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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 13/08/2026

Meet Mahalina and Andreas from my fairy tale romantasy FEATHERS BENEATH THE SKIN 🪽🍃❤️‍🔥 These two never shenan once. They shenanigan and again and again… Thank you to @nathcreare for bringing these sexy chaotic fools to life🫶

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 13/05/2026

I'm now repped by the wonderful Safae El-Ouahabi, Associate Agent at RCW Literary 📚🎉 Safae’s warmth, determination, and excitement for my projects made it easy to see why she'd be a fantastic partner for my writing career 🥳 Here's to the next phase of my author journey 🥂

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 30/04/2026

🗡️KNIGHT & THE MOTHxPRINCESS BRIDE💕 ❤️‍🔥reluctant lovers on an epic quest 🎶 a rakish bard / exiled knight 🦇 Philippine folklore 🍃 sentient forests 🏴‍☠️ shenanigans in a pirate city 🎭 masquerade balls 🌶️ a dash of spice ⚔️deadly trials to false gods 👑overthrowing tyrants #QuestPit #Q #F #R #A 🇵🇭

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 30/04/2026

🗡️KNIGHT & THE MOTHxPRINCESS BRIDE💕 ❤️‍🔥reluctant lovers on an epic quest 🎶 a rakish bard / exiled knight 🦇 creatures from Philippine 🇵🇭 folklore 🍃enchanted sentient forests 🏴‍☠️ shenanigans in a pirate city 🎭sneaking into masquerades 🌶️ a dash of spice 👑overthrowing tyrants #QuestPit #Q #F #R #A

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 29/04/2026

🗡️KNIGHT & THE MOTHxPRINCESS BRIDE💕   A sky maiden lost her wings  A religious tyrant stole them A disgraced knight knows how to get them back…but it won’t be easy ☠️mythical monsters 🍃enchanted woods 🏴‍☠️pirate city  🎭corrupt courtiers  🔪deadly trials  #QuestPit #Q #F #R #A 🇵🇭 Philippine fairy tale

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 29/04/2026

Mahalina lost everything  her people slaughtered 🪦  her home destroyed🔥  her wings gone🪽...or so she thought  A tyrant king stole them A disgraced knight knows how to get them back  ☠️pirate cities🍃enchanted woods🎭masquerade balls🔪deadly trials ...what could go wrong? #QuestPit #Q #F #R #A 🇵🇭

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 19/04/2026

🗡️KNIGHT & THE MOTHxPRINCESS BRIDE💕 ❤️‍🔥reluctant lovers on an epic quest 🎶 a rakish bard / exiled knight 🦇 creatures from Philippine folklore 🍃 sentient forests 🏴‍☠️ shenanigans in a pirate city 🎭 masquerade balls 🌶️ a dash of spice ⚔️ deadly trials 👑 overthrowing tyrants #PosterPit #R #F #A #Q 🇵🇭

PosterPit #PosterPit entry for adult fantasy romance novel FEATHERS BENEATH THE SKIN by Deanna J. Valdez. Inspired by the Philippine Sky Maiden Fairy Tale and 16th century early colonial period. A sky maiden on an epic quest to overthrow the tyrant king. An exiled kingsguard that loves to sing and flirt. Dark creatures, deadly trials, pirate cities, masquerade balls and more. Image of paintings of a crown, a sky maiden/angel with a golden halo.Mahalina was a sky maiden destined for immortality in the heavens until one brutal night COST HER EVERYTHING. Her people slaughtered. Her home destroyed. Her wings cleaved from her back and lost forever....OR SO SHE THOUGHT.

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 18/04/2026

🗡️KNIGHT & THE MOTH x PRINCESS BRIDE💕 A sky maiden lost her wings  A tyrant king stole them An exiled kingsguard knows how to get them back…but it won’t be easy 🦇 mythical monsters 🍃sentient woods ⚔️ pirate cities 🎭 masquerades 🔪 deadly trials ...what could go wrong? #PosterPit #R #F #A #Q 🇵🇭

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 18/04/2026

So excited to chat about writing groups this morning!! Bring your coffee/tea and come say hi 👋

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 18/04/2026

Mahalina lost everything  her people slaughtered 🪦  her home destroyed🔥  her wings gone🪽...or so she thought  A tyrant king stole them A disgraced knight knows how to get them back  ☠️pirate cities🍃enchanted woods🎭masquerade balls🔪deadly trials...what could go wrong? #PosterPit #R #F #A #Q  🇵🇭

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 15/04/2026

How’s the writing going, you might ask? Well I wrote one line today, and it was the title of a meeting that I invited a friend to so that I can lock down some decisions that I probably should have made weeks ago 🫶

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 12/04/2026

🗡️KNIGHT & THE MOTHxPRINCESS BRIDE💕 Meet Mahalina + Andreas ❤️‍🔥reluctant lovers on an epic quest 🎶 a rakish bard / exiled knight 🦇 Philippine folklore 🍃enchanted sentient forests 🏴‍☠️ shenanigans in a pirate city 🎭 masquerade balls 🌶️ a dash of spice 👑overthrowing tyrants #ProfilePit #Q #F #R #A 🇵🇭

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 11/04/2026

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 11/04/2026

🗡️KNIGHT & THE MOTHxPRINCESS BRIDE💕 A sky maiden lost her wings  A religious tyrant stole them A disgraced knight knows how to get them back…but it won’t be easy ☠️mythical monsters  🍃enchanted woods  🏴‍☠️pirate city 🎭 masquerade balls 🔪deadly trials  #ProfilePit #Q #F #R #A 🇵🇭

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 09/04/2026

Come here me chat with really cool people about writing in groups with really cool people ☺️🫶✨🚀

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 08/04/2026

Why is the main character from my new WIP, ❤️‍🔥🍒THE SUN THE MOON THE MONSTER🦇🌶️🌴 a dancer? Because I am! 💃 🪩✨📚💙🪐

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 05/04/2026

I’ve become a meme factory for fantasy romance girlies ✨⚔️❤️🔮📚💙🪐🌶️ (procrastinating on my plotting)

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 30/03/2026

I started plotting my urban fantasy romance with a pole dancing, motorcycle driving manananggal assassin on a mission to seduce and kill a (sexy) sun god set in a modern Vegas + LA filled with gods and monsters 😈🍸🌞💋🎰🌊🎥 which is SO EXCITING but me, the author, am in bed at 8pm with a herbal tea 🍵

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 29/03/2026

Finally made it out to @joiedelivresmtl.bsky.social , an amazing Montreal bookstore/café/bar. My books there are now signed. And I got to hang with my friend @deannajvaldez.com

Kate and Deanna smiling near the neon Joie de Livres sign in the back.

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 02/03/2026

Welcome to the #agentguide for FEATHERS BENEATH THE SKIN 🪽 💕reluctant lovers on an epic quest 🎶 a rakish bard / exiled knight 😉 a dash of humour 🦇 Philippine folklore 🍃 sentient forests 🏴‍☠️ pirate cities 🎭 masquerade balls ⚔️deadly trials 👑 battling religious tyrants #agentsguide #fantasyromance

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 12/12/2025

Writers truly never clock out 🫠 I’ve started intense and time-consuming research* for my 🌞west coast 🎰🍸urban filipino fantasy feat. gods, monsters, strip clubs, Hollywood parties, casinos and convertibles *rewatching Buffy *rewatching Angel *rewatching Charmed What else should I research*?

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Laura @rural-laura.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Last year his estate donated the royalties for Last Christmas to his charity that offers funding for LGBTQIA+ orgs and they said they'd do it again this year. Listen to it loads!

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Lark “Tornado” Morgan Lu @larkmorganlu.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I want more fun mashups a thousand and one arabian nights but its terminally online tiktok doomscroll brainrot hansel and gretel giant robots hatsune miku x barbie romcom

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 21/10/2025

Here’s a little thread of the pitches of chaotic romantic fantastical novels I’ve outlined rotting in my goblin writing brain ✍️❤️‍🔥🕯️

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Kathryn Duval @kathrynduval.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Affirmations are so important.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

i like that if your robbery is sufficiently cool it becomes a heist

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 19/10/2025

It was an absolute JOY to moderate the WHO’S TELLING THIS STORY (AND HOW?) panel at #CanCon2025 ❤️ We could have gone on forever about POV, first person vs third close narrative, and unreliable narrators!

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 19/10/2025

Pictured: @ellieabouttown.bsky.social and I taking quick breaks to eat and dance between all the fun CanCon activities ❤️ Not pictured: @ellieabouttown.bsky.social and I sprinting to get to panels in time and taking nap breaks in the car 💤 Balance 🫶

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 19/10/2025

#CanCon2025 highlight: THE MONSTROUS RETELLINGS PANEL! Honoured to share the table with fabulous authors @kateheartfield.com, @anuja-v.bsky.social and Derek Newman-Stills 🫶 The room was PACKED the audience was ENGAGED and I had the BEST time!

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 19/10/2025

Last day of #CanCon2025 and I can’t believe it’s almost over!! I’ll be on a panel for THE TASTE OF SADNESS: WRITING EMOTIONAL DYSREGULATION 🥀🥺🌊🍂 Come by to discover what makes people cry and all the ways we embody sadness for writing the feels 🫶

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

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Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 15/10/2025

Sending and receiving panel questions for @canconsffh.bsky.social and let me tell you, these talks are going to be SO COOL 👀✨📝

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 12/10/2025

Anyone else going to @canconsffh.bsky.social? 👀🍂📚💕 I can’t wait ahhhhhhhh 😍

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 09/10/2025

Excited to be admitted into @futurescapesww.bsky.social Long Manuscript Workshop to work with Editor, Dianna Vega on my romantic fantasy adventure FEATHERS BENEATH THE SKIN 🎉🪽 Can't wait to meet my cohort and dig into the novel I've been obsessing over this year ❤️

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 09/10/2025

With only a ⚔️disgraced knight🔥 to aid her quest, Mahalina battles: ☠️mythical monsters 🍃enchanted woods 🏴‍☠️pirate city 🎭corrupt courtiers 👑ruthless tyrant 🔪deadly trials to reclaim her lost wings🪽and ascend to heaven ..but the real risk is trying not to fall in love⚔️🔥  #DVPit #A #F #R #Asian #LGBT

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 08/10/2025

When Mariposa’s father disappears, he leaves her a prophecy She must enter the perilous Wishing Wood to find him In a world of 🕯️wishing curses 🎪enchanted markets 🕷️deadly riddles ⚔️impossible trials 💀false gods nothing is certain and nothing is free   #DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 08/10/2025

Dutiful daughters do not enter the Wishing Wood🕯️ The Good and Gracious Gods condemn wishing above all❤️‍🔥 But when Mariposa’s father disappears he leaves her with a prophecy... Enter the Wood🍂 Face the monsters ☠️ Follow the butterflies crawling up her throat🦋 #DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 08/10/2025

The nerd in me has been absolutely buzzing at DVPit since I have 2 projects and have been posting almost every hour ⏰ I’m getting real time feedback on what imagery works, what pitch formats, and best of all the comparison between hours most active or inactive 😍

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 08/10/2025

🌊THE RIVER HAS ROOTS x THE SUMMER WAR🍃 🕯️Dutiful daughters do not enter the Wishing Wood🍂🕷️ But when Mariposa’s father disappears, he leaves her a prophecy🖌️ She must enter the forest to find him, but will she be devoured by the false gods trapped within?🕷️ #DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 08/10/2025

Mahalina lost everything her people slaughtered🪦 her home destroyed🔥 her wings gone🪽...or so she thought A religious tyrant stole them👑 A ⚔️disgraced knight❤️‍🔥 knows how to get them back  ☠️monsters🍃enchanted woods🎭evil courtiers🔪deadly trials...what could go wrong? #DVPit #A #F #R #Asian #LGBT 🇵🇭

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 08/10/2025

Do not enter the Wishing Wood🍂 The Good and Gracious Gods condemn wishing above all🕯️ But when Mariposa’s father disappears, he leaves her a prophecy🖌️ She must enter the dark forest to find him, but will she be devoured by false gods trapped within?🕷️ #DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 08/10/2025

🗡️THE KNIGHT & THE MOTHxEVER AFTER💕 A sky maiden lost her wings A religious tyrant stole them A disgraced knight knows how to get them back…but it won’t be easy ☠️mythical monsters 🍃enchanted woods ☠️pirate city 🎭corrupt courtiers ☠️deadly trials  ❤️‍🔥reluctant lovers #DVPit #A #F #R #Asian #LGBT 🇵🇭

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 08/10/2025

The support from DVPit has been so 🥹❤️ Gotta love when the writing community shows UP🙌 All your projects are so amazing, I wish I could reply to them all but manifesting agent and editor engagement for all of you 🫶

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 08/10/2025

Mariposa knows only false and fallen gods await in the Wishing Wood🕷️ But when her father disappears, he leaves her with a prophecy🖌️ She must enter the forest to find him🍂 Can she survive the wood's tests or will she be devoured by the monsters within?💀 #DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 08/10/2025

Mahalina was a sky maiden destined for immortality in heaven🪽 But a tyrant stole her magic wings to fuel his evil reign 👑 Can she reclaim what’s hers against all odds and ascend? OR will she stay and fight for a broken world, even if it costs her immortality?🔥 #DVPit #A #F #R #Asian #LGBT

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 08/10/2025

🗡️THE KNIGHT & THE MOTHxEVER AFTER💕 A sky maiden on a quest for her stolen wings must fight to reclaim what’s hers. 👑 religion as control 🇵🇭 Philippine fairy tale ⚔️ hot knight 🍃 enchanted forest ☠️ floating pirate city 🎭 masked ball 🌌 deadly trials ❤️‍🔥 reluctant lovers #DVPit #A #F #R #Asian #LGBT

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Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️ @deannajvaldez.com · 08/10/2025

THE SALT GROWS HEAVY x THE SUMMER WAR 🕯️Dutiful daughters do not enter the Wishing Wood🍂🕷️  But when Mariposa’s father disappears, he leaves her a prophecy🖌️ She must enter the forest to find him, but will she be devoured by the monsters trapped within?🕷️ #DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT

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