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Author C.A. Chaplin
@cachaplin.bsky.social
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Dark Romantic Fantasy “like Tolkien with smut”
SILVER STAR, RED DRAGON
THE DRAGON’S MAW
KU, paperback, & hardcover

https://www.cachaplin.com/links

✨AuDHD chaos gremlin✨
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Hey sorry I forget this platform exists sometimes! I was at the Love & Tech Bookfest this past weekend and had a blast 😁 also I uhhh have a blue and purple mohawk now.
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author C.A. Chaplin and her husband making silly faces at her signing table author C.A. Chaplin posing with several other authors in front of a “Love & Tech” backdrop Author C.A. Chaplin at her signing table Author C.A. Chaplin and author N. Cáceres
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Cúraniel is difficult. She lives life completely on her own terms. Quick to anger, impulsive, lacking in self-preservation skills. The only physical activity she doesn’t hate is good sex.

She’s also compassionate, loyal, and a powerful healer with 2 soulmates who love her in opposing ways #booksky
An elf woman with very long ears and long black hair with pale skin, wearing a translucent white dress and a red scale around her neck. Cúraniel from “Silver Star, Red Dragon” by C.A. Chaplin. Art by Shade of Stars Cover of the book “Silver Star, Red Dragon: Book 1 of the Soulbound Song” by C.A. Chaplin - two elves embracing in front of a giant tree with a dragon in the sky. Art by ProkaryartsLLC
November 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Silver Star, Red Dragon is a spicy dark romantic fantasy about messy immortal soulmates. And yes, yes I am going to use this animation for every possible sound it fits 😂 thank you @axeartifex.bsky.social
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Sound up!
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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The Holy Trinity is finally complete:

The Dragon Daddy
The Babygirl
The MakeYouSeeGod Ghost

Art by Shade of Stars, characters from Silver Star, Red Dragon

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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. Cel fancy portrait: 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 A beautiful elf woman with very long ears, pale skin, and braided black hair wearing a transparent glittering gown smiles at the camera with a crescent moon in the background. Cúraniel from “Silver Star, Red Dragon” by C.A. Chaplin. Art by Shade of Stars
October 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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I found another sound that fits this amazing animation @axeartifex.bsky.social did for me of two of my MCs from Silver Star, Red Dragon 😂😂😂 #animation

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October 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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I should be writing. Or doing laundry. Or literally anything productive.

Instead, I’ve been finger painting in the photos app. Pleas enjoy the God of Carnage as a dragon loaf.
A doodle of a red dragon curled up like a cat, by C.A. Chaplin
October 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Unfortunately, I do love it when the FMC slaps the scary dragon shifter across the face, and it excites him. #booksky

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An angry elf woman pushes against the chest of a muscular, red-haired dragon man. From “Silver Star, Red Dragon” by C.A. Chaplin. Art by ProkaryartsLLC
October 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Love my characters or hate them - you’ll remember them:
An AUDHD elf healer with outsized confidence & a spicy temper. A shapeshifting, razor-tongued dragon with severe trauma & the morals of a feral cat. An ADHD prettyboy elf king flirting his way out of disaster. #booksky

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An elf woman with very long ears and long black hair with pale skin, wearing a blue dress and a red scale around her neck. Cúraniel from “Silver Star, Red Dragon” by C.A. Chaplin. Art by Elorviel. 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. 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 Cover of the book “Silver Star, Red Dragon: Book 1 of the Soulbound Song” by C.A. Chaplin - two elves embracing in front of a giant tree with a dragon in the sky. Art by ProkaryartsLLC
October 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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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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Stuff with Fantasy - Free Fall! Oct 3-5 www.stuffwithfantasy.com Silver Star, Red Dragon: Book 1 of The Soulbound Song by C.A. Chaplin Stuff with Fantasy - Free Fall! Oct 3-5 www.stuffwithfantasy.com Lots of book covers Stuff with Fantasy - Free Fall! Oct 3-5 www.stuffwithfantasy.com Fantasy with Spice Lots of book covers Stuff with Fantasy - Free Fall! Oct 3-5 www.stuffwithfantasy.com Dragon Lovers Lots of book covers
October 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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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. Stuff with Fantasy: Free Fall Oct 3-5 www.stuffwithfantasy.com Book cover for Silver Star, Red Dragon: Book One of ‘The Soulbound Song’ by C.A. Chaplin
October 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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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!
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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 Stuff with Fantasy graphic featuring lots of book covers. Oct 3-5
October 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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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
October 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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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”
September 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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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
September 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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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
September 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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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.
September 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Censored version and closeups. See alt text on the previous post.
Comic panel Close up of dragon man and elf man sparring Dragon man’s eye Chibi Cúraniel
September 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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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
September 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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One reason of many I find redwood trees inspiring: Though they may fall after hundreds of years of growth, it doesn’t always mean defeat.
Photo of the upturned base of a fallen redwood tree with new growth sprouting from it.
August 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Excuse me while I boo hoo over what a reader just sent me about “The Dragon’s Maw,” my sequel to “Silver Star, Red Dragon.” Yes, she’s a friend, but she’s also a widely-read librarian 💜💜💜😭😭😭 #booksky
I'm re-reading the Dragon's Maw and I am again struck by what a good writer you are. I don't mean to sound surprised, of course you would be But it is just fabulous to read Idk if it's our particular closeness, but I get wholly subsumed in your story I can hear everyone's voice, I am transported You have such a way of keeping everything moving but keeping me suspended in the moment. Not a word is wasted The romance is tender, the action captivating and often frightening. Everyone is real so everyone reads as real. Idk I'm floundering but I just wanted to tell you what a joy it is to reread both your books and that I can't wait for more
August 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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If you loved Vaerra, the scaly muscle mommy from “The Dragon’s Maw” - and you get my newsletter - you might want to check your email 😘
A green-skinned, scaly woman with reptilian yellow eyes and a burgundy mohawk stares at the viewer. Labeled “Drake Mothering: A Soulbound Song Short Story” by C.A. Chaplin. Art by Elorviel.
August 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Rafael is a dragon shifter and controls the element of fire. The more worked up he gets, the more fiery his eyes become (his hair does this too). Even in his calm state, flames dance in that piercing blue.

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A series of portraits of Rafael’s dragon eyes becoming more fiery. Art by Shade of Stars, Prokaryarts LLC, Elorviel, and Shrike. Rafael is from “Silver Star, Red Dragon” by C.A. Chaplin
August 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Eerie flooding at the beach gives me inspiration for some interesting settings.
Photo of steps to a flooded area Photo of flooded area with trees Photo of flooded sand dunes Photo of a boardwalk over flooded area with the ocean in the background
August 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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New canon suggestion 💀
August 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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I’m probably going to regret this 😅 Anything for research, right? Silver Star, Red Dragon is the first book in a dark romantic fantasy series. #booksky
August 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM