Author : dnbryn

Happy Release Day to Bite Your Neighbor!

M/M Vampire Romance ✨ Humor, angst, slow-burn thirst. Wes knows the local pharmaceutical company killed his mom, but to get proof he has to trade them a vampire for their shady experiments. What luck that one has been sneaking through his window nightly to feed… How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win and Wager is […]

Once Stolen is available now!

When an autistic naga botches the robbery of a notorious cartel, a self-proclaimed hero is poisoned in his place. He strikes a deal with the dying hero: he’ll bring her to her cure in exchange for her hoard of coveted power-producing stones—stones which stop the pain caused by his sensory perception disorder. But to reach […]

Autism in Relation to Character Flaws

There’s only a week and a half until Once Stolen comes out, so I wanted to share about Cacao’s autism in relation to his less likable/more harmful attributes. Minor spoilers for Cacao’s backstory ahead! A (far to large) number of autistic characters fall into harmful stereotypes in which their autism is portrayed as undesirable or […]

Plot progression: points, twists, and hinges.

(And why hinges rock.) Please excuse me while I assign already well-loved terms new meanings for my own benefit. (This is to say, writing terminology means something slightly different or goes by slightly different terms depending on who you ask. Two of the definitions I use here are based ones that stuck with me, while […]

DOWNLOAD D.N. BRYN’S NEW SHORT STORY NOW.

A BETTER FATE is a darkly whimsical short story featuring a fairytale wlw relationship between a zombie and a dryad. Trigger warnings for this story are memory loss, mild descriptions of rot, and the general state of being undead. Learn more through goodreads. Hal remains undead for one purpose: to seek vengeance for her own demise. But […]

How to Write Non-binary Characters: Part III.

PART ONE: the basics. PART TWO: the nitty gritty. PART THREE: common pitfalls and easy fixes. Here we’ll cover some common situations where writing respectful non-binary characters can be trickier. Writing Non-human Non-binary characters. Non-human non-binary characters aren’t inherently disrespectful to non-binary people, but it can easily become negative representation when there are no non-binary […]