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Writer. I like what I like. She/her/they/them. Scif-fi/fantasy/magical, sometimes romantic. Yes, they're gay. Find me: https://jdrivers.carrd.co/ | https://jd-rivers.com | http://ko-fi.com/jdrivers | BUY MY NOVELS: https://jdrivers.itch.io/
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JD Rivers | OUT NOW: Wish of a Dragon @jd-rivers.com · Oct 17
Otar's story continues in "The Wish of a Dragon"!
Buy today!

🐲 dragons! in space!
🛣️ more roadtrip
🏛️ more ruins
⁉️ archaelogy! in space!
❤️ idiots in love

Buy:
tinyurl.com/ysxyvfk6
books2read.com/u/47p7XL

TBR:
GR: tinyurl.com/yc6a7xke
TSG: tinyurl.com/ya34yu4w

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17 Write your reply JD Rivers | Wish of a Dragon October 15th ‪@jd-rivers.com‬ Home Explore Notifications Chat Feeds Lists Saved Profile Settings New Post Search Following DPP Folks #queerAdultSFF Books Queer Bookworms 🌈📚 Fantasy Writers🩷🧙‍♂️⚔️ BookSky 💙📚 #booksky Promote Them Books 📢📚 Romancelandia Writing Craft Bsky Book Club Gift Links/Gift Articles 📚❓asking for book recs📚❔ SciFi-Fantasy-SpecFic 🪐📚 Short Story Booksky Itch.io Authors and Illustrators Itchio Authors Bundles More feeds Feedback • Privacy • Terms • Help The cover for JD Rivers' "The Wish of a Dragon", second book in the Otar's Universe trilogy. The main colors are purple, pink and dark blue. We have one of the main characters, Andres, facing the audience with his back, while we see the POV character Otar, only with his hand at Andres' neck, a bot of his blonde hair, and the other hand holding up a ball of flight behind Andres' back, holding a sleepong dragon. There are also more lights around it. In the upper part it reads the title: The Wish of a Dragon, down below is the author: JD Rivers. The illustrator/artist is planetsandmagic the typesetter is: Hermit-writes The cover for JD Rivers' "The Wish of a Dragon", second book in the Otar's Universe trilogy. The main colors are purple, pink and dark blue. We have one of the main characters, Andres, facing the audience with his back, while we see the POV character Otar, only with his hand at Andres' neck, a bot of his blonde hair, and the other hand holding up a ball of flight behind Andres' back, holding a sleepong dragon. There are also more lights around it. In the upper part it reads the title: The Wish of a Dragon, down below is the author: JD Rivers. The illustrator/artist is planetsandmagic the typesetter is: Hermit-writes
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Otar's story continues in "The Wish of a Dragon"!
Buy today!

🐲 dragons! in space!
🛣️ more roadtrip
🏛️ more ruins
⁉️ archaelogy! in space!
❤️ idiots in love

Buy:
tinyurl.com/ysxyvfk6
books2read.com/u/47p7XL

TBR:
GR: tinyurl.com/yc6a7xke
TSG: tinyurl.com/ya34yu4w

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The cover for JD Rivers' "The Wish of a Dragon", second book in the Otar's Universe trilogy. The main colors are purple, pink and dark blue. We have one of the main characters, Andres, facing the audience with his back, while we see the POV character Otar, only with his hand at Andres' neck, a bot of his blonde hair, and the other hand holding up a ball of flight behind Andres' back, holding a sleepong dragon. There are also more lights around it. In the upper part it reads the title: The Wish of a Dragon, down below is the author: JD Rivers. The illustrator/artist is planetsandmagic the typesetter is: Hermit-writes
December 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Also "The Edge of a World" ebook is discounted on the 'zon and other publishers for a month because...anniversary of SO and me, my birthday, marriage anniversary, christmas, and new year... 🤣

And Finn still wants treats...look at that face! How can you deny him?

books2read.com/u/mdwgNw

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December 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Hey all,

The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.

Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.

You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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jd-rivers.com
Reminder that late pledges close sooooooon! And I have a wonderful spicy scifi story in it about *drum roll* BONDS! 🤣

So, if you want to read mine and all the other awesome entries this is your call!
clh2oars.bsky.social Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · 3d
COMMON BONDS 2 Late Pledges close on December 10! Don't miss your chance to get your copy alongside all of our backers!

💚 science fiction and fantasy
💚 aromantic MCs
💚 a focus on platonic relationships!

Publication in 2026; preorders through late pledges: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...

🌈📚
An orange leafy background with a blue thread of wool passing over it, as well as the occasional autumn leaves. In the centre is the cover for Common Bonds 2 (two friends knitting a sweater within a frame of autumnal leaves). The image says describes this book as “an aromantic SFF anthology” that is coming in 2026 and can be preordered through Kickstarter’s late pledges.
December 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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One wrong step and the monster in Otar's veins kills.

🛣️ indiana jones but gay
🏛️ archaelogy!
🌎 rooooadtrip
♥️ third chance at love
⁉️ finding oneself
🪄 mystery
🌈 queer

Buy: jdrivers.itch.io/the-edge-of-...
books2read.com/u/mdwgNw

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📚 GR tinyurl.com/mrxf83ck
📚 TSG tinyurl.com/3p3n33jp
Book cover, two people standing on a cliff next to each other, looking down onto ruins that are white and glowing, title: The Edge of a World by JD Rivers - the main colors are beige and brown. Cover illustration by planetsandmagic
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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clh2oars.bsky.social
Thank you for this one!! I'll come back with excerpt once my computer hasn't locked me out of social media (was on bsky too much today) #SFFChat

Since I talked so much about Nerezia, here are my JRPG-inspired fantasy novellas:

claudiearseneault.com/nerezia/
The Chronicles of Nerezia
Book 1 Details Book 2 Details Book 3 Details Book 4 Details Book 5 Details Book 6 Details BOOK 7 DETAILS Your story is my story … Fate and friendship bring Horace (an ever-failing apprentice)…
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December 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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#SFFChat

Decision based story telling. Music to tell the story. Pictures to tell the story. All together. Combined and on their own they just hit differently.
sffchat.bsky.social SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social · 2d
#SFFChat Q3: What unique storytelling opportunities do games (of any kind you wish to talk about!) offer?
A pixelated scene featuring a grey cat with a heart above its head getting sucked up by a flying saucer driven by an orange cat in cool shades. An adventurer looks on with a speech balloon that reads, "Huh?"
December 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Oh those adorable point-and-click adventures, where you collect a shit amount of stuff and then try and solve the puzzles with more crazy going combinations. And then wonder what the devs have smoked.

I love those games. So much fun, so much despair. And yes Otar would be the type for it.

#SFFChat
sffchat.bsky.social SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social · 2d
#SFFChat Q2: If your story were a game of some kind, what would it be (e.g RPG, TTRPG, a boardgame of some kind, survival horror, first-person shooter, etc)?
A pixelated scene featuring a grey cat with a heart above its head getting sucked up by a flying saucer driven by an orange cat in cool shades. An adventurer looks on with a speech balloon that reads, "Huh?"
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Otar would be the one character that is *never* there. You know the one you always go and check if they have finally arrived, only to met with a sign or empty spot, and you despair of ever seeing them? Yes, that one.

#SSFChat
sffchat.bsky.social SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social · 2d
#SFFChat Q1: If your characters were in a dating sim (or another kind of game if you prefer), what roles would they have or what archetypes would they fulfill?

E.g. Healer, summoner, maybe in a dating sim they're the mayor's daughter, or in a farm sim they're an angry chicken! Be creative!
A pixelated scene featuring a grey cat with a heart above its head getting sucked up by a flying saucer driven by an orange cat in cool shades. An adventurer looks on with a speech balloon that reads, "Huh?"
December 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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I am thrilled to announce that my short story, "Flurries and Flames," will be included in Common Bonds 2, an aromantic science fiction and fantasy anthology!
clh2oars.bsky.social Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · 3d
COMMON BONDS 2 Late Pledges close on December 10! Don't miss your chance to get your copy alongside all of our backers!

💚 science fiction and fantasy
💚 aromantic MCs
💚 a focus on platonic relationships!

Publication in 2026; preorders through late pledges: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...

🌈📚
An orange leafy background with a blue thread of wool passing over it, as well as the occasional autumn leaves. In the centre is the cover for Common Bonds 2 (two friends knitting a sweater within a frame of autumnal leaves). The image says describes this book as “an aromantic SFF anthology” that is coming in 2026 and can be preordered through Kickstarter’s late pledges.
December 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
jd-rivers.com
Reminder that late pledges close sooooooon! And I have a wonderful spicy scifi story in it about *drum roll* BONDS! 🤣

So, if you want to read mine and all the other awesome entries this is your call!
clh2oars.bsky.social Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · 3d
COMMON BONDS 2 Late Pledges close on December 10! Don't miss your chance to get your copy alongside all of our backers!

💚 science fiction and fantasy
💚 aromantic MCs
💚 a focus on platonic relationships!

Publication in 2026; preorders through late pledges: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...

🌈📚
An orange leafy background with a blue thread of wool passing over it, as well as the occasional autumn leaves. In the centre is the cover for Common Bonds 2 (two friends knitting a sweater within a frame of autumnal leaves). The image says describes this book as “an aromantic SFF anthology” that is coming in 2026 and can be preordered through Kickstarter’s late pledges.
December 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
jd-rivers.com
Also "The Edge of a World" ebook is discounted on the 'zon and other publishers for a month because...anniversary of SO and me, my birthday, marriage anniversary, christmas, and new year... 🤣

And Finn still wants treats...look at that face! How can you deny him?

books2read.com/u/mdwgNw

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December 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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New extortion scam email going round (this was received via a writer's website contact form). I've seen a number of these recently but without the money demand; the translation angle is also a new one
Name: Jeff Email: jeffersonzonon@proton.me Subject: Found your work on file sharing channels Message: Hey Michelle, how are you? So here’s something interesting—I found your work floating around online. Full PDFs. Multiple sites. No paywall, no control, no credit. Just… there. And it hit me: if it’s already leaking like that, your value is slipping faster than you think. And then I realized something else. I can push it even further. I can run your entire catalog through my translation app—takes about thirty minutes per language—and release your work across ten different markets without breaking a sweat. No permission, no courtesy, just pure distribution. Imagine your creations scattered everywhere, read by thousands… yet worth absolutely nothing to you. And honestly? I don’t want that. I’d rather not be the reason your career drops through the floor. That doesn’t help either of us. So here’s my offer: get in touch with me. Talk to me. Stop me from releasing these translations before they hit every file-sharing site and social feed out there. It’s simple. Reach out. Have 500$ —yes, that’s all. A small price to keep the value of your life’s work from dissolving overnight. But don’t wait too long. Silence from you just means I keep translating. And once they’re out, they’re out forever. You have 5 days. Your move
December 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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5 ways to give your fave authors free-to-you gifts over the holidays! 💙📚

1. post about their book on socials
2. rec on other posts & Reddit threads
3. suggest their book to a book club!
4. order their book from a library/ask can it be ordered in!
5. add it to GoodReads lists for discoverability!
December 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Too tired for proper marketing. XD

Buy my books: jd-rivers.com

Sci-fi/Fantasy, where they fall in love and try to make sense of the world around them.

⬇️ Also, Finn wants treats which cost money 🤣
JD Rivers - SFF Author
Home of author JD Rivers writing queer SFF with romance
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December 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Join us and other vendors this Sunday, Dec 7, from 10 to 4 at the Washington Park Lake House in Albany NY! The market is indoors, so warm-ish and a great opportunity to get your queer holiday shopping done. Learn more and see the full list of vendors at abiggaymarket.com. I hope to see you there!
A graphic entitled A Big Gay Market. In the middle is a badge that says "I'm a vendor" and a phorograph of a table set up with merchandise and books, a Duck Prints Press logo banner in the front. Below this, text reads: Next Market: Sunday, Dec 7th. No Rain Date - Inside Market. Washington Park Lake House Albany, NY 10 am - 4 pm. KN 95 Mask Mandated: 10 am - 11 am. At the bottom, it reads "Learn more www.abiggaymarket.com accompanied by two QR codes. A section called Our Beneficiary shows Unirondack Queer Youth Advocacy Retreat, and four logos accompany Current Sponsors - Gabriella Romero, Conti, The Flour Bender, and IOVO.
December 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
jd-rivers.com
Too tired for proper marketing. XD

Buy my books: jd-rivers.com

Sci-fi/Fantasy, where they fall in love and try to make sense of the world around them.

⬇️ Also, Finn wants treats which cost money 🤣
JD Rivers - SFF Author
Home of author JD Rivers writing queer SFF with romance
jd-rivers.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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jd-rivers.com
🐺 A downtrodden ex-soldier.
🦭 A lost inn-owner.
❤️ Blossoming feelings.
🗡️ A dead body.
🏝️ An island, where justice is deadly.

Selkie x werewolf
Urban fantasy!

Buy direct: tinyurl.com/DPPSalt
duckprintspress.itch.io/the-salt-in-...

GR: tinyurl.com/ys57r2rm
TSG: tinyurl.com/2shv5aed

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The front cover of a book entitled The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers. Stylized artwork shows two men in a loose embrace, one shorter, light-skinned, and pale-haired, the taller one dark haired and darker skinned, both in casual modern-esque clothes. The taller one kisses the shorter one on the forehead, his hand clasping the shorter one's cheek. They stand before a blood-red circle with a star on it, and a brilliant blue wave surges behind them. Illustration by: planetsandmagic Typesetting by: Hermits Writes
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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aliettedebodard.com
I'm relaunching Dominion of the Fallen in the US with @awfulagent.bsky.social
Magnificent covers by @fringe-element.net
Deliciously gothic atmosphere, queer characters from across the world, and high intrigue--in a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysms
March 10th, 2026!

awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...
Cover of the House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard: a banyan tree with grey heraldry showing Notre Dame bisected by a sword The text above reads "Enter a Ruined Paris", and below "March 10, 2026" Cover of The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard: a dragon wrapped around grey heraldry showing a crowned hawthorn tree. The background is blue with spatters of grungy black The text reads "Ruled by Fallen Angels..." and "March 10, 2026" Cover of The House of Sundering Flames by Aliette de Bodard: a tiger in flames wrapped around grey heraldry showing a hawk above a tower The background is blue with spatters of grungy black The text reads "And Dragons of the depths", "March 10, 2026" Covers of all three books, The House of Shattered Wings (banyan tree and Notre Dame), The House of Binding Thorns (eastern dragon and crowned hawthorn tree), The House of Sundering Flames (tiger in flames and hawk over tower) The text reads "Read the Complete Trilogy", "Available in Ebook and Trade Paperback March 10, 2026"
December 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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amaralynn.bsky.social
You can get Into the Deep and a bunch of other stuff by awesome people in this bundle!!

itch.io/b/3409/end-o...

#itchio #booksky
End-of-Year Indie Fantasy Mega Bundle 64 books for $45.00 (you save ~$179!!!) December 1-15th Itch.io A Crimson Covenant by Aimee Donnellan A Demon to Save Me by H.S. Kallinger A Memory of Blood and Magic by K.N. Brindle After Halastaesia by Janina Franck Atop the Trees, Beneath the Mountains by SM Reine Books and Bone by Veo Corva Born of Scourge by S. Jean By the Pact by Joanna Maciejewska Calliope by Kaylynx Children by Bjørn Larssen Crystal Gunslinger - The Obsidian Outlaws by O.Z Laws Elixir Bound by Katie L. Carroll Elven by D.C. Hart Everything Is Wonderful Now by Shane Blackheart Forest of the Morning by Emmylou Kotzé Fortitude Waters by Fox N. Locke Fruits of the Gods by William C. Tracy Heir to The Sun by Karen Lykkebo Higanbana by Jake Vanguard Imbued by Helyna L. Clove Impostor by J. M. Rose Into the Deep by Amara Lynn Iron Spirit by Linn Foster Journey Home by May Barros Kiss of Death by Bryony Rosehurst Klone's Stronghold: Reeni by Joyce Reynolds-Ward Manipulator's War by Elise Carlson Metanoia, by Juniper Lake Fitzgerald Moonshadow's Guardian by Dianna Gunn No Land for Heroes by Cal Black Only the Dead Are Safe, and Other Stories by Rob MacWolf Path of the Warrior by Melissa Stone Prince Ewald the Brave by Dylan Madeley Rescue from the Orc Fortress by Simon Wolfe Reset by L. B. Shimaira Return the Rose by Joachim Heijndermans Shades of Spring by Niranjan Shadows Dark and Deadly by Andrea Marie Johnson Sidetracked Part 1 by SK Kelley Smoke and Rain by V. S. Holmes Song of the Wolf by T.C. Smith Tales of Yamato by Odessa Silver The Assassins Raven by Anna Verner The Blood Divide by Zan Lowell The Circle in the Sphere by Alex S. Garcia The Commune by Liz Roderick The Crimson Knight by Zeta K. Pierce The Dragon Next Door by Vanessa Ricci-Thode The Hand That Feeds by Sass Everett The Knowing Doll by Holliday Vermont The Lost Magic by SP Shade and many more...
December 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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amalasrosa.bsky.social
I’ll be with a small booth at Lichter der Neustadt in Bremen.

December 4th and 8th from 15-22 Uhr
And December 14th from 14-20 Uhr

I’ll bring a bunch of new prints, stickers, postcards, and a sweet enamel pin
December 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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easternblot.bsky.social
"Could this be a scam?" asked the bank pop-up when I tried to buy toner for the printer.

Yes, but not in the way you're thinking...
December 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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ardenpowell.bsky.social
It's December, which means it's time for holiday romance novellas! THE SOLSTICE CABIN is a gay historical romance set in Canada's far north. Ghosts, snow magic, northern lights, and best friends to lovers with mutual pining 🎄❄️

✨$2.99 on Amz and KU: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN6W753D
Solstice Cabin trope map: Elemental magic, snowed in, Great White North, 1920s Canada, best friends to lovers, talkative husky, only one bed, ghosts in the snow, solstice celebrations, gift giving, mutual pining, magic in the northern lights, huddling for warmth.
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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What's the over-under on Daniel - a dude still getting used to being an only child & who's avoiding all his responsibilities by rejoining his old band - and his dad having a healthy, positive relationship, ythink?

#KeepingTime #webcomics

🎸 Latest: keepingtimecomic.com
🎸Start from the beginning
A panel from the webcomic KEEPING TIME. David, a middle-aged Japanese man in a suit and tie, cuts into his meal and says, "I'm sorry I couldn't make your graduation ceremony."
December 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM