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Star*Relic: Legacy of the Primordials
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The mightiest stars are formed in the densest darkness.

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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power meets Horizon Zero Dawn & KPop Demon Hunters in this sapphic, slow-burn romantasy 💖 🌈

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What’s in the book:
Queer sci-fi romantasy
Magick meets machines
Found family, but make it galaxy-saving
Magic girls with layered identities
Emotionally-devastating relationships
Slow burn friends-to-enemies-to-something-complicated
Clone identity crisis
Grumpy/Sunshine - contrasting dispositions
AI owl hologram programmed to protect the solar system gone rogue
Power doesn’t always look like destruction
The power of connection
Autistic aroace strategist
Disabled/differently-abled heroes
Neurodivergent rep
Not everyone needs a romance arc
Empowering femme strength
A galaxy of unique species and cultures
Trans woman rising from the ashes, rediscovering herself, and receiving gender-affirming care
Bonded familiars that level-up with you and transform into mounts
Multiple POVs with alternating chapters (hero/villain(??))
Emotional wreckage + beauty
Banter. Angst. Banter again.
“Oh no they’re hot” moments
Planet-hopping adventure
Star*Relic Mode: activated
Feels like being seen
Grief, recovery, and defiance
Powerful doesn’t mean unbreakable
Book cover for Book One Part One featuring artwork by me

Back of book reads:
     A malfunctioning, planet-regulating artificial intelligence.
     Six interconnected planets teetering on the brink of collapse.
     An impending extraterrestrial invasion.

     Who could possibly save an entire solar system?

     Naturally, it falls on Veyla, a newly-awakened clone of an extinct Primordial species. If she fails, AION — an AI with a holographic owl avatar and a core directive to maintain planetary balance — will succeed in her latest mission: wiping out every magick user with her army of nightmare-fuel bots.

     Oh, and there are interplanetary tensions and cute girls with questionable agendas to contend with. Typical teenage stuff.

     No pressure, right? At least she’s got an excessive amount of optimism to work with!

     Armed with ancient magick (that she’s still kind of winging) and cutting-edge tech (which she’s mostly figured out) Veyla and her friends might just be the only ones capable of uniting people, planets, and the slightly-unhinged AI who was supposed to protect them in the first place.

     The real question is: can they do it all in time?
Book cover for Book One Part Two featuring artwork by me

Back of book reads:
     Thousands of stolen soulcrafts.
     A former ally turned wildcard.
     And five AI cores standing between our heroine and planetary extinction.
     The pressure’s rising for Veyla — the teenage clone of an ancient, extinct alien species — as she and her unlikely team race across the solar system with the ultimate goal of restoring a corrupted planetary AI shaped like a holographic owl before magick disappears for good…along with all the people who wield it. But not everything is going according to plan. Between magick not being accessible to them and their animal familiars on most every planet they visit, some of them getting scattered through a malfunctioning portal, and oh, yeah — Ash (the questionably-aligned, heartbreaking heartthrob) now working with the enemy, things are far from easy.
     As they journey through volcanic wastelands, singing crystal caves, and hostile territories full of secrets, Veyla discovers hidden knowledge encoded in her DNA while simultaneously working to contain the feelings she’s hoped to keep buried.
     There are new allies, risky detours, and absolutely no time for emotional processing. Especially not during the Solstice Starlight Ball, where truths glitter just beneath the surface, and a couple songs and a single dance might just unravel everything.
     Amid the chaos, Veyla still has a job to do: recover the remaining AI cores before AION purges Elysia of all sentient life. The final stop on their mission? Naturally, it’s Ash’s homeworld.
     No biggie. It’s just the most heavily-guarded core yet. And their best shot at stealing it might just mean joining forces with the last person Veyla expected to trust…
Artwork by me of the main character kissing her frenemy/crush
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I'm so excited to finally share the cover art for my debut novel, Fractures Between!

Huge thanks to @karevalgon.bsky.social for her fantastic artwork, and thanks to @lyricdesigns.bsky.social for the titling.

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Picture of a book cover. The title reads "Fractures Between." The Author reads "Beatrice Mckinsey."

The cover depicts two women sitting back to back, a jagged white line separating them. The woman on the left is white, has long dark hair and glasses, and sits alone in a darkened wood. The woman on the right is white, has short red hair, and sits alone at the side of of a lake, during a Sunset. Their fingers cross the white lines and intertwine with each other, implying that they're reaching out for each other across a split in realities.
Do you enjoy sapphic romantasies? Frenemies to lovers? Sci-fi & fantasy (cool tech + magick + animal familiars)? Maybe She-Ra & Horzion Zero Dawn?

Then, I really hope I can interest you in my upcoming series, Star*Relic: Legacy of the Primordials! ARC reader signups in my bio! ✨⭐️

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I ordered a #plushie of Poof (Veyla’s fluffy familiar from my #WIP Star*Relic) off Etsy earlier this year, and she finally arrived in the mail yesterday! 🥹

How cute is she? 😍🥰✨

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Me holding Poof, the white puff ball with wings, & AION, the holographic owl Poof from the front with her tiny saber teeth Side view of Poof My initial drawings of Poof in various poses, along with her large mount form
“Possessed by her usual scowl” is such a good line! Aww I love this excerpt! So much anticipation. 😁
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#WIPSnips 15. "Care"

Easier said than done, dear daughter...

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Scanning the beach, Askaly spotted another lonely figure, another solitary Lin Kuei, or at least former Lin Kuei: Xiuying, sitting on the sand with her headphones on. She looked almost… happy there, or at least not possessed by her usual scowl, and Askaly wondered what song had the power to transport the sullen cryomancer to another dimension.
And what does it even matter? She doesn’t care about you, you don’t care about her.
#WIPSnips “care”

This excerpt is from Ash’s POV, the frenemy-to-lover in Star*Relic. 💔✨

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Her next words are smaller and brittle enough to break. “Sometimes, I wonder what’s real and what isn’t.”
That lands harder than any fury. Harder than a blade to the gut. And stars, it wrecks me.
“Of course I care,” I blurt roughly, and it feels like I have to get it out before the universe takes the chance away. “Of course I do.” My voice catches, the traitorous thing. “But what was I supposed to do, V? Sit around and enjoy myself in paradise while ignoring the endless hardships on my homeworld? While my people bled and starved? While my planet fell apart?” I swallow hard. “I had to act. Doing nothing would have driven me insane by guilt.”
“Well, aren't you just the hero?” she accuses, bridging the distance between us with a glare that could burn holes through me. “You think you know what’s best. What’s right. Do you even realize how arrogant that is?”
The tension between us tightens like a cord about to snap. “And you don’t!?” I fire back in disbelief. “You said it yourself: you’re the Star*Relic. The galaxy's chosen one. You’ve got your shiny destiny and cosmic birthright. Your sacred mission. You can't pretend you don’t know what it’s like to be the one calling the shots for everyone else. Don’t stand there and lecture me about arrogance when your whole existence is centered around your hero complex.”
Her jaw clenches, and for a moment, I brace for a slap. Instead, her voice drops, low and dangerous, venom dripping from every word. “You think I asked for this? To be a clone of some dead race with a messiah complex baked into my bones? Well, I didn't, but I am doing the best that I can with what I have to work with. You think this,” she gestures to herself, gaze honed to a blade, “is about power? About being better than everyone else? Superiority? You're wrong. It’s about doing what’s right, even when it’s hard, even when it means sacrificing what you want for the greater good.”
#WIPSnips “ultimate”

I don’t have the word by itself, but “ultimately” appears a few times throughout Star*Relic. ✨⭐️

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The steady drone of machinery surrounds me as I take in the rest of the space. Clusters of holographic displays hover sporadically, many looping symbols and shapes I don’t understand. Others show fragments of schematics, extraterrestrial glyphs, strange maps labeled in a language I can’t begin to decode, and blueprints laced with circuitry, neural grafts, synthetic organs, or cybernetic overlays. Wires snake across the floor, glowing with the same light as the walls, feeding into the pods and disappearing beneath their sleek surfaces.
My gaze is pulled upward.
The ceiling is a network of filaments that resemble strands of a spider’s web, all converging on a crystalline core suspended in the air and beating with its own light.
I have no idea what anything in this room is ultimately for, but every part of it screams that I don’t belong here. It wasn’t built for someone like me.
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WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

Everything fell apart when the human came aboard. Instead of nice meals and quiet cargo runs, Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #QuestPit #A #Q #R #SF #OV #LGBTQ
Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO -  a queer SF/heist/romance - 110,000 words

"Did you hear? There's a human on board."
A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling.
alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human) PITCH:
Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist.
Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway?
That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no.

PRIORITIES:
make dinner
remain cozy
haul cargo
go for drinks
pull off one last score
try not to fall in love FIRST PAGE:

“Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.”
I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity.
“Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.”
“Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table.
It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best.
The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let themcome here.”
The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?” COMPS:
Murderbot by Martha Wells
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wisewell
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

TROPES:
Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm
lying to themselves
non-human perspective (afraid of humans)
neurodivergent main characters
metaphorically disabled protagonist
slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship
disabilitynorm and queernorm setting
found family
loveable pet/terrifying monster
Excerpt from my WIP, Star*Relic: Legacy of the Primordials ☀️🫂

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I want to remind her I’m here and that she doesn’t have to keep bracing for impact. I want her to forget the noise, the masks, the armor she hides behind, and just let me in. I won’t run. I won’t flinch. I won’t look away from the dark corners she’s too afraid to show. Those shadows she keeps around for cover? I’ll chase every one of them away until all that’s left is us. I’ll pull her into the sun alongside me, so that we may bask in the light of day together, naked and exposed, beautiful even with all our scars and imperfections. Still worthy of being seen. Still worthy of love.
Guess Whoooo’s Back 🦉✨

I created this piece for Chapter 61 of my WIP, Star*Relic: Legacy of the Primordials. It was one of my personal favorites to write and still gives me chills in all the best ways. 😁

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A drawing of the frenemy/crush, Ash, and a holographic barn owl named AION. Ash has short white hair in an asymmetrical undercut & blue eyes. She’s wearing a black exosuit with aquamarine lines glowing throughout it. It’s sunset, and a moon is visible in the sky. A drawing of the frenemy/crush, Ash. Ash has short white hair in an asymmetrical undercut & blue eyes. She’s wearing a black exosuit with aquamarine lines glowing throughout it. The holographic barn owl named AION. She is a hyper-advanced AI meant to maintain and protect several worlds.
Ah! Even the big-time writers experience this! 😆

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Excerpt from Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros:

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I can't find it. Panic seizes my heart as I throw items from the wooden chest at the foot of my four-poster bed, growing more and more desperate with each minute that passes.

It has to be here.

Heat scorches the side of my face as blue flames burst through the window of my chamber, and the blast knocks me backward. I crash into the full-length mirror, and glass rains down, nicking the top of my head. I throw myself onto my hands and knees and crawl toward the chest as fire catches my curtains and screams sound in the hallway behind me.

Panic threatens to seize my muscles. I'm out of time, but I can't leave them. They're all I have left.

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lol Yuuup.

Feeling this as an author meticulously going through the editing process for my upcoming book. Nothing quite like catching yourself using the exact same phrase (or something nearly identical) just a few paragraphs earlier. The déjà vu is real.

Oof!
I had the joy of reading an excerpt from my upcoming sapphic sci-fi romantasy, Star*Relic, for the Introverted Indies YouTube channel!
youtu.be/pxDsZe1xl3A?...

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A reading from Star Relic by Verlora Venn
YouTube video by Introverted Indies
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Most women can't keep up with B—until K shows up. K is smart, sexy, dangerous, and came back even after B threw a grenade at her

The problem is K is trying to collect the price on her head

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Do You Know What You’re Worth, Bombshell Jones? by RJ Martin
She released the safety on her pistol. “This is me flirting. Hands above your head.” Space pirate Bombshell Jones has a price on her head the size of Jupiter, and bounty hunter Knockout means to co…
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The writing process…
Who else can relate!? 😂😅

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Aw man, well here’s hoping you get through them eventually! 🫂 I have 2 currently, so I guess I’m a little bit of that. 😅
What are you? 🤔

I’m a mix between a plotter & pantser, I need soft music, & I edit endlessly! 😆

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When your future audiobook narrator turns out to be local, hilarious, brilliant, & happy to form a heart shape with you in public! 💖📚🎙️ @amberdoesaudio.bsky.social, you are a delight! ✨🪐💫

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