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Jules Peacock

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Indie author of the Drazoen Heralds series, book & music lover. Coffee and tea. TV & movies. Flag obsessed. It's a whole thing. Nail polish hoarder... Did I mention dogs? https://linktr.ee/julespeacock

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Charlie Delta (has been a ghost this whole time! 👻) @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 1d

October 8th – dungeon

On choices.

Fox is having a rough morning.

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Fox opened her eyes on a small cot, somewhere cool and damp. Stone floor, stone walls, barred window. She sighed internally. Nothing quite like waking up half-dead in a prison cell to start your day off right.
How many times could you wake up in a dungeon without having to rethink your life choices? She decided that the number probably hovered around one, which boded poorly for her. Better not to think too hard about it.
Besides, thinking was somewhat beyond her, at the moment. Her head throbbed. Actually, her entire body throbbed, her head was just the worst offender.
Fox tried to sit up, but couldn’t quite muster the strength to do so, so instead she sank back onto the bed with a groan.
There was a scrape of chair legs on stone and a moment later Av’ry appeared at the bars, a stern-faced guard shadowing his steps.
“You’re finally awake! You really had me worried this time, Fox,” he said.
“I’m not dead, then?” she croaked. “I wasn’t certain.”
“Not quite. Though it was a close thing.”

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Women's Prize @womensprize.bsky.social · 22h

Meet the Judges of the 2026 Women’s Prizes!

A warm welcome to: Julia Gillard, @monaarshiwrites.bsky.social, Salma El-Wardany, Cariad Lloyd and Annie Macmanus, and Thangam Debbonaire, Roma Agrawal, Nicola Elliott, Nina Stibbe and Nicola Williams.

#WomensPrize

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 22h

THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES series is perfect for lovers of Gothic coziness. There are 4 books with
💀Pushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow vibes
🫀An autistic necromancer
⚰️His reanimated lover
🪦 Solving mysteries in 1890s NYC
🏳️‍🌈MM paranormal historical romance
🔗⬇️Available wide!
#romancelandia #booksky 🌈📚

Available now in ebook, audiobook, or paperback The Reanimator's Heart by Kara Jorgensen
Mm romance, forced proximity, a lavender marriage, murder/magic/mysteries, food tour of 1890s NYC, unbury your gays, an autistic necromancer, everybody's queer

The Reanimator's Soul by Kara Jorgensen is out now in ebook and paperback, book 2, autistic necromancer x undead adhd-er, mm romance, a sinister clinic, new powers, 1890s NYC, a murdered patient, a cure for magic, a horrible ex, rich people behaving badly, the tether becomes a #problem

The Reanimator's Remains by Kara Jorgensen, out now in ebook, audiobook, and paperback, book 3, mm romance, autistic necromancer x undead adhd-er, the trees are watching, dealing with trauma... poorly, dont go where I can't follow, family secrets, breaking the cycle, the dead are out for revenge

cover reveal soon. preorder now, out January 29th.
autistic necromancer x undead ADHDer, mm romance, book curses and malicious magic, mutual aid, support, community, a new beginning, if im not a weapon, what good am i?, gwen to the rescue, the paranormal society is in peril, book 4 final book

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Jules Peacock @julespeacock.com · 22h

Subbing gulag for dungeon.
Katy asks the important questions
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Finally, holy shite. If Yfaun’s dark matter gulag had been destroyed, was she just floating in space, about to die from no air, looking gross and freaky as she suffocated?

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone should get to see themself in fiction. But I often can't find as much neurodiverse rep as I'd like, especially in SFF.

So for ADHD Awareness Month, I've gathered 22 mainly ADHD authors & their fantasy/ other books with main/significant ADHD chars in this bundle

🪐📚💙 itch.io/b/3300/adhd-...

Adhd Awareness Month Fiction.
By mostly ADHD authors, most with 1+ significant ADHD character(s)
22 Book. Oct 1st-15th

Covers:
The Lady and the List, Elizabeth Briars
Side Tracked, S.K. Kelly
The Harmony of Falling Snow, Andora Brokaw
Bestiary Beas
The Players Act 1, Amy Sparks
The Weight of Her Gaze, RJ Martin
He of the Trees, Rob Macwolf
Song of the Wolf, T.C. Smith
Tales of Yamato, Odessa Silver
The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle, Steve Hugh Westenra
Manipulator's War, Elise Carlson
A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger
Heart of Stone, Johannes T. Evans
Lantern, Burgundy Athena Pendragon
Wizard's Debt, Niranjan
Blood, D.C. Hart
Ancient as the Stars, Maya Darjani
A Dark Hole Darly, Drew Melbourne
Translucent, Wayward Spark
War of the Space Dargons, L'Poni Baldwin
Ants Waking, R.J. Huneke
Rage in a Cage, Joachim Heijndermans

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Jules Peacock @julespeacock.com · 1d

OMGosh how this takes me back! 😍 TY for posting

Jules Peacock @julespeacock.com · 1d

Graciela's book is down the line quite a bit, but she woke me up one night asking why she'd spent so much of her life making amends for and being bullied about her differences.
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Evind narrowed their eyes. “There’s a massive mistake in the delivery files. Shipments meant for Chitan ships were redirected to Centris and Zhujla.” At Graciela’s continued silence they went on, voice raising. “Everyone knows your grudge against Chitans since you were abandoned by them. I’m here to take you back to the warehouse, so you can explain what you did!”

She was utterly stumped. While she’d always faced some prejudice, assumptions of hidden anger toward the father who’d deserted her or a mother who didn’t even want to claim her, Graciela had never been confronted so aggressively. Uilig were calm by nature, once of the main reasons they were sought after as safehouse hosts throughout the Aoni, and this kind of vitriol was rare enough to be virgin territory. How on earth did she respond?

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Jules Peacock @julespeacock.com · 2d

"Just don't call it 'time travel' --these historians 'investigate major historical events in contemporary time.'" 😁

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Jules Peacock @julespeacock.com · 2d

These books are such fun, especially to share with kids

Jules Peacock @julespeacock.com · 2d

Funny how HEAs can still have a bump or two along the road
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“I bloody well am going!”

“Katy, qania, be reasonable. We can’t leave-”

“You did not just tell me I’m unreasonable! I can’t believe you. Just because I’m Kawakona doesn’t mean I’m chained to this Wheel!”

Uh oh. Trouble in paradise already?

“What did I miss?” Yuhwa interrupted the argument as she spied Raisa Leon nearby, rolling her eyes.

“These two drank too much, or woke up out of sorts. They’ve been at loggerheads all morning.” Raisa made two fists and bumped them together.

Loggerhead Human English term to indicate either fights and/or stupidity, or amphibious life-form known as ‘turtle’.

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Jules Peacock @julespeacock.com · 3d

I think I'm exactly the same :) If it gets too long, I stop thinking "I'll quite after 1 more chapter" and keep checking how long the current one is!

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Jules Peacock @julespeacock.com · 3d

Calling on readers to share a preference on chapter length!
Do you like short, fast Chs - a 9 hour audiobook I'm reading is at 65% and we're already on Ch44.
Do you like slightly longer Chs - e.g. Jane Austen tends to be 3-4k words/Ch.
Or are you into the long Chs - a GoT, LOTR scenario.
#booksky

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Jules Peacock @julespeacock.com · 3d

Happy Sunday from the #minidrazoen

#chiggylife #smalldog #rulethiskingdom

Jules Peacock @julespeacock.com · 3d

This character, Racz, is a Muskikal. They're cephalapod-like aliens who got information gathering as prophecy homework.
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Here they turned to Bay. “Your people were told by Windweaver White to seek the Kawakona. For that you’ve sentenced untold generations to wander isolated throughout the Aoni, unable to return home. My people were told to chase fragments of information, stories, mere rumors so we would know when our task actively engaged with the greater purpose. What is stored in the Lost Library has power, and in the wrong hands could have helped those who would like to ensure heralds never arise.” Suddenly their head resealed and all their arms jerked together, forming a near-solid trunk. As quickly as it happened it was undone, a full-body clench and release. “Pardons, this is momentous and I never dreamed to be part of it, so close to it. I am overcome.

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Jules Peacock @julespeacock.com · 4d

I have so many 🤣 Tracking interwoven plots & timelines, all my made up words, what inspired and how to pronounce them, character descriptions, etc.

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Laura Duthie @darkonelf.bsky.social · 4d

When the thing you are writing is the thing that drives and tames your mind, thinking about the people, where they are going and the long ago faces and memories that are hidden within them.

#writing

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Jules Peacock @julespeacock.com · 4d

Visiting a new area on The Wheel of Centris
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Patrick and Vasuda, artists to their cores, were slowly circling the column before them, awestruck. “Look here, the filigree, it’s masterful. So fine and delicate.” Vasuda tugged on Patrick’s arm.

“We have to go,” Katy said. “We can spend more time admiring when we aren’t possibly being hunted by police.”

Bay grimaced. “Yes, everyone, inside.” He pushed a panel that was head-height for most of their group, and a solid panel slid away to reveal a compartment. Once they crowded in, the panel slid shut and the capsule, apparently an elevator, ascended.

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Jules Peacock @julespeacock.com · 5d

Subbing asleep for hibernate in today's snip 💤😴💤 I could use a bed like a dao bed right about now
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Paul could see a dao bed like Yuhwa used on the Eternidad inside. It was surrounded by twenty or so fancy leather loungers. The kind you’d lay on to mimic “zero g” and fall asleep, cradled like a baby.

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Jules Peacock @julespeacock.com · 6d

Why do anatomical features and mythological tropes repeat across species? Katy learns about it over a nice dinner 🐟🍽️
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Hours later, after drinks, a filling dinner of salmon and risotto, more education on the Aoni, and a tour of the refuge grounds, the sun was finally setting. This time of year in the PNW that meant it was nearly nine p.m. Their small group had adjourned to the outdoor fireplace. It was a temperate evening, and once Lanu had started the fire, Katy was comfortable with a light lap blanket, staring into the flames contemplatively.

Lanu and Bay were preparing beverages and stoking the fire, respectively. She’d learned so much and was reflecting on the latest bomb the two had dropped on her: most sentient, evolved species of the Aoni were symmetrical in features, bipedal, carbon-based and shared analogous core mythologies. This was because the Drazoen had seeded life throughout the Aoni, leaving genetically coded sense memories in their wake. Folklore and fairytales had similar themes throughout the Aoni as a result. Creation rising out of chaos? Dragons? Great floods? Fire as a gift from the gods? Check.

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Jules Peacock @julespeacock.com · 7d

New word Wednesday!
Virtuoso (Book 1) is out now
🔗Links in bio for 📖 & 🎧
Descant (Book 2 Dec-2025)
#BookSky #drazoenheralds #indieauthor #dragonsinspace #scififantasy #WriteSky

Jules Peacock @julespeacock.com · 7d

When your species is genetically designed to swim the spacetime continuum, the Universe is like a river
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For her part, Yuhwa didn’t worry overmuch about the day the nawa called her to undertake a spiritual quest communing with the five animal avatars of Malor. All the mystical transcendence she needed was already in her grasp, every time she called upon the dao and swam through space and time. Just like the arnat zingo found in Malor river waters, Yuhwa swam the Aoni.

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Jules Peacock @julespeacock.com · 8d

Just snagged the audiobook, thanks for posting!

Jules Peacock @julespeacock.com · 8d

Humans discover the spaceship has a few animals hanging around 🐒
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“What are those?” He rolled to his knees, inching closer to them. “They’re adorable.” He stopped moving. “Are they carnivorous? That’s what always happens in the movies, the cute ones go for your throat.”

Once the aoiti clarified “carnivorous” Yuhwa snorted. “They’re sweet, fruit and nut eaters. They aren’t native to the Mikanjo world, but long ago an Imen ambassador gifted a pack of them for this part of the ship. They’re called rufucebus, and if you bring them baijur crackle, they’ll swarm you and rub all over your hands to get the scent in their fur.”

“Roo-fah-see-bus?” Patrick said. “Like tiny monkeys, but with six sets of paws.”

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Jules Peacock @julespeacock.com · 9d

Paul's first time in the numig, a spaceship's command center. He's about to watch Yuhwa "swim" a black hole from her dao bed. Her process is vaguely described in book 1, book 2 will explain much more
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So long as he told himself he was inside a planetarium, Paul didn’t think he’d fall down. But shite, this numig thing was mind-bending. Multiple stories, flashing lights, walkways leading to a center platform with terminals and a raised dais bearing some kind of couch-bed deal. All of it under a clear dome with a view of distant stars. Not a hint of Earth to be seen.

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Bella Dunn @belladunn.bsky.social · 9d

In case you missed, my novella is out now!
A sneak peek into the world of the Eileerean Saga!
A dangerous secret. Two friends broken by their past.
A perilous journey. Magic traps and fantastic creatures, all in 100 pages!

#bookrelease #fantasybooks #eileereansaga #novella #booksky

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