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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Love Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake or Merry Gentry, or Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Legacy? Meet When Stars Align. Slow-burn sacred filth with teeth. www.amazon.com/dp/B0F6KXSR54 #DarkUrbanFantasy #BDSMFantasy #MFFFPoly #KindleUnlimited

Watercolor-style fantasy illustration of a blonde woman wearing glasses, a black dress, and a black collar with a gold ring. Glowing gold magical patterns trace her skin. A blond man in black stands closely behind her in a candlelit library filled with books, celestial instruments, and luminous symbols. Text along the bottom reads “When Stars Align · Liora Pendale.”

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I write a household where the women hold power over each other. Who kneels for whom, who says it out loud, what it costs them both. It's what I build the book around, and what I'm greediest about. I'd like more on my shelf. Same house, same page, same weight. Tell me the title. #SapphicBooks

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The power exchange is in the book. Your review is your business. When Stars Collide: free PDF advance copy. 18+, explicit urban fantasy. Book Two; recap included. Email safeword@liorapendale.com, subject WSC ARC; confirm 18+. Reviews voluntary. Out Oct 13, 2026.

Black, gold and dusty-pink ARC invitation beside the When Stars Collide cover by Liora Pendale. The cover shows two leather collars joined by a metal ring over split, glowing wood. Free digital advance copy. Erotic urban fantasy, polyamorous romance, consensual power exchange and a sentient House. 18+, explicit adult content. Book Two, with Book One recap included. October 13, 2026. Request: safeword@liorapendale.com.

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Not for Resale, printed straight across the cover, in case I got ideas. So this is the copy that gets wrecked. Orange marker, chapter four, something about a boot. Ebook's out. Paperback when this copy stops handing me things to fix.

A trade paperback of When Stars Align by Liora Pendale lies on a dark walnut table, a printed band reading "Not for Resale" running across the cover. Underneath it, loose pages of handwritten notes in orange marker, with the uncapped marker resting on top. A mug of black coffee sits to the right.

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

When Stars Align runs from October into April. Autumn holds the woman Elysia was. Winter does the slow, brutal work of remaking her. Spring arrives when she does. The seasons don't cause the plot, but they make its body legible. North Carolina weather provides additional misconduct. 🖤

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Rachel. Absolutely Rachel. Everyone else is wrestling ancient evil, magical burnout, and the architectural consequences of desire. Rachel has discovered that her orgasms make the magic stronger and considers this an entirely reasonable division of labor. 🖤 #AwesomeCharacters

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Our cosmology makes this awkward: its “deities” aren’t people. Form, Life, Relation, and Dissolution are coequal operations of one indivisible source. The gods wouldn’t meet. Their practitioners would. Best case: comparative theology. Worst: holy war because everyone is locally right. 🖤 #MythAugust

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

WSA lives in our world, so my answer ought to be easy. It isn’t. I haven’t found the place yet. I know it will be near the sea, but not the Outer Banks. I love them too much to make them carry my fiction. Some places get to remain ours. 🖤 #AugustWorldbuilders

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Apparently even the crockery carries emotional damage in When Stars Collide. Blue glaze. Small chip near the handle. She had bought it at a market because she said it looked like a rainy morning pretending to be cheerful. The mug is fine. Everyone else is another question. 🖤 #WIPSnips

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Nobody has aged visibly yet. But aging matters. Coren’s longevity is maintained, not granted. When his magic fails, two centuries arrive in his body at once. Elysia has changed Hannah and Rachel’s clocks permanently. Nobody knows what forever will cost. 🖤 #AwesomeCharacters

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

From When Stars Collide. Coren’s first crisis protocol is food: We ate standing at the island. Soup he’d pulled from the freezer and heated as the others peeled themselves out of the day. Bread torn by hand. Olives. The kind of food that told frayed nerves to sit down and behave. 🖤 #WIPSnips

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Il-Sūh surprised me. The monster began as an injury. Once human, it carried unmourned deaths, erased names, broken promises, and abandoned places until release collapsed into hunger. The tragedy was structural. The villainy began when it chose the wound over healing. 🖤 #AwesomeCharacters

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I wanted to know how four cosmic operations could inhabit human bodies. That somehow turned into Neoplatonism, perennialism, systems engineering, black-hole collapse, and whether a metaphysical wound can mistake itself for God. Writing fantasy is a perfectly normal hobby. 🖤 #AugustWorldbuilders

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Mythology is the argument beneath the Constellation Cycle. Every tradition touches something real. Each holds a fragment shaped by place, history, and need. Gods, rituals, and sacred stories let people survive contact with reality. Then one wound mistakes itself for the whole truth. 🖤 #MythAugust

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A prestige live-action series. The House needs time to become a character, the magic needs room to appear as breath, heat, and architecture, and every touch needs enough history to become dangerous. Also, the intimacy coordinator deserves hazard pay. 🖤 #pretendpanel

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Magic in the Constellation Cycle is relationship made physical. The earth supplies power. Desire moves it. Structure gives it shape. Covenant gives it consequence. One body holds one part. The Constellation exists because magic requires people to need one another. 🖤 #AugustWorldbuilders

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Rachel. No contest. She cooks the way she loves: generously, attentively, and in quantities suggesting she expects the House to acquire three more wounded strays before dinner. Everyone gets fed. Everyone gets seconds. Anyone lingering in her kitchen risks becoming family. 🖤 #WriteSky

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Beck’s parents. I’ll wait until Beck leaves before discussing “better written.” They were meant to provide backstory. Instead, they arrived with chemistry, secrets, and the air of two people who’ve already loved and fought through a novel off-page. I fear they have a prequel. 🖤

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Erika made us a whole month of questions. This feels generous until you notice she intends to interrogate the House about its weather, food, oceans, and darkness. Naturally, we’re in. 🖤 #SeptemberWorldbuilders

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hannah, the morning after: Rachel climbed into my lap before I could decide whether sitting would be a mistake. The answer was yes. It was still worth it. She curled against my chest and tucked her feet onto the rung of my stool. From When Stars Collide. 🖤 #WIPSnips #WriteSky

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Adult performer compensation and regulations in Tennessee and Arkansas. Whether orgasm-induced structural damage is covered by homeowners insurance. Both actual research. Same book. Romantasy is an educational genre. 🖤 #SunsetChat

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Elysia spent her career studying magic as a cultural artifact. Magic responded by writing ogham into her skin, making her orgasms architecturally significant, and expecting her to save reality with both. She’s adapting. Her filing system has filed for divorce. 🖤 #AugustWorldbuilders

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For those who enter the Constellation through submission, initiation is a collaring. The vow must be chosen, spoken, witnessed, and sealed against the throat. Leather marks the body. The bond marks everything else. The House knows whether you meant it. Sincerity is load-bearing. 🖤 #MythAugust

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The panic came up fast. My hands went cold. My throat closed. The kitchen stretched long and bright at the edges. I was too much noise. From When Stars Collide. 🖤 #WIPSnips

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dr. Elysia Sinclair has spent her career proving magic is a cultural artifact. Then her body recognizes Coren before her scholarship does. Her first proof of magic isn’t a spell. It’s the fact that she kneels before she decides to. Peer review gets complicated. 🖤 #AwesomeCharacters

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

When the House’s wards need serious repair, everyone has a job. Coren speaks structure into place. Elysia kneels naked at each compass point and pulls the ley-line through her body. Every denied orgasm feeds the lattice. Maximum current. No release. 🖤 #AugustWorldbuilders

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#AwesomeCharacters My favorite romantic set in When Stars Align is the whole constellation: an established polyamorous family built with hierarchy, appetite, and enough emotional architecture to require its own building permit. Elysia and Coren start it. The House has plans for everyone else. 🖤 1/4

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This week: finish Becks’ backstory without discovering another twelve rooms inside her, then get back to building When Stars Converge. A modest goal. Completely reasonable. The House has already laughed at me. 🖤 #queerwriters

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Protection in the House requires four things: Wordframe. Earth. A promise believed by two people. A woman naked on the grass while her lover tells the ground exactly how wet she is. Shame becomes heat. Heat becomes structure. A curse teaches the body it has nowhere to return. 🖤

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The House counts as a character. Her evening routine: Feed everyone. Warm the wards. Lock the doors. Nudge the right people into the same room. Leave an escape route for Ezra. Treat the moaning as structural maintenance. 🖤 #AwesomeCharacters

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#MythAugust 22 The Constellation gathers in the House. It was built as a ritual instrument: every room can hold covenant, and every promise believed by two people can become physical law. Kitchen. Library. Bedroom. Ritual room. The altar moves. The restraints travel. 🖤

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Rachel Chen wins Most Worried About. 🏅 She can turn an ethics discussion into foreplay and a catastrophe into a service opportunity. So when Rachel goes quiet, the whole House starts checking whether reality is ending again. From When Stars Collide. 🖤 #AwesomeCharacters

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#AugustWorldbuilders 22 Magic and faith reach the same living reality through different practices. Each tradition keeps its history, discipline, and price. In the House, devotion can be prayer, scholarship, a promise made physical, or an orgasm offered with complete honesty. 🖤

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Jax Devora (is writing) @jaxdevora.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Happy #FaveLineFriday! Post your favorite line, and don't forget to support your fellow authors with likes/reposts/replies! Bonus Q: What sort of items are in your MC's junk drawer? #writingcommunity #writingprompts #writesky #writingsky

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#FaveLineFriday
Share your fave line that you wrote or edited this week!
Don't forget to:
Tag your posts with #FaveLineFriday.
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Support your fellow authors!

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#MythAugust 21 Oooh it's apocalypse day! For those who follow your fantasy religion, how do they think the world will end? Will it be a big destructive spectacle, like Ragnarok or Armageddon? Or... more of a whimper? Perhaps a cycle? Maybe they don't believe in an ending but an evolution instead?

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 21
What do the followers believe about the end of the world?

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

HOLY FUCK. Ever have one of those writing sessions where the bones of the next book stop asking permission and erupt all over the goddamn room? Plot. Character. Hunger. Consequences. When Stars Converge just came so hard it left an outline on the walls. I’m going back in. 🖤 #EroticFantasy #WriteSky

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 19/08/2026

Good morning, #AugustWorldbuilders! Ignore the number. This one was supposed to go out yesterday, and yesterday's was supposed to be today's. Anyway! If your world has magic, are any physical objects needed? A wand, perhaps? A focus? Gems? Chalk? Potions? Any tools that might make magic easier?

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Week 4: Magic 1
18. Are there any physical items needed to do magic?

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DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I'm on this list. So are a lot of nice writers who AREN'T horrible trolls to their readers 😅 go.bsky.app/3FEfhMd

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#MythAugust 18 Today, tell us about different sects within your fictional religion, if there are any. What distinguishes them? Do they have different ideas about the gods/spirits, or about the doctrines? Do they ever fight with each other? What usually sets off those conflicts?

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 18:
What different sects exist within the broader religion? Do they ever have conflict? If so, why?

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We’re considering a new cover for *When Stars Align*. 1: Potential cover 2: Current cover The new art began as a frame from our original video, then Daniel Moore reworked it in Photoshop with a watercolor treatment. Which makes you more curious? What kind of book does each suggest?

Book cover for *When Stars Align* by Liora Pendale. A woman’s hand rests beneath a black leather collar with a large gold O-ring. Intricate Celtic knotwork glows beneath her skin in warm gold and copper tones. Gold lettering reads “When Stars Align,” with the tagline “Crave. Collapse. Align.”

Book cover for *When Stars Align* by Liora Pendale. A black leather collar with a silver O-ring rests on dark cracked stone beneath a glowing golden circle of constellations and stars. Gold lettering reads “When Stars Align,” with the tagline “Crave. Collapse. Align.”

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#MythAugust 17 Hopefully Bluesky is nice today! 😅 Who are the authority figures among your deities' followers - people who fill the role of clergy or something similar? Is their role generally benevolent, like teachers or therapists? Is it more like witchhunters? Are there prophets? 👀

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 17:
What authority figures do the followers look to? Is there a single spiritual leader (e.g. Pope or Dalai Lama)? Priests, monks, shamans, etc?

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Two shorts the House doesn't sell. Bedtime: a woman, the girl who belongs to her, and a collar that means every word of it. Tuesday: filthier. Both free. Both yours the moment you say yes. 18+. Come in. The wards are warm. liora-pendale.kit.com/87dd534fae

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Two private Constellation Cycle shorts, free. Bedtime arrives immediately, Tuesday follows. Erotic urban fantasy from House Pendale. 18+

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

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Two private Constellation Cycle shorts, free. Bedtime arrives immediately, Tuesday follows. Erotic urban fantasy from House Pendale. 18+

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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Catch up day 🧡 This prompt series is all about sharing and connecting with fellow authors If you haven't been able to look through the #SumLuv tag as much as you'd like, today is a great day to say hi to fellow Luv-ers. No need to limit to yesterday. Great responses on all prompts to check out 🧡

Romance Writers Summer of Love #SumLuv @EllieYellu Day 15: Mid-Month Hellos. Browse yesterday's pitches. Comment on, like, and/or share a few!

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

You know what’s hotter? 🔥🔥🔥 When Stars Align, now on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F6KXSR54 #DarkRomance #QueerRomantasy #SpicyBookTok #BDSMromance #EroticUrbanFantasy #PolyRomance #FoundFamily

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Redemption is sweet. Devotion is more useful. When Stars Align is live.

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Liora Pendale @liorapendale.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The House has been quiet in public because she's been loud behind the walls. When Stars Align is still the first door. The next room is in verification now: wards checked, threads tugged, every loose nail found. Sacred filth still needs architecture.

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