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My next novella, The Last Lady of Lună, will be out October 15th.

I was a child when enemies destroyed our clan.

My mother escaped and raised me in secret. Without my fathers' blood, she aged and died. Now I am the last head of Clan Lună. My enemies think I am dead, my clan is scattered to the winds, and I am just coming into my powers. I will claim my birthright, rebuild my clan, and destroy our enemies. I'm just going to need a bit of help.  Luckily I know where to find it. A hot team of human mercenaries specializing in security is looking for their next job. They're exactly what I need. Now I just need to convince them to believe me, keep my secrets, and rain hell on my enemies.

And if Lună is still watching out for me, maybe I'll finally get laid.

The Last Lady of Lună is a slow burn paranormal romance and the first in a series about Natalia of the Lună vampires, her five mates, and the future they will build together. Contains FF, MM, and FMF relationships. No AI.

Available for pre-order on most retailers:
https://books2read.com/b/m0LQYW

Starting a new conlang for a story my partner and I are working on.

To keep things easy, I started with the English language phonology and removed sounds, rather than coming up with a phonology from scratch. My final phonology had 19 sounds, which is a bit on the small side but not ridiculously so:

b
f
h
k
m
p
s
v
z
tʃ
θ
ŋ
æ
i:
ɒ
ʌ
aʊ
ɑ:
ɪəʳ

And set up rules for word building (can never have two vowels next to each other, words always start with a consonant, ɪəʳ only shows up at the end of a word).

And I decided I wanted an isolating language with some fusional elements. Because why not?

Next up:

Building the grammar!
(Hope this is a good spot for this post, didn't see anywhere else it seemed to fit)

Hello Exilian!

I'm Jess Mahler, I'm an author, mostly writing queer spec fic, but sometimes other stuff as well.

I learned about Exilian on Mastodon and have been meaning to join for a while but life happened and armadillo. Glad to finally be here!