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The Silver Birds got mentioned in an Instagram reel by amivireads about sapphic books with beautiful covers! I tried to post a link but it wouldn’t work :/

OMG I SAW IT!! thank you so much for letting me know! Sapphic book covers truly are the prettiest 👀💖

even now, 7 months after the publication of THE SILVER BIRDS, I still can’t believe people read and know my book lmao my brain just can’t comprehend

my author dream came true yet i feel like i must write and publish 10 more books for it to be real… can anyone else relate??

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Today’s writing place is Vegan Mama’s bakery in Seoul~ sweet potato bagel + oat latte + The Silver Birds — Fox & Wit hardcover exclusive edition, which was featured in their March box✨

The design is STUNNING; I’m obsessed with the tree and the skulls 💀

THE SILVER BIRDS

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hey i did a little redesign of my book cover because i didn’t like the way the blurb was written before… how do you like it now?

check out my book, THE SILVER BIRDS, if you’re into sapphic dark fantasy with witches, monsters, spooky deaths, and a whole cast of grey characters!

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just held a crying session with myself. that was cathartic. i feel indestructible again.

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I powered through anxiety and here it is, a commission sheet with pretty samples!

If you want anything that isn't here, send me an email or message on discord and we will figure something out!

ko-fi

#commissions #open commissions

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Last Line Tag

Thanks @frostedlemonwriter for tagging me✨

Softly tagging: @bluespringwrites @fishythewriter @elusiveink @angelltheninth @randomwriter23 @writingbrainrot

My heart stifled by the ghosts from decades past reaching out through the flowers on their graves. It was heartbreaking, yet soothing, being most alive amongst the dead. There had been times I had wished death for myself, but now that I had had a glimpse of it, that I had let it course my blood, I wasn’t sure I wanted to have anything to do with it.

I only wished to be stripped of everything—death, magic, and feelings. To be a lone shell—emotionless and unable to hurt, be it me or the others.

this is an unedited excerpt from my ghost x demon WIP~ hope you like it!

Quickly reminding you all that my sapphic novella THE ANATOMY OF DYING is currently FREE on Amazon for 2 more days.. if you’d like to get it 🙈🖤

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my sapphic novel is FREE on Amazon for 2 more days! GET IT NOW HERE, and leave me a review on Goodreads if you can✨

thanks to everyone who already got it, it’s ranked #6 in Lesbian Fiction and #7 in Lesbian Romance on Amazon! I could not thank you enough & I hope you all enjoy your read🖤

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today’s writing spot in Seoul ft. a chocolate financier, an oat latte, & my little free book deal 🙈 for the sapphic lovers out there, get it while it’s hot!!!!

THE ANATOMY OF DYING

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to celebrate its 2-month release anniversary, The Anatomy of Dying will be FREE for 3 days! April 2 to April 4 only!

If you like it sad and poetic, yet playful and hopeful, my contemporary sapphic novella is for you! GET IT NOW HERE ~

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This might be unpopular but I’m not going to use simpler vocabulary in my writing if it’s out of character for the narrator. If my POV character is a botanist, he’s going to call a plant by its name. If you don’t know what it is you can either Google it or move on just knowing it’s a plant of some sort.

I don’t like this trend of readers being angry that not everything is 100% understandable for them. I want my characters to be believable as people and sometimes people use words people outside of their field will not understand. That’s not a bad thing.

You don’t have to understand every word to get the gist of what’s happening. I’m not going to slow down an action scene to describe every weapon because someone might not know them by name. They can just assume it’s a weapon because that makes sense in the context of the scene.

#This 🙌🏽

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to celebrate its 2-month release anniversary, The Anatomy of Dying will be FREE for 3 days! April 2 to April 4 only!

If you like it sad and poetic, yet playful and hopeful, my contemporary sapphic novella is for you! GET IT NOW HERE ~

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*book excerpt*

Yue’s gaze fell on Rosen’s chest. ‘Wait, is that blood? Are you alright?’

‘It’s okay, most of it is mine,’ Rosen said, smoothing out her blood-soaked clothes like it was nothing to fret about.

‘Am I supposed to feel reassured?’ Yue said, frowning. ‘What happened? Did the flowers do that?’

‘River stabbed me.’

‘It was an accident!’ River said.

‘It was,’ Rosen said, like it ever needed confirmation.

—The Silver Birds, by Apolline Lucy

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OUT OF CONTEXT LINE TAG

‘Of course, the infamous demonic vampire-flowers,’ Seti deadpanned.

[ from my sapphic fantasy, The Silver Birds ]

softly tagging @poetryandthesea @words-after-midnight @words-and-pages @mysticstarlightduck @mysterywriter96 @kirsten-is-writing @writingsforwinter @hersurvival

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As someone bad at titles. Please tell me how you got the title of your WIPs! I wanna hear the stories

#there’s a tie #I need more votes!! #polls

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As someone bad at titles. Please tell me how you got the title of your WIPs! I wanna hear the stories

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thanks for the tag @illarian-rambling ✨

OC in 3

introducing Brume from my witchy wip~

Brume is a necromancer—a death witch, except she doesn’t know it. All her life she’s been thinking she had no talent but seeing dead cats, and making moss and mushrooms kill themselves at her feet. She thought she would spend the rest of her days baking pastries against broken hearts and nightmares in her parent’s magical bakery. That is until a curse hits her town and forces her to make an alliance with a witch who’s half-demon. With her best friend, the bone witch Luonto, they adventure the swampland and demonic orchards, pushing the limits of her magic to places she never knew existed. Suddenly she sees ghosts and leaves death in her tracks. Will she be able to break the curse of Misttown, or will she be the reason for its destruction? Will the love of a demon be her doom, or her salvation?

I’ll tag @words-after-midnight @sarahlizziewrites @caspia-writes @caspersgraveyard @jmhwritesstuff @angelltheninth @randomwriter23 @cssnder & everyone else who’d like to do it!

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As someone bad at titles. Please tell me how you got the title of your WIPs! I wanna hear the stories