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Davinia Evans (Dee)

@cupiscent.bsky.social

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Author and avid reader of fantasy fiction. NOTORIOUS SORCERER ⚗⚔, SHADOW BARON 🎴🗡️ and REBEL BLADE💥🐉 out now from Orbit! (she/her - Australian - cupiscent on just about everything - website & newsletter at viscerate.com)

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · Oct 18

Come to the Burnished City, home of wild magic, sword-fighting street gangs, bad decisions, worse manners, high society, and one defiant alchemist.

Trilogy begins with NOTORIOUS SORCERER, continues with SHADOW BARON, and ends (in Dec 2024) with REBEL BLADE

More: viscerate.com?page_id=243

The covers of three books by Davinia Evans, labelled "The Burnished City". The covers are for Notorious Sorcerer (with a red-coated figure brandishing flame and surrounded by mysterious squiggles and symbols), Shadow Baron (with a masked woman holding her cards close to her chest) and Rebel Blade (with a woman brandishing sabre and dagger).

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 1h

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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 3h

We are thrilled to announce that Titan Books will be publishing THIS IS WHERE THE FUTURE BLEEDS by Mike Brooks! ⚔️

A brand new fantasy adventure that follows a smart-talking bunch of rogues and dropouts who are thrust into the destinies of empires.

Coming June 2026! 🐝

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 5h

I clicked that link so fast; I am so excited to see these new stations

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 1d

I assumed exams were to blame. Fiendish things. I shake my fist at them. Exams then holiday time?

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 1d

Completely unrelatedly, we missed you at Conflux!
But yes, you clearly need to take leave. HOLIDAY TIME?

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 1d

That is an amazing assignment. Also, I love your Australia. Like, the shape of the continent is amazing, you've got it so much better than most people draw it, it's just you rotated it 180 degrees and I'm so fascinated by it 😂

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K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · 1d

I'm not saying I've got Lists of Queer Adult SFF for Bookshop's free shipping days, but
bookshop.org/shop/queerad...

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 3d

So much list solidarity. It is the way.

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 6d

Arguably what the sport needs. I find your angle compelling, at least 😂

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 6d

Awwwww! 🥹

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 7d

Yes definitely!

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to be off to Canberra tomorrow for Conflux! I'll be talking editing on Saturday afternoon, the path to publication on Monday morning, and probably nonsense in the bar at most other times. 😆🥂 www.conflux.org.au

CONFLUX INC.

Conflux is Canberra’s longest running speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy and horror) convention, an annual gathering that features an eclectic range of panels, discussions, launches,...

www.conflux.org.au

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 7d

Honestly, I already feel like everything I do in microsoft office programs, especially the online versions thereof, is only a rough approximation of what I wanted to do, so I'm not sure I'll notice any difference...

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 8d

Which novella?
And what did you drink to accompany this decadence?

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 8d

I mean, yes. But also while I love gene kelly I'm imagining the paso-doble father from Strictly Ballroom reaction to this and it's making me giggle a lot.

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 9d

New personal definition of hell unlocked: having to make small talk with documents.

Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 9d

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 9d

Hadn't truly appreciated how totally K-pop had become mainstream until my kid got a cartoon-BTS happy meal toy.

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 9d

Wow. Angry and dismayed yes, and just so tired. Barked a bitter laugh at the housework dig.

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 10d

Seems like a small market though... 😂

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 10d

I do have an acquaintance who's so gluten intolerant that it includes topically. But I must admit she's a rare bird.

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 10d

goddamn yes, every single word, just the perfect modern swashbuckling screwball comedy, so good

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 11d

ooooh, this Crumblicious stout? Definitely going to acquire some, thank you internet... www.dainton.beer/collections/...

Crumblicious Choc Honeycomb & Toffee Stout

Smooth, decadent and back to full strength. This caramelised, chocolatey and deliciously dark brew is your ticket to pure indulgence. PRODUCT DETAILS STYLE: Stout ABV: 7.1% IBU: 33 STANDARD DRINKS: 2....

www.dainton.beer

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 11d

ohhh that sounds so good, who makes it??

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 12d

oh THIS, this is SO TRUE. (The news I see over the shoulders of people reading on their phones is never quite as generally applicable! 😂)

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 13d

Oh that IS an achievement! I'd never make it, because Mr Dee does love his footy. (He's been very busy this year and not talking about it as much as usual.)

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 13d

I only just learned which teams are playing in the grand final tomorrow and I feel like this is a new high (low?) in obliviousness even for me. 😂

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