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Eremita Gray
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Indie author of dark fantasy romance 🩸 Debut launch tentative Spring/Summer 2026

🧚‍♀️🧛‍♂️👑🩸🔥🖤🌶

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Eremita Gray @eremitagray.bsky.social · 19d
Book 1 of my dark fantasy romance series (title TBA along with beta reader apps) has

🧚‍♀️ Fae
🧛‍♂️ Vampires
✨️ Mythic lore
🧎‍♀️ Healing through kink
🖤 He falls first
🩸 Touch her and 💀
🔥 Slow burn yearning

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weeknightwriters.bsky.social Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 20d
Good morning! Let’s do a #WriterShareWednesday!

Share a project you’ve published OR a pitch for your current WIP with the hashtag #WriterShareWednesday and we’ll give it a boost! (Please use alt text for images + share other folks' projects too!)
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When the predators are circling each other -- and Maeve is caught between them.

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Soren's grin widened, and he lifted a hand to trace the back of it lightly down my bare arm. My fingers clenched around my skirts beneath the table as goosebumps rose in the wake of his touch. “See for yourself.” Cahir's focus narrowed onto Soren's hand, the place where it brushed my skin. His eye practically twitched as his gaze followed the path of it, like a predator tracking prey. Cold, possessive fury flashed like a storm across his face.
January 27, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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Me yesterday, realizing this pre-beta polish includes MORE restructuring. 🙃 And math because apparently I can't count days in a lunar cycle. 🌕

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January 27, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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Spent the whole morning wrestling a scene into its new home and why does it feel like I just went 10 rounds with the world's greatest debaters???? 😂🥴

Anyway, 1 week til beta apps open. If you want early access, subscribe to my newsletter 👉 bit.ly/eremitagray

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January 26, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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MOD POST:
- Abolish ICE and defund the police
- Free Palestine, Sudan, and all oppressed people of the world
- Trans rights are human rights
- Black Lives Matter
- If you voted for Trump go fuck yourself

Hopefully, if the boosting of resources hasn't made our political stances clear, this will
January 26, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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In my book group on FB so many people lately have been asking for recs where the FMC has a shitty family, is terrified, even has thoughts of discontinuing with life -- and comes out okay(ish) in the end, through chosen supports and validation.

🧵 1/3
January 25, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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Taking a break from active polishing to update my tropes list and it's ... long. 😁 Do you see any of your favorites?

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Tropes: He falls first and hard, she falls harder Just one bed Captor/captive Political enemies to allies to friends to lovers Morally gray MMC Trauma bonding Trauma-informed, consent forward D/s Slowburn Caretaking Forced proximity Age gap Fake relationship Touch her and die Soft FMC Found/chosen family Feminine rage
January 24, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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Maeve getting settled in her new guest suite at the House of Eishe. 🧛‍♂️💀

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And over it all, hung from wooden beams, was a chandelier of brass and crystal and antlers. No, not antlers. Bones.
January 24, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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Meet Cahir: Endri's right hand, and most vicious weapon against Maeve. Single-minded, morally black, sadistic. He'll set you on fire just to say the flames are pretty.

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A dark fantasy aesthetic mood board for a character named Cahir. The collage features five images arranged in a grid: at the top, a masculine hand firmly gripping a woman's jaw with the quote "Princess..." in a text box. The middle row shows a hand holding a glass of whiskey alongside a portrait of a brooding man with messy dark hair and pale skin. The bottom section includes a script text logo reading "Cahir," a close-up of rain falling on moss, and black ink swirling in water.
January 24, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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Would love to move to Jacqueline Carey's Terre D'Ange. Everything about that world feels magical and lush and amazing. Been dreaming of it since I first read Kushiel's Dart in college.

As for a world I would not survive? Probably anything from historical fiction I've read. 😅

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Happy Friday!! We made it!

Alright, this one is for readers: Which fictional world would you move into immediately… and which one would absolutely destroy you within a week?

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Friday Writerly/readerly Question ?
January 23, 2026 at 11:40 PM
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Well, considering Soren is a vampire .......... 😏

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nsfwocdaily.bsky.social 🔞Daily NSFW OC Questions🔞 @nsfwocdaily.bsky.social · 4d
Fetish Friday: How does your OC feel about Dacnophilia (or a sexual attraction to biting or being bitten)
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January 23, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Endri reached up and removed the circlet from his head, and handed it to Cahir, who then stepped aside. My eyes followed that transfer with a sense of dread, watching as Cahir gazed down at the circlet he now held in his hands, his fingers tracing idly over the wrought details. Beside my resolve, another truth was becoming apparent, built on the fragments of succession plans and regicide.
January 23, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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Working on a digital freebie for my newsletter subscribers in preparation for launching beta reader apps (subscribers get first dibs on applying).

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January 23, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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The tingle returned, warmth spreading beneath my hand, pulsing at my wrists. A soft glow emanated from my skin, shining gold against the white skin of the Tree, and when I twisted my arm slightly, a faint sigil glittered in deep, molten amber from inside my skin, like a tattoo on my very essence.
January 22, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Good morning! However much you write today, you’re still a writer

Even if what you write today ends up being nothing
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January 22, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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Finally feel like I've got my rhythm back after 3 days of no sleep and sick kids. 🙃 Chapter 32 polished and done. #AmWriting #AmRevising #IndieAuthor
January 22, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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MS polishing has been a rollercoaster of "wow, I wrote this! 😄" and, well ...

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January 21, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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Been trying to push through on this MS polish, but January keeps coming in hot with sickness. Another cold is running through the house and none of us has slept in 2 days. 🙃

And that's my BTS author update for the day. 😅 #WriteSky #WritinfCommunity #IndieAuthor #AuthorLife
January 21, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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These vampires are ice cold sometimes. 🩸🧊

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The blood drained from my face, and a ripple of concerned murmuring went through the assembled Lords. But it was Silas who mused aloud, “That would mean war between the fae territories …” He shook his head. “And a mad prince willing to open war beyond the Gates for …” Silas peered around Soren to me. “Her.”
January 21, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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Act 2 is polished and shiny! ✨️ On to act 3!

Beta reader apps will be open soon. Newsletter subscribers get first dibs to apply (as well as other fun bonuses like early access to free chapters, and more!). 👇👇

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January 20, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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Literally me reading and polishing these scenes between Maeve and Soren. 🥹🥹

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January 19, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Settling in for another day of polishing my manuscript. Nearing the end of act 2 and the banter is bantering, the "good girl" is "good girling", and the political conspiracy is only getting bigger.

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January 19, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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Meet Endri: Maeve's cold, cruel, calculating brother. Crown prince, and ideologue with a sadistic streak. Morally black, and vibes that give ick in all the best ways.

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January 18, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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Polishing my way through act 2 and just tightened up a "it has pockets! 😍" scene, but turned to 11 on the romance. And with knives. 😏

Sometimes I surprise even myself. 😁

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January 18, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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I joke that my badly explained book plot is "faerie princess flees home & accidentally joins a vampire sex cult."

Then had to recalibrate an entire chapter in revisions because "sex cult" was coming off a little too strong too soon. 😂
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January 16, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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Ooh, this one's fun. 😈

Maeve: Totally into it, but she'll have to discover that later.

Soren: Into it in the right circumstances with the right person/people (-cough- Maeve -cough-).

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nsfwocdaily.bsky.social 🔞Daily NSFW OC Questions🔞 @nsfwocdaily.bsky.social · 11d
Fetish Friday: How does your OC feel about voyeurism?
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January 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM