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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

Additionally, if you started to read a book that lacked a warning or disclaimer about its contents only to find sensitive or darker themes addressed in them, would you stop reading it and feel in a way, mad at the author for not including one?

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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 · 22/08/2025

“Gurl” is crazy work 😂 And I’ll get to it soon enough is my attitude about it.

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

He’s a pretty frustrating character and that could be due in part to the amount of time taken to explore his arc. I will say im not looking forward to other characters being the focus in subsequent arcs.

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Darnell Lee @dd-lee.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I finished earlier this year, I was pretty impressed with the action.

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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

I consider him a side character because his actions are in response to that of the Frodo and Sam. Please share your takes on your favorite side characters. #writingcommunity #bookcommunity #booksky #bvm

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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 · 28/01/2025

Dang. You ve convinced me to start skimming the foreword.

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

Honestly I just it was just about someone sharing their love of the story.

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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

Simply a fun question to ask and have answered. I just saw in opportunity to share my thought process as a writer. The post is reposted on my profile. #bookcommunity #writingcommunity #booksky

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

I also feel, personally, that for me to care about reach and money is an admission that my work is subpar/mediocre and that’s not what I write for. I write to create something masterful. Now I understand everyone has their own opinions and it was…

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

Should be counted as well. With the advent of BookTok/YouTube etc., more of those amazing stories that fell between the cracks or were independently published without the backing of a major house have been propelled to bestseller status…🧵

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

1. For reach 2. To provide 3. Against gate keepers 4. 1000 casual reads are better than 1 critical. For myself, I felt that critically acclaimed doesn’t mean the people in suits and such, tucked away in their offices. It the world today, social media book reviewers…🧵

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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

Lol. I just need you and all the good people to hold on for me. It’ll be worth it!

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

June 2026. Self-publishing

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

Werewolf dementia? In interested.

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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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