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dyre.bsky.social
MY SOUL IS UP FOR SALE
@dyre.bsky.social
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Sad monster and resident coffee gremlin what writes about uncomfortable subjects and fantastical things that lurk in dark places.
|| PREORDER A PIECE OF MY SOUL: https://books2read.com/WealdandWen ||
|| Unrelated pieces here: books2read.com/AmberReinke ||
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I am laminating bookmarks today. Got the new prints and the big border is saving me from misaligned art (it is so minor but so annoying). HOWEVER... white sharpie has betrayed me and I need a new pen or, you know, I could say a drunk ghost wrote it maybe. I dunno.
four laminated and tasseled bookmarks of various characters drunken ghost writing on the back of a laminated character bookmark
December 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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#Smashwords is having an #endofyearsale on #ebooks and mine are part of it. All my #horror is up for 50% off until January.

Come get unsettled with me.

www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
eight horror short fiction covers
December 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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I have begun the silly task of learning to pngtube. Behold. A cup. She screams. There's no sound. It's not important yet.
December 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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I am done braiding threads until I know the actual number of people what need them. So you may see all the things what I made yesterday (and a couple the day before).
A mess of tassels and friendship bracelets hanging from tiny hair swords.
December 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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This is your (possibly weekly) reminder that if you pre-order(ed) my #horror #fantasy #novel #WealdandWen

From any of these places:
books2read.com/WealdandWen

You can request a free bookmark here:
forms.gle/HLDcD5UCqayL...

I promise not to share your address with the gremlins.
Custom character bookmarks sitting on a novel
December 6, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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I made more and now I am done.
December 6, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I will be doing this forever if no one stops me. I already finished what I needed but no one wanted Delgrij or Parnamyr so I must make more you understand. I... I must.
Image of four braided tassels
December 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Can't afford to give my beta readers print copies, so they're getting bookmarks and friendship bracelets. I am an adult. I do what I want. You cannot stop me.
bookmark of Mitra from Weald and Wen with a tassel made of a matching friendship bracelet
December 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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In case cover letters are the bane of your existence as well, I have this template. You can copy it from the alt-text, I think, to make it easier.

They're so boring and apparently this is on purpose, but this one's nice and short and does the job.
Submission — ‘Title’ Dear [publication submitting to], Please consider my [genre] tale, “Title" for your [publication], it is about/it follows [brief summary of story]. Thank you for reading. Sincerely, [Your Name]
December 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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I require opinions on a possible cover. I... I don't edit photos, but the shot of my eye came out so close to what I wanted I figured I'd try to just edit it into a cover instead of using it as reference like I meant to.
cover photo for a horror short entitled 'not me'
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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From #NotMe, the horror short I just drafted despite being on a break and am now revising, have some ladies on an unfortunately tragic road trip, #WIPSnips.
My girlfriend and I were on a road-trip when it happened. Long lost from childhood we were yet adventurers at heart. Or, well, she was. I'd have been content in our apartment, snuggled close and warm... safe. But she'd finished a grueling year long commission, all the art they made her churn out worth every penny they paid—a considerable amount of pennies too—and she wanted a vacation. Something outside the apartment, outside the city. While I... I was between jobs. Always. She paid for our place, our food, our bills, my everything. My sugar owned me and I wore my collar proudly. No way I wasn't going. Even if it meant driving for hours on end through nothing but flat plains and cow-speckled farmland—letting that soft little fist hit my arm whenever she spotted one and I didn't. We stopped for every silly attraction too. 'World's largest ball of' whatever. Tourist traps all, but she was paying so who was I to argue. Now, roadside motels are never great places to be but we'd been on the road almost a day straight when sleep started scratching and, well, my Lacy didn't drive. Wasn't her thing. Preferred to play passenger and lord save your eardrums you try to argue. We were about three miles from something called 'the Mystery Spot' when sleep stopped scratching and started stabbing. I had to pull over. Not right there, mind, I'd had eyes open for a place for some time but hadn't found anything I'd be willing to take a shit in let alone rest my head.
December 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Here are examples of the bookmarks you could get by pre-ordering an #ebook or #paperback copy of my soul.

Torture me by ordering a book, requesting a #bookmark, and knowing you have cursed me to cut more of these out with a tiny knife and a pair of scissors.
Bookmarks laid out on the book their characters are from, two images show them from the front and back
December 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Printed and hand cut #WealdandWen bookmarks! All of them were a tad misaligned and Delgrij about killed my hand but that's what these tests are for. They came out so pretty, I was so happy I almost cried in the middle of Office Depot.

I also made my own tassel because no local stores had tassels.
Four character bookmarks in various shapes and colors character bookmark placed in a book gold tassel dangling over a black and gold book cover Gold tassel on bookmark inside a book
December 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Finished #NotMe today! 4,268 words. I gotta revise and edit but sharing another snip to celebrate.
Where it gripped and held, chilling my cheeks with sweetly soured breath as it leaned and whispered, "Mine." Clearer, firmer the echo while all of its features sharpened outside the glass and, with the pale lie of my hands free and real, it grabbed my shoulders and opened its mouth wider, wider. And wider still... A void yawned in its throat, stretching to depths I could never know. Depths pulling me in, tugging at all that I was until I drained into whatever it was. There was a snap, loud and wet and a stabbing somewhere, my neck probably, but I couldn't gauge it as pain was everywhere and nowhere and just there. An agony too sharp and slow shoving deep and hungry into all of me. I can't remember if I screamed, but I must have tried. Can you scream without a throat? Without a voice? When the pain numbed to a dull ache I was gifted nothingness. No sight, no sound, no sensation. For a breath or two it was empty bliss before I returned to the world, sore and reeling, to stare again into my face and the odd wash that darkness made of my colors. But it was me. Right there, hunched over the sink, eyes on the glass. The mirror remained unbroken and optimist that I pretended to be I was relieved. Laughed even. It wasn't my laugh and on closer inspection, it wasn't me in the mirror either. Not quite. It was close, almost perfect, and anyone else might have seen me. I knew better.
December 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Enjoy temp covers to get your attention. I've begun sharing rough draft chapters of the vampire husbands books what I can't get edited properly to publish yet, and won't for some time. But if you wanna read these things, slowly, as I upload chapters...

reamstories.com/vampirehusba...
cover for 'Before Deluca' featuring two idiot vampire men holding each other with all of their hands. Cover for 'The Beaumont Mysteries' featuring a grey background with a set of fangs and an eye
November 30, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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As I have received the print proofs, and so can show them, here is what those look like if you wish to preorder print versions of a part of my soul.
interior of novel showing illustrations two novels, exactly the same, one face forward the other backward blurry interior shot of novel showing map
November 29, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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I appreciate that they used a picture of a supporter in a much safer to show fursuit than the Badger's. But his is worth seeing.

Site link because this is hilarious: elyonbadger.com
Photo from NYPost to show the cartoonish glory what is this man, apparently. I don't know him but he's my hero now.
Elyon Badger in furry head and marijuana leaf covered suit outdoors on a cloudy day to campaign for a U.S Congressional seat
November 29, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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My proofs came! There's nothing wrong with them and they are exactly the same despite changing the file before ordering the second one!

I AM CONCERNED

But they're pretty... and I guess I have two copies now.
image of print book interior illustration image of two identical books, one facing forward and one backward image of map illustration inside book
November 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Why are the barbarian clothes like this, #bg3, why.

If it's not weird ugly mess on chest it is crop-top. Why don't I just make him run around naked. Can I get an intimidation bonus if I do that? I should.
BG3 custom character Deluca in an outfit he clearly did not make himself, because he's the son of textile craftsmen and merchants. He would burn this monstrosity of leather and glowing stones in a fire. BG3 custom character Deluca wondering why his armor has a crop-top. Why, Larian, why. It's the best looking barbarian option too and was replaced shortly by the glowing monstrosity. BG3 custom character Deluca is curious why I put him in armor that looks like a giant made of bones threw up on it... and then I dyed it red so now it looks like he has massive red chest hair. I have no answer for him beyond 'the states were good'.
November 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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As I am going to be writing this again after the holiday of glut and monching, I share bits of #notme
It was the middle of the night when nature called. Simple thing, right. Do it every night. Never looked at the mirror before though. No idea why I did then, maybe the eyes were off, a glint where there shouldn't have been. Whatever it was, I looked.  It was me. At first. Then it wasn't. Those eyes were bright in the dark and my lips were stretched too wide, showing gums I'd never smiled wide enough to see. My teeth weren't mine in that smile. Too thin and tall and shining. "Mine," the face cooed with the reflection of my mouth if not my voice. No, that voice were echoed and rasping but I didn't have the breath to argue. It took it. While my arms kept latched to the sink, feet glued to the tiles and eyes stuck to a face becoming less and less mine it took all of me. Pale as paper it faded, stealing all my color as it grew closer and closer and I shook. Sweat and tears blended in salted agony in the reflection of my eyes but I couldn't blink them clear. Couldn't do more than breathe in short bursts, gasping, drowning. Fear doesn't cover what that face filled me with. What it soaked me in as it breached the surface all wrinkles and dry, cracking skin pressing too easily toward me. So easily, as if the mirror were a veil of silk instead of glass. "Mine," it said again. Clearer, closer, firmer as all of its features sharpened real and there as it grabbed my shoulders and opened its mouth wider and wider.
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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I was looking at old designs for #WealdandWen and found something cursed so I'm making you look at victorian twink Delgrij now. The silhouettes are most recent(two years old), just for scale but it shows their current designs well enough.

Don't ask about the purple haired lady, she's not important.
Size charts and art comparison of various characters silhouettes of various characters
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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MY KINGDOM FOR AN EDIT BUTTON...ahem.

Someone's eyes weren't showing up and her shadow was staring out its own back.
bookmark design for Faerai and Ozma of Weald and Wen
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Okay -now- the bookmarks are done...

I had to adjust Faerai's a bit. Her eyes weren't popping and Ozma's eyes were showing through its back. Also color. She's very vibrant and the other one wasn't vibrant enough. >.>
Bookmark design of Faerai and Ozma of Weald and Wen
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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All four, because why not.

Reminder, these are preorder gifts for this thing here:
books2read.com/WealdandWen

If you preorder the trauma monsters, go pick a bookmark here:
forms.gle/w6WXEMsb6iDB...
Bookmark of Parnamyr reaching for you from inside his tower Bookmark of Faerai and Ozma Bookmark f Delgrij beckoning you into a tree Bookmark of Mitra losing all her treats
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Done! Perhaps. You tell me, my eyes hurt.
#WealdandWen bookmarks be done if it is though.
Bookmark art of Parnamyr reaching out of his tower for you.
November 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM