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Kiera Renee
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Artist | Reader | Fantasy Writer | Mermaid Enthusiast
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Kiera Renee @inkfishmermaid.bsky.social · Sep 21
Hi, I'm Kiera Renee, author of A Sea of Song and Silence, an upcoming fantasy novel about a silenced mermaid who must reclaim her magical voice to rescue her sister and stop a war between land and sea with the help of a cursed human prince and the son of a sea witch.

#amquerying #pitch
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It's Tuesday Reviews Day, when I review Mermaid Books (also Selkies, Sirens, & Sea Nymphs)

🧜‍♀️📖🧜‍♂️ #booksky #mermaid

THINGS IN JARS by Jess Kidd
In which a lady-detective in Victorian London must track down a stolen child who may or may not be a mermaid.
Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
In which a lady-detective in Victorian London must track down a stolen child who may or may not be a mermaid.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Mermaid Yuna based off the unused concept art in Final Fantasy X-2 Ultimania Omega

#mermaid #art
Yuna from Final Fantasy X-2 as a mermaid, based off of an unused concept design from the Ultimania Omega. Brown hair, blue tail striped with ribbons that show her legs underneath. She wears a complex and visually busy outfit of red, white, blue, and yellow. She has two pale blue wings in her hair.
October 31, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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It's Tuesday Reviews Day, where every week I review a Mermaid Book (also Selkies, Sirens, & Sea Nymphs)

🧜‍♀️📖🧜‍♂️ #booksky #mermaid

WATER WISHES: BOUND BY TIDES by Freya Aguiar
In which a teen runs away from home to find her hidden oceanic heritage and learns more than she bargained for.
Water Wishes: Bound by Tides by Freya Aguiar
In which a teen runs away from home to find her hidden oceanic heritage and learns more than she bargained for.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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It's Tuesday Reviews Day, where every week I review a Mermaid Book (also Selkies, Sirens, & Sea Nymphs)

🧜‍♀️📖🧜‍♂️ #booksky #mermaid

A DUET WITH THE SIREN DUKE by Elise Kova
In which a woman strikes a bargain with a siren to escape her cruel husband, only to be made the sacrifice to a god.
A Duet With the Siren Duke by Elise Kova
In which a woman strikes a bargain with a siren to escape her cruel husband, only to be made the sacrifice to a god.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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It's Tuesday Reviews Day, where every week I review a Mermaid Book (also Selkies, Sirens, & Sea Nymphs)

🧜‍♀️📖🧜‍♂️ #booksky #mermaid

AMERICAN MERMAID by Julia Langbein
In which an author struggles not to lose the plot in both fiction and reality after selling the film rights to her book.
American Mermaid by Julia Langbein
In which an author struggles not to lose the plot in both fiction and reality after selling the film rights to her book.
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October 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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For anyone looking for their next mermaid book to read, I regularly read and review them on my Substack. New Reviews posted on Tuesdays.

I also post monthly updates on my quest to get my own mermaid book published.

#writersky #booksky #bookreview #mermaidbook #mermaid #substack
Kiera Renee | Substack
I’m a queer neurodivergent former freelance editor from the California Bay Area with a love for the sea as deep as its trenches. When I’m not busy reading or writing, you can find me happily swimming ...
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October 9, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Friendly reminders for my DVpit peeps 🙋‍♀️

1. Don’t forget to double check your hashtags!
2. Don’t like or repost anyone’s post so you don’t accidentally get someone’s hopes up ❤️

Show everyone love in their comments! #DVparty
October 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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#DVParty Day 5: Theme Song🎶

🧜‍♀️A Sea of Song and Silence🧜‍♀️

Featuring a complicated and devastating Love Square rife with forbidden romance, friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, political danger, and looming war, the consequences of falling in love could be dire.

#F #YA #LGBT #mermaid
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game (Violet Orlandi COVER)
YouTube video by Violet Orlandi
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October 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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#DVparty Day 2: Introduce Your MCs

Mirana, Connor, Nerissa, & Lyrgos

🧜‍♀️A mermaid who longs for freedom, shackled by silence.
👑A prince who yearns for connection, stifled by grief.
📜A scholar who strives for wisdom, mired in fear.
✨A sorcerer who craves excitement, bound by law.

#YA #F #mermaid
Art by Kiera Renee (me) Four character profiles, framed by bubbles. From left to right: Mirana. Snow-white mermaid with black eyes, wistful expression. Connor. Pale freckled man with short curly red hair and sky blue eyes, pensive expression. Nerissa. Snow-white mermaid with black eyes, fretful expression. Lyrgos. Black merman with long black locs and glowing green eyes, mysterious expression.
October 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Mirana and Lyrgos from A Sea of Song and Silence

“No matter what you decide, I’ll support you, whether it be alone from the shadows of the sea or together by your side. You have to know your pursuit of peace is worth everything. Even us.” - Lyrgos

#DVparty #YA #F #LGBT #mermaid
Art by Kiera Renee (me) A black merman with long black locs, glowing green eyes, and aubergine scales holds and kisses a snow-white mermaid with seafoam hair and scales.
October 3, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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A Sea of Song and Silence

Lyrgos of the Afgrond Deep, Love Interest

A flirtatious Deep Dweller with a penchant for storytelling. He aims to become a legendary sorcerer, and teaching Mirana to harness her long disused powers might be his ticket to achieving just that.

#DVparty #YA #F #LGBT #merman
Art by Kiera Renee (Me) A black merman with glowing green eyes and long black locs. Green photophores stripe his arms and torso. He has a long dark purple tail with white speckles and paler dark purple fins styled after an angler fish.
October 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Art for A Sea of Song and Silence

THE LITTLE MERMAID x WARBREAKER
When the sea demands silence, the only choice is to sing...

🧜‍♀️ Mermaids & Selkies
🎶Music & Color Based Magic
💖Forbidden Romance
♊Twin Sisters
☠️Deadly Curses
🌊Underwater Adventure
🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ+ Rep

#DVparty #YA #F #LGBT #mermaid
Art by Kiera Renee (me) Profiles of four people: A black merman with long black locs and glowing green eyes. His hand holds a glowing green magic orb. A pale man with short curly red hair and sky blue eyes. Two snow white women with show white hair and black eyes facing in opposite directions. One has a glowing orb of golden magic at her throat. The four are encircled by music notes.
October 3, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Moodboard for A Sea of Song and Silence

THE LITTLE MERMAID x WARBREAKER
When the sea demands silence, the only choice is to sing...

🧜‍♀️ Mermaids & Selkies
🎶Music & Color Based Magic
💖Forbidden Romance
♊Twin Sisters
☠️Deadly Curses
🌊Underwater Adventure
🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ+ Rep

#DVparty #YA #F #LGBT
Text: The Sea is Calling. WILL YOU ANSWER? Images Clockwise from upper left corner: A crumbling castle on a cliff side overlooking the sea A skerry battered by waves A man running in the surf at sunset A reef in shallow water A dark purple mermaid fin with glowing tendrils A glowing deep water reef A silhouette of a man and woman in the sea at sunset The sea at sunset
October 3, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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#preDV is tomorrow, MONDAY, September 29, 2025 from 8AM to 8PM Eastern Time!
Marginalized Creators join us to practice your pitches for #DVpit, get feedback from agented authors, give each other feedback & encouragement!
Make friends, polish your pitches & get excited for #DVpit! #writersky #booksky
#preDV September 19th, 2025 8AM - 8PM ET Join us for our practice event, #preDV on Bluesky! Come with your best pitches and receive feedback from agented authors. All participants are welcome to also give feedback and make friends during the community event before October 8th's #DVpit. More info at dvpit.carrd.co
September 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Mirana and Connor, the protagonists from my novel, A Sea of Song and Silence.

#AmQuerying #mermaid #mermaidart #mermaidbook
A pale pastel mermaid with white hair, skin, and fins wearing lavender sashes. She holds the hand of a man with short red hair. His wet shirt is unbuttoned. He looks at her lovingly as she looks away toward the water.
September 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Lyrgos of the Afgrond Deep, from my novel A Sea of Song and Silence.

A flirtatious Deep Dweller with a penchant for storytelling. He aims to become a legendary sorcerer, and teaching Mirana to harness her long disused powers might be his ticket to achieving just that.

#mermaid #merman #amquerying
A black merman with glowing green eyes and long black locs. Green photophores stripe his arms and torso. He has a long dark purple tail with white speckles and paler dark purple fins styled after an angler fish.
September 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Amethyst Mermaid (Original Art)

#mermaid #mermaidart
A pale mermaid with short black hair and a pale lavender tail and large frilled lavender fins dances against a lavender backdrop. Her eyes are closed.
September 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Fire Coral Mermaid (Original Art)

#mermaid #mermaidart
A tan mermaid with bright green eyes and shoulder length honey brown hair smiles playfully. She wears a frilly orange top. Her tail is dark orange, with frilly bright orange fins. She swims above a field of bright orange corals.
September 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Kelp Mermaid (Original Art)

#mermaid #mermaidart
A mermaid with long honey brown hair and an olive green tail swims gracefully through a field of kelp stalks. She wears long strands of pearls behind her ears and a faded brown shell bra connected with a starfish.
September 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Lu from Lu Over the Wall

#mermaid #luoverthewall #mermaidart #fanart
Lu from the anime film Lu Over the Wall swims in dark green waters. Her hair is made of paler blue water, with small yellow-green fish swimming in it. Her big brown eyes are playful. She wears a thick strip of kelp across her chest. Her tail and arms are pink.
September 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Mermista from She-Ra: Princess of Power

#mermaid #mermista #mermaidart #she-ra #he-man #fanart
Mermista from the original 80s animation She-Ra: Princess of Power sits on a rock protruding from the sea. She has long blue hair and a pale blue tail that color shifts into a pale teal fin. She wears a green pendant and green armor shaped like shells.
September 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Mutio from Blue Submarine No. 6

#mermaid #mermaidart #fanart #mutio #bluesubmarineno6
Mutio, a genetically altered mermaid from the anime Blue Submarine No. 6. She has short white hair, a red, white, and black crest on top of her head, pointed ears, orange eyes, and yellow skin with black markings. She has two pink protrusions on her chest, and diaphanous fins growing from her arms and legs. Others of her kind swim in the distance behind her.
September 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Obeaune from Ragnarok Online

#mermaid #mermaidart #fanart #ragnarokonline #obeaune
A monstrous pink mermaid with a pale yellow segmented tail. Her long scraggly pink hair swirls above her like tangled seaweed. Her long webbed claws grasp at the silt beneath her. Her glowing white eyes stare hungrily.
September 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Mermaid Sailor Neptune from Sailor Moon

#mermaid #fanart #mermaidart #sailorneptune #sailormoon
Sailor Neptune from Sailor Moon reimagined as a mermaid. She has shoulder length wavy teal hair and a teal tail with navy fins. She wears a swimsuit cut of her sailor uniform. Planet Neptune floats behind her.
September 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Xeno-mer-ph (Xenomorph Mermaid) from Alien franchise

#mermaid #mermaidart #alienmermaid #alienearth #fanart
A frightening Xenomorph from the Alien franchise, depicted as a spike-tailed mermaid monster swimming through a sea of stars.
September 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM