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Odessa Silver
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📖 LGBT / Disabled UK Author - www.odessasilver.com
🌸 Writing fantasy stories: mythology, magic, and more! 📚 🔮 🌠

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Want freebies? Like Fantasy and/or Sci fi? Well, here are over 150 books to choose from! Come support indie authors by taking a look at the selection and maybe you'll find a new author to try out.

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November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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I feel like this quote I found by John Green will resonate with many of us.

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Black image with a small lighter areas in blues. There is an open book at the bottom. There is white text that reads; I believe there is hope for us all, even amid the suffering, and maybe even inside the suffering. And that's why I write fiction, probably. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to build a fire in the darkness. John Green
September 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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I recently bought a Japanese plate I found at a carboot sale of all places, and I think it looks lovely alongside my book. I'm slowly getting a collection of Japanese things for nice aesthetics. Not only that, all things pictures are relevant to inside my book too! What do you think?

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Image of a book titled Tales of Yamato, where the cover is a red sun with the title on top in a black brush font. Under the sun is a black inky torii gate and to the sides are red and orange semi faded trees. To the left of the book is a Japanese stylised plate with two women in kimono on it. One is playing the shamisen. Beneath the plate is a red lucky cat (maneki neko) with a gold coin. To the right of the book is a copy of "Japanese myths and legends" and in front of that is a gold crane figure bending over.
September 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I recently had this artwork made, and I absolutely love it. This is one of my favourite scenes in Tales of Yamato. What do you think? It had to be done in the ukiyo-e style, my favourite too.

Credit goes to Bilal Erlang who can be found on instagram under binlarto

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Image shows artwork in the Japanese ukiyo-e style, it is surrounded by text which inspired the piece; The great white wolf sped through the sky, wrapped in blue lightning. Long claws bit into the clouds and propelled it faster until all was a blur. The air around me crackled. I ran; I didn’t even stop as a sandal slipped from my foot or as stones pricked my bare sole. I needed to escape. Rain struck the dirt path like a barrage of arrows. The sky was a lit forge hammering swords of lightning. I was trapped between them, running through the never-ending forest. The raijuu wasn’t far behind; I could hear its rumbling laughter around me.
September 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Last day to grab my book on sale! Historical fantasy set in Japan, my debut book! Grab it on itch, amazon, kobo, direct, wherever you like, follow my linktree.

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A background image of a dragon, skulls, and spaceship in purple, with a book cover for Tales of Yamato, which features a red sun on a white background with orange trees, plus a black inky torii gate. The text says it's the Indie Book Sale for Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Horror August 23-25. And that Tales of Yamato is on sale for $1.99 and it's the last day
August 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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August 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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No way??! I never expected Chiitan of all people to see my post!

こんにちはちぃたん！👋
July 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Struggling with everything atm, but here is a nice pic of my cat Phoebe. Isn't she pretty 🐱
July 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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You need more books! There's never enough books! So, come grab some free Fantasy and Sci-Fi ones now, maybe find a new favourite, and support indie authors!

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July 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Tales of Yamato, a historical fantasy set in Japan.

Marketing it has been truly difficult and I can't understand why
July 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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We celebrating International Non-Binary People's Day on July 14th with 50+ amazing indie and queer books! We have romance, horror, poetry, sci-fi, and fantasy - a wide assortment of genres and authors.

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July 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Tuesday I went to the British Museum to see the current Hiroshige exhibition and it was amazing! Here is just one of so many ukiyo-e which are there to see. They're even more amazing in real life than any photo can show. The vivid colours were so strong, so pretty
July 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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So you know that smashwords sale going on... well, I decided to put Tales of Yamato into it! If you were hesitating before, then now is your sign to go take a look at it and other books and support indie authors ❤️

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July 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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I recently mentioned peacock tea in the teaser for a chapter in Unbound by the Sea, so I had to make it! Here it is! It was really fun to work it all out, especially as I am not a tea drinker at all.
June 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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June is here, and so are more FREE ebooks to grab! Here are indie authors who'd love your support! For the whole of June you can download these Fantasy and Sci-Fi ebooks, with over 100 to choose from.

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June 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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I made a Japanese charm called a teru teru bozu this afternoon to bring the sunshine back as it's been raining so much this week. So far, he's doing wonders and no drops of rain at all.

Teru teru bozu means "shine shine monk" and it's meant to look like a bald monk smiling.
May 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Show me your love confessions that don't say "I love you."

From Beneath Tsukuyomi in Tales of Yamato

"月が綺麗ですね /Tsuki ga kirei desune" means "The moon is beautiful, isn't it" and it's a Japanese saying which partially inspired this whole story.

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May 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Yuna wants everything I keep not giving her 😀

Today I went with a sombre want though, as poor Yuna went through a lot as a child.

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May 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Wiggle update: He climbed to the top of the plant while I was listening to an inspirational song called Rise (by Taemin) so he's determined too. I'm even more besotted and want to keep him until he becomes a butterfly
May 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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This morning's distraction comes in the form of caterpillars! They were on 2 sunflowers I have in the windowsill (waiting for the weekend to plant them). No idea where they have come from or what type, but I'd love to find somewhere for them to thrive.

Look at this lil guy, I've named him Wiggle
May 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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The Queen of Silence herself Sha-Haruna being oh-so-wonderful... I don't know how Yuna puts up with her tbh (but she does have a lot of learning to do)

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May 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Thanks for the lift!

Tales of Yamato is my collection of 14 tales set in historic Japan with wrathful gods, trickster yokai, and humans trying their best to survive. The tales are standalone and make up a collective narrative that will take you on an emotional journey

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Image with a book cover featuring a white background, red sun with the black title of Tales of Yamato, and a black torii gate fading. The cover also has greys in an ink wash to show ground, as well as red and orange trees in a watercolour style. Surrounding the cover are words to describe tropes found in the book; Magic Realism, Mythology, Folklore, Moral Ambiguity, Dark Fantasy, Myth Retelling, Multi POV, Historical Mythic Fantasy, Supernatural Beings, Yokai, Divine vs Mortal, Family, Friendship, Honour, and Loyalty
May 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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My last song was Shade of Flowers (www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHxf...) and here is a snippet which actually has both words in it.

And apt story too, considering myself atm, as this one deal with creativity difficulties and life issues

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Image with the text from the book Tales of Yamato; I left the paper behind and opened the shoji doors, letting the cool air fill the house. Perhaps, like the house, I needed fresh air and maybe even a new topic to write about. It was the second month of the year and the last remnants of the winter air still clung on, though soon enough sakura would bloom and I could sit beneath the trees for inspiration. In all my years I’d always found inspiration from the trees and the flowers, how they moved in the wind, petals dancing to a silent tune before falling to the earth. And yet now, no words came to me.
May 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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How about some Tanuki lore for #FolkloreThursday? So see here on my chonky boy (who I named Koji) how he has huge testicles? They're good luck! Goldsmiths used to use tanuki pelt to hammer gold nuggets into gold leaf. The pelt was so good, it could be hammered out to the size of 8 tatami mats!
May 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM