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Hanlons Awkham
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An ill-literate
Finding a way or making one.
LitRPG/Progression Fantasy Author
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/93637/metem-the-blind-chemist
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Hanlons Awkham @hanlonsawkham.bsky.social · Jun 24
A big shout out to the wonderful people at www.bookflydesign.com
They brought the cover of my first ever book to life and I think it is just beautiful! 😍🔥
#litrpg #progressionfantasy #booksky #authors #coverreveal
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Thief of Echoes has launched on Royal Road. The first eight chapters are now live, and I'll release new ones on Mondays and Thursdays.
#LitRPG #amwriting #BookSky #WebSerial #ContemporaryFantasy
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Thief of Echoes
Life in the shadows can take some strange turns. Lanie finally got to knock “international museum heist” off her bucket list. The job went smooth, until she got outside and found killers waiting for h...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Respawn Protocol, Chapters 4 & 5 now available on RoyalRoad @ www.royalroad.com/fiction/1343...

This crazy adventure has been amazing to write and receive such great feedback on. Thank you to everyone enjoying it with me!

#Writing #Fantasy #FantasyWriting #LitRPG #SciFi #Respawn #Protocol
Respawn Protocol
When Navy veteran-turned-IT worker Zachary Ainsley is paralyzed while saving a stray dog from a garbage truck, he thought his story was over. Instead, he wakes up as the first successful human test su...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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2025 Micro-reviews:

Discount Dan by James A. Hunter – A guy teleported to a malfunctioning dungeon immediately ends up as a spectator in a superpower battle. He’s lucky enough to grab a few discards that might just be the tools he needs to survive.

#booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg #&microreviews
Read for: A book clearly written to appeal to Dungeon Crawler Carl fans Avoid if: Things being gruesome or silly is a dealbreaker R/Fantasy Bingo squares: Impossible Places, Small Press
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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　Today’s chapter dives directly into the heart of conflict—
a “Reconciliation Match” that should have been nothing more than a school exhibition… and instead spirals into something far darker.
#RoyalRoad

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December 6, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Whoops, missed a chapter update. Ahem! Ch. 21 is up for Apprentice on #royalroad! Neska wakes up to the calm after the battle, with new abilities, new worries, and a new arrival. #litrpg #gamelit #witch #snake #progressionfantasy #booktok #booksky #author

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Vol. 1, Ch. 21: Coils Upon Your Soul - The Apprentice of Ouroboros [Arch-witch in Training]
The waking world slowly returned to Neska’s senses, but her vision remained blurry. She flicked out her tongue and could taste old blood, ointment, and something sharp and herbal in the air. Her body ...
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December 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Another chapter down. Events are starting to happen.

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#femalemc #fantasy #royalroad #booksky #btdem #adventurer #lgbtq+ #sapphic #wlw #lesfic #litRPG
Chapter -21474836327 (What were you hoping to get from this?) - IO Stream - Tales Beneath the Dragoneye Moons
Chapter -21474836327 (What were you hoping to get from this?) Later on that same day the women had met the distraught [Merchant] in the baths, Ada was seated atop the ranger’s armored wagon, practicin...
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December 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Decided to start sharing my WIP Levantine and pre-Islamic Arabian mythology inspired fantasy novel to #RoyalRoad to inspire myself to finish it -
If you like chaotic anti-hero brown queers, jinn, gods, and monsters, check out The Trials of Mawt!

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Cover for my Levantine and pre-Islamic Arabian mythology inspired fantasy novel, The Trials of Mawt - features a young jinni man standing before a portal made of branches contorted into an arch, staring over his shoulder at the viewer as he walks towards the portal, his body surrounded in a light haze of smoke.
December 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Chapter 106 of MeteM up and ready to read!
Welcome to the estate of Parolly Sistain; what could go wrong.
It's free to read, come follow along!
Join other ill-literates on this #litrpg #progressionfantasy adventure!
#booksky #royalroad #fantasy #art
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Metem: A LitRPG Progression Fantasy
Welcome to Metem; an elaborate world of danger, magic, and mystery. Where adventurers whisper of shadows and slay monsters for levels and loot. With a broken interface and an unresponsive log out phra...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Chapter 105 of MeteM up and ready to read!
It's time to leave Ashes & Embers and cure Cici of that curse!
It's free to read, come follow along!
Join other ill-literates on this #litrpg #progressionfantasy adventure!
#booksky #royalroad #fantasy #art
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Metem: A LitRPG Progression Fantasy
Welcome to Metem; an elaborate world of danger, magic, and mystery. Where adventurers whisper of shadows and slay monsters for levels and loot. With a broken interface and an unresponsive log out phra...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Official link to these new Southern Reach editions share.google/wvp4iCVx0q5a...
Evernight Exclusive: Southern Reach set by Jeff Vandermeer
We’re thrilled to announce, in collaboration with Jeff Vandermeer (@jeff_vandermeer123) and 4th Estate Books (@4thestatebooks), our Evernight Exclusive set of the Southern Reach series! Sent as the tw...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
hanlonsawkham.bsky.social
Chapter 104 of MeteM up and ready to read!
Kopius speaks with Yama and Cici performs Astral's Canon, will there be tears?
It's free to read, come follow along!
Join other ill-literates on this #litrpg #progressionfantasy adventure!
#booksky #royalroad #fantasy #art
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Metem: A LitRPG Progression Fantasy
Welcome to Metem; an elaborate world of danger, magic, and mystery. Where adventurers whisper of shadows and slay monsters for levels and loot. With a broken interface and an unresponsive log out phra...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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I have cursed the world with another chapter of Dwynveia.

#royalroad #litrpg #webnovel

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Chapter 170 - Once Upon a Time in Ror-Bhyk - The Chronicles of Dwynveia - a Slimeling LitRPG
Aki The worst part about Lilyth's grim pronouncement was that I couldn't find any counterarguments towards it. And judging by everyone’s expression, neither could they. The morning’s assassination att...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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It's The Lean Times in the Errant Apprentice! Terry and Co. are summoned to New Orleans during a special time of year for knights. Discoveries are made!
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#writing #fantasy #book #RoyalRoad
Chapter 19 - The Lean Times - The Errant Apprentice - Book One: Mo Ghile Mear
The spring and summer months were a whirlwind of activity for Terry and his crew. More goblins of the local variety, orcs, and any number of strange escapades meant plenty of work, plenty of income, a...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Coming up on #royalroad

“The myths of men shall not bind you! Your home will be wherever I make it to be!”

Chapter 44: Encore, Encore! drops 17 November 21:00 SGT!

Check out Garden of Severed Wills: royalroad.com/fiction/1281...

#webnovel #writing #smallauthor #WritingCommunity
Garden of Severed Wills
(Bad) summary: Boy eats crusty twin in utero, and is chosen to end all sorcery 18 years later Real synopsis: “Clothes maketh man, as do memories a lived man. Memories are the companions of man's soul;...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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ICYMI

Chapter 41 is out now on #royalroad #wattpad and #patreon

Read now
#booksky

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Chapter 41 - Onwards and Upwards - A Kid and His Slime
The next morning Oliver was last awake. The sounds of the fire crackling and idle chatter woke him from his sleep. "Ah morning Oliver." Cedric greeted warmly. He walked over to the boy and handed him ...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Happy Thursday~~

It's been a busy busy week for me, so I'm glad I remembered to make the update post, haha.

Another chapter of SILVERLEAF is up!enjoy~

#ream #patreon #inkitt #royalroad #tapas #webnovel #webserial #serialfiction #writersky #booksky #writing
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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TBH, I really don't know how to raise awareness of stuff on #RoyalRoad, other than to post about it on #selfpromosaturday

Surely there's a better way, but my view numbers don't support that

Anyhoo, #deepsea #mermaid epic fantasy adventure #ahoy
maikelyarimizu.bsky.social Maikel Yarimizu @maikelyarimizu.bsky.social · Oct 4
And finally (I have too much stuff for #selfpromosaturday, really!), there's this story updating currently on Royal Road

Mer Manoa, my deep-sea #mermaid epic tetralogy.
Just a little more to write before it's done!
(a lot more to update on RR, tho)

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illustration by Astrid Vujnovic A mermaid warrior wields a wicked-edged spear. She is mostly green with blue flukes and highlights
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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The thirteenth chapter of Kirra's journal is out! It's got political intrigue and a mounting military offensive! ...but Kirra's more interested in the social caste.

Links below!🧵⏬

#mythosseries #mythos #oc #booksky #writesky #writingcommunity #amwriting #SSF #worldbuilding #royalroad
An excerpt from the new chapter. It reads as follows: I have observed what seems to be a sort of caste system within the ranks of the merchants here. It is not a system of oppression, as the castes enforced by the Gods often were, but one of privilege. Many aspects of trade here are restricted to those in the higher castes; you may not seek an audience with the upper councils, deal in certain “high-risk” goods, or access certain facilities within the city unless you are of an appropriate rank. New and aspiring merchants, or those with no local connections or global reputation, start at the bottom caste and can work their way only through conducting business and forming connections with other merchants. As I described before, the people of Emberfall are incredibly straightforward and honest, but they are not so naive as to expect others to follow those same customs; foreign merchants are welcomed, but they must prove through action that they are capable of fair and honest trade. Ascending the ranks within this merchant caste can only be achieved through the recommendation of others. There seem to be six tiers, and respected members of the second tier and above form councils that simultaneously moderate the merchants and serve as the nation’s governing body. Anyone can join a council of their tier or below, if they accept the work that comes with it, and it is these council members who are responsible for vetting and promoting merchants from the lower castes. Essentially, one must form connections and impress their superiors to gain a higher status.
November 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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🏆 2024 BIBA® LitRPG Winner!
An Unexpected Hero
A new World. An ancient Power. A chance to be a Hero.

Danny Kendrick was a down-on-his-luck performer who always struggled to find his place. He certainly never wanted to be a hero. He just hoped to earn a living doing what he loved.

That all changes…
An Unexpected Hero - Official Best Indie Book Awards
🏆 2024 BIBA® LitRPG Winner! A new World. An ancient Power. A chance to be a Hero. Danny Kendrick was a down-on-his-luck performer who always struggled to
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November 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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We are delighted to announce that the theme for our next SF&F book is...

👾 INVADING GAMERS 👾
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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We are thrilled to reveal that we will be producing a special edition set of The Lot Lands trilogy 🥳🔥😍
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Found this litrpg xianxia novel by @jolantru.bsky.social based on the Chinese zodiac. Awesome!! Definitely going on the TBR list. #books
November 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 5:28 AM