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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 3d

Last call for 200+ free fantasy books! Today, OCR 5th, is the last day of Stuff Your Kindle with Fantasy - Free Fall. Grab all the books, including Silver Star, Red Dragon, my dark romantic fantasy about elves & dragons, before the prices go back.
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Silver Star, Red Dragon: Book 1 of The Soulbound Song by C.A. Chaplin

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 4d

Did you need another reason to get into my series? Silver Star, Red Dragon is book 1, and it’s part of Stuff Your Kindle with Fantasy! These might be my favorite comments ever 😂 #booksky

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Barbosa (they/them) Today at 8:30 PM
You're sick and twisted
Making us get emotional about dick, of all things

C.A.Chaplin Today at 8:31 PM
Like Anka's comment in the last book about
"this was a very touching flaccid penis scene"
Imfaooo

Barbosa (they/them) Today at 8:32 PM
I'm a whole ass sapphic and you got me feeling some type of way about a PENIS?? A MAN'S PENIS?! Straight to jail.

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Book cover for Silver Star, Red Dragon: Book One of ‘The Soulbound Song’ by C.A. Chaplin

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 4d

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 4d

Did you need another reason to get into my series? Silver Star, Red Dragon is book 1, and it’s part of Stuff Your Kindle with Fantasy! These might be my favorite comments ever 😂 #booksky

a.co/d/gPfNr6W

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 5d

Stuff Your Kindle with Fantasy is here!! Silver Star, Red Dragon, my dark romantic fantasy about an elf woman trying to keep her dragon soulmate from eating her elf king soulmate, is up for grabs along with 200+ other fantasy books!
#booksky
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Stuff with Fantasy graphic featuring “Silver Star, Red Dragon: Book 1 of The Soulbound Song” by C.A. Chaplin. Oct 3-5th

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 5d

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Stuff Your Kindle With Fantasy Books Event

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 5d

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Silver Star, Red Dragon: Book One of "The Soulbound Song"

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 5d

Stuff Your Kindle with Fantasy is here!! Silver Star, Red Dragon, my dark romantic fantasy about an elf woman trying to keep her dragon soulmate from eating her elf king soulmate, is up for grabs along with 200+ other fantasy books!
#booksky
Links in thread!

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🌒 Mx Mary Moon 🌘 @mxmarymoon.bsky.social · 5d

!! ALERT !!

If you missed it last time it was available, @cachaplin.bsky.social's Silver Star, Red Dragon is currently available *FOR FREE* during this Stuff Your Kindle with Fantasy event:

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(I grabbed it when it was free last time, but I would absolutely pay for it 10x over)

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 5d

I love youuuu

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 7d

I swallowed hard. ‘But everyone fears you! Surely the mere sight of you would route them!’

He pinned me with an implacable stare. ‘Teach them to fear you.’

With shaking hands, I took up my crescent blades.

- The Dragon’s Maw #booksky

Art by @prokaryartsllc.bsky.social

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An armored elf woman mounted on an armored horse on a snowy battlefield. She is pale with a long black braid, angry and crying, and raising two crescent moon-shaped blades. In the background, a red eagle watches with raised wings. Cúraniel from The Soulbound Song series by C.A. Chaplin. Art by ProkaryartsLLC

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 15d

Reading Silver Star, Red Dragon is a holy experience after all!

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#rapture

Photo of a pile of clothes with the book “Silver Star, Red Dragon” and the caption “I guess writing weird dragon smut wasn’t too sinful after all”

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 15d

Maybe I wasn’t chosen for the rapture because I’m an ex-evangelical AuDHD chaos gremlin. Maybe it’s because I married an ADHD bisexual disaster man. Maybe it’s because I support his having an occasional boyfriend.

Probably it’s the weird elf/dragon smut I write. #booksky

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A pale, black-haired elf woman wearing a blue dress embraced from behind by a red dragon. Characters from “The Soulbound Song” series by C.A. Chaplin. Art by Auri.

Trope map for “Silver Star, Red Dragon” by C.A. Chapin: fated mates with a twist, lyrical prose, epic world building, a pretty bi disaster MMC, a morally charcoal dragon shifter MMC, a confident curvy FMC, monster spice

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 18d

🥰🥰🥰

Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 18d

He’s a constant surprise to me, too 😂

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 18d

If I have a monster boyfriend, I don’t him to be neurotypical-coded. I want him to be a big fucking weirdo.

That’s why I wrote Silver Star, Red Dragon the way I did - featuring a dragon shifter who’s a big fucking weirdo. #booksky

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 19d

From a certain perspective, my books are about two ancient, spicy weirdos with very big personalities inflicted on this one normal, practical guy until he buckles under the pressure. Then they get to clean up the mess.
#booksky

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Links — Author C. A. Chaplin

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 19d

Me tooo. I also have this portrait of my other MMC, and one of my FMC in the works!

An elf man with very long ears twirling his long, silver-streaked black hair and wearing a sparkling blue coat. Celebel from “Silver Star, Red Dragon” by C.A. Chaplin. Art by Shade of Stars

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 19d

🥰🥰🥰

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 19d

One of the best compliments I’ve received about Rafael, my dragon shifter MMC from Silver Star, Red Dragon:

“He doesn’t read like a man who happens to be able to become a dragon. It’s very clear he’s always a dragon.”

Art by Shade of Stars #booksky
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A man with long wavy blood red hair and reptilian blue eyes scowls at the camera. His taloned hands rest on a sword hilt. Rafael from “Silver Star, Red Dragon” by C.A. Chaplin. Art by Shade of Stars.

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 20d

Yesss thank you!

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 20d

Hey hivemind, can you blow bubbles with blood? Google is not helpful - I only get results about embolism, which is not what I’m talking about.

I need to know for a scene. For book 3 of my spicy dark romantic fantasy series - emphasis on “dark fantasy” 😅
#booksky

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 21d

Some self-insert readers dislike a pov character because “I would never!”

Yeah of course you wouldn’t. Otherwise you’d be the one telling this story. And it would be boring.

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 21d

Censored version and closeups. See alt text on the previous post.

Close up of dragon man and elf man sparring

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 21d

Cúraniel has witnessed a lot of nonsense in her long life, but this might take the cake. Censored for mildish gore - I’ll put the uncensored one in the comments. This scene is from The Dragon’s Maw, sequel to Silver Star, Red Dragon. Art by @dragonnan1.bsky.social

#fantasy

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Comic panel of a red haired dragon man and a black-haired elf man sparring while a black-haired elf woman in a long silver dress watches.
Next panel: Elf man says, “I must test my armor’s true protective strength. Punch me in the stomach with all your might!”
Next panel: Startled elf woman says “You’re asking a dragon larger than this entire fortress, compressed into the form of that still very large man, to punch you with all of his might?”
Next panel: Dragon man says, “This is the single stupidest request I have ever heard.”
Next panel: Close up of dragon man’s eyes with slit pupils and fiery colors. He says, “I accept!”
Final panel: Dragon man punches elf man in the gut, and elf man vomits up entrails while a shocked elf woman watches.
Art by Dragonnan

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