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skynightshade.bsky.social
Skyler
@skynightshade.bsky.social
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I'm a trans dude just writing up fantasy, romance, horror and erotica.
Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F7F1QFY4
He/him 🏳️‍⚧️
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franzanth.bsky.social
I am once again asking for invertebrate species suggestions for the next edition of art book cover. The more obscure, the better.

See past cover examples here: invertefest.com#artbook
franzanth.bsky.social franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 21h
#InverteFest season is almost here, which means it's time to submit your bug & slug art! The form closes at 100 entries.

Find more info, download past art book, and submit here:
invertefest.com/#artbook
announcement image that says Have bug & slug art? Submit to #InverteFest Digital Art Book. Publishing every April, August, December. Download previous editions & find the submission link at InverteFest.com/#Artbook the image is decorated with artwork of various animals from various artists, featuring insects, slugs, and so on.
November 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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skynightshade.bsky.social Skyler @skynightshade.bsky.social · 20h
@judasflower.bsky.social
skynightshade.bsky.social Skyler @skynightshade.bsky.social · 1d
JudasFlower commissions are open (NSFW as well). I highly recommend. The right photo is the pictures they did for The First Bite's Bitter

judasflower.carrd.co
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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safic-chill.bsky.social
Episode 6: Fiction vs Fan-Fiction featuring author Beatrice Mckinsley is now available! @oroboro.itch.io open.spotify.com/episode/0KTA...
SaFic & Chill with Dae Storm. Episode 6: Fiction vs Fan-Fiction ft Beatrice Mickinsley.
November 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
skynightshade.bsky.social
First paragraph!
First paragraph for Merman's Delight
November 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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@judasflower.bsky.social
skynightshade.bsky.social Skyler @skynightshade.bsky.social · 1d
JudasFlower commissions are open (NSFW as well). I highly recommend. The right photo is the pictures they did for The First Bite's Bitter

judasflower.carrd.co
Black floral background with a purple banner that says, "Pay What You Want Commission" for Judasflower Werewolf pictures from Judas Flower
November 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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earlronove.bsky.social
anyway don't forget i have a book coming out in december! if you like silent hill (esp the older games) and sorry we're closed, you might like BE NOT AFRAID, my fast-paced horror novella feat. some very deadly angels.

itchio: earlronove.itch.io/benotafraid
amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLYH2ZSS
An ad for Be Not Afraid by S. Jean. To the right is the cover featuring Seth, an angel with pink wings, white hair, and bright eyes leaping across the cover in profile while pink smears the blue background and eyes stare at him. To the right of it is the description for the work in question, which is: "Deadbeat Trent Cain can't catch a break. Life's been one disaster after another, rent's always due, and he's always late. Even his band doesn't want anything to do with him anymore and playing the guitar was the one joy he had left in life. When he takes a shortcut home through the park at 3AM, he walks right into another disaster: five angels waiting to greet him. Unfortunately, despite their proclamations of be not afraid, they mean him harm. His only hope is another angel wielding a lead pipe, but there’s something familiar about this one..." Below it is a list of what you'll find in the work. They read: decaying seraphs, a deadbeat guitarist, a coy angel with a lead pipe, an otherworld parallel to ours, and blood & viscera everywhere. On the right side below the cover there is a call to action for preorders, the Dec 6th release date, and a URL where you can find a copy, which reads: books.earlronove.com/benotafraid
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
skynightshade.bsky.social
JudasFlower commissions are open (NSFW as well). I highly recommend. The right photo is the pictures they did for The First Bite's Bitter

judasflower.carrd.co
Black floral background with a purple banner that says, "Pay What You Want Commission" for Judasflower Werewolf pictures from Judas Flower
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
skynightshade.bsky.social
Indie Ink Award time! Make sure to nominate all the wonderful books you enjoyed this year 🥰
Dark blue with fog surrounding Merman's Delight cover.
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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🥺❤️🧜‍♂️
cquince.bsky.social C.Quince🌈 Author @cquince.bsky.social · 3d
My weekend read! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Merman's Delight by @skynightshade.bsky.social

This is a sweet, sumptuous, spicy, queer romance between a merman and a human lighthouse keeper
🧜‍♂️🌊🥚🫦

Really enjoyed this. It was just the right length to devour over my weekend.
💙📚🌈 #lgbt #fantasy #books #merman #Achillean
Book trope map. Book cover is Merman's Delight by Skyler Nightshade. The cover shows a pretty blue tailed merman with dark hair holding onto a human man, face out of shot. The merman looks to camera and is reminiscent of that classical hot angel Lucifer painting. The tropes around the book say weekend read 5 stars. Fantasy. Sweet and sexy. Merman/Human. Queer.
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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azaleaforrest.bsky.social
hey so A Witch in Isenshire is a humdinger and y'all should read it. You want fall/wintery vibes? We've got it. Tech + magic? Oh YEAH we've got it. We've got CLOSURE, we've got AUTOMATONS, we've got FRIENDSHIP. Give this steampunk inspired book of witches a try!
azaleaforrest.bsky.social Azalea Forrest 📚 A Witch in Isenshire @azaleaforrest.bsky.social · 8d
A Witch in Isenshire is a bold cup of coffee made with determination, personal growth, and adventure. Maggie and Basil find closure in Emelle before being called to the tech-advanced city of Isenshire.

www.books2read.com/awii
azaleaforrest.itch.i...
📚💙 #writing #books #fantasy
A Witch in Isenshire by Azalea Forrest. The book cover looks of old parchment, with art-nouveau type style font. Images of tarot cards, gears, crystals, and broomsticks surround an imagine of lineart of a city, with a background of a canyon/butte. Text surrounds the cover with arrows pointing to it: more friendship!, personal growth, coffee vibes, technomancy, closure, determination, automatons, living with loss, feisty grandma, cozy adventure.
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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sorayaequinn.bsky.social
My debut horror comedy, Teeth, is out TOMORROW! 😍

It's perfect for YOU if you dig:
🦷 super nasty monster smut
🦷 accidental murder
🦷 lots of giggles

I can't wait for you to meet my favorite freaks, Lexi & Benji! 💕

Pre-order here: books2read.com/teeth
Teeth the ebook is coming October 5. This book is a spicy horror comedy with a main character who is an alternative Black girl with PMDD that transforms into a monster, a simpy hot transgender guy as the love interest, and murder hijinks. This is a black and white mood board for Teeth that includes photos of a Black woman with huge curly hair, blood, a man smoking a cigarette, a circle of chairs with people at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, the book cover, two people kissing, a motorcycle, the claw and legs of a monster, and combat boots. An excerpt from Teeth with dialogue between the main character, Lex, and the love interest, Benji. Benji sniffs Lex's hair and says, "Tell me sweetheart: when you ate her, did she taste as good as she smelled?"
October 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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riengray.bsky.social
I will never use AI for my covers, editing, translation, or anything else. It is not only useless to me as an author, it is actively hostile and harms every skill related to book production.

If you're an author against AI used to generate writing, you better back everyone else in the chain too.
November 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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strangehorizons.bsky.social
Our portal is still open to submissions by Indigenous Authors!

Here is more information about our submission process including the link to our amoksha submission portal:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
Fiction Submissions Open Indigenous Authors
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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daestormauthor.com
I now have F*ckboy Karma Series bookmarks available for preorder on my payhip shop! Depending on how these do there might be others in the future. The cost includes shipping. If you'd like to order more than one please let me know as I can offer a discount.

payhip.com/b/Y8tZz
fboy karma series bookmark preorder available now! $4.99 via payhip! bookmarks will ship mid-end November FRONT BACK 2 in x 6 in, matte finish, rounded corners. https://payhip.com/b/Y8tZz
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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azaleaforrest.bsky.social
Witch in the Lighthouse is a warm cup of tea full of magic, grief, friendship, and forgiveness. A Ghibli-esque tale sure to delight. #novella

books2read.com/wil
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💙📚 #books #magic #writing #author
Witch in the Lighthouse by Azalea Forrest. A lavender colored book cover with herbs, broomsticks, potions, chamomile flowers, and a lighthouse at sunset. Words surround the cover, with arrows pointing at the book: forgiveness, novella, warm cup of tea, magic, grief, friendship, ghibliesque. The background of the image is a lighthouse on a cliff overlooking the sea.
November 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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skynightshade.bsky.social Skyler @skynightshade.bsky.social · 11d
My books are free today!!! (And tomorrow although the event is just for today). If you want a Halloween read before October finishes up, might I interest you in The First Bite's Bitter? If you want a variety of monster romances, I suggest following the link in the second pic for lots of free books.
October 31, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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earlronove.bsky.social
Halloween's almost over, but you can read spooky stories no matter what! Get over 25 spooky stories for $9.99! Less than 24 hours before the deal disappears like a ghost!

(ok that was cheesy but you should still check the books out!)
sharkiatwrites.bsky.social Susanne Schmidt @sharkiatwrites.bsky.social · 11d
Uh oh, what's that? The sound of time running through your hands! Halloween doesn't have to be over yet. Make it last all year with the Happy Halloween Flash Sale bundle.

itch.io/b/3311/hallo...

But hurry, it's only available for 24 more hours!

💙 📚 📦 💀 📚 🩸
Happy Halloween Flash sale graphic showing the covers of 28 books on sale for $9.99 until Nov. 1st
October 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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oddlywynn.bsky.social
Happy Halloween! 🧡🖤

#art #illustration
Illustration of a ghost and a black cat walking down a street on Halloween night. The houses are all decorated, bats and ghosts in the windows, jack-o-lanterns outside, a giant skeleton looms in the background. The ghost wears a witch hat and carries a plastic jack o-lantern bucket that glows, and the cat wears a little orange ribbon.
October 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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iliibra.bsky.social
🎃 HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃

Couldn't resist drawing a little illustration for my OCs Riley and Jackson 😊 Jackson is having way too much fun, I think, hehe
A Halloween illustration featuring two boys, one dressed up like a witch, the other dressed up as a vampire
October 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
skynightshade.bsky.social
My books are free today!!! (And tomorrow although the event is just for today). If you want a Halloween read before October finishes up, might I interest you in The First Bite's Bitter? If you want a variety of monster romances, I suggest following the link in the second pic for lots of free books.
October 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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ardenpowell.bsky.social
It's Halloweentime! Come get some queer horror for the weekend! Southern gothic, historical western, horror-romance, folkloric fae, and it's all gay 🖤🎃🍂

Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io
Amz/KU: www.amazon.com/stores/Arden...
The Bayou illustrated cover art: a minimalist black church surrounded by bare trees in front of a full moon or a pale sun, with a staring alligator underneath. Queer 1930s southern gothic horror. In the Pit of Your Stomach: An Interactive Horror Story illustrated cover art. Comic book style drawing of a ramshackle house and shed in an overgrown yard. Stone steps lead to a pit under the house where a giant skeleton lays. A skinny humanoid figure creeps out from behind the house. Colours are solid blacks and sickly yellow-greens. A CYOA choose-your-path horror story. Flesh and Bone: an MM horror romance novella by Arden Powell. Cover art: yellow silhouettes of two cowboys on horseback ride inside the body of a huge black dog on a crimson background under an outline of the Rocky Mountains. Gay 1800s gothic western horror-romance with werewolf body horror. The Faerie Hounds of York illustrated cover art: a woodcut-style wolf rearing up against a dark green background. Gay 1800s gothic romance with a bittersweet ending.
October 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
skynightshade.bsky.social
Reposting this totally not to distract you from the fact that I haven't finished today's
October 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
skynightshade.bsky.social
Starts writing smut faster 😥
lolennui.bsky.social Amy Ash @lolennui.bsky.social · 13d
I’m watching the Netflix nuclear war movie right now and saw this lol anyway wear your nice clothes now, don’t save them
BREAKING NEWS Trump orders Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons 'immediately' The U.S. voluntarily halted nuclear explosive testing in 1992, though it has the ability to resume tests at a site in Nevada. Oct. 29, 2025, 9:46 PM EDT by Katherine Doyle | NBC NEWS
October 30, 2025 at 3:07 AM
skynightshade.bsky.social
I want to write a gay Jaws so bad 😒 too many story lines
October 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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October 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM