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Real Phoenix Rises 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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Transgender queer writer slowly becoming a cat person one kitty at a time. He/him. A Discovery of Talents for sale on website, ebook on Amazon and KU. Determined to keep brain cancer at bay.
Published works at: https://www.therealphoenixrises.com
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Real Phoenix Rises 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @synphoenix.bsky.social · Mar 28
I have added the availability to purchase signed copies of my book on my website therealphoenixrises.com . Book 2 of TheTalentContinuum, The Crystal Island, will be released May 9! Cover Reveal coming soon.
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The latest piece of character art completed by @danyriverarts.bsky.social for The Crystal Island, which comes out on Friday! Isn’t this guy adorable!
A Yellow Sea creature somewhat resembling a cross between a crab and a lobster. It has a yellow carapace with a cream underbelly, large claws on raised upper appendages, and smaller, fingered hands with opposable thumbs on crossed inner arms. Eyes are on the ends of four stalks that extend from the top of a rounded head
May 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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A friend of mine is trying to get her first book published as an indie author. See link below.
Miranda’s Garden
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mir...
Miranda’s Garden
A magical, moon-soaked novel of grief, growth, and the gardens we carry inside us
www.kickstarter.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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April 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Leopold and Jarel, the M/M romantic couple from book two of the Talent Continuum: The Crystal Island, coming May 9, 2025!
I’m so excited for this second book of the trilogy to release!
On the left, a white teen boy with center parted hair and a cheerful smile. He’s looking up happily at his partner. He’s wearing a gray button up shirt with the collar loose and unbuttoned. A light blue vest is overtop. The sleeves are filled up to expose his forearms. He has a green sash around his pants. On the right is a Black teen boy, taller than the white boy. He has his right arm around the first boy’s shoulders and is smiling a smaller, yet still affectionate smile. He’s wearing a red sleeveless shirt than closes at an angle with a leather sash across his torso. There’s a knife in a sheath in the front he has a brown sash around his waist. They appear intimately comfortable with each other.
April 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Look at this gorgeous cover! @danyriverarts.bsky.social has done it again. Book two The Talent Continuum will be out May 9 and I will be giving out ARCs soon!
April 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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So that happened.
A best sellers rank listing from Amazon for the book A Discovery of Talents. The ranking for Teen and Young Adult Fiction on Disabilities is listed at #106 and is circled toward the bottom. Below that is Customer Reviews and there are 2 Reviews that are 5 out of 5 stars.
March 31, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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I have added the availability to purchase signed copies of my book on my website therealphoenixrises.com . Book 2 of TheTalentContinuum, The Crystal Island, will be released May 9! Cover Reveal coming soon.
March 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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This happened recently. Book one is doing well.
Book two of The Talent Continuum, The Crystal Island, is scheduled for release on May 9, 2025.
Cover reveal coming soon!
March 23, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.
Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.
March 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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talesfrompurgatory.bsky.social
Someone please give me the best movies to watch and books to read to understand what New York City was like during the 80s and 90s. I’m talking both high and low society.

Please reskeet. This is ✨important✨
March 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Who are some of the writers that made you?
Madeleine L’Engle
Anne McCaffrey
E.B. White
Kenneth Grahame
Stephen King
Peter Straub
JRR Tolkien
Maya Angelou
James Baldwin
Maggie Stiefvater
Suzanne Collins
Cassandra Clare
Amanda Gorman
Tracy Deonn
ewdocparris.com E.W. Doc Parris @ewdocparris.com · Mar 22
Who are some of the writers that made you?

Michael Crichton
Ray Bradbury
Kurt Vonnegut
Hermann Hesse
William Shakespeare
Ursula K. Le Guin
Stephen King
servantand.bsky.social Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · Mar 22
Who are some of the writers that made you?

Tolkien
Janny Wurts
Katherine Kurtz
Julian May
Arthur Conan Doyle
Brian Daley
Tad Williams
RA Salvatore
Raymond E Feist
Ursula K. Le Quin
Ed Greenwood
CS Lewis
March 23, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Book 2 went off for final edits this morning! Planned release is mid May, 2025.
March 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Had a blast at my first ever author event! Sold almost all the books!
Centered is a hardcover copy of A Discovery of Talents, against a backdrop of a lavender wall with painted flowers. There is a small potted spider plant to the book’s left and a cluster of pink roses below and to the right of the book. Two brown chairs are set to the left and right of a mural on the lavender wall of the St John’s bridge in Portland, with flowers painted on the wall. Seated on the left is Johnnie Mazzacco, event speaker. Seated on the right is Phoenix McDonald, author of A Discovery of Talents. A coffee table is centered in front of them with pink roses in a glass vase.
February 26, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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I'm so excited to deliver my workshop, "Liberating the Weird", here!! If you want to write WEIRD FICTION that makes people say WAIT WHAT and OH NO (but also OH YES) but you're not sure how or what to do, this is absolutely the place for you.
Come, join us... forever and ever and ever...
writershq.bsky.social Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social · Feb 7
Eeeek we've just announced the lineup for this year's Write A Short Story Festival in March and it is so. frikken. good.

Workshops from @leoneross.bsky.social @lindzmcleod.bsky.social @gwenekirby.bsky.social @ajwoodhouse.bsky.social and others!

writershq.co.uk/write-a-shor...
February 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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It’s a sale! a.co/d/74XgDDQ
February 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Work partners. Emotional support going on here.
A white keyboard in the foreground, slightly further back the scene is dimmer and a gold/brown cat with black leopard spots is curled up sleeping at the end of the couch. In the background is a row of cups on an end table. Each holds a different type of succulent plant. The right end has puffy leaves, then in one to the left is upright rounded stems. Next to the left has many spikes, mostly vertical. Then a slender stem in a light green with a few light-to-dark-green leaves. The last has much thicker spikes. Just in front of it is a succulent in a larger post with light pink leaves edged in green that grows in a larger green pot. On the wall to the upper left is a wooden tribal style giraffe face. On the far right in the left edge of a television.
February 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Disabled Marcus thinks life is challenging, but it’s about to take a jump beyond what he ever expected. He learns he can travel in his sleep to another world, and it’s a family trait. When he tries to return, he takes his best friend and the girl next door with him.

a.co/d/73Zu0NX
February 2, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Remember the phrase “the real McCoy?” It’s based on a real live person, a Black man whose invention revolutionized the train industry. Others tried to copy his invention, but they couldn’t hold up, so buyers wanted to ensure they were getting THE REAL MCCOY.
February 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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More Black History Month book recs:
A solid red cover with a Black Roman in the lower left corner. She wears a white and yellow sleeveless vest and chunky earrings. Her face is still and expressionless. The title, skin & bones, no capitals, is on the lower right corner in white. . The author’s name, Renee Watson, is across the top in white. A teal book cover with a lightening yellow right upper corner to yellow. A yung Black gurl with her hair styled back in fancy braids and interwoven gold material. Her dress is yellow with straps. She’s wearingstylized jewelry and has gold paint on her face. The title, “The Gilded Ones”, is across the cover and the girl’s body, and the author’s name,Namina Forba, just below. Maya Angelou’s I Kniw Why The Cafed Burd Sings. A Black bird superimposed on an orange cover with the impression of a sunrise in the left lower corner (concentric yellow circles). Also has the words @foreeord by Iprah Winfrey” in the lower right corner.
February 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Black History Month Book recs:
A bright blue cover hat appears torn. The author’s name, Amanda Gorman, is in gold at the top, the word “Poems” appears to shoe through a tear. The title, “Call Us What We Carry” also in gold, fill the rest of the cover. The cover is a startling red with the dark outline of a bearded Black person with white framed glasses taking up about 3/4 of the space. The title is the same red color across the person “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker”. The phrase “A Memoir in Essays” sits in the space beneath the title and the author’s name, Damon Young, which is at the bottom in all white lettering. The cover is multiple shades of earth tones, each layer the outline of a person’s face. The title, “The Prophets,” in capitalized in all black bear the bottom, and the author’s name, Robert Jones, Jr, is also capitalized in all black just below the title. A gold circular sticker near the top right edge says “signed copy”. Book cover with a teenaged Back woman wearing glasses with her hair in curls styled above and around her head. She wearing a dark t-shirt. Her skin appears pink as if being seen from a different viewpoint. The title “the sound of Stars” is in Whit Kettering above her and the author’s name, Alechia Dow is across the bottom of the cover.
February 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Just remember in Germany the Nazis were doing what was legally right.
The people who hid Anne Frank in their attic were doing what was morally right.
February 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Pride Month, Juneteenth, and pretty much any month or holiday not celebrating a white man will no longer be recognized or celebrated by the administration. Is this the United States anymore?
February 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Sat down the other day to write a short tale about a person and their dog and end up with over 8,000 words and 18 pages. Anyone know of a place taking long literary fiction about loss?
January 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.
January 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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I’m hoping my book will become more popular. Disability representation is hard to market, especially in the fantasy romance department. But we deserve to be the heroes of the stories and to have our romances too! Hopeful it will be discovered and the word will spread.
January 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM