Shami Stovall, Author
@GameOverStation
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Gamer, award-winning author, professor. Repped by Drew Gilmour at Achilles Literary Agency.
Joined June 2016
Groundhog Day meets urban fantasy in Time-Marked Warlock! 🍾🥳. "Fans of the Dresden Files and the Iron Druid Chronicles will definitely enjoy Stovall's creation." - Jason Cordova, Monster Hunter: Fever. Read it here: #booktwt #books #urbanfantasy
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This is 100% a true story, LOL. Sometimes authoring is complicated.
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My hot take: the church in your Fantasy Land secretly being evil isn’t subversive—it’s the most common thing I’ve ever read, bordering on trite. ಠ_ಠ.
Give me your Fantasy hot takes that have you like this. Mine is your morally gray characters aren’t more interesting, they’re just more murderous
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@CommanderFace Yeah, that’s how it goes - you can’t do anything too realistic if the reader/viewer thinks it can’t happen.
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@JoeBerne1 Yes, very close! People think highly of military in general, and don’t like details in stories that make them seem a little foolish (even though WWI was a mess, rofl).
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It happens to a lot of authors. Some more than others, lol
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This is official artwork of a knightmare from my Knightmare Arcanist book! 🥳🎉🍾. It was done by the extremely talented @CcrawlerArt !!. I love it so much!!. #booktwt #books #frithchronicles
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Hey peeps!! ✨🥳. Abyssal Arcanist, book 3 in the Astra Academy series, released TODAY! 🐉 (Think Pokémon meets Harry Potter, lol). Link: (The first book in the series was nominated for a Dragon Award!). #BookTwitter #booktwt #fantasybooks
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If you feel like checking out my books, I have one I pitch as “Pokemon meets Harry Potter” (and I did use my history knowledge for worldbuilding, LOL).
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Just some quick facts, LOL. Hopefully they help!
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It's true. Please review the books you love!
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Thank you to the "menwritingwomen" subreddit, lol. I'd probably read it.
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Practicing and honing your craft is the way to go!. Don't let people make you think otherwise.
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Authors have to stare at the horizon to come up with those plot twists.
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It baffles me why this is still swirling around. Men do lots of reading! It's just mostly indie (or non-trad pub) nowadays. They're the ones writing stories geared at men, because most trad pub does (1) romance, (2) literary fiction, or (3) non-fiction. Where's the fun?
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It's called *reading* and it's cultured. Thank you.
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Pick 2. Hopefully you choose correctly, LOL
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This is imposter syndrome. I suffer from it, lol
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OKAY, seriously - which one of these covers is better? 🤔. A--the blue one 📘.B--the orange one 📕. #booktwt #bookcover
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Overheard this at the post office, and I had to make it into a comic, LOL
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Miles, my book mascot and adorable cavapoo, is helping me with pictures today! 💕🥳📘. Look at him model with Mimic Arcanist, LOL - it's his favorite in my Astra Academy series, mainly because of the cat mimic. o.o.
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Sometimes people ask me why I left California, LOL 🤣
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It happened!! My book it out in the wild!! 📘🥳🍾. Groundhog Day meets The Dresden Files in my book, Time-Marked Warlock!! 💕. I'm so EXCITED about the release, I could burst. If you want to check it out: #booktwt #bookspotlight #books #reading
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The axe forgets, but the tree remembers. Don't tell people their dreams are impossible!
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I am type A. I can't move on until the sentence is perfect!!
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In celebration of being nominated for a Dragon Award, I'm updating all the soft covers for the Frith Chronicles, starting with Knightmare Arcanist! 😍📘🐉. I hope you all enjoy the new covers!! <3
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It's true. Truckers and I are powered by the same fuel.
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If 666 is considered an evil number, is 25.80697 the root of all evil?.#WellThatsAGoodQuestion.
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My urban fantasy, Time-Marked Warlock, released just 3 weeks ago!! 🤪🎉. My badass MC, Adair Finch, has temporal magic and uses it to catch criminals! . 📗Please give it as shot! #booktwt #urbanfantasy
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Why would you #MakeANerdUnhappy? :c . I say, MAKE a nerd happy! Video game parties all around! :D
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Literally the first time I’ve gotten an orange tag on the physical books sales (soft cover). 🥹. Thank you everyone for the support—for everyone picking up Labyrinth Arcanist now that it’s out!—you all are my tribe 💪🎊🎉🍾🥂
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Best writing advice I can give:. There are 2 types of fans. Type 1, leaves a review, says they liked it, but they wanted certain things to change, writing to change, didn’t like plot points, etc. 4 star. Type 2, leaves a review saying how much they LOVED a certain character and.
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Objection! Facts not in evidence. I know tons of straight men who are readers (including my husband). Maybe their study wasn’t very thorough. 🤔.
Why don’t straight men read novels? | @dazed
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Fellow authors, show me your favorite book cover! 🥳💪🎉. I’ll go first!
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Legit. No one has ever complained about THOSE.
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Lately, I've seen a few people ask, "Where are the books for boys???". I've got good news! I have an award winning YA fantasy specifically aimed for boys! I describe it as "Pokemon meets Harry Potter."💪🥳. #booktwt #booksforboys
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GUYS!! My debut science fiction novel, STAR MARQUE RISING, comes out today!!! I'm so excited! 🎆🥳 🍾.#5amwritersclub #writerscommunity #amwritingscifi #writerslife
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Hey peeps!! ✨📷. Death Lord Arcanist, book 4 in the Astra Academy series, released TODAY! 🐉(Think Pokémon meets Harry Potter, lol). Link: (First book in the series is on sale for 0.99!! 💕). #BookTwitter #booktwt #fantasybooks
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Next week THE NEXUS GAMES hits the shelf! 🥳⭐️💕. It's a litRPG about a special forces guy who transported to a fantasy world to compete in a deadly competition. o.o. It's filled with all my favorite things,lol. #author #litrpg #fantasy #5amwritersclub
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I finally got CUSTOM MAILING BOXES 🤪. They have my logo, and quotes from the Pillar all over them, lol. Probably no one cares, BUT when you get signed books and stuff from me, they will now be ✨fancy✨
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It finally happened! My debut novel, Vice City, is now available in both e-book and paperback! I hope you all enjoy!.
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Today at DragonCon, I won the Baen Fantasy Award for my short story! 🎉🎊💕🍾📘. I also got to meet the legendary David Weber, my fellow winner, Melissa, and the talented Sean Korgaard!! 🍾💕. #DragonCon2023
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I’m a finalist in the Baen Fantasy Award ;-;. So humbled and thrilled! 🎊🍾🎉💕.
We're kicking off Independence Day weekend with a bang - ten of them in fact. Baen Books is thrilled to announce this year’s Top Ten Finalists for the Baen Fantasy Adventure Award. 2023 BFAA Finalists:.“The Hitchhiker on Souls’ Road” by Ashley Agbay.(Continued).
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Since people have been showing off their covers… This bad boy will be coming in 2025 💪🎉🎊
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