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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out now!
@eldris.thellian.com
⚔️ Indie fantasy author + mum
🐿️ Pits characters against dragons, gods, and the occasional horde of squirrels
😣 ME/CFS
🤔 Probably AuDHD
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Essex UK | she/her
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📚 Reborn in Ash: https://books.thellian.com/reborn-in-ash

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💎 A jeweller-turned-thief who discovers she can use magic

😠 A jaded mentor with a damn big reason to hate her

💰 A wealthy noble who doesn't like being told no

🔥 A fire-wielding woman who changes everything

Find Reborn in Ash at your fav retailer: books.thellian.com/reborn-in-ash

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These arrived and are so awesome! Go check out Helen’s other stuff! There are some adorable flag rep bees. Diversi-bees. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
🆕OOAK fingerless dragon-scale mitts in Stylecraft Batik Elements. Ready to buy!🛍️

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#TwoCrowsCrochet #DisabledCrafter #MHHSBD
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
My book traumatised a school friend and made her cry. 😅 Oops, not at all what I wanted Reborn in Ash to do to people. Honest. Pinky swear. 😇
November 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
6yo's school just sent an email reminding us to send our kids in if their only symptoms are a minor cough, runny nose, or sore throat.

It's taking all my willpower not to reply with, "Chronically ill parents thank you for your lack on consideration."

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November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
My mother-in-law read Reborn in Ash and has asked for a prequel novella. What does everyone else think?
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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A link to the Scrivener article, since the one going around is a screenshot, doesn't have the actual link, AND no alt-text, making it useless.

Please share this.

www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scriven...
Scrivener and AI: Why Do I See AI Prompts in My Scrivener Projects on Mac? - Literature & Latte
www.literatureandlatte.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Eryn and her mother don't get along. At all. I almost cut this exchange in Echoes of Chaos, but I couldn't bring myself to since I'd already cut the only other scene with her mother in this book. Plus it will mean so much more after people read book 3 👀

#WIPSnips #BookSky #WriteSky #SkyWriters
November 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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If you're looking for an epic SFF read, check out these 50+ books from authors who've come together to help spread the word about their work.

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November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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On this Trans Awareness Week, I wanted to shout out 2 organizations in the UK that are doing really good work for trans kids & their families and could really use donations:

Mermaids: mermaidsuk.org.uk?form=donate
&
@genderedintelligence.co.uk: localgiving.org/charity/gend...
Mermaids Website
Helping gender-diverse kids, young people and their families since 1995
mermaidsuk.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Quite proud of an little experimental piece I wrote for a writing course today. 300 words, 1 sentence.
November 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Got a shoulder to the gallbladder this morning 😩 I feel like parenting shouldn't be this hard.
November 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Parents, what on earth do you do when your child refuses to stay in bed? 7yo is too strong now to just block him leaving.
November 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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So apparently: "authors shouldn't be political," is doing the rounds again.

So let's go over this again.
• trans rights are human rights
• LGBTQ+ rights are human rights
• gay people deserve to marry and adopt
• Women's rights are humsn rights.
• Believe women
• black lives matter
November 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Excuse me? Guild Wars 1 is getting an update and CONTROLLER SUPPORT?

Well that's my december gone. Sorry, Shards of Truth, your rewrite has been delayed.

#GuildWars
November 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I wouldn't have seen the problem with the contract wording because I'm not experienced with legalese. Anyone who has or plans to sign rights contracts for fiction ought to read this.

#SkyWriters #WriteSky
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Is it ok to have characters in two books pull the same move? Ie Ada (Reborn in Ash) and Eryn (Echoes of Chaos) both bite a guard's wrist to get out of their grip. I wouldn't be so worried since they're not related books (other than the world) but they're my 1st and 2nd books
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
6-7 has finally arrived in my household 😭 At least it's less annoying / easier to ignore than "whazzzuuuuuuppp".
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Can someone please tell my gallstones to go away? And my ME/CFS? My body's already forced me to nap once today. I have stuff to do.
November 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This #WIPSnip features Darrys and Eryn from Echoes of Chaos. Darrys has been Eryn's guard since she was a baby and he's the only person she lets tease her. He's in his 50s, which is the start of a kitari's prime years - they live to 200. He's somewhere between a friend and father figure to her.

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November 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨

Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
"If I'm the sky you can't reach, then watch closely. The sky will fall for you *proceeds to kiss her*"

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH this kdrama seriously.
November 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I’m so tired today and my gallbladder hurts if I’m upright and 7yo is off school. I need to catch up on an amazing writing course in on this week and last but I just wanna watch kdrama 😭
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
My dreams are so vivid I know how it feels to see the horizon disappearing as the world ends in a wall of blue light, as I realise I’ve failed to reach my family in time. It’s years since I had that dream but I just got a flash of the dread as the image of that approaching doom returned to my mind.
November 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Strange Horizons is open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors!

The window will close after 500 stories are received.

More information: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

If you submitted in April or June, you CANNOT submit.

#fiction #shortstories #fantasy #sciencefiction #scifi
Fiction Submission Guidelines
How to submit a story to Strange Horizons.
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November 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
6yo is currently crying because 7yo deleted her horses in Minecraft. What a time to be alive.
November 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
💎 A jeweller-turned-thief who discovers she can use magic

😠 A jaded mentor with a damn big reason to hate her

💰 A wealthy noble who doesn't like being told no

🔥 A fire-wielding woman who changes everything

Find Reborn in Ash at your fav retailer: books.thellian.com/reborn-in-ash

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November 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM