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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Goodreads page set up ✅️ StoryGraph page set up ✅️ Proof en route ✅️ ARC team assembled (tonight's the last night applications are open!!) ✅️ T-minus 53 days until launch!! #CourtOfGildedShadows #DarkFantasy #DarkFantasyRomance #DarkRomantasy #EpicDarkRomantasy #VampireRomance #fae #vampires

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

-cries in 90 page series bible that wont stop growing-

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Someone help a girl out: if Goodreads automatically pulls listings from Amazon once the book is launched, how the heck do I put my book on Goodreads for ARC readers to review beforehand without confusing the system? Or do I just... not? The Librarians are taking too long to answer my question. 😂😂😂

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Oh whaaaaaat? 100 followers? That's bananas. Hi, welcome, everyone! I'm trying to be more active around here and participate in conversations again. Perhaps I should do another little introduction for my new friends. :D 🧵1/5

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I'll be happy to never have to publish a first book ever again--there is SO much to get set up to make sure everything runs smoothly in September. #IndieAuthor #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A plan I can absolutely get behind.

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Feedback is already coming in and I just 🥹🥹🥹🥹 Still a few ARC slots left for anyone who wants to join the team 👉👉 bit.ly/cogsarcform

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It's 🔥🔥🔥, so many things I am loving right now. (If this comment isnt allowed please delete 😅) Literally holding my breathe in so many parts at the beginning and finally decided I must go to sleep once I've hit chapter 13. But tomorrow...or today (😅), right back at it!

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Sooooooo ARCs went out today and I might 🤮 Being a writer is basically a constant volley of "Can't wait for this to be in the world!" and "oh no someone will read this". Anyway, hiding away for the next forever. 🫣 #IndieAuthor #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

ARC acceptance emails are going out this week. YOU GUYS. ARC ACCEPTANCE EMAILS ARE GOING OUT THIS WEEK. I am not well. 🫣 Still time to join the ARC team 👉 bit.ly/cogsarcform #CourtOfGildedShadows #DarkFantasy #DarkFantasyRomance #DarkRomantasy #EpicDarkRomantasy #VampireRomance #ARCReadersWanted

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Oooooh, LOVE this question! I can't think of anything specifically for book 1, but book 2 has...piercings. 👀👀

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Replacing instances of Maeve swallowing (one of my crutch physical beats) with her thinking "oh gods" has definitely elevated this chapter. 😏 #CourtOfGildedShadows #DarkFantasy #DarkFantasyRomance #DarkRomantasy #EpicDarkRomantasy #VampireRomance #vampires #fae #Romancelandia #ARCReadersWanted

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Determined to get these line edits finished this week so I can send out ARCs. Maybe if I'm lucky, I can be done by tomorrow. 🤞🤞 #IndieAuthor #ARCReadersWanted #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #ReadingCommunity #BookSky

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Honestly, it's all Maeve has. Because of ✨️trauma✨️.

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This question came up in an ARC group and I kind of love it. 🧵1/4

What's the one chapter in your book thay changed you while writing it? Drop your book link and tell us why that chapter still stays with you.

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Just enrolled our girls in pre-k. Obviously this means more time for writing. 😂🤷‍♀️

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Wild how the emotion of a chapter hits different when you haven't looked at it for a while. Revisiting a chapter that's had a tendency to feel like a slog (a very necessary "after" beat), and I haven't read it in over a month probably -- and now it just makes me so sad for Maeve (as it should). 🥺

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The process of these final line edits has been a wild ride. I FINALLY IDed all my crutch words and fillers, and this week alone I've slashed over 1k words from the final manuscript. D6 was 196k. This draft went up to 197k when I added a chapter and some flashbacks. Now I'm at 194k and counting.

Screenshot of the Reedsy app showing wordcount progress of 194,758 words.

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Hello, friends!! It's been a long time since I've updated here -- been spending a lot of time over on Facebook. But thought I'd come back after a brand refresh, and because ARC applications are now open! Blurb, TWs, and all details can be found here 👉 bit.ly/cogsarcform

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ARC Reader Application for Court of Gilded Shadows

Thank you for your interest in ARC reading Court of Gilded Shadows! About the Book: Half-human in a court of vicious fae, every day is a game of survival Princess Maeve knows well – until her father's...

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Oops, accidentally writing a scene that just BEGS to be fodder for some villain x morally gray MMC sexual tension. 🫠

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Shadow Spark Publishing @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Today's affirmation: Keep going. Somewhere out there, a reader is waiting for the chaos only you can write. Remember to relax the space between your ears. And as always, drink your fucking water. #monday #motivation #relax #breathe #water #shadowsparkpublishing #booksky #writesky 📚🪐💙

Monday Mindfulness
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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Cool cool cool just dropping in some little foreshadowing seeds for book 2 into some of these new book 1 chapters. 😈 #AmWriting #AmRevising #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Been a minute since I've participated. Now that I'm on draft 6.4, I've got some new material to work with. No "signature" but I do have "sign." #CourtOfGildedShadows #WIPSnips #DarkFantasy #DarkFantasyRomance #DarkRomantasy #VampireRomance #Romancelandia #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #BookSky

My eyes darted between the vial of blood-ink and Soren’s carefully neutral expression. “How does it work?” I asked in a tight voice.
Soren leaned back in the chair. “We’ll need to mix your own ink using your blood – a single drop will suffice – and once it’s spelled, you’ll use it to sign me.”
My brows lifted. “Sign you.”
He gave a small laugh and said, “Yes. You’ll sign your name to me. Whenever you use the ink to write your message, it’ll appear briefly on my body. Likewise, I’ll sign you, so I can communicate with you if need be.”
I blinked at him as his words moved through me. Sign him. And he would sign me. With blood. Our blood. My blood would be on his skin. His blood would be on mine.
I suppressed a shudder.

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Just wrote the weakest pillow fight in the history of ever, and now I'm giggling like a fool. 🤭🤭🤭

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This is such a fun question, because it does become a somewhere relevant plot point in book 2. Maeve would absolutely watch, and pretend she wasn't, and pretend she wasn't absolutely turned on by it. Soren would just chuckle with amusement and move on -- unless he was with Maeve. 😈

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

When the FMC starts name-calling the MMC, that's how you know it's love. 🥴

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Good sign when the banter makes you giggle and kick your own feet as the author, right?? 🤭

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Sorry I'm so quiet around here lately. DEEP in revisions (as per usual it seems), and even though it's 1am and I should be in bed 2 hours ago, I'm drafting a whole new chapter and worldbuilding political history because Maeve decided to go undercover and steal a thing. So.

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Being a parent who writes dark fantasy is wild. Last night: -drafts a scene where characters negotiate CNC- This morning: -engages in a full on argument about Paw Patrol yogurt- 🙃 #CourtOfGildedShadows #DarkFantasy #DarkFantasyRomance #DarkRomantasy #VampireRomance #Romancelandia #WriteSky

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Shadow Spark Publishing @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Today's affirmation: If your writing feels a little unhinged, good. That’s where the interesting stuff lives. Remember to relax the space between your ears. And as always, drink your fucking water. #monday #motivation #relax #breathe #water #shadowsparkpublishing #booksky #writesky 📚🪐💙

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I feel like I'm having one of those "discovered 10000 ways how not to make a lightbulb" and .... it's both a relief and incredibly frustrating that I spent a week and a half trying to fix a chapter that was probably fine to begin with. #AmWriting #AmRevising #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I am still literally tweaking this fucking chapter. I swear to god, I'm about to just write "and then she woke up and everything was shit" and call it a goddamn day. 🙃😭

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Literally on the 9th version of this chapter and I think it's FINALLY right. 🙃🙃 #AmWriting #AmRevising #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

After writing the Soren POV chapter, I realized he says "fuck" in his head A LOT. 🙃 Especially when he's hangry (which is basically all the time).

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Been in revision hell for a week. Can't figure out how to bridge this scene, so, trying something new to give my writer brain a different perspective on the chapter. Fun bonus content for readers, methinks? ;) #AmWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmRevising #IndieAuthor

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

And there certainly is trauma to go around. 😂 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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Amalia Elliott @amalicule.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

When @eremitagray.bsky.social and I get to chatting

me and the mutuals are giving some minor characters rich inner worlds later if you wanna pull up. yeah its gonna be all day.

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Had an AMAZING conversation with one of my beta readers last night and draft 6 of Court of Gilded Shadows??? It's getting DARK. 😈 Thanks again @amalicule.bsky.social ! Also, she needs beta readers for her MM YA romance so go check her out! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #DarkFantasyRomance

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Oh man, dusting off draft 1 manuscript to pull some axed scenes and I'm excited to bring them back. Some of my favorite darlings live there. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

It also seems to be tradition that I get sick every time I start a new draft. Time for a brain break. Maybe I'll finish my paint by numbers. 🤧🤧

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Just got done beta reading for a friend and fellow author, and thoroughly enjoyed @amalicule.bsky.social's queer YA romance -- even if I know nothing about basketball. 🤭🤭 Give her a follow for all the Seth and Jacob goodness (she still needs some beta readers too!). #WriteSky #BookSky #Romancelandia

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Here, have some out of context, tangentially related headcanon from draft 1.3 of book 2: Soren: -walks in to see Maeve sprawled sexily on the bed- Maeve: -wiggles her eyebrows- hey big boy, I ate my vegetables today. ;) Maybe I need a nap. 😅 #CourtOfGildedShadows #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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