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W. A. Whipple @wawhipple.bsky.social · 16h

Hey #Romancelandia? I am losing my mind trying to find a book I saw online a month or so ago and now can't relocate. It was about a barista (possibly café owner) spiking the MMC's coffee with something spicy to see if he could take the heat. If you have clues about this book, it's appreciated! TIA!!

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16h

As a gym girlie… 😬😬😬

Alex Knapp @thealexknapp.bsky.social · 16h

Consumer Reports finds that some protein shakes and powders contain extremely high levels of lead.

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Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

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Kai Zeal 🐱📘🔮 | Author of Riyati @kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com · 17h

Hey you. Yes you. Do you want some traumatized teenagers in your life? Well have I got the book for you, fresh to your ereader on Nov 14th and ready for pre-order!

Direct: riyati.ink/store
itch: riyati.ink/itch
Other retailers: riyati.ink/ripple

📚📢📚💙 🌈📚🌎 🪐📚⚔️🌈🚀 #queerAdultSFF #QueerSFF

Header text that reads, “Every act of defiance steers you into the person you were always been meant to become.”

A 3d mockup of an ereader with Riyati Ripple’s cover is on the left. On the right, the following bullets are listed:
Third book in series
Dark Fantasy
Contemporary & low fantasy with urban fantasy elements
Buffy x Persona 4 Vibes
1st Person & Multi PoV
Classism & effects of generational poverty
Demi, ND fMC
Found Family
Reincarnations
Intricate Elemental Magic
Childhood Friends Slow Burn
97k words (~320 pages)

Retailers Logos for the itch.io, ko-fi, Campfire, Payhip, Apple Books, Kobo, Smashwords, Google Play Books, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon Kindle are listed. Underneath says "+ more @ riyati.ink/ripple"

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I just needed the damn piece of paper. That’s all that mattered. I could do this, would do this. Yet despite telling myself that more than once in the past few weeks, I still wondered if this had been nothing but a massive mistake. I pulled my jacket tighter around myself. Outside was like a humid swamp hell, but they must’ve had the AC running full blast inside. It worked for the best since I preferred long sleeves, but outside of work, I hadn’t been in an AC’ed environment in weeks now — nearing a month. It brought me back to the question I’d asked myself so many times now: how was I going to do this?

Just as predictably, there was only one answer as well: it didn’t matter; I had no other option.
-Maya

On the bottom left, there is a picture of a teenage girl with dark brown hair and light emerald eyes pensively looking to the side. To her right, retailer logos are listed as follows: itch.io, ko-fi, Campfire, Payhip, Apple Books, Smashwords, Google Play Books, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon Kindle. A plus sign with “more @ riyati.ink/ripple” is under the retailer logos.

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Mom had been an anxious wreck, as bad as when I’d come back from being kidnapped by Asuza. But unlike then, there was no Sia to block emotions; I knew how terrified and exhausted she felt, how she cried when she didn’t think I was awake to hear.

If I’d just died back then, she could’ve moved on, not be put through this again and again.

Instead, all I could do was lie in bed, barely able to go to the bathroom without her trying to help me. Really, it was worse than after I’d been kidnapped because I couldn’t even sit at my desk to work on stuff and had no Sia to talk to, only my thoughts that never stopped anymore. Exercising was definitely off the table with my actually non-existent injuries, something further destroying any sense of normalcy I might’ve had. Mom had requested emergency leave, had groceries delivered in, never left. How much stress had I put on her? How many lives had been destroyed because of me? I’d finally managed to sneak my spell book into bed with me, hidden it to my right, underneath my comforter. But after having it beside me, I lost any drive to actually skim through it despite knowing I needed to figure out what that “anti-magic” thing was. Another sign of disrespect to those that’d died and suffered because of me.
-Kylie

On the bottom left, there is a picture of a teenage girl with reddish-brown hair and teal eyes anxiously looking at the viewer. To her right, retailer logos are listed as follows: itch.io, ko-fi, Campfire, Payhip, Apple Books, Smashwords, Google Play Books, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon Kindle. A plus sign with “more @ riyati.ink/ripple” is under the retailer logos.

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Shayne Nicholai - Indie Poet @shaynenicholai.bsky.social · 21h

aaayyyyyyyyy I got my first smashwords sales! Progress, not perfection! If you REALLY wanna rock my world, write a review or send me feedback - Now available on my Linktree! My favorites will get call outs on here 💚

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#poetsky#reviews#queer#indiepoet

Shayne Nicholai | Facebook | Linktree

Shayne is a queer, disabled poet and songwriter residing in MD with his husband.

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Katta Kis (she/her) @kattakis.bsky.social · 1d

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 1d

Three hours. Come on guys can we get just two more sales on this bundle to push it to a nice round ten?

63 books for just $38 is a screaming deal.

(I feel like one of those fast-talking auctioneers here 😂 )

💙📚🪐 | #BookSky | 📦📚

Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 1d

It is the last day and the last chance to grab this awesome Itch-io bundle of 63 hidden gems for just $38.

It would be great if this bundle hit its goal! 🙏🏻

itch.io/b/3305/under...

📢📚🪐 | #BookSky | 📦📚

Graphic that reads "Itch.io Under-Rated Bundle, Oct 9th-13th, Bringing attention to the best books you've never heard of." Text is brown on an off-white background with five yellow stars bordering it above and below. Around the text box are the following book covers: Predators by H.S. Kallinger, Zinmages by M.C. Burnell, The Spider's Friend by M.C. Burnell, Disappearance and Other Short Stories by PD Loupee, Memories of Sorcery and Sand by Joanna Maciejewska, Kranlian Rendezvous by Simon Wolfe, The Shadow of Arcadia by Alan K. Dell, Devil Deal by Janina Franck, The God Sun by Alan K. Dell, Water's Edge by Ellie Lieberman, The Third People by Lee Burton, The Crimson Knight by Zeta K. Pierce, The Lion by Lee Burton, Adventures In GameWorld : Game Start by Robert Rumery, All Through the House and Other Tales from a Random Place by Joachim Heijndermans, Soft Reboot by Joachim Heijndermans, Blue by Niranjan, Wizard's Debt by Niranjan, Ambushed by Natasha O'Connor, At First Belonging by Rob

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Katta Kis (she/her) @kattakis.bsky.social · 1d

Just finished writing my newsletter for Friday. Some really big news for my third book, No Love in LA! Cover and date reveal, along with ARC sign ups and more coming to my subscribers first 🥳 Very exciting!

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Katie L. Carroll @katielcarroll.com · 1d

Last day to get a great deal on these under-rated stories! Over 60 books for less than $40!

➡️ itch.io/b/3305/under...

💙📚📦💸📢📣 #readersky #indiebooks #indieauthors #readingcommunity

Under-Rated Books by T.C. Smith and 42 others

Under-Rated Books: 63 items for $38.00

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 1d

It is the last day and the last chance to grab this awesome Itch-io bundle of 63 hidden gems for just $38.

It would be great if this bundle hit its goal! 🙏🏻

itch.io/b/3305/under...

📢📚🪐 | #BookSky | 📦📚

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Chief (T.C. Smith) || comms open! @chiefwritesbook.bsky.social · 1d

Last chance to grab this! Go forth and support my fellow indies 🔥

#BookSky 📦📚

Chief (T.C. Smith) || comms open! @chiefwritesbook.bsky.social · 5d

We all like indie books here yeah? Good news! We have a mega bundle of relatively unknown indie books that deserve more readers! You can get the whole thing for just $38:

itch.io/b/3305/under...

#BookSky 🩵📚 📢📚 📦📚

A graphic featuring some of the books in the under-rated books bundle, surrounding some text in the middle. Text reads: "itch.io under-rated bundle. oct 9th to 13th. bringing attention to the best books you've never heard of." two rows of five stars can be seen above and below the text.

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A.M. Weald - buy Fimbulvinter's Fires ❤️‍🔥 @amweald.com · 1d

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Chief (T.C. Smith) || comms open! @chiefwritesbook.bsky.social · 5d

We all like indie books here yeah? Good news! We have a mega bundle of relatively unknown indie books that deserve more readers! You can get the whole thing for just $38:

itch.io/b/3305/under...

#BookSky 🩵📚 📢📚 📦📚

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Professor Mitchell @professormitchell.bsky.social · 2d

So many hidden gems, so little time...

There's only 24 hours left on this ebook bundle sale, so if you want to get in on this deal, now is the time! It's got over 60 stories for under $40, including fantasy, science fiction, and more. Don't miss out!

itch.io/b/3305/under...

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 4d

There's still a couple of days left to grab the Underrated Bundle. 63 books for $38 is not a deal to sniff at.

Come and help these books move from "underrated" to just plain "rated"

itch.io/b/3305/under...

📢📚🪐 | #BookSky | 📦📚

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Kelly Fitzpatrick @wastedwings.bsky.social · 3d

Looking for book recs or things you've found helpful on treating autistic burnout.

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GOD @iamgodsoareyou.bsky.social · 2d

Does anyone have any book recommendations on the
Black Liberation Army?

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Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca · 6d

Preorder the ebook, paperback, or hardback of The First Sin!
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✨ SWAG ALERT ✨
Preorder to receive free swag! Just provide a copy of your proof of purchase in the form below. Open to readers worldwide.
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📚🩵 🪐📚 #bsnm #scifi #scifinovels #indieauthor

A mockup of The First Sin by Cheyenne Brammah.

In the sweeping expanse of the Årdrakin Empire, the people fight and die for honor as elite warriors of the galaxy. But long ago, a prophecy was spoken that presaged the apocalypse. Everyone knows and fears the truth: one day, the empire will fall.

Tårik is a guard for small, independent Clan Tsinna. Instead of pondering the end of his civilization, Tårik’s greatest concern is maintaining his honor while escorting a group of impertinent dignitaries across the treacherous Barren Gale. When the Mother Goddess speaks a passage from the prophecy to him, he has the good sense to be frightened, but he doesn’t heed the significance of Her visit.

Then disaster strikes, and Tårik is branded as an exile, leaving him with no home, no honor, and no future. Forced into a desperate struggle for survival, all Tårik can focus on is living just one more day until luck—or maybe fate—gives him the opportunity to join a new clan. But even this is fraught with danger and uncertainty, and it takes him to an inhospitable world far from the empire where survival seems all but impossible.

Faced with new challenges, including trying to navigate first contact with the low-tech locals, Tårik believes the prophecy can’t reach him. Yet it continues to loom, signaling that his fate and the fate of the empire are irrevocably entwined.

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Katta Kis (she/her) @kattakis.bsky.social · 3d

Ends soon so grab it while you can!

Katta Kis (she/her) @kattakis.bsky.social · 6d

Want to be one of the first fans of some great indie books? Check out this bundle on itch! Includes books from a wide selection of genres including my Pagans & Pop Stars contemporary angsty romances, Love in the Liner Notes & Love at the Rock Show.

📚💙🌈🌶️📢📦♿♾️

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A collage of book covers from the bundle. Text says: Itch.io Under-rated Bundle. Oct 9 thru 13th Bringing your attention to the best books you've never heard of

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bunny 🍬 @bunnilunar.bsky.social · 4d

Does anyone have any fantasy book recommendations that include faeries ? Nothing YA and nothing SJM @_@ I will also take historical fantasy settings, especially medieval ( not GRRM I want to hit him with hammers 🤍 )

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Katta Kis (she/her) @kattakis.bsky.social · 4d

Nettle & Bone-T. Kingfisher, Spinning Silver-Naomi Novik, Borderline-Mishell Baker, Half a Soul-Olivia Atwater, Trailer Park Fae-Lilith Saintcrow

With the caveat that I read some of these many years ago and am not sure how they aged :]

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H.S. Kallinger (he/they) @xakana.bsky.social · 5d

HERE'S THE THING I HALLUCINATED FOR HOURS. IS VERY GAY (no, gayer). PLEASE GIVE MONEY. I HOPE IT MAKES YOU CRY. 🎉🔥

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Book cover set against space with colored glows behind, blue to the left, and pink to the right. A Demon to Save Me by H.S. Kallinger. Title letters are rendered in fire inside a blood circle, with a bloody pentagram drawn with a finger on a hardwood floor. Some blood is scattered around it. A pair of amber eyes with thick, black eyelashes are just visible on the floor above the circle. Rainbow circles fade in and out around the image. Author name is in pink, blue, and white in the lower right corner. In white lettering at the top is "Book One of the Found Humanity series"

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Claris Lam @clarislamauthor.bsky.social · 5d

Looking for some new books to read this weekend? 📚 Check out the "Under-Rated" Bundle on Itch.io! Get 60+ books for only $38 USD!

Sale ends Oct. 13th. 🛒 📖 itch.io/b/3305/under...

#booksky #writesky #bookrecs #readers #readingcommunity #sale

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Professor Mitchell @professormitchell.bsky.social · 4d

Here's a reminder that this weekend you can supplement your reading list with the hidden gems in this bundle. There's over 60 stories to enjoy, including science fiction, fantasy, and more, so don't miss out.

itch.io/b/3305/under...

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Professor Mitchell @professormitchell.bsky.social · 4d

The sins of the fathers...

...are now in paperback. ;)

The Elefae Champion, Book Two of Heirs of Hyarch, is now available in physical form through Barnes & Noble! Coming to other storefronts soon!

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-elefae...

#fantasy #writing #book

The Elefae Champion (Heirs of Hyarch, #2)|Paperback

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Katta Kis (she/her) @kattakis.bsky.social · 4d

Yay! So glad to hear it! Happy listening :]

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Rakeela Windrider @rakeela.bsky.social · 5d

I'm really impressed with Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent. It has a lot of good points. Can people give me more very leftist book recommendations with which I can persecute the voices in my head?

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