Lyssa Chiavari

@lyssachiavari

YA SFF author 🚀 | aspec ♠️ | #faithfullyLGBT ✝️🏳️‍🌈 📚: THE IAMOS TRILOGY (@snowywingspublishing.com), CHEERLEADERS FROM PLANET X (@krakencollective.bsky.social), JUST LIKE THE FIRST TIME (patreon.com/lyssachiavari)

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Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· 22d

Something new is coming October 6... I'm so excited to announce I'm editing a new anthology for @snowywingspublishing.com: ONCE UPON A RHYME, featuring twelve young adult original stories inspired by nursery rhymes!

A graphic which shows the cover for Once Upon a Rhyme mostly obscured. With the text "Cover reveal coming soon. Ready or not... August 5th"

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Jul 2

Thank you to everyone who supported the anniversary edition campaign for the Iamos Trilogy! While the campaign is over and the deluxe editions are no longer available, you can still get the standard hardcover and paperbacks through retailers. They're up at Amazon now: www.amazon.com/dp/1963870123/

Mockup of the special edition hardcover of Fourth World

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Jun 28

Two days left to get the 10th Anniversary Special Edition Boxed Set of the Iamos Trilogy! With sprayed edges, metallic foil, and a collectible slipcase, celebrate Pride with one of the first YA series with asexual 🌈📚♠️ MCs ever published. payhip.com/lyssachiavari

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Jun 21

#TimeTravelAuthors 21: parents and mentors We see most of the characters' parents in the series. There are also mentor figures like Gitrin and Emil. I think everyone's relationship with their parents is different, just like reality. Some are good, some are strained, and some suck lol

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Jun 17

#TimeTravelAuthors 17: shine Nadin looked up at me for a moment, her eyes shining. Then slowly, tentatively, she stepped closer, wrapping her arms around my torso, her face in my chest. My heart jolted at the touch. “Thank you, Isaak,” she murmured.

Quote from New World, book 2 of the Iamos Trilogy, by Lyssa Chiavari

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Jun 17

Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of Atlantis: The Lost Empire & I've been seeing a lot of fun posts from the filmmakers over the past couple days as a result. This movie was my obsession & was also the inspiration for The Iamos Trilogy. The cover of New World was based on the Japanese movie poster

Japanese movie poster for Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Jun 15

#TimeTravelAuthors 15: characters' mental health Tamara has anxiety, which is gradually explored through the series. I drew from my personal experiences with anxiety, and my heavily increased anxiety during 🙃 the events of 2020 🙃 mirrored Tamara's as she dealt with similar heightened stress.

The Iamos Trilogy by Lyssa Chiavari trope cloud: Atlantis, life on Mars, time travel, asexual main characters, space dinosaurs, conspiracies, slow-burn romance, friendship, rebel factions, ancient aliens

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Jun 9

#TimeTravelAuthors 9: Would it be better for your characters if time travel never existed? There are times when Isaak may feel this way, but he realizes without time travel a lot of people would die, including people he really cares about, so in the long run he knows time travel is worth it.

The Iamos Trilogy trope cloud: Atlantis, life on Mars, time travel, asexual main characters, space dinosaurs, conspiracies, slow-burn romance, friendship, rebel factions, ancient aliens.

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Jun 3

#TimeTravelAuthors 3: raise I reached out with my index finger, tapping the tip of the central mountain. It was round and raised from the globe’s surface, worn smooth with wear.

The Iamos Trilogy by Lyssa Chiavari: Tenth Anniversary Edition

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Jun 1

#TimeTravelAuthors 1: Intro This month I'm focusing on my first series, The Iamos Trilogy, a time travel series set on Mars! The first book was published 10 years ago, and to celebrate, shiny special editions are available this month only. Learn more: www.lyssachiavari.com/2026/06/01/a...

The Iamos Trilogy by Lyssa Chiavari: Tenth Anniversary Edition. Fourth World, New World, One World.

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Jun 1

It's Week 1 of #PrideBookFair and to celebrate, my sapphic alien invasion novel is $0.99 now through June 8! You can grab it for a discount at all retailers or check out this Itchio bundle, where you can get a whoooole bunch of queer books for a great price! itch.io/b/3677/pride...

Cheerleaders from Planet X by Lyssa Chiavari: Not your average alien invasion. Art of Shailene and Laura by Laya Rose.

Pride Book Fair 2026 Bundle #3: Live Free or Pride Hard
1000 Lotuses Yu Zaozao; Black Hole Guns for Hire Friday Strout; Blade Broken Niranjan; Blood Desi Hart; Blood Dhampir H S Kallinger; Blood of the Gods Wren L Rivers; Bloody Spade Brittany M Willows; Cat Mouse Eliza Mares; Cheerleaders From Planet X Lyssa Chiavari; Duckett and Dyer Dicks for Hire; Firewing Jennifer R Povey; Fractures Between Beatrice McKinsey; Ghost of a Life Ruth Miranda; Guitar Concerto S Morgan Burbank; In Good Company Nicola Kapron; In Spite of the Inevitable Morgan Biscup; Lambent T D Cloud; My Lord L B Shimaira; No Love in LA Katta Kis; Off the Beaten Path Sienna Eggler; Rebecca and the Grinning Worm Gareth Barsby; Reins of Magic R Dawnraven; Riyati Rebirth Kai Zeal; Shadows Dark and Deadly Andrea Marie Johnson; Songs of Broken Bells Lilly Lockwood; Stars of Destiny Melissa Stone; STAWBAISTDIFMRRD Eskay; Stray Dogs Freya Faust; Structural Integrity Tabitha OConnell; The Clockwork Empire Lucas JW Johnson; The Dragon Next Door Vanessa Ricci Thode; The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle Steve Hugh Westenra; The Lucky Machine Aimee Cozza; The Nightstalkers Mark Joachim Heijndermans; The Silence of Storms Nico Silver; Well of Souls Harmonia Grey; Wolfsbane Franklyn S Newton

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Jun 1

The wait is over! The Iamos Trilogy special editions are available now! Available for one month only (happy Pride!), celebrate the 10th anniversary of one of the first-ever YA series with asexual main characters. 🌈📚♠️ Time travel! Mars! Conspiracies! It's all here! Get yours: payhip.com/lyssachiavari

A trope cloud featuring the special editions of the Iamos Trilogy (Fourth World, New World, and One World), showing off the fancy sprayed edges (featuring the evolution of Mars from the Red Planet of today to the terrformed world of the series) and the following tropes: Atlantis, life on Mars, time travel, asexual main characters, space dinosaurs, conspiracies, slow-burn romance, friendship, rebel factions, and ancient aliens.

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· May 22

I put Cheerleaders from Planet X in the Itchio bundle, but I've also got it $0.99 at retailers June 1-8 for non-Itch users. books2read.com/cheerleaders

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· May 9

After hinting about it for a LONG time, the 10th anniversary Special Editions of the Iamos Trilogy are coming June 1! We're talking shiny hardcovers with foil, sprayed edges, endpapers with artwork of series locations, & more! Get notified so you won't miss out: www.lyssachiavari.com/special-edit...

The Iamos Trilogy (Fourth World, New World, One World) deluxe editions with sprayed edges revealing the transformation of Mars from the current red planet to the terraformed world of the series' day. Trope cloud surrounding the books: Atlantis, life on Mars, time travel, asexual main characters, space dinosaurs, conspiracies, slow-burn romance, friendship, rebel factions, and ancient aliens.

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· May 1

So if you want to grab it at $0.99, now's your chance! I am not planning on doing a Pride sale for this series this year (because there's going to be Special Edition stuff happening!!) so here's your chance to get it cheap: www.amazon.com/dp/B019Y37LN2

Fourth World: The Iamos Trilogy, Book One by Lyssa Chiavari

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Apr 29

#TimeTravelAuthors 29: Author's choice The next chapter of JLTFT is going live on Patreon on Friday! www.patreon.com/lyssachiavari

Just Like the First Time: Serializing now on Patreon!

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Apr 25

If you purchase copies of the Iamos Trilogy on Itchio (lyssachiavari.itch.io) or LemonSqueezy (lyssachiavari.lemonsqueezy.com), you get a copy of both the original cover edition and the new anniversary edition cover. That way you can choose your favorite!

The original covers of the Iamos Trilogy, a mid-2010s style with photos of the characters.

The new covers of the Iamos Trilogy, featuring symbols from the series.

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Apr 17

Did a quadruple take that Kevin Tumlinson was the one who posted this, I did not know he was not working for D2D anymore

Kevin Tumlinson on Facebook:

So far, regarding the Draft2Digital fees, the response I see from the industry insiders is
"It's only $12 a year, what's the problem?"

The problem is that it's only being charged to the LOWEST EARNING authors.

If it were a charge every author had to pay, regardless of sales, it wouldn't look so much like a money grab.

D2D is doing this for good reasons, and it's a good business decision. But it looks very bad to the author who took a chance, wrote the book, and didn't get any sales. I have literally seen authors say they're walking away from publishing because "clearly I'm not good enough."

So to my fellow industry insiders: Remember who we're doing all this for in the first place. Show just a bit of compassion here, rather than trying to make these authors feel foolish for having qualms over what you think is small cash.

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Apr 16

A riff on the "equality vs. equity" meme.

Panel 1: Equality. Everyone is standing on one box of the same size. The two tallest people can see over the fence to watch the ballgame, the shortest person still is too short to see over the fence. This is labeled, "Making everyone pay $12."

Panel 2: Equity. The tallest person gave his box to the shortest person. Now everyone can see over the fence. This is labeled, "Polling the users to find something workable for everyone."

Panel 3: Reality. The tallest person is standing on seven boxes. The shortest person is standing in a hole. This is labeled, "Draft2Digital's solution."

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Apr 16

Update from Amy: they emailed her back and said if you don't have any books published, you won't get charged. So all you have to do is delist the books. After she received that email, she said her account standing page updated to now say this.

Annual Maintenance Fee
If you earn more than $100 dollars a year from book sales, meaning your net proceeds after D2D’s commission, your account fee will be waived automatically. Otherwise you will be asked to pay $12 annually to cover ongoing account costs.

If applicable, your next maintenance fee will be due on April 16, 2027.
Currently, your account has no published books. Accounts with no published books are not subject to maintenance fees. On the maintenance fee due date, your Account Status will change to "Non-Publishing Account" instead of being charged a maintenance fee. Should you wish to publish any books, a maintenance fee will be due at that time (and your maintenance fee due date will reset to one year out from when your fee was paid).

What if I don’t want to be charged the maintenance fee?

If you do not want to pay your annual account maintenance fee, you may unpublish your books to delist them from distribution. Accounts with no titles in distribution (no active request to list at stores) are not subject to the maintenance fee.

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Apr 15

Per @amybearce.bsky.social, you can check your "Account Status" on your D2D Dashboard (under account tab). She had unpublished all her books several years ago but hadn't closed her account. She still got this page (this is my screenshot, but she got the same message).

Account Status: Your account is in good standing.

Your $12 USD annual maintenance fee will be due July 7, 2026.

Annual Maintenance Fee: If you earn more than $100 dollars a year from book sales, meaning your net proceeds after D2D’s commission, your account fee will be waived automatically. Otherwise you will be asked to pay $12 annually to cover ongoing account costs.

Your next maintenance fee is due on July 7, 2026. On July 7, 2026, we will collect $12 USD from your account balance.

What if my account balance won’t cover the fee?

We offer several payment options by credit card including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, etc.

What if I don’t pay the negative account balance from my account maintenance fee?

We allow a short grace period to allow you time to make payment. If payment hasn’t been made within 30 days of the fee due date, all published books will be unpublished, and the account status will change from “in good standing” to “suspended.” You will retain access to your account and can continue to download tax files and see historical data as well as take advantage of free tools like conversion and epubcheck, but no publishing actions can be made.

Can I take a break and pay my negative account balance to re-enable publishing on my account?

Sure. You can return at any time. Come back to this Account Status page to pay any outstanding fees and return your Account Status to “good standing”.

Historical Fee Information: Any previous fee payments made are available to see in the chart below, in your account ledger, and will be included in your raw sales data downloads.

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Apr 15

I fired this off in a fit of explosive rage

You have to know how mad you've just made everybody. I made $70 on D2D last year which is NOT a small amount considering that Amazon sales are not factored into that number. I made more than five times that amount on Amazon. You know that consumers are predominantly buying on Amazon. Wide authors are trying our hardest to encourage sales on non-Amazon retailers, on Smashwords, and through libraries, because we specifically believe in not participating in Amazon's KU monopoly, and we are trying to support D2D/Smashwords as a viable alternative. But at the end of the day we can't control it if consumers are choosing to buy on Amazon instead of through a D2D retailer. All you guys are doing by charging this fee is causing midlist indie authors to quit Draft2Digital entirely. Now that you've done this, even if you walk it back, you've burned authors' trust and a HUGE percentage of them are going to abandon you altogether and list directly now. So good job, I guess?

Are you going to give us a waiver if we're IBPA or ALLi members, since we can verify we're not AI slop farms? Or are you just really adamant about driving yourselves out of business?

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Apr 11

#TimeTravelAuthors 11: point This was hard because the town is called Weber Point so it's in the book like a billion times. But here's a non-town-name "point" (screenshotting this time because too long for Bsky but wasn't sure if what a vanishing point is would make sense without the context)

Katrina came over to stand by me. “I think it looks
good.”

“It’s not terrible, but…” I gestured toward the top third of the mural, where the space shuttle was soaring through the stars. “See how that looks kind of skewed when you look down here?” I pointed to the other mostly finished section,
the underground crystal cavern. “When you’ve got a unified piece like this, you want to have one single vanishing point so that all the perspective is oriented the same way. Somewhere around here.” I tapped my finger on the blank wall in the spot where the ground of the as-yet-unpainted
forest would disappear into the horizon. It was so obvious now. But I hadn’t known about linear perspective or vanishing points when I was in high school. I’d just drawn what “looked good” for each individual section, without considering how they would go together.

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Apr 11

If you like your books DRM-free, you can also check out the Narratess Itch.io bundles. I'm in these two and the others are also linked on these pages. This is a great way to get a whole bunch of books for a good value! Scifi bundle: itch.io/b/3627/narra... Mid-range bundle: itch.io/b/3634/narra...

A graphic with the covers of all the books in the scifi bundle:

The Lucky Machine by Aimee Cozza

Wraith and the Revolution by A.J. Calvin

Women and Other Creatures by Dani Finn

Event Horizon by Dan F. Bispo

Walking the Knife's Edge by Elise Carlson

The Re-Emergence by Alan K. Dell

The Artificial Structure Formerly Known as the Moon by I K Stokbaek

The Tidelings of Dras Sayve by C. B. Lansdell

Bear in Sheep's Clothing by Ligia Nunes

Fourth World by Lyssa Chiavari

A Stellar Spy by Maya Darjani

Any Job Will Do by John Wilker

N.I.C.E.F. by P.J.C. Cahill

Invasive by Sheila Jenné

In Spite of the Inevitable by Morgan Biscup

The Mandroid Murders by Robin C. M. Duncan

My Heart is Human by Reese Hogan

Luxorian's Crew by Veo Corva

A Demon to Save Me by H.S. Kallinger

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Apr 11

This weekend is the Narratess Indie Book Sale! More than 280 Indie Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror books are on sale now through April 13, including my own FOURTH WORLD (scifi time travel series starter) for $0.99. See the whole sale here: indiebook.sale

Indie Book Sale: Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror. April 11-13

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Apr 9

For any interested, I shared an in-depth look at crafting sentences in my invented Iamoi language for a cool project @roannasylver.bsky.social is working on that ties into my 10th anniversary special editions. Available for members of my free behind-the-scenes tier! www.patreon.com/posts/new-ia...

Cover for the special EP by RoAnna Sylver: Another World: Songs Inspired by the Iamos Trilogy.

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Apr 4

This made me laugh

Post from a group on Facebook I'm not in, good old algorithm. I think it was Authors Supporting Authors? Poster is AJ Frazier. The post text says "Stay safe out there, authors" with a saluting emoji. Attached is a photo of a hand typing on a laptop keyboard with text over it that says "Typing the em dashes so I don't get accused of having an AI story"

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Apr 1

It's the first of the month, and you know what that means: a new chapter of Just Like the First Time is live on Patreon for $1+ members! This month, Maureen gets a major clue about how she time traveled, but can she use it to get home? #TimeTravelAuthors

Just Like the First Time Chapter 9: Maureen and Alana investigate the mysterious flier that was left on Maureen's windshield, but the revelations they uncover are enough to turn her whole world upside down.

New chapter posted every first of the month at Patreon.com/lyssachiavari

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Mar 27

#LesFicFri: name Maureen is a pro at bumbling into the kinds of awkward social situations we all dread 😂

"Apparently," Mr. Hagen said. "Did you know that the creator of that series went to school in Weber Point? She was one of my wife's students. Maureen Wilson. She's going to be in town this week. Giving a talk for the kids at Sutter. My granddaughter is beside herself." He finished cleaning his glasses and reached for the mouse of the computer in front of him. "Well, let me get you checked in. Name?"

Crap. I'd walked directly into that. But what else was I supposed to do?

Looking down and longing with all my heart for the floor to open up and swallow me whole, I mumbled, "Maureen Wilson."

Just Like the First Time: A Novel by Lyssa Chiavari. Serializing now on Patreon!

Lyssa Chiavari@lyssachiavari· Mar 21

#LesFicFri: feet One of the few uses of feet the body part rather than feet the measurement: