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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Finished and posted to my site, another indie book review/analysis. This one is: The Sorrow of The Wise Man by Bella Dunn. [link in comments]

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Good morning, Justs sent out my August "newsletter." This time around it features a creation story based on my fantasy series, something I plan to do each month. If interested and you like a quick fantasy read, join the newsletter on website.

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Do you put warnings and disclaimers in the front matter of your books? Why or why not? Would you read a book that does not have a warning or disclaimer?

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I haven’t been active here for sometime. Social media is a hassle to balance, especially when trying to build an audience/readership for book publishing.

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Finished this bohemoth of a book recently. I enjoyed it. #booksky

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I sent out my first newsletter today ! #booksky

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Hedley Lamar's fugly sister @endora-laduce.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This is why they've been working so hard to divide us by sex, gender, race, religion, class, GENERATION, party, region, educational status. Because if I DON'T LIKE YOU...I WON'T DEFEND YOU.

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Writers, we owe it to ourselves and that hopeful reader to conceive, write, and publish that story. I could potentially be the tale they need to get them through something or inspire the storyteller of the future. #booksky #writingcommunity #blacksky

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Had to make a critical change to the current WIP. It’s a bit frustrating that I had to but it’ll make the story more cohesive and even in tone. Writing this manuscript the second time around has a host new challenges to overcome. #Booksky

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

If I could record my inner thoughts, I’d probably written more than a dozen books by now. #Booksky #bookcommunity #writingcommunity

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Are their any contest for indie authors writing short story collections in speculative fiction? Also, where can I find a list or resource of writing contest for self-published/indie authors writing in the fantasy genre? #writingcommunity

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Who is the greatest side character ever written? I’d say Gollum. While a central character in The LoTR, Gollum at times provides guidance to the heroes. But more importantly he highlighted key strengths and weaknesses of Frodo and Sam. 🧵

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I don’t mind a short prologue. Anything more than three or four pages usually gets a skim through or I find a summary of it somewhere. Now, if you’re feeling your mostBrandon Sanderson self and want to do a prelude and a prologue…I’d read it based on the boldness alone. You?

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I realized I never shown my cat to you guys. His name is Grayson and he’s 7. I had him since he was two/three months old. He’s calm and affectionate so he makes a perfect companion. Don’t mind my son, he was calling for his mom. #writingcommunity #bookcommunity

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I spent the morning writing mythos for my fantasy novel series. It’s really amazing, what im creating. #bookcommunity #writingcommunity #booksky #fantasylit #blacksky

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I cam across a post where the poster asked, “If you can only choose one, would you prefer to be a critically acclaimed author or a bestselling one? I respond critical acclaim. I went through comments and most that I seen said best-selling for various reasons…🧵

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GinaDobsonBAB @ginadobson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It all started with a miscarriage. After a false report sent me to jail, my estranged family rallied to protect my son from my abuser while I fought murder charges & media attacks behind bars. #YouDeservePit #A #Q #NF #MEM

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

KINSHIP, a pitch-black thriller with horror elements featuring queer characters, long-lost siblings, and (of course) murder. 6 literary agents are currently reading it. Wouldn't you love to read it too? #Q #A #T #H #YoudeservepIt

Amber Baird: KINSHIP, 84k word horror-thriller agent's guide. Subversion of gothic tropes, long-lost siblings, true crime podcast, prey, family secrets, psychedelic, unhinged queer female protagonist, generational trauma, predators, meat, bears, remote California location, dark humor.

KINSHIP blurb. Megan's already trying to avoid the heat for what happened to her girlfriend's husband back in San Francisco, and now she has to help her incompetent new brother clean up a murder he commits, because that's what family's for... probably. Now if she wants to get back to her lover in one piece, she'll have to navigate her brother's taboo affections and dodge multiple suspicious parties. So much for her quiet weekend away.

KINSHIP first lines. Driving all night across the state in a part of California no one vacations in, a part that still belongs to the animals, my eyes burn for sleep. Car flanked as it is by clear paths as far as I can see, would it be so bad to let my eyes drift closed for just a moment?

KINSHIP, for fans of: Maeve Fly by CJ Leeds (surrealism), My Sister the Serial KIller by Oyinkan Braithwaite (exploration of family), A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers (dark humor), Blood Sugar by Sascha Rothchild (female rage).

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A traumatized boy, a resentful outcast, and their zealous leader, fates intertwine amidst a thousand years old conflict. Will it outlast them? See their choices shape the future of Thera✨ #YouDeservepIt #F #A #WIP #bookcommunity #booksky

The words A readers guide to The Shattered Realms Series, an Adult Epic Fantasy are set onto a parchment image.

The image is a parchment background with Blurb written at the top and the content posted below.

Come forth, the one to be named sworn. Take up the burden, hard and true…
The cycle of the void begins once more. The Shattered Realms is a world-defying, epic tale of revenge, discovery, and conquest that threatens to alter the course of the realms. An ancient power lost in time is rediscovered. The heroes of Thera, Aymer, Syric, and Keena must journey through the Realm to conquer their ghost, achieve their goals, and take up the mantle of the sworn to unite the world against its most powerful enemy.

The image is a parchment background with Tropes & Themes written across the top. A list of themes and tropes in the story are listed below.

Good vs evil
Epic quest
Magic systems
Multiple POV
Revenge
Political Intrigue
Dark fantasy elements
Power and corruption
Identify and destiny
Found Family

The image is a parchment background with the word Excerpt written across the top.

The excerpt text follows:
[Due to the length of the excerpt I must paraphrase]

A young boy stares down at trolls sparring in a courtyard. He expresses a contemptuous attitude toward them but finds himself drifting off into deep thoughts about events, unknown to the reader, that happened prior to

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Yaira Pujols @yairap.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The forbidden love between death and a mortal from BELLADONNA x the yearning from OUaBH x NOSFERATU'S dream haunting ability with a romantic tone. A vampire who desires death finds the key in the only women he’s ever loved. Doomed to eternal love or each other’s demise. #YA #WIP #Youdeservepit

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

⋆⁺₊ ✧ White Trash Witchcraft ✩ ₊ ˚. ⋆ Southern inheritances are always dark—But when Sierra’s dad succumbs to something even stronger than his usual opioids, she must decide which monsters to slay and which to become #YouDeservePit #Q #H #T #LitAgents #Agentsguide

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ellie 🥀 @mkbaffour.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Introducing 🐺 WIP on 🦋: A multi-generational family strewn over rival pack lines must decide what’s worth fighting for. 🩸 werewolf dementia 🩸 lycanthropy as gen. trauma 🩸 mate trope subversion 🩸 lycan gang war 🩸dysfunc. family #youdeserveplt #WIP #A #F

Mood board of Ellie’s werewolf work in progress. Theme is grayscale.

Background photos: forest from below with a wolf cut out, broken window with a man pointing a pistol through, close up of ashy eye, two men squaring up in front of crowd, carving of Remus and Romulus with mother wolf, 1920s woman putting on lipstick through foggy window, man holding hands up in front of people, someone jumping through window, four men standing beside a railing.

Cut outs: golden coin, claw slash mark, moon

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Kimberly Turner is ✨querying✨ @knturner-author.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

THE GAMES THE GODS PLAY x PERCY JACKSON Sam would do anything to save her dad. Even sell her soul. 🧙 adult fantasy 🪽 greek reimagining 🥾 hero's quest 😈 devil's bargain 🩷 demigod-mortal romance 💀 petulant gods 👨‍👧 heartbreak and healing #youdeserveplt #q #a #amquerying

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Introducing the protagonist of TSR Aymer, aged 13: Insecure, despondent, and determined. Syric, the dragon-marked: Cold, merciless, and resolute. Keena, the ever-daughter: , mysterious, and wise. They’ll need each other more than they know. #YouDeservepIt #A #F #WIP #booksky

A brown skinned boy, a dragon-man hybrid, and a brown-skinned woman pictures fade into the back ground filled with images of a stone tablet with glowing symbols, an open book, a battlefield, a dragon, and a shattered space.

These photos represent the ways these characters are connected and the journey that awaits them.

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Charlene Groome @charlenegroome.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Virgin River x Hallmark Christmas Single, unemployed and battling a health secret, crashing into her ex’s truck isn’t her only concern, he wants to make sure she hasn’t forgotten what she left behind and her diagnosis might be the answer to what she needs. #YouDeserveplt #Q clean #R

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

How much must a young kid endure to return home? Is there refuge in the world he walks with a target on his back. Fight or cower? A deeply connected tale of hope, triumph, hardship, and despair. The Shattered Realms #YouDeservepIt #F #A #WIP #bookcommunity #booksky

The image features a brown-skinned boy in the center. Imposed around the central image, from the top, moving clockwise, are images of a bow and word placed one over the other, a thunderous sky, a crystal, leather armor, a burning city, a battle, and crystal resting in the palm of a hand, a brutish troll, and the dock of a port city.

The images serve as a medium to convey the hardship and wonder that awaits the protagonist of the story.

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Kim 🪽| EDITING @k1mm1.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

⚔️Pride and Prejudice x LOTR An arrogant warrior and an idealistic king are bound by fate to save their husk of a world, run rampant by fiends; only he can save her dog from their clutches, and only she can be the key to saving his kingdom. #youdeserveplt #WIP #A #F

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Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

🌿Querying🌿 When Clove gives her name to a Japanese deity, she's pulled into their deadly, mythic world. KAMI TOUCHED is Spirited Away meets Outlander, where the FMC's greatest weapon is botanical science. #A #Q #JapaneseFolklore #YouDeserveplt #FantasyRomance @youdeservepit.bsky.social

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Almost 2am and im finally finished those #YouDeservepIt pitches. I severely underestimated just how busy my day yesterday. Lesson learned. 🌙 #bookcommunity #writingcommunity #booksky #bvm #blacksky

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Writing a book, then having a work meeting, while nap training a baby is a writer’s dream ✨ #writingcommunity #bookcommunity #blacksky #booksky #bvm

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Chapter 2 is complete. Took longer than expected because of some additional elements. I’ll have to mark up rewrites and add-ins tomorrow and get started on my pitches for #youdeserveplt #bookcommunity #writingcommunity #booksky

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Writers…how would you respond to a negative/poor book review by one of your peers, friends, or family? #writingcommunity #blacksky #bvm

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I want to participate in a pitch event but I unsure how. I’ve read the rules and such but can anyone who’s participated in an event recently or regularly provide some tips/advice. #YouDeservepIt #writingcommunity #bookcommunity

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Stephanie Maria @staylokey.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Spirit Guide me to the… Black writers ✍🏾 Black storytellers 📖 Black filmmakers 🎥 Black photographers 📸 Black creators 👩🏾‍🎨🎭 Black readers 📚 Black educators 👩🏾‍🏫 Black poets 🗣️ Black ex-pats ✈️ Black therapists 🤓 Black social workers 🫂 Black women, 92% 🤵🏾‍♀️ Black men, 80% 🤵🏾‍♂️ Black melanin magic 🪄 Ashay 😌👏🏾🙌🏾🙏🏾🫶🏾

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Fantasy authors, what or who do you use to create a map for your worlds? #booksky #bvm #writingcommunity

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

#dearfutureself You’re debut fantasy novel is a success✨

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Today is seeming like a wordless day. The mind is racing and unfocused. #bvm #writingcommunity

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Two chapters into this manuscript…it’s more intense than the last. #bvm #writingcommunity

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I’ve recently read this article and highlight the major points in the 🧵

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

A size-able post is coming soon…

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Another day of writing✨ I wrote the “prologue” yesterday and did a full rewrite of it. I’m happy about it. The best day of writing to you all! #writingcommunity #bookcommunity #booksky #bskywriters #bskyreaders #bsky

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

✨Good Friday, It was a great week for me.m: website launch, children’s book almost done, I gained 13 email subscribers. A lot of good stuff. Happy writing to everyone today👏🏾 and feel free to share your week in the comments. #writingcommunity #bookcommunity #booksky

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Alright✨ Here’s the house illustration that kicked my butt earlier. @RAWWkarma_ [on X] completed the rest of it and the video is posted on my website in the Vlog section. Website link is on my profile and in the 🧵 below. #bookcommunity #childrensbook #booksky #picturebook #writingcommunity

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Spent the last ⏰…I don’t know how long working on a house illustration for my children’s book. I’m not the illustrator ✍🏾 but I was unable to express what was in my mind effectively so I decided to attempt a drawing of it. 😄 Creatively?✨ I’m drained. 😅 but I must write.

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