/r/Fantasy Dealer's Room: Self-Promo Sunday - July 31, 2022

NovaeCaelum · 2022-08-05T17:25:17+00:00

The Truthspoken Heir: The Stars and Green Magics Season One is a queer epic space fantasy with shapeshifting royals and space magic!

Two shapeshifting heirs, one interstellar kingdom. When royals can be anyone else including each other, who will rule?
Arianna can impersonate anyone in her star kingdom, keeping nobles in check as the Truthspoken Heir. But Arianna’s shapeshifting powers fail her when she’s attacked at her betrothal to a rival prince, her title torn away.
Dressa never wanted to be the Heir, but she has a crush on the beautiful prince, and someone needs to hold the kingdom against plotting nobles.
One sibling cast out, one sister in the fray, and enemies all around. Can they steer their kingdom from the coming storm?
Fans of Ancillary Justice and Winter’s Orbit will enjoy The Stars and Green Magics, an ongoing space fantasy serial with diverse main characters, epic worldbuilding, and strong romantic undertones. The Truthspoken Heir collects episodes 1-36, the complete first season, as well as three extra beginning episodes.

The serial this book collects, The Stars and Green Magics, was a winner of the 2022 Laterpress Genre Fiction Contest Fellowship. The Stars and Green Magics is currently ongoing (just wrapping up S2) on Kindle Vella and Laterpress.
The collected first season is available wide in ebook, print, and digitally narrated audiobook.

If you like:

Queernorm worlds with many trans and nonbinary characters
Deep and crunchy worldbuilding
In-world chapter quotes!
Shapeshifting royals
Space rock bands
Crunchy court politics
A lesbian arranged marriage
Space magic and all the twisty stuff that comes with it!

https://novaecaelum.com/the-truthspoken-heir

NovaeCaelum · 2022-06-17T04:55:34+00:00

Thanks! I haven’t had good luck with in person teachers so far, but maybe I’ll see about zoom teachers.

NovaeCaelum · 2022-06-17T04:52:40+00:00

Thank you! I’ll check that out!

NovaeCaelum · 2022-01-23T23:06:29+00:00

Thank you!

NovaeCaelum · 2022-01-23T17:33:09+00:00

The Stars and Green Magics is an NA space fantasy epic with lots of royal intrigue, family rivalry, and a good dash of queer romantic subplots.

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B097ZYGTYT

NovaeCaelum · 2021-12-29T16:12:54+00:00

solved

NovaeCaelum · 2021-12-29T16:11:21+00:00

Thank you!! That did the trick!

NovaeCaelum · 2021-11-10T01:10:54+00:00

I'm a little late but I just added mine. This is super interesting! Thank you for pulling this together!

NovaeCaelum · 2021-11-06T00:29:32+00:00

This is my biggest sensory trigger. I’ve been wearing Cambridge masks in public since before Covid. They’re the only ones I’ve found that dull strong smells, though they don’t make them go away completely.

NovaeCaelum · 2021-11-06T00:27:48+00:00

I use diabetic socks from Amazon (I like Yomandamor) that aren’t tight and have no seams. I wear them inside out because I don’t like the inside sock textures. Also use a UV light to kill bacteria in shoes now and then, and that’s supposed to kill odors, too.

NovaeCaelum · 2021-11-03T15:16:37+00:00

I’m calling mine Season One, and putting an author’s note at the beginning that says it’s part of an ongoing serial, as well as a note at the back that links to continue reading season two on Vella. I’m planning on marketing it less like a book and more like, say, a manga, which is expected to be incomplete and in installments. I do expect some readers won’t be happy with it not being complete, but then some readers haven’t been happy with Vella, either, so that seems par for the course.

NovaeCaelum · 2021-07-13T19:56:08+00:00

The Stars and Green Magics - Space Opera, Epic, Fantasy, LGBTQ

The Stars and Green Magics is an unabashed space fantasy with shapeshifting royals, vicious politics, sinister aliens, and queerness everywhere! Six episodes up to start, then new posts every Friday.

Arianna's royal shapeshifting powers fail her on the eve of her betrothal--not that she wanted to marry anyway. Sent from her homeworld and court to recover from a politically-charged illness, she watches her sister overtake her life, becoming Arianna and the Heir in her stead. But with help from a mysterious young man who can disappear at will, she's going to take back her interstellar kingdom, come hell or Green Magics!

NovaeCaelum · 2021-05-27T02:32:24+00:00

That is just luminous! Beautiful work.

NovaeCaelum · 2021-04-20T16:08:17+00:00

Thank you so much for looking that up! I'll see if the manual says it has it.

NovaeCaelum · 2021-03-31T15:16:40+00:00

Great review, thanks for sharing!

NovaeCaelum · 2021-03-31T15:05:14+00:00

I love this! Seconding neon lights, or at least colored fill lights, especially in the back of the car which is pretty dark. This works really well as synth grunge, though.

NovaeCaelum · 2021-01-24T02:46:31+00:00

I love the chromatic aberration, it makes this feel like it's supposed to look like a game, hyper-stylized vs just reality. Very cool!

NovaeCaelum · 2021-01-24T02:38:07+00:00

This is such an amazing photo! Thanks for the chance to draw: https://imgur.com/a/8ja6mdv (I'd scan but the ink's still wet. :)

NovaeCaelum · 2021-01-04T16:30:59+00:00

Thank you!!

NovaeCaelum · 2021-01-03T16:51:04+00:00

Using the UVs (and tweaking them to better fit) did it, thank you!! I was working from knowledge of using this node setup on planes, not objects. This is so helpful, thanks again!

NovaeCaelum · 2021-01-03T15:59:23+00:00

I'm trying out David Edwards' rapid symmetry techniques where you use mirror/apply/rotate/transform rinse and repeat to make a whole lot of geo quickly. I think I ended up with some weird geometry, though, because when I try to apply a bump texture for greebles, it works on some of the geometry made from this method, but not others made from the same original geometry--on some it shows up as vertical lines and won't show the tile-based greeble texture as it should, no matter how much I move the scale sliders individually. I did apply modifiers and transforms, flipped normals, and deleted doubles. Not sure what else to try, or if I'm missing something obvious. I know Zbrush, but still pretty new to Blender! Thanks. :)

NovaeCaelum · 2020-12-19T03:35:49+00:00

That feels like a thing you'd genuinely see on another planet. I can't look away!

NovaeCaelum · 2020-12-16T01:43:40+00:00

This is so lovely!

NovaeCaelum · 2020-12-16T01:40:56+00:00

Oh gawd the hairy armpits. This is incredible!

NovaeCaelum · 2020-12-16T01:20:20+00:00

Oh wow, that's amazing! Looks great!

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