Gio Peters
@gio-peters-author.bsky.social
Author of the queer-positive historical fantasy series The Kingdom of Ura.
Mental health advocate. Editor. Creative writing MA student. 🏳️🌈
Mental health advocate. Editor. Creative writing MA student. 🏳️🌈
Starting book 1 in the Kingdom of Afara.
November 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Starting book 1 in the Kingdom of Afara.
Have to think up a whole new magic and religious system for The Kingdom of Afara that's as robust as The Kingdom of Ura.
November 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Have to think up a whole new magic and religious system for The Kingdom of Afara that's as robust as The Kingdom of Ura.
I feel lost without a story to fight with.
October 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I feel lost without a story to fight with.
Would you be interested in a series of 8 books?
September 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Would you be interested in a series of 8 books?
13,000 more words to go and my series will be complete.
September 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
13,000 more words to go and my series will be complete.
10 more chapters to go!
September 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
10 more chapters to go!
45,000 words to go.
September 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
45,000 words to go.
10 more chapters until the kingdom of ura is complete.
FINALLY.
FINALLY.
September 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
10 more chapters until the kingdom of ura is complete.
FINALLY.
FINALLY.
I think my current WIP suffers from sagging middle syndrome.
Time to fi it!
Time to fi it!
September 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I think my current WIP suffers from sagging middle syndrome.
Time to fi it!
Time to fi it!
Okay, this part of my finale is dead boring, and if I'm bored, the reader's bored.
And I'm bored as fuck.
And I'm bored as fuck.
September 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Okay, this part of my finale is dead boring, and if I'm bored, the reader's bored.
And I'm bored as fuck.
And I'm bored as fuck.
What can a character to do in 5 days that's narratively significant?
I've got to think real hard.
I've got to think real hard.
September 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
What can a character to do in 5 days that's narratively significant?
I've got to think real hard.
I've got to think real hard.
After The Kingdom of Ura is finished, I've decided: no more self-publishing. Why pay all this money just to be ignored?
So after this book, it's trad or nothing.
So after this book, it's trad or nothing.
August 31, 2025 at 6:36 AM
After The Kingdom of Ura is finished, I've decided: no more self-publishing. Why pay all this money just to be ignored?
So after this book, it's trad or nothing.
So after this book, it's trad or nothing.
YES I FINALLY CAME UP WITH THE SCENE!
August 31, 2025 at 6:31 AM
YES I FINALLY CAME UP WITH THE SCENE!
How hard do I have to stare at my manuscript for it to write itself?
August 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
How hard do I have to stare at my manuscript for it to write itself?
The religion plays heavily into everything. The gods hear people's prayers and are active agents in The Kingdom of Ura. The finale is all about the gods, in fact. There are 10 god and 2 deities.
#MythAugust 30
How much does your fantasy religion/mythology play a part in your story?
Does it affect the plot? Do religious beliefs shape any of your characters? ARE THE GODS ACTUALLY IN THE STORY?? 👀
Or is it just for some fun worldbuilding flavor? 😊
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Writesky
How much does your fantasy religion/mythology play a part in your story?
Does it affect the plot? Do religious beliefs shape any of your characters? ARE THE GODS ACTUALLY IN THE STORY?? 👀
Or is it just for some fun worldbuilding flavor? 😊
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Writesky
August 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The religion plays heavily into everything. The gods hear people's prayers and are active agents in The Kingdom of Ura. The finale is all about the gods, in fact. There are 10 god and 2 deities.
Finally making some, very little, headway with Heavy is the Head: Part 2: Book 8 in the Kingdom of Ura.
After a mental battle of months.
After a mental battle of months.
August 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Finally making some, very little, headway with Heavy is the Head: Part 2: Book 8 in the Kingdom of Ura.
After a mental battle of months.
After a mental battle of months.
Most days I'm fine with my books not being a success. Not today. just one of those days.
August 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Most days I'm fine with my books not being a success. Not today. just one of those days.
It won't come along!
IT JUST WON'T!
IT JUST WON'T!
August 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It won't come along!
IT JUST WON'T!
IT JUST WON'T!
This book feels like a mental battle that I am losing HARD.
August 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
This book feels like a mental battle that I am losing HARD.
I'm very much over fantasy book covers with the Elizabethan-dressed heroin is holding daggers/a bow and arrow, looking for danger in the old city/abandoned road.
It feels like so overdone.
It feels like so overdone.
August 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I'm very much over fantasy book covers with the Elizabethan-dressed heroin is holding daggers/a bow and arrow, looking for danger in the old city/abandoned road.
It feels like so overdone.
It feels like so overdone.
Writing this eighth and final novel in The Kingdom of Ura isn't supposed to feel this way... it feels like I'm fighting.
August 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Writing this eighth and final novel in The Kingdom of Ura isn't supposed to feel this way... it feels like I'm fighting.
Their Heart a Hive by @foxenlock.bsky.social arrived!
Thank you, Stef, for this book.
I've waited for it for four long years hahaha!
This amazing adventure not only enraptured me but inspired me to write my own debut.
Thanks for the book, the inspiration, the love!
Can't wait to enjoy again.
Thank you, Stef, for this book.
I've waited for it for four long years hahaha!
This amazing adventure not only enraptured me but inspired me to write my own debut.
Thanks for the book, the inspiration, the love!
Can't wait to enjoy again.
August 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Their Heart a Hive by @foxenlock.bsky.social arrived!
Thank you, Stef, for this book.
I've waited for it for four long years hahaha!
This amazing adventure not only enraptured me but inspired me to write my own debut.
Thanks for the book, the inspiration, the love!
Can't wait to enjoy again.
Thank you, Stef, for this book.
I've waited for it for four long years hahaha!
This amazing adventure not only enraptured me but inspired me to write my own debut.
Thanks for the book, the inspiration, the love!
Can't wait to enjoy again.
Writing this novel, the finale of The Kingdom of Ura (book 8) feels like a fight. it feels like a brawl.
August 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Writing this novel, the finale of The Kingdom of Ura (book 8) feels like a fight. it feels like a brawl.
Day 16 and I'm on 53,000 words of my goat horror novel!
August 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Day 16 and I'm on 53,000 words of my goat horror novel!
Day 13 and I'm on 36,000 words of my goat horror novel WIP.
July 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Day 13 and I'm on 36,000 words of my goat horror novel WIP.