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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25

@eldris.thellian.com

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👩‍💻 Writes 2nd world fantasy 🐿️ Pits characters against dragons, gods, and the occasional horde of squirrels ⚔️ Geeky indie author/mum 📚 #WritingCommunity 😣 ME/CFS 🤔 Probably AuDHD 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally Essex UK | she/her https://thellian.com/links Say NO to gen AI 🚫

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 12d

Like free stuff? Sign up to my newsletter and you'll receive the first FOUR chapters of my dark epic fantasy, Reborn in Ash!

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 10h

Bashed my head against my laptop for an hour trying to figure out an issue with Affinity Designer adding a text background fill when it shouldn’t have. Ended up resetting the font settings.

But my map of Thellian looks AMAZING. Now I just need to do a zoomed in one of places in Reborn in Ash. 🗺️

✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 16h

Omg the new My Hero Academia episode *chef’s kiss*

✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 18h

I seem to pick up everything even if my kids aren’t particularly grotty themselves 😩

✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 21h

I’m sitting in the car while husband drops the kids off at school and the number of people walking past coughing 😭😭😭 I don’t want to get ill but the kids share all the germs. ME/CFS means even colds last an age and hit harder.

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 1d

Ada was never actually meant to get a book. She was mentioned in a few epigraphs in Echoes of Chaos and I couldn’t help wondering how she <spoilers sweetie 😘>

✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 1d

I’m getting sad that in a few weeks I may never open my Reborn in Ash scrivener project again.

Who am I kidding? I can’t leave Ada behind. She’s such a fun character, she’s getting short stories at the minimum. Eventually. I bet one will try to turn into another standalone novel though. 😂

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 1d

Editing/proofreading is done. eBook formatting is mostly done, I just need to write some back matter. Tomorrow, map!

I'm getting there... Physical copies will definitely be delayed though because I need to do proofs, which needs me to finalise the covers, which needs me to format the physical books

✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 1d

I also completely missed my typo 😅

✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 1d

I completely miss that Windows 10 is getting extended security updates. Thanks to @vriccithode.bsky.social for pointing this out to me 🥰 Sharing in case anyone else is trying to avoid Windows 11!

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 2d

Husband has just finished reading Reborn in Ash for the first time since my second draft. He says the ending is really good and I did a good job. So there you go, the most important opinion in the world to me 🥰

✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 2d

Having unreliable health is such a PITA because even when I manage to have the confidence to try to meet up with people, I might end up cancelling and seeming flaky. Gallstones are making it impossible to go out anyway :\ Standing up tends to trigger flares. I want my surgery date already!

✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 2d

I don’t think the weather got the memo that it’s October. The sunlight, it burnsssssss.

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 2d

How did your recovery go?

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 2d

I also hate that men never get to show emotions other than anger in western shows.

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 2d

I don’t 😅 but I should plan something! Stuff is a bit up in the air because I’m meant to be having gallbladder surgery in the next month or two but I have no idea when.

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 2d

I mostly watch anime and k/c dramas these days. Western shows tend to annoy me now.

✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 2d

Whoops!!!

I’m getting there though. Editing should be done in two days. It’s formatting I’m worried about. And then there’s the map…

#WritingCommunity #BookSky

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 4d

Do you love character-focused fantasy books with thieves, elemental magic, and power struggles? Read chapter 1 of Reborn in Ash free on my website now!

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Reborn in Ash Magic abandoned humanity millennia ago. Now it returns, bringing ruin to a wanted thief, and her chance for redemption. coming 23/10/25 PRE-ORDER NOW Blurb Content Warnings First Chapter...

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 3d

I figured you’d like how it looked 😂

✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 4d

*looks them up* What in the Alien franchise are those??

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 4d

Yup

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 4d

Do you love character-focused fantasy books with thieves, elemental magic, and power struggles? Read chapter 1 of Reborn in Ash free on my website now!

thellian.com/reborn-in-ash/

💙📚🪐

Reborn in Ash - Gabrielle Steele

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 4d

What do you mean these character deaths I'm crying over are my fault? I mean, yes I did write them, but I just do what the story tells me to...

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