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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle)

@kiraofthewind.com

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She/her, author of fantasy novels with Shadow Spark Publishing✨
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Fantasy gamer, anime nerd, reader, pixel art🌈
Monthly Worldbuilders host
Autistic ace vampire🧛‍♀️ LGBTQ+ safe🏳️‍🌈 Occasional 18+ content🔞
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My stuff: https://linktr.ee/kiraofthewind

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@kiraofthewind.comJul 1, 2025, 4:08 PM Pinned

PINNED POST Info about me, links to my books, Discords, Patreon, etc. Please like and repost if you see this🫶💕

Meet the writer
About me: My name is Erika McCorkle, but I also go by Kira of the Wind online. Feel free to call me by either name. I’m open to cute nicknames, too
I am a millennial, internetting since 2003.
I have been writing/worldbuilding since the 90s
I am genderfluid and fictosexual, but she/her pronouns work just fine

Things I know and do:
I have a Bachelor of Science in Biology
Work the night shift at a blood bank as a lab tech
Taught myself Japanese, but I’ve forgotten much of what I once knew
Big fan of fantasy (games, books, anime, etc.)
I spend free time writing, reading, watching anime, or playing video games

Favorites:
flower: lotus
drink: coca cola
food: taco
animal: seal
hobbies: video games and writing

My books and writing
I write fantasy that takes place in a queernormative world (meaning a world where being queer is normal and accepted).
My books are Dark Fantasy with Adult content, extremely in-depth worldbuilding, and themes of revenge and found families
I have two novels out currently and a few short stories and serials on my Patreon.
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@kiraofthewind.comOct 11, 2026, 2:41 PM

Haha, exactly! That scene was a moment for me to show how they are as people😁

@kiraofthewind.comOct 11, 2026, 2:40 PM

#WIPSnips

From the snowball fight scene with the inn gang as kids vs. their cousins, Onion's daughters who later work on the farms but make occasional appearances.

Art shows Shanks and Turnip in their older teen years, but in this scene, they're about 8 years old

Welcome to the Good Thyme Inn

She tossed snowball after snowball at the young Kraken boy, but he remained immovable, unfazed. Between Beetie’s tosses, Turnip risked throwing her own snowball. She hopped out from behind the tentacles, threw, and lunged back behind the safety of Shanks’s body. 
Through the small space between his tentacles, Turnip saw her own snowball hadn’t made it very far. Barely over the river, it landed far from Beetie’s feet. Turnip didn’t have the strength of her cousins. She couldn’t throw as hard or as fast as they could. 
“Use your breath,” Shanks suggested. 
Beetie hit Shanks several more times, each snowball as useless as the last. “Ugh, this is annoying! Come out and let me hit you so we can start a new game.”
Turnip did as Beetie asked. Thinking she had surrendered, Beetie threw the snowball with little enthusiasm. Turnip threw hers, too…
And hit Beetie hard in the chest. Shanks and Turnip drawn by Bear Pettigrew/Crossroad Art. The two characters are from the Good Thyme Inn series. Shanks is a tentacled Kraken-man with pink skin and some purple splotches. He has tentacles around his face and coming out of his back, as well as the lower half of his body instead of legs. He is wearing a plain brown apron. Turnip is a fox-like girl with purple fur from her chest up and white below. She has six visible tails in this picture, all of them very fluffy and white, tipped with purple. She's wearing a green, white, and pink waitress apron. She has white hair, big foxy ears, and fangs. The two are holding hands and looking at each other sweetly while sitting on a wooden bench
@kiraofthewind.comOct 11, 2026, 2:36 PM

in which the goal is for every player to enrich their territory, not to steal from other players. The game essentially goes from PvP to P vs. environment/RNG. Turnip and Shanks liked it that way, though Grilled and Garlic thought it was overly sentimental feel-good nonsense and not fun to play.

@kiraofthewind.comOct 11, 2026, 2:36 PM

#OctoberWorldbuilders

In the board game 'Conquest of Raduga' which the Good Thyme Inn kids played, the goal is to have a single winner. However, the concept is broad enough that one could, in theory, modify the win conditions, which is exactly what Turnip did. She made it a cooperative game

@kiraofthewind.comOct 11, 2026, 2:30 PM

attack one player or the other. One 'move' players can take is offering pieces as hostages for X number of turns, and they will usually give them the double agent that can only attack that player.

@kiraofthewind.comOct 11, 2026, 2:30 PM

Yes, betrayal is absolutely expected. Sometimes two players will agree to ally for a set number of turns. Part of gameplay is, in fact, talking with your opponents and being diplomatic at times. Adding to the betrayal aspect, each player has two pieces called the double agent. Each one can only

@kiraofthewind.comOct 11, 2026, 2:26 PM

Thanks! I'm still gonna be off and on, I think, just so I don't fall back into the habit of spending too much time online. But it's nice to be here a little bit and see you 😊

@kiraofthewind.comOct 11, 2026, 2:25 PM

His breeders only wanted him to remain their prisoner and breed the next generation. He was a test subject for some experimental potions, too, though some of those were failures. His escaping from the facility means he still has to live with the curses some of those potions bestowed upon him.

@kiraofthewind.comOct 11, 2026, 2:24 PM

It is! this is a huge moment for him in his character development

@kiraofthewind.comOct 11, 2026, 2:24 PM

💕💕 Thanks. It has to do with how he lost his best friend. He hopes to return to him one day

@kiraofthewind.comOct 11, 2026, 2:23 PM

I feel protective of him, too. My poor boy 😭 But he's surprisingly capable on his own. He's good at taking charge of his own life and forging his own destiny

@kiraofthewind.comOct 11, 2026, 4:00 AM

Good morning, #OctoberWorldbuilders! This is the opposite of yesterday's Q: Are any sports/games in your world cooperative? Is your MC or any other character on a team or have companions they train with?

MonthlyWorldbuilders prompts daily feed card 
#OctoberWorldbuilders
Hosted by Kira of the Wind
Week 2: Sports and Games
10: What are some sports or games in your world with a competitive element? Are there tournaments?

The background image display trees in a peaceful forest during autumn, with lots of yellows and oranges. It feels very much like October and has a serene vibe
@kiraofthewind.comOct 11, 2026, 1:28 AM

💯💯

@kiraofthewind.comOct 11, 2026, 1:05 AM

Sending love and support. 🫂 If there's anything I can do (sending money, I guess) please let me know.

@kiraofthewind.comOct 10, 2026, 11:10 PM

Thank you, friendo

@kiraofthewind.comOct 10, 2026, 10:55 PM

#AwesomeCharacters

Basically all the Good Thyme Inn characters in a nutshell:

Image of a crawdad in front of a bowl of dead crawdads with the quote from Mass Effect: "Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters."
@kiraofthewind.comOct 10, 2026, 7:04 PM

Yesss, classic RPGs my beloved

@kiraofthewind.comOct 10, 2026, 4:28 PM

New guns? And then after he's trapped, he turns it against his captor. "Nice try, but I'm the one with a gun now."

@kiraofthewind.comOct 10, 2026, 4:26 PM

First off, DAMN (respectfully) Second, uh... I wish it could be me in the trap he was attracted to 😭 Third, hmm, how about some fancy jewelry? 👀

@kiraofthewind.comOct 10, 2026, 4:24 PM

Oh! I didn't mean to imply I was going to steal their instruments! 😅 I just meant trap her by putting new instruments there and maybe she'd think "oh, I wonder if my bandmates could use these?" 🤔

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