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From the British Fantasy Society:

In this monthly column, we pose your questions to an expert in a specific field of speculative fiction. This month, critically-acclaimed award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky tackles questions about being a traditionally-published author, as asked by BFS members in our dedicated Discord channel.

britishfantasysociety.org/ask-

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When you’re neck-deep in writing a steamy scene and feel someone’s eyes on you… turn… and… 😂 yeah, Achilles has the worst timing.

It's been a rough weekend & week start with a cold, but as always, #writing is a healing balm to my wounded heart. ❤️ I'm currently working on my vampire romance series Lost Royals Of Transylvania. If you love vampires, emotional and spicy romances, mythology tales (I'm Romanian-born, so I have a lot of European lore in my books, lol) and suspenseful plot twists, grab a copy of Book 1, Immortal Illusion, from Amazon or Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Illusion-Transylvanian-Vampire-Transylvania-ebook/dp/B08KSS4Y4L

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✨ Seen Through the Phantom’s Eyes ✨
Step behind the mask…

This award-winning series reimagines Gaston Leroux’s haunting tale with a blend of historical fiction, romance, and gothic mystery. Journey with Erik—the masked genius—and the few who see the man beneath the disfigurement.

Now available in one sweeping omnibus edition:
📚 In The Eye of The Beholder
🎭 Through the Opera Glass
🌩️ In The Eye of The Storm
🖤 Seen Through the Phantom’s Eyes: The Omnibus

Perfect for fans of love, longing, and second chances.

Monday Motivation ✨
As an author, I often doubt myself. Are my stories good enough? Am I using the right words to convey a scene? Are my characters interesting? Will readers hate my books? And lots of other similar questions that make me spiral into a dark state of mind.😔

But then there are moments when I read a positive review or comment, see my books climbing a chart, or get a touching email from a reader. And it fills my heart with courage, gratitude and excitement.☺️Such small things mean the world to me when I doubt myself. Even if my books won't be liked by everyone, I start believing in myself again, and I chase my writing dreams one step at a time. Word by word, chapter by chapter, book by book.

Yeah, there are still days when I wanna give up on writing. But if I'd done it, I never would have gotten so many amazing opportunities.🤩The most recent of which is being featured in a book box - a dream I've been chasing for a while without getting much traction, but now it is finally becoming a reality.

Thank you to the Midnight Tales Book Box team for featuring my romantasy book Secret Shadows this April. If you want to get it, along with a signed bookplate and some awesome reader swag, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/24Hp9osMrtQbQemGA

✨Don't ever give up on your dreams, even when it seems like it's pointless. Believe me, I know the feeling. But don't give up! Good things will come if you fight for them. Trust your instincts and believe in your worth.✨

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✨ IT HAPPENED ✨

Sorry for shouting, but oh, wow, I'm lost for words to tell you how excited I am about this! 🤩

I've been dreaming of being featured in a book box for so long, and when I finally got an offer last year, I had to do my best to keep the secret (which was HARD, I swear 😅). But now I can finally share that I'm one of the featured authors in the Midnight Tales Book Box this April. Woohoo! 🎉

The book is my romantasy novel Secret Shadows (a retelling of the Ancient Greek Hades & Persephone myth and the legend of how The Underworld was formed). So if you haven't read it yet or you want to get a paperback copy + some awesome swag and a ✨signed✨ bookplate, now is the perfect chance to get it:

https://forms.gle/24Hp9osMrtQbQemGA

A huge THANK YOU to the Midnight Tales Book Box team and also to my readers. THANK YOU for supporting me and my books through the years and helping me make my writing dreams come true.♥️♥️♥️

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Meet Achilles 🐺

Some days, he's my faithful guardian angel. Other days, he's a devilish troublemaker beyond comparison.😅 If you've ever had a husky, you know what the latter means, lol.

This furball has inspired a handful of characters in my books (especially my werewolves, haha) and has gotten me through some pretty dark periods. For example, I used to get brutal migraines from too much screen time after suffering a concussion a few years ago, and my baby boy somehow KNEW it was time to pull me away from the computer before the pain kicked in. He's been with me through times of grief and times of joy, and words can't express how much I love him - even when he tries to distract me from a deadline just to get belly rubs.😆

Do you have dogs? Or other pets? Comment with a pic if you want to.☺️

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Some days are hard, but fortunately, today was a good day.
Good news is I can write for the rest of the day.
I'm writing the first book on my merman academy series. But this one is about a mermaid. I was hoping for a prequel, but my characters never listen to me. I sit on the passenger seat and wait for the carriage to crash. But that's the beauty of it. In many ways, I'm a reader too.
What about you?
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Really all universal booklink platforms are a pain in the ass. Either they cost a shitton of money, do only support a specific subset of online stores, are totally US centric or build links to stores in an old URL scheme the store does not support any more. *sigh*
I know how this should be to be a good store in just do not have time or skills to do it *sigh*

Fellow #authors, which UBL platform do you use?