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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 12h

Gorgeous!

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about participating in the NYC Midnight @nycmidnight.bsky.social Short Story Challenge this year, and I’m sharing my third-round story with you! It's my favourite from the competition.
I hope you enjoy!
www.josiejaffrey.com/post/nyc-mid...

www.josiejaffrey.com

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 15h

Excellent! Let’s see if I can teach myself how to visual novel and go from there! 😂

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah I plotted the vampire one at the same time as I was doing the werewolf one for the group! If the vampire visual novel goes well maybe we could consider reviving the werewolf one - I still have the plot we put together

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 16h

I have a vampire CYOA all plotted out and just started with the writing, but it’s been sitting sadly unattended since Covid times. I was thinking about turning it into a visual novel if I can teach myself ren’py.
I LOVE a CYOA.

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 16h

I didn’t know this was CYP! That yoinking noise you hear is me pulling it right up my TBR

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 17h

IN THE PIT OF YOUR STOMACH (a choose-your-path horror story) has wretched ghoulish vampires! A hole appears in your backyard, and horrible things start creeping up from underground. Depending on the path there's nosferatu vibes, covens, vampire hunters, suicide pacts, blood-drinking romance...

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 18h

Spooky season is upon us! Tell me about your Vampires 🧛 #WritingPrompt

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 17h

This book is incredible - grab yourself a copy!

Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 18h

Today is the 4th anniversary of The Thirteenth Hour, the first book in my Cruel Gods series. This book went on to become a SPFBO & BBNYA finalist AND Indie Ink award winner for best setting/wittiest character!

To celebrate, I've put the ebook up for FREE for today only! 🥳

mybook.to/TheThirteent...

A promo image for the Thirteenth Hour's 4th anniversary featuring the book cover with funky glasses over the characters, and the text: Fantasy of bad manners, tea, and naughty words - four years! Cruel gods demand worship from their mortal subjects in this gaslamp fantasy featuring magical portals, gothic cosmic deities, quaint Britishisms, and steampunk vibes.

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 17h

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 17h

All of these except top right and bottom right are vampires! 😂🩸💜

Messy, horrible, morally-dubious, sexy, funny, substantially-queer vampires.

An image showing all of Josie Jaffrey’s book covers on a black background. They are:
Quicksilver omnibus
Kill Me Quick
A Quick Study
Quick and the Dead
Broken Wings
May Day
Judgement Day
Winta’s Day
Valentine’s Day
The Gilded King
The Silver Queen
The Blood Prince
A Bargain in Silver
The Price of Silver
Bound in Silver
The Silver Bullet
The Wolf and the Water

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about participating in the NYC Midnight @nycmidnight.bsky.social Short Story Challenge this year, and I’m sharing my third-round story with you! It's my favourite from the competition.
I hope you enjoy!
www.josiejaffrey.com/post/nyc-mid...

www.josiejaffrey.com

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 2d

It’s been a very big project 😂

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 2d

I so enjoyed doing this interview - thank you, Sifa! 🥳

Sifa E. Poulton @sifaelizabethreads.bsky.social · 2d

Interview with Josie Jaffrey about her latest series, QuickSilver
@josiejaffrey.bsky.social

sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/a...

Author Interview: THE QUICKSILVER TRILOGY by Josie Jaffrey

An interview with Josie Jaffrey about her latest series, QuickSilver

sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com

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Sifa E. Poulton @sifaelizabethreads.bsky.social · 2d

Interview with Josie Jaffrey about her latest series, QuickSilver
@josiejaffrey.bsky.social

sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/a...

Author Interview: THE QUICKSILVER TRILOGY by Josie Jaffrey

An interview with Josie Jaffrey about her latest series, QuickSilver

sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 3d

And his claws, if necessary

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 3d

The perfect expression on the cat’s face. 😂
‘Yeah, this is my fuckin pumpkin. Wanna make something of it, buddy?’

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 3d

I love each of your paintings more than the last. AMAZING work! 💜

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 3d

Quick and the Dead, the final book in the QuickSilver trilogy, is out now!
🎨 Character art by Nel Kingman
books2read.com/u/4ArGGd

A picture of two women standing back to back, one with her fists raised and the other with a parasol. Text reads:
"Quick and the Dead
'Small sacrifices.
That had become their motto at the mansion in the old days. Giving up piracy to hide their true nature? Small sacrifices. Putting one crew member down to keep peace amongst the others? Small sacrifices. Abandoning your crew to Bartholomew's whims because you couldn't hold yourself together a moment longer? Well, maybe that sacrifice hadn't been quite so small.'"

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote about my third-round story for the 2025 NYC Midnight short story challenge! I got through to the penultimate round, but narrowly missed out on the final.

You can read my story here:

www.josiejaffrey.com/post/nyc-mid...

NYC Midnight 2025 Round 3: "The Mathematics Is Simple"

About NYC Midnight, and my third-round story.

www.josiejaffrey.com

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve been really struggling with writing lately, but I’ve somehow scraped out my daily wordcount from the bottom of the barrel over the past couple of days and it feels like I’ve scraped them from my very soul 😩😂

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 5d

The QuickSilver Omnibus edition is out today!
Available in hardback, paperback and ebook, it is a BEAST. Featuring all three books and six short stories in the QuickSilver series, it's over 200,000 words of vampirey, piratey, zombie-y, sapphic dark fantasy.
🩸💜🏴‍☠️
books2read.com/u/mdxQQE

The cover of the QuickSilver omnibus edition on a blue background surrounded by arrows reading:
- Vampire cult
- Pirate history
- Dark vibes
- Sapphic romance
- Zombie apocalypse
- +6 short stories

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 4d

Listening to Cabin Pressure from the very start for the second time in a month. Apparently I need happy soul hugs right now.

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 5d

The QuickSilver Omnibus edition is out today!
Available in hardback, paperback and ebook, it is a BEAST. Featuring all three books and six short stories in the QuickSilver series, it's over 200,000 words of vampirey, piratey, zombie-y, sapphic dark fantasy.
🩸💜🏴‍☠️
books2read.com/u/mdxQQE

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Isobel_Starling @isobelstarling.bsky.social · 5d

Shout this from the fucking rooftops, people!! #fuckAI

A meme that says 'petition to add this button to literally every app right now: Exclude AI
meme by @FLScience

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 5d

Yay thank you! 🥳

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