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Dan Birk Author
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YA Fantasy Author 📚
Medieval Dark Academia 🏰
Magic, Monsters & Forbidden Romance in 13th Century Paris 🔮 Fantasy Writing Updates & Tips 📝
https://www.danbirkauthor.com
The third factor in what makes a work high fantasy or low fantasy, after setting and tone, is scope. What do I mean by scope, and how do high and low fantasy differ in scope?
April 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Yesterday, I posted about setting in high and low fantasy. Today, let's talk about tone...
April 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
There's been some discussion recently about the difference between "high" fantasy and "low" fantasy. CW is that low fantasy takes place on earth and high fantasy takes place in a different world. But that's an oversimplification.
April 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Howl's Moving Castle X Lemony Snicket
📚☕️ A cosy, magical middle-grade adventure:
The Amazing, Travelling ZOOLINGUISTORIUM #PosterPit #PosterPitW #MG #F #Whimsical #Adventure
April 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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PRIDE & PREJUDICE x THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR

Cryptographer Georgiana must time travel to reverse her ruined reputation and regain the fiancé she lost—but when she meets time-traveler Joshua, she wonders if finding love in the past is worth the risk.

#YA #F #HF #PosterPitQ #PosterPit
April 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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SE7EN x THE WAILING x GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO x INCANTATION

A Hongkonger Taoist demon and a British Christian exorcist hunt a ghostly killer inspired by Buddhism’s five poisons.

#PosterPitW #PosterPit #H #A 💙📚 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #horror #agentsguide #asian #writing #OwnVoices
April 19, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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A poster for “Mark of a Magpie”! 📖🐦‍⬛

When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows?

#Q #YA #NA #F #R #Dis
#PosterPitQ #PosterPit #amquerying
April 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Coming to query inboxes July 2025 🏴‍☠️👑🧜🏿‍♀️

#posterpit #posterpitw #YA #F #LGBT #amediting
April 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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An introduction to my Hawaiian-inspired, young adult fantasy.

“Maia must unravel a lifetime worth of secrets to understand the dangers that lurk around the corner—and she must do so before it’s too late.”

#PosterPit #PosterPitW #YA #F #OwnVoices
April 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM
1. “Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.”
- The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
The opening line to Pullman's His Dark Materials series creates the perfect mixture of tension, curiosity and expectation.
March 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
“How would it feel, she wondered, to burn with a love so pure that even a soul as tarnished as his could be cleansed by it?”

Aalise, the heroine of my WIP, is reflecting here on Héloïse’s love for Pierre Abélard, history’s most famous forbidden romance. #MedievalMonday 1/5
March 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The best way for me to jumpstart my creative process in the morning is to take my dog for a long walk. Nothing in my ears and nothing on my mind. When I come back, I'm energized to start writing and often have planned out the next scenes or solved tricky narrative knots.
March 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The secret life of a fantasy writer—equal parts historian, linguist, and occultist. Here’s what’s on deck for the weekend. #YAFantasy #HistoricalFantasy #AmResearching #TheParisianSorcerersGuild
March 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
🧵6 Books That Shaped My Fantasy Writing Journey

Every fantasy writer has those magical books that made them think “I want to create worlds like these.” On #WritingWednesday, I’m listing some of mine 1/8
March 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
🧵 The Latin Quarter of Paris wasn’t always the romantic district of cafés and bookshops we know today. On #medievalmonday, let’s step into the Quarter's past and learn how it got its name... (1/5)
March 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The University of Paris, 1228 AD.

Some students seek wisdom. Others, romance.

But a few hunt something far more dangerous.

#TheParisianSorcerersGuild #YAFantasy #DarkAcademia #MedievalMagic #ComingSoon #WIP #HistoricalFantasy #ForbiddenRomance
March 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM