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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff"
@authorlevai.bsky.social
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She/her. PhD in Egyptology, now I write fiction. The Night Library of Sternendach is my novella in sonnets. The Glass Garden is space horror and family drama.
Will boost almost anything with a bat in it.
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · Aug 27
Hello to BlueSky and my new followers! Please check out my novellas:

THE NIGHT LIBRARY OF STERNENDACH is a bittersweet vampire opera in sonnets.

THE GLASS GARDEN is space horror.

Covers designed by @kglyder.bsky.social.
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My two book covers, against a starry background. STERNENDACH has red bat wings, a book, and fangs. THE GLASS GARDEN has a kaleidoscope image on it.
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Thank you! I would love to let more people know about my beautiful and immersive Hindu-inspired YA contemporary fantasies, STAR DAUGHTER, THE DREAM RUNNERS, and DIVINING THE LEAVES, as well as my adult Audible Original, INTO THE MOON GARDEN.

Find them all here: www.shvetathakrar.com/the-night-ma...
Star Daughter — Shveta Thakrar
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November 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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authorlevai.bsky.social
I chipped a molar on my morning granola, so I have to go to the dentist. 🦷⛏️

It would make me feel better if you checked out my books. They're perfect for this stressful time of year because they're short and exciting and have families bickering maybe even harder than yours.
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The poster's two novellas, available for purchase/library borrowing. THE GLASS GARDEN has a kaleidoscopic cover, THE NIGHT LIBRARY OF STERNENDACH: A VAMPIRE OPERA IN VERSE has batwings and a book against a starry sky. They books are resting on a lawn strewn with autumn leaves.
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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mikechenwriter.bsky.social
For Black Friday, I'm gonna give you all the ultimate bargain.

Thousands upon thousands of books (including mine!), shows, movies, music, and comics FOR FREE and ON DEMAND.

Seriously! It's FREE!

You just gotta sign up with your local library card. SUPER COOL right?
www.hoopladigital.com
hoopla digital: audiobooks, ebooks, movies, tv and comics.
hoopla is a groundbreaking digital media service offered by your local public library that allows you to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, eBooks, comics …
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November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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jchaplinsky.bsky.social
I’ve got a new short story up at Whiskey Tit Journal, first one in a while. Part Looney Tunes, part murder ballad.
whiskeytit.com/article/the-... @whiskeytit.com
The Ballad of Miss Mouse
Puddock went a-courtin’ and he did ride, like a shot across the plains, Miss Mouse thrown across the back of his horse, Uncle Rat’s gold jangling in his pocket. He dug in heels splashed with would-…
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November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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cjdaleywrites.bsky.social
Thanks Gabino! Tales From Cemetery dropped 10/7. A horror short story collection perfect for getting a little spooky!
books2read.com/u/br8AgE

My debut crime thriller, Welcome to Cemetery, is on KU too! Dropped 3/4

A little dark. A little spooky.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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sagetgreene.bsky.social
Thanks as always, Gabino! (Hope everyone who celebrated had a great Thanksgiving!)

All of my ebooks (and their original soundtracks) are on sale!

My brand new romantasy novella, my entire action/fantasy trilogy, even my real estate photography guide!
The covers for TOUCHED (BLACK and PINK Editions) by Sage T. Greene (Flowers and romantic font on a flowery background). 🌼 Cozy Vibes 🌈 Queer Rep 😌 A Cast to Root For 💕 3 Couples: 🕯️ Slow-burn 🔥 Fast-burn 💓 Already- burning 🤫 Secret Relationships 👨‍👨‍👦 Family Dynamics 💐 Flowers ✌️ 2 Versions: 🧼 Clean 💋 Erotic The covers and mood boards for the ETHERI Trilogy by Sage T. Greene (ETHERI, ALIVE, SAPPHIRE. Hands reaching out over galaxy backgrounds). Mood boards include people in fighting stances, magic, scenic locations (like a forest and a desert). ✨ New Adult Action Fantasy ♀️ FMC 😮 Reluctant Protagonist 🌌 Mana 💥 Combat 💬 Banter 🤝 Test of Loyalty 😰 Anxiety Rep 💔 Loss, Grief, Revenge 🧠 Mind Reading 🐺 Animal Companions 💪 Gathering the Team 📚 Trilogy
November 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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douglas.generationmars.space
Thanks, Gabino!

Book Four of my Generation Mars series comes out Monday (Kindle version currently available for preorder). To celebrate, I'm making the third book available for free on Kindle through Monday.

a.co/d/ahDT8bV
November 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
authorlevai.bsky.social
I know it's Black Friday, and I know times is hard.

I've updated my wishlist a little, so here I share it with you.
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All I Want For Christmas (or, free gifts for the writer in your life)
A picture of a Christmas tree in front of a bookcase. Not AI, just really fuzzy. I know. I took it. Around this time of year, one of my favorite pastimes is looking at all the gift guides online. E…
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November 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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kurtphillipstx.bsky.social
Thanks Gabino!
Today y’all should head over to @bookpeople.com and buy lots of books.
Mine, Gabino’s, errbody’s. 🖤
The outside of Book People at 6th & Lamar in Austin, Texas Author Kurt Phillips hold his books Noise Ordinance & The Hand of the Archer. The wall of horror. The horror section at Book People .
November 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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damewritesalot.bsky.social
Thanks, Gabino!
Enter a world where ghosts walk in meatspace, portals exist, and interdimensional shenanigans abound!

Books 1 & 2 of the Tuner Trilogy
#TUNERVILLE
#CONFLUENCE

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A large blue portal, its edges crackling with white energy, opens in a field of stars. The books Tunerville and Confluence are being sucked into it. Tunerville screams, "Help!!" Confluence says, "Whee!" Both books are by A. Elizabeth West.
November 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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colleendoran.bsky.social
KINUKO Y. CRAFT Last Call with buy 2 get 1 FREE. The gallery is SHUTTING DOWN, Kinuko is 86 in January. and this inventory needs to go. CLICK THE LINK. borsini-burr.com/artists/kinu...
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com
Happy Friday Gabino! I've only got a few days left on my queer gaslamp fantasy crowdfund. It's fully funded, but there are physical and digital tiers for anyone to get involved!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
The Chosen One Con
The Chosen One Con is the first book in the Lost in the Aether duology—a queer gaslamp fantasy of industrial magic in a world of designer enchantments and celebrity-branded potions from the author of ...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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kentpriore.bsky.social
THE MONSTERS AMONG US is a viscerally cinematic and immersive dark fantasy/horror novel.

Winner of the Firebird Book Award, and Shirley Jackson Award nominee…and also 20% for Black Friday when bought directly from me:

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November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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mcburnellauthor.bsky.social
Thanks so much for this Gabino!

The Tipping World is now COMPLETE! It has
magic
intrigue
swordfights
gay stuff
reality breaking
In a complete 9 book series!

Start the legend: books2read.com/PathofEndles...
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9) Cover of a book called Symbols’ End by MC Burnell depicting a slender young woman seated on a bench in a fine gown in the rain; the walls of the garden are close and too tall. Text reads: THE GRAND FINALE. Symbols’ End, Vol. 9 of The Tipping World.
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
authorlevai.bsky.social
Great book!
tigerpride.bsky.social Dale Jacobs @tigerpride.bsky.social · 19h
Thanks, Gabino! Here is a book that blends creative nonfiction about my Mom’s life and my grief at her death with an examination of the comic books of 1976. It’s experimental in form, asking the reader to make connections in the way one puts fragments together when reading comics.
#FridayReads
November 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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sstein.bsky.social
The basic premise of the setting of my novel series is it's always Black Friday. Even before I knew it was narrated by a coffee machine robot, I knew it took place in a mall that spanned the continent, where people lived and never left.

www.amazon.com/dp/B08RB4S319

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screenshot of starred review of The Great American Deception in Publishers Weekly, full text at https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-946501-21-9 The Great American Deception Scott Stein. Tiny Fox, $14.27 trade paper (228p) ISBN 978-1-946501-21-9 Stein (Mean Martin Manning) delivers a madcap sci-fi take on the hard-boiled detective genre in this fun, near-future romp that’s chock-full of rapid-fire wit, tongue-in-cheek literary allusions, and playful futuristic absurdity. Arjay, a sentient, top-of-the-line coffee machine with an excess of pep, tags along on the cases of old-school PI Frank Harken within the luxurious but dystopian confines of the Great American—a giant, autonomous, U.S.-coast-spanning shopping mall. Though the grumpy gumshoe is not always thrilled by Arjay’s presence, he can’t deny that the bot makes a “damn fine” cup of coffee. When one of the Great American’s inhabitants, Pretty Lovely, hires Harken to find her sister, kidnapped heiress Winsome Smiles, Harken and Arjay are plunged into Great American’s underbelly, where they encounter genre staples including mobsters and incompetent cops. Stein keeps the stakes high and the laughs coming, juxtaposing the gritty mystery and dystopian setting with Arjay’s perky narration to excellent effect. Sure to appeal to fans of Douglas Adams, this zany, uproarious mystery is a constant delight. (May) review in Kirkus reviews of The Great American Deception. full text at: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/scott-stein/the-great-american-deception/ In a giant, futuristic mall, a coffee machine with artificial intelligence excitedly narrates the exploits of its new owner, a retro-style, hard-boiled gumshoe. Stein’s (Lost, 2019) satirical SF detective yarn at least initially owes much to Douglas Adams before the material finds its own humorous tone. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fans may recall Adams’ ancillary detail of robotic home appliances with “Real People Personalities,” often annoying, single-minded entities. And coffee machines were among those conveniences so accessorized. Arjay, the first-person (or first-gadget?) narrator here, is such a device, an ever upbeat, persistent, and talkative “top of the line” coffee maker. Arjay gets delivered to Frank Harken, a private eye of the old school, whose beat is the Great American, a fortresslike, coast-to-coast shopping/dining/entertainment/residential mall (shades of Somtow Sucharitkul’s Mallworld). The mall is a consumer paradise and haven for the elite in an otherwise ill-described (but doubtlessly unpleasant) future United States. Because of a prime directive to serve coffee in any circumstance, Arjay is mobile, resourceful, multilimbed, and filled with extra goodies such as laser cutters. The AI becomes sidekick to bemused tough-guy Harken. The chipper appliance recounts their initial case together, a missing custom-dentistry heiress named Winsome Smiles, connected to shady characters and now apparently kidnapped. Arjay’s enthusiastic narration takes readers through not only the standard private investigator clichés (mobsters, clueless authorities, duplicitous dames), but also bizarre boutiques and services (“legstentions”), literary references encompassing The Princess Bride and Edgar Allan Poe, and—in a very Hitchhiker touch—reams of persnickety Arjay non sequitur footnotes. (Sample: “Assas… screenshot of review of The Great American Betrayal on Vulture, naming it one of the best comedy books of 2022 full text at the full list at https://www.vulture.com/article/best-comedy-books-2022.html
November 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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tdcloud.bsky.social
It's itchio's creator day where they don't take their usual cuts, so it's a great time to pick up one of my queer, fucky short stories over there! bsky.app/profile/tdcl...
tdcloud.bsky.social 🐣 Migi ➡️ hibernating til 2026 @tdcloud.bsky.social · 19h
Wowzers, what a great time to pick up my itchio exclusive titles! These tend towards the dark and fucky, so if that's your cup of post-thanksgiving tea, go, go, go!

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November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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tristanzelden.bsky.social
Just a few more weeks until the release of my second book, Unfold. 2/3 workplace drama, ends on a third of creature feature mayhem a.co/d/ahstt2Z
Unfold
Amazon.com: Unfold eBook : Zelden, Tristan: Books
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November 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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tcparker.bsky.social
Thanks Gabino!

Loads of my books are on sale/heavily discounted this week at the Nefarious Bat online store - along with titles from @anna-orridge.bsky.social and @shaunamceleney.bsky.social :)

There's a whole 🧵 of them here - and we'd be hugely grateful if people would consider buying direct! ⬇️
nefariousbatpress.bsky.social Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 1d
Here we go... the ultimate 🧵 of our We're Not Bezos Batcave deals

Want to sate that horror, crime and fantasy fic hunger at a discount - without dipping a toe in the Big Evil River That Everyone Hates?

We can help! 📚💙

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November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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elfordalley.bsky.social
I got a Black Friday deal!

Black Friday book sale! My horror-comedies Apartment 239 and the sequel, High Strangeness, are both just 99 cents!

Apt. 239
amzn.to/3TizhOT

High Strangeness
shorturl.at/fCEZ9
Apartment 239
Amazon.com: Apartment 239 eBook : Alley, Elford : Books
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November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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gabino.bsky.social
It’s #FridayReads time! Books are great gifts. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a happy tale full of old gods, magic, grief, violence, ghosts, a hurricane, friendship, and things from beyond the reef...

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November 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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sardonicus.eu
Bat Friday
drawings of lots of bats, bats as desirable citizens
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
Oh hey lots of holiday bargains are lighting up my email and social media.

Just a reminder to shop small this weekend. Visit your indie bookstore.

The billionaires have enough.
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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vanessagillings.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving! 🍂🍁
watercolor and gouache painting of a series of small animals toasting each over over a table outside a house made from an old log
November 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
authorlevai.bsky.social
Oh, this is up several of my alleys and my library has it lemme just duck over and get it real quick…
abbyolcese.bsky.social Abby Olcese @abbyolcese.bsky.social · 2d
EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! (Advent starts MONDAY and it's the perfect time to start MY BOOK):
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM