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Literary Halcyon #WritingCommunity @literaryhalcyon.bsky.social · Oct 13
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Trying to get your work into as many hands as possible.
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Alice the Author @alicetheauthor.bsky.social · 4d
Mark your calendars for my upcoming 2025 events! My books and I will be there! 📚 #IndieAuthor #ReadingCommunity #AuthorLife
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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 4d
Excited to have two poems accepted for publishing today from Magique publishing for their journal 'Joyfully Wonderful' my thanks to the team there more details when I get them
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Ellie Thomas @elliethomas.bsky.social · 5d
Don't miss this fabulously eerie bargain from Eule Grey!
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Eule Grey @eulegrey.bsky.social · 5d
Queer trearure! The Hungry Butterlfy is on sale at $0.99 🎃 💀 🦋
#Sapphic
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Michael Amos Cody @michaelamoscody.bsky.social · 4d
Here’s what’s next. With STREETS OF NASHVILLE (the book) six months old, AVALON MOON in the pipeline for May 2026, JACOB’S LIMP (working title) is at the halfway point of the first draft. At almost 67, I ain’t got time to slow down. Still having fun!
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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 4d
Aaaahhh!! Honored to have my first ever Best of the Net nomination from @goodriverreview.bsky.social for my #poem “Lessons From A Baptism”!! Incredibly honored - they published so much incredible work, I’m shocked to be named!
#booksky 💙📚 #poetry #writing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
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A-M Mawhiney @ammawhiney.bsky.social · 4d
Gather around duckies I have a story for you! Four teens walk into a classroom and …you will not believe how that changes everything.
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T.L. Simpson @tlsimpson.bsky.social · 4d
Amazing and awesome. So honored to be selected.
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Flux Books @fluxbooks.bsky.social · 4d
We are honored that STRONG LIKE YOU by @tlsimpson.bsky.social is the 2026 Teen All Iowa Read! Thanks to the State Library of Iowa for selecting Simpson's thrilling YA debut. 🧡 statelibraryofiowa.gov/news/2025-10...
2026 All Iowa Reads Selections Announced
The 2026 All Iowa Reads selections were announced Oct. 9 on Iowa Public Radio’s Talk of Iowa program with host Charity Nebbe.
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Uvi Poznansky @uvipoznansky.bsky.social · 4d
Grab ♡❤ THE DAVID CHRONICLES: TRILOGY ❤♡
#99c — fascinating #AncientHistory with a modern twist #boxset
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♡❤ THE DAVID CHRONICLES ART ❤♡
#Art book by the masters:— don’t miss it!
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David E Manuel @davidemanuel.bsky.social · 4d
If you wait until I die before you read this, you won't be able to ask me who these characters were in real life.

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A Feast of Famine
Amazon.com: A Feast of Famine eBook : Manuel, David: Kindle Store
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Patricia Falvey @patriciafalvey.bsky.social · 4d
The days are getting shorter, but your reading list doesn't have to. Curl up with a compelling story that will transport you to another place and time: "The Famine Orphans." #TheFamineOrphans #PatriciaFalvey #Australia #Ireland #HistoricalFiction #Books #Reading #BookClub #Travel #Booksky #Sydney
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Sean McNulty @thispersona.bsky.social · 4d
Delighted to be picked! From The Martlet, my satirical novel about the struggles of a small-town newspaper.
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Alexander Way-B @alexanderwayb.bsky.social · 4d
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Just made some of these for local exhibitions!

All 14 pieces of #codeart are available in my latest paperback – Nameless: mybook.to/J6k9MpB

Professional #fineart prints available from alexanderwayb.co.uk printed by #Prodigi lab!
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Linda Watkins @lindawatkins.bsky.social · 5d
"...an exceptional read ... A magnificent episode in this superb series. Highly recommended!"

ABDUCTED, A KATE POMEROY MYSTERY
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#LindaWatkins #ThrillingTales #thriller #mystery #gothicmystery #psychologicalthriller #writingcommunity
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Tim Walker @timwalker1666.bsky.social · 4d
The Trials of Arthur Whitty is a thoughtful novella that follows the fortunes of ordinary Arthur whose sense of humour and vivid imagination carry him through many challenging situations:
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Duane Simolke @duanesimolke.bsky.social · 4d
🤠 Order #TheAcornStories for humor, 90s nostalgia, fall vibes, pop culture references, small-town romance, and quirky characters. 😍
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Duane Simolke @duanesimolke.bsky.social · 4d
A cat named Morgana Le Fay disrupts an elderly woman’s love life. Swimming laps in a pool makes a young man reflect on his odd encounters. A little boy wants to protect his mom and his brother. An artist falls in love but can’t pay the bills or stay focused.

💙📚 #TheAcornStories #WestTexas #Humor
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William Bryan Smith @williambryansmith.bsky.social · 3d
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Hello, I’m the Witch in Your Hall Closet
Finally, I'll have sated my 200-year-old appetite, fulfilled a centuries-old curse, and your family's financial situation will stabilize.
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Author Lily Lamb @authorlilylamb.bsky.social · 3d
The Dowling House had been empty since 1954.
It wasn’t waiting for new owners.
It was waiting for prey.
📖 DOWLING HOUSE — The haunting starts here:
🔗 www.amazon.com/dp/B077CXFQSB
#halloweenvibes
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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 3d
The story also appeared in Best Horror of the Year 16, which you can find here!
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The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen (Best Horror of the Year, 16) : Datlow, Ellen: Amazon.co.uk: Books
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen (Best Horror of the Year, 16) : Datlow, Ellen: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 3d
Reading for Hallowe'en or Christmas! Just a wee reminder that you can still buy Supernatural Tales 54, which included my Christmas horror story "Nábrók".
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Supernatural Tales 54
New tales of the strange, mysterious, and downright disturbing.
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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 3d
Harold Godwineson muses on his misfortunes in FATAL RIVALRY, Available on #KU or #audiobook. Universal link: buff.ly/3qRnJ8T
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Cassandra Whitaker @casswhit.bsky.social · 3d
I played the Telephone game, where artists of all types pass work onto each other and create new work based on the work received. My poem(s) responded to paintings by Jessica Snow. It was a cool process. You can view the whole project in an interactive journal/anthology, here telephonegame.art
Homepage of the telephone art project featuring an eye surrounded by a circle with seven moon like objects Looking Up Into The Winter Stars At The Edge of the Atlantic There You Are What stars weave their light with darkness? A circle of trust Between absence Between emptiness A weather of static— How small must one’s heart become To survive what passes? To slip between infinity’s trap I love you I love you not Winking in darkness What noise reaches us from afar? You are loved — you are loved You are loved for what you are Between absence and emptiness To survive? A weather of trust A circle of dust A heart between light and dark As if all that came before was wind A voice from another room cries out In the dark In the emptiness A warm longing A light Long passed from age –As if emptiness were so easy to dismiss How we touched without touching? Voices From afar arriving home through our voice –Together—we opened a door You are loved you are loved You are loved for what you are 1 Can be read as two poems or as one poem, a contrapuntal
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Jon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.social · 3d
Good news on the writing front: my short story "The Carousel" won Andromeda Magazine's short story contest for fantasy. I realize it's not like winning the Nebula, but it helps keep the imposter syndrome at bay

#SciFi-Fantasy-SpecFic 🪐📚
#SFF
#SFFWriting/Writers 🔱
#writingcommunity
#cozyfantasy
an award certificate
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Vanita Shukla Hork @vanitahork.bsky.social · 3d
How does a #teenager start writing profound #poetry at the age of 13 and publish it 40 years later?

Exactly 2 years ago, 11 October 2023, I did an #interview with author David Applegate to tell my #story ♥️

#YouTube #BooksWorthReading #indie #authorsky

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An Interview with Vanita Shukla Hork
YouTube video by Future Fantasy Empire
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Cormac Culkeen @cormacculkeen.bsky.social · 3d
Tired but buzzing. I won second prize in the Frances Browne Poetry Competition 2025 for my poem, Meteor. I'm a happy chappie!
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