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Eli Donovan
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Author of adventurous SFF, usually with kissing. Hopeful romantic. Dino geek. https://linktr.ee/writerelidonovan
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I'm still taking Late Pledges on KS for Time Traitors if you missed the live campaign. It is not too late to get the special edition and all the other extra goodies that we unlocked for backers.

But don't dawdle! I'll be closing Late Pledges soon. 🦖🦕

www.kickstarter.com/projects/eli...
A promo banner that includes left to right a roaring carnotaurus, the words "Last Chance Time Traitors Special Edition" and then a picture of the Special Edition hardcover of Time Traitors by Eli Donovan which includes green sprayed edges on the pages of the book.
August 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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The Kickstarter for the Special Edition of Time Traitors has unlocked THREE of the Stretch Goals so far and one of those is a free digital copy of the novelette told from my MMC's POV. If you back the KS *at any amount* you get the novellette for free! www.kickstarter.com/projects/eli...
Graphic with text "Back the Time Traitors Special Edition on Kickstarter" and the book Time Traitors with the text "Order This" and then an arrow pointing to "Get this one for free" and the book Time Traitor Files: Agent Nakamura underneath. You order Time Traitors on Kickstarter then you get the novelette.
July 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Now we're working to unlock digital coloring pages for all my backers on the Time Traitors Hardcover Special Edition. Don't miss out on the goodies! Get your copy today!
July 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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My Kickstarter for a Special Edition of Time Traitors continues to chug along. We funded the first day! And we've already unlocked the first stretch goal! EVERY backer of the campaign will receive a free copy of a story featuring my hero Ben.
July 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Fully funded in under 8 hours!!! Not a bad way to end the first day of my first Kickstarter. 😱😍🦖
Screenshot of the Kickstarter campaign banner for a Special Edition of Time Traitors by Eli Donovan. Includes an illustration of a carnotaurus and a mockup of a paperback copy of Time Traitors. Text at the bottom reads "20 days left. 113% funded."
July 8, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Do you like a side of witty banter and romantic tension with your adventure stories? Do you like beautiful illustrations and other deluxe additions to your books? Check out the Special Edition Kickstarter of my novel TIME TRAITORS.
A trope tile listing tropes in the novel Time Traitors by Eli Donovan. A dinosaur playfully perches on top of the book cover. Listed tropes are: Jurassic Park vibes, Romantic Action Adventure, Scientist Heroine, No Spice, Smartass Hero (he falls first), Witty Banter!!, and Time Travel shenanigans.
July 1, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Hello fellow dinosaur fans! I have discovered the most adorable thing: a Kickstarter book campaign for "Sapphic Bridgerton x Jurassic Park". There are cozy cute velociraptors. The campaign is for a special edition and the art looks AMAZING. Damsels & Dinosaurs by Wren Jones, check it out!
Banner image of the Trope list for Damsels & Dinosaurs by Wren Jones. Includes "Cozy dinosaurs", "Clever Girls," "Fake Relationships" and more!
June 26, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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My kiddo did a scene from Illuminations by @tkingfisher.com for his diorama book report. Includes Payne the crow AND the Scarling. Lots of work but fun. ^_^

(Also can't see it very well but he drew the Cat with Blue Eyes Illumination inside the cabinet.)
A child's book report diorama in a small cardboard box. It depicts a kitchen scene with cabinets made of cardboard and tiled walls done in crayon. The top of the cabinets has a row of decorative plates and there is a large box in the corner of the floor with chains wrapped around it. A white, carrot-shaped creature stands atop the box. The Scarling from Illuminations by T. Kingfisher. On the kitchen counter a crow stands over a shiny spoon made of aluminum foil.
March 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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20 DAY BOOK CHALLENGE

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 8/20

#BookSky 💙📚
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#booklovers
#romancebooks
#romancelandia
Cover of C.L. Polk's novel Midnight Bargain. Cover is mostly dark green with a light floral pattern. A compass-looking shape is in the center of the cover with delicate pink flowers around the edge.
March 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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20 DAY BOOK CHALLENGE

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 7/20

#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
#booklovers
#romancebooks
#romancelandia
Weathered paperback cover for the romance novel Again by Kathleen Gilles Seidel. Author name and title are in raised gold font. A blue curtain dominates the cover with the silhouette of a man and woman just about to kiss in the background. In the foreground is a bouquet of lilies on a table.
March 4, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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20 DAY BOOK CHALLENGE

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 6/20

#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
#booklovers
#romancebooks
#romancelandia
Cover image for Shannon Stacey's novel Exclusively Yours. Contemporary romance. A woman and man recline together atop a red car. She's on top of the man, looking a little hesitant but happy, while he grins with his arms around her.
February 19, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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#FridayKiss ‘squeeze' from my Swan Lake retelling "The Swan's Prince". buy.bookfunnel.com/t8mmcqflfv
text on white background: "He squeezed her fingers. “If we’d met at a ball I’d probably already have asked to–that is, I would’ve been courting you as soon as I could if your father would’ve allowed it. Which, that’s another thing…the whole your father wanting to murder me must complicate matters, but…well.”
February 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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20 DAY BOOK CHALLENGE

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 5/20

#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
#booklovers
#romancebooks
#romancelandia
Cover for Jennifer Crusie's novel Faking It. Cover is bright yellow with just a bit of a woman's shoulder, hair and face showing. She's wearing a polka dot yellow scarf and has a 20s style black bob.
February 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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20 DAY BOOK CHALLENGE

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 4/20

#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
#booklovers
#sciencefictionbooks
#romancebooks
Cover for Lois McMaster Bujold's omnibus of the first two books in her Vorkosigan series. Cover features a woman with red hair in an old-fashioned green dress sitting on a throne. A man in an old-fashioned uniform with a high collar stands behind the throne. Two hands holding a sword are at the bottom corner of the cover.
February 14, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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My kiddo's birthday is tomorrow and I did homemade crayons. Something so satisfying when they turn out this well. #nailedit 😁

Popping them out of the molds is very fun as well.
Picture of 4 crayons in the shape of Star wars items: A black darth Vader, a green boba Fett helmet, a white and black stormtrooper helmet, and a multicolored millennium falcon in red and orange tones.
February 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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20 DAY BOOK CHALLENGE

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 3/20

#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
#booklovers
#sciencefictionbooks
Cover for Mira Grant's novel Into the Drowning Deep. Moody black cover with a person being pulled downward in the water, hands reaching upward and a splash of blood floating toward the top.
February 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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20 DAY BOOK CHALLENGE

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 2/20

#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
#romancelandia
#romancereads
#booklovers
Cover of Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park. A white background with a black t-rex skeleton in silhouette.
February 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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20 DAY BOOK CHALLENGE

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 1/20

#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
#romancelandia
#romancereads
#booklovers
Cover for Spindle's End by Robin McKinley. A manor house with a border of bright green leaves with various woodland animals peaking out from the foliage.
February 6, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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My #FridayKiss entry from my sci-fi romance I'm currently querying DEFY THE STARS.

#Romancelandia #brave
If she sent him away now, without ever acting on their attraction, or even talking about their feelings, was that really better? Would it really hurt less to leave everything unspoken between them? She didn’t know. She was the Queen of the Ring, a fearsome warrior, a champion in combat, and yet she wasn’t quite brave enough to cross that long expanse of carpet to his room and find out.
January 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Time Traitors by Eli Donovan (me), a book for every child of the 90s who just *really* wanted Grant and Ellie to kiss in Jurassic Park, dammit.
January 15, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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When poachers attack her research station, Grace must partner with the (sexy) smart-mouthed time agent Ben Nakamura in a perilous trek through dinosaur-filled woods to reach a backup time machine...And much banter, adventure & a little bit of time travel shenanigans ensue.
Digital drawing of a handsome Asian man in a tank top holding a gun.
January 15, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Dr. Grace Carson is a paleobiologist working 65 million years in the past studying dinosaurs in their natural habitat. A past scandal endangered her career & now she's determined to keep her head down and stay out of trouble. But fate, and some unscrupulous poachers, have different plans.
Digital art of a pretty woman in her mid-30s, red hair with green eyes, athletic, wearing tank top and holding a long gun.
January 15, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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If any book is a "Book of my Heart" it's this one. My premise when I was writing was to create Jurassic Park meets Romancing the Stone. There's a mysterious but sexy time agent, zippy banter, lots of action and LOTS of dinosaurs trying to eat everyone. I did mention I like dinosaurs...🦖
Banner image containing the two covers for Eli Donovan's Time Traitors series of books. Covers feature a red-headed woman with a gun, an Asian Man behind her and several dinosaurs about to attack. Cover 2 features a sexy Asian man in front of a swirling blue background.
January 15, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Thought I'd talk a bit about my books since I'm new here...My first series are fairy tale retellings w a feminist bent. Characters and locations continue book to book but they all standalone & can be read in any order.
Banner image of the covers of the Fairy Tales of Lyond book series by Eli Donovan: The Beauty's Beast, Enchanting the King, The Apprentice Sorceress, The Changeling Child, and The Swan Princess Reimagined. The covers feature pretty woman in medieval gowns against bright colored backgrounds.
January 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM