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USURPER: OUT NOW
IMPOSTOR: 18 NOV 25
🏳️‍🌈They/Them
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The Lorcanverse returns with Nikolai Petrov

📚Character-driven
🏳️‍🌈 Achillean Romance 
🫶 Friend grp 
👨‍🏫 Mentors 
🏫🤫Academy setting & secret society 
💕Cinnamon RollxBlack Cat
🗺 New culture 
🙏 Ancient gods
🫶 Diverse rep 
👑 Political intrigue 
🖤 Dark fantasy

Goodreads 🔗 in bi0

#fantasy #childrenoflorcan
June 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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If you like characters you love to love and love to hate, reads that make you want to throw your book at the wall (or even across a kingdom), books you’ll never forget, check out Usurper. According to this reader, it'll leave you eager for more.

#Darkfantasy #vampires

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April 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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One month! Ebook is lowered to 99c!

Get your copy now!

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April 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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I will celebrate my first birthday as a published author with a big promotion on Usurper!

The ebook will cost 99c on itch, ko-fi and my site: 4-20 April.

If you get a paperback from my site you'll have the option to get the ebook free.

Offers: linktr.ee/thatwriterjess

Comment your questions!
April 4, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Hello, world.

I'm a published author today.

#Books #Indieauthor #Releaseday #Author #Writer #Fantasy
March 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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First Rose by Jake Vanguard @jakevanguard.bsky.social , Book 2 in the Deity Chronicles comes out May 25th! Cover Art by the very talented @replica004.bsky.social !

eARC applications still open!

Make sure to snag a copy of the first book First Snow to delve into this AMAZING world by May!

#Books
An image of the cover of “FIRST ROSE” by Jake Vanguard, with a graphic of 5 stars on top and “OUT May 25th” at the bottom. The cover shows a man in a black toga with long black hair holding a red rose. The background of the cover includes archways and greenery. The graphic includes some leaves and rose outlines! An arrow chart graphic for “FIRST ROSE” by Jake Vanguard. Surrounding an image of the book cover, text reads: Greek & Roman inspired village, Friends to lovers, High Heat, Satyr Myths, Family Bonds, Deities, Disability & Augmentations, Polyam Relationships, Trans FMC, Dual POV, Insta Love On top is a graphic with five stars and on the bottom is 'OUT MAY 25TH'. Some rose outlines and leave graphics around the edges A graphic containing the blurb of FIRST ROSE, including the release date of May 25th, 2025. The blurb reads: Five years after the cataclysmic events in Tadena, Helio is living her best life—until her sister, Zalika, gets attacked and her niece, Nyssa, is kidnapped. And to make matters worse, Zalika has transferred her responsibility as the deity of technology to Helio. Desperate to find the culprit and her niece, Helio sets out on a journey with her best friend, Julyen, to enlist the help of two other deities, Zanoah and Caean. Not only is she worried about Nyssa, she's also having to deal with the new forces coursing through her, which she’s unable to fully grasp and control. Their journey brings them to Evergarden, the home of Ambroz, the deity of lust and Helio’s new mentor. But learning to control her powers from him isn’t the only connection they form. As the two fall for each other, Helio finds herself torn between her attraction to Ambroz, missing her peaceful life in Tadena, worries about Nyssa and Zalika, and her fear of facing her sister's attacker—who wants to vanquish every single deity and cleanse the world of them. Can she face the man she once loved? And what will happen when she does?
February 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Usurper feels like...
January 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Excited and nervous! Happy reading!
January 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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THANK YOU to those who've signed up.

When you read and review books by indie authors, you help get those books in front of readers.

Signups close Wed 8 Jan

If you want to support me but don’t like ARC reading, you can still help by engaging with posts.

If you have any questions, drop them below.
January 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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📣 CALLING FANTASY ARC READERS

If you like:

📚Fantasy series w spinoffs
❤️‍🩹Anime & Fanfic flavored angst
💗Entangled found family and romance
🏳️‍🌈Straight & queer romance
👱‍♂️Cinnamon roll bestie
👑Political intrigue & prince to pauper
💔Idol-distance-hatred sibling angst

Comment ARC for 🔗

#booksky📚💙
Blue background with frame detail, featuring two book covers, one blue typographical titled 'EXCLUSIVE FOILED COVER' the other pink-based illustrated titled 'ILLUSTRATED COVER'. Both covers carry the title: USURPER. In the middle is text stating this is a fantasy, the first in a series and that the paperback comes with interior illustration. release date: coming 11 march 2025 and an invitation to find out more at site childrenoflorcan.com pink background with framing and book cover of an illustrated book titled Usurper. trope map around the book: Vampirism as otherness, family ties, prince to pauper, queerness, secrets, loyalty & deceit, envy, good & evil, sibling rivalry, love, found gamily and identity. website childrenoflorcan.com at the bottom
December 27, 2024 at 1:51 AM
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📣📚ATTN: ARC READERS WHO *DON'T* HAVE A GOOGLE ACCOUNT

If any of you are interested in applying for a Usurper eARC but can't fill in the form because of the sign-in, let me know and I can sign you up manually! (You can leave a comment or DM me )

Here's book info if you haven't caught it yet!
December 26, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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I have more...but here are the two brothers who make Usurper what it is. The work of the brilliant @kyuriart.bsky.social
December 24, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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📚CALLING FANTASY LOVERS: MAP ALERT📚

Have you seen the map of Denya?

Denya is a completely fictitious world geographically inspired by our own with entirely made up cultures.

3 continents
7 bodies of water
57 countries

Usurper comes out 11 March. eARC signups currently open.

Comment ARC for 🔗
December 23, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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eARC SIGNUP NOW OPEN!

If you'd like to register your interest h head over to forms.gle/u2t4Vxtq5Rjq... to fill in the form!

Content warnings are available on my website childrenoflorcan.com in the Books session.
December 19, 2024 at 11:10 AM
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Here is the second part of my introduction to the other notable characters of Usurper.

If you haven’t caught the other posts yet, head over to my grid. Not all of these characters have the same importance or page time and all of them occupy different roles.

Ask me anything in the comments.
December 18, 2024 at 10:20 AM
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Read the slides for a bit of background about other notable characters in Usurper aside from the main five. Something you'll notice is the mix of social backgrounds. The interaction between these different dynamics is a running theme in the Lorcanverse.
December 16, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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Let's take a look at the full illustration by the incredible @vitkovskayaart.bsky.social. For a breakdown of the different settings, you can head over to my IG where I've just posted with a description of all the landmarks.

The Petrov Palace is *key* in Usurper as well as a lot of the other books!
December 13, 2024 at 9:57 AM
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Caius is my black cat with a heart of gold, brought to life in his official portrait by my incredibly talented illustrator @kyuriart.bsky.social

For lovers of touch them and die, side characters who steal the show, and queer romance. For the wallflowers.

Intrigued? Caius has his own spinoff.
December 11, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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Meet Isabel , my firecracker, the girl born to dance, brought to life in her official portrait by my incredibly talented illustrator @kyuriart.bsky.social

Isabel is for the strong women that fight with their brains, the unapologetically human, the lovers of vibrance and life.

Ask me anything.
December 9, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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Meet Nikita Ivanov, the most golden of retrievers and the sweetest of cinnamon rolls. This is his official portrait by my incredibly talented illustrator @kyuriart.bsky.social

Nikita: for lovers of sunshine cinnamon rolls, bi legends, & believers of loving as much as you can with all you have.
December 6, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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Yevgeni Petrov, the king of cvnt, comes to life in his official portrait by my incredibly talented illustrator @kyuriart.bsky.social

For lovers of sass, angsty sibling rivalry, pride in queerness & antagonists capable of softness & venom in equal measure.

Intrigued? Yevgeni has his own spinoff.
December 4, 2024 at 11:28 AM
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Meet the man who was supposed to be the next Vampire King of Raspien, brought to life in this official portrait by my incredibly talented illustrator @kyuriart.bsky.social

Dmitry is the protagonist of Usurper.

Ask me about him in the comments!
December 2, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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It's blurb time! There's more info on my website, but here's a bite-sized piece for all the amazing people here on BSKY.

#writer #author #indieauthor #fantasy #fantasybook #childrenoflorcan #usurper #blurb
Cover slide with decorative framing and the text: A LORCANVERSE NOVEL CHILDREN OF LORCAN I USURPER THE BLURB Logo and site url at the bottom. A slide with decorative framing and text from a blurb. It reads: Dmitry Petrov was supposed to be the next Vampire King of Raspien. On the night of his eighteenth birthday, Dmitry unwittingly finds himself at the center of a scandal that turns his life upside down. Stripped of his titles, inheritance, and everything he’s ever known, Dmitry has to learn to live like the other side. Forced to question everything he’s been taught to believe, Dmitry is determined to forge ahead and build a new life far from the intricate politics and poison of a family bound to a golden chair and the weight of a crown once promised. But dressing a prince in overalls does not a pauper make, and no matter the distance he travels or how hard he tries to forget, Dmitry has to face a harsh and inescapable truth; that a fate born into is not so easily shaken. When he finds himself at the beck and call of a boy king with too much power and no patience, Dmitry begins to understand that there is more to inheritance than a title and a crown, and blood—indeed—runs much thicker than water. Logo and site url at the bottom. slide with decorative framing and a typographical blue cover with gold text titled Usurper in the center, author name J.M. Rose. Text reading Exclusive Foiled Cover at the top and date 11 March 2025 below. Logo and site url at the bottom
November 25, 2024 at 9:40 AM
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In case you missed yesterday's trope map... Here are the main themes of Usurper, out on 11 March 2025. Today, we give some love to this illustrated cover with a wraparound illustration, featuring the main character and a key setting. For the rest of the illustration visit childrenoflorcan.com
Lilac background featuring an illustrated book cover based on pink, with a building and a character silhouette. Around the cover is a selection of tropes/themes: vampirism as otherness, family ties, prince to pauper, queerness, secrets, loyalty& deceit, envy, good & evil, sibling rivalry, love, found family and identity. At the bottom of the post is a logo and a site url: childrenoflorcan.com
November 24, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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Did somebody say Trope Chart?

Usurper comes out 11 March 2025.

Today, we’re giving some love to the blue cover, a typographical cover with a very particular fantasy feel to it and gold foil finish. This paperback will be available for purchase in my online website shop and any physical events.
Blue typographical cover with a trope map around it including the following themes: vampirism as otherness, family ties, prince to pauper, queerness, secrets, loyalty & deceit, envy, good & evil, sibling rivalry, love, found family and identity. Logo at the bottom and website: childrenoflorcan.com
November 23, 2024 at 2:22 PM