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Revy L

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29 | Brit | They/Them | Author-in-progress! Lover of fantasy, sci-fi, dystopia, horror. Big fan of D&D, Worldbuilding, Reading, Drawing, and Yapping! Currently Writing: Stardust of Morgrad Banner: @ginwilliamsart.bsky.social

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Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · Jun 30

Stardust of Morgrad is back from being edited! Thanks to the amazing @willowtalksbooks.bsky.social the book is now filled with feedback and ready for my final edits and then... the real scary stuff!

Time to start scouting a cover artist and making some maps!

#writesky #booksky

A blue image with a galaxy background and two crow skulls with red eyes in the top left and right corners. Gold text in the centre reads: Edits are done! Now the real countdown begins! Under the text is a chibi of a boy in a green coat with black hair and a pink flower in his hair. The bottom corner text is orange and reads "Stardust of Morgrad"

Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · 16h

Go support my cover artist! The art is to die for!!!!!

⛧Maven⛧ @spiritlullaby.bsky.social · 16h

Hello #PortfolioDay
I'm Maven, a self-taught Indigenous artist from Canada who recently went back to college for my diploma in Medical Office Assistant. I love to create and design characters for both fandom and my own original content.

Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · 2d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly a few lines from book 2 of my series that I'm now working on.

Blue background with black text that reads: “Yuliya Vasilyevna’s going to ask where her favourite gossip mill is hiding himself,” Mietek grumbled. His leg had been stiff since they disembarked the train.

Mayak stifled a snicker and stepped back, gesturing dramatically to the station’s thick glass ceiling. Just beyond it, the everpresent dividing wall loomed through the smog. “Sightseeing, naturally — is that not what a visitor does in the capital?”

“And see what exactly?” Mietek quipped, gesturing the same as Mayak did. “The smog looks nastier than the last time we were here.”

Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · 2d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly How about one of my bookmark designs for when the book goes on sale? :D

a bookmark of a man with brown hair and purple eyes he has big wings and a long brown coat. he has one hand on his chest and smiles to the viewer. at the bottom in gold text it says "Stardust of Morgrad"

Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · 2d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly Getting the muse to do it? I'm ADHD as heck and in and amongst my billion other hobbies and my actual job (which also requires writing!) getting the headspace to sit down and just splurge words can be elusive sometimes.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 5d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 10 📚

As a #neurospicy author, I find sticking to one project is really challenging, especially if I'm in a hard slog phase that doesn't give me any dopamine.

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 10 What's the hardest part about writing for you?
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Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · 2d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly There's a lot of books that inspire me (and other media as well) but I think the main one that pushed me back into reading and writing still remains Roadside Picnic

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 6d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 09 📚

This one's not just a book you love, but one that makes you want to write. It could be fiction or non-fiction. What about it inspires you?

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 09 Tell us about a book that inspired your own writing.
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Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · 6d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly I actually spent all day thinking about this and I think this song sums up both Sasha and Beatrix pretty well.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt8I...

Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · 8d

It's so so exciting you have no idea!

Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · 8d

Also I have the amazing and wonderful @spiritlullaby.bsky.social doing the cover and trust me it's going to be utterly GORGEOUS and I'm going to eat it with delight.

Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · 8d

Choosing to do lots of this myself has been time consuming, yes, but I also feel like I've learned a lot of new skills in the process and that's been very worthwhile. I hope to continue to keep learning so that in future my next books will be quicker to set up once they're written as well.

Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · 8d

Ongoing To Do List

- Finish World Map
- City Map
- Finish Typesetting and assembly
- Find Proofreader
- Make Website
- Work out how to actually get books printed
- Learn to export to Epub
- Pay for cover design
- Buy ISBN
- Marketing Graphics and soft-relaunch this account

Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · 9d

#WritingLifeMonthly

I like and hate these areas in different ways and to different extends depending on the weather, phase of the moon, my hyperfixations, and how much of a deadline I have.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 9d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 06 📚

There are always parts of a job we love more than others. What's your fav part of the process?

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 06 What's your favourite part of the writing process - drafting, editing, or researching?
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Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · 9d

#WritingLifeMonthly

Larya! We'd be weird weenie friends and could talk about art and comics together a lot.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 10d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 05 📚
Tell me the truth, do you write characters you'd love to have in your life? I know I do. Who would you pull from the page to hang out with and why?

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 05 Which one of your characters woyld you want to be friends with IRL & why?
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Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · 9d

#WritingLifeMonthly

I think I'd be Beatrix. She's a feisty girl with not only a strong desire to learn but also lots she needs to learn about. I think she'd be fun to experience.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 11d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day04 📚

You write amazing characters, if you could be one of them for a day, who would you pick?

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 04 It you would turn into one of your charactes, who & why?
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Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · 9d

#WritingLifeMonthly

Recency bias has me thinking a lot about Earthlings by Sayaka Murata (quite the incredible ride to say the least.) but overall my thoughts are almost always with Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky because that book owns my soul.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 13d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 02 📚
I've been updating my bookshelf recently, shifting from digital to physical copies. My new copy of @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social The Night Circus. This book is one I spend a lot of time daydreaming about. Yours?
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October #writinglifemonthly Day 02 What's a book you can't stop thinking about?
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Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · 9d

#WritingLifeMonthly A duel goal - finish the PhD revisions and get it submitted and also to finish putting together my novel for publication.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 14d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 01 📚

What are you getting stuck into this month?

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 01 This month's writing goals
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Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 14d

Sorry folks, I fixed the list but posted the wrong one! Updated version here. #writinglifemonthly

Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · Sep 1

Blows the dust off of this account

PhD goes in this month. Then we're hardcore noveling this stuff

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Eira Brand @eirabrand.com · Jun 30

Run Like Hell is now available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FFN365DV

#writingcommunity #writerscommunity #booksky #writesky #queerwriters #cyberpunk #horrorcommunity #scifibooks #bookrelease #indiebooks 💙📚🪐📚🩸📚🌈📚

Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · Jun 30

Stardust of Morgrad is back from being edited! Thanks to the amazing @willowtalksbooks.bsky.social the book is now filled with feedback and ready for my final edits and then... the real scary stuff!

Time to start scouting a cover artist and making some maps!

#writesky #booksky

A blue image with a galaxy background and two crow skulls with red eyes in the top left and right corners. Gold text in the centre reads: Edits are done! Now the real countdown begins! Under the text is a chibi of a boy in a green coat with black hair and a pink flower in his hair. The bottom corner text is orange and reads "Stardust of Morgrad"

Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · Jun 25

An amazing picture of Beatrix thanks to the forever wonderful @unkledeath.bsky.social ! Thank you so much for making my girl look so so so cute!

An artwork of Beatrix dressed in black boots, tights, a brown skirt and a long blue coat that floats out behind her. she has long blonde curly hair in a brown headband. She holds a black notebook and smiles

Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · Jun 22

Whilst book 1 is being edited, I have been avidly chipping away at the start of book 2! Set in the coastal city of Kiitagrad, we follow the adventures of poor Larya, who just wanted to be an artist not a guard captain...

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Revy - Birthday Month! @heretic-saint.bsky.social · Jun 22

Y'all should absolutely comm Sardo because that will mean you will then possess gorgeous artwork of your OCs to cry over daily.

Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · Jun 3

Blows the dust off this account. happy pride month!

Stardust of Morgrad is entirely queer norm yay!

Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · May 20

Will start posting further updates on this soon!
(Tragically PhD gotta take priority for a bit)

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Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · May 7

It's official! Stardust of Morgrad is now with an editor and is on its way to being a real book! The countdown to all the exciting steps has started! So stay tuned!

I'll be posting more soon with details about lore, characters, and maybe even sneak peeks!

#booksky #writersky #authorsky

A post with a space background and two crow skulls with stars on the front as the top border. Two chibis in the centre, one a man with wings and the other a girl with a book. The text reads "It's official! Stardust of Morgrad is in Editing"