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I'm a fledgling author, in the process of writing and self-publishing my first novel, a Regency/Fantasy crossover titled #Ellamir 🇬🇧 | He/Him | 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Ally | AI-phobic More socials & content | linktr.ee/c.a.malin

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C A Malin @camalin.net · Sep 1

It's so exciting to be writing my first novel: #Ellamir, a #Regency adventure #romance, featuring characters exceedingly similar to some of the most memorable #JaneAusten creations, trying to maintain decorum in an increasingly chaotic high #fantasy world. Coming in 2026!

#Fiction #BookSky #Authors

On the left, a portrait of a young woman in Regency dress looks out at the viewer, while on the right, the novel's tagline reads: "Handsome, clever and rich, Miss Ellamir Oakhall lacks neither fortune nor consequence and is decidedly not in want of a husband..."
Below this, the novel's title: "Ellamir" by C A Malin - the Bluesky tag @camalin.net and the hashtag #Ellamir

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C A Malin @camalin.net · 17h

'Ello again #Novmemeber!

Quite a lot of in-jokes, puns and references in #Ellamir

Emma Woodhouse/Ella Oakhall

Harriet Smith/Hannah Wright

Mr Collins/Brother Nicholls (same etymological root)

Ford's (the habadashers in Emma) becomes Morris's (both were popular car manufacturers in the 60s)

Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · 21h

#Novmemeber 4

Are there any inside jokes or references in your WIP? Share one (or a few)!

4. Inside jokes/references in WIP

A prompt game for the month of November, titled #Novmemeber (as in meme). Hosted by @sagetgreene.bsky.social . The bottom says "Have fun, interact, and remember alt text!" There is a silly emoji face with wild eyes and tongue sticking out, and some fall-style leaves in the corners.

C A Malin @camalin.net · 1d

Yesss, I love these. I'm going to save it for just before bed, to be enjoyed along with a big hot chocolate with brandy in it 😋☺️

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C A Malin @camalin.net · 1d

Perfect 😆

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😆😆😆🙌🙌🙌

C A Malin @camalin.net · 1d

This! 💯

C A Malin @camalin.net · 1d

I regularly reread them, except for The Last Battle (mostly out of indignation for poor Susan but also I find the Calvinist armageddon stuff tiresome). Truly wonderful stuff mostly, my favourites are Magicians Nephew and The Horse And His Boy 💖

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C A Malin @camalin.net · 1d

This finding memes lark as harder than I thought! 😆 Determined to press on with #novmemeber though, cos it's a hoot!!

#Ellamir

A famous meme from the Kardiashians TV show, with... er... a Kardiashian peeking around a bush.
It says "Something: *is none of her business
Emma Woodhouse: ...
I've crossed out Emma Woodhouse and replaced it with Ella Oakhall
Really, it's not that funny even if you saw the image 🥲

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C A Malin @camalin.net · 2d

"Handsome, clever and rich, Miss Ellamir Oakhall lacks neither fortune nor consequence and is decidedly not in want of a husband..."

#Ellamir

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C A Malin @camalin.net · 3d

Yeah! So many hats in the Regency era too: top hats, tricorn hats, bonnets, those frilly caps married women had to wear in their own houses for some reason... they are ubiquitous!

C A Malin @camalin.net · 3d

Delighted and excited to hear it! And as you love Elves, I hope you'll enjoy those in #Ellamir, they are the most interesting, ancient, wise, beautiful, chaotic creatures in the story by far!

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Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · 3d

#Novmemeber 1

Introduce yourself using predictive text. You can try phrasing this in different ways (for example, "I'm ___ and I write about...").

Then tell us what you REALLY write about!

1. Introduce yourself w/predictive text (e.g. “I’m _ and I write about...”)

A prompt game for the month of November, titled #Novmemeber (as in meme). Hosted by @sagetgreene.bsky.social . The bottom says "Have fun, interact, and remember alt text!" There is a silly emoji face with wild eyes and tongue sticking out, and some fall-style leaves in the corners.

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C A Malin @camalin.net · 3d

OMG IT DOES 😆

C A Malin @camalin.net · 3d

I'm not sure why you need to be in bed super early tomorrow and I write something to do with wearing a hat

Well... apparently I'm always making excuses for not going out, but I do write Regency fiction and for many, that does mean wearing a hat...

😆 This is gonna be an absurdly fun month!

Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · 3d

#Novmemeber 1

Introduce yourself using predictive text. You can try phrasing this in different ways (for example, "I'm ___ and I write about...").

Then tell us what you REALLY write about!

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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 3d

Murple gets this a lot …

From ‘The Big Feat’.

#WiPSnips

The woman looked out of place in the way nobility always looked out of place when they weren’t surrounded by gold filigree, centuries old portraits of ancestors they were very proud of but didn’t talk about their seedier exploits, fifty foot long dining tables and horses. Often with some mixture of them all, especially the horses. Her nose maintained a permanent curl of disgust, her hands sought to find somewhere she could place them without touching anything and her eyes tried to find at least some form of tapestry that she could recognise and take some comfort in. Sadly for her, there were no tapestries, though there was a stained playbill from a local production of ‘King Ogle’.

“Mistress Hurkull, I feel …”

“Hurkull.”

“I’m sorry?” The woman gave that kind of look. The one where she thoroughly expected someone not of the nobility to act in such an uncouth manner. “Mistress Hurkull …”

“Hurkull.”

“But that’s what I said. Hurkull.” It didn’t take much to confuse the nobility. Simply tell them you were a republican and their minds went blank, unable to comprehend the very thought. This interchange had a similar outcome.

“It’s not ‘Hurkull’, it’s ‘Hurkull’.” Murple had to explain this practically every time and she’d be lying if she said she didn’t enjoy it on some primal level, especially with those folks that thought themselves better than everybody else. “It’s not like it’s difficult, your ladyship. All you have to do is listen to folks and I reckon as thy won’t get so confused.”

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Tara S Geir @tarasgeir.bsky.social · 3d

No ancestor for today’s #wipsnips but some backstory in Grio and Strope’s grandfather. #writesky#writingcommunity #writingprompts

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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 4d

There all kinds of monsters …

From ‘The Big Feat’.

#WiPSnips

Still laughing at his good fortune, he didn’t hear the soft scrape of boots near the doors to the pub. The kind of soft boot scraping performed when someone tried, very hard, to show that they really were just leaving and they were only being courteous by jumping out of the way. He also missed a different kind of scraping, as one or two chairs moved, in that way that chairs moved when someone had completely forgotten they had told their wife or husband that they’s be home in time for tea. He did notice the conversation becoming a lull, but that happened, sometimes, as people prepared to pick up a chair, or a bottle, or a companion, ready to beat someone around the head with them. But he’d be fine. He was protected. For the moment.

“Hello, Wakeful.” Now, to anyone else, that would have sounded like the kind of whisper made by people in the deepest dungeons, trying very hard not to awaken the horde of ravening monsters whose nest they had happened to wander into the middle of. Into Welling’s trumpets, it sounded like a war cry.

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C A Malin @camalin.net · 4d

I can just about squeak in with "Monstrous" for today's #WIPSnips, and we're back at Lady Lamont's morning social.

What new horror has arisen to alarm the ladies of Upthorpe Thoroughbourne's polite society?

From #Ellamir, my #JaneAusten #Regency #Romance X #Fantasy crossover WIP

A snippet from Ellamir by C A Malin:
“I believe not, my dear Mrs Tinsley, not even to myself. No doubt an attorney of Mr Yates’ experience will have a legal reason for guarding the details of the conveyance with secrecy. However, with a little natural penetration, perhaps one may draw a conclusion or two, and I must tell you that I do have reason to greatly fear…”
Lady Lamont paused, teacup and saucer poised beneath her imperiously pursed lips, and dutifully her audience widened their eyes and leant forwards: whatever was liable to inspire great fear in their venerable patroness was indeed a matter of significant concern and undeniable interest, or at the very least, it was their duty to appear as if it was. Certainly it was known to all that some odd stories had been circulating among the lesser residents and servants: a tale of a peculiarly large wolf killed at a farmstead not fifteen miles hence; a sighting of a party of dwarves on the High Road, armed to the teeth and bemoaning, as usual, some injustice or other; a swarthy fellow passing through the village who was rumoured by the patrons of the tavern he frequented to be a rogue; and worst of all, reports of elvish activity not far north of the parish boundary. It seemed that suddenly, threats to civilised life were being spoken of everywhere. What monstrous new horror had now been brought to Lady Lamont’s attention?
"Yes, I greatly fear," she repeated, "that the abbey and its lands have been purchased with *new money*!”

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C A Malin @camalin.net · 5d

Makes perfect sense to me 💯

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 5d

Sex scene with Mr Collins, anyone?

It's the perfect time for some Austen-inspired fiction & I hugely enjoyed this heartfelt, romantic & v. funny imagining of the life of Charlotte Lucas from @rachelparris.bsky.social

(Honestly, don’t let the sex thing put you off, it’s lovely)

Out 6 Nov 📚 🌟

Book cover of 'Introducing Mrs Collins' by Rachel Parris, in green and pink, laid upon a pile of early 19th-century books

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Laken Honeycutt 💫 Editing Book 2 💫 @mycelialwriter.bsky.social · 5d

In my magic system, we don’t cast spells, we weave elemental threads. Though I do love and appreciate the word spell 🪄✨ #AWIPSnips from SoS subbing “weave” for “spell”.

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Tara S Geir @tarasgeir.bsky.social · 5d

Gone through about 8 works featuring wizards, goblins, gods and familiars and not a single ‘spell’ so here is magic and here is ‘not-a-wizard’ Cailo being told he’ll barely have to use magic. #writesky #writingcommunity #wipsnips #writingprompts

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C A Malin @camalin.net · 5d

Several instances of "spell" to choose from in my WIP #Ellamir, a #JaneAusten style #Fantasy #Romance crossover, for today's #spooky #WIPSnips - this is my favourite!

Lady Lamont has some strong opinions on the subject of adventurers moving into the respectable village of Upthorpe Thoroughbourne

A snippet from Ellamir by C A Malin:
Miss Oakhall smiled thinly, having only moments ago suffered an attack on her consequence and then waited in vain for a suitable riposte to occur to her. She had endured many a meeting where the conversation had turned to concern and outrage over such perceived threats to the peace and respectability of the villages of Upthorpe; they seemed to her greatly exaggerated, often the result of highly uncharitable prejudice, and she was minded to put forth a tolerably strong hint on the subject, but before she could interject, Lady Lamont went on.
“And then, you are to understand, their gold may be of a most unwholesome nature, or the rightful property of goodness knows who. Many a thief may be found among an adventuring party - they call themselves rogues, you know - and such a person would stop at naught to enrich themselves in a most upstart manner, with never a care that the gold they so presumptuously help themselves to may be enlaid with a curse or spell."
"That would never do!" said Mrs Tinsley, frowning at her teacup and reaching for a biscuit.
"Certainly not. Cursed gold is a very tricky thing, and no doubt subject to additional charges and a reduced rate of interest. But that is not the worst of it, oh no! Even if it is not cursed, there is an extreme likelihood that it has, at some previous juncture, been the property of a dragon; and dragons, my dear, are known to be of a most insatiably vengeful disposition.”

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Katie L. Carroll @katielcarroll.com · 12d

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C A Malin @camalin.net · 18d

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C A Malin @camalin.net · 18d

...sorry about that! 😆 How does that even happen?!

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