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Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Jul 8

little book two Eva snippet

“What keeps me standing is the thought of her. I cannot rest until I lie in her arms.”

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Jul 6

When a gentlewoman with death magic runs off with a lesbian pirate captain hunting her stolen memories, they find secrets that could bring a nation down… SKULLRUNNER has… an autistic mc! found family! sapphic romance! stealing magic from gods! doppelgangers! boats! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSC7MMN8

Cover of SKULLRUNNER where two pirate lesbians share a loving look

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Jun 23

Give her black hair and a hook hand and she could play Korinne Gavon I’m just saying.

Abigail Thorne in HotD, scary pirate lady.

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Jun 21

Finally got the first 1/6th of this book to my CPs, so here are some snippets from Eva, Cevette, and Lizeth!

“Halt!” shouted the sergeant, a burly man with a red face, a bristling mustache, and an accent that spoke of the city of Soladis. “Lower your weapons and surrender to the Southern Golden Army!”
Eva stood. “So it’s come to this,” she said. The men lifted their guns, locking their aim on her. The bounty on echoes was for their live capture, but they would fire once their fear outweighed their greed. “Very well.” She reached into her sleeve, pulled out a slender wooden object, and pressed it to her lips. When she blew, it made a barking quack, like that of a pi

“You betrayed her!” she shouted. “She trusted you!” They both had, she and Morghaia. As her marriage with the goddess of death had crumbled, in the dark days when the gods of Soladis had ruled the Seaward Isles by divine force, all the two of them could agree on was that the Seaward Isles needed a great change to put things to rights. They had trusted Jonathan Gavon, the charismatic young rebel who had promised to usher in a new era of democracy. With the last words Cevette had ever spoken to the woman she had loved for centuries, she had sent Morghaia to this man’s side.
And he had ripped her soul apart.

They had not spoken to their father for almost three years. In that time, between the Viridian League and the Southern Golden Army, the Republic had continued to drain Celixco dry, and the memories released by the crew of Sea Wolf had forced the prosperous Terraloro merchants of Port Dueno to confront how thoroughly the Republic had cheated them over the long decades of its true endurance. They had organized to support a rebellion; as well as burning Viridian League warehouses and threatening the Terraloro who worked for them, they had funded the three ships Matías and his fellow captains had brought to the cause. Lizeth was dearly glad to have their father on their side. But Matías had never apologized for that last awful argument. And Lizeth still felt it ringing in the air.

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Jun 17

@uhhhyaenbyjade.bsky.social is the BEST! Look at this amazing Eva and Cevette!

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Jun 16

Cevette and Eva:

Stills from Disney’s Atlantis from the scene where Kita asks Milo if he can swim and he says “I swim pretty girl.”

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· May 27

Every time I see a ship in a dry dock I’m like “Eva would love this.”

A sunny day in San Diego with a ship in a dry dock

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Apr 12

Touching base with the OG enemies to lovers classic:

The book Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Apr 11

Now bring out the big can opener!

Artemis II in water, resembling a tin can

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Mar 31

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! SKULLRUNNER was the first book I wrote, many years ago, with trans characters. Zeke, Andreas, Lizeth, and Naeri get to be complex and messy, heroic and morally gray, in a world where their stories aren’t defined by their transness. I can’t wait to share more of them!

The cover of SKULLRUNNER with two gay lesbian pirates smiling at each other in front of a portal into Death.

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Mar 2

😂sometimes I’ll be consulting tidal charts and nautical enthusiast websites to painstakingly calculate when a fleet will arrive at a certain location and then I’ll remember…

Screenshot of David Benioff, showrunner of game of thrones, saying “Dany kind of forgot about the iron fleet”

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Feb 22

for your consideration: Evazina Gavon, hapless lesbian and a silver of the soul of the death goddess in mortal form, adopted daughter of the military leader who manipulates the memories of a whole society so they hero-worship him (SKULLRUNNER: for readers who enjoy The Locked Tomb and boat facts)

Close up of cover art of Skullrunner featuring a dark haired young woman with pirate tattoos

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Jan 30

How I do book promo:

The book Skullrunner with the caption “what if pirates of the Caribbean had lesbians?”

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Dec 24

Hello! I’m writing an epic fantasy series about sapphic pirates who have to steal back the past from a memory-altering dictator who has convinced the world he’s a revolutionary hero: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSC7MMN8

The cover for Skullrunner, where two lady pirates make heart eyes at each other

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Dec 11

working on a *naval battle* in chapter nine

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Nov 11

Convincing you to read my book with the first sentence! Share yours if you would like.

Prologue: Flotsam On Upailit, in the lands of the Six Brother Clans. 17th Iunosmonth, Year Seventeen of the Golden Republic. The Soladiseans say we should be reconciled to one another. They say both our peoples came to the Seaward Isles from far away, and, as we both cannot leave, we must share the land and the waters. Here is what we say: the great currents that flow between the stars and seas lead our ancestors to the Seaward Isles as a gift of trust. The ancestors of the Soladiseans did such evil that they choked off the spirit currents and poisoned the seas to make the Isles submit to their will. By no means can a thinking people be reconciled to this depravity, not without a great making of amends, and the Soladiseans who speak of reconciliation make nothing but noise. When they say ‘reconcile,’ they ask us to forget. We cannot forget. But, to their people, forgetting is the greatest pleasure. –‘Our History of the Golden Republic,’ published in The Dawn Beacon. A wave washed across a beach of brown silt and reeds and set a half-drowned woman on the shore. Cevette Zarcanzi rolled onto her front and spat out a mouthful of brackish water. Her head spun. Her muscles ached. She pushed herself up onto her knees, sinking a half-inch deeper in the silty soil whenever she moved, and looked about her. Where am I? Rolling hills rose in the distance, gray clouds descending on them like a cloak. Pine trees covered their slopes. Reeds and cattails covered the shore in faded green. A small flock of pied ducks were plucking mussels off a rock. The air smelled of smoke.

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Oct 7

Three books that inspired SKULLRUNNER. I love books about death, adventure, and walking the knife’s edge between victory and defeat. There’s nothing like a good sword fight!

The three musketeers, Sabriel, and Gideon the Ninth

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Aug 15

Covers like this are why I write epic SFF because I want nothing more than to write books with covers like these and make them very queer

Books with bright neon cover art of people in ornate fantasy costumes with swords

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· May 16

*We* are also overworked and lack resources. We have ideas. We advocate for ourselves. And far too many marginalized authors, instead of getting the support they deserve, get labeled as troublemakers or drama queens and dropped for their next book

We are up against the fact that many of these employees are overworked and not resourced enough. Make it easy for them to say yes to you. Come up with your own ideas. Treat your author career like a business, even with traditional pub. Be your own advocate. You do that and, eventually, you will get that huge support because you will have the readership you need.

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· May 16

Bringing this over from Threads, because—like, what? I pushed my publishers for YEARS. I sent the emails. I followed up. I scheduled my own events and set up my own pre-order campaigns. But without their efforts to complement mine, it got nowhere

I see a lot of authors on here begrudging that publishers do a lot of support for some books, but not much for others. And I get it because that’s demoralizing. But I’d love to encourage authors to be a little pushy in making sure your book gets supported. Send the emails. Do the follow ups. Make your own connections. I’m doing a pre-order campaign with a local bookstore because I emailed them and asked for it. Don’t wait around. I did that with my first novel and I regret it.

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· May 9

#lesficfri a snippet where the pirate captain realizes her former lover has been stolen from her memory

The great emptiness howled in her chest. Cevette gasped. She hugged herself as if she was keeping in her own organs; she expected to see blood on her hands when she pulled them back but only saw the stained, damp sleeves of a plain linen shirt. She’s gone. Tears rolled down her cheeks. After everything. She’s gone.

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· May 2

I had a very nice walk last night and worked out the details of a naval battle in my head while looking at Boats

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Mar 18

Today, the characters in my sapphic pirate book meet a rogue mutual aid organization covered in tattoos that counteract the government’s memory-altering magic

“What does your revolution do now?” Tomis asked Thimmely.
“Well, our resources are quite limited. There is little we can do effectively. But, what we do have, we share with those most affected by the Republic’s failures of governance.”
“So you’re a charitable endeavor?” the journalist asked.
Thimmely shook his head. “Charities are beholden to their wealthy patrons. They make large, visible gestures to gain the sympathy of the public. They do very little of the lasting, needed work. We dig trenches and raise foundations in flooded fields. We erect palisades and insure crops near abomination blooms. It’s a hard life, not in the least because Gavon has made a number of quite powerful sacrifices to target us, but if we follow our tattoos, we can hold together.”
“Why do you choose to follow the tattoos?” Eva said. “Because that means going up against the Republic itself.”
Thimmely smiled. “It’s never been the Republic that’s looked out for me when I needed help most. It’s always been the victims of its cruelty, standing together.”

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Mar 14

Nothing says true love like holding someone at gunpoint 😂😂😂

Her fair skin weathered and ruddy, her face heart-shaped face and her short blonde hair chopped like straw, Cevette Zarcanzi frowned from behind a smoking pistol. Eva knew her on sight; the printed illustrations in the papers had captured her well. The pirate wore the stolen orange uniform of a soldier and held herself with all the gravity of the burning moon. She drew a second pistol from her belt and pointed it at Eva’s head. “You. Don’t move.”
Eva froze.

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Feb 21

I’m Vyvre and I write epic fantasy with queer characters! This is from my sapphic pirates book and I like how my MC has a lil’ Autistic Moment thinking about her love of boats while a rival pirate ship is firing on her

Eva tested the door. “Locked,” she said.
Cevette dug a coil of rope out from the chest and began tying it to the bars of her cell door. “We’ll have to climb,” she said. “One moment. Let me secure the knot.”
Eva ran to the hole in the wall and peered out. A warship had entered the harbor. She was as large as any in the commander’s fleet, her sails black as midnight, her flag a silver skull. Its cannons flashed. Glowing orange shells streaked through the night. Dust flew up wherever they struck the walls. The fortress trembled.
“Oh, she’s powerful,” Eva said. She blinked, then squinted, trying to get a better look. She stretched her hand out, as if the ship was a model she could pick up and hold. She should’ve been terrified. Neither her body nor her mind was delivering terror. She so liked looking at boats. “She’s not yours, is she? That’s a ship-of-the-line. I read your ship was only a barque.”

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Feb 15

#WIPSnips Today, our main character and her captain are locked in the brig of a rival pirate

A small smile crept across Eva’s face. “Thank you for coming along.”
“But of course.”
Why didn’t you run with the others? she almost said. But she didn’t think she could stomach hearing the most likely answer: I look after my crew. She should be happy to have such an honorable captain. It was only that she wanted to matter more to Cevette than another sailor of the crew. She wanted to be at the center of her captain’s heart.

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Jan 31

A nice bit of heart from #lesficfri —the moment where the main character finally feels like she can accept her father is a bad person and what a relief that is for her

He’s cruel. He’s truly cruel.
Eva smiled. The whirlwind in her chest settled. She drew a deep, full breath. Her chest pushed against the diary hidden in her bodice. She tilted back her head and closed her eyes, basking in the light of the moment. A soldier took her by the arm and led her to the door. She went, unresisting. Her heart fluttered.
She knew she had a right to be angry now.

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Jan 15

#WIPSnips Breaking a pirate captain out of prison isn’t supposed to be easy, but falling into her arms might be … 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🌈🏴‍☠️

“Easy there,” Cevette whispered from below. “Let go. It’s a short drop.”
Eva took a deep breath. She grabbed the rope with her left hand and unwound it from her right. Trust her. Trust her. She let go. Gravity snatched her down—and then firm arms caught her. “Well done,” Cevette said as she set her down on her feet. Her hand lingered on Eva’s waist. She might have said something more, but she was cut off by a piercing scream.

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Jan 4

#WIPSnips in this snip, the main character enters the realm of the death goddess for the first time!

Eva shuddered. She knew little about the mechanics of this place. The gods of Soladis had once told their people that Death was merely a resting place for souls before they moved on to their next life. But there was clearly more to it than she’d been told. Her chest tightened. She took a deep breath. Her skin crawled at the cool sensation of breathing air that was not quite air. What is this place, truly? Perhaps a philosopher could tell her. But here, she could only ask that question of herself.

Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters@vyvre-argent· Jan 1

#WIPSnips I wrote this yesterday while editing my sapphic pirates book!