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A.S. Miyasaki

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🪐💫Author of Moon, Have Mercy (Farodun Down Book 1)🚀✨ writing, art, music, maybe some fiber art, physics, mom of 2 she/her #booktok asmiyasaki.com #booksky

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A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · Feb 9

Looking for something to do other than watch the #Superbowl? You could pick up an indie #sciencefiction novel about a kid on a distant moon trying to find his way in an indifferent and often dangerous universe. Moon, Have Mercy is available wherever books are sold, and Kindle/KU! #booksky

A promotional mock up featuring the Moon, Have Mercy front cover (a boy sits on the ground in the dark looking up at a few moon beams) overlaid on an image of an alien moon with a gas giant just visible through the atmosphere. The text says “Follow Farodun as he finds his way,“ “Available in print everywhere,” and “ e-book on Kindle/KU.”

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A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · 1d

Surely!! 🩶🩶🩶

A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · 1d

I am starting to repost my write-ups for indie books on my website! Here is the first one: Grave Hounds by @solfevers.bsky.social

#booksky #indiebooks #bookrecommendations #bookreview #indieauthors #cozyparanormal #cozyfantasy #cozy #cozyhorror

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Reading Journal: Grave Hounds by Sol F. Evers

Reposted: October 13, 2025Originally Posted: December 13, 2024 Grave Hounds by Sol F. Evers was an atmospheric and melancholic read, deliberately ambiguous in just about every direction. If there w…

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A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · 3d

Fellow indie author Katharine E. Wibell was kind enough to invite me to chat on live with her about writing and books a couple weeks back! The video of the live is up now— check it out if you’re interested!

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Interview with Katharine E. Wibell

October 11, 2025 Hello there Website!Fellow indie author Katharine E. Wibell was kind enough to invite me to do an hour-long live stream interview with her on September 30, 2025! We discussed writi…

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A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · 5d

Title: Fate’s Tether
Author: Jade Nioma
Publisher: Self Published
Pages: 448
Started: 6/19/2025
Finished: 8/25/2025
Chili Peppers: ~🌶️🌶️
Recommend: Yes

A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · 5d

Very belated book report/review for Fate’s Tether by ‪@AuthorJadeNioma.bsky.social‬ ! I finished this book back in August but i just haven’t been posting much, so I am sorry about the delay, Jade!

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Book Report/Review for Fate’s Tether by Jade Nioma

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A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · 14d

If you would like to have me read a line completely out of context from Moon, Have Mercy, just call out a number between 1 and 420! ☺️

A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · 14d

Pick-a-page for Moon, Have Mercy: p. 121, and some updates! Thanks to ⏰ user sagebloomcloud for the page suggestion!! #booksky #Indiebooks #moonhavemercy #farodundown #meettheauthor #booktok #amreading #sciencefiction #excerpt #meettheauthor

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A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · 21d

For whatever it’s worth, I’ve updated my website lmao

now there’s a blog and I added alt text to all the book art.

Ha remember when I was just back into the socials to promote my fun little scifi novel? Ha ha I remember… ha… ha …

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#booksky #sciencefiction #indieauthor

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A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · Aug 25

Pick-a-Page! Moon, Have Mercy: p. 222 and 5 interesting things about me! Thanks for the page suggestion Armando’s Reads (⏰: armandoriverabackup) ! I tag anybody who wants to do this tag— lemme hear about your interesting things!

#moonhavemercy #pickapage #farodundown #scifi #booksky #indiebooks

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A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · Aug 15

#drawing #indieauthorsofinstagram #bookart #farodundown #moonhavemercy #booktok #indiebooks #bookart #sciencefiction #indieauthor #drawwithme #humanart #spacewestern #booksta #bookstagram #makeart #characterart #booktube #bookish #art #indieauthors #scifi #booksky

A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · Aug 15

Also, thanks @alexkachan.bsky.social for hipping me to Stackhouse— they are awesome and so are you!

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A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · Aug 15

Z, thank you again, so much! I hope you enjoy the drawing as much as I enjoyed drawing it! And I know you’re on break right now but I hope it’s fun to see this fun little BTS ☺️ much love and talk soon! 🩶🩶🩶

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Draw With Me! Moon, Have Mercy: Chapter 1

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A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · Aug 2

Oh I freakin forgot lmao: #booksky #scifi

A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · Aug 2

Oh okay so Skylight automatically crossposts to this timeline the way IG does to threads— I feel like I knew that once and forgot 😅

A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · Aug 2

Pick-a-Page! Moon, Have Mercy: pages 99 and 258 (I’ll be getting the backlog up eventually 😅) Thanks mikelmelwasul.bsky.social & lyndsayconstable.bsky.social for the suggestions!

If YOU’D like to pick-a-page, call out a number between 1 & 420! I’ll flip to that page and read a line for you!

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A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · Jul 17

bananacles

you know it occurs to me now Banana-CLEES would’ve been better but that’s not how I (mis)read it lol

#art #digialart #cartoon #silly

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · Jun 14

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · May 28

The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 28

Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."

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A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · May 30

Aaaah! So glad you got it okay! I hope you enjoy Farodun’s story!

joannakp.bsky.social @joannakp.bsky.social · May 30

The best kind of surprise just arrived! How gorgeous is this?? I've heard the best things about Moon Have Mercy by @asmiyasaki.bsky.social. Thank you, @alexkachan.bsky.social! I'm digging in now.

A paperback copy of Moon Have Mercy by A.C. Miyasaki, two Moon Have Mercy bookmarks with the author's art and a Reading List bookmark, three stickers, one an astronaut with an umbrella in the rain, the other two depict characters from the book, a "Happy Reading and all the best" note from the author, displayed on night-sky black and gold tissue paper.

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No Context Spider-Man @nocontextspiderman.bsky.social · Apr 12

Spider-Man swings on a web line with his fists clenched. Behind him a plane flies through dark smoke.

Panel from Secret Empire #9 (2017)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Apr 10

Today would be a great day to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Apr 11

The New York Times can’t stop doing puff pieces on fascists.

She’s Young, Trump-Friendly, and Has a White House Press Pass

Natalie Winters, a protégée of Stephen Bannon, belongs to a newly high-profile contingent of West Wing reporters.

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James Brooks Cascade @alaska.bsky.social · Apr 9

This seems a bit dystopian: azmirror.com/2025/04/08/i...

ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: 'Prime, but with human beings'

ICE officials describe Amazon-style deportation system at Border Expo, seeking private contractors to implement mass removal operations

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A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · Apr 8

lol, lmao

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Elon Musk Rage Quits Gaming Livestream After Repeatedly Dying, Gets Mercilessly Mocked by Viewers

During a livestream of himself playing the free-to-play action RPG Path of Exile 2, Elon Musk was ruthlessly bullied by other players.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Apr 7

If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.

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