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Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · 27d

Maybe we need a World Nightmare Day?

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David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social · 28d

This book is still FREE.

Go get it, and check out the rest of the series if you like :)

mybook.to/insolitudess...

In Solitude's Shadow is free from September 22nd till September 26th

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · Sep 21

Wait, stupid people think The Rapture is about to occur in a couple days?! WE ALL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO ONE OF THE FUNNIEST THINGS EVER:

still think we all should get a bunch of blowup dolls and helium to freak out the people waiting for the rapture
[Pictures of a ton of blowup dolls filled with helium soaring into the sky looking like people being raptured]

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Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Sep 15

Okay, timeline cleanse. 🖤

Everyone who sees this post, quote post 5 things that make you happy:

- Coffee in my spooky travel cup
- 80's spec-fic book covers
- Watching movies with my kids
- Planning my next tattoo
- Old-style websites (with pixelated gifs!)

Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · Sep 15

Okay, timeline cleanse. 🖤

Everyone who sees this post, quote post 5 things that make you happy:

- sitting in the garden on a warm evening
- Baklava
- crunchyroll
- walking from Redcar to Saltburn and then having lunch
- a new book I've been looking forward to

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · Sep 14

Okay, timeline cleanse. 🖤

Everyone who sees this post, quote post 5 things that make you happy:

- A room full of books
- Cats
- Trees in flower
- Nerds being passionate about their nerd thing
- You guys, my pocket support team, purveyors of cat pics, book recommendations and outbreaks of nerdery

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Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Sep 12

Thank you! 😊 The tentacles actually erupt from a daemon's face... The visual was just too good not to write. I'm hoping this is the first in a series. I have lots of ideas for a second book, but I'll see how this one goes first.

Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Sep 12

🎉MIDNIGHT METROPOLIS is out today!🎉

If you like your sci-fi weird, cyberpunky, and throttled by angry tentacles, I have the book for you.

Three-word pitch: Goths in space 💀

👉 books2read.com/u/m25v0R

#writesky #booksky #writersky #writingcommunity #bookcommunity #HorrorLit #FantasyLit #sff #sffh

The cover of Arcanoforge: Midnight Metropolis by Caroline Barnard-Smith. Long purple tentacles reach towards a glowing neon city.

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Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Sep 12

Thank goodness they were skillfully combined, or I would have worried.

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Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Sep 11

Arcanoforge: Midnight Metropolis is a sci-fi fantasy novel about sunless planets, hallucinogenic mushrooms, and tentacle daemons, and today is the last day you can pre-order for only $1.99!

👉 books2read.com/b/m25v0R

#SelfPub #SpecLit #SpecFic #ScifiLit #HorrorLit #FantasyLit #sff #sffh

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Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Sep 11

Arcanoforge: Midnight Metropolis is a sci-fi fantasy novel about sunless planets, hallucinogenic mushrooms, and tentacle daemons, and today is the last day you can pre-order for only $1.99!

👉 books2read.com/b/m25v0R

#SelfPub #SpecLit #SpecFic #ScifiLit #HorrorLit #FantasyLit #sff #sffh

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Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Sep 11

Don't eat that snow.

Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · Sep 11

CAN YOU SEE SOMETHING YELLOW FROM WHERE YOU ARE?

Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Sep 2

September happened but my kids don't start school until Friday, which means we're trapped in a liminal void where structure is a myth.

Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Sep 2

Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future.

I might be there already if I'm honest.

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Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Jul 21

If you see this post a character with white hair.

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Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Jul 17

I don't know if I'm more impressed with the mod poet or the fact that you're writing in a gallery. That sounds fun and I'm jealous.

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Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Jul 17

My kid felt sick at school today, so I've brought them home and now Freaky Friday is blaring in my earhole while I'm trying to edit. It's the Lindsay Lohan version, so it could be worse (yes, I will die on that hill!)

#writing #writingcommunity #amediting

a woman is making a funny face and saying i 'm old !

ALT: a woman is making a funny face and saying i 'm old !

media.tenor.com

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Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Jul 17

Now that song's in my head, but I'm not mad about it!

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Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Jul 16

I haven't got any new books to include this time around, but I highly encourage anyone who does to submit! I'll definitely be poking around for some bargains when it starts.

Narratess @narratess.com · Jul 14

The signups for the August sale are open!

Click here to receive your invitation: www.subscribepage.io/NIS

Click here to bookmark the sale page: indiebook.sale

Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text.

Text: Indie Book Sale

indiebook.sale

Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror

August 23 - 25

Banner designed by Arden Powell

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Ronit J | Fantasy Author @ronitjauthor.com · Jul 16

🇺🇸 Amazon US: amazon.com/Island-Dying...

🇬🇧 Amazon UK: amazon.co.uk/Island-Dying...

Island of the Dying Goddess: A Horror Grimdark Fantasy Stand Alone - Kindle edition by J, Ronit. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Island of the Dying Goddess: A Horror Grimdark Fantasy Stand Alone - Kindle edition by J, Ronit. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like…

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Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Jul 15

This is your weekly reminder that Midnight Metropolis, my sci-fi horror novel about daemon-swallowing misanthropes, is available to pre-order 😎 books2read.com/b/m25v0R

#SelfPub #SpecLit #SpecFic #ScifiLit #HorrorLit #FantasyLit #sff #sffh

A 3D cover of the book Arcanoforge: Midnight Metropolis by Caroline Barnard-Smith sits beneath a quote from the novel: "She’d found two boot-shaped marks seared into her ribcage. They could have been commonplace bruises or a bad reaction to Flannigan’s pizza, but they'd been enough to force her into the fetid hellhole that doubled as Traci-Lynn’s storefront."

Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Jul 11

The image I shall use for age verification.

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Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Jul 11

So pretty!

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Alex S. Bradshaw 🦕 @alexsbradshaw.bsky.social · Jul 11

It's a very warm week in the UK - pushing above 30 for us here today - so why not read WINDBORN, a Norse-inspired fantasy set in winter with a shield-maiden that has ice powers!
What better way to experience the cold?
books2read.com/u/38Qg2V

Text reads: It's too hot in the UK! So why not cool down by reading about a shield-maiden with icy powers? Below is the cover of WINDBORN - all on a background of snow-covered trees and mountains

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Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Jul 9

Arcanoforge: Midnight Metropolis is tentacled insanity disguised as a #sci-fi novel, and you can pre-order your very own copy: books2read.com/b/m25v0R

#CoverReveal #SelfPub #SpecLit #SpecFic #ScifiLit #HorrorLit #FantasyLit #sff #sffh

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Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Jul 7

Exciting things are happening in my newsletter tomorrow! Subscribe to see the cover reveal of my #sci-fi #horror novel before anyone else, and find out how to sign up as a beta reader. 😎📚
carolinebarnardsmith.substack.com

The cover of my forthcoming sci-fi horror novel, Midnight Metropolis, obscured by a ripped piece of paper. You can just see the outline of a cityscape and what might be a tentacle...

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Caroline Barnard-Smith @cazzysmith.bsky.social · Jul 7

I also use way too many em dashes. Why does ai have to poop all over my favourite punctuation mark??

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