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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle)

@kiraofthewind.com

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She/her, author of fantasy novels coming from Shadow Spark Publishing✨ Fantasy gamer, anime nerd, reader🌈 SFINCS3 judge📚 Autistic ace vampire🧛‍♀️ LGBTQ+ safe🏳️‍🌈 Occasional 18+ content🔞 Links to my stuff: https://linktr.ee/kiraofthewind

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · Jul 1

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Info about me, links to my books, Discords, Patreon, etc.

Please like and repost if you see this🫶💕

Meet the writer
About me: My name is Erika McCorkle, but I also go by Kira of the Wind online. Feel free to call me by either name. I’m open to cute nicknames, too
I am a millennial, internetting since 2003.
I have been writing/worldbuilding since the 90s
I am genderfluid and fictosexual, but she/her pronouns work just fine

Things I know and do:
I have a Bachelor of Science in Biology
Work the night shift at a blood bank as a lab tech
Taught myself Japanese, but I’ve forgotten much of what I once knew
Big fan of fantasy (games, books, anime, etc.)
I spend free time writing, reading, watching anime, or playing video games

Favorites:
flower: lotus
drink: coca cola
food: taco
animal: seal
hobbies: video games and writing

My books and writing
I write fantasy that takes place in a queernormative world (meaning a world where being queer is normal and accepted).
My books are Dark Fantasy with Adult content, extremely in-depth worldbuilding, and themes of revenge and found families
I have two novels out currently and a few short stories and serials on my Patreon.

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 1h

I can confirm the first one is true 🤣 (I work at a blood bank)

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 1h

Let's just hope he doesn't have to use it!

Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 1h

Yep, I sent yours same time as Kelsey's 🙏 Not sure how long of a trip it'll have, tho!

Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 2h

The Aloutian Emperor is very secretive and never makes public appearances, leading to a ton of conspiracy theories about him. Some believe he really is immortal, others believe there have been many Emperors but their deaths/ascensions aren't mentioned. Some believe there isn't one at all.

Kiki Lee | Author ✒️ 🩷💜💙 @kikilegendlore.bsky.social · 2h

Authors and Gamemasters, today's world building question!

What are some conspiracy theories in your world? Do your characters believe them?

#ttrpg #authors #gamemasters #worldbuilding #storydevelopment #writingcommunity #writersky #writingprompts

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 2h

I feel like I've said it before, but it bears repeating, I love that our wip's towns basically have the same name lol (mine is Aleton)

Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 2h

😂 I could also go for an electric blanket thats says "cozy for us reptiles"

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 3h

😌😌 cozy for us freaks

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 3h

Yay!! It should get to you soon!

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 4h

But actually like it, right? Unlike the otter who hates it 😂

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 4h

Tragic 💔

Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 4h

At which point you pull the rug out from under us? 😅

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 4h

Lol, iirc that one is from a video where the otter was eating watermelon and hated it

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 1d

Hey I have a book out today which makes another completed trilogy!
But I'm super duper stressed at work so I've got no time to make a fun post.

If you enjoy dark sci-fantasy, trauma/healing, found family and weird and wild worlds, check out my Inner Universe series!

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 7h

which are two things I talk about frequently, lol. I'm really excited to write a 1st person PoV novel where the MC has two bodies and can be in two places at once

Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 7h

#PlotTober 15

I intend for MoDaH's midpoint to be Tynan's death. Not a spoiler because it's the key to how they become OP and how they become one mind with two bodies (essentially a ghost and a zombie psychically connected)

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 9h

#PlotTober Day 15: The midpoint

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social

15. The midpoint of the story serves two purposes: (1) it reveals critical information to the MC and (2) causes the MC to confront both who they used to be and who they need to become to grow, change, and/or achieve their goals. What are some ways you could do this?

Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 9h

goes around northern Kamblu, tracing the diameter of the Water Transformation Circle. It's a paved road for Takyufon to skate on. Takyufon work in mail delivery and small packages. There's a regular road next to the Takyufon road for wagons, caravans, and foot traffic.

Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 9h

#OctoberWorldbuilders
Week 3: Infrastructure and Cities
16: Trade routes

The Aloutian Empire started with trade routes. They were originally allied nations building roads so facilitate trade and travel. Then said roads were used for marching armies.

The Takyu Wheel Road is a circular road that

OctoberWorldbuilders prompt list
WEEK 3: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CITIES
15: Trade routes
16: Fire/police/hospital services
17: Where does their food come from?
18: Tech: Electricity? Steam power? Mills?
19: Sanitation, sewer system, hygiene
20: Who developed the infrastructure? Government employees? Soldiers? Private business? Are taxes or slaves involved?
21: Housing (Style? Architecture? Amenities available in your world?)

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 9h

😂😂 Perfect!

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 9h

lmao, I'm always down for puns, especially for my Good Thyme Inn books if you have food puns

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 9h

I just see worldbuilding as a personal thing. Saying you should or shouldn't do it is like saying you should/should not have romance in a fantasy story. Like, yeah, if the author likes writing romance, do it. If they don't, there's no reason they should include it. Worldbuilding is the same

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 10h

Although you did just remind me that I should label it as 'sent' on my kofi. I always forget to do that, whoops

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 10h

lmfao, I literally just mailed a signed book to her today🤣

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 10h

I also just remembered I put it in my "woke garbage" meme 🤣🤣

The covers of my two books, Merchants of Knowledge and Magic, and Merchants of Light and Bone. They are labeled as "The Pentagonal Dominion - Woke garbage epic and dark fantasy!"
Genderpunk!
Femdom!
Lesbians! Including the villain!
Intersex MC!
Sassy MC wont' take your shit
Anti-capitalist society
Trans enby merperson
Men who cry!
Interspecies polyamory
Bisexual MC
No speciesism or racism

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 10h

This novella I just read for SFINCS was really good and had a moment during a beautiful lesbian sex scene where one of the women instructs the other to masturbate. It's only one part of the whole scene, but it's great:

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Grimoire Ink Reviews @grimoireinkreviews.bsky.social · 22h

Ready for your first #SFINC3 review from us for this week?
We're starting with Red-Lacquered Sky by L.H.Yun, reviewed by @kiraofthewind.com

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Red Lacquered Sky author L.H. Yun

Reviewed by Kira of the Wind ★★★★½ This is a beautiful, worldbuilding-dense, sapphic novella that took me two reads to fully absorb and appreciate. This novella takes place in a world where &…

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 10h

That's good progress! And for a great scene it sounds like, too 😁

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