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Lauren Morrill @laurenmorrill.bsky.social · 3h

Indie authors being expected to divest from Amazon while NYT bestsellers and every major publisher play in their landscape feels very similar to how Exxon tells individual households to lower their thermostats in winter to save the environment

Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 7h

My three audiobooks are currently exclusive to Amazon/Audible, because laziness and higher royalties, but I'd like to distribute them more widely. Except every time I investigate other platforms, it's like "Google Play will use your audiobook to train their AI." NO.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 1h

Truly this is the “hold my beer” level of S-tier P&P retellings — took about three pages to get me from the classic “ugh, that horrible little Collins man” to “I would lay down my life for him”

Lee Welch @leewelchwriter.bsky.social · 14h

* audiobook giveaway * The audiobook of my m/m romance Pride and Prejudice retelling MR COLLINS IN LOVE is out today from Tantor Audio, read by the amazing Joel Leslie. To win a free Audible download code, repost this post and I'll pick a winner in about 12 hours.

www.amazon.com/Mr-Collins-L...

Audiobook cover of Mr Collins in Love by Lee Welch, read by Joel Leslie and published by RB Media. Cover is green, with ferns, white potato flowers and red raspberries, also a blackbird in flight and a horse and gig.

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 2h

Study

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Deb JJ Lee 🔜 Lightbox 112 @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 6h

[inktober day 15]

ink drawing on grid paper of a knight wearing a very ornate helmet

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Kate Draws 🌈✨️ @tacticiankate.bsky.social · 1d

HOWDY AND HELLO #PortfolioDay I'm Kate, a freelance character artist who loves drawing fantasy, women, and especially fantasy women!!!!
I'll be open for work at the start of November!! 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

A color illustration of a dragonkin/tiefling woman with deep blue skin, closed eyes, tall curved horns with a glowing crescent moon between them, and long wavy hair going from indigo at the top to pale gold at the ends. She is dressed in an indigo gown with lots of gold trim and accessories and sheer blue accent cloth. She is holding a large golden greatsword with blue roses and purple thorns around the guard. The background is an art nouveau-style circular graphic of gold celestial motifs on a black to maroon gradient.

A color illustration of a dragonkin/tiefling woman with teal skin, darker turquoise hair in a braid, closed eyes, and a long tail. She is dressed in layers of red, gold, green, and turquoise, and she is holding a wooden staff with a golden lantern hanging from the top. The background is an art nouveau-style panel of stylized grass, lotuses, and clouds on a sunset gradient.

A color illustration of a gorgon woman with light and darker green skin/scales, long dark green cobra hair separated by narrow horns, and a long tapered tail. She is dressed in a dark green bustier with gold trim and lots of accessories, and she is holding two crossed swords behind her head. The background is an art nouveau-style panel of thorns and ivy on a black to yellow gradient.

A color illustration of my changing moon Lunar oc, Emerald, from an exalted game. She is a middle-aged woman with fair skin, emerald-green eyes with striking red eyeshadow, and long iridescent black hair partly held up by a golden comb with the rest pulled over one shoulder. She is dressed in an elegant green gown with puffy sleeves and a boob window, lots of gold and green jewelry, and a translucent green and gold floaty scarf thingy. The background is a simple green gradient with a crescent moon behind her head.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 2h

Philipp Otto Runge’s Farbenkugel (1810). The top two images show the surface of the sphere, while the bottom two show horizontal and vertical cross sections.

From our selection of colour charts, wheels and tables through the centuries: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c...

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 3h

Although classified as carnivores, wolves may sometimes follow an omnivorous diet. They can eat meat, eggs and even fruit!

This time of year, pumpkins are a special treat for our ambassador wolves.🎃 #wolffact

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 4h

Introducing The Knightly Forecast. Support my Patreon for $4 CAD/month, and get a weekly dose of meditative fantasy microfiction in your inbox.

This series follows the changing seasons. The first is completely public and free to read, no signup required.

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Photo of fall trees awash in gold. Credit to Dan Senior on Unsplash.

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 4h

In case anyone would like to help make this self-indulgent dream a reality...!!

Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 4h

Introducing The Knightly Forecast. Support my Patreon for $4 CAD/month, and get a weekly dose of meditative fantasy microfiction in your inbox.

This series follows the changing seasons. The first is completely public and free to read, no signup required.

🍂 www.patreon.com/posts/early-...

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 4h

I posted this just as the server crashed! I'm sure that's a good omen. Everything is fine.

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 4h

Introducing The Knightly Forecast. Support my Patreon for $4 CAD/month, and get a weekly dose of meditative fantasy microfiction in your inbox.

This series follows the changing seasons. The first is completely public and free to read, no signup required.

🍂 www.patreon.com/posts/early-...

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✧ Pickle ✧ @thelowestpickle.bsky.social · 12h

hello #Portfolioday!

✧ i’m Pickle, illustrative artist & character designer in the United States - talents include drawing jewelry, cloth & beautiful people ✧

✧ i’m open for work in 2026 ✧
email 🌌 [email protected]
✧ follow me ✧
vgen 🧚 TheLowestPickle (@TheLowestPickle) | VGen

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 6h

The deadly mermaid is here! She is a little bored today, no one new to meet and greet in the sea and invite down to the depths with her💀

An illustration of a mermaid laying on her side with her back to us. She has pale hair and a red tail with dark pink skin. Her fins are translucent and can be seen to be so as they curl around her back. Around her are bones and skulls of humans. She rests her arm on a skull. The background is a plain light peachy pink

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 5h

THEY REALLY REALLY DO. I keep checking to see if anyone is saying anything about a recording, I want it SO badly. I was checking again literally yesterday!

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 5h

I AM INCANDESCENT WITH JEALOUSY !!!

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 6h

Nymph all but made of flowers, new heads blooming out from her hair and her skin, from under her dress, petals overlapping as they compete for sunlight

Absentmindedly deadheading flowers the way one might scratch an itch and leaving flower heads and petals falling to the floor in her wake

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 6h

Authors: I was just on the Ingram website checking on something and they have a big notice about that IngramSpark fraud that is going around (fraudulent links and asking for money from you to publish), so a reminder to make sure you are on the legit Ingram website before doing publishing business!

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 6h

There are some contemporary covers I really like! But that vintage painterly style is just fantastic. Iconic. I hope it comes back in fashion.

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 6h

It would be a beautiful life!

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 6h

Unironically it WOULD.

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 6h

For $500 a week I will write niche, unmarketable queer sff on an unpredictable schedule, beholden only to my own micro-obsessions at any given moment. It'll be glorious. Who's in.

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 7h

So much easier to buy a box of vintage sff secondhand than make my own from scratch. But the heart yearns.

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 7h

The problem with only wanting to work on weird little passion projects is that I need to find an equally weird renaissance-style patron of the arts to finance my entire life so I can afford it :')

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 7h

Everyone: I AM BOYCOTTING KINDLE

Me: cool, will you buy my books somewhere else at least?

*me looking at my sales report* Ah, I guess not.

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 7h

Once again distracted by wanting to write a string of sword & sorcery/sci fi style pulp stories but I'm starting to think that I just want a series of mass markets with those batshit 70s-80s illustrated covers on my shelf.

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