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C.H. Schwartz

@chschwartz.bsky.social
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He/Him Fantasy Writer Fantasy books should have more romance, explosions, and romantic explosions. Working on HEDGE MAGE FOR HIRE, a cozy fantasy I support 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Rights ch-schwartz-author.com Pfp @adorashark.bsky.social 🚫NO AI 🚫

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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 1h
FUCK The Keeper of Magical Things audiobook was just as good now I'm all smiley and stuff
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Friends TV: Chandler Bing's Iconic Dance
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 4h
#WeeknightWriters ARCs for my upcoming debut are getting closer by the day. If you like witchy magic, daddy issues, sapphic friends to lovers, a city built around a bottomless pit named Pit's Burg, and magical animal companions, please follow me or sign up for my newsletter ch-schwartz-author.com 🙏
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 4h
#WeeknightWriters -Shapeshifters -Mindcontrol Evil Plot -Would you fall in love with me again? -So much banter -Magicpunk Tech -Gratuitous food/beach descriptions #FirstDraftFall
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 4h
#WeeknightWriters Getting more practice at diligent writing and evolving my process. I would like to be publishing one book a year, ultimately, and I need to improve my work process to accommodate that. #FirstDraftFall
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 5h
#WeeknightWriters I'm a word count guy, and I always aim for 100k total. It feels like the sweet spot for book length #FirstDraftFall
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 5h
#WeeknightWriters I really like writing cozy, and lighter character focused things. I'm going to be trying hard to balance the whole take over the world plot and action scenes with the quieter character moments to still end up cozy adjacent. #FirstDraftFall
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 5h
#WeeknightWriters A fantasy spy adventure about a shapeshifter going on vacation from saving the empire only for the resort to be a front and they have to save the empire again. And their long lost ex is staying there too. #FirstDraftFall
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Ange | Author A. M. Shilling @gunsmile.bsky.social · 19h
Books! Get your books here!! #BookSky #WritingCommunity
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 8h
#FirstDraftFall I wanted to give Hedge Mage some space before writing its sequel, and I wanted something that I was as invested in as a couple other book ideas I really want to make work. A standalone fantasy spy adventure seemed perfect.
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 9h
Clearly I have some sort of stomach bug, and yet here I am mad at myself for not being more productive with the sick day I took from work.
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AdoraShark 💜🦈 READ TONEDEAF!! @adorashark.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🎉TONEDEAF! HAS LAUNCHED!! 🎉 TONEDEAF!, the comic project that I've been working on in my free time for over 3 years, is now officially live! You can read the complete 30-page first chapter (plus a smaller 4-page prologue thing) at my new website: adorashark.com 🔁 Reposts greatly appreciated!! 💜
A cover for the first chapter of TONEDEAF!, my webcomic. The top 1/4 of the page is a header made of a crumpled piece of looseleaf paper that has clearly been torn from a spiralbound notebook. The paper has scribbled on it "TONEDEAF! Track One: This Can't Be It".

(Names referred to in this section are different characters from TONEDEAF!)
Below that is a large fisheye drawing of the path leading to a large building labeled "DETRALEIGH CONVENTION CENTER". The camera is above the characters' heads and is angled down to look at them. All characters are dressed from a range of business-formal to business-casual. Nearest to the camera are Rhapsody and Maz, on the right and left respectively. Rhapsody is draping a navy sportcoat over her shoulder as she confidently looks up at the camera. Maz looks at the camera with a netural expression. To the right, midway down the path, is Quota, who has her back turned to the camera and is holding out her smartphone with a stylus. On the left, a bit further down the path, is Ruby, smugly looking back at the camera while holding a coffee. In the far distance, right in front of the building, are Ar and Dee. Ar is tripping and spilling a coffee, while Dee watches ambivalently. At the bottom of the page, below all the characters, is the text "by AdoraShark" along with a holographic sticker graphic with the "AS26" signature on it.A full page from the TONEDEAF! comic. Page transcription:

(Names referred to in this section are different characters from TONEDEAF!)

[PANEL 1]
6:00 PM
The outside of a line of downtown street buildings, with only the top half or so of the buildings actually visible. The sun sets in a vibrant orange in the background, which fades into a dark purple at the top of the page. A large neon sign juts out between two of the buildings that reads "ANACRUSIS - BAR + LIVE MUSIC" and depicts an acoustic guitar.
RHAPSODY (WAILING): WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The wail from Rhapsody starts in a much larger font and trails down the page, behind the neon sign, and into panel 2.

[PANEL 2]
RHAPSODY: ...AAAAAAA I can't DO this anymorrreeeeee.
Rhapsody and Mazurka sit across from each other at a dimly lit bar booth with red leather seats. Mazurka has her arms crossed and is looking down at Rhapsody, who has collapsed onto the table with tears streaming down her face and her arms spread out. In Rhapsody's right hand is a half-drunk margarita.An excerpt of a page from TONEDEAF!, my webcomic. These panels reads:

(Names referred to in this section are different characters from TONEDEAF!)

A shot of Caprice laying in bed, now from the perspective of the ceiling looking down at her. She stares sadly at the ceiling, with her left arm under the covers and her right arm folded so her hand rests gently on her chest. The laptop with the video call visible on-screen sits on the bed on the right side of the panel (Caprice's left), illuminating the scene. The left side of Caprice's face is lit up by the laptop, with the right half covered in darkness.
CAPRICE: I'm still angry. All these years later. And I hate that. I've come so far, and yet, she still gets in my head.
CAPRICE: She taught me that the people who love me won't do a thing for me. That they don't actually care.
CAPRICE: And I still, all these years later, struggle with unlearning that.An excerpt of a page from TONEDEAF!, my webcomic. These panels reads:

(Names referred to in this section are different characters from TONEDEAF!)

[PANEL 1]
Maz has now walked over to Rhapsody, carrying both plates in one arm. She smacks Rhapsody on the head with the spatula with a pleased look on her face. Rhapsody recoils from the hit, but still has a large smile on her face.
MAZ: I'm joking, you dunce.
RHAPSODY: Agh-! Hey!

[PANEL 2]
Maz hands one of the plates down to Rhapsody with a smile. Rhapsody has her hand on the top of her head and is making a sheepish expression towards Maz as she takes the plate from her.
RHAPSODY: Did you bring the spatula over here just to whap me with it?
MAZ: I dragged your drunk ass here last night and made you breakfast. I think I've earned one gentle whap.
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 13h
Love finding a bunch of new writers through a prompt game
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 13h
#LitHodgePodge 1 This one already seems fun. I'm C.H., I write cozy/adventurous fantasy novels that are character focused. I like romantic subplots and more mystical magic systems.
Literary this or that: My answers
Paperback series laughs coffee hero character-driven computer sweet soundtrack bookmark pantser minimalist vomit draft midnight
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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 13h
💙📚🪐 New month, new BookFunnels of #freebooks and #discountbooks! Some of these are by folks you can chat with this weekend at Hearthcon Online and get at a discount from Cozy the Day Away. First up, free cozy fantasy: books.bookfunnel.com/freecozyfant...
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Free Cozy Fantasy - October (NO AI)
Enjoy these cozy fantasy books, FREE for a limited time!
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Sill Bihagia @sillauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I really think the bookstore industry is booming because they 1) vet titles and keep out AI and 2) provide an increasingly rare third space to hang out and relax. The world is brighter because of them. Thanks to @bnpasadenamd @2ncharrisburg, and @bookexchange for carrying #RedDemon 🚫AI 💙📚️🪐 🏳️‍🌈📚️💫🌶️🧬
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wow that is a disgusting take from an author
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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 01/10/2026
ohyeah last day of #SapphicSeptember! Pick up a romantic adventure or five in ancient Greece or SPAAAAACE while they're #OnSale! #SapphicRomance #SapphFic #LesFic #QueerBooks #BookSky💙📚🌈📚🌶️
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#AwesomeCharacters Artemisia is going to write a scene where she has an idea for a magical artifact or charm and it works perfectly the first time. #WriteSky #WritingaCommunity #WritingPrompt
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cannot thank @megwyn.bsky.social enough for drawing Artemisia and Mylia for me. Having character art is such a amazing thing. It's nice to see them happy and relaxed together after what I put them through :D #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #CozyFantasy
The main characters of my upcoming novel Hedge Mage for Hire relaxing together. Artemisia is wearing a colorful witch's hat and reading a book while Mylia is drinking a cup of tea.
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K.S. Nightingale (Kai) @ksnightingale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
September 30 and I only have $200/$750 - if we can get to $500 I'll be okay and can worry about the rest during October. Anything you can help with keeps me housed and fed this month. Thanks.
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Khonri 🫜🎃 @khonri.com · 30/09/2026
I am jingling this as a form of "hey, if it helped, I wouldn't mind a tip." However, I am NOT in any kind of critical need. I do have an upcoming dental work appointment for a senior cat I adopted thanks to bluesky and we're looking at anywhere from $2100-$2800 in total that this would help offset.
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wow, looking into marketing graphics and stuff is so much shittier since everything everywhere is AI. I wish I just had a cannon I could fire the book into people's homes with
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#FantasyIndiesSeptember Wrap up This month has been great, I got character art, I got the book is close to being ready to submit for proofs which means hopefully eARCs soon, and I completed an 11k short story for the first time in years. #WriteSky #WritingCommmunity
Fantasy Indies September Wrap Up
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still mambo @strangeauthor.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Stu Macher: Yeah! I'm ready, baby!
Alt: Stu Macher: Yeah! I'm ready, baby!
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wish I knew what my brain needed, I've been going through mood whiplash like crazy today
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fellow readers/writers, what colors on a book color give cozy to you the most? For me its greens and blues, but I'm curious. Yes this is related to me struggling to determine what color palettes I like best for my cover lol #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #cozyfantasy
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Kaira Loi (Scifi/Romantasy/Fantasy Author) @kairaloi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you enjoyed these movies, you might sure enjoy the Immortal Nox series! 🩵 📖 Immortal Nox (Book 1-4) Available in Paperback, and eBook. (Amazon, Itchio, Kobo, and PATREON) www.moiraepubs.com
Compareble movies (Old guard. Lord of the Rings, Dungeons and Dragons, Stardust, Mr. Right) to the Immortal Nox novel series written by Kaira Loi
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Things only matter if we make them money. I wish the average person understood that was the lens that the people in power viewed us through.
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 27/03/2026
**Q. You want to raise every boy as a girl?**
Yes.

**Q. Why?**
A boy will learn to hate girls as long as he is raised in such a way where he is treated as better, and superior to, his girl peers, whenever he is cruel to girls. So, instead, we raise boys as girls.

**Q. What if they say they are not a girl, and want to be acknowledged as a boy?**
Then you know they are a boy, so you must make sure to understand them as a boy, and not a girl. 

**Q. What does it mean to be 'raised as a girl'?**
That's up for you to decide. The only difference is that you should not raise boys any differently than you raise girls, since you raise every boy as a girl.

**Q. Girls and boys are raised in specific ways for specific purposes, so it does not make sense to raise boys as girls.**
If you raise every boy as a girl, then there is no being which is not raised as a girl, so anyone raised as a girl necessarily must learn to do anything and everything to grow up, without restrictions on tasks, labours, or interests.

**Q. But boys and girls are different.**
All two girls are different, and raising girls in one specific way destroys this individuality in favour of moulding girls to serve the same master. Still, the girls resist to live life on their own terms. If girls can be raised such that they know they can do anything they want, including not being girls, so too will boys raised as girls. 

**Q. Why not raise every girl as a boy?**
Because if a girl does not exist among boys, then the girl is made. 

**Q. Why not raise girls and boys as themselves?**
The self must be made in a world where girls and boys can first and foremost be themselves. One step towards this goal is to raise every boy as a girl. 

**Q. The way people raise girls is cruel, so why would you raise boys with that cruelty?**
If you raise girls with cruelty, then you should stop being cruel to girls.
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#FantasyIndiesSeptember 29 - Extrovert/Introvert I've long made peace with the fact that I am an extrovert despite wishing I was an introvert. I do still need alone time to recharge my batteries after events, however. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
Fantasy Indies September 29 - Are you/MC an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh shit more cover design options given
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Chris Pratt Shocked Happy Reaction
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K.S. Nightingale (Kai) @ksnightingale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
September 28th, and I have not seen much movement. Rent is the most pressing thing I need to cover, currently. Anything helps. Thank you.
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hah, pursuant to yesterday's topic, woke up yo another rejection this morning. Bummer as it is its nice to see one move from no response to at least a canned response.
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Its such a different skill but I'm kind of coming to enjoy revisions. You really can see how much better something gets through a second and third pass.
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🥀Megwyn Rose🥀 @megwyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Screaming!!! 😍🖤❄️✨️🌙 #WIP #WitchHazelComic #WitchHazelArt
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No agents have wanted it and everyone who has read it has told me they think it should be out there for others. #WritingPrompt
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#AwesomeCharacters For HMFH, I think Artemisia starts with a flawed perception of herself and what she needs. She thinks its freedom to do what she wants, but its really love, community, and an escape from loneliness that she's after. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Noticed at the book store theres a bunch of cozy fantasy books about villains retiring to the countryside. I wonder what that says about where we're at. If cozy fantasy was about escaping the high stakes, is this subset driven by a desire to see the villains in our life be contrite?
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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Periodic reminder that dropping a note telling a writer you liked a thing they wrote takes like 4.5 seconds and recharges our batteries for 27-28 hours a pop
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#FantasyIndiesSeptember Day 28 You shouldn't spend your time doing something that you don't like. As a writer we are not owed someone finishing our book. That said, I almost never DNF a book. It has to be basically unreadable prose wise for me to do that. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
Fantasy Indies September Prompt List Day 28 Thoughts on DNFing books
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Witch Bunny looks so good www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nRa...
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Witch Bunny | Clip — “The Day We Met”
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a really tough one. If we're going like most recent writing, it's @rebeccathorne.bsky.social 's Tomes and Tea making me realize what I wanted in both cozy genre and effective prose. Overall it's Brian Jacques' Salamandastron for making me like fantasy to begin with People should read both
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have an intense desire for an entire Costco pumpkin pie
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Okay brain today is going to be good and you can't stop me
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meeting people in the writing and art spaces on here has been so incredible. Thank you all for being awesome people
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Name your fav bad movie
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Sahara: I Think We Need To Pull A Panama
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🥀Megwyn Rose🥀 @megwyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Escapism in art is the only reason I'm still here. I really want to make things for others to help make their worlds a little brighter. Art saved and continues to save my life, it's my one true passion and love in this life I hope to someday give some of that hope & light back through my stories 🖤🙏
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Use a vid, GIF, or pic to describe your mood today!
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Papi from Monster Musume: Exhausted Anime
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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Watching Fringe with my wife and its making me miss longer seasons of shows. We got to delve into characters a lot more and have breather episodes. And they used to do like 24 episodes a year, now it takes like 6 years to get 24 episodes of something
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