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Coastal Kate
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My latest Flash of Strangeness is now live - I give you Rosemary Lane - a flash piece that I hope you enjoy

Rosemary Lane is a real place - an ancient Holloway near the village where I grew up - not dissimilar to the one in the photo which near where I live now

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A frozen world. A besieged city. A hidden diary.

Oskar takes up arms to fight alongside his friends.

But there is another way for him to save the city –

The key to the future is a book from the past. #SciFiPit #A #PA #Cli #Spub #sfpit
They tried to save the world, but only made things worse. Now it is up to Oskar, and the words written in a diary, hidden in the library nearly 200 years ago that tell of what happened and why the world froze.

The key to the future is a book from the past.
#SciFiPit #A #PA #Cli #spub #sfpit
The world has frozen. Oskar must take up arms to help defend the city.

But perhaps fighting isn’t the only way – for Oskar has found an old diary, hidden in the city library -

The key to the future is a book from the past

. #SciFiPit #A #PA #Cli #spub #sfpit
A roundup of what I’ve been reading recently. Have you read any of these? What did you think?
And I’m in!!! Can’t wait to see all the other entries!!! I’ve found some amazing SF to read through this competition ❤️❤️
Is it? Now that is disappointing. Just looked and I can’t see any links to their review site which I would expect if they were real. So I think you’re right 🙁
Thank you. And thank you for the repost 😁
If you fancy joining the judging team now is your chance!
With the fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) taking book entries next month, we're looking for a few good volunteers to join us as judges:

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More than a few, actually. #SPSFC
All you amazing people who picked up a copy of Permafrost last week, firstly I hope you enjoy it 😁 and second if you can spare a moment do leave a review 📚📚❤️❤️
How interesting and timely is this - geoengineering gone wrong is a theme of both my CliFi novels Permafrost and The Arid Lands but both present very different, in fact almost opposite, outcomes!

Protect Arctic from 'dangerous' climate engineering, scientists warn www.bbc.com/news/article...
Protect Arctic from 'dangerous' climate engineering, scientists warn
Controversial approaches to cooling the planet are unlikely to work, according to dozens of polar scientists.
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There’s another book sale taking place this week and two of mine are in it! I’ve just been scrolling through the titles and oh so tempted to go a bit wild!!

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Keep an eye out for this one!
Dear friends, writers, #agents, interstellar travelers, interdimensional aliens, and otherwise paradoxical time hoppers!

We would like to invite you to set your favorite time-traveling device to October 21st, 2025, for the pitch event dedicated to Science Fiction, #SFPit! 🧵
Final day of the Narratess sale and you can still find over 300 amazing books either free or at reduced prices!

If you like exploring possible futures and distant lands then The Arid Lands, a conspiracy thriller set 600 years from now, might be the book for you! Do check it out - indiebook.sale
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If you're looking for more Narratess #IndieSale books, check out Riyati Rebirth-- persona 4 x buffy-vibed, complete with generational trauma, examining the effects of classism, and a bunch of snark (and angst, and more trauma)

Direct 🔗 riyati.ink/store

📚📢📚💙 🌈📚🌎 🪐📚⚔️🌈🚀 #queerAdultSFF #QueerSFF
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Who doesn't want to watch a pristine, elegant man get in his first ever bar fight?! Trying to figure out how to be a normal person is a work in progress for this ancient hero....

spice + romance + MM + fantasy
🌶️📚 🌈📚
indiebook.sale
jeremyrayne.itch.io/how-to-sooth...
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quick!! go grab my fantasy novel in the big indie sale!! 🎉

it's 400+ pages and features protective siblings and an unexpectedly caring vampire and demon. 🥹

universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5
itchio: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and...
book sale general link: indiebook.sale
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The Narratess indie book sale continues! SO MANY BOOKS SO LITTLE TIME. You can get The Warm Machine ebook for JUST $1.99 *right now*! Order here at your retailer of choice: www.thewarmmachine.com#order

#BookSky 💙📚🪐 #Scifi #Narratess2025 #Robots
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Kotov Syndrome is part of the #Narratess indie sale. You can find over 300 books on indiebook.sale, all ranging from free to $1.99. Plus there are tons of bundles on Itch you can grab like the two below.

Mid length novels: itch.io/b/3245/narra...

Scifi books: itch.io/b/3241/narra...

More links ⬇️
Day 2 of the Narratess sale is well underway. I often think SciFi gets a bit overlooked in these events which tend to be quite fantasy heavy. But there are some great SF books to choose from over at indiebook.sale including The Arid Lands if you like a future set conspiracy 😎
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Want to know what it's like to feel lies and hear feelings? Start your adventure in THE TIPPING WORLD for just .99

A Path of Endless Crossroads and 300+ SFFH books at indiebook.sale

Or find it with friends in a fantasy bundle at mcburnell.itch.io/a-path-of-en...
#fantasy #sale #ebook