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Hearth Saga: Kingdom of Cinders available via B&N & Amazon. Come check out my mostly for free Patreon (love my Patrons): https://www.patreon.com/c/user?u=122409728

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SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · Mar 10

A found family, f*ck the patriarchy, we're-just-getting-started, bloody good epic fantasy, in which it becomes increasingly clear that everyone should have listened to the old women, available now from B&N.

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Kingdom of Cinders: Hearth Saga - Book One|Paperback

A match struck burns, and the world burns with it--unless--an old ally can find a way to stop the world's slow roll toward destruction, but what if that ally is keeping a secret of their own that migh...

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SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 7h

Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best and the most elegant

SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 9h

Until some better approach presents itself--same! Gaging the scream, though. I dunno.

SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 10h

Deeply felt. I always feel like apologizing after I mention it irl. I don't, but I feel that way. It is, in fact, draining. Online? There's so much to choose from and I'm not super nichey (not romantasy) so, though I'm appealing to someone, I have no idea how to find them

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SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 3d

oh look at that, I see some pronoun irregularity there--antecedent swaperoo shit--that I can edit. Sometimes posting these tricky bits acts as a kind of sieve, where clunkers get stuck and become easier to spot. That just me?

SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 3d

10/15 Since these novella pages are in no way edited or even really sure to stick around in a later draft I'm not sure this is reliable copy, but very vibey. Here, Whinset (POV) has her hands full juggling her man's shame, "carefully"

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#WIP Snips (a bluesky writing community tag). October 15 (word is) care. Remaining text: Share a line from your work in progress with the daily word for inspiration! Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics. Synonyms, variations, and vibes are fine. Support others on the #WIPSnips tag! (Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social)

Text over a faded background autumn scene: “I couldn’t close ranks fast enough, I couldn’t raise an effective defense. I failed. Old Foer’s right about that much.” “Raise a defense? You were playing a game, but that was the ruse, wasn’t it? A lie to hide carefully planned crimes. We knew Nebbyd was disloyal. We knew he consorted with the Kellman. We underestimated how far and how quickly he would move, but you can’t be serious when you say you failed. How can you fail at a trap dug in your path?” She reached for his hands again, but he tucked balled fists under his arms. “A wise man can see the trap and step over it.” Could they have seen it? Could they have guessed when they planned for Muster? He needed to believe he could not have. Guilt would tie his sword to his side. In evidence, he sat steeping in his shame, knees slacked open, his arms binding his own chest so he could barely breathe.

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SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 8d

Yay! It's a series long mission to lay down heroic fantasy foundational characters & then step on a slat to send them flying. Old ladies swallow up flies but they don't die from it. That's the lie (& TY for giving me air to talk about it bc with Bk 2 delayed for funding I'm so incredibly impatient)

SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 10d

Pure terrorism. Government terrorism

SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 10d

That's SO TRUE! I was raised in a church that sang "Just As I Am" weekly & one of the lyrics was "just as I am and waiting not/to rid my soul of one dark blot"--ahh, self loathing, the hole that lasts a lifetime!

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SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 10d

No, he can try to rewrite reality, but he can't actually do this--it's really not the 1930s

SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 11d

10/7-since Bk 2 is delayed due to a total lack of funds I'm working on a novella covering "off camera" events in Bk 1. Haven't settled on a title nor roughed enough to do this often but here's a 1st clunky vibe at it. Work is therapy
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Text on a blue background: “Your father never faced this challenge. But I know you are able to meet this. Our people will know it, too. Every bit of preparation will lift them up, help them cope with fear, sacrifice. Let me call Waergan.”

“Midgyr. Send word to Midgyr. With that change, write your bond. I will sign it and seal it.” His pain radiated like cold rising from a frozen lake. She almost wished he would run hot again, but the fire was out. She had taken him down to bedrock. Was that necessary? Seizing her tighter, he kissed her but drew away as suddenly to plead, “Must I go? How can I ride away from you again?”

She bore him down, deeper. “You have no home now that does not make room for the safety of your people. I will share this burden, but there is no putting down.”

He was beyond either weeping or raging, and for that she was at least a little thankful. There was so much work to be done.

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SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 13d

I swear they've got his grindr info in a folder. Little twerp acts like he has no choice other than stooging for Satan

SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 16d

Because we don't want to be the kind of place where the poor die in parking lots. Even the GOP used to believe that

SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 16d

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SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 16d

I biffed yesterday's post--no alt text. I ham thumbed. Trying it again, arg. My Patreon 1st of month bunches of stuff are up, including new art for sale and this posterized version that I just put up for fun (of a story setting). Link in comments (it's by&large free)
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Artwork of farmland and distant woods, big puffy white clouds and sun rays. The word "Fen" is superimposed across the image in green.

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SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 16d

At a time when so many creatives are battling tidal waves of AI slop & suffering as algos are strangled, this title really pissed me off. No matter what it ultimately says (no, didn't read it, don't sub), this is not a good faith question. Please do not give up. Ever.

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Title and art for New Yorker story: Should you just give up? by Joshua Rothman.

SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 17d

He's such a...grrrrrr. I'll give her this--she tried and she made him look like a slippery eel on camera, which isn't hard because (see above)

SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 17d

Yeah, this was extremely inflammatory--hooya

SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 17d

Everything he does is so sickening

SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 17d

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SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 17d

Sep. was a a month of meeting the nicest sweetest most generous people & of seeing up close how lovely my friends (whom I already adore to bits) really are. Ready for a 1st of the new month Patreon drop. Come check it out. Membershiop's free/link in comments
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SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 19d

omg, not shocked, but it's a true horror and that is on us

SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 19d

He's acting president and everyone knows it. And he's all the way power crazy, or just, you know, crazy

SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 20d

I never said this about a woman before, but I hope she cries

SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 21d

But now I'm definitely looking forward to my Junior outing 😁

SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks, it's a drop in the bucket of the Book 2 publishing fund, but a drop is so much nicer than nothing! :D