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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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February 2, 2025 at 5:54 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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@barnesandnoble.com what is your stance on disabled representation for YA? Because this is what kids need to see, & not just the disabled kids
January 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Im trans nonbinary, and my book is for sale on my website: therealphoenixrises.com
A teen boy in blue jeans and a gray gamer t-shit and red and white sneakers is standing in a path in a forested area. Behind him is what looks like bushes but is actually another boy, chest high to him but covered in leaves and with bright orange-yellow eyes. The first boy is leaning on a cane in his left hand and holding up a shining crystal cube in his right, which is a prosthetic hook on the end of a prosthetic arm that begins at his elbow. The background is hazy blue. The title and authors name are capitalized, the title across the top,”A Discovery of Talents, and the author across the bottom, “Phoenix McDonald”.
January 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Amazon already listed them for sale, so it’s official, I’m the author of a published novel!
January 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Last character reveal before the release tomorrow! Yuri of the Cativera is the first of their people you’ll meet in the book. They are a great character and a favorite of mine.
January 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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I have opened the store on my website and the special Lysomnus packages are available. They won’t ship until after the 21st, but they are on sale now, so you can get yours locked in now!
January 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Here’s Leopold Larson! Marcus’s best friend and a very popular character with early readers, this wisecracking teen will be meeting the world in one week! Check out A Discovery of Talents on Amazon and on my website on the 10th of January.
January 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Queer NB author, my new book has LGBTQ rep in it and is first in a trilogy!
January 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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What an amazing feeling to hold my book in my hands!
ONE WEEK from today it releases to everyone!
A happy, smiling white person with a shirt Mohawk style haircut is holding up a book next to their head. The book is “A Discovery of Talents” by Phoenix McDonald. Centered on the cover is a teenaged boy with black hair holding up a glowing cube in the hook of a prosthesis. In his other hand he leans on a cane. Back to back behind him in a boy armpit high to him who is entirely covered in leaves with glowing orange-yellow eyes, Turing to look to the front.
January 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Ten days from today, A Discovery of Talents will release and my first novel will be a reality. My disabled YA fantasy will be available for readers everywhere!
December 31, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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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 18
#Books
#BookSky
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#BookChallenge
December 31, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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Christmas kitty
Gray and black striped cat lying on a rumpled red Christmas tree skirt with a white border. He’s beneath the tree and the lights are reflecting off the laminate wood floor. A red and green ornament is dangling in front of his face as he stares at the photographer.
December 31, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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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 17 I think, because I duplicated a few days there and my memory’s shot
#Books
#BookSky
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#BookChallenge
December 30, 2024 at 6:00 AM
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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 13
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
December 28, 2024 at 5:55 PM