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Big Bearded Spookteller

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · Aug 4

Going to do a new pinned post as I'm changing domain, my domain is now bigbeardedbookseller.uk and everything is going on this domain now.

I'm writing about pretty much anything I'm interested in when I have something to say, so no timetable as such.

#Introduction #PinnedPost

Top of a Wordpress website with tiled images for various posts

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 15m

If you see this, quote post with your favorite Pokemon
(wrong answers only)

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Susan Maxwell @ Bibliothèque des Refusés @bibliorefuses.bsky.social · 27m

Greetings! I am an independent author & scholar who writes literary/slipstream, fantasy, & mystery fiction, and non-fiction related to archives & literature. Latest book is (the appropriately seasonal) Death at Hallowtide, a cosy mystery/fantasy set in Ireland.
Links linktr.ee/dr.susan.max...

Cover of Death at Hallowtide.
Book description on back cover:
Corrbofinn. A place where things are… different. Where Jessica Quill has inherited a house and land. And where she has just become the number one suspect in the murder of local wide boy Tony Millar.
Jessica's life has entered uncharted waters. A job she hates, a cheating partner, her unexpected inheritance, and the final straw: tripping over a corpse in the rain when she comes to rural Ireland to arrange the sale of her property.
But Herne's Acre is no ordinary place. It’s a key crossing-point on the borderlands between the mortal world and the otherworlds of the sidhe. And now it is to be sold by a stranger unfamiliar with the true nature of Corrbofinn, a source of considerable anxiety for Thornapple, that very civil servant of the Borderlands Commission.
Bewildered, grumpy, and armed only with knowledge of toxic plants and classic detective stories, Jessica pursues her own inquiries to clear her name. Corrbofinn yields some of its mysteries along with new friends—human, canine, and… Well. You know.
Increasingly conflicted, Jessica’s sensible self squares off against her dreams of a different life. But she makes enemies, too, leading to a deadly showdown on Hallowe'en, when the borders between worlds are at their most fluid and uncanny.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 57m

In other news: Angry Robot Books has acquired Juliet E. McKenna’s The Riven Kingdom, described as a “fresh and gripping fantasy” that “blends politics, religion, and a battle for a dead king’s throne, perfect for fans of the Realm of the Elderlings series.”
britishfantasysociety.org/book-news-an...

Book News: Angry Robot Acquires New Juliet E. McKenna Novel – The British Fantasy Society

britishfantasysociety.org

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Author Machelle Berglund 💛🤍💜🖤-Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 2h

Hello and good morning spooklings and brightlings! I'm just a spooky pickle trying to make it in this world.

Make what? I don't know. Cool stuff, probably!

I've written some cool stuff and I'm working on cool stuff.

#Writing #IndieAuthor

linktr.ee/spookypickle

www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Ready Your Wings for Fairy Seasons

From Machelle Berglund - Ready Your Wings for Fairy Seasons

www.backerkit.com

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 5h

What’s your favourite low effort meal?

Cheese omelette

Anne Mo 😷 @toughestfrail.com · 6h

What's your favorite low effort meal?

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 6h

Oh Lynx and Vape don’t mix 🤢 had to open the bus window and it’s cold 🥶

Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 7h

way too many, especially since I've only got into it a month or so ago!

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 7h

@louiestowell.bsky.social

Capucine @capucinep.bsky.social · 8h

#Halloween #TwoForTuesday

Hela & Loki - fur version

#HalloweenPets #Howl-o-ween #Costumes #Cosplay #SpookyPets #Dogs #DogSky #DogsOfBluesky #PetCostumes

A photo of a big dog in a Hela costume, and a tiny dog in a Loki costume.

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 7h

I'm starting to use half my commute to watch a couple of episodes as well, will finish Strongest Sage today!

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 7h

good idea

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 7h

Let's hear from you writers, tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other

#WritersLiftWednesday #Writers #Authors #WritersLift #BookSky 💙📚

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A sketch of a small pile of books with the words “Meet the Author” superimposed

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 16h

got to getting round to making more than maki rolls, have a lovely big book as well that I should read

uk.bookshop.org/a/140/978071...

Japan: The Cookbook

The Cookbook

uk.bookshop.org

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 17h

loving that one, going to catch up on that tonight!

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 17h

watched episode 1 but got caught up in solo levelling will have to go back and finish that

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 17h

So. Morbid author question.

What do fellow indie authors have in their wills about their books/stories?

#indiebooks #queerwriters

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 17h

loving the absolute love of food in all the anime I've been watching, massively common theme

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

I am for ghosts at the glass. Ghosts of the twitching net curtain. I am for those wounds in time that discharge phantoms, leak glimpses of yesterday. If each pane is a haunted possibility, we may walk the city observed by a thousand spectral eyes. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

A black and white photograph of an old window in an Ashcourt street. The bottom half of it is curtained with net, the top half reflects the Georgian terraced house across the street. The image reeks of phantoms and time as a sickness.

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 18h

WOW!

carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 18h

New cover art for THE DEADLANDS

a pleasure to illustrate this issue full of gorgeous stories! Here is 'Golden Maze'.

oil pastel, china graph pencil and digital colour

#art

golden maze
a gold skull on a maze with a pile of coins

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 18h

1976, when I was 11, I decided that with a little help from a new musical style

but don't let age be a factor in this just lean in when you want

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Ben Aaronovitch @benaaronovitch.bsky.social · 18h

My friend Andrew Cartmel has a play on this weekend...
www.oldredliontheatre.co.uk/honeymoon-en...
At the Old Red Lion Theatre.
You definately should go see it...

Poster for the play HONEYMOON ENCHANTRESS by ANDREW CARTMEL

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 18h

All My Friends Books hosts the author of "Eyes by Hand" this Saturday, October 18th! Swing by the bookstore between 1 and 3 pm to meet @danroche1.bsky.social, whose new book is an engaging insight into the lives of artificial eye users and makers. #indiebookstores

Promotional image for an author event with "Eyes By Hand" author Dan Roche at All My Friends Books. Details: October 18 from 1 - 3 pm at All My Friends Books, 51 Main St., Cortland, New York.

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 19h

and remember I run an illustrator q&a series on the Big Bearded Bookseller blog, if you're an illustrator/artist in the bookish world why not have a look and see if you're interested!

#BookSky 📚💙 #illustrator #artist #interviews

bigbeardedbookseller.uk/questions-fo...

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Moira @moirabanks.bsky.social · 19h

Och I’m a day late, sorry.
Just finished this book which I first read in the mid ‘80’s. I have to confess I skipped over the abattoir chapters this time as well. It shouts of the difficulties of being working class and a creative. I got frustrated by Mat at times, and felt sorry for Helen, his wife.

Book cover showing a background of tenement flats, a tree, a bird, a bell and a fish (this is the Glasgow coat of arms). In the foreground is a young man shirt sleeves rolled up, arms leaning on a desk one arm bent and fist resting on his brow.There is an open notebook and a pen on the desk.
This book contains one finished novel ‘The Dear Green Place’ and an unfinished story ‘Fur Sadie’ both by author Archie Hind.

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it's frank-en-SCHTEEN 🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 22h

there are very few things I like to watch on YouTube - for some reason the way many people present overwhelms my autistic brain. but I just watched Simon from the Hermit's Cave channel review my deck and he's got such a slow, gentle way about him, I love it www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C03... #tarotsky

The Queer Crow Death Magic Tarot ~ Shadows, Wings, and Rebirth.

YouTube video by The Hermit’s Cave

www.youtube.com

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 21h

showed me the stupidity of coke