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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 · Dec 4
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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Big assignments of the day done. Gonna cuddle with Krishna and rest a few before trying to dive back into edits 🫡
February 3, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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Because I am extra! And do no really want to get drafting!

Behold a funny selection of chapter titles from each book in Tipping World:
Three book covers against a sedate blue background: A Path of Endless Crossroads, The Bull at the Start, and The King of Ill-Omens. Each is accompanied by a bulleted list, 3 per title. They read: a peculiar old man loses a bet no one knew he had made; life as a bit of nasty gunk stuck on the bottom of someone's boot; the edifying sight of Haimar bickering with one another like children. an odd interloper is discovered, an offer of mutual trust made; nothing makes sense anymore; mostly concerning the digging of holes to poop in war is declared against a little book of rules; the relation between big things and little things; Congress stands an extremely short vigil over a pile of dust. Three book covers against a bland tan background: A Mirror with an Edge, The Hour of the Day, and Tally the Betrayers. Each is accompanied by a bulleted list, 3 per title. They read: all hell breaks loose; plans for a brighter tomorrow are made and discarded; ten men go out, ten men come back a panicked plan formed in an instant changes everything; we field-test the interplay between a mage's Vision and self-confidence; someone kicks at the door in the dead of night a shooting star of unknown character saves the day; nothing about this is strange or has changed; Mayhem, chaos, or that other thing. Three book covers against a sedate blue background: Under a Sign of Butterflies, Bells Begin to Ring, and Symbols' End. Each is accompanied by a bulleted list, 3 per title. They read: a prescient scene attended by the wrong versions of all three people; a cricket sings the opening bars on a staggering act of betrayal; the seer opens his blind eye onto the future we dance discreetly around the awkward topic of paying someone to do a job; further hijinks in somewhere else's forest; an invisible person vanishes the Complex proves its bona fides; death and resurrection, resurrection and death; return to the spooky nowhere tower.
February 3, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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If you like #SFF that centres friendship or found family, has them forming or tackling plot problems, or the main character making a new friend/a friend helping a character's growth, this bundle is for you!

Get all 37 books for just $35 until 15 February.
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Friendship Centred SFF Book Bundle 37 Books Feb 1st-15th Background photo: four friends standing with arms around each other. Photo by Helena Lones, Itchio Covers: The Unidentified Champagne Charlie and the Amazing Gladys Walking the Knife's Edge Bonkpocalypse Bad Grains A Spark in Space The Damsel AN UNCOMMON CURSE Courage Is the Price Puppetry Duckett & Dyer, Dicks For Hire The Old Goat and the Alien Spirits of the Relentless Without Wings Clipped Sing In Me, Holy One, and Through Me The Lucky Machine The Lost Star Chart Werecockroach Rescue from the Orc Fortress Riyati Ripple Wherever the Stars Call The Crows Woodspell Common Accord Awakenings River of Crows A Study on Magic and Crystals Once Upon A Wave of Witches Fortitude Waters Dust & Lightning The Re-Emergence
February 3, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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I have once again asked Hari why he is Orange. He declines to comment and instead proceeds to Established Orange Antics tm
February 3, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Btw, if any mutuals uses Pagebound or TheStoryGraph, lmk and happy to follow/friend! Not super active atm, but will try to update what I do read (…that’s not an academic article bc those are pain to enter)

PB - pagebound.co/users/kaizeal

TSG - app.thestorygraph.com/profile/kai_...
February 2, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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If you're tired of romance hogging center-stage or just really want to watch people who get each other and always show up kicking ass together, JUMP ON THIS.
All friendship. Romance minimal to nonexistent.

🪐📚 #Booksky
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Against a mauve background, picture of a book cover titled Vengeance Is Our Legacy in white and blood red. Text reads: they're young and they're mad and those are the only points of common ground. but they can't achieve their ends or learn themselves without each other. This and other stories celebrating the power of friendship, on sale now. 37 books for $35. the itch.io logo
February 3, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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I JUST hit 16k followers. I ran this themed art share this in 2024 when I had 800 followers... Now I wanna see what else you got! Share your glittery, gemstone-encrusted, crystal works with me! ✨

Please do:
✅ Repost
✅ Engage

Please no:
🚫 AI/NFT
🚫 Don't just drop & leave
🚫 Tag if it's NSFW
A graphic of a cave with sparkly bits and a rose stained glass window shining light inside. Text overlaid reads "sparkling art share"
February 2, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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The Husband Poisoning Society

👰‍♀️ Murder at a Wedding!
🦇 Werebat Assassins!
🐟 Poisonous Fish!
☠️ Secret Murder Society!
🔪 Cold Blooded Torture!
👩‍❤️‍👩 Sapphic Romance!
👹 Giants and Monsters!
🛕 Burning Churches!
⚔️ Countdown to War!

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The Husband Poisoning Society A blonde woman flees from a bat monster. Also there is a skeletal fish in the background.
February 2, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Whelp, this migraine isn't letting me get a chapter edited today which kinda sucks, but it happens, and I did get some structural edits done (removing a chapter completely because it didn't really add anything). Hopefully said migraine lets up tomorrow and I can do homework *and* editing as planned
February 3, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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I've got an ongoing web serial I am publishing on my website. T4C wlw otome isekai where one lady knows she's been reincarnated into the game & the other doesn't but seems to have strange powers to influence the story. Inspired by the slew of "I'm the villainess" animes, but lesbian!

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Trope graphic. Forced proximity. Sloth burn f/f romance. Broken engagement. Lingering questions from the previous life. Reborn as the bad end romanceable option. Romancing the villainess. THE LAST PAGE; a sapphic otome isekai.
February 2, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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ICYMI 👇
kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com Kai Zeal 🐱📘🔮 | Author of Riyati @kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com · 1d
Ready for some not-romance in your reading life this month? Lemme introduce the Friendship Bundle -- 37 drm-free books for $35, all focused on friendships!

🔗 👉 itch.io/b/3486/frien...
Friendship Centred SFF Book Bundle 37 Books Feb 1st-15th Background photo: four friends standing with arms around each other. Photo by Helena Lones, Itchio Covers: The Unidentified Champagne Charlie and the Amazing Gladys Walking the Knife's Edge Bonkpocalypse Bad Grains A Spark in Space The Damsel AN UNCOMMON CURSE Courage Is the Price Puppetry Duckett & Dyer, Dicks For Hire The Old Goat and the Alien Spirits of the Relentless Without Wings Clipped Sing In Me, Holy One, and Through Me The Lucky Machine The Lost Star Chart Werecockroach Rescue from the Orc Fortress Riyati Ripple Wherever the Stars Call The Crows Woodspell Common Accord Awakenings River of Crows A Study on Magic and Crystals Once Upon A Wave of Witches Fortitude Waters Dust & Lightning The Re-Emergence
February 3, 2026 at 12:02 AM
kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com
Btw, if any mutuals uses Pagebound or TheStoryGraph, lmk and happy to follow/friend! Not super active atm, but will try to update what I do read (…that’s not an academic article bc those are pain to enter)

PB - pagebound.co/users/kaizeal

TSG - app.thestorygraph.com/profile/kai_...
February 2, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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Stats lab is in, and whew, we'll see if I actually get today's dev edits for Recollection in because right now, I'm definitely not feeling so hot. But 7 page lab report is in yay (?) (migraine does not say yay at staring at bright monitor the past six hours)
February 2, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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Things I do not recommend: doing a stats lab with a major migraine and vertigo. I'm doing it anyways because that's how this week's schedule is going but whew did it take all the tools in my tool bag and is not recommended for people that don't enjoy ramming themselves into walls
February 2, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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Ready for some not-romance in your reading life this month? Lemme introduce the Friendship Bundle -- 37 drm-free books for $35, all focused on friendships!

🔗 👉 itch.io/b/3486/frien...
Friendship Centred SFF Book Bundle 37 Books Feb 1st-15th Background photo: four friends standing with arms around each other. Photo by Helena Lones, Itchio Covers: The Unidentified Champagne Charlie and the Amazing Gladys Walking the Knife's Edge Bonkpocalypse Bad Grains A Spark in Space The Damsel AN UNCOMMON CURSE Courage Is the Price Puppetry Duckett & Dyer, Dicks For Hire The Old Goat and the Alien Spirits of the Relentless Without Wings Clipped Sing In Me, Holy One, and Through Me The Lucky Machine The Lost Star Chart Werecockroach Rescue from the Orc Fortress Riyati Ripple Wherever the Stars Call The Crows Woodspell Common Accord Awakenings River of Crows A Study on Magic and Crystals Once Upon A Wave of Witches Fortitude Waters Dust & Lightning The Re-Emergence
February 2, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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For February, I'm back with a fun urban fantasy standalone, and part one of what's very soon going to be the Twelfth World trilogy, a book series that originated with the exceedingly popular and beloved Skyrim-mod Enderal. Intrigued? Me too.
Currently Reading – February 2026
February’s reads are a familiar genre rediscovered, and a book I’ve been meaning to read for a long, long time.
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February 2, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Ask Me Anything about The Chosen One Con* because I want to talk about it more.

*don't ask me when it'll be finished, get outta here.
The book cover to The Chosen One Con book, book one the Lost in the Aether duology by Trudie Skies. The cover shows a young white man in a long trench coat putting a glowing blue potion in his inner pocket as though stealing it. In the background are factories with chimneys blowing out dark smoke.
February 2, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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How about a promo day? If you're a Black author, please share your work here and how to best support you :) OR, share your favorite recent read from a Black author #WritingPrompt
February 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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Important
February 2, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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This blog post takes the form of recordings made during the development of the Prism Sphere, about a year before the events of Lost Blades. Rhode's bad time at work began long before he came across Hel! :D

https://www.lizsauco.com/blog-1/prism-sphere-development-diary
White text over a dark circuit board-like background. Text: Prism Sphere Development Diary, recovered from TS archives. Record incomplete; some files missing or damaged. Text conversation between MAJ. Cole, Col. Rhode, and Dr. Farah discussing supply shipment, construction plans, and a paper on using mercury in spellcasting.
February 2, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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(Ignore day late, thanks migraine) Still super excited (and a little scared) Rebirth's in #SBFBO this year! May everyone find great books that hits the vibe for them 🙏
February 2, 2026 at 3:14 PM
kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com
Ready for some not-romance in your reading life this month? Lemme introduce the Friendship Bundle -- 37 drm-free books for $35, all focused on friendships!

🔗 👉 itch.io/b/3486/frien...
Friendship Centred SFF Book Bundle 37 Books Feb 1st-15th Background photo: four friends standing with arms around each other. Photo by Helena Lones, Itchio Covers: The Unidentified Champagne Charlie and the Amazing Gladys Walking the Knife's Edge Bonkpocalypse Bad Grains A Spark in Space The Damsel AN UNCOMMON CURSE Courage Is the Price Puppetry Duckett & Dyer, Dicks For Hire The Old Goat and the Alien Spirits of the Relentless Without Wings Clipped Sing In Me, Holy One, and Through Me The Lucky Machine The Lost Star Chart Werecockroach Rescue from the Orc Fortress Riyati Ripple Wherever the Stars Call The Crows Woodspell Common Accord Awakenings River of Crows A Study on Magic and Crystals Once Upon A Wave of Witches Fortitude Waters Dust & Lightning The Re-Emergence
February 2, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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Need some fantasy book recs?

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#BookRecs #BookSky #ReadSky #FantasyBooks
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Searching for new fantasy adventures? Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. Available for a limited time.
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February 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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Sneaking a cat photo bc this is kinda hilarious. They're fighting over who can sprawl on me (and the electric blanket) the most. Shyama was here first, but Krishna is significantly larger. They have indeed chirpped at each other in disapproval. Meanwhile, hooman never moving again I guess
A diluted tortoiseshell and black cat are respectively sprawled along a blanket with a human under it. The black cat is about a third longer than the diluted tortoiseshell.
February 1, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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So the advice did not serve me. So I disregarded it.

You do not even have to entertain all advice when it comes to your writing, especially when you don't think the advice giver understands your work.

You can look at your manuscript and say "how did this person get it so wrong and is them getting
February 1, 2026 at 8:01 PM