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Tru Skies

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British author of foul-mouthed fantasy series The Cruel Gods and upcoming The Chosen One Con 📚 They/Them Enby 💛🤍💜🖤 Trans rights! 🏳️‍⚧️ Anti-Gen AI Visit my website at TrudieSkies.com The Cruel Gods Series: https://mybook.to/TheCruelGods

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · Nov 11

The Cruel Gods trilogy is an adult gaslamp fantasy featuring magical portals, gothic cosmic deities, quaint Britishisms, and steampunk vibes. Start with SPFBO and BBNYA finalist, The Thirteenth Hour, but check my website for content warnings. Available on Kindle Unlimited.

mybook.to/TheCruelGods

A promotional image showing the cover art for The Cruel Gods series: The Thirteenth Hour (blue and silver), The Children of Chaos (pink and purple) and The End of Time (black and bronze). The image contains the text: The Cruel Gods Trilogy Now Complete! Fantasy of Bad Manners, Tea, Top Hats, & Naughty Words.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 6h

Happy International Lesbian Day to Hope from my upcoming book, The Chosen One Con!

Hope is a sixteen-year-old trans girl studying to be a medical mage at school. She's got a crush on a ex-porn star 🙈

Art by the wonderful @aowna.bsky.social 💙

A teal monochromatic portrait of Hope Farrow, a character from The Chosen One Con as designed by Aowna. Hope is a sixteen year old white girl with long hair in a braid. She is wearing a school uniform and a cloak on top of it. A heart-shaped locket dangles around her neck. There are two potion bottles floating beside her.

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 7h

The headless horseman's return forces Drusilla to team up with Ichabod Crane, the one man she wants to forget, to find her sister Katrina. As old feelings come back, Drusilla questions if Ichabod can be trusted with her heart again. buff.ly/4e4eOHa #PNR #Blackbooksky #bvm #romance

Splinter by Jasper - Everand and Kobo Plus *bisexual fmc *demi mmc *slow burn *enemies to lovers *black witches *bamf monster hunters * 2nd chance romance

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 7h

We've had a lot of responses to our upcoming indie SFF event in November, but we'll always take more! If you're an indie SFF author or reader and would like to get involved, our sign up sheet is closing October 15th!

Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 7d

We've got a big announcement to make! For the entire month of November, we're going to be hosting an event celebrating indie and self-published SFF authors that we're calling... A Month of Rain and Reads!

But we'd like YOU to get involved! Find out more:
www.readindiefantasy.com/announcing-a...

A banner image showing a planner with autumnal decorations and stickers along with calligraphy spelling out A Month of Rain and Reads. There is a stack of indie books in the background and a cup of coffee.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 8h

It was a MYPIN heavy duty screen door. There are a few places online that sell it, but we got it off Amazon 🙈

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 10h

I read the synopsis and my world isn't that bad 😂

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 10h

Oh yeah, the TV is for mental torture 😁

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 11h

I wouldn't call them traditional dungeons, they have a TV down there 😂

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 11h

Not done a #WIPSnips in a while, but we just happen to have a couple of dungeons in the end game 😂

A screenshot from my WIP, The Chosen Con, with the following text:

“If you’d come with us, sir,” said one of the Argents.
What now? They’d escort me to [redacted]—my—rooms and let me run riot alone? Lock me inside? We took the elevator down to the second level and entered a nondescript corridor lined with rooms.
No. Cells.
Oh, they’d brought me to the fortress dungeons. Of course, the Archons had their own private dungeons. Why wouldn’t they?

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 13h

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 17h

Yeah, I think so! My favourite thing is having a villain who isn't the real villain.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 18h

I'll try and find it!

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 18h

It would have been a lot quicker if he'd just done the alphabet.

Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 18h

We put up this screen to keep Gus contained when we first got him, and it worked, neither cat could work out how to get through it. It must be pretty tough!

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 19h

I personally like foreshadowing! It helps build the tension and imply something isn't quite right, and it's also fun to catch the hints on a re-read.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 19h

Crimes being committed.

A photo of Gustave the tabby kitten climbing up a screen door designed to keep him out of a room. He is clinging onto the top with his claws.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 19h

All my characters are self-inserts because they all make bad decisions.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 19h

A man prayed to God, "Please God, teach me how to be more patient!"

And so God created the kitten.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 20h

Congrats!

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 20h

Day 6, 7, & 8 of #Caulktober!

No poly relationships in The Chosen One Con (yet?) but I could see Max being interested in the idea, he likes to share! No shapeshifters either, but Max does gain magical abilities from the drugs he takes, named bluebell. Magic is easily accessible in his world.

A challenge game for Cocktober 2025 with the following days:

Tell us about your cock-owning character who…

1 - is married
2 - is a virgin
3 - loves other cock-owners
4 - identifies as bi
5 - is in a poly relationship
6 - identifies as trans or non-binary
7 - is a shapeshifter
8 - has magical powers
9 - has received a blow job
10 - has given a blow job
11 - has been pegged
12 - has tied someone up/been tied up
13 - has survived something traumatic
14 - is a true romantic
15 - has been on either end of an age gap relationship
16 - has spanked someone/been spanked
17 - has watched other people have sex
18 - has had sex in public
19 - has saved the world
20 - is based on you or someone you know
21 - is featured on your favorite book cover
22 - has a crush on someone
23 - is an athlete
24 - is a musician
25 - has had sex with his best friend
26 - has had sex with his sworn enemy
27 - is from the past
28 - is from the future
29 - has had sex with a coworker
30 - is a billionaire or royalty
31 - isn’t human

Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 21h

I plot too, but the plot likes to keep us on our toes!

Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 21h

If I know what's happening in advance, I can weave in the foreshadowing in advance, but this rarely seems to happen lol

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 21h

Yeah it keeps happening!

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 21h

Once again, as I get near the end of this book, a crucial piece of information has been revealed to me, which means I'll need to go back and weave in the foreshadowing.

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Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 1d

We've got another book review/recommendation.

This time, I share my thoughts about books two and three in the Singer of Terandria series, by @thewanderinginn.bsky.social

Undead, spiders, witches, and music.

www.readindiefantasy.com/book-recomme...

Banner image for the review of Huntsong and Ghostsong.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 1d

Good on you.