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Gio Peters

@gio-peters-author.bsky.social
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Author of the queer-positive historical fantasy series The Kingdom of Ura. Mental health advocate. Editor. Creative writing MA student. 🏳️‍🌈

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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
My book series is a series composed of smaller series. Working on series 2 now, of 5 or 6. It's an inception of series. It's mad out here.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Working on a spinoff series to my eight book long series, The Kingdom of Ura. The new series is called The Kingdom of Afara, and will be eight books long as well!
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Two chapters away from finishing my Master's degree (creative writing) thesis.
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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 14/12/2025
If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Starting book 1 in the Kingdom of Afara.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Have to think up a whole new magic and religious system for The Kingdom of Afara that's as robust as The Kingdom of Ura.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I feel lost without a story to fight with.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Would you be interested in a series of 8 books?
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
13,000 more words to go and my series will be complete.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
10 more chapters to go!
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
45,000 words to go.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
10 more chapters until the kingdom of ura is complete. FINALLY.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I think my current WIP suffers from sagging middle syndrome. Time to fi it!
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Okay, this part of my finale is dead boring, and if I'm bored, the reader's bored. And I'm bored as fuck.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
What can a character to do in 5 days that's narratively significant? I've got to think real hard.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
After The Kingdom of Ura is finished, I've decided: no more self-publishing. Why pay all this money just to be ignored? So after this book, it's trad or nothing.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
YES I FINALLY CAME UP WITH THE SCENE!
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
How hard do I have to stare at my manuscript for it to write itself?
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
The religion plays heavily into everything. The gods hear people's prayers and are active agents in The Kingdom of Ura. The finale is all about the gods, in fact. There are 10 god and 2 deities.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Finally making some, very little, headway with Heavy is the Head: Part 2: Book 8 in the Kingdom of Ura. After a mental battle of months.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Most days I'm fine with my books not being a success. Not today. just one of those days.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
It won't come along! IT JUST WON'T!
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This book feels like a mental battle that I am losing HARD.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I'm very much over fantasy book covers with the Elizabethan-dressed heroin is holding daggers/a bow and arrow, looking for danger in the old city/abandoned road. It feels like so overdone.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Writing this eighth and final novel in The Kingdom of Ura isn't supposed to feel this way... it feels like I'm fighting.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Their Heart a Hive by @foxenlock.bsky.social arrived! Thank you, Stef, for this book. I've waited for it for four long years hahaha! This amazing adventure not only enraptured me but inspired me to write my own debut. Thanks for the book, the inspiration, the love! Can't wait to enjoy again.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Writing this novel, the finale of The Kingdom of Ura (book 8) feels like a fight. it feels like a brawl.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Day 16 and I'm on 53,000 words of my goat horror novel!
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Day 13 and I'm on 36,000 words of my goat horror novel WIP.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Starting writing day 12 on 27,000 words of my horror novel ft goats.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
22,000 words in 7 days y'all. this very #gay #queer #horror #novel ft #goats is coming along devilishly well...
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I really feel like this app is dead and exceedingly limited.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
There will be #magic. There will be #love. There will be #triumph. Get the entire #queerpositive #queer #LGBTQpositive #queernorm #historicalfantasy series The Kingdom of Ura on Smashswords #Sale #SWS.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The Kingdom of Ura #witches🧙‍♀️ #wizards🧹 #fae / #faeries🧚 #vampires🧛‍♂️ #werewolves🐩 #daemons👹 #monsters👺 #zombies🧟 #M/M👨‍❤️‍👨 #queer🏳️‍🌈 #historical⌛ #fantasy💫 $1 each in the #smashwords summer/winter sale #SWS www.smashwords.com/books/byseri...
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Just finished "We Cry The Sea" the last book in the "Moth and Moon" trilogy @glennquigley.bsky.social I don't know what to say besides that the story brought closure to everybody - including me. It's amazing the adventures we can go on in our hearts, and this story has left a vast impression on me
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
What does character interiority mean to you?
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Find my #queerpositive #LGBTQpositive #historicalfantasy series, The Kingdom of Ura on #smashswords summer/winter sale #SWS! There will be #magic. There will be #love. There will be #triumph. #queeradultsff #queersff #gothic www.smashwords.com/books/byseri...
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Find my #queerpositive #LGBTQpositive #historicalfantasy series, The Kingdom of Ura on #smashswords summer/winter sale #SWS! There will be #magic. There will be #love. There will be #triumph. #queeradultsff #queersff #gothic www.smashwords.com/books/byseri...
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I know they're not real, but I really feel like my characters are in control of my story - I get frustrated at the things they do. In my current WIP that I'm doing FOR UNIVERSITY I have major plot holes and technical glitches and I know what they are but I JUST CAN'T FIX THEM and it is maddening!!!
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Just because my books have fae and faeries in them does not mean that they are of the SJM flavour. No hate toward her or anybody who enjoys her, but those kinds of fae/faeries are not what's going on here.
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Ryann Fletcher SFF author @ryannfletcher.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Calling all LGBTQ+ SFF authors! I started a new starter pack for us. Happy to add folks, please just share the link when you get a moment! go.bsky.app/URHc5QB
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The Kingdom of Ura, my queer-positive historical fantasy series is now on SALE for PRIDE MONTH on SMASHSWORDS! Only $0.99 each! #queersff #queerAdultSFF #pride #gaybooks #booksky www.smashwords.com/books/byseri...
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Just finished @glennquigley.bsky.social 's The Lion Lies Waiting. What an explosive novel! But never once did the heartiness of the characters leave my mind's eye. This is a beautiful character driven story, and I'm starting the conclusion to the trilogy immediately.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I've been stuck on The Kingdom of Ura's final book for WEEKS now but in other news I FINISHED MY ENTIRE ROMANCE DUOLOGY! Please send tiny claps. #queerauthors #authors #writingcommunity
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Finished The Moth and Moon by @glennquigley.bsky.social in 2 days. If this isn't masterful storytelling, I don't know what is.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
@glennquigley.bsky.social look what just arrived! These are of the most beautiful books that I own and I cannot be more excited to read them.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I did it! 237,500 words, 920 A4 pages, 69 chapters and 2 years and 3 months later I finished my Victorian polyam (mmf) romance saga. I couldn't be happier.
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Dr Robert ~🎶~🎶~🎶~ @drrobert25.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
#Books #BookSky #READ
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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Pride is in full bloom.
Pride flag made up of flowers, from the Toronto Botanical Garden website.
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Gio Peters @gio-peters-author.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Remember this #pridemonth #pride to support queer authors. I read the first page of The Moth and the Moon by @glennquigley.bsky.social and ordered the whole trilogy. It's getting here on June 17th and I CAN'T WAIT.
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