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Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her
@calling33.bsky.social
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Aussie published writer of spec fiction.
Caffeine enthusiast
Neurodivergent.
Massive nerd
Crusty punk rocker
Metalhead

Books out now at https://linktr.ee/Calling33
Website at http://www.natashaoconnor-author.carrd.co/
https://calling33.itch.io/
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Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her @calling33.bsky.social · 2d
So, I got the doc to put in a referral for a formal ASD/ADHD diagnosis and folks, please buy my books so I can afford to pay for it.

I will love you forever. All sales appreciated.

Handy link at linktr.ee/Calling33

📚

#writingcommunity #WriterSky #authorsky #writerlife #books #ReaderSky
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Hey #WeAintBuyingIt peeps, check out this bundle of books on itch-io that goes to indie creators, most of whom are marginalised!

There are two smaller bundles, linked in the big bundle page!

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Black Friday BIG Bundle! by Niranjan and 27 others
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November 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
calling33.bsky.social
Today, I both edited and wrote more of my pantheon WIP and honestly, no wonder my brain is fried.

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November 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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isisstormdragon.bsky.social
got some more rejections from jobs i applied for, and that's most likely the last news i'll receive on that front for a bit, so uhhh, shares/donations appreciated so i can cover december's bills. we got hit with another high electric bill too.

$100/$500.
isisstormdragon.bsky.social Isis E. "Novelist Dragon" Prosser @isisstormdragon.bsky.social · Sep 29
well, september's almost over and i didn't hear back from a single job. thankfully a few i can apply for opened up, but uh, we'll see.

in the meantime, i'm gonna post this here again. i should be able to pay my bills in october but it'll be tight and unless i land a job i won't-

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November 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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gautambhatia88.bsky.social
Coming very soon: open call for submissions for Vol 2 of the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF.

As last time (and always), no commissioned work, no pre-approved guest list, fully open call, and blind review.

Watch this space!
westlandbooks.bsky.social Westland Books @westlandbooks.bsky.social · 23h
The portals are opening again!

We will soon be inviting submissions for the second IF anthology of new Indian SFF edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social.

Stay tuned!
November 29, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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bookspotlight.bsky.social
🤍 estranged husbands
🥺 close brothers x2
🗡️ an mc who is 100% done
🐺 a love interest ready to grovel
🏫 a haunted, gothic school
🔍 buried secrets
❄️ snowy setting

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/aBMB
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-strange-...
📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
Ebook cover for The Strange Grey Everything by Rebecca Crunden; cover shows a shadow of a grey wolf above a forest that's dark green and black and foggy. Text is gold and greyish-white.
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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danifinnwrites.bsky.social
"There was so much to learn about women, and so little time."

🪐Terra Flux🪐

A mechanical lesbian sci-fi novella about the exploration of planets & women

🤖Robofuckers need apply 🤖

MURDERBOT

X

THE MACHINE MANDATE

X

PSALM FOR THE WILD BUILT

danifinn.itch.io/terra-flux

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Janky text from the "you wouldn't download..." meme: You wouldn't fuck a planet Cover of Terra Flux, a planetary adventure by Dani Finn, showing a mechanical woman with long flowing hair against a retro neon sci-fi background
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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eliseswritings.bsky.social
On the odd chance anyone's read Manipulator's War, and you enjoyed any of its following rep;
-ace
-aro
-nonbinary
-neurodivergent
-LGBTQ+
please consider nominating it in the Indie Ink Awards, for whichever of the above rep you enjoyed.

indiestorygeek.com/nominate/7/2...
Manipulator's War Cover Left: portrait of young Heir Ruarnon, their hair braided back, eyes outlined with kohl, wearing fitted bronze armour, a bronze disc kilt, holding a helmet in their left hand and leaning on a spear. Right: Red glyphs outline a stone archway, through which fire arrows rain down on torch-lit battlements atop a castle, at night time.
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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nmamatas.bsky.social
The People's Republic of Everything, cheap!

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November 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
calling33.bsky.social
Folks, got a question for you. What type of blue do you think of think of when someone says the colour blue. For me, it's this blue.

Really curious.
A square of the colour blue
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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nataliekelda.bsky.social
Trying to hit your book goal for the year?

I have a 200 page novel that's perfect for a cosy and flowery read before the end of the year.

Available in KU or as a beautiful paperback/hardback. You can even get sprayed edges direct from me!

nataliekelda.co.uk/shop/
Graphic with black text and arrows around a tablet with a book cover. The cover is in an art nouveau style and has the title: Reflections of Lilje Damselfly by Natalie Kelda and features a woman holding a water lily in one hand. She wears a blue water dress and two fish are beneath her feet while swirling blue patterns frame the scene. The text around the tablet from top clockwise: Cosy historical fantasy. Why is the cypress hedge so upset?? Chronically ill MC. Sapphic. Scandalising Edwardians is as easy as walking around naked. A pony named Pete. Staring at crumbs in beards is rude, apparently. Water nymph out of water. Waist up portrait of two women in Edwardian dress with text above and to their left. Text at top: cosy historical fantasy. Dialogue exchange: “Maybe you’re a flower sprite, sent to test me.” Mel’s soft words made me open my eyes. “What are you being tested for?” “It doesn’t matter. Whatever the test, I’m losing.”. Artwork: They're seen at 3/4 angles from the back and are holding hands while looking at one another. The woman to the left has brown hair with a purple ribbon in it and wears a white shirt with yellow flower details. Her skirt is brown and cinched at the waist. The woman to the right has black hair with green highlights and the ribbon in her hair has a pink and a purple flower in it. She wears a ruffled blue dress with yellow details and a sash around her waist.
November 28, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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michellefranklin.bsky.social
Well, we did it, kids. After just 6 weeks, Shadowbeast is out!

If you want me to write a sequel, please read and share this one!

If you like:
🫂 a wholesome romance
🐺werewolves
🌹beauty and the beast
🫶happily ever afters
👁️eldritch monsters

Enjoy the book:
amazon.com/dp/B0FWBD9MQ9

#books #booksky
The cover to Shadowbeast, with Darren's shadow wolf form looking at the reader.
October 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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maxieknue.bsky.social
Ey girls, let’s see if we can’t help another one of our own huh? The job market sucks rn
ambernymph.bsky.social Amber 🔆 @ambernymph.bsky.social · 1d
I'm not a fan of doing this but my endocrinologist has pushed my appointment forward and the price has gone up, and I'm still struggling to find anywhere that will actually hire me

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November 28, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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tentacle.gay
Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR.

Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
acvalens.com Ana Valens | 🔞 @acvalens.com · 3d
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.

What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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You can grab ALL of these stories, including BOTH of my Moonshadow books, for an incredibly low price - if you grab them now
spookyxpickle.bsky.social Author Machelle Berglund 💛🤍💜🖤-Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 2d
Yoooo! A huge #CreatorDay2025 Bundle is going live! On Friday, November 28th, creators will receive 100% of their profits.

In this giant bundle, there's 75 items from 45 creators. The regular price of all of THIS would be $293.66. It's only at $50!!! That an 82% discount.

itch.io/b/3410/creat...
A graphic with words against a wooden background, with leaves and acorns off to the top corner. The words read, from top to bottom: "Creator Day Bundle" "A Massive bundle of various creator offerings including ebooks, audiobooks, short stories, games, and more for only $50!" From midnight to midnight Pacific Time on November 28th For 24 hours, creators will recieve 100% of their profits through purchases on itch.io https://itch.io/b/3410/creator-day-bundle bundle organized by Aimee Cozza
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
calling33.bsky.social
I should really give this giant bird a name.

Rufus, maybe 🤔

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#writingcommunity #WriterSky #authorsky #writerlife
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 AM
calling33.bsky.social
Why yes, yes I did write the line 'can't spew here' in this #WIP while my MC is riding on the back of a giant owl-like bird 😅

#writingcommunity #WriterSky #authorsky #writerlife
November 28, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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👀 #Booksky #Readers are you looking for some #bookish deals?📚 Our special Black Friday Fantasy & Sci-fi Book Fair has 200+ free & discounted books, plus KU finds! There's also a HUGE giveaway at the bottom!
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Enter for your chance to win an e-reader of your choice! 📚
#Booksky #Readers are you looking for some #bookish deals? Our special Black Friday Fantasy & Sci-fi Book Fair has 200+ free & discounted books, plus KU finds! There's also a HUGE giveaway at the bottom! Visit: clcannon.net/bookfair Enter for your chance to win an e-reader of your choice!
November 28, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Memento Moreau has been declassified to the public.

conradaltmann.itch.io/memento-more...

Ethics are pushed to the wayside when scientific advancement is on the line. These seven accounts, recently liberated from HBT’s archives tell the stories of both victims and perpetrators.
📚💙🪐🌱 #booksky
The cover of “Memento Moreau: seven accounts from the HBT classified archives” by Conrad Altmann. Shows a scattering of manila folders with suspicious stains, an unsecured Petri dish and an orchid peeking from between the pages.
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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ormakal.bsky.social
I'm organising an itch-io bundle with the theme the best of 2025. If you have a book published this year and would like to join, please reply and I'll DM you the link.

#writingcommunity #books #itch-io #bundles 📚 📦 #booksky
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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seraphrdm.bsky.social
Current art #WIPs!

The first one is part of a huge commission for @sapavlikwrites.bsky.social. The second is Kaedan's portrait.

Want a cute chibi icon? Consider commissioning me on VGen! Currently all my comms are half off. Now til Dec 13 🥰

#VGenComms #CommissionsOpen #ArtCommissions
A line art of a character giving a thumbs' up and winking A sketch of Kaedan in his wheelchair
November 28, 2025 at 3:57 AM
calling33.bsky.social
Today's lunch session today: 339 words.

Not my most productive session but at least my characters have left the desert.

Phew!

📚

#writingcommunity #WriterSky #authorsky #writerlife #WIP
November 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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calling33.bsky.social
So, I got the doc to put in a referral for a formal ASD/ADHD diagnosis and folks, please buy my books so I can afford to pay for it.

I will love you forever. All sales appreciated.

Handy link at linktr.ee/Calling33

📚

#writingcommunity #WriterSky #authorsky #writerlife #books #ReaderSky
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November 27, 2025 at 5:51 AM
calling33.bsky.social
There seems to be a bird theme in this #WIP wasn't intentional but hey, birbs are cool 🐦

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#writingcommunity #WriterSky #authorsky #writerlife
November 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM