M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves
@mverant.com
Fantasy novelist, writer, SFWA, techie, liberal, musicophile. If your big complaint about Jane Austen is too few dragons, I write for you. mverant.com
I'm warming up for my next writing project by reading books with similar age protagonists. I just finished Shut Up, This Is Serious, a YA book (not speculative) by Oakland author Carolina Ixta. I started just curious about the voice, but I read the whole thing! Great book 🎉 amzn.to/4pGHgF6
Shut Up, This Is Serious
Amazon.com: Shut Up, This Is Serious eBook : Ixta, Carolina: Kindle Store
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November 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I'm warming up for my next writing project by reading books with similar age protagonists. I just finished Shut Up, This Is Serious, a YA book (not speculative) by Oakland author Carolina Ixta. I started just curious about the voice, but I read the whole thing! Great book 🎉 amzn.to/4pGHgF6
Two days left in the Miss Bennet's Dragon 0.99 sale (US/UK) geni.us/MBD-bsky Wish I had scored the coveted BookBub US Featured Deal promo, but running this new ad which is performing well, so it's all good 😀
November 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Two days left in the Miss Bennet's Dragon 0.99 sale (US/UK) geni.us/MBD-bsky Wish I had scored the coveted BookBub US Featured Deal promo, but running this new ad which is performing well, so it's all good 😀
I am finally reading Cloud Atlas
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I am finally reading Cloud Atlas
Author, are your queries summarily rejected? I have discovered the cause! Agents are busy signing characters from the comics. This is the third one this year
October 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Author, are your queries summarily rejected? I have discovered the cause! Agents are busy signing characters from the comics. This is the third one this year
Check out this very cool kickstarter by @jcsnow.bsky.social queer high fantasy and great art! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jcs...
The Seaglass Blade: Queer High Fantasy Exclusive Hardcover
Dragons, phoenixes, and a found family in danger: an epic sapphic fantasy of lovers defending a home at the end of the world.
www.kickstarter.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Check out this very cool kickstarter by @jcsnow.bsky.social queer high fantasy and great art! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jcs...
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Another on-point marketing/web team.
I absolutely adore the 404 page for the @financialtimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Another on-point marketing/web team.
New #ARC for interested #booksky readers:
o Releasing November 6
o Multi POV fantasy + romance, straight & queer
o Noblebright (intense but not dark)
o Gaslamp + Dragons
o Completes a trilogy
ARCs via #NetGalley www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
o Releasing November 6
o Multi POV fantasy + romance, straight & queer
o Noblebright (intense but not dark)
o Gaslamp + Dragons
o Completes a trilogy
ARCs via #NetGalley www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
September 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
New #ARC for interested #booksky readers:
o Releasing November 6
o Multi POV fantasy + romance, straight & queer
o Noblebright (intense but not dark)
o Gaslamp + Dragons
o Completes a trilogy
ARCs via #NetGalley www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
o Releasing November 6
o Multi POV fantasy + romance, straight & queer
o Noblebright (intense but not dark)
o Gaslamp + Dragons
o Completes a trilogy
ARCs via #NetGalley www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
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Time to reuse some buttons and lace, and of course denim #embroidery #handembroidery #broderie #upcycling
September 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Time to reuse some buttons and lace, and of course denim #embroidery #handembroidery #broderie #upcycling
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I MEAN, this company - !!! 😍🦇
I've got jokes AND I've got recs!
@stephanieburgis.bsky.social , @rebeccayarros.bsky.social, @isabelcanas.bsky.social and Ali Hazelwood, of course.
@stephanieburgis.bsky.social , @rebeccayarros.bsky.social, @isabelcanas.bsky.social and Ali Hazelwood, of course.
September 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I MEAN, this company - !!! 😍🦇
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#BookRelease #BookLaunch #NewBook
Haunting Netherfield
Star-crossed lovers whisper in the halls of Netherfield, seeking a path to the other side.
#Ghosts #MrDarcy #PrideAndPrejudice #Regency #Romance #Romancelandia #KindleUnlimited #Books 📚💙
mybook.to/HauntNether
Haunting Netherfield
Star-crossed lovers whisper in the halls of Netherfield, seeking a path to the other side.
#Ghosts #MrDarcy #PrideAndPrejudice #Regency #Romance #Romancelandia #KindleUnlimited #Books 📚💙
mybook.to/HauntNether
September 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM
#BookRelease #BookLaunch #NewBook
Haunting Netherfield
Star-crossed lovers whisper in the halls of Netherfield, seeking a path to the other side.
#Ghosts #MrDarcy #PrideAndPrejudice #Regency #Romance #Romancelandia #KindleUnlimited #Books 📚💙
mybook.to/HauntNether
Haunting Netherfield
Star-crossed lovers whisper in the halls of Netherfield, seeking a path to the other side.
#Ghosts #MrDarcy #PrideAndPrejudice #Regency #Romance #Romancelandia #KindleUnlimited #Books 📚💙
mybook.to/HauntNether
Book 3 is on it's way! DRAGONS OF THE GREAT WYVES launch day is November 6 🎉The ebook is up for preorder already geni.us/DGW-kindle
Dragons of the Great Wyves: Fire and Song (Jane Austen Fantasy Book 3)
Amazon.com: Dragons of the Great Wyves: Fire and Song (Jane Austen Fantasy Book 3) eBook : Verant, M.: Kindle Store
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September 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Book 3 is on it's way! DRAGONS OF THE GREAT WYVES launch day is November 6 🎉The ebook is up for preorder already geni.us/DGW-kindle
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September 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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The Only Constant is Change
Have you heard the phrase "The only constant is change?" It's true, especially in publishing. Trends change, and you have to go with it. And that's why the entire Blood of the Raven series is getting new covers to celebrate the release of book three! Wait, what? Didn't…
Have you heard the phrase "The only constant is change?" It's true, especially in publishing. Trends change, and you have to go with it. And that's why the entire Blood of the Raven series is getting new covers to celebrate the release of book three! Wait, what? Didn't…
The Only Constant is Change
Have you heard the phrase "The only constant is change?" It's true, especially in publishing. Trends change, and you have to go with it. And that's why the entire Blood of the Raven series is getting new covers to celebrate the release of book three! Wait, what? Didn't book 2 just come out a few months ago? Yes, yes it did. And yes, I do love that cover. But it appears that the cover art trend is shifting, and that shiny new cover is already dated. So... shiny new covers! AND...
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September 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The Only Constant is Change
Have you heard the phrase "The only constant is change?" It's true, especially in publishing. Trends change, and you have to go with it. And that's why the entire Blood of the Raven series is getting new covers to celebrate the release of book three! Wait, what? Didn't…
Have you heard the phrase "The only constant is change?" It's true, especially in publishing. Trends change, and you have to go with it. And that's why the entire Blood of the Raven series is getting new covers to celebrate the release of book three! Wait, what? Didn't…
Need your AI to go stark raving bonkers in your next story? Let us count the ways... www.livescience.com/technology/a...
There are 32 different ways AI can go rogue, scientists say — from hallucinating answers to a complete misalignment with humanity
New research has created the first comprehensive effort to categorize all the ways AI can go wrong, with many of those behaviors resembling human psychiatric disorders.
www.livescience.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Need your AI to go stark raving bonkers in your next story? Let us count the ways... www.livescience.com/technology/a...
I'm out of ISBN numbers. Time to pay tribute $$$ to the Bowker shakedown of US publishing. Hmm
- $295 for 10. That'll last 6 years.
- $595 for 100 so I never, ever have to fork out these ridiculous prices again.
(Peers longingly north at Canada: free ISBNs + health care + a non-fascist government🍁)
- $295 for 10. That'll last 6 years.
- $595 for 100 so I never, ever have to fork out these ridiculous prices again.
(Peers longingly north at Canada: free ISBNs + health care + a non-fascist government🍁)
August 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I'm out of ISBN numbers. Time to pay tribute $$$ to the Bowker shakedown of US publishing. Hmm
- $295 for 10. That'll last 6 years.
- $595 for 100 so I never, ever have to fork out these ridiculous prices again.
(Peers longingly north at Canada: free ISBNs + health care + a non-fascist government🍁)
- $295 for 10. That'll last 6 years.
- $595 for 100 so I never, ever have to fork out these ridiculous prices again.
(Peers longingly north at Canada: free ISBNs + health care + a non-fascist government🍁)
The cover artist is working on book 3 cover, so I'm officially switching from writing to launch planning. Just roughed out the launch timeline. Egad, 75 items on it already!
August 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The cover artist is working on book 3 cover, so I'm officially switching from writing to launch planning. Just roughed out the launch timeline. Egad, 75 items on it already!
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It's cover reveal day for The Seaglass Blade!
Much gratitude to @alawinans.bsky.social for this incredible artwork. It captured so much of the feel and themes of the book (and it's just flat out gorgeous so I love to look at it!)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jcs...
Much gratitude to @alawinans.bsky.social for this incredible artwork. It captured so much of the feel and themes of the book (and it's just flat out gorgeous so I love to look at it!)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jcs...
August 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
It's cover reveal day for The Seaglass Blade!
Much gratitude to @alawinans.bsky.social for this incredible artwork. It captured so much of the feel and themes of the book (and it's just flat out gorgeous so I love to look at it!)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jcs...
Much gratitude to @alawinans.bsky.social for this incredible artwork. It captured so much of the feel and themes of the book (and it's just flat out gorgeous so I love to look at it!)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jcs...
I really like NetGalley's new consumer site Booktrovert. But when gmail users with Enhanced Safe Browsing enabled click a book link, they get this error. Time to update to https, perhaps? :) @booktrovertcom.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I really like NetGalley's new consumer site Booktrovert. But when gmail users with Enhanced Safe Browsing enabled click a book link, they get this error. Time to update to https, perhaps? :) @booktrovertcom.bsky.social
I just realized that Wednesday = Daria
August 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I just realized that Wednesday = Daria
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Always liked how early the Royal Navy started down its path of giving its most lethal warships embarrassing names.
Nothing worse than discovering you've just had the crap kicked out of you, in naval terms, by the "Peter Pomegranate"
Nothing worse than discovering you've just had the crap kicked out of you, in naval terms, by the "Peter Pomegranate"
In 1511, £142 4s 6d (about £132,700 in modern money) was spent on supplies "for painting and staining of certain banners and streamers for the use of our ships called the Mary Rose and Peter Pomegranate"
August 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Always liked how early the Royal Navy started down its path of giving its most lethal warships embarrassing names.
Nothing worse than discovering you've just had the crap kicked out of you, in naval terms, by the "Peter Pomegranate"
Nothing worse than discovering you've just had the crap kicked out of you, in naval terms, by the "Peter Pomegranate"
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I want to give a shout out to an online writing critique group that I've been a part of since 2018: The group is welcoming and open to diversity in all its myriad forms. Check it out at www.meetup.com/east-bay-sci... !
East Bay Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers | Meetup
Welcome to EBSFFW! The group is open to anyone 18 years old or older who is writing in the genre or who enjoys it enough to read other people's writing and provide serious and supportive critique. Wha...
www.meetup.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I want to give a shout out to an online writing critique group that I've been a part of since 2018: The group is welcoming and open to diversity in all its myriad forms. Check it out at www.meetup.com/east-bay-sci... !
I woke up to wonderful news: Miss Bennet's Dragon has advanced to the semi-final round of @bbnya.bsky.social 2025! We got the new cover just in time 😅
This is turning into a big year! Jane Austen's 250th birthday is on Dec 16th, and book 3, DRAGONS OF THE GREAT WYVES, will be out... November?
This is turning into a big year! Jane Austen's 250th birthday is on Dec 16th, and book 3, DRAGONS OF THE GREAT WYVES, will be out... November?
July 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I woke up to wonderful news: Miss Bennet's Dragon has advanced to the semi-final round of @bbnya.bsky.social 2025! We got the new cover just in time 😅
This is turning into a big year! Jane Austen's 250th birthday is on Dec 16th, and book 3, DRAGONS OF THE GREAT WYVES, will be out... November?
This is turning into a big year! Jane Austen's 250th birthday is on Dec 16th, and book 3, DRAGONS OF THE GREAT WYVES, will be out... November?