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JodyNormanAuthor
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I write stories where trails split and worlds open. New Trails is an award-winning portal fantasy with a gay heart. Hidden Trails carries it forward. Walker of wild paths, dreamer in the quantum dark, partnered, dog-companion, seeker of the in-between.
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JodyNormanAuthor @jodynormanauthor.bsky.social · Aug 1
Two worlds. Two books. One journey that changes everything.

New Trails → books2read.com/new-trails
Hidden Trails → books2read.com/u/bPM0qR

Step through a portal to a world of energy, nature, and connection. The path is waiting." 💙📚🪐

#booksky #SciFi-Fantasy-SpecFic #FantasyBooksSky #LGBTQFantasy
A desert-to-forest landscape under a twilight sky, stars beginning to shine. A winding trail leads toward distant mountains, with two silhouetted male travelers and a dog walking together. Warm tones suggest sunset shadows, and text reads: “Two worlds. Two books. One journey that changes everything.”
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Trust changes what you’re able to see.

Walking isn’t just motion.
It’s an invitation — and the path responds.

Not a destination.
A conversation.

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A gently curving forest path where soft light enters from the side through trees, illuminating the trail unevenly. Grasses and branches lean subtly toward the path, giving the impression that the landscape is responding to someone already walking forward.
February 7, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Sometimes the path doesn’t appear until you’re already walking.
Trust changes what you’re able to see.

New Trails & Hidden Trails
tinyurl.com/Trails-unive...

💙📚🪐
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A stone archway opens onto a narrow dirt path leading into a sunlit forest. Warm golden light filters through trees beyond the arch, illuminating the trail while the stone walls around the doorway remain in shadow.
January 28, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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Not every door is meant to be rushed.
Some open only when you’re ready to step through.

Take a breath — step forward...

New Trails & Hidden Trails
tinyurl.com/Trails-unive...

💙📚🪐
#booksky #SciFi-Fantasy-SpecFic #FantasyBooksSky #LGBTQFantasy
A solid wooden door set in a stone wall stands slightly ajar, more than a crack but less than halfway open. Warm golden light spills through the narrow opening onto a worn stone floor, illuminating drifting dust motes. The interior beyond remains unseen, inviting without revealing what lies ahead.
January 22, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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Some landscapes don’t change you all at once.
They change you by asking you to stay.

Staying often asks for a different kind of courage.

New Trails & Hidden Trails
tinyurl.com/Trails-unive...

💙📚🪐
#booksky #SciFi-Fantasy-SpecFic #FantasyBooksSky #LGBTQFantasy
A wide landscape at sunrise shows a gently winding trail in the foreground leading toward distant mountains on the horizon. Warm golden light spreads across fields and low hills, suggesting time, stillness, and a quiet invitation to remain.
January 18, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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The work was never about power alone.
It was always about who walks with you.

Power grows through relationship, not control.

New Trails & Hidden Trails
tinyurl.com/Trails-unive...

💙📚🪐
#booksky #SciFi-Fantasy-SpecFic #FantasyBooksSky #LGBTQFantasy
Two young men walk side by side along a forest trail at sunrise, carrying packs as warm light spills through the trees ahead. Their posture is relaxed and purposeful, suggesting companionship and a shared journey forward.
January 10, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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If this journey has been waiting for you, tomorrow night is the last chance.

This series is about connection, courage, and finding where you belong.

The Smashwords EOY Sale ends Jan 1 at 11:59pm PT.

tinyurl.com/New-Trails
tinyurl.com/Hidden-Trails

💙📚🪐#Smashwords #QueerFantasy #FantasyBooksSky
December 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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“A captivating blend of adventure and self-discovery.”
— Literary Titan

If you’ve been thinking about New Trails or continuing with Hidden Trails, the Smashwords Sale ends Jan 1, 11:59pm PT — NT & HT 50% off.

tinyurl.com/New-Trails
tinyurl.com/Hidden-Trails

#EOYSale25 #Smashwords #QueerFantasy
A narrow forest path winds forward beneath tall trees at twilight, glowing softly with golden light. Firefly-like sparks float in the air as warm illumination filters through leaves ahead, suggesting a quiet, magical journey deeper into the woods.
December 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Some journeys aren’t about escape.
They’re about finding a place where you don’t have to hide.

New Trails & Hidden Trails are part of the Smashwords EOY Sale.
tinyurl.com/New-Trails
tinyurl.com/Hidden-Trails

💙📚🪐
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December 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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New Trails follows Troy, a young gay man, as he steps into a world of nature, magic, and found family — an adult coming-of-age journey, shaped by connection and courage.

✨ 50% off
tinyurl.com/New-Trails
tinyurl.com/Hidden-Trails

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A glowing circular portal opens along a forest trail, its light filtering through tall trees and mossy undergrowth. The path curves gently forward, inviting the viewer into a quiet, magical landscape where nature and otherworldly energy intertwine.
December 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Two worlds. Two books. One journey that draws two lives together… and begins to change them both.

✨ 50% off:
New Trails — $2.49
tinyurl.com/New-Trails

Hidden Trails — $2.99
tinyurl.com/Hidden-Trails

Step through the portal this season.
“The path is waiting.” 💙📚🪐
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A twilight trail leads from a warm desert landscape into a dark, towering forest. Two men walk side-by-side toward the forest, their silhouettes softly illuminated by the fading light. A mid-sized working dog walks just ahead of them, tail raised, guiding the way. Above them, stars emerge in a deepening sky, and text reads: “Two worlds. Two books. One journey that changes everything.”
December 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Hey, folks. Apologies for the absence, but I've been in moving mode from NM to Tucson! But now we're here, unpacked and mostly settled in, and I'm setting up to post regularly again!
December 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Guides come in many forms — some walk on four legs.

In Abhaile’s living energy structure — the Balance — Jai shows how loyalty and intuition see what eyes can’t.
If you’ve ever trusted the unseen, you’ll understand.

💙📚🪐 books2read.com/b/31BeYr

#booksky #FantasyBooksSky #IndieFantasy #LGBTQFantasy
A golden dog walks across an open meadow at sunrise. Warm light glows through the grass, and faint threads of energy shimmer near his paws, symbolizing trust, intuition, and shared purpose within Abhaile’s Balance.
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Some shadows aren’t enemies. They’re truths waiting to be heard.

In Abhaile’s living energy structure — the Balance — even darkness holds lessons for those who listen. Understanding is the first light of change.

💙📚🪐 books2read.com/b/31BeYr
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A twilight forest glows with faint golden light cutting through indigo mist. A lone figure stands partly in shadow, partly in light, surrounded by soft energy threads drifting through the trees — a moment of listening, humility, and quiet change.
November 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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“Never in his life had he felt that kind of bond, that tight meld of connection, himself to another.”

In Abhaile’s living energy structure — the Balance — strength begins in trust, in the quiet courage to walk forward together.

💙📚🪐 books2read.com/b/31BeYr
#booksky #FantasyBooksSky #Indie #LGBTQ
Two young men walk side by side along a sunlit trail at sunrise. Warm golden light glows across their path, and faint strands of energy shimmer in the air between them, suggesting trust, shared strength, and the living connection of Abhaile’s energy structure -- the Balance.
October 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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“Nothing is ever quite what it seems; everything holds within it the seeds of transformation.”

In Abhaile’s living energy structure — the Balance — even uncertainty can open a path. Discovery begins in mystery.

💙📚🪐 books2read.com/b/31BeYr

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October 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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“Cold dread slid down his back, and he shivered… but he felt no impulse to surrender.”

We all reach moments when light fades — but even then, the heart remembers its way forward.

💙📚🪐 New Trails: books2read.com/b/31BeYr
#booksky #FantasyBooksSky #IndieFantasy #LGBTQFantasy #Resilience
A single candle flame burns steadily against a dark, rain-swept night. Raindrops streak through the air, but the flame endures, glowing warm and golden amid the storm — a symbol of quiet resilience, hope, and courage in dark times.
October 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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“The farthest any of my people has reached past the last settlement are the foothills of the Great Mountains. What lies past that no one knows.”

Beyond the horizon waits the next truth, the next trail.

💙📚🪐 New Trails: books2read.com/b/31BeYr

#booksky #FantasyBooksSky #IndieFantasy #LGBTQFantasy
A lone figure stands silhouetted on a ridge at dawn, gazing toward misty mountains bathed in rose and gold light. The vast sky glows above, suggesting both wonder and the unknown, as the horizon stretches endlessly into the new day.
October 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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He had never known a bond so deep, so complete — a connection that felt less discovered than remembered.

In New Trails, Troy never expected to find a true partner on another world — but connection finds its own way.

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Two men’s silhouetted hands reach toward each other against a glowing sunset sky. Their fingers nearly touch, the light outlining strong knuckles and veins. The warm orange and gold backdrop evokes connection, trust, and quiet intimacy without overt romance.
October 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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“Trails walked alone lead nowhere,” Kieran warned Troy.

Troy’s first steps into Abhaile changed everything. The journey becomes more than survival — it becomes belonging — when the path is shared.

💙📚🪐 New Trails: books2read.com/b/31BeYr

#booksky #FantasyBooksSky #IndieFantasy #LGBTQFantasy
Two young men walk side by side down a wide earthen trail through grassy hills, heading toward a glowing sunset on the horizon. The sky is filled with warm orange and purple clouds, casting long shadows behind them, evoking companionship, journey, and belonging.
September 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Everything is whole unto itself, and part of something greater. Heed both.

In New Trails, the second Precept says each life is complete, yet bound into a larger whole. 💙📚🪐

books2read.com/new-trails

books2read.com/b/HiddenTrails

#booksky #FantasyBooksSky #IndieFantasy #LGBTQFantasy
A majestic glowing tree stands in a moonlit clearing, its roots faintly lit and its branches blending into a starry night sky. Overlay text reads: “Each life shines alone, yet glows brighter in the greater weave.”
September 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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“Must read for fantasy enthusiasts!” — Reedsy Discovery

New Trails follows Troy’s action-packed journey into a world of mystery & magic, where he learns to trust himself while discovering a soul-bond with Kieran. 💙📚🪐

books2read.com/new-trails

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Cover of New Trails by Jody Norman, showing two young men and a golden dog standing on a desert-to-forest trail under three moons and a glowing dog-shaped constellation. Overlay text reads: “Must read for fantasy enthusiasts! — Reedsy Discovery.”
September 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Not all guides walk on two legs!

Jai, the energy-sighted dog of New Trails, sees what others cannot — and leads where others will not. 💙📚🪐

New Trails → books2read.com/new-trails

Hidden Trails → books2read.com/b/HiddenTrails

#booksky #FantasyBooksSky #IndieFantasy #QueerBooks #LGBTQFantasy
A golden dog stands at the edge of a glowing trail under a foggy night sky with three moons. The path shimmers faintly with unseen energy. Overlay text reads: “Some guides see what others cannot.”
September 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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A captivating blend of adventure and self-discovery.

With poetic prose, rich world-building, and deep character work, New Trails strikes a rare balance between emotional resonance and magical discovery."* 💙📚🪐

books2read.com/new-trails

#booksky #FantasyBooksSky #IndieFantasy #LGBTQFantasy
Cover of New Trails displayed against a twilight forested backdrop. Overlay text at the bottom reads: “A captivating blend of adventure and self-discovery.” — Literary Titan.
September 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Bringing both trails together 🌌✨

The gorgeous covers of New Trails and Hidden Trails were designed by Kelly at Night Owl Notions.

Check out her work → www.nightowlnotions.ca

NT → books2read.com/new-trails
HT → books2read.com/u/bPM0qR 💙📚🪐

#booksky #FantasyBooksSky #IndieFantasy #LGBTQFantasy
Ebook covers of New Trails and Hidden Trails side by side against a starry background. Overlay text reads: “Two books. One universe.”
August 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Everything is related, always. No end, no beginning. It simply is.

In New Trails, Guardians call this the Balance. In ours, scientists call it quantum entanglement—threads linking what seems separated, binding the whole." 💙📚🪐

books2read.com/new-trails

#FantasyBooksSky #LGBTQFantasy #IndieFantasy
A starry night sky with glowing threads linking stars in a constellation-like web. Below, two silhouetted figures and a dog stand on a hill overlooking a winding river. Overlay text reads: “Some threads tie stars to rivers. Others tie souls across lifetimes.”
August 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM