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Author C.A. Chaplin
@cachaplin.bsky.social
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Dark Romantic Fantasy “like Tolkien with smut”
SILVER STAR, RED DRAGON
THE DRAGON’S MAW
KU, paperback, & hardcover

https://www.cachaplin.com/links

✨AuDHD chaos gremlin✨
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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · May 13
I write epic dark romantic fantasy with:

💜Lush prose
💜Immersive worldbuilding
💜Unhinged monster spice
💜Neurodivergent MCs
💜Mental illness & trauma
💜Queernorm
💜Hilarious immortal assholes

www.cachaplin.com/links
#booksky
Cover of the book “Silver Star, Red Dragon: Book 1 of the Soulbound Song” by C.A. Chaplin - two elves embracing in front of a giant tree with a dragon in the sky. Art by ProkaryartsLLC Trope map for “Silver Star, Red Dragon” by C.A. Chapin: Hurt/Comfort & Whump, Touch Her & Die, Slow & Fast Burn Spice, Teratophilia (Monsterfucking), Soulmates, Morally (Dark) Grey MMC, Why Choose/Love Triangle Cover of “The Dragon’s Maw: Book Two of ‘The Soulbound Song’” by C.A. Chaplin. A giant red dragon with bright blue eyes holds an elf woman in his teeth while an armored elf looks on. The elves are tiny in comparison. Art by ProkaryartsLLC Trope map of “The Dragon’s Maw: Book Two of ‘The Soulbound Song’” by C.A. Chaplin. Hurt/Comfort & Whump, Touch Her & Die, Slow & Fast Burn Spice, Teratophilia (Monsterfucking), Soulmates, Morally (Dark) Grey MMC, Why Choose/Love Triangle
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After fighting to what he thought would finally be his death, the last thing the Red Dragon expected was to awaken to the beautiful woman who’d saved him—and she was not intimidated in the slightest.

Silver Star, Red Dragon is a spicy dark romantic fantasy #bookthreads

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December 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Reposted by Author C.A. Chaplin
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I'm currently working on a novel and at the end of an average day, I'm wiped out. The sheer amount of analysis, synthesis, making of connections, layering of prose, deepening of characterization, supplemental research... all the mental work is intense and exhilarating. Which is just to say, fuck AI.
December 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
cachaplin.bsky.social
As a fantasy author, I don’t want my name in lights.

I want it in the liminal spaces. In dreams. In déjà vu tickling the back of your mind. Whispered in the trees. Murmured in the warm fog of a book hangover. Plinking against the glass on the perfect rainy day.
#booksky
December 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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🎁 My best indies list for my 2025 reading year 🎁

Featuring authors @cachaplin.bsky.social @cmrosens.com @clericofthevoid.bsky.social @catrector.com & more! ❄️

What are some indies you loved this year? SHOW ME! (no ai slop)

#booksky
Silver Star, Red Dragon & The Dragon's Maw by C. A. Chaplin, Yelen & Yelena by C. M. Rosen, Name Her Holy by Aubrey Ennis, Holy Wrath by Victoria Mier, & Goddess of Nothing at All by Cat Rector
December 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Silver Star, Red Dragon was nominated for FIVE Indie Ink Awards! It would mean the world to me if you voted for my dark romantic fantasy. It’s free to make an account #booksky

Best morally gray character
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Wittiest character
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Silver Star, Red Dragon nominated for five Indie Ink Awards categories Silver Star, Red Dragon nominated for five Indie Ink Awards categories: Best Morally Grey Character Wittiest Character Writing the Future We Need: Bisexual or Biromantic Representation Writing the Future We Need: LGBTQ+ Representation Writing the Future We Need: Neurodivergent Representation by a Neurodivergent author
December 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
cachaplin.bsky.social
Silver Star, Red Dragon was nominated for FIVE Indie Ink Awards! It would mean the world to me if you voted for my dark romantic fantasy. It’s free to make an account #booksky

Best morally gray character
indiestorygeek.com/a/indie-ink-...

Wittiest character
indiestorygeek.com/a/indie-ink-...
Silver Star, Red Dragon nominated for five Indie Ink Awards categories Silver Star, Red Dragon nominated for five Indie Ink Awards categories: Best Morally Grey Character Wittiest Character Writing the Future We Need: Bisexual or Biromantic Representation Writing the Future We Need: LGBTQ+ Representation Writing the Future We Need: Neurodivergent Representation by a Neurodivergent author
December 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Why do so many writers swing from thinking we’re storytelling gods to crying about being the most talentless hacks who’ve ever put pen to paper?

I’m currently on the upswing. Check back in tomorrow for the weather change 😂
#booksky
December 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Reposted by Author C.A. Chaplin
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My Most Anticipated books list for 2026 - do you share any anticipation for these titles? 💜

Featuring authors @cothillion.bsky.social , @cachaplin.bsky.social , @slhuang.com , @megbontra.bsky.social, & more!
Anticipated reads list - The Language of Liars by S. L. Huang, Besieger by Kalina Mitova, Dead Beat by Leigh Bardugo, Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker, Deathly Fates by Tesia Tsai, Soulbound Song #3 by C. A. Chaplin, Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell, The Sea Hides Its Dead by Megan Bontrager, The Book of Fallen Leaves by A. S. Tamaki
December 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Hey sorry I forget this platform exists sometimes! I was at the Love & Tech Bookfest this past weekend and had a blast 😁 also I uhhh have a blue and purple mohawk now.
#booksky
author C.A. Chaplin and her husband making silly faces at her signing table author C.A. Chaplin posing with several other authors in front of a “Love & Tech” backdrop Author C.A. Chaplin at her signing table Author C.A. Chaplin and author N. Cáceres
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Cúraniel is difficult. She lives life completely on her own terms. Quick to anger, impulsive, lacking in self-preservation skills. The only physical activity she doesn’t hate is good sex.

She’s also compassionate, loyal, and a powerful healer with 2 soulmates who love her in opposing ways #booksky
An elf woman with very long ears and long black hair with pale skin, wearing a translucent white dress and a red scale around her neck. Cúraniel from “Silver Star, Red Dragon” by C.A. Chaplin. Art by Shade of Stars Cover of the book “Silver Star, Red Dragon: Book 1 of the Soulbound Song” by C.A. Chaplin - two elves embracing in front of a giant tree with a dragon in the sky. Art by ProkaryartsLLC
November 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Silver Star, Red Dragon is a spicy dark romantic fantasy about messy immortal soulmates. And yes, yes I am going to use this animation for every possible sound it fits 😂 thank you @axeartifex.bsky.social
#booksky
Sound up!
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
cachaplin.bsky.social
The Holy Trinity is finally complete:

The Dragon Daddy
The Babygirl
The MakeYouSeeGod Ghost

Art by Shade of Stars, characters from Silver Star, Red Dragon

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A man with long wavy blood red hair and reptilian blue eyes scowls at the camera. His taloned hands rest on a sword hilt. Rafael from “Silver Star, Red Dragon” by C.A. Chaplin. Art by Shade of Stars. Cel fancy portrait: An elf man with very long ears twirling his long, silver-streaked black hair and wearing a sparkling blue coat. Celebel from “Silver Star, Red Dragon” by C.A. Chaplin. Art by Shade of Stars A beautiful elf woman with very long ears, pale skin, and braided black hair wearing a transparent glittering gown smiles at the camera with a crescent moon in the background. Cúraniel from “Silver Star, Red Dragon” by C.A. Chaplin. Art by Shade of Stars
October 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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I found another sound that fits this amazing animation @axeartifex.bsky.social did for me of two of my MCs from Silver Star, Red Dragon 😂😂😂 #animation

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October 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
cachaplin.bsky.social
I should be writing. Or doing laundry. Or literally anything productive.

Instead, I’ve been finger painting in the photos app. Pleas enjoy the God of Carnage as a dragon loaf.
A doodle of a red dragon curled up like a cat, by C.A. Chaplin
October 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Unfortunately, I do love it when the FMC slaps the scary dragon shifter across the face, and it excites him. #booksky

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An angry elf woman pushes against the chest of a muscular, red-haired dragon man. From “Silver Star, Red Dragon” by C.A. Chaplin. Art by ProkaryartsLLC
October 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
cachaplin.bsky.social
Love my characters or hate them - you’ll remember them:
An AUDHD elf healer with outsized confidence & a spicy temper. A shapeshifting, razor-tongued dragon with severe trauma & the morals of a feral cat. An ADHD prettyboy elf king flirting his way out of disaster. #booksky

www.cachaplin.com/links
An elf woman with very long ears and long black hair with pale skin, wearing a blue dress and a red scale around her neck. Cúraniel from “Silver Star, Red Dragon” by C.A. Chaplin. Art by Elorviel. A man with long wavy blood red hair and reptilian blue eyes scowls at the camera. His taloned hands rest on a sword hilt. Rafael from “Silver Star, Red Dragon” by C.A. Chaplin. Art by Shade of Stars. An elf man with very long ears twirling his long, silver-streaked black hair and wearing a sparkling blue coat. Celebel from “Silver Star, Red Dragon” by C.A. Chaplin. Art by Shade of Stars Cover of the book “Silver Star, Red Dragon: Book 1 of the Soulbound Song” by C.A. Chaplin - two elves embracing in front of a giant tree with a dragon in the sky. Art by ProkaryartsLLC
October 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Last call for 200+ free fantasy books! Today, OCR 5th, is the last day of Stuff Your Kindle with Fantasy - Free Fall. Grab all the books, including Silver Star, Red Dragon, my dark romantic fantasy about elves & dragons, before the prices go back.
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Stuff with Fantasy - Free Fall! Oct 3-5 www.stuffwithfantasy.com Silver Star, Red Dragon: Book 1 of The Soulbound Song by C.A. Chaplin Stuff with Fantasy - Free Fall! Oct 3-5 www.stuffwithfantasy.com Lots of book covers Stuff with Fantasy - Free Fall! Oct 3-5 www.stuffwithfantasy.com Fantasy with Spice Lots of book covers Stuff with Fantasy - Free Fall! Oct 3-5 www.stuffwithfantasy.com Dragon Lovers Lots of book covers
October 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Did you need another reason to get into my series? Silver Star, Red Dragon is book 1, and it’s part of Stuff Your Kindle with Fantasy! These might be my favorite comments ever 😂 #booksky

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Barbosa (they/them) Today at 8:30 PM You're sick and twisted Making us get emotional about dick, of all things C.A.Chaplin Today at 8:31 PM Like Anka's comment in the last book about "this was a very touching flaccid penis scene" Imfaooo Barbosa (they/them) Today at 8:32 PM I'm a whole ass sapphic and you got me feeling some type of way about a PENIS?? A MAN'S PENIS?! Straight to jail. Stuff with Fantasy: Free Fall Oct 3-5 www.stuffwithfantasy.com Book cover for Silver Star, Red Dragon: Book One of ‘The Soulbound Song’ by C.A. Chaplin
October 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Did you need another reason to get into my series? Silver Star, Red Dragon is book 1, and it’s part of Stuff Your Kindle with Fantasy! These might be my favorite comments ever 😂 #booksky

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Barbosa (they/them) Today at 8:30 PM You're sick and twisted Making us get emotional about dick, of all things C.A.Chaplin Today at 8:31 PM Like Anka's comment in the last book about "this was a very touching flaccid penis scene" Imfaooo Barbosa (they/them) Today at 8:32 PM I'm a whole ass sapphic and you got me feeling some type of way about a PENIS?? A MAN'S PENIS?! Straight to jail. Stuff with Fantasy: Free Fall Oct 3-5 www.stuffwithfantasy.com Book cover for Silver Star, Red Dragon: Book One of ‘The Soulbound Song’ by C.A. Chaplin
October 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Reposted by Author C.A. Chaplin
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Stuff Your Kindle with Fantasy is here!! Silver Star, Red Dragon, my dark romantic fantasy about an elf woman trying to keep her dragon soulmate from eating her elf king soulmate, is up for grabs along with 200+ other fantasy books!
#booksky
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Stuff with Fantasy graphic featuring “Silver Star, Red Dragon: Book 1 of The Soulbound Song” by C.A. Chaplin. Oct 3-5th Stuff with Fantasy graphic featuring lots of book covers. Oct 3-5
October 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
cachaplin.bsky.social
Stuff Your Kindle with Fantasy is here!! Silver Star, Red Dragon, my dark romantic fantasy about an elf woman trying to keep her dragon soulmate from eating her elf king soulmate, is up for grabs along with 200+ other fantasy books!
#booksky
Links in thread!
Stuff with Fantasy graphic featuring “Silver Star, Red Dragon: Book 1 of The Soulbound Song” by C.A. Chaplin. Oct 3-5th Stuff with Fantasy graphic featuring lots of book covers. Oct 3-5
October 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reposted by Author C.A. Chaplin
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!! ALERT !!

If you missed it last time it was available, @cachaplin.bsky.social's Silver Star, Red Dragon is currently available *FOR FREE* during this Stuff Your Kindle with Fantasy event:

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(I grabbed it when it was free last time, but I would absolutely pay for it 10x over)
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October 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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I swallowed hard. ‘But everyone fears you! Surely the mere sight of you would route them!’

He pinned me with an implacable stare. ‘Teach them to fear you.’

With shaking hands, I took up my crescent blades.

- The Dragon’s Maw #booksky

Art by @prokaryartsllc.bsky.social

www.cachaplin.com/links
An armored elf woman mounted on an armored horse on a snowy battlefield. She is pale with a long black braid, angry and crying, and raising two crescent moon-shaped blades. In the background, a red eagle watches with raised wings. Cúraniel from The Soulbound Song series by C.A. Chaplin. Art by ProkaryartsLLC
October 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Reading Silver Star, Red Dragon is a holy experience after all!

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#rapture
Photo of a pile of clothes with the book “Silver Star, Red Dragon” and the caption “I guess writing weird dragon smut wasn’t too sinful after all”
September 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
cachaplin.bsky.social
Maybe I wasn’t chosen for the rapture because I’m an ex-evangelical AuDHD chaos gremlin. Maybe it’s because I married an ADHD bisexual disaster man. Maybe it’s because I support his having an occasional boyfriend.

Probably it’s the weird elf/dragon smut I write. #booksky

www.cachaplin.com/links
A pale, black-haired elf woman wearing a blue dress embraced from behind by a red dragon. Characters from “The Soulbound Song” series by C.A. Chaplin. Art by Auri. Trope map for “Silver Star, Red Dragon” by C.A. Chapin: fated mates with a twist, lyrical prose, epic world building, a pretty bi disaster MMC, a morally charcoal dragon shifter MMC, a confident curvy FMC, monster spice
September 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM