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Eli Donovan

@elidonovanwriter

Author of adventurous SFF, usually with kissing. Hopeful romantic. Dino geek. https://linktr.ee/writerelidonovan

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Coming soon: Time Trap: Romantic SF Thriller with Time Loop & Dinosaurs Jurassic Park meets Groundhog Day in a romantic adventure. Illustrated special edition hardcover. Backers get the book 3 months early!

The novel is launching first on Kickstarter, which means backers get:

πŸ“– the book 3 months early
✨ a special illustrated hardcover edition
πŸ¦– dinosaur adventure + witty, swoony romance + time travel shenanigans

If that sounds fun, you can check it out here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/eli...

08.03.2026 06:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Coming soon: Time Trap: Romantic SF Thriller with Time Loop & Dinosaurs Jurassic Park meets Groundhog Day in a romantic adventure. Illustrated special edition hardcover. Backers get the book 3 months early!

One of the perks of writing Time Trap is I got to play with a bunch of cool prehistoric creatures like:
πŸ¦• dwarf sauropods
😱 Giant pterosaurs
🦈 ALL the marine reptiles

Science! Just with a higher mortality rate.

Check out the preorder on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/eli...

09.03.2026 01:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#sffchat I love T. Kingfisher. It's a great day when there's a new Kingfisher book to devour.

09.03.2026 00:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#sffchat I'd love to see more SF stuff with dinosaurs outside of the Jurassic Park/World franchise. (Part of why I had to write my own!)

09.03.2026 00:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i am not generally a "go through the hoops to write a comment I don't think will really be read" kind of guy, but for a plan THIS bad, by a guy I hate THIS much... I'll make the exception

23.02.2026 05:30 πŸ‘ 669 πŸ” 392 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 3

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

07.03.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 21912 πŸ” 6590 πŸ’¬ 89 πŸ“Œ 161
Athletic red-haired woman holding a futuristic gun

Athletic red-haired woman holding a futuristic gun

Meet Dr. Grace Carson:

β€’ world-class paleobiologist
β€’ stubborn workaholic
β€’ reluctant action heroine
β€’ currently dying repeatedly in a time loop

All she wanted was to study dinosaurs in peace. πŸ¦–

08.03.2026 06:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.

07.03.2026 14:51 πŸ‘ 3162 πŸ” 1218 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 34
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Coming soon: Time Trap: Romantic SF Thriller with Time Loop & Dinosaurs Jurassic Park meets Groundhog Day in a romantic adventure. Illustrated special edition hardcover. Backers get the book 3 months early!

Important question for the internet:

Do you want Jurassic Park dinosaurs + The Mummy's banter + a Groundhog Day time loop? πŸ¦–πŸ’‹β³

Because that’s the chaotic energy of my new romantic SF thriller Time Trap.

Kickstarter link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/eli...

08.03.2026 06:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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MegaloBook 3-in-1: Encyclopedia, Field Guide & Coffee Table Book. 1500+ handmade photobash restorations of all known Cenozoic mammals.

I just backed MegaloBook on Kickstarter. This thing looks so freaking cool, I cannot even. www.kickstarter.com/projects/152...

08.03.2026 07:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Coming soon: Time Trap: Romantic SF Thriller with Time Loop & Dinosaurs Jurassic Park meets Groundhog Day in a romantic adventure. Illustrated special edition hardcover. Backers get the book 3 months early!

The novel is launching first on Kickstarter, which means backers get:

πŸ“– the book 3 months early
✨ a special illustrated hardcover edition
πŸ¦– dinosaur adventure + witty, swoony romance + time travel shenanigans

If that sounds fun, you can check it out here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/eli...

08.03.2026 06:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

So Grace has to:

β€’ survive prehistoric predators
β€’ stop the timeline from collapsing
β€’ keep Ben from dying and then talk him into getting back together

…every single day.

No pressure.

08.03.2026 06:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Buff and attractive illustration of an Asian man with black hair down on one knee, braced for action and holding a futuristic gun.

Buff and attractive illustration of an Asian man with black hair down on one knee, braced for action and holding a futuristic gun.

Meet Agent Ben Nakamura:

Elite Time Guard agent.
Timeline protector.
Grace’s very complicated boyfriend.

Unfortunately, every time the day resets…

he forgets they’re together.

But Grace remembers everything.

08.03.2026 06:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Athletic red-haired woman holding a futuristic gun

Athletic red-haired woman holding a futuristic gun

Meet Dr. Grace Carson:

β€’ world-class paleobiologist
β€’ stubborn workaholic
β€’ reluctant action heroine
β€’ currently dying repeatedly in a time loop

All she wanted was to study dinosaurs in peace. πŸ¦–

08.03.2026 06:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Time Trap follows a paleobiologist studying dinosaurs 66 million years ago but then something goes very wrong with the timeline.

She wakes up…
in the same day…
again.

And again.

And every reset gets more dangerous.

08.03.2026 06:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Coming soon: Time Trap: Romantic SF Thriller with Time Loop & Dinosaurs Jurassic Park meets Groundhog Day in a romantic adventure. Illustrated special edition hardcover. Backers get the book 3 months early!

Important question for the internet:

Do you want Jurassic Park dinosaurs + The Mummy's banter + a Groundhog Day time loop? πŸ¦–πŸ’‹β³

Because that’s the chaotic energy of my new romantic SF thriller Time Trap.

Kickstarter link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/eli...

08.03.2026 06:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

06.03.2026 04:31 πŸ‘ 6430 πŸ” 1756 πŸ’¬ 68 πŸ“Œ 64
A portrait of a short eared owl face

A portrait of a short eared owl face

All of our wildlife patients this year so far have been owls, but this is our first short-eared.
You can help prevent car strikes like this by obeying rural speed limits and not throwing any litter out of cars. Even organics like apple cores attract rodents to roads, which attracts their hunters. πŸͺΆ

06.03.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 465 πŸ” 131 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

Hawkeye (and the writers room) knew.

06.03.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 567 πŸ” 205 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

I have Ryan Grim blocked everywhere he exists but fwiw:

yes class is weird in Maine.

But it doesn't matter because idk why we're discussing the precise class status of the nazi tattoo guy.

There is not actually a class where that becomes less of a problem.

06.03.2026 20:42 πŸ‘ 112 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I worked under a first sergeant in Texas that would have had Platner doing stupid shit like mowing dirt, sweeping the walls, and an unearthly amount of pushups every day until he got that ink removed or he was booted out. And that man was definitely a demon from Hell. Still he had standards.

06.03.2026 22:47 πŸ‘ 110 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Strongly recommended!

06.03.2026 17:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Book cover for novel Time Trap inset over an image of a hot Asian guy kissing a red-haired woman at an idyllic rocky waterway. Text on the banner reads "Time Trap Romantic Time Travel Adventure." Novel cover has an elasmosaurus rearing out of the water to attack a red-haired woman with a futuristic gun.

Book cover for novel Time Trap inset over an image of a hot Asian guy kissing a red-haired woman at an idyllic rocky waterway. Text on the banner reads "Time Trap Romantic Time Travel Adventure." Novel cover has an elasmosaurus rearing out of the water to attack a red-haired woman with a futuristic gun.

Do you want Jurassic Park dinosaurs + The Mummy romance + a Groundhog Day time loop? πŸ¦–πŸ’‹β³

That’s the chaotic energy of my new novel Time Trap.

Follow the Kickstarter pre-launch, be one of the first to read it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/eli...

06.03.2026 16:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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15.02.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 46030 πŸ” 12992 πŸ’¬ 1143 πŸ“Œ 687
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The week's new LGBTQ+ releases in scifi/fantasy/paranormal romance which I reported within the larger New Releases blog post. #booksky #romancelandia

04.03.2026 12:29 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

03.03.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 10778 πŸ” 3277 πŸ’¬ 198 πŸ“Œ 246

Letting Fetterman score clean dunks like this is a threat to national security

04.03.2026 00:18 πŸ‘ 3990 πŸ” 648 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 8

losing a primary by FIFTY points because you backed ICE should tell everyone where the zeitgeist is right now

04.03.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 6141 πŸ” 1168 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 38

This is what everyone should be worrying about. Not Trump canceling elections, but Republicans taking the trips they've been playing on everyone else and doing them to white voter precincts.

This thread is a painfully perfect description of how it will go down.

04.03.2026 15:27 πŸ‘ 128 πŸ” 53 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

I do not want to hear the term 'underaged women' ever again.
It is such a gross term.
The word is 'girls' or 'children'.

08.02.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 241 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1