Phoenix Rises Dragon Soars is in SPFBO XI!✨Charlotte Saulter✨

I hope it passes quickly 🫂

Reborn in Ash Magic abandoned humanity millennia ago. Now it returns, bringing ruin to a wanted thief, and her chance for redemption.

LAST DAY to get 25% off Reborn in Ash over on Smashwords!

If you like books with character growth as well as action, please check it out! It also has:

- Elemental magic
- Found family
- LGBTQ+ and BIPOC characters
- Female rage

Chapter one is free to read on my website.

💙📚🪐 #Fantasy #SFF #Books

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Next week I get the manuscript for Tiger Cowers, Dragon Falls back from my editor.
I am sooo excited for this because when I know what work needs doing I can pick a release date, and I can't wait for my readers to finally see how the story from Phoenix Rises, Dragon Soars continues!

#indieauthor

...broken souls - a mercenary, a noblewoman, a disgraced general, and a shamaness - as they confront their pasts, learn to wield forbidden power, and form a found family in a world wanting them dead.

Get it here: books2read.com/PRDS

And best of all, Book 2 is coming this year!

Book cover of Phoenix Rises, Dragon Soars showing a phoenix and a dragon before a blue mountain range.

It's World Book Day and believe it or not I have a book you might like if morally grey, deeply flawed characters, forbidden elemental magic and a romance that feels earned are your thing.
Phoenix Rises, Dragon Soars is a dark fantasy set in a world inspired by Imperial China.
Follow four...

Not yet properly edited as I'm still getting back into Concord of Spirits after a year away, but I'm definitely rediscovering why I started writing this (definitely) grimdark fantasy in the first place.
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky #writingprompts #fantasywriters #WIPSnips

...see new covers (one is coming soon) and hear about release dates (also coming soon) and sales (also...you know the drill).
I might even add a photo of Kiki, my black cat.

And I promise not to spam you because who has the time, right?
charlotte-saulter.kit.com/signup

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Start a newsletter, they said. It's so useful they, said. So here we are.
Behold: My newsletter sign-up!
If you join you'll get:
- the unreleased prologue to Phoenix Rises, Dragon Soars
- the 1st chapter of Tiger Cowers, Dragon Falls

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#SPFBO is heating up. Several groups have been actively reviewing books, and now The Fantasy Hive as well as previously Fantasy Book Critic have already delivered their semi-finalists.
No news yet on Phoenix Rises, Dragon Soars. So keep crossing your fingers for me, or read while we wait.

A square graphic showing a book cover and text. The cover is on the left top two thirds, Reborn in Ash by Gabrielle Steele. On the right top two thirds is white text reading: Rated <a graphic of four and a half yellow stars> on Goodreads. What reviewers say: “A tale beautifully told” “The magic system was incredible” “A fast-paced epic fantasy” “Immersive, emotional, and truly enchanting”. Centred in the bottom thirds is a bullet point list reading: Dark epic fantasy, A thief whose revenge goes wrong, Gem-based elemental magic, Sapphic romance subplot, Found family. Cover description: The background is dark with a red-orange glow in a gap between the silhouettes of trees. The silhouette of a person fills most of the space between the trees. They are in an action stance, with twin swords raised, one either side, curving towards them defensively. One arm extends to the right, where three pointed stones hover, their tips aimed away from the person. The cover text is white, and the title font has some extended curved flourishes. Above the title is text reading, “When the thief falls, the mage will rise.”

The new cover for Reborn in Ash is available on ebooks! Physical copies will be updated soon.

~Magic abandoned humanity millennia ago. Now it returns, bringing ruin to a wanted thief, and her chance for redemption.~

books.thellian.com/reborn-in-ash

#BookSky #FantasyBooks #SFF 💙📚🪐

There is something quite special about writing a book that's set in a world (loosely) inspired by feudal Japan, when you've been there only a couple of months ago and can actually see the streets you're describing in your memories. 🥰

Oh, I love it when that happens. I usually get it on walks. Or when I want to sleep 😄

Yeah, it's pretty special 😊

Woke up with creative energy after an imposter syndrome day yesterday so I took the day away from social media, and would you believe it? I wrote a whole chapter, 2500 whole words, for my current WIP, Concord of Spirits.🥳 I feel so proud of myself.
#indieauthor #writingcommunity #writesky

😍 Ohhh it looks so good! I don't sell a lot of print and this is the first time I'm seeing my book in someone else's hands (so to speak).

It's caturday, my friends, and my black cat has reviewed (e.g harshly judged) Phoenix Rises, Dragon Soars. Her verdict: Flawed men? 🗹 Strong women? 🗹 Emotional damage 🗹 Grimdark, but with heart and hope? 🗹 5 stars Would stare into the void again.

It's caturday, my friends, and my black cat has reviewed (e.g harshly judged) Phoenix Rises, Dragon Soars.
Her verdict? 5 Stars: Would stare into the void again.

Would you read a book approved by this little black overlord...eh lady?

#indieauthor #fantasy #booksky #sff #caturday

Today is the last day of this sale!

A poster advertising an in-person book event. It is white with a faded pile of books in the background and black text for the info. Calling all book lovers! Book signing/sale event. Meet the authors at the Kelvedon Institute Sunday 8th of March 10am to 3pm. Free entry. Easy local parking. Darma, romance, thriller, children's stories, suspense, fantasy, horror, crime, historical fiction, non-fiction. There'll probably be something for everyone.

TWO weeks and one day until my first EVER in-person event as an author! Terrified.

I'll be selling paperbacks and hardbacks of Reborn in Ash, as well as ebook codes in lovely gift boxes (these will all be the original cover). I'll also have notebooks and bookmarks I've designed!

#BookSky #Essex

They called her a criminal and killed her for a magic she didn't choose.
And if the truth had been known, Huizhong would've never existed.

Discover a world where magic is a death sentence in Phoenix Rises, Dragon Soars.

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Grey morals. Earned romance. Flawed but human characters. That's Phoenix Rises, Dragon Soars.
Follow 4 broken souls-a mercenary, a noblewoman, a disgraced general, and a shamaness-as they confront their pasts, learn to wield forbidden power, and form a found family in a world wanting them dead.
#sff

No page reads on Kindle Unlimited for almost 2 months now. I think I'll end this experiment in April when my renewal comes up. I gave it a good try but dark, character-driven Asian fantasy clearly has no audience on there. It's not worth limiting my options anymore.

Back to my WIP after 1 year break:

"Spirits, but he looked…dead.
She swallowed the lump in her throat and fetched her lamp. Never assume, Himari, the Reverend Mother had said. Always confirm your diagnosis by checking symptoms and facts."

#writingcommunity #writingprompts #fantasywriters #WIPSnips

This is Kiki. Kiki is dark, like this book. Kiki can be evil, like my villainess. But she’s happy she’s already found the home my protagonist still yearns for. Want to know if he finds it? You should check out Phoenix Rises, Dragon Soars.

Here's a cat for you.
Her name is Kiki and she really wants more people to read the book her mum (that's me) wrote.
Please buy my book. It would make Kiki very happy! 😁

#SFF #Fantasy #Indieauthor #caturday #darkfantasy #booksky

Jindai lost his wife, his children. All that's left now is vengeance. And the magic he shouldn't possess.

Want to find out more?
Link in my bio!

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Sold by his father. Raised in violence.
Longwei didn't believe the world had anything good to offer him. Now he risks everything for a chance at the one thing he thought he couldn't have: a family, a home.

Phoenix Rises, Dragon Soars: Link in my bio!
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From the WIP that's going to my editor soon:
"The black-clad man pulled the tray closer and removed the cloth. Beneath it lay a selection of small knives—perhaps a surgeon’s—and a lidded ceramic pot."
If you know PRDS, you'll know this means nothing good.
#writingcommunity #fantasywriters #WIPSnips

Had to use a synonym: save.
This one's from Tiger Cowers Dragon Falls, which is going to my editor next week🥳
"She still recalled the smell of burned flesh, the charred and blackened bodies she had left behind when she had used Wuxing to save herself from those bandits."
#WIPSnips #writingcommunity

Great Dunmow BookFest | Saturday 13 June 2026 We’re Turning our Whole Town into a Bookshop! A pro-town, pro-local event to turn the whole of Great Dunow into a bookshop for one day. We’re doing this to promote local authors, local shops and esta...

Pleased to announce I'll be one of the authors selling at Great Dunmow BookFest! It's a way off, but it's gonna be epic. They're closing the entire high street to turn the town into a bookshop.

Official info: www.talliston.com/great-dunmow...

My events page: thellian.com/events/

#dunmowbookfest

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SPFBO 11 officially starts today!

Let the reviews flow! #SPFBO