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Twenty-year vet writer of novellas and tomes; the grittier, the darker, the more the characters must go through, the better. For tone, I'm somewhere between Joe Abercrombie's The Blade Itself and Martin's A Game of Thrones.

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Kyle Belote

@outpostdire

I write dark stories about broken people who don’t get happy endings. Blood, trauma, lust, gods. Somewhere between The Blade Itself and Game of Thrones—but crueler. No heroes. No mercy. Just survivors. This is Outpost Dire.