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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 6d

Belated day 24: #FantasyIndiesSpooktober
Halloween isn't a big deal for most of Australia, but I'm going to put on a witch hat and leave the light on in case our neighbours bring around their little ones. I even picked up some glow in the dark chocolates (the package glows, not the food).

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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 7d

Day 23: #FantasyIndiesSpooktober
If we're talking modern day? The boy would probably want to dress up as something brave and popular with all the other kids. He's a pretty normal little boy, and all. I think he'd like to go as a knight or a superhero, maybe.

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 9d

Behold the covers of books 1 and 2 of THE SHADOW SAGA reissue. @cgolden.bsky.social's landmark horror-fantasy series is coming to Bad Hand starting in 2026, with new trade-paperback editions. Art by @summerray.bsky.social. Layout by @toddkeisling.com.

Pre-order: badhandbooks.com/preorders/th...

The covers of Of Saints and Shadows and Angel Souls and Devil Hearts feature a carnival mask and a fanged skull wearing a crown.

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Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social · 9d

PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is out today!

This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic.

In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook

Available wherever books are sold.

#booksky #Blackbooksky

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Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 9d

Next House of Magic comes out this Sunday! And don’t forget, the first book, Hexing the Ex, is on sale on Amazon until then. If you like cozy urban fantasy, check it out.

www.amazon.com/dp/B08YWSKWKS

#booksale #urbanfantasy #booksky

Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 14d

“Saturday began with my new boyfriend disappearing in front of my eyes. Not a good start for the day, to be honest.”

Season to Be Witched comes out on October 26.
Az: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSKQ19D6
Others: books2read.com/u/mqLx91
Sample: www.susannashore.com/seasontobewiched.html

#preorder #booksky

Ad for Season to Be Witched by Susanna Shore.

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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 9d

Post something 90s ... 💛

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 9d

It's Asexual Awareness Week, so here's a reminder that we don't need permission to belong. You are right just the way you are, and communities are lucky to have you.

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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 9d

Well, that's not fucking terrifying, is it.

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Author Machelle Berglund 💛🤍💜🖤-Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 9d

There's an awesome, new follow reward for Fairy Seasons: A Sampler!

You get a nibble of what the hubbub is all about! There's a bit of terror and a bit of delight. Should be some cackles, too.

#BookBazaar25 #BookSky #IndieAuthor #Writing #AmWriting #Fairy #WritingCommunity

Ready Your Wings for Fairy Seasons

From Machelle Berglund - Ready Your Wings for Fairy Seasons

www.backerkit.com

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lou-ellen @louceph.com · 9d

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 9d

Days 21 and 22: Not tagging
Man, I am a mess this month on keeping up with prompts. I've got nothing for either of these, so I'll be just skipping tra-la-la along back to what I was doing for now. Will poke into the hashtag later to have a read of everyone else's responses.

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Author Machelle Berglund 💛🤍💜🖤-Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 10d

Let's learn about each other like we were 10 years old.

Favourite Colour: Green, Purple, & Gold
Favourite Dinosaur: Liopleurodon probably, but quite a few
Favourite Sweet: Lemon Bars and any variation of them
Favourite Cartoon: This is a loaded question. But if I have to pick? Over the Garden Wall

Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 11d

Let's learn about each other like we were 10 years old.

Favourite Colour: Orange! 🧡
Favourite Dinosaur: Plesiosaur (it's a crime there's no emoji)
Favourite Sweet: Lemon drops 🍋
Favourite Cartoon: Sailor Moon 🌙

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 11d

Important message re. Amazon trying to get into libraries and the ethical compromise and censorship risk that involves. And what you can do to support your local library.

Note for indie authors: we can distribute our books to libraries via Draft to Digital (the best non-Amazon ebook option 😉).

Nellie Cubed @nelnelnellie.bsky.social · 11d

Amazon is trying to work its way further into libraries.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 11d

Is this my beautiful house? Is this my beautiful life?

Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 11d

Two books for spooky season:
COFFIN MOON, Keith Rosson: Best modern vampire story ever (although it's set in the 70s).
THE TWISTED ONES, by T. Kingfisher: It lures you in with chatty good humor (especially about NPR Pledge Week) and a lovely dog...then slams the door and bites you in the dark.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11d

I mean

Spiderman:You can rewrite DNA on the fly and you're using it to turn ppl into dinosaurs? You could cure cancer

Sauron: But I don't want to cure cancer.I want to turn ppl into dinosaurs

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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 11d

Day 20: #FantasyIndiesSpooktober
The Priestess is almost entirely grey. Probably greyer than the villains, who are mostly doing their job for a fat payout.

She acts for "the greater good", which means she may very well put a knife through somebody's eye if she decides it's for the best.

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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 11d

Let's learn about each other like we were 10 years old.

Favourite Colour: Orange! 🧡
Favourite Dinosaur: Plesiosaur (it's a crime there's no emoji)
Favourite Sweet: Lemon drops 🍋
Favourite Cartoon: Sailor Moon 🌙

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 11d

For Ace Week, you can browse 51 books with asexual main characters, and or by asexual authors here ♠️🌈📚 itch.io/b/3318/ace-p...

If you fancy half, you can pick up a bundle of
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The other 26 for $26 itch.io/b/3322/ace-p...

Or all 51 for $50 😄

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Ace Pride Week
itch.io mega bundle
Oct 19 - 25 | 50+ books for $50!
Book covers for the following books are listed top left to bottom right:
Non-player Character - Veo Corva
A Dragon’s Treasure - Elis Madsen
The Blood Divide - Zan Lowell
The Grand Duke’s Masseur
Child of the Forest - Audrey Simmons
Wherever the Stars Call - S. Jean
How Six Saved the Grogs - Blaine D. Arden
City of Strike - Claudie Arseneault
In Spite of the Inevitable - Morgan Biscup
Structural Integrity - Tabitha O’Connell
Of Spells and Love - Odessa Silver
Inarora’s Excursion - Astrid E. Abell
Puppetry - Nina Waters
Sidetracked - S. K. Kelley
Lost Blades - Liz Sauco
Claimed by the Undead - C. L. Carhart
The Star-Crossed Empire - Maya Darjani
Triple Strike Threads of Fate - G. M. Grey
Curse of Souls - Niranjan
Courtly Love - T. D. Cloud
Song of the Wolf - T. C. Smith
Blood - D. C. Hart
Chai and Cat-tales - Lynn Strong
The Thirteenth Key - Cara Nox
The Dragon Next Door - Vanessa Ricci-Thode
Walking the Knife’s Edge - Elise Carlson
Yours Celestically - Al Hess
Pet - H. S. Kallinger
The One He Brought Home - Skye Kilaen
Junk Junction - Sara Codair
Secondhand Origin Storie - Lee Brontido
Riyati Rebirth - Kai Zeal
Bridges of Smoke - Julie March
The Whisperer in White - Y. R. Liu
In the Eye of the Beholder - Beverly Anne Michel
Peace in the Sky - Caye Marsh
A Spark in Space - Janina Franck
Journey Home - May Barros
Doce Drosera - Anita
The Audacity - Carmen Loup
Bloody Space - Brittany M. Willows
Enemies to Enemies - Ash Kreider
Devil’s Deal - Tessa Hastjarjanto
Merchants of Knowledge and Magic - Erika McCorkle
A Life in Too Many Margins - S. E. Thomson
Where We Converge - A. E. Bross
Lantern - Burgundy Athena Pendragon
A Designer Magick - Fox N. Locke
The Harmony of Falling Snow - Andora Brohaw
The Thread That Binds - Cedar McCloud
Towers of Nine - Alyssa Louttit

All books by ace authors and/or ft. ace characters across a variety of genres!
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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 11d

Happy Ace Week fellow Asexuals!
Proudly agnostic-about-sex ace here. I respect that others experience sexual attraction, and or are convinced (under certain conditions) by the idea of sex. I personally am not 😉

You can keep up with ace posts on👇 & post on it using 💜🖤💚/ ace/ asexual/ ace labels

Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 16d

My Other Related Feeds

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A Book & Its Author @abookanditsauthor.bsky.social · 11d

Heads up! A new episode of A Book & Its Author is on its way this Thursday. Zeggy discusses & reads from their debut light novel, Infernulls: The Golden Letter. (Artwork by Ishida1694) @infernulls.bsky.social

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11d

Instead of asking, "how do we make NYT better" ask " how do we make it less relevant"

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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 11d

You haven't, you're fine. 😂

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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 11d

Oh no. New pet peeve unlocked. 🫠

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Dave of the Dead @aferaldavid.bsky.social · 12d

every day proves that we never should have stopped calling them weird

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 12d

The most unsettling thing about being a (minor) public figure is that people think I have to make sense as a person.

You're people, too. You know we don't make sense! I am your brother in the struggle against comprehensibility.

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