIS

ATLA x The Selection

When Mireia is chosen as the newest incarnation of the Sea Mother, her simple life is upended. Now she & her counterpart, the Sun Father, must navigate their feelings for each other amid rising religious & political turmoil.

#Bluepit #Bluepit📖 #YA #F
January 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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SAILOR MOON x HANNAH MONTANA x TRON

By day, Mia & her friends are a hot pop group. By night they're vigilantes who fight virus monsters in a metaverse.

⚡️Mixed race & Chinese rep
🐶TALKING CORGI
🔥Magical Cyber Girls
🗺️Diaspora themes
💞Rivals to lovers

#Bluepit #Bluepit📖 #ya #f #sf #q #poc
January 13, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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One week to release! Goodreads/Pre-order links are live me hearties. 🦜🏴‍☠️🏝️

The Curse of Dragon Tail Island - a standalone pirate fantasy adventure.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
January 13, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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BUFFY x PERSONA 4 | Book 1 of series

With great power comes your past incarnations and future self playing chess with your existence.

🛒 riyati.ink/rebirth
series info 👉 riyati.ink

#BluePit 📖 #NA #A #F #P #OV #LGBT #DIS #ND
January 13, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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BUFFY x PERSONA 4 | Book 2 of series

What happens when the past seeks vengeance, the present is lonely, and the future looks uncertain?

🛒 riyati.ink/rivals
series info 👉 riyati.ink

#BluePit 📖 #NA #A #F #P #OV #LGBT #DIS #ND
January 13, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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BUFFY x PERSONA 4 | Book 3 of series

Every act of defiance steers you into the person you were always meant to become.

🛒 riyati.ink/ripple
series info 👉 riyati.ink

#BluePit 📖 #NA #A #F #P #OV #LGBT #DIS #ND
January 13, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Today's (more on time) Recollection editing updates! Some things just don't change with Maya, like socializing with people and putting her on customer facing positions being a bad idea

#WriteSky
January 13, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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"Vanilla (with Sprinkles)"
What happens after your nervous breakdown goes viral on social media? It’s time for Kalie to re-build her life, and a one-night stand sounds like a good start.
Sam is a shy DND nerd...and Kalie's unsuspecting target.
#BluePit 📖 #W #A #R 🌶️ 📚
January 13, 2026 at 2:30 PM
BUFFY x PERSONA 4 | Book 3 of series

Every act of defiance steers you into the person you were always meant to become.

🛒 riyati.ink/ripple
series info 👉 riyati.ink

#BluePit 📖 #NA #A #F #P #OV #LGBT #DIS #ND
January 13, 2026 at 2:33 PM
BUFFY x PERSONA 4 | Book 2 of series

What happens when the past seeks vengeance, the present is lonely, and the future looks uncertain?

🛒 riyati.ink/rivals
series info 👉 riyati.ink

#BluePit 📖 #NA #A #F #P #OV #LGBT #DIS #ND
January 13, 2026 at 2:31 PM
BUFFY x PERSONA 4 | Book 1 of series

With great power comes your past incarnations and future self playing chess with your existence.

🛒 riyati.ink/rebirth
series info 👉 riyati.ink

#BluePit 📖 #NA #A #F #P #OV #LGBT #DIS #ND
January 13, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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#TheLurker

All he wants is fifty thousand words by the end of November and he'll set you free...but you really don't feel like writing.

#BluePit 📖 #P #A #H #Humor #novella

books2read.com/u/bwJrGZ
January 13, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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Don't do this for anyone. Call it cliche or whatever you want but if someone doesn't like you when you are being your true authentic self they are not worth your time.
Stop trying to make that man like you. If he liked you, you would know!
January 13, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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You need to be willing to plant trees knowing you will never sit in their shade
oldhead advice from an oldhead.

every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown"

and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work

gotta build for long term
January 8, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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Bored of tidy, sensible romances in your fantasy? Want a love affair that's confusing, tumultuous, and sometimes unpleasant? No worries, mate: I've got your bad choices and saying the worst thing right here!

The Exile and His Fool, a new novel
🌶️📚🌈
buy.bookfunnel.com/v3pfssfj6m
January 12, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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No Love in LA is now available from the Sacramento Public Library (as are all my books)! My books are available for libraries to buy if you want to get some angsty pagans & pop/rock stars in your TBR.

Want to get your library to buy you books? 🧵

catalog.saclibrary.org/GroupedWork/...
📚🌶️🌈💙📢
No Love in LA
A heavy metal goddess with a crush on... The stern goth who hates her... The spark that ignites them both. Recovering from a breakdown, metal superstar Angela Alice is clawing her way to self-i...
catalog.saclibrary.org
January 12, 2026 at 6:38 PM
I'm late bc dr appointment + bloodwork earlier on top of it being the first day of spring semester BUT we're still making progress 😎 (today's going to be a light editing day too, but hoping to jump in more tomorrow and get things going!)

#WriteSky
January 12, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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I dont think we talk about this enough but yeah if you are pursuing higher education and you need accommodations advocating for yourself and talking about your experiences does really help others.
Technically I'm saying this one semester too early, but I think I'm going to get through my phd with only one prof fighting me on accoms through the whole program (DSS backed me up on that one and had a private conversation with them affirming my accoms). Ngl, proud of my uni for that ratio
January 12, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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TITLE & COVER REVEAL!

CyberSnow is a 49k cyberpunk novella with:

💻 Snow White X Ghost in the Shell vibes
👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Dual POV - Heiress & reluctant resistance fighter
🌃 Future city buckling under capitalism
💛 Found family, for better or worse 😅

Preorder info coming soon! 💙📚
#CoverReveal #CyberSnow
January 12, 2026 at 9:57 AM
...this poor, adorable stats prof asking us on an initial course survey: "what are you most excited to learn?" as she's asking this to a class of education grad students who all hiss at numbers bc we're all qual and just want words in our research, no maths, no SPSS
January 12, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Technically I'm saying this one semester too early, but I think I'm going to get through my phd with only one prof fighting me on accoms through the whole program (DSS backed me up on that one and had a private conversation with them affirming my accoms). Ngl, proud of my uni for that ratio
January 12, 2026 at 5:20 PM