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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 5h

Under Far Galaxian Skies(book 1): books2read.com/u/3L5ve5

OUT TODAY - Verselva Blues (book 3): books2read.com/u/bog95R

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Under Far Galaxian Skies by Natalie Kelda

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Niranjan 🇮🇳 @ormakal.bsky.social · 5h

Pradyutita is at $0.99 for a limited time!

#queerwriters 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚

Low fantasy novel, 1st in a complete series

💙Retelling of Hindu epic
💙Dark and raw
💙Morally grey characters
💙SPFBO 6 semi finalist
💙Indie Ink Awards 2024 finalist
💙Political intrigue

He was meant to die, but he survived, but how will it impact the world?

In Hastinapura, Atiratha and Radha find a baby floating in the river. In the palace, the impotent King Pandu is forced to abdicate the throne while his bastard half brother Vidura conspires with his queen...

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 5h

🚀 spaceships
🌡️ dark conspiracies
🎭 brotherhood
❌ no romance
🐛 strange creatures
🤖 futuristic
🪐 other worlds
🐈 a rescue cat

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/schU
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/dust-lightning
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...

kindle cover for dust & lightning by rebecca crunden; image shows a dark planet in purple lighting, a moon in the background, volcano canyons below

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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 9h

‘Eventually’ instead of ‘Ultimate’ for today.

From ‘The Big Feat’.

#WiPSnips

(If someone that *is* showing on tag searches could quote post this with the WiPSnips tag, I would be grateful. It only needs one. Thank you!☺️)

Through cavernous rooms and twisting corridors, dark backways used mostly by servants and the like, the man led Murple a heady path, but she took note and knew exactly where she was. Long ago she had memorised the layout of the Palace, just in case. It always paid to know where the exits were in any given place. Eventually, they returned to carpeted and furnished surroundings, the man bobbing his head in greeting to people that could very well be identical siblings, until they emerged right where Murple had surmised they would. Right outside the door of the most powerful man in Bruta(1).

It seemed she had an appointment with the current leader of the Rhug Party, member for the Borough of Vaneintern, First Counsel of the Partliment of the Kingdom of Bruta, and they were usually the biggest scoundrels of them all.

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G. Lawrence 📚💙📚💙📚 @glawrence.bsky.social · 10h

#NewRelease in #Audiobook!

Sent as a bride for the King of England, Anna of Cleves is thrown into a court of scandal and cutthroat politics

Only by her wits will she survive...

The Swan Maiden

#Histfic #Tudor #audiobooks www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FJZZVCT...

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Ellie Lieberman @ellielieberman.bsky.social · 9h

She wondered before what the King's ultimate goal was. Now, it came crashing over her.
This wasn't the 1st time survival & safety became twisted by the King. Nothing was black & white when he was around & somehow he even made love a tainted thing.
#WIPSnips

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJWSGDTL/

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Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · 1d

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober
What do your MC and villain think of each other?

The villain of Queen of Thorns is the Human society that wants to destroy the Exile Forest. Canin and everyone who lives there doesn't like that one bit.

@chesneyinfalt.bsky.social
@lvrussell.bsky.social

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Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · 1d

Here are my covers!

Book covers in a pentagon.
Talia:Heir to the Fairy Realm, Talia:On the Shore of the Sea Fairy Court in Exile, Mother of Exiles, and Queen of Thorns.

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M. Walsh - Author @m-walshwrites.com · 1d

#amwriting #WIPsnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

“Lockhart,” Troa said. “Please tell me you didn’t strike a bargain with this woman.”
He’d phrased his summary of the encounter as delicately as he could—careful to emphasize he’d made no deal or commitment—yet he wasn’t surprised their initial reaction was scolding and distress. Troa in particular looked near the end of his rope. It used to be Deck who pushed him like that.

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A.J. Calvin @ajcalvin.bsky.social · 1d

GIVEAWAY ALERT
There are 5 book birthdays for Willow Wraith Press in October, and this is your chance to win all 5

Help @dlawsonauthor.bsky.social, @nickawrites.bsky.social, @poppyalexanders.bsky.social, @authornickbetts.bsky.social and me celebrate. Follow the instructions for your chance to win!

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Pixies a/k/a Map Nerd @mcburnellauthor.bsky.social · 19h

Since Mairid is a very high-profile authority-figure, he would have a blue-check account maintained by his mages: 'upcoming events!' 'how to contact the secter' 'if you live in the coastal region, be on HIGH ALERT for-'.
And I can absolutely see him making a bunch of dummy accounts to manipulate

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 1d

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 3d

I swear I’m just going to start a monthly goal on kofi with the way things have been lately.

Anyway, short on funds for bills after not being able to catch up last month.

Internet: $60
Electric: $40
Water: $60
Other: $200

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 1d

Short on funds this month and could really use some help.

0/360

Anything helps!!

#helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 #mutualaid #maboost #disabled 💸💕

Disability Crowdfunding.
Internet: $60.
Electric: $40.
Water: $60 (due on the 15th).
Other: $200.

Venmo: bevmichele
PayPal: bevmichele
Kofi: beverlyannemichel

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 19h

Please support my dear friend Adham and his family 💜 Donate and share to help them start their lives over 🙏

Adv Adham Madi 🍉🇵🇸 @mr-adham.bsky.social · 1d

A final appeal...

Rafah crossing will open soon. We only dream of safety and of leaving this endless suffering behind.

Your help could be our last chance to live, not just survive. Please, don't let this be the end..

Donate now as much as you can and Share please. ❤️🫂👇🏼
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Ellie Lieberman @ellielieberman.bsky.social · 19h

I feel like Robyn in A Dance of Bow & Blade would use social media to troll the sheriff, share things like her friends' stuff, Allie's music & Franka's tavern, & other people's mutual aid funds. I could also see her pebbling the other outlaws or tagging them in posts they'd like.
#AwesomeCharacters

Charlie Delta (has been a ghost this whole time! 👻) @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

For the sake of this hypothetical, your characters have social media in their world.

Do they use it? What kind of things are they posting about? Pictures, video, or text? What do they have as a profile pic?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Prof Emily but Spoopier Now @professoremily.bsky.social · 19h

#AwesomeCharacters

Gonna use my CollegeAU versions of Mimi & Kena for this one.

Mireia's on social media, profile pic is her doing something athletic, or maybe holding a surfboard on the beach. She changes it like once a month though. She's constantly posting whatever random thoughts and hot takes

Charlie Delta (has been a ghost this whole time! 👻) @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

For the sake of this hypothetical, your characters have social media in their world.

Do they use it? What kind of things are they posting about? Pictures, video, or text? What do they have as a profile pic?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Joharra Harper @joharraharper.bsky.social · 19h

Day 13. Spooky Shelfie.

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Joharra Harper @joharraharper.bsky.social · 19h

Day 13. What people would be indigenous to where your story takes place?

Callista would be in the Mortal Realm.

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Joharra Harper @joharraharper.bsky.social · 19h

Day 13. Goals Day.

I hope to finish my underworld story this week.

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Joharra Harper @joharraharper.bsky.social · 19h

PLEASE HELP! We are low on food and starving and could use some money. Anything will help! ko-fi.com/joharraharpe...

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Ellie Lieberman @ellielieberman.bsky.social · 19h

I also had a little card I'd use well into my teens that my mother made me, along with a whole spiel of why a card to avoid being shamed for having anxiety and a bad memory.

Ellie Lieberman @ellielieberman.bsky.social · 19h

Some of us who were horrible at rote memory used mnemonic devices, like turning it into a song when we were little. And now about 20 years later, checking out at the grocery store, I sometimes accidentally put the phone number from when I was 6 or 10.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 23h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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Ellie Lieberman @ellielieberman.bsky.social · 19h

Some of us who were horrible at rote memory used mnemonic devices, like turning it into a song when we were little. And now about 20 years later, checking out at the grocery store, I sometimes accidentally put the phone number from when I was 6 or 10.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 23h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 19h

Want a fast and easy way to make your Indigenous Peoples Day impactful for years to come?

I made this list of 100+ Indigenous Voices who post daily about our lives, our truths, and our fight. Easily auto-follow all 🪶

Come honor these beautiful Native voices!

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Charlie Delta (has been a ghost this whole time! 👻) @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 20h

Fox made an account once, but has never posted. She sometimes lurks. Her profile picture is the default image because she never changed it.

Av'ry posts a lot of selfies and landscape shots of the (non-secret) places they visit. His pfp is a carefully selected picture of himself.

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Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo @sayaashrah.bsky.social · 19h

#AwesomeCharacters Ashrah mostly posts photos of places she visits, stuff she eats (lots of stroberi), and Askaly's paintings. Her profile pic is something like in the screenshot below.

Nitara follows a bunch of artists and reposts more than posts, though she likes sharing her own art (1/5)

A selfie-style screenshot of Ashrah as she stands before a wall of red plants, a sort of not-very-smiley smile on her face (she doesn't like smiling for photos).

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