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PJC Cahill

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Author of NICEF, sci-fi space opera with mechs, full of homage to all the anime mecha classics! Avid FFXIV gamer! https://linktr.ee/pjc_cahill Buy my book (NICEF): Itch. io: https://pjc-cahill.itch.io/nicef Amazon: https://a.co/d/cyHzqQa

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PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · Apr 25

Giant robots, underdog students, an alien assassin, and a broken system all collide in NICEF! F/F and M/F romance arcs! Oppressed minority rises up to reclaim their rights!
-Itch. io pjc-cahill.itch.io/nicef
-Amazon (Print) a.co/d/cyHzqQa
#spaceopera #mecha #wlw #scifi #ya #indieauthor #booksky 🪐📚💙🌈

Art by Luigiix - cover of "N.I.C.E.F.: Neural-Interface Controlled Exo-Frame" novel. Human eye top left, alien eye top right, title full-center, child facing a riot-police line with a mech bottom left, a Nicef (mech) with a beamsaber bottom center, young woman with half-body prosthetics in a medical cot bottom right.

Art by Luigiix - from rear cover of the physical copy of NICEF, the Mercelo Aerospace Academy space station. It's overall a large, blocky, dark design, but has visible hemispheres on top for organic habitats with city-style structures inside.

Art by Luigiix - the core protagonists of NICEF in their academy uniforms (black jacket and slacks with dress shoes, with insignias on the left side of the wearer's chest for their curriculum. Feather for pilot, half a cog for mechanical engineering, circuit-board mini diagram for software engineering). From left to right: Taegen Atius, Selene Ark, Stefan Mara, Blaire Phyzante, Djilia Oakren, Latien Varsan, Diela Kilan. This banner also serves as a height comparison. Taegen is the tallest, then Djilia, Diela, Stefan and Selene are about even, then Blaire, then Latien (who is specifically very short).

Art by Luigiix - left side features Djilia Oakren in the Mercelo piloting uniform, standing casually and offering a wave to the viewer. She has a big, warm smile. Her eyes are metallic purple, her short hair a very dark brown, and her skin is tan (like Stefan's). - Right side features Djilia wearing a Nicef pilot suit. It resembles a futuristic, slimmed down spacesuit with LED lights and a glowing faceplate. There is a special pop-out view showing the inside of the back of the collar. Three mechanical panels extend out from the back of the collar. They would touch the pilot's neck. - Center features digital text information: Djilia Oakren; pilot candidate; age: 17 y.o.; House Status: Arbiter of Aroi House; Origin: Tagil, Aroi Settlement Colony; Known Skills: Nicef piloting

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PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 36m

"Demon King Daughter Book 1: Raising the Demon King"
A #yafiction #contemporaryfantasy that blends #sliceoflife and #actionadventure for warm fuzzies and excitement! Lesbian FMC!
Available Nov 4th 2025!
eBook preorder: a.co/d/c4RtAOj
Print available on release date!
#fantasy #demons #sapphic 📢📚

Art by Luigiix - cover of "Demon King Daughter Book 1: Raising the Demon King" by P.J.C. Cahill. This text appears in black, red-outlined text at the bottom of the image.
- Top Left is an aged human man with silver hair, a long beard and mustache, and stern features. Top Right is a demon man with long, black hair, tall, thin horns, red-in-black, slitted eyes, and pale gray skin.
- Middle of the image shows seven characters in various states of casual dress.
- Bottom, foreground of the image features a mother and daughter pair. The mother is holding the daughter on her hip, and they're both smiling happily at each other. The mother has neck-length, black hair, a tan skin, brown eyes, and is wearing a black leather jacket over a white shirt, with black pants. The daughter has very dark, brown skin, short, messy black hair, and vibrantly red eyes. She's wearing a black hoodie, baggy shorts, and puffy white socks sticking out of her simple sneakers.

PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 52m

#PlotTober 14 - Demon King Daughter - book 1's finale is very much a stepping stone. Kyoka, Seina (her best friend), and Himari (friend/crush) confront the paladin bullies at school.
#ya #fantasy #demon #witch #sapphic
Release Nov 4th, ebook/print/KU: a.co/d/c4RtAOj

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

INTRODUCTIONS
1. Introduce yourself & WIP
2. Ideas, tropes, themes
3. Other inspiring media
4. Desired setting

MAIN CHARACTER
5. Initial ideas for MC
6. Immediate goals
7. MC's motivations
8. Possible conflicts
9. Personality traits
10. Backstory & traumas
11. Growth & change
12. Antagonists

PLOT SKELETON
13. Story beginnings
14. Story endings
15. Story midpoint
16. Inciting incident
17. Act 1 to Act 2
18. Act 2 part 1
19. First pinch point
20. Act 2 part 2
21. Second pinch point
22. Dark Night of the Soul
23. Overcoming despair
24. Story climax
25. Resolutions

OTHER IDEAS
26. Supporting characters
27. Important locations
28. Genre options
29. Music vibes
30. Art/aesthetic vibes
31. Month-end wrap-up

PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 1h

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 14 - Demon King Daughter - Book 1 shows nameless demons as henchmen for Torlash, but books 2 and 3 feature full characters. Hideyoshi's daughter and her husband kinda function as henchmen for him?
#ya #fantasy #demon #witch
Release Nov 4th, ebook/print/KU: a.co/d/c4RtAOj

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober
1. Introduce yourself & WIP
2. Do you/your characters like scary things?
3. Free Friday or share something you are proud of
4. Saturday Snippet
5. What are your characters afraid of?
6. Monsters in WIP
7. Villain’s goals
8. Spooky month book recs
9. Favourite paranormal creatures
10. Free Friday or explain your WIP with emojis/gifs
11. Saturday Snippet
12. What do your MC and villain think of each other?
13. Spooky Shelfie
14. Villain’s henchmen and/or followers
15. What would you/your characters wear to a Halloween ball?
16. Tricks and/or treats in WIP
17. Free Friday or share a photo of autumn decorations
18. Saturday Snippet
19. Scary moment in WIP
20. Morally grey character(s)
21. Scary movie/tv show recs
22. Creepy poem or flash fiction
23. Who would your characters dress up as for Halloween?
24. Free Friday or share your Halloween plans
25. Saturday Snippet
26. How would your MC react to a haunted house?
27. Goosebumps or Point Horror?
28. Guilt or regret in WIP
29. MC’s worst nightmare
30. Is your MC brave?
31. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Hosts: @ChesneyInfalt and @L.V.Russell/@l.v.russell_author

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Carolina Álvarez @ AH JW Valencia @kaiselka.bsky.social · 7h

Hi #portfolioday I'm Carolina, an illustrator and comic artist from Spain. Love drawing fantasy and my OC's ❤️

Links: linktr.ee/kaiselka

#VoxMachina #OC #DungeonMeshi

My OC Jocelyn from my webcomic Forgotten Sons.

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PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 4h

#WIPSnips - Demon King Daughter - subbing 'final' - so this looks like a major spoiler, but it happens in the first 10 pages because it's the core gimmick set up XD Source of the title!
#writesky #writingcommunity #fantasy #yafiction #demon
-eBook Preorder: a.co/d/c4RtAOj
-Print available Nov 4 2025

"...Masuyo Ouno, you are a rare creature. I will assist your wish, and I will learn from it. You say I will never understand, but I am willing to master this bond of family you espouse. So... not a curse. I will offer my protection to your child, and your child will teach me of family. We will become one. Wholly both. Neither loses, both gain."
The Demon King made his last choice. He wielded his tremendous magics as his true self one final time. The new soul of the baby, Masuyo's daughter, was encoiled in his soul. His power, his essence, his knowledge flowed into and joined the tiny human soul still forming.
Masuyo's daughter was the Demon King.

#WIPSnips
a Bluesky Writing Community Tag
Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social
October 13th through October 19th.
October 13 - push
October 14 - ultimate
October 15 - care
October 16 - might
October 17 - loaf
October 18 - dodge
October 19 - trial

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PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 19h

Sounds like a good plan! I simply recommend getting some marketing know-how for yourself so you can better gage what they're offering.

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PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 19h

Happy to! Though I should admit I'm hardly an example of 'success.' Trad works for folks, I just didn't see enough benefit to give up my IP rights.

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Raptor @raptornx01.bsky.social · 21h

Fanfiction deserves more respect from the writing and reading community, and publishers. They can be just as good or better then any "professional" work. One of the most famous works of literature in history is a slasher fanfic and no one bats an eye to see Dante's Divine Comedy on a top ten list.

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Madame Decadent Sneezy-Bottom @darklyadapted.bsky.social · 20h

Some of the best writing is in genres ignored by people who think that because it's accessible, it's too lightweight for them.

An author who can hold a reader spellbound for 250 pages has got it right.

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PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 19h

God I wish we could get societal buy in on this one.

PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 19h

That's the thing, most of them don't do that anymore. Unless you're already a big timer worth investing in, it's all on you anyway.

PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 20h

That trad publishing actually offers no benefit over self publishing at this point. No hate intended to fellow authors who prefer it. I'm stating that it is purely a preference now.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 21h

Under-Rated Books Itch Bundle! itch.io/b/3305/under... Get 63 of the best books you've never heard of for only $38 USD! That's 83% off! Oct 9th - 13th! Find new favs, and consider leaving them ratings to give us all a boost! 📢📚 #writesky #readersky #writingcommunity

Most, but not all, of the underrated book bundle covers are arranged around central text: Itch.Io Under-Rated Bundle OCT 9th - 13th Bringing attention to the best books you've never heard of

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 23h

Process flow brain jumps faster than reading brain can walk. Have to bridge the gap sometimes.

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 1d

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

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PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 1d

#PlotTober 13 - Demon King Daughter - book 1 sets up for the first chapters, but I made sure to keep it character-deep and engaging. It also involves some of my only forays into 1st POV for brief sections.
#ya #fantasy #demon #witch #sapphic
Release Nov 4th, ebook/print/KU: a.co/d/c4RtAOj

PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 1d

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 13 - Demon King Daughter - I dunno what a 'shelfie' is! Hopefully a pic of the test-copy of my book is good!?
#ya #fantasy #demon #witch #sapphic
Release Nov 4th, ebook/print/KU: a.co/d/c4RtAOj

picture of print copy of Demon King Daughter book 1 being held by hand against an off-white background.

picture of print copy of Demon King Daughter book 1 being held by hand against an off-white background, facing the spine of the book in this one.

PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 1d

Hahaha excellent

PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 1d

#WIPSnips - Demon King Daughter - From the very first page! One of the few 1st POV sections I've ever written. The Demon King himself, bemoaning his power like the edgelord he is XD
#writesky #writingcommunity #fantasy #yafiction #demon
-eBook Preorder: a.co/d/c4RtAOj
-Print available Nov 4 2025

None could contest me. None could match me. For a time, that had been cathartic and satisfying. Utterly crushing all who opposed me. It was something I could revel in. I did so for a few centuries.
Yet, it was empty. Crushing those weaker than myself was pointless. The intelligent ones either never contested me, or fled the moment they comprehended how far beyond them I was. The fools died in droves at the most basic of my spells.
I craved martial combat, my claws rending flesh, and they couldn't even push me enough to get that far.

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 1d

Embrace Change- 2022

My art, digital. A comic page of a women shapeshifting into a werewolf

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 1d

I generally just go with a pacing method rather than core structure. Set-up > spike > repeat with the set-up also having downtime/breathing room and character interactions to develop b-plots. Most of it is building slowly toward a bigger stakes final climax. I'm also a big fan of denouement.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 1d

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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 1d

Here are the #WIPSnips words for October 13th - 19th

Please remember Alt Text on graphics & Trigger/Content warnings when necessary.

Synonyms, variations and ✨vibes✨ are fine.

As always, no unsolicited line editing on posts. This is a place for supportive convo (which y'all are awesome at)!

The #WIPSnips words for October 13th through October 19th

October 13 - push; October 14 - ultimate; October 15 - care; October 16 - might; October 17 - loaf; October 18 - dodge; October 19 - trial

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