JG Duke

Picture is of a (temporary) book cover. A ship is on the open sea, with giant white wings for sails. Text reads "High Winds and Low Whispers, a story of Dainu, by JG Duke".

Jaris has returned to his homeland after years of maritime adventures.
He was told he would be welcomed as a hero. He was told his insights were invaluable. He was told his fellow Purnma were the greatest beings in Dainu!
He was lied to.

#AStoryOfDainu #AmQuerying #SaturdaySelfPromotion #Pitch

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."
- Mortimer J. Adler

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I feel like I may have just had a stroke reading that.

Jebus! If only they spent that energy and time writing their own books, they would have to try to steal yours!

The jokes write themselves. 🤦‍♀️
#Irony #NoAI #AIisnotart #IHateAI #JustSayNo #HashtagOverload

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
- Terry Pratchett

#booksky #books #stories #quotes #imagination #indieauthor #writingcommunity #modernlife #reading #FictionMatters #KeepTheHumanitiesHuman

”It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”
– John Waters

#books #quotes #reading #bannedbooks #booksky #authors #discover

a large crowd of people are celebrating holi in front of a building ALT: a large crowd of people are celebrating holi in front of a building

When I was a kid, I wrote about a holiday in my fantasy book that was so cool, and utterly original, and nothing like what ppl here did....Except that I didn't know about the world and its glorious, varried traditions.

Happy Holi, and happy Day of the Ribbons - whichever you celebrate. Lol

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
- Fernando Pessoa

#quotes #reading #literature #WhenOverwhelmed #ModernLife #books #reader #library #author

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"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
- Ernest Hemingway

#quotes #writing #author #indieauthor #literature #writingcommunity #poetry #books #stories #truth #OneSentence

"Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia."
- Kurt Vonnegut

#writers #indieauthor #writingcommunity #author #books #story #quotes

Who do you write for? Yourself, a friend, a character?
Or for the hope of fame?

Abducted into a foreign army, Tro must adapt in order to survive this strange land full of magic and violence. War is hell, but maybe he doesn’t have to endure it alone.

#AStoryOfDainu #EpicFantasy #Book #IndieAuthor #AmQuerying #SaturdaySelfPromotion #Logline #Pitch

Keep the humanities human.

Just say NO to artificial intelligence.

"There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story, read sometimes for the words--the language. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book."
- Stephen King

#books #reading #stories #words #goodwriting

"Judging a fish by how well it climbs a tree" and all that.

Zidka can (kinda) see the future which is a mighty powerful gift, but Tosee could, hypothetically, never need to go hungry EVER.
The point was that Alia gave the gifts based on the needs, and so no one is "more and less" than the other- they're just different.

Def depends on the definition. The Irsak tribe can learn to break apart literal mountains, so can be very destructive, but the Alam can live hundreds of years, and it's entirely innate, so... Depends on the purpose.
The Alek-Ejos are the strongest clan within a tribe, so maybe them? #Febchantment

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a cartoon of a cat reading a book with the words i live life on the edge of my couch below it Alt: Gif of a cartoon owl reading a book with a dog sprawled on the couch next to it. The text reads "I live life on the edge...of my couch."

“I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.”
– Benedict Cumberbatch

#booksky #reading #books #library #writingcommunity #indieauthor #reader #cozy #📚💙

"After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world."
- Philip Pullman

#books #stories #reading #booksky #writingcommunity #writesky #indieauthor #whatweneed #quotes

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."
- William Wordsworth

#writing #literature #books #poems #poetry #writingcommunity #author #indieauthor #journals

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We meet 5 generations across the ten books of the #AStoryOfDainu series. Each set of 3 happens at the same time, just from different perspectives (royal Bash, common folk, elsewhere in Dainu), and each set is a new generation.
Some cover 10ish yrs, others cover their entire lives.
#epicfantasy #📚💙

”Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte

#books #readers #readingcommunity #quotes #indieauthor #AllGenres #literature #TheWorld

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I gave out my book to my first reader that isn't a life-long/good friend.
Was told "The end of chapter one already had me HOOKED, so I'm excited to read it fully once we're done moving!"

Got me all excited. ☺️
#indieauthor #readers #compliments #impostersyndrome #books #IfOnlyItWerePublishedAlready

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
- Jane Austen

Austen didn't mince words lol She knows what's up!
#books #reading #pplwhodontread #howtolookstupid #quotes #indieauthor #readingcommunity #novels #literature