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Writing Dark #Romantasy. 🌑 Currently lost in Tethered by Shadow. 📍 Minneapolis

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Finally joining! Querying TETHERED BY SHADOW: A street rat who becomes a living bomb & the Warden who must leash her.

Think Peaky Blinders meets The Foxglove King.

Soundtrack vibes below👇

Looking for fellow writers & trench warriors to scream into the void with. 🥂
#AmQuerying #Romantasy #BookSky
aklabonne.bsky.social
Leverage your family to help you write," they said. "It'll be fun," they said.

​I honestly don't know who needs more emotional support to get through my Romantasy—the 'No Romance' Sci-Fi husband, or the dog who would rather be chasing squirrels. 🐿️⛔

​Send help (and wine). 🍷
#DogsofBlueSky #BookSky
A writer's husband sitting at a desk looking at a computer monitor, holding a large brown Small Munsterlander dog in his lap. The dog is staring judgingly at the screen.
February 13, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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"My waist or the dirt. Pick one." 🐎💀

(The romance in Book 2 is... practical.)

Breakthrough: Realizing that the only way to survive the query for Book 1 is to disappear into drafting Book 2. ✌️

#FaveLineFriday #Romantasy #AmWriting #WIP #BookSky @jaxwolffwrites.bsky.social 😎
With a sigh, I take it, and he pulls me up behind him in one fluid motion. The horse shifts beneath our combined weight but doesn’t protest. I settle awkwardly, my hands hovering midair. Where do I put them? His shoulders seem too formal. Behind my own back? No, that’s how you fall and die. A full hug from behind? Absolutely not. “We’re in public,” I mutter. “My waist or the dirt,” he says. “Pick one.” He kicks the horse into motion.
February 13, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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My blood is still cooling... and he wants to discuss formal wear?

The emotional whiplash of #DarkRomantasy: Survival one minute, ballroom politics the next. 🍷✨

📖 Ch 12: Tethered by Shadow

#WIPSnips @wipsnips.bsky.social

#Romantasy #AmWriting #BookSky #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
​A Gala. My blood is still cooling from the magic—and he wants to discuss formal wear? ​The whiplash is so violent it almost makes me laugh. It is psychotic. ​“You can’t be serious,” I manage, the words rasping over a throat raw from the scream I never let out. “We just—” ​“We survived,” he cuts in, his voice cold enough to freeze the blood drying on my skin. “And tonight, we remind them why.”
February 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Whenever the query trenches get dark or I feel like giving up, I open my Battle Plan ⚔️

​(Yes, my brain needs color-coding to function. 🎨)

​Reminds me this isn't a dream. It's thousands of hours of eyes bulging, sweat & google docs.

​#AmWriting #Romantasy #BookSky #AmEditing #PantserOrPlotter
February 12, 2026 at 11:35 PM
aklabonne.bsky.social
"I will not let them hurt you." 🖤

Seeing the Shadow Warden stand between me and the rules he lives by strips away every defense I have.

For today’s #WIPSnips with @wipsnips.bsky.social 🛡️

#AmQuerying #Romantasy #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
"I will not let them hurt you.” The memory of his voice twists in my chest, a ruinous thing. I am so used to surviving alone that seeing him stand between me and the rules he lives by strips away every defense I have.
February 12, 2026 at 5:25 PM
aklabonne.bsky.social
Finally joining! Querying TETHERED BY SHADOW: A street rat who becomes a living bomb & the Warden who must leash her.

Think Peaky Blinders meets The Foxglove King.

Soundtrack vibes below👇

Looking for fellow writers & trench warriors to scream into the void with. 🥂
#AmQuerying #Romantasy #BookSky
February 12, 2026 at 3:21 PM