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🗺️ Welcome to The Valdai Romance Universe: A Guide to the Archive 🗺️

My alternative 19th-century bilingual world is vast, exploring intense psychological slow-burn dynamics across the asexual spectrum. To help new readers navigate, here are the three distinct layers of my literary work:

📖 1. The Main Canon
The core timeline. An ongoing multichapter emotional saga following the gravity-defying connection between an alien engineer Virgil Carter and a lonely Valdai herbalist Januar Walday.

⏳ 2. Standalone Stories (Canon Companions)
Canon historical layers and side-stories exploring the characters' lives across different eras. This includes deep dives into their youth and past memories, as well as standalone emotional snapshots set in the present and even the future of the main timeline.

🌌 3. Alternative Universes (AU / Spin-offs)
The timelines where the year 1838 remains the absolute, unchangeable anchor of fate. Virgil and Januar are destined to meet in 1838 no matter what, but the circumstances of their crossroads shift dramatically - from a desperate rescue at a lonely estate to a fateful encounter at an old tavern. Deep psychological snapshots exploring intense tactile hunger across the asexual spectrum.

🔗 All stories are original fiction and completely FREE to read. Choose your doorway into the universe via the link:

https://medium.com/@xenidavyd/the-complete-guide-to-the-valdai-romance-universe-timelines-standalones-and-alternative-2e82c45aa067

🖤 🩶 🤍 💜

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✨ A Story of Exile, Identity, and Asexual Rebellion: Why I Write ✨

In my past creative chapters, I published under other pen names. Today, as an independent queer author in exile, I write under my chosen name - Xeni Davyd.

This is the story of my evolution & my bilingual alternative 19th-century novel, "The Valdai Romance".

I lived under state censorship in the Russian Federation, forced into a mold that wasn't mine. It took more than 7 years of living outside of Russia, healing and deprogramming, to finally clear the fog and discover my true identity:
🔗 I am a masculine non-binary individual. I am a man, not the woman they tried to force me to be. Stepping into my true identity went hand in hand with being queer and asexual. In a world obsessed with hyper-sexuality, being an asexual man is often met with erasure. But I refuse to be invisible. My writing is my ultimate form of rebellion and survival.

Currently, my situation is fragile - displaced, financially vulnerable, and in deep isolation. Yet, through this frost, I choose to create warmth."The Valdai Romance" explores the electric intensity of asexual romantic love - proving passion burns hotter without sex. It follows the slow-burn connection between Virgil Carter, an alien engineer trapped in his own biological coldness, and Januar Walday, a lonely romantic dreaming of supersensual closeness. My mission is to reclaim the Russian language for queer narratives that are currently being suppressed.

📩 How you can support me today:
Follow this page & engage with my posts.

Read my bilingual work for free on Medium:
https://medium.com/@xenidavyd/list/the-valdai-romance-part-1-canon-88a59008502d

Share this post to your Stories to help my voice break through.Thank you for standing with me and recognizing my true name.
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Maybe I should stop outlining new book titles and start writing them down, I said last week.

This week, I wrote 14k words and it feels good (also, I have outlines for 3 books related to AcClaim, as well as a universe Bible for a series I'm now calling the Sultryverse!)

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Your occasional reminder that COMANCHE is available wherever fine books are sold. Support #indiewriters and #indiepublishers.

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A bundle of African brilliance from Story Bundle. Worth a look!

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"Nothin's okay, but it don't pay to say so."

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🚀 Our new Author AI ad is live!

See how structure, story, and AI come together to shape the future of writing.

We’re not just keeping up - we’re setting the pace.

🔗 Join the beta: https://helloauthor.ai

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Now that everything is settled with my current book, I’m diving right back into writing with a YA fantasy story about a young woman who can hear the song of gemstones and learns she can craft them into rings of power to save a dying world.

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My new book is available for preorder. Releases May 31, 2025.

#writingcommunity #writersofmastodon #mybook #mywriting #indiewriters #apocalypticfiction #werewolf #zombie

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F7GKRK3Q?ref_=pe_93986420_775043100

Good morning, community! A quote for today to lift our spirits:

“Service to humanity is the highest form of worship.”
— ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
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Reminder for #indiewriters: in addition to editing services, I'm also a copywriter with 2 decades+ experience! So if you're struggling with your cover copy, or your marketing materials, drop me a line!

(all genres, plus nonfiction!)

Check out our travel editor Rachael Boardman’s piece on the original fence of County Fence Bi-Annual!

Audio and text versions at the website! https://countyfencemagazine.com/the-original-fence/

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Radon Journal's Issue 9 reading period is almost over!

Send us your fiction or poetry by early December for full consideration to make sure we have time to read your work before the holidays arrive.

#opensubmissions #lastcall #scifi #scififiction #scifiwriters #dystopianfiction #dystopia #anarchy #transhumanisn #indiewriters

Out now on Amazon - a bloody little number about a pirate crew trapped under the wrong stars, desperate to find a way home--even if it means crossing a witch, cutting a deal with the fae, and facing off against a monster slumbering in the depths of the sea.

A devil's blend of dark fantasy and cosmic horror, with a dash of Moby Dick for good measure.

$5 print, $1 on Kindle (free with KDP Select)

I would be endlessly grateful for honest reviews!

Cover by the insanely talented @parrisryanart

https://a.co/d/bHxuaKC

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Vampires, tricksters, and dragons, oh my! Celebrate #Halloween by buying yourself and everyone you know a copy of the Freaks series! Or, y'know, just one.

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Treat yourself to a ghost story this Halloween! COMANCHE is available wherever fine books are sold. Support #indiewriters and #indiepublishers.

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Some kids are born to be heroes. Check out the FREAKS book trailer below. Get your copy today. Support #indiewriters and #indiepublisher.

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Check out the postapocalypse novel that has been compared to Atwood and Bradbury. Support #indiewriters and #indiepublishers.

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https://vimeo.com/547724941

I finally got my hands on a copy of my new book! #SOMNISCOPE on sale now!

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My new book came out today, and I've been too busy with my day job to say anything about it. Read the sucker! It's fantastic! There, promoted. 🥂

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTH2PW42/

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