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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 11h

Drop some muscles. Does my own book character count?

Thalia Clayton from Sigils of Blight, with her tattoos.

Thalia has brown hair with red highlights, hazel monolid eyes, and a rosy smile. arms are exposed, showing her muscles and her tattoos of a calygreyhound, serpent, winged snake, a phoenix, and a crow on her left index finger.

Thalia is wearing her undergarments, but they don't show much. Bloomers and a camisole. In her hand is a men's green shirt. Her hair is up and she has simple earrings.

Art by Rebecca E. Reyes

Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 11h

Wanna support an autistic indie author directly and get some insane sci-fi and SFF out of it? I promise, my MCs are only a little problematic. Maybe? Character arcs exist for a reason. 💙 ko-fi.com/rebeccaevita... 📚 #SFF #Scifi #Booksky

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 05/10/2026

I'm slowly chewing through my WIP, but page 12 is my favorite section so far. From Flowers & Entomology, my dryads are unfortunately disturbing Whispers' human neighbor with science. #SnippetShare #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #SFF

Snippet from Flowers and Entomology:

"Sexual cannibalism?" Zinnian made a face. Expressions were a good way to decipher a human's feelings, and this human was uncomfortable.

Whispers said, "The females don't eat the whole male. Just the head."

"Uhhh…" Zinnian almost spilled his cup of tea.
Whispers explained, "We're going to put a collar on the male."

"Kinky," remarked the human.

Kinky was a concept that dryads didn't share with animals. Despite rumors to the contrary, sharing pollen was better for the plants a dryad's seed stone had bonded to. To procreate, Whispers kind actually...

Whispers' inner monologue was interrupted when Sylvia asked Zinnian, "Who made your camera?"

Zinnian frowned, but he found a smile before answering. "I should admit now that I broke up with Olivia. My boss. Well, former boss I suppose. I don't think she'll want me wandering the tunnels now."

"I'm sorry to hear that," Sylvia softly said. "Does anyone else make cameras? A watchmaker perhaps?"

"I'm not sure," Zinnian replied.

Whispers had already gone to the kitchen to grab crackers and bright red jelly. He then scuttled back into the living room and set the treats down. "Eat," Whispers demanded.

Scooping up some jelly, Zinnian had to ask, "Is this prickly pear?"

"Of course not! I won't bear fruit for another sixty days. It's strawberry," Whispers declared. "I'll deliver some next door when they're ripe."

Sylvia happily tried some.

Zinnian sighed and took a bite. After swallowing, he said, "It's a little weird you feed people your body parts."

"I must feed the pears to something! Otherwise, they simply fall off. I can't eat them all."

Something he said unnerved his human guest again. At least Sylvia was happily munching away at crackers.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 04/10/2026

Bought this at Gamers Haven't here in Springs. Hopefully I'm better at completing this than Warhammer models.

Picture on a box of a wooden typewriter in an assembly kit. It has Alice in Wonderland style rabbits on it.

More of that box cover at boating its functionality with 30-key coaxing roller printing. There's art of a bunny holding a letter.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 29/09/2026

This is how I send letters to local seniors for my real job. They even have a free cat sticker inside! I should do this for people who buy my books too.

Green #10 envelopes with hummingbird stamps and cat stickers.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 26/09/2026

The dancer is based off of this image. I just scribbled the wyrm.

An old drawing of a dilapidated dancing figurine. The figure is of a dancer with red hair in a pink, flowery skirt and green corsetted top dancing on her toes.

The text below her says: An exhibition of American Design. The Lakeside Press Galleries.

Image is public domain in the Library of Congress

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 26/09/2026

What? Me, jump on a fuckin' bandwagon to market a book? Never! Don't ask me how long this took to make in Krita, along with looking up actual 1910's broadsheets in the Library of Congress. 💙 My store: ko-fi.com/rebeccaevita... 📚 Universal Link: books2read.com/u/mvw8Pe #BookSky #SFF #Fantasy #Book

A broadsheet I made for the hell of it in Krita to market my silly book. It says:

Shadowfront
(artful designs)
Missing
Sorcerers, Arcanafauna
In the Imperial Capital of Grace, blue dust and silver vines were discovered at the scenes of every disappearance! Money, valuables were not stolen.
Astridante 10, 1913 Jane Doe

Slaver's Circus Comes to Grasslands
Boycott popular attraction!
The Clayton Enchanted Extravaganza is a sin! Do not believe Alder would condone such business. Mother Omera herself decries the evil.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 24/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Until I joined Bluesky, I didn't know what a bisexual disaster was, but Thalia is 100% a bi disaster and I love her, even if love and death are her greatest struggles. To clarify, romantic love is trouble. Everything this mad woman does is in the name of other kinds of love.

Thalia posed on a fancy stool, hiding her breasts with a paper cut out heart. She's in 1910s bloomers and a smile otherwise. Her boys are kicked to the side. Thalia also has visible animal tattoos.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 23/09/2026

The citation for that is this book, which I am too broke to buy. It says The yellow price sticker is a lie. Curse out of print books for being limited in supply! www.abebooks.com/978060036681... No, the mythical creatures in my books are not accurate to their origin. For most of human history...

Book of Legendary Creatures - Hardcover
Tom McGowen

The cover is a hand drawn green dragon without wings.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 22/09/2026

This is what I look like at my comfiest. No, not the orange one! I'm the human in the background.

My orange dingus cat, Cheddarz, and me in the background.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 20/09/2026

Almost every picture in the AHIP course is AI. There's hundreds of pages to this thing (it feels like)! How much environmental damage is this course causing? Why include the picture if it is uneducational and is factually showing something that only circulated in the 1700's?

AI image from an online course I'm required to take as an insurance agent under my legal name and not my pen name. It's showing $20 bills USD with 30's on them and the 50 on the $50 is sideways.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 19/09/2026

Fuck Facebook already. I'm not making any calls. Today, I'm going to do what I want to do, and that is write books. www.rebeccareyeswriting.com/work/book-se... If you want to support me regarding what I love, this is the madness I put out into the world! #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF

The Sarcophagus of Lamia Book 1 beside a warped planet with awesome reasons to read the book beside it.

Firefly crossed with Dracula
Gothic Sci-Fi Adventure
Doctor Female Main Character
No Romance
Short Read

Website is: www.RebeccaReyesWriting.com

The book, Sigils of Malice, with arrows pointing to all of the awesome stuff in the book.

Flawed, Masculine female MC
The World's Smallest Unicorn
Reluctant partnerships
Magitek Science Fantasy
Cactus Dryad Entomologist
Tested Loyalties
Unique 1910's worldbuilding

Website is: www.RebeccaReyesWriting.com

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 13/09/2026

I got my food adverse kid to eat PB&J again and now I have a snack too!

A peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a big circle cut out of it.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 12/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 9 Most magical plants I have that are edible are more likely to be fermented into potions as opposed to being eaten in a magical salad or garnish unless they are super rich. Not all are yummy anyway. Thalia drinks a vigorita (vigor) potion and gags it down.

Botanical art of reagents used in the Sigils universe for healing.

Passion Thistle is a wild onion with pink flowers used for healing.

Vigorita is a magical cross between sugarcane and coffee, with wiggly leaves and red berries ion a bamboo-like stem for energy.

Brittle Blood is a used to treat diseases. It's a glowing pomegranate.

Art my Rebecca E Reyes

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 11/09/2026

#WIPSnips 🦄 From Twisted Ivory, a prequel that can be its own standalone story, but is the origin story for how Jacoby and Biscuit became sorcerer and familiar. The setting is a fantasy 1910's circus, so the heavy handed theme is anti-exploitation with gray characters. #WIP #Snippet #Writesky

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 10/09/2026

I got my passport photos. I look like a sleep deprived gnome!

Walgreens passport photos of me in a yellow shirt on a white background. My large nose is red and I have bags large enough to hide my shame under my eyes.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 09/09/2026

I had to find an alternate path to my front door this morning. #Colorado

A male deer eating the bushes and blocking my path.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 08/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 8 The Navikulans do! Little, dense semi-spherical cakes. A copy of an object forms in the Abyss for deceased loved ones if placed on their shrine or grave, giving the spirit willpower in the afterlife. The only places a ghost can usually eat are afterlife realms... 1/2

Redacted snippet from Sigils of the Abyss:

The soul cage dropped. Although [WISP] could fly freely now, Tinkerer politely opened the wire door. On a plate, just outside the cage, was a round, red, glossy cake.

[WISP] wondered, 'Can I eat real cake?'

"You are confused?" Tinkerer asked.

[WISP] didn’t know what other emotion she was supposed to have. The cake did not look like anything she had eaten in life before.

"Does Omera not give offerings to her fallen?" he asked.

'Yes, but not food,' [WISP] chimed in amusement.

Candle lit shrines with material objects were supposed to provide light and help guide loved ones towards the Radiance in comfort. Ava probably had her toy on her shrine. Many candles were now around [FALLEN CITY].

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 08/09/2026

#WIPSnips No. I will not provide context for some of the questionable things in this scene regarding my tainted holy man. You'll just have to read the confusing and weird book when it comes out. Anyway, I have THREE lifts/elevators so far in this book. #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #SFF

Snippet from Sigils of the Abyss (Book 3):

There was only one person Alderius wanted to see naked, but he needed to find her in the Overworld first. Unfortunately, the mad woman had corrupted his imagination yet again. At least it amused Astrid, giggling with her sister, Zinnia.

They did not take the spiral staircase, much to Barys’ disappointment. "I wanted a closer look at the dragon fossil."

"You can later," Alderius told him, still trying to have clean thoughts.
Instead, Mr. Gneisston led them to another demonstration of the engineering students’ prowess. An elevator with a mechanical gate opened.

Alderius didn’t see a cable, but rather a power crystal that doubled as a lamp. Mana lines connected to large gears on the sides of the car, correlating with notches going up the chute. The ride to the top was perfectly silent.

"Omera stopped gifting true power crystals a few decades ago. Are these Synethian?" Alderius asked.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 07/09/2026

I have sent this to a sensitive reader, reread it many times with edit passes, but as usual, when I print it on paper it looks different. I'm also reading aloud easier. My brain misses things on the screen and I don't know why. #writingcommunity #AmEditing

The second page to Island in the Ink in a three ring binder. It's covered with red markings and corrections, including several small paragraphs where I'm considering deleting content.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 07/09/2026

#Sustember 5 Snippet from Sigils of the Abyss (Book 3) CW and context: Everyone in this scene is in the afterlife and it includes children, but there's nothing gory or even context for how they died. They're playing in Sanctuary City's Playground District. #WIP #Snippet #SFF

Snippet from Sigils of the Abyss:

Thalia was immediately surrounded by innumerable squealing children, asking her questions and clinging to her legs. She had to put Ava on her shoulders while she shuffled around.

'Zinnian is going to be a bit cross,' Thalia thought. 'Ah, who cares?'

After setting Ava on some bars, Thalia flexed her large muscles for the children, lifted as many as she could, and did circus tricks on playground equipment. When asked about the arcanafauna at the Clayton Enchanted Extravaganza, Thalia gleefully rambled.

Another psychopomp approached the group. Instead of a lamp, she had a clay bowl filled with burning wax embedded in her chest. In a thick Navikulan accent, she asked, "Are we having fun?" Her consonants were hard and her R’s rolled. The bells sewn into her dress jingled.

"Indeed," Thalia said, mostly hidden by the army of kids.

"Who do we have glowing here?" Jingling Pomp asked.
Standing up with a beaming grin, Thalia announced herself. "Thalia Clayton! Former acrobat and current lamp."

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 05/09/2026

Hey-o! I haven't marketed my books in a hot minute! Wanna support an autistic indie author directly and get some weird sci-fi and SFF out of it? I promise, my MCs are only a little problematic. Maybe? Character arcs exist for a reason. 💙 ko-fi.com/rebeccaevita... 📚 #SFF #Scifi #Booksky

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 05/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Calliope Clayton, the MC's 18-year-old cousin. She's an adorable necromancer who's essentially my Barbie Doll in the books. I love dressing her up and she gets the most costume changes of anyone described on page. Thalia changes outfits a lot too. Maybe I just like clothes?

Calliope Clayton stepping out of the starry Abyss. She's in pink and purple 1910's walking attire, holding a fancy handbag and a magical, blue glowing beetle.

Art by Rebecca E. Reyes

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 04/09/2026

Huh. I'm from Colorado (where I live now), but lived in Florida for over half my life. Not the results I expected. mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

Heat map in the USA for my dialect. The whole Northwest of the country is hot. East Coast is chilly short of Southern Florida (which we all know is North anyway).

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 03/09/2026

The next city for the reader, which I forgot to share in my last post, is Kharzuun (KAR-zoo-in) City. The building with the 'acorn' is Vince's Casino, run by randy satyrs making money off of humans. The glass tower is full of dryads. Think 1910's magical North American factory boom city. 2/2

Clipping of my larger map showing part Kharzuun city's skyline. From left to right, there's short to giant deco buildings, paved roads and powerlines, a glass tower with a skyscraper sized tree inside, and a church.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 03/09/2026

#Septopolis 1 I'm Rebecca Reyes and I am a worldbuilder who is fond of the earlier 20th Century (10's - 50's), but make it weird with unique magic systems that I need to make more approachable. My human cities are all eccentric. At least the big ones on my map. I intend for all big cities... 1/2

Picture showing all three major human cities from my map.

The Imperial Capital of Grace is represented by a palace on the shore surrounded by mountains.

Watchtowers Cathedral is silhouetted like tombstones making massive pointed towers. There's a clock faces covered in symbols. It's surrounded by smoke and mechanical gears and machinery in the background.

Hyacinthius is a gorgeous woman behind a blooming flower.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 02/09/2026

Oh no! People can see me! So anyway, Sigils of Malice stars a bisexual disaster of a cross-dressing showgirl. She's buff. 💙 My store: ko-fi.com/rebeccaevita... 📚 Elsewhere: books2read.com/u/mvw8Pe #SFF #BiVisibilityMonth

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 01/09/2026

#WIPSnips The manuscript for Flowers & Entomology is open again! There's a pun in here if you are familiar with the character who is on a walk with a jar full of bugs. #AmWriting #Snippet #WIP

Snippet from Flowers & Entomology:

Velvet Gosling Avenue was more of an alleyway than a street — both sides were lined with shops twisting to conform to Grace's mountainside. It catered more to wealthy tourists than locals, but it was still a lovely stroll for Whispers, an older transplant himself.

Before long, he was in Gosling Park. It was a grassy, oval garden below imported marble villas. A glittering lake sparkled in the middle. This was the perfect home for the larvae.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 01/09/2026

High rollin' in the Colorado mountains this month! 🤣 #WritingCommunity

Estimated KDP royalties for August 2026 are $4.20

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 31/08/2026

Today is the last day of the @narratess.com Sale! Check out Sigils of Malice and a glorious plethora of other indie authors before time runs out! ⌛ 📚💙 indiebook.sale #Narratess #Booksky #IndieAugust #Sale

Narratess Indie Book Sale flyer with the book cover for Sigils of Malice by Rebecca E. Reyes.

The description says:

Showmanship, muscles, and compassion are all a cross-dressing showgirl needs to take on the empire. Even gods overlook cracks.

The book cover is of a red eyed blue beetle walking on machinery.

Sigils of Malice is only $1.99

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 31/08/2026

I don't have the stomach to read about this right now, but I'm pissed off that this wasn't a big enough story for me to have known about it earlier. It's a nightmare here. I avoid certain streets, even though I was born in Gunnison, CO, simply because I'm the wrong shade of brown.

A screenshot of multiple news headlines from different sources with articles talking about 19 immigrant corpses found in the Arizona desert.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 31/08/2026

Went hiking again. I'm glad to live in such a pretty place, but I also crashed immediately after eating when I got home. #Colorado

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 30/08/2026

Sigils of Malice is only $1.99 for the @narratess.com Indie Book Sale! 📚 Find it and other amazing books here: indiebook.sale 💙 To find SoM directly: ko-fi.com/s/3d755a091f #Narratess #IndieBooks #IndieAugust #BookSky

Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale
Fantasy, scifi & Horror
29-31 August

The art has a dragon reading a book, skulls, candles, crystals, and a spaceship flying past Saturn.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 29/08/2026

I opened the map and the manuscript for Flowers & Entomology for the first time in two weeks. I forgot what I was doing with both. Looks like I'm going to be rereading my book. #AmWriting Feels good to type that hashtag again.

Map of Zinnia and Alder University for the novelette, Flowers & Entomology. It's a work in progress, but beyond the front gate are paths in a garden going to various buildings with symbols on the rooftops rather than a realistic aerial drawing.

Building 1: Administration and Records has a quill pen on it.

Building 2: Security Office has an artful pegasus and griffin.

Building 3: Engineering and Mechanics has a dragon beside a cog with several smoky chimneys.

Building 4: World Studies has a six limbed cephalopod on an explosion of tile.

In the plaza is a mechanical orb thingy with four lanterns. Above it is a big door, and above the door is a hand with a huge moth in its palm.

The blue and red sketch are still visible beneath the black and white piece.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 29/08/2026

Sigils of Malice is in the @narratess.com Indie Book Sale! An showgirl's family is pulled into an arcane conspiracy. Between shady handshake deals and reluctant alliances, power is everywhere except in Thalia's favor. 📚 indiebook.sale 💙 #Narratess #BookSale #BookSky #SFF

Naratess flyer showcasing the following indie and self-published ebooks will be on sale:

Kai Zeal - Riyati Rivals
S.L. Dove Cooper - All That Glitters
JD Rivers - The Edge of the World
Tabitha O'Connell - Structural Integrity
Bjørn Larssen - Why Odin Drinks
Joanna Maciejewska - Memories of Sorcery and Sand
Skye Kilaen - Necessary Repairs
Niranjan - Blade Reforged
Donna Morgan - Ember and Steel
Isabelle Jones - Bluefire
Rhiannon Held - Hound and Key
Rebecca E. Reyes - Sigils of Malice
Darby Harn - Dead Malls
J.C. Snow - The Crane Moon Cycle Duology

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 29/08/2026

I passed my certificate exams for my licensing exams, coming up on Tuesday. I took a break and my family went out to Garden of the Gods. It's like 10 minutes away. I don't know why I don't visit more. Enjoy my pictures. I should open a manuscript.

A lush desert landscape of shrubbery and trees growing up a mountain with massive red rock spires racing above the trees.

Garden of the Gods, Colorado

Desert shrubs and trees with mountains in the distance and a cloudy sky.

Garden of the Gods, Colorado

A cedar tree with crazy roots on and in red soil.

Garden of the Gods, Colorado

Mountain ranges against a cloudy sky.

Garden of the Gods, Colorado

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 29/08/2026

Check out Sigils of Malice and a glorious plethora of other indie authors in this August's Narratess Sale! 📚💙 indiebook.sale #Narratess #Booksky #IndieAugust #Sale

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 24/08/2026

I've never had a review on Book Bub before!

A 5 star review on BookBub by an @andreinstinct575 for The Sarcophagus of Lamia Book 1. They said:

What a ride. Reminiscent of Alien, but with fairytale references, the action kicks in and never ceases to the very end.

The crew of the Magpie have their hands full. Initially hired to retrieve a black box, but what they soon discover is a mysterious pod with a beautiful cadaver. Haunting dreams await in this fast-paced adventure as the crew races to uncover the truth behind their ordeal. But will they make it to their destination before it's too late?

This was quite an enjoyable short. Highly recommended to fans of cyberpunk and dystopian scifi.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 24/08/2026

August is almost over and my books won't be half-off for much longer! Working towards my certs and license for this job, so showing off my books (and writing) has been sidelined for now. Help a beleaguered weirdo out and read their speculative musings! ko-fi.com/rebeccaevita...

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 21/08/2026

She made a comic literally about Professor Whispers, my transmasc dryad entomologist!

Watercolor of Professor Whispers, the cactus Dryad Entomologist, reaching up towards a passion fly, a colorful and fluffy magical moth. He's in a grassy field with a forest behind him.

Art by Rebecca E. Reyes

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 21/08/2026

"Someone unlocked the article for you! Now give us your information or you're not actually allowed to read it." No. 😒 I miss paper news.

Someone unlocked this story for you.
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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 21/08/2026

#SFFChat Q4: Oh dear! I don't think I've ever used kerfuffle in a book yet! You know what? Waddled and spelunk are a close second place runners up. From Sigils of Malice (book 1)

Snippet from Sigils of Malice:

As soon as Whispers saw Thalia outside of his classroom, he put up his little arms. "Let’s take a quick recess everyone. One of my spelunkers is back." He hopped from his stool at the podium.

Thalia did not see Jacoby or Biscuit as she followed Whispers. The professor waddled with the speed of an eager tortoise to his office. Once there, she still did not see them.

"Where’s JJ and Biscuit?" Thalia asked, tripping over an unseen unicorn.

The invisible duo appeared before her, with Jacoby coloring. Biscuit snorted at her for indignantly stepping on him.

"If you are invisible, how was I supposed to avoid you?" she retorted.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 20/08/2026

Post your book covers! 📚💖 Soo to be more, as soon as I've got the time. Life has been changing so rapidly, I've not so much as opened a document since Thursday last week. 😅 Art by @nuclearnarwhal.bsky.social

The book cover for Sigils of Malice, by Rebecca E Reyes

The picture is of a magical, horned blue beetle with red eyes sprinkling glittering dust on magical technology lit by a blue gem.

Art by Elora Ladd

The book cover for Sigils of Blight, by Rebecca E Reyes

The picture is of a six-sided lantern lit with a ghostly flame, in the jungle, in front of burning ruins.

Art by Elora Ladd

The book cover for The Sarcophagus of Lamia Book 1, by Rebecca E Reyes

The picture is of an ethereal blonde woman's resting face, laying back upon red velvet. She has a silver implant in her hair. In front of her is a round, gothic window with gold filigree. Leaves, faces and fish are in the filigree's design.

Art by Elora Ladd

The book cover for The Sarcophagus of Lamia Book 2: Soul Survivor, by Rebecca E Reyes

The picture is of an artful red orb of light surrounded by fanciful filigree. In the background is a hint of mycelium. It's glowing against a black background.

Art by Elora Ladd

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 20/08/2026

#CartAugust 20 The big sacred sites on the map, and they are or will be story importan. Watchtower Cathedral is steampunk magic "Disney World" that'll kill you and also where Omera created humanity. Zinnia's shrine is a massive copper mine and religous site outside Watchtower. 1/2 (Grace below)

From my large map, the Imperial Capital of Grace looking regal, Watchtower Cathedral looking mechanical and with a large clock and many flags, the Turquoise Temple of Saint Zinnia, and Grace's arcane Fissure.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 20/08/2026

Most borders are natural within the empire. The border wall isn't a "keep people out" insular thing. It's a control and monitor the enemy fortress that keeps people in (for the most part). Navikulan immigrants are common. Imperial ones are not. Water is a bit blurry.

he full, inky, black and white map for the Sigils books by Rebecca E. Reyes with blue borders marking the Omeran Empires borders, red lines marking the kingdoms and provinces within the empire, and magenta marking Navikula's known border. The colors blur and mingle in the ocean.

It shows dozens of cities and landmarks in the Omeran Empire's five territories: Northern Omera, Southern Omera, Province of Alderia, the Kingdom of Delamar, and the Terralia Islands.

Navikula has an unnatural fog of war. Omerans don't know what's over there anymore. Only what's just beyond the wall and on the southern shore.

Way south is the Singing Woods, hiding Syneth, with lakes on the canopies where the southern border ends. Otherwise, the west is blocked off by mountains and the ocean seems endless, hence why it's called the Endless Ink.

Beasts drawn on the map are a kraken in the water, a dragon among the basalt and volcanoes, a harpy automaton at the Navikulan Border Wall, unicorns in the Singing Woods, a calygreyhound in the Valley of the beasts, and a gloom spider in Navikula's void.

There’s a big turtle with a jungle on her back in the corner.

Art by me, Rebecca E. Reyes

Color key for the beside map.

Red = Kingdom and Province Borders in the Omeran Empire

Blue = The Omeran Empire's border

Magenta = Navikula

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 20/08/2026

#CartAugust 18 Apart from raw mana bubbling up, I have a few. Remnantite is an alloy with a forgotten recipe, so I'm not sure it counts for this question. I think most invented resources come from the singing woods and they're plants/reagents, not minerals.

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 16/08/2026

If your Bluesky is working well enough to see this, buy a 50% off book or repost! 💙📚 ko-fi.com/rebeccaevita...

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