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Kai Zeal 🐱📘🔮 | Author of Riyati
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#Riyati book 3 is out now @ riyati.ink/ripple!
Check out @ riyati.ink or join the Riyati discord @ riyati.ink/discord
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Kai Zeal 🐱📘🔮 | Author of Riyati @kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com · 1d
Looking for a new dark fantasy series? Check out #Riyati!

🏠 Direct riyati.ink/store
🔗 Itch riyati.ink/itch
🛒 Other retailers (ebook & print) riyati.ink/series
🔮 Riyati Discord (lurker friendly) riyati.ink/discord
🚫 Series cw's riyati.ink/cws
🧩 More info riyati.ink

Individual book info 🧵👇 (1/5)
The image is split into three columns, each having a color palette. The far left is teal, the middle is red and black, and the right is yellow and dark brown. There are roman numerals on each of the splits, I, II, and III, with Riyati Rebirth, Riyati Rivals, and Riyati Ripple under the roman numerals. Behind the titles and roman numerals are magic glyphs colored teal, red, and yellow respectively. There is a bullet list with the following: Buffy x Persona 4 vibe Generational trauma Childhood friends slow burn Demi, AuHD fMC Contemporary & low dark fantasy with urban fantasy elements Reincarnations Intricate elemental magic Complex & morally grey characters Classism & effects of generational poverty Found family In the colored columns, there is a picture of an illustrated character. In the teal column, a teenage girl with long reddish-brown hair and bright teal eyes looks anxious at the viewer. In the red and black column, a teenage boy with olive-brown hair and light blue eyes looks scared and pensive at the viewer. In the yellow and brown column, a teenage girl with short dark brown hair and bright emerald eyes looks pensively to the side. At the bottom, aligned middle, is the text “riyati.ink” in a box. “Riyati” is in the top center of the image. It is surrounded by four book covers, from left to right: Riyati Origins (listed as a prequel with 33 pages), Riyati Rebirth (listed as Book I with 218 pages), Riyati Rivals (listed as Book II with 236 pages), and Riyati Ripple (listed as Book III with 290 pages). The following blurb is below: It all started that day, in the forest... Kylie Rae learned she is anything but a normal after a life or death situation revealed that she is not only a mage — a powerful one at that — but also the reincarnation of a long destroyed magic kingdom’s last crown princess. The life she knows is destroyed as she learns people from her past incarnations want her dead and a secret organization kidnaps and tortures mages like herself if they ever discover she exists. Riyati is a new adult/adult contemporary, low dark fantasy series that seeks to explore themes of identity, legacy, generational trauma, and finding your own path in life. The series is set in the modern day fictional Southern US town of Opal Pines and includes multiple first person perspectives with characters across a range of queer, neurodiverse, and socioeconomic statuses. Below the blurb, retailer logos are listed as follows: itch.io, ko-fi, Kobo, Google Play Books, Smashwords, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Hoopla, and Amazon Kindle. A plus sign with “more @ riyati.ink” is beside the retailer logos.
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#DeckTheHalls, a new prompt game!

One day, I plan to have a custom illustrated Tarot deck as merch. So, tell us how your characters match up!

Today's card is: THE FOOL

What character of yours would you put on it and how do they fit the meanings?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
#DeckTheHalls #DeckTheHalls Which character that you’ve written would you put on this card, what would it mean if it was upright or reversed? The Fool Upright: Beginnings, Spontaneity, Leap of Faith Reversed: Folly, Poor Judgement, Naivety
December 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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OKAY SO I just want it on record: Riyati Rebirth’s literal Call to Action moment is less than 5 pages in because Kylie sees a young “child” by themselves and decides chasing after said child into a suspiciously sus forest in the middle of nowhere is a great idea. I‘m *just saying*

#DeckTheHalls
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#DeckTheHalls, a new prompt game!

One day, I plan to have a custom illustrated Tarot deck as merch. So, tell us how your characters match up!

Today's card is: THE FOOL

What character of yours would you put on it and how do they fit the meanings?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
#DeckTheHalls #DeckTheHalls Which character that you’ve written would you put on this card, what would it mean if it was upright or reversed? The Fool Upright: Beginnings, Spontaneity, Leap of Faith Reversed: Folly, Poor Judgement, Naivety
December 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com
In today's Productivity-ing, I have cleaned up the floor where the robits can run, shredded a bunch, organized our back counter, and collected misc trash so the ground floor is Almost Presentable. Also washing our mats now so they're nice and clean
December 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS 📚💙

This weekend only it's the
Indie Author
❄️ Winter Wonderland ❄️
ebook sale with hundreds of discounted books.

Sale goes from December 5-8 with 100+ free ebooks, 150+ 99c ebooks, and other discounted or newly released books!

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#EBookSale #BookSale #FreeBooks
a winter forest watercolor background with all post info
December 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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✨ FANTASY SHORT STORY ✨

🐉 a dragon (with a princess)
🗡️ a knight (with a plan)
👑 a palace (with a cruel king)
🏰 second pov

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/eJsBfU
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-knight-s...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
Cover for The Knight Saves the Dragon by Rebecca Crunden; background is a water colour type picture of a castle with trees and mountains behind, leaves surround the edges
December 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com
Going to be having a one on one with my Orange Creature this afternoon because *someone* decided to sing the song of his people at 2am and 3am, with a 4am encore. So instead of sleeping, I got to hear a concert all night
December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Going back to Rebirth for today's snippet! Jordan pov, but there's a Kylie present as well. And salt. Jordan does so love his salt

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
She’s already waiting for me, sitting at the bench we always met at; it’s first time in a while she’d mentioned wanting to hang out at all given how frequently we’d been together from imposed training sessions. “Late as usual, I see,” she chided as she glanced up from her phone screen. I rubbed the back of my neck with my hand. Jewel wouldn’t shut up yet again, so I couldn’t get going like I wanted to. “Yeah, sorry ‘bout that.” Kylie stood, stretching her arms out b‘fore shaking her head, slight smile present. “It sounds weird, but… it was actually kind of nice.” Placing her phone in her pocket, she started walking, me following her onto the walking trail we’d walked hundreds if not thousands of times prior. “Just a bit, uh, strange.” She chuckled lightly before glancing at me. “It’s just something almost, I guess you’d say, familiar. Feels like one of the few things that hasn’t changed.”
December 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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#XenobladeX_fes25
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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My discord wrapped is calling me out for being online too much help

(Apparently I'm in the top 0.91% of users with messages sent...)
December 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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kattakis.bsky.social
Looking for new LGBT romances, hot off the press this month? Look no further than this group sale! Featuring my upcoming release No Love in LA which has:

🖤 chaotic heavy metal FMC
🖤 stern washed up emo singer NB MC
🖤 enemies to lovers
🖤 found family

📚 🌈 📢 💙🌶️
December 2025 LGBT New Releases
Searching for this month's LGBT releases? Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. These books are all new in December 2025!
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December 4, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Looking for a new dark fantasy series? Check out #Riyati!

🏠 Direct riyati.ink/store
🔗 Itch riyati.ink/itch
🛒 Other retailers (ebook & print) riyati.ink/series
🔮 Riyati Discord (lurker friendly) riyati.ink/discord
🚫 Series cw's riyati.ink/cws
🧩 More info riyati.ink

Individual book info 🧵👇 (1/5)
The image is split into three columns, each having a color palette. The far left is teal, the middle is red and black, and the right is yellow and dark brown. There are roman numerals on each of the splits, I, II, and III, with Riyati Rebirth, Riyati Rivals, and Riyati Ripple under the roman numerals. Behind the titles and roman numerals are magic glyphs colored teal, red, and yellow respectively. There is a bullet list with the following: Buffy x Persona 4 vibe Generational trauma Childhood friends slow burn Demi, AuHD fMC Contemporary & low dark fantasy with urban fantasy elements Reincarnations Intricate elemental magic Complex & morally grey characters Classism & effects of generational poverty Found family In the colored columns, there is a picture of an illustrated character. In the teal column, a teenage girl with long reddish-brown hair and bright teal eyes looks anxious at the viewer. In the red and black column, a teenage boy with olive-brown hair and light blue eyes looks scared and pensive at the viewer. In the yellow and brown column, a teenage girl with short dark brown hair and bright emerald eyes looks pensively to the side. At the bottom, aligned middle, is the text “riyati.ink” in a box. “Riyati” is in the top center of the image. It is surrounded by four book covers, from left to right: Riyati Origins (listed as a prequel with 33 pages), Riyati Rebirth (listed as Book I with 218 pages), Riyati Rivals (listed as Book II with 236 pages), and Riyati Ripple (listed as Book III with 290 pages). The following blurb is below: It all started that day, in the forest... Kylie Rae learned she is anything but a normal after a life or death situation revealed that she is not only a mage — a powerful one at that — but also the reincarnation of a long destroyed magic kingdom’s last crown princess. The life she knows is destroyed as she learns people from her past incarnations want her dead and a secret organization kidnaps and tortures mages like herself if they ever discover she exists. Riyati is a new adult/adult contemporary, low dark fantasy series that seeks to explore themes of identity, legacy, generational trauma, and finding your own path in life. The series is set in the modern day fictional Southern US town of Opal Pines and includes multiple first person perspectives with characters across a range of queer, neurodiverse, and socioeconomic statuses. Below the blurb, retailer logos are listed as follows: itch.io, ko-fi, Kobo, Google Play Books, Smashwords, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Hoopla, and Amazon Kindle. A plus sign with “more @ riyati.ink” is beside the retailer logos.
December 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com
Okay. Two loads of laundry put up, a third in the dryer right now, a fourth in the washer right now, my desk cleaned up, and posted promo posts across my socials. Dec break is off to a nice start at least
December 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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My cats are already done with Christmas (I've been singing "It's beginning to look a lot like Catmas" and they do not approve). Little do they know that when I get to wrapping and putting the tree up, I got themed costumes ready so they only think they're suffering right now
December 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Sometimes you just need to talk about something not to get sympathy or help -but just to kill its power by allowing the truth of things to hit the air Karen Salmansohn ©NotSalmon.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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clh2oars.bsky.social
procrastinating creative work with social media / bookish rec ones

"I'm going to limit to one slide per aspec bingo square" VERY QUICKLY became a lie, and I fully gave up on "Indie" and had to force myself to stop at 4
A screenshot of canva with 10 different images of recommendations for the aspec bingo
December 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com
Starting to finally do some cleaning -- round 1 of many for laundry since super behind and cleaning my desk off. Staring at parts of my desk like "wow there's so much space???" because it's been covered piles high for like a month now rip
December 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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kathryntewson.bsky.social
Reading old court transcripts and, I mean, whomst
THE COURT: Okay. Case settled? MS. CONROY: Unfortunately no, your Honor. THE COURT: Rats.
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com
I'm sitting here going, "Uhh now what...?" because now is when I go do homework but I turned all that in. Like I have plenty to do but still have that "between project" vibe since I haven't had a break in like a year from class, whoopsie
December 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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clh2oars.bsky.social
If you see your favourite indies, especially those who are wide or avoid Amazon, raise their prices... We all just had two emails in less than 24h:

- Smashwords is cutting down its royalty rates, especially at lower price points
- Ingramspark is raising most of its printing costs again
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com
Looking for a new dark fantasy series? Check out #Riyati!

🏠 Direct riyati.ink/store
🔗 Itch riyati.ink/itch
🛒 Other retailers (ebook & print) riyati.ink/series
🔮 Riyati Discord (lurker friendly) riyati.ink/discord
🚫 Series cw's riyati.ink/cws
🧩 More info riyati.ink

Individual book info 🧵👇 (1/5)
The image is split into three columns, each having a color palette. The far left is teal, the middle is red and black, and the right is yellow and dark brown. There are roman numerals on each of the splits, I, II, and III, with Riyati Rebirth, Riyati Rivals, and Riyati Ripple under the roman numerals. Behind the titles and roman numerals are magic glyphs colored teal, red, and yellow respectively. There is a bullet list with the following: Buffy x Persona 4 vibe Generational trauma Childhood friends slow burn Demi, AuHD fMC Contemporary & low dark fantasy with urban fantasy elements Reincarnations Intricate elemental magic Complex & morally grey characters Classism & effects of generational poverty Found family In the colored columns, there is a picture of an illustrated character. In the teal column, a teenage girl with long reddish-brown hair and bright teal eyes looks anxious at the viewer. In the red and black column, a teenage boy with olive-brown hair and light blue eyes looks scared and pensive at the viewer. In the yellow and brown column, a teenage girl with short dark brown hair and bright emerald eyes looks pensively to the side. At the bottom, aligned middle, is the text “riyati.ink” in a box. “Riyati” is in the top center of the image. It is surrounded by four book covers, from left to right: Riyati Origins (listed as a prequel with 33 pages), Riyati Rebirth (listed as Book I with 218 pages), Riyati Rivals (listed as Book II with 236 pages), and Riyati Ripple (listed as Book III with 290 pages). The following blurb is below: It all started that day, in the forest... Kylie Rae learned she is anything but a normal after a life or death situation revealed that she is not only a mage — a powerful one at that — but also the reincarnation of a long destroyed magic kingdom’s last crown princess. The life she knows is destroyed as she learns people from her past incarnations want her dead and a secret organization kidnaps and tortures mages like herself if they ever discover she exists. Riyati is a new adult/adult contemporary, low dark fantasy series that seeks to explore themes of identity, legacy, generational trauma, and finding your own path in life. The series is set in the modern day fictional Southern US town of Opal Pines and includes multiple first person perspectives with characters across a range of queer, neurodiverse, and socioeconomic statuses. Below the blurb, retailer logos are listed as follows: itch.io, ko-fi, Kobo, Google Play Books, Smashwords, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Hoopla, and Amazon Kindle. A plus sign with “more @ riyati.ink” is beside the retailer logos.
December 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com
Maya's not from the small city/town of Opal Pines and that apparently upsets someone specific (he's just Like This in general alas)

Snippet Maya pov from Ripple 💛

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
“You’re not even from here, are you?” It wasn’t any of his business whether I was or wasn’t from here, so I didn’t answer the question. “Well? Are you? There’s no one with your name in this city prior to this past July.”  How did he know that?   It didn’t matter. He wouldn’t have asked if he knew for certain, so I just turned back to Kylie and Jordan. She made some water shield as Jordan threw a few small ice shards at it. His ice shards were pitiful though compared to the water currents she often drenched him with when they reversed defensive and offensive positions.   Sai grabbed me by my right wrist, startling me, and my head turned back toward him. “What?”  “I asked you a question.”  What was his problem? “Yeah, and I’m not answering it. It’s my business, not yours.”
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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BBNYA SEMI-FINALIST SPOTLIGHT: Lost Blades by Liz Sauco @bbnya.bsky.social

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On a black background, under the word 'Spotlight,' a pair of spotlights shine on the cover of Lost Blades by Liz Sauco. On either side of the cover is the BBNYA logo.
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com
My Spotify Wrapped hit and... it's all artists/songs from my Riyati playlist because I don't think I really left it this year xD (and most of the time spent listening was while working on Riyati stuff too...)
Kai's Spotify Wrapped 2025: Top Artists: 1. Citizen Coldier 2. Beth Crowley 3. Fireflight 4. Icon for Hire 5. Thousand Foot Krutch Top Songs 1. Untraveled Road 2. Looking at Me 3. Protector 4. Sacred 5. Irreplacable Minutes Listened: 28,626 Top Genre: Post-Grunge
December 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com
I finally finished redoing all my Riyati promo graphics and their corresponding alt text. I wanted to share them but uh. I'm actually too exhausted to do a new master pinned post so look forward to new promo graphics tomorrow after I've slept bc whew, that was an adventure
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Artists show off your OC!

Lookit these idiots...
Two idiots standing in front of stairs, a red pillar, and a bush. One is being held by the collar while the other is just...so done The same two idiots in fancier dress. One might need to be restrained by the other
December 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM