One Ballad. Many perspectives. Vote The Ballad of the Emerald Bard, Opus 2, for Best Multiple POVs!
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One Ballad. Many perspectives. Vote The Ballad of the Emerald Bard, Opus 2, for Best Multiple POVs!
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The series reveals that history when it matters.
It doesn’t replace the current story.
It gives it weight.
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The series reveals that history when it matters.
It doesn’t replace the current story.
It gives it weight.
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Music makes magic. Vote The Ballad of the Emerald Bard, Opus 2, for Best Magic System!
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Music makes magic. Vote The Ballad of the Emerald Bard, Opus 2, for Best Magic System!
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Others arrive on page one carrying an entire life behind them.
Both offer something different: discovering who someone was, or watching who they become.
Which do you prefer?
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Others arrive on page one carrying an entire life behind them.
Both offer something different: discovering who someone was, or watching who they become.
Which do you prefer?
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The banter got nominated! Vote The Ballad of the Emerald Bard, Opus 2, for Best Dialogue.
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The banter got nominated! Vote The Ballad of the Emerald Bard, Opus 2, for Best Dialogue.
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Opus 1 introduces the woman she is now.
Then the series reveals the life that made her that way.
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Opus 1 introduces the woman she is now.
Then the series reveals the life that made her that way.
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Judge my book by its cover! Vote The Ballad of the Emerald Bard, Opus 2, for Best Cover Design.
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Judge my book by its cover! Vote The Ballad of the Emerald Bard, Opus 2, for Best Cover Design.
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One is completely made up. The other two are somehow true.
A, B, or C?
Make your guess before I give away the answer.
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One is completely made up. The other two are somehow true.
A, B, or C?
Make your guess before I give away the answer.
#BookSky #IndieAuthor www.tiktok.com/t/ZP83g1dLw/
Revision 3 is slipping past Sept. 15, and I’m not rushing it to hit my own deadline.
Opus 2 also has 8 Indie Author Awards nominations, with voting open through Oct. 1.
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Revision 3 is slipping past Sept. 15, and I’m not rushing it to hit my own deadline.
Opus 2 also has 8 Indie Author Awards nominations, with voting open through Oct. 1.
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The series has Sword fights, music magic, #foundfamily, messy love, gods, trauma recovery, and emotional consequences.
be sure to Hydrate first.
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The series has Sword fights, music magic, #foundfamily, messy love, gods, trauma recovery, and emotional consequences.
be sure to Hydrate first.
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Do you enjoy the change, or are you impatiently waiting for the main character to return?
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Do you enjoy the change, or are you impatiently waiting for the main character to return?
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Different moods, timelines, and focus. Three stories building the same larger Ballad.
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Different moods, timelines, and focus. Three stories building the same larger Ballad.
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Stories can jump years, change styles, and even change POV.
The Ballad may be Deeya’s, but sometimes someone else needs center stage.
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Stories can jump years, change styles, and even change POV.
The Ballad may be Deeya’s, but sometimes someone else needs center stage.
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Opus 2 is in Round One of the 2026 Indie Author Awards, including Best Dialogue, Magic System, Multiple POVs, Prose, Epic/High Fantasy, and LGBTQ+ Fiction.
Voting is open through Oct. 1!
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Opus 2 is in Round One of the 2026 Indie Author Awards, including Best Dialogue, Magic System, Multiple POVs, Prose, Epic/High Fantasy, and LGBTQ+ Fiction.
Voting is open through Oct. 1!
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Readers have loved these characters, created things, promoted the books, and helped build something I never expected.
Part 2 with @WriteLikeABadass is out today. #BookSky www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8cTrAm7/
Readers have loved these characters, created things, promoted the books, and helped build something I never expected.
Part 2 with @WriteLikeABadass is out today. #BookSky www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8cTrAm7/
Part 1 of my @WriteLikeABadass interview is out now, with Part 2 coming Sept. 8. My Author’s Table interview with @J.O.Farrow is coming soon too.
And Revision 3 marches on.
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Part 1 of my @WriteLikeABadass interview is out now, with Part 2 coming Sept. 8. My Author’s Table interview with @J.O.Farrow is coming soon too.
And Revision 3 marches on.
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Indie author life is deeply normal.
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Indie author life is deeply normal.
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Then the stories kept connecting.
By story seven, I had multiple villains, long-running plots, and too many recurring characters.
So I plotted a series.
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Then the stories kept connecting.
By story seven, I had multiple villains, long-running plots, and too many recurring characters.
So I plotted a series.
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What defines it for you: how much romance there is, whether it drives the plot, the tropes, or something else?
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What defines it for you: how much romance there is, whether it drives the plot, the tropes, or something else?
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Three stories, each with its own tone and place in Deeya's life, together forming the first Opus: The Suite of Seduction, Lost Love, and Revenge.
And it's only the beginning of the larger Ballad.
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Three stories, each with its own tone and place in Deeya's life, together forming the first Opus: The Suite of Seduction, Lost Love, and Revenge.
And it's only the beginning of the larger Ballad.
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They can be adventurous, romantic, mysterious, or told from a different POV.
And sometimes rereading means revisiting one story, not starting over.
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They can be adventurous, romantic, mysterious, or told from a different POV.
And sometimes rereading means revisiting one story, not starting over.
#BookSky www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8cjBAKV/
When you’re reading, what actually matters most to you in the character at the center of the story?
Or is it something else entirely?
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When you’re reading, what actually matters most to you in the character at the center of the story?
Or is it something else entirely?
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Betas, illustrations, Revision 3, an upcoming podcast, and one project I’m not ready to talk about yet. 👀
September could be interesting.
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Betas, illustrations, Revision 3, an upcoming podcast, and one project I’m not ready to talk about yet. 👀
September could be interesting.
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Now I apparently have to keep reminding the algorithm they exist like I’m feeding a tiny digital dragon that lives on engagement.
Apparently publishing was only the tutorial.
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Now I apparently have to keep reminding the algorithm they exist like I’m feeding a tiny digital dragon that lives on engagement.
Apparently publishing was only the tutorial.
#BookSky #FantasyBooks #IndieAuthor www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8vTeVd6/
I hesitate. I overthink. Deeya does too, but eventually she acts. Sometimes brilliantly. Sometimes disastrously.
that’s a joy of writing characters: exploring who we are.
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I hesitate. I overthink. Deeya does too, but eventually she acts. Sometimes brilliantly. Sometimes disastrously.
that’s a joy of writing characters: exploring who we are.
#BookSky www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8vnRjfX/