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Gary Kruse
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Indie Author of gripping, gritty thriller/horror fiction.
OUT NOW:
Badlands - 💀🏄🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒
Mistress of the Crows -🐦‍⬛👻🧙🏻‍♀️🧛🏻
Bleak Waters - 👻🛥️💀🔪
Pre-order Ruins here: https://mybook.to/Ruins
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Gary Kruse @garykruseauthor.bsky.social · 4d
Looking to escape the capitalist hell that is #BlackFriday?

Why not dive into a #freebook?

My spooky #thriller Badlands is completely FREE on #kindle from today until Friday!

Grab your copy here: mybook.to/Badlands2025

⚡️📚💙📚👀📢📚😱📚📖💙💀✨

#booksky #crimefiction #freebie #horrorauthor #WriteSky
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Terrible news about Matt. 😢
louwrites.bsky.social Ske-Lou-Ton 💀 @louwrites.bsky.social · 10h
I'm very sad to share the news that our lovely @chaoticauthor.online has passed away. His ending was peaceful and surrounded with love but came far too quickly after a short battle with pancreatic cancer.

I've known Matt for years. He was a warm, gentle, generous, all-weather friend. I miss him.
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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His widow, Cat, has invited friends to leave messages and donations in his memory to Macmillan, Matt's chosen charity. I've helped set up a memorial page so please feel free to share this to anyone who knew and loved him.

www.justgiving.com/page/mattmas...
Fundraiser in Memory of Matt Mason for Macmillan Cancer Support
Help Louise Willingham raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support
www.justgiving.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Peeps to #follo👻
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#writer #author #ff #photography
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Chapter 4: Liverpool Horror Book Con is going to be freaking massive 👻

Join 45 indie horror authors from the UK and Europe on 11 April for a day you won’t forget!

We are delighted to announce @catcavendish.bsky.social as one of our attending authors.

🩸📚😱📚💙
Photograph of Catherine Cavendish, an author attending Liverpool Horror Book Con
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Highly recommended! Meet Mary as you've never seen her portrayed elsewhere.

#booksworthreading
jarnopp.bsky.social Judith Arnopp @jarnopp.bsky.social · 21h
Queen Mary I - 'The author gets to the heart of Mary the girl, Mary the woman.' - Review

http://mybook.to/thw

##HistoricalFiction ##Tudors ##Audible ##KU
November 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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👻 HAPPY RELEASE DAY 👻

Entity by Justin Boote has hit the world 😱

Demonic possession filled with dread and despair. By the time you finish this book, you'll be eager for the next one like I am!

Book 1 of The Demons Among Us Series. 5 books in series; 1 releases each month.

🩸📚😱📚💙📢📚
Book cover of Entity by Justin Boote. The title and author name and is Red Block capitals. Book 1 of the Demon’s Among Us series appears in white writing at the top The picture is dominated by a demonic entity being held by multiple hands. The eyes are vacant and glow through the darkness.
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Welcome to Day 5 of our blog tour for

༻*·The Traitor's Son·*༺
by Wendy Johnson!

Check out our fabulous tour stop today, sharing an intriguing excerpt from this beautifully written story!

thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2025/10/blog...
#HistoricalFiction #WarsOfTheRoses #RichardIII #BookSky
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Welcome to Day 2 of our blog tour for

༻*·Seeds of the Pomegranate·*༺
by Suzanne Uttaro Samuels!

Check out today's tour stops, sharing tempting extracts and an insightful article on the early 1900s ganglands of New York!

thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2025/10/blog...
#HistoricalFiction #NewYork
November 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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If you want to support independent bookstores, you can buy signed copies of my books from four sellers. Here's a thread:
In the US: Skylight Books in Los Angeles has ONE copy of Heliopause, signed: www.skylightbooks.com/book/9780999...
www.skylightbooks.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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I know today’s all Big Business Black Friday, but let’s not forget to shop indie and that tomorrow is Small Business Saturday.

I’ll be celebrating at Thrillerdelphia, for everyone who’s Philly local and wants to stop by. Signing 1-3.
November 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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This (horror) writer's life 👻

#amwriting #writersproblems #writing #writer #book #writerslife #author #humor #humour
November 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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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
amzn.to
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Thanks Gabino! My debut novel is now available for preorder 🪓

After an incident at work, Tamsin escapes to the Scottish countryside to start over. But her new home comes with an odd neighbour, strange folktales, and disturbances at night 👀

Preorder: geni.us/homesick
Goodreads: tinyurl.com/3mdv69dp
A graphic showing the book cover for HOME SICK. Two creepy sheep heads stare out, one with dead shark eyes. All against a sickly pink gradient. The book sits on a backdrop of mist-wreathed trees. Text around the book reads: This house isn't haunted. She is. A brand new psychological horror from award-winning author Rhiannon Grist.
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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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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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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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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A Shadow of Your Former Self
A Shadow of Your Former Self [Grech, Amy, Buddha, Alien] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Shadow of Your Former Self
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November 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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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.
books2read.com/u/b5Kn0l
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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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
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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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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! ⬇️
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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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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 3:02 PM
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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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Are you a writer or reader of thrillers? Join these great indie authors who also write and read the genre at the Thriller Genre Indie Authors Starter Pack! If you wish to be included in the starter pack, reply here. #thriller #writingcommunity #authorsky go.bsky.app/3U7UtVP
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November 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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"Horror as it should be. Detail high, blood by the gallon, suspense at every turn."

Bite into the award-winning Stage 3 Series with a FREE BOOK!
viewbook.at/stage3

Read Stage 3 today!

Also on #audible

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#freebook #horror #stage3series 📚💙
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM