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Nicole Frail Books, LLC @nicolefrailbooks.bsky.social · 19h

Teaming up with local small business, Coffee Inclusive, for our next anthology! If you're in PA, NJ, NY, MD, or DE, visit www.nicolefrailbooks.com/coffeeshopco... for the details and to learn more about Coffee Inclusive and their mission.

#shopsmall #indiepress #shortstorycontest

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And You Press @andyoupress.bsky.social · 5d

Happy to announce the story selections for our adult contemporary Christmas anthology! Congrats to all!

Release day is November 12! Be part of our cover reveal and release day blast or to receive an ARC. bio.site/nicolefrailbooks

#booksky #shortstories #christmas #writingcommunity #indiepress

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Attic Ebooks @attic-ebooks.bsky.social · 6d

Cover reveal for PRAIRIE TALE: A WINTER SHORT STORY by Amy Kelly

❄️Isolated homestead
❄️Nature as adversary
❄️Gothic prairie
❄️Fear of the unknown
❄️Ticking clock
❄️Historical fiction

Coming November 11, 2025

#booksky #gothic #historicalfiction #shortstory #amreading #newrelease #indiepress

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Nicole Frail Books, LLC @nicolefrailbooks.bsky.social · 12d

🌟Saturday!🌟

If you're in NEPA/Luzerne County, stop by the Forty Fort Fall Fest to shop 60+ vendors, enjoy local foods, and listen to live music! Find me across from the bandstand.

#nicolefrailbooks #booksky #discovernepa #pennsylvania

Event Announcement: Please join me for the 2nd Annual Forty Fort Fall Fest. 1000 Camryn Way, Forty Fort. Saturday, October 11. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. An Indie Publisher's Pop-Up Book Shop. Free Author Resources.

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And You Press @andyoupress.bsky.social · 13d

Happy to announce the story selections for our very first YA anthology! Congrats to all!

Release day is November 5! Sign-up to be part of our cover reveal and release day blast, or receive an ARC. bio.site/nicolefrailbooks

#booksky #ireadya #romancelandia #writingcommunity #indiepress

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And You Press @andyoupress.bsky.social · 14d

All &You Anthologies are on sale today! Grab them while you can! 78 stories for under $10!

#booksky #readersky #romancelandia #gothicfiction #writersky #writingcommunity

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Nicole Frail Books, LLC @nicolefrailbooks.bsky.social · 18d

October Events! If you're in northeastern PA or the surroundings areas, I hope to talk books with you this month!

#indiepub #indiepress #smallpress #bookcommunity #bookeditor #writingcommunity #booksky #writersky #nepa #smallbusiness

📆Where will Nicole Frail Edits & Nicole Frail Books be in October?
On Saturday, stop by the Valley Community Library for their first Fall Fair at the Library! to shop local vendors and meet local authors and publishers. Entry is $5.
The next meeting of MAMA'S BOOKed: NEPA Moms Book Club will be Monday, September 6, at Long Live Playtime , and we're currently reading Weyward by Emilia Hart. If you're local and want to join, message me and I'll invite you to our FB group!
Then there's our monthly networking meeting for (the organization formerly known as) Wilkes-Barre Women's Organization for Networking at Rodano's on Public Square. All are welcome!
If you want to shop local but can't make it out to any of the markets in-person, join our Harvest & Holiday Virtual Event (Facebook Group), presented by Carly's Creative and Supportive Small Business Community, between October 10 and 12. My offerings will go live at 3:30 on the 10th.
And finally, we'll be at 2nd Annual Forty Fort Fall Fest on the 11th! Last year was fantastic, and I'm looking forward to seeing what this year brings.
Hoping to chat with many of you about what you're reading and writing this month! ✌️💜📖

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Nicole Frail Books, LLC @nicolefrailbooks.bsky.social · 25d

100+ new voices to discover this weekend!

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#booksale #writingcommunity #booksky💙📚 #authorsky

Attic Ebooks @attic-ebooks.bsky.social · 25d

🍂#SYK starts tomorrow!🍂

The Fireside Book Cafe FB group has organized a small freebie event for indie authors! 100+ titles, all free!

Discover your next new author. Site is live now, so fill your carts and check out tomorrow.

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#booksky #writingcommunity

Acorns, pumpkins, apples, and squash along with the words: Fireside Book Cafe Fall Stuff Your Kindle Tomorrow. Friday, September 26 through Sunday, September 28.

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Attic Ebooks @attic-ebooks.bsky.social · 25d

🍂#SYK starts tomorrow!🍂

The Fireside Book Cafe FB group has organized a small freebie event for indie authors! 100+ titles, all free!

Discover your next new author. Site is live now, so fill your carts and check out tomorrow.

debbie52767.wixsite.com/fireside-boo...

#booksky #writingcommunity

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Nicole Frail Books, LLC @nicolefrailbooks.bsky.social · Sep 17

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Nicole Frail Books, LLC @nicolefrailbooks.bsky.social · Sep 17

If you're on Facebook, I'm taking over the Book Haven Tribe FB Group today! Come chat. 💙

#writingcommunity #bookpublishing #booksky #authorsky #writersky #amquerying #indiepress

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Don't forget! Nicole Frail, editor and publisher, will be taking over the Book Haven Tribe Facebook Group today! Join the group and let's chat! 10:30 a.m. EST. Link in comments.

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Attic Ebooks @attic-ebooks.bsky.social · Sep 12

✨New Release!✨

Just in time for International Chocolate Day, SECOND TIME'S SWEETER by Melissa Mastro.

A recipe contest brings two finalists to a chocolate factory in Belgium where they face off—and find love—in this heartwarming and hopeful story about second chances.

#booksky #romancelandia

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Attic Ebooks @attic-ebooks.bsky.social · Sep 11

As we head into fall & winter, our cozy titles will take a turn in KU. Check out RIGHTING MY WORLD by @shirleyhaywrites.bsky.social now!

#shortstory #risingfromtheashes #amreading #indiepress #newyearseve

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Nicole Frail Books, LLC @nicolefrailbooks.bsky.social · Sep 5

✨September Events with @nicolefrailedits.bsky.social ✨

#booksky #authorsky #writersky #amreading #indiepublisher #smallpress #pennsylvania #nepa

Nicole Frail Edits and Nicole Frail Books September Events

September 8 - Book Club at Long Live Playtime, 6 pm to 7pm
September 13 - Luzerne Fall Pumpkin Festival, Main Street in Luzerne, 10 am to 6 pm
September 14 - Book-Themed Craft Market, AlleyCrafts in Kingston, 10 am to 3 pm
September 17 - Takeover of the Facebook Group "The Book Haven Tribe," starts at 10:30 am

All times EST.

Need a speaker, presenter, vendor, bookish guest or friend? Reach out! nicole@nicolefrailedits.com or nicole@nicolefrailbooks.com

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Nicole Frail Books, LLC @nicolefrailbooks.bsky.social · Sep 2

Available today!!

And You Press @andyoupress.bsky.social · Sep 2

New Release!

Not As It Seems: A Gothic Anthology

Ft. short stories by @coralaineauthor.bsky.social @jesseferreras.bsky.social @roxannemwerner.bsky.social @onthewritelines.bsky.social @shmonstermaker.bsky.social @sarahbjorkauthor.bsky.social & more!

Edited by @courtneyumphress.bsky.social

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Nicole Frail Books, LLC @nicolefrailbooks.bsky.social · Sep 2

New release tomorrow from @andyoupress.bsky.social!

#booksky💙📚 #newreleases #gothicfiction #shortstories #indiepress

And You Press @andyoupress.bsky.social · Sep 2

🖤 Tomorrow . . . 🖤

NOT AS IT SEEMS: A Gothic Anthology

Edited & Arranged by @courtneyumphress.bsky.social

The sixth book in the &You Anthologies series.

Get your ebook for a special preorder price of $2.99 USD tonight! Paperbacks will be available this week, as well.

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And You Press @andyoupress.bsky.social · Sep 2

🖤 Tomorrow . . . 🖤

NOT AS IT SEEMS: A Gothic Anthology

Edited & Arranged by @courtneyumphress.bsky.social

The sixth book in the &You Anthologies series.

Get your ebook for a special preorder price of $2.99 USD tonight! Paperbacks will be available this week, as well.

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Attic Ebooks @attic-ebooks.bsky.social · Aug 31

✨New release!✨

A belated happy pub day to @aecwrites.bsky.social and Sweet Dreams Are Made of Confit! This short story ebook is inspired by a true story, and it's not to be missed!

✨Cat POV
✨1960s France
✨Space Age
✨Unlikely Friends
✨Stickers w PoP!

#booksky💙📚 #newrelease #shortstory #indiepub

Quote from Sweet Dreams Are Made of Confit with galaxy background and cat swiping at stars. Quote is "She let out a long, loud, mournful yowl while neither of her companions made a sound."

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Attic Ebooks @attic-ebooks.bsky.social · Aug 21

Attic Ebooks is excited to announce the acquisition of BASKETBALL BOYS by Mitchell S. Elrick.

As a new school year begins and Merick moves on to high school, he has one goal: to make the varsity basketball team.

But it's high school, so everything goes wrong.

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Nicole Frail, Book Editor @nicolefrailedits.bsky.social · Aug 18

Northeastern PA: If you're looking to write a children's book and aren't sure where to start, I can help! Join me at Long Live Playtime in Edwardsville this Wednesday to talk all things kidlit.

www.eventbrite.com/e/1502178308...

#nepa #discovernepa #booksky #pennsylvaniawriters #kidlit

ad for writing workshop titled SO YOU WANT TO PUBLISHA A BOOK FOR KIDS OR TEENS on August 20 at 5:30 pm with editor and publisher Nicole Frail at Long Live Playtime 75 S Wyoming Ave Edwardsville. Tickets available on Eventbrite or Venmo $20 to nicolefrailedits. Contact Nicole Frail at nicolefrailedits@gmail.com. Will talk about picture books, chapter books, young adult, middle grade, coloring books, workbooks and journals.

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Attic Ebooks @attic-ebooks.bsky.social · Aug 15

✨New Release!✨

@coralaineauthor.bsky.social's UNEXPECTED DESTINATIONS is out today on AMZ/KU. Paperback to follow.

🌴 forced proximity
🥥 praise kink
🌴 friction to flames
🥥 soft dom/protective mmc
🌴 insta-lust

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#booksky #bookcommunity #romancelandia

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Nicole Frail Books, LLC @nicolefrailbooks.bsky.social · Aug 15

I am so proud of this imprint!

And You Press: Books by You & You & You. 💙

#bookcommunity #booksky #authorsky #writingcommunity

And You Press @andyoupress.bsky.social · Aug 15

✨Two Days Left to Enter!! Submissions due Saturday!!

With the publication of our upcoming NOT AS IT SEEMS: A GOTHIC ANTHOLOGY, we will have released 66 short stories via 6 anthologies since Nov 2024. Can't wait to add to those numbers with these holiday anthos!

#shortstorycontest #writersky

Home for the Holidays submissions due in 2 days. andyoupress.com. Row of homes with snow and trees.

The Gift Exchange submissions due in 2 days. andyoupress.com. young adult burst. Two women exchange a gift.

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Nicole Frail Books, LLC @nicolefrailbooks.bsky.social · Aug 15

#QueerPit is one of the reasons I created this account this week! I can't wait to see the posts tomorrow! If I 💙 your post and you're open to working with a small indie press, please DM me for sub info. 😊😊

QueerPit @queerpit.bsky.social · Aug 14

🙌🏳️‍🌈 #QueerPit is tomorrow starting at 8 AM! 🏳️‍🌈🙌

Are you ready? 👀 We are! Can't wait to see you there! 🌈🌈🌈

kermit the frog is dancing in front of a red curtain with the words i 'm so excited !

ALT: kermit the frog is dancing in front of a red curtain with the words i 'm so excited !

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Cora Laine @coralaineauthor.bsky.social · Aug 14

🏝️ COVER REVEAL 🏝️

So excited to share the official cover of Unexpected Destinations, my spicy summer romance novella, with you!

Releasing tomorrow! 🤩

Preorder now! a.co/d/ehC1e4W

Tropes:
🌴 praise
🥥 soft dom/protective mmc
🌴 forced proximity
🥥 friction to flames

#booksky #kindleunlimited

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Nicole Frail Books, LLC @nicolefrailbooks.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congrats, Alyssa!!

Attic Ebooks @attic-ebooks.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congratulations to Alyssa Feliciano, whose debut ebook, LOVE'S FLAME, was named a Christlit Book Award winner for 2025! To drop Alyssa a quick congrats, follow her on IG: www.instagram.com/alyssafwrites ❤️‍🔥

#romantasy #romancelandia #booksky #bookcommunity

Winner! Love's Flame by Alyssa Feliciano wins the Christlit Book Award.

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