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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 17h

He knows no lullabies. So he hums drinking songs for three days. The General’s Blind Bride by AE McRoberts #BookSky #HurtComfort #WuxiaRomance #FantasyRomance

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ever argued with your boss so hard over eggs that you got pissed off and bit him? No? Just Mi An? 🤣 Coming soon! #Romantasy #RomanceBooks #Bookstagram #FantasyRomance #DragonRomance

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

She’s dying, furious, and arguing with the literal embodiment of Ending. He picked the wrong woman to intimidate. Tess & Ruin by AE McRoberts #BookSky #DarkRomantasy #MorallyGrayMMC #IndieBooks

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes, but my lack of any money stops me. besides I love drawing my own characters 🖤

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He lifts the wedding veil. His hand reaches the burn scars—and doesn’t change. The General’s Blind Bride by AE McRoberts #BookSky #ArrangedMarriage #DarkRomantasy #FantasyRomance

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Because I’m shit with technology and prefer the old school pencil and paper. Everything is digital now and I sort of like making them different than everyone.

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Her plan was to seduce the apocalypse. Unfortunately, the apocalypse learned how to flirt back. Tess & Ruin by AE McRoberts #BookSky #Romantasy #FantasyRomance #IndieAuthor

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am! I’m working on book 1 of an interconnected stand alone series based on the four auspicious beasts in Chinese mythology 🤩 so excited!

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

She breaks a teacup and braces for punishment. He lets it be nothing. The General’s Blind Bride by AE McRoberts #BookSky #WuxiaRomance #DarkRomantasy #IndieBooks

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes! This is from Tess and Ruin which is available now! books2read.com/u/b5Aagl

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He can end a city without blinking. Watching her hurt is what breaks him. Tess & Ruin by AE McRoberts #BookSky #DarkRomantasy #Romantasy #IndieBooks

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That’s our cold general 😍 he doesn’t know how to comfort his blind wife so he stays silent. Until he finds the right words 🖤

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He knows no lullabies. So the disgraced general sings soldiers’ drinking songs until his throat goes raw—because every time he stops, his dying wife slips back toward the dark. That’s romance. I will not be taking questions. #BookSky #WuxiaRomance

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Confession: I use AI every single day. Avoiding Instagram!!! Wait..... Wrong acronym......

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Creative process: make thing, hate thing, fix thing, over-fix thing, restore earlier version, call it intentional, eat snack.

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good rescue scene is not proof she is weak. It is proof the relationship has reached the point where someone will cross the room, battlefield, kingdom, or moral line to get to her. #bookthreads

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There should be a warning on dramas when the second male lead is TOO competent. I came here to enjoy myself, not develop a second household. #cdramthreads

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

She’s blind. Closing her eyes has never made the dark any darker. So when the blade comes, she keeps them open. I love a heroine whose courage has absolutely nothing to do with pretending she isn’t afraid. #BookSky #WuxiaRomance

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My entire writing career is powered by AI!!! Audacity and Impulse. Mostly audacity.......

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Indie author workflow: create entire civilization, establish magic economy, invent dynastic politics, spend afternoon Googling why the paperback margin moved two millimeters.

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The best HEA doesn’t feel like the story stopped hurting. It feels like the characters finally built something the hurt cannot repossess. #bookthreads

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

C-drama wardrobe department: here is a man in twelve pounds of embroidery who has not eaten or slept in four days. Me: husband material.

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Apparently the immortal who has watched cities die is perfectly functional until one mortal woman stops moving. Then 300,000 years of composure goes straight in the bin. #BookSky #DarkRomantasy

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AI wrote this book! Unfortunately, the AI was me at 2:17 a.m. making increasingly irresponsible decisions.

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love making art because unlike writing, the mistake is physically visible and can glare at me from across the room.

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Romance needs more widowed characters whose dead spouse is allowed to remain loved. New love should not require historical revisionism. #bookthreads

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The most romantic C-drama sentence is never ‘I love you.’ It’s something deranged like ‘the medicine is getting cold’ while his entire face is undergoing a constitutional crisis. #cdramthreads

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Their magic recognizes each other long before either of them is willing to call it love. Which is deeply inconvenient when being together can wreck a city. #BookSky #DarkRomantasy

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every author should learn to use AI. Authorial Instinct is surprisingly useful.

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The difference between ‘I am creatively inspired’ and ‘I have created a new project to avoid the current project’ is often only visible to God.

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The hottest fictional sentence category is ‘practical information delivered with catastrophic subtext.’ #bookthreads

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unpopular opinion: jealousy is only fun when the jealous character is embarrassed by their own behavior. I need dignity actively losing a knife fight. #cdramthreads

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

She forgets her own name before she forgets him. He has to be the one who tells her who she is. #BookSky #Romantasy

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yas!! Color-coded makes all the difference.

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

AI does most of my plotting. ...... By AI I mean Accumulated Insanity.

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Canva knows exactly when I am in a hurry and chooses that moment to make the element I need spiritually unselectable.

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I love a strong heroine. I also love when ‘strong’ means she is scared, exhausted, maybe crying, and still makes the decision anyway. #bookthreads

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Unpopular opinion: jealousy is only fun when the jealous character is embarrassed by their own behavior. I need dignity actively losing a knife fight. #cdramthreads

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She started a revenge seduction. He responded with, “Are you asking what I have done, or what I would do to you?” This is why evil plans need contingency sections. #BookSky #Romantasy

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I couldn’t write without AI. Aggressive Imagination has carried this entire operation. Successfully? You decide....

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is a special kind of creative arrogance in opening yesterday’s chapter thinking ‘I’ll just polish this’ and resurfacing four hours later with a new scene, two corpses, and no breakfast.

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Unpopular romance opinion: I don’t need enemies to lovers to be enemies. I need them to be deeply inconvenienced by attraction while holding incompatible objectives and ideally knives. #bookthreads

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t need a male lead to smile. I need him to look vaguely inconvenienced by love for 28 episodes and then commit one breathtaking act of emotional stupidity. #cdramthreads

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Soldiers fear him. Servants fear him. Entire rooms rearrange themselves around him. His blind wife feels his qi, considers the evidence, and basically says: nah. #BookSky #Romantasy

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I use AI for every book I write. Actual Intelligence..... Occasionally......🙃

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Writing is 10% divine inspiration and 90% realizing the perfect sentence has the word ‘looked’ in it six times.

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Everyone in the empire fears him His blind wife does not Turns out the cold general routine loses some effectiveness when your wife cannot see the face you are making 🐯The General's Blind Bride AE McRoberts tinyurl.com/GeneralsBride

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An author can write a nuanced 100k exploration of grief and still be defeated by the phrase ‘describe your book in one sentence.’ #authorthreads

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

C-drama law: if a man says ‘it’s nothing’ while actively leaking blood through three layers of silk, I am now emotionally responsible for him. #cdramthreads

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A man saying ‘I’m sorry’ is fine. A man quietly changing the behavior that hurt her is literature. #bookthreads

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