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J.A. Skald + CJ Pines 💜🌈📚 MM Author @suncatcherpress.com · 5h

Mage-forged misteel weapons keep a keener edge & can damage wraiths👻

Hurry & get all 3 covers, all my books, & discounted swag:
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Three ereaders with book covers for Tales of a Sunless Land: The Witching Woods by J.A. Skald, below a snippet of light text on a dark background & the word 'steel' highlighted:

Up close, the Yaga’s breath was rank with the stench of old tobacco and raw onion. It mixed poorly with the too-sweet cloud of floral perfume hanging about her, the warm spice of gingerbread, and a dozen other scents besides.
Ryn jumped as one clawed hand grabbed his arm surprisingly tight; her skin like old leaves as she gripped him hard enough to bruise.

“Increased when given away for free,
Leaves no trace the eye can see.
Hurts when lost or ne'er found,
Hard to say, yet sweet the sound.

Light as a breath, strong as misteel,
Joyous to hold, oft painful to feel.
A word, a gift, a glance, a touch —
Whatever else could mean so much?”

She released him, sitting back wearing a wide grin as she waited for an answer to her riddle.
A raven cawed from somewhere deep in the orchard. Or a crow maybe; Ryn had never been good at telling the two apart. He eyed the trees, the ripened fruit bowing their branches.
Ryn frowned, something tickling at the back of his mind. A feeling, an image, a memory…

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Gay Romance Reviews @gayromancereviews.bsky.social · 1d

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J.A. Skald + CJ Pines 💜🌈📚 MM Author @suncatcherpress.com · 6h

Amazing work!

Got an error trying to check your comm pricing via that linktree in your bio, tho

J.A. Skald + CJ Pines 💜🌈📚 MM Author @suncatcherpress.com · 9h

Just wait. You're gonna be soooo embarrassed during the scene everyone thinks he got hit by the enemy's arrow, but then he reveals his strategically placed charf miraculously stopped it from-

Wait, hold on - our sources are telling us that no, the arrow's pierced fully thru & thru. Yeah, he's f'd

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Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 11h

Critique partner: You open too many sentences in this scene with “but”. Way too many buts. Pick your favorite but and focus on that one.

Me:

a man with a mustache is smiling and says " giggles "

Alt: Clip of Ron Swanson from Parks and Rec giving an uncharacteristic childlike giggle. Text reads (giggles).

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⚢ Wheypenwifestre 🔆 @nizzy.cc · 1d

I don't think I've come across a poem that taps into my ethos when it comes to navigating queer community within the context of a hostile world as much as "We Have Enough Dead Friends" by Lena Oleanderson.

I strive to make my home a sanctuary where other faggots feel safe and cared for.

We Have Enough Dead Friends
By Lena Oleanderson

Come over. The doors are open,
my flat's a mess and
so is my heart
but the doors are always open.
Come over. I will make soup,
probably from frozen but
the important thing is
we will both eat.

You don't have to be dying,
but if you are,
or you feel like you are,
or if living's been hard,
call me, and I will show up.
It doesn't have to be that bad,
it doesn't have to be bad at all,
but if it is, please call.

Do you want me to do the groceries?
Do you want me to mop the floors?
Do you need to be held;
you don't have to be dying to be held.
If you want me to be there, I want to.

I'm on the bathroom floor again,
and breathing is hard,
and eating's been hard, and sleeping,
the world is a laden thing
rolling around on my chest lately.
Just being alive is heavy tonight,
but we have enough dead friends.
Come over.

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J.A. Skald + CJ Pines 💜🌈📚 MM Author @suncatcherpress.com · 13h

Dear #WriteSky,

...this is fine, right?

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #queerwriters #🌈📚 #💙📚

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J.A. Skald + CJ Pines 💜🌈📚 MM Author @suncatcherpress.com · 13h

Hey babe, wake up - an unhinged new Diner Dash concept just dropped

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J.A. Skald + CJ Pines 💜🌈📚 MM Author @suncatcherpress.com · 14h

Problem is the initial "customers" are investors & publishers, who don't care about player enjoyment as much as they do turning their pile of money into larger piles of money. Devs do what they can but are ppl w/ bills, & run up hard against whatever buzzy thing investors heard was trending that wk

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Altorina @altorina.bsky.social · Apr 23

💠His light
#KCD2 #Hansry

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J.A. Skald + CJ Pines 💜🌈📚 MM Author @suncatcherpress.com · 1d

Show a snip of my MM enemies2lovers standalone? Ok!

Grab all 3 cover variants, my other books, & discounted swag:
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Three ereaders with book covers for Tales of a Sunless Land: Under Ghostfire Mountain by J.A. Skald, below a snippet of light text on a dark background & the word 'nice' highlighted:

"My retinue won't be happy about being woken so early on their first morning back, but I'm sure we can be ready in three bells. Maybe two, if we plan to don armor onsite instead of before we head out." Käre grimaced, not relishing having to drag a hungover Dursk out of his wife's nice warm bed and into the snow. "How about yours?"
But Martel just shook his head. "Let them sleep. Tower-trained humans would be little use where we will go, and two travel much faster. Layer up thick and warm, but flexible. No plate — it will slow you down in the mountains. A quarter bell, then we leave."
Käre glared at him. "Who died and made you cadre commander?"
The Relict merely raised his eyebrow, those strange silver eyes of theirs flashing in the light.
"I traveled in with traders. If we hurry, maybe we still catch them, hey?" Martel said instead, his tone friendly but still as implacable as misteel. "With luck, they will have us there by lunch and back in time for dinner."
It was a sound plan, actually. One Käre couldn't find any fault with.
Which, of course, just made his mood even fouler.

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J.A. Skald + CJ Pines 💜🌈📚 MM Author @suncatcherpress.com · 1d

A Sunless Land is a series of journeys, both personal & literal; as messy & complicated as the ppl living there. Call it self-care, but I need those glimpses of discovery, self-acceptance, & punching bigots in the face as much as scenes of fighting a Big Bad. Now more'n ever
Qnorm can't deliver that

🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 2d

#QueerPrompts November 3: Why you chose or didn't choose queer acceptance in your story's world

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Text: "November 2025", "Safe Space", and "You're A Star" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom in a rainbow font.
Center text is:
#QueerPrompts November 3: Why you chose or didn't choose queer acceptance in your story's world

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J.A. Skald + CJ Pines 💜🌈📚 MM Author @suncatcherpress.com · 1d

Need a lil dose of escapism? Join the ARC team for my upcoming standalone novella!

🛷Dogsledding
👹Monsters
🤯Surprise Twists
🔥Huddling for warmth
✨Thinking outside the magic box
🛡️Shieldmates
🐺The goodest boy
🍲Found family

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Gay Romance Reviews @gayromancereviews.bsky.social · 1d

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Sam Perin @zebotc.bsky.social · 1d

High Tide 🌊 ✨ Hey guys I just finished this new painting in my ongoing series of paintings called ‘A Starry Place’ where I explore spaces that are meaningful and nostalgic to me. This piece is inspired by overcoming insurmountable challenges.

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J.A. Skald + CJ Pines 💜🌈📚 MM Author @suncatcherpress.com · 1d

This is how I'm gonna look every time someone hits the dislike button on one of my posts.

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Dianne Hartsock @diannehartsock.bsky.social · 1d

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Charlie Knight [they/them] | Editor / Author 📚 @cknightwrites.bsky.social · 1d

If you donate $5 or more to any foodbank or organization in November, show me a receipt, and I'll send you a free ebook of TEMPEST, TAKE ME HOME.

One of the main characters and I both grew up unhoused and hungry, and we relied on the kindness of others to survive. Help me give back now.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 1d

There's a particular type of guy who spends a lot of time in a forest, y'know?

Daniel Day Lewis and Eric Schweig standing in a field, weapons in hand while filming THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1992)

Viggo Mortensen sitting a field, weapons in hand while filming THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001)

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J.A. Skald + CJ Pines 💜🌈📚 MM Author @suncatcherpress.com · 1d

I'm 2 friends away from a round number of followers. What bribery shall it take- a giveaway?

1) Follow me &
2) Comment on THIS post &
3) Share THIS post &
4) 🔞🚯✌🤟🖖
Random roll in 1 wk
1 winner gets $5 USD credit on suncatcherpress.com

#🌈📚 #mmfantasy #mmromance #mmsuspense #GayRomance #queersff #⚔️

A bunch of swag available on suncatcherpress.com using cover art from JA Skald's books plus several pieces of pride art; postcards, pin buttons, flasks, notebooks, stickers, holographic stickers, mugs & more

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J.A. Skald + CJ Pines 💜🌈📚 MM Author @suncatcherpress.com · 1d

Take Käre, from Under Ghostfire Mountain (coming out Thursday!):

Sole heir of a powerful mage family, he has no magic of his own. But instead of being married off or sent to the church, war & his own father's choices alter both his & Martel's fates forever

#🌈📚 #mmfantasy #mmromance #mmsuspense #⚔️

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J.A. Skald + CJ Pines 💜🌈📚 MM Author @suncatcherpress.com · 1d

Take Käre, from Under Ghostfire Mountain (coming out Thursday!):

Sole heir of a powerful mage family, he has no magic of his own. But instead of being married off or sent to the church, war & his own father's choices alter both his & Martel's fates forever

#🌈📚 #mmfantasy #mmromance #mmsuspense #⚔️

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J.A. Skald + CJ Pines 💜🌈📚 MM Author @suncatcherpress.com · 1d

Priest class is mostly their no/low magic castoffs whose social/political clout comes directly from basically doing PR work for their magical relatives

Creates a broad palate to paint chars across the caste system, from magical nepo-babies down to not-as-middle-class-as-they-thought to have-nots

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J.A. Skald + CJ Pines 💜🌈📚 MM Author @suncatcherpress.com · 1d

A Thaumatocracy; for the gods taught the mages of a Sunless Land the secrets of the Weave, to protect the people from the yearly Mist & what lurks within. Some nations are ruled by monarchies, a diarchy, triumvirate, a theocracy or two, & even a fledgling 'democracy' - but always w/ mages at the top

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 1d

How do the politics of your book's world work? Is it a monarchy? A democracy? Theocracy? How does it affect your characters? #WritingPrompt

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A.D.🍀🦩 @adwills.bsky.social · Apr 18

if you're a writer feeling down, just remember, you can always make your characters' days even worse

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J.A. Skald + CJ Pines 💜🌈📚 MM Author @suncatcherpress.com · 1d

Oh, the fae realm of A Sunless Land has LOTS of teeth. They're worth quite a bit in the local barter system, you see...

(If I had a mood board for this realm, it'd be filled with Ghibli, del Toro, & Edward Gorey. And folklore, fables, faith, & fairytales have always been special interests of mine.)

Three ereaders with book covers for Songs of a Sunless Land 2: The Shattered Isles by J.A. Skald, below a snippet of light text on a dark background & the word 'web' highlighted:

"Names," the boy said then, thinking hard, "What we call something. It's all important, isn't it?"
"Of course!" She looked affronted by the question. "How else do we know what something is?"
"What about describing what it looks like?" The boy offered weakly.
"That only says something about you," the bird-like tryllan huffed. "Specifically, that you are a fool. Your description would be based on yourself; your experiences, your beliefs, your desires. What use is any of that to me?Utter foolishness. Especially here in the fae realm."
"Where everything is always shifting," the boy said slowly, working it out. He felt as if he could almost see the shape of what they were saying, as if it hovered just out of the corner of his eye. But if he tried to look at it full on, it escaped him again. "So do you just… ask everyone? All the time? Isn't that confusing?"
"Life's confusing," the fishlike fae hissed, laughing. "Simple is for the dead."
"But what if you can't keep up with it?"
"Then you shall be gobbled up by those who can. What else?" the bird-like tryllan said with a sniff, turning back to her work. "It's no business of mine, I'm sure."
"I can change," the boy assured them both.
"You'd better," the fishlike fae said in a considering tone, cocking his head as he studied the boy's expression. "But if you can't… Can I have your teeth when you die?"

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