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Dakria @dakria.bsky.social · 16h

That's the goal. Anyway, with or without funds, I will pursue this adventure. I am working with amazing authors on the first anthology coming by the end of the month. They believe in that project and support me in an amazing way. I am so grateful. 🖤🖤🖤

Dakria @dakria.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you! I will for sure. 🙏🙏🙏 I am very thrilled by the way everybody reacts to this new project. That really gives me hope.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 18h

Help out one of our newest AaN authors as they set sail on their own publisher voyage. Looks like a fun project. Indie publishers support other indies.

Dakria @dakria.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Kickstarter Launch! 🚨
25 days. $1500 goal.
Help us fund Darkblood: The Last Line, a flash anthology about the descendants of gods and myths who refuse their fate.
Support indie authors. Support WATG Press.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/119...
Every dollar defies destiny.

Build WATG Officially & Launch the Next Flash Anthology

Establishing WATG Press to pay contributors fairly and publish the next flash anthology of divine descendants who refuse their fate.

www.kickstarter.com

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Dakria @dakria.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you so much for the repost and the support 🙏🖤🖤🖤

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Dakria @dakria.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Kickstarter Launch! 🚨
25 days. $1500 goal.
Help us fund Darkblood: The Last Line, a flash anthology about the descendants of gods and myths who refuse their fate.
Support indie authors. Support WATG Press.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/119...
Every dollar defies destiny.

Build WATG Officially & Launch the Next Flash Anthology

Establishing WATG Press to pay contributors fairly and publish the next flash anthology of divine descendants who refuse their fate.

www.kickstarter.com

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Dakria @dakria.bsky.social · 1d

I love the idea 🎈🎈🎈🤡🤡🤡

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 2d

important news! night shades will open for submissions again this coming friday october 17.

🛸 staying open to fill the calendar, 23 spots. all the details are here : www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/

Submissions

Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes four speculative stories per month. Night Shades is opening October 17, 2025. Staying open until the calendar is full through April. There ar...

www.nightshadesmag.com

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Reach Your Apex @reachyourapex.bsky.social · 2d

Today's community drabble is, "Doppelgänger’s Lumen" by Dakria. The theme was "doppelganger."

Find Dakria at bsky.app/profile/dakria.bsky.social

Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl

#authors #drabble #writingprompts

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 3d

Fourth corner of the world author receives their copy.

Dakria @dakria.bsky.social · 3d

Just received my copy of Mmeory by @aanpress.bsky.social
Thank you all the way from Thailand! 🖤🖤🖤
I am so thrilled to be part of this amazing anthology.

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Hannya Kay @hannyakay.bsky.social · 3d

Publication day! My soft, sweet, spooky story (with my take on romance lol) is now available to Black Hare Press Patreon subscribers 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you BHP ❤️🎃

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Dakria @dakria.bsky.social · 3d

Just received my copy of Mmeory by @aanpress.bsky.social
Thank you all the way from Thailand! 🖤🖤🖤
I am so thrilled to be part of this amazing anthology.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 5d

Announcing our first open call for 2026 - "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" which will ask for hard SF stories with tea or coffee, stars, and gravity all playing a prominent narrative role. Info here - aanpress.com/submissions.... Important: Be sure to read the cover page to the PDF.

Cover image to the book, showing the back of an astronaut in a space suit as he steps off into a psychedelic swirl of cosmic colors and stars. The title circles around the figure.

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Dead Languages Podcast @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social · 7d

We're joined by @kaidelmas.bsky.social this week! Listen in as Kai tears us apart in this Live Editing session!

open.spotify.com/episode/2T5I...

Episode 129: Live Editing! (with Kai Delmas)

Spotify video

open.spotify.com

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 5d

Ain’t no mail like contributor book mail! So proud to be in this anthology from @aanpress.bsky.social

Cover of a book titled Mmeory. The cover image is abstract, like a face with eyes.

The book is open to a story titled “He Walks the Same Streets” by Guan Un.

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Kai Delmas @kaidelmas.bsky.social · 6d

New drabble for the week. This one was written with heart. 🤡🎈
www.patreon.com/posts/140846...

Every Breath Gives Life | Kai Delmas

Get more from Kai Delmas on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Die Booth @diebooth.bsky.social · 6d

What's this???

My gorgeous contributor copy arrived of Mmeory, from @aanpress.bsky.social

You can pre-order here: aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...

This anthology is a ltd edition of 250, so if you'd like one, don't sleep on it!

#indieauthor #booksky #smallpress #queerauthor #books #lgbtqia+

Author Die Booth is a middle aged white man with long curly dark hair, dark eyes and a dark moustache and goatee. He is pictured here peering over the top of a book wrapped in brown paper with a sealing sticker that says 'AaNPress Author Copy'

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Dakria @dakria.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you so much. 🖤🖤🖤

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Dakria @dakria.bsky.social · 6d

🖤🖤🖤
Is it possible to receive the mini-clip by email?

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Dakria @dakria.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you 🖤🖤🖤

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Reach Your Apex @reachyourapex.bsky.social · 8d

Today's community drabble is, "When Binding Broke" by Dakria. The theme was "escape."

Find Dakria at dakria.de/

Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl

#authors #drabble #writingprompts

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 7d

ICYMI, we're open to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds for this entire month!

We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and other folks whose voices must be heard!

www.havenspec.com/submit/

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 7d

With "Mmeory" now in the hands of most US backers and international backers very very soon, the book is officially available on the AaN site - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm.... And here is a photo of the book at a local bookstore. Order your memory manipulation anthology today and beat the holiday rush.

Photo and zoom photo of Mmeory on the bookshelves at Riverstone Books in Sq. Hill, Pittsburgh.

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Hannya Kay @hannyakay.bsky.social · 9d

Submit!
Readers are starting to engage with dark magic rituals to face lack of sleep and brain mush, but do not hesitate, they knew what they were signing for (with their blood)!
Submit!
(am I going too horror here? hum, we want FUN, remember 🙄)

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 9d

People keep submitting, we keep reading. Submitting, reading, submitting, reading - will it ever end?

(Yes - 15th October, be sure to submit by then as this the last submission period of 2025! We however will keep reading after that until they've all been considered.)

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 10d

Our readers continue to work through the submissions we've received, and we still want more! Read the submission guidelines for details and a link to the portal. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

translunartravelerslounge.com

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Black Hare Press @blackharepress.bsky.social · 8d

Campfire Cuisine by Randall Andrews

A Dark Moments drabble. Enjoy!

#writingcommunity #readingcommunity #drabble #microfiction #amreading #amwriting #FREEfiction #writerslife #bookblogger #bookblast #Horror

https://blackharepress.com/blogs/dark-moments/campfire-cuisine-by-randall-andrews

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