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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 4h

I'm game. Not sure if the Chris's have time but they won't mind if we go ahead with it.

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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 4h

That reminds me of that 9ne group chat 😂😅

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 6h

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

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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 6h

Very gentle hugs 💕

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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 6h

The best vampires

Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 6h

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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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 7h

@stefmowords.bsky.social Maybe you would like to do a guest post? :)

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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 1d

Doing another call to #booksky for participation in an event we're doing in November!

If you're a book blogger, reviewer, book lover, I'd love for you to join us with a review of an indie book or guest post about any book-ish topic.

More info ⬇️⬇️⬇️

www.readindiefantasy.com/announcing-a...

Announcing a Month of Rain and Reads… Coming this November! – Read Indie Fantasy

www.readindiefantasy.com

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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 23h

Of course 💕

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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 23h

Yes! That'd be great! A recommendations post might be easy to do?

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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 1d

Doing another call to #booksky for participation in an event we're doing in November!

If you're a book blogger, reviewer, book lover, I'd love for you to join us with a review of an indie book or guest post about any book-ish topic.

More info ⬇️⬇️⬇️

www.readindiefantasy.com/announcing-a...

Announcing a Month of Rain and Reads… Coming this November! – Read Indie Fantasy

www.readindiefantasy.com

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Marie Sinadjan @quillandcrib.bsky.social · 1d

The Hotel Fen book box is ready - only £20 with (UK) shipping 🐺 Comes with a pair of cozy socks, a bookmark, a keychain, sticky notes and a pen, a bookplate with both our signatures, and an art print of Ada!

Box with the book Hotel Fen by Meri Benson and Marie Sinadjan, a pair of socks, a sticker bookplate with both authors' signatures, a red crochet bookmark with a wolf charm, a sticky notes pad, a ballpoint pen, a resin rune keychain, and an art print of black cat with a retro vibe and the words "you're gonna love me"

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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 1d

Helloooooooo 👀

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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 2d

Yeah, my mood is just off. It'll be better in a few days :)

Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 2d

Today is cancelled. I deleted my previous post. If you saw it, you got a sneak peek. If not, maybe I'll try again tomorrow.

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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 2d

Thank you!

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Catherine @catandherwips.bsky.social · 2d

Morning - observe my cottagecore romantic fantasy books yet again 🎉

A TURN OF THE WHEEL - shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

A SONG FOR THE ROAD - www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQ8M7SPB

Tales from Lyrassan cottagecore romantasy books A TURN OF THE WHEEL - potion making in an enchanted orchard - & A SONG FOR THE ROAD - an autumnal quest.

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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 2d

Yes! It's the second story (four more to come, then a novella)

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Penguin Ponders @penguin-ponders.bsky.social · 2d

I'll be honest, this reads a little like an ad for the "EpiSwitch 3D Genomics" product, but still, having something concrete to point a doctor at with will be amazing.

Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 5d

A new blood test demonstrates 96% accuracy in diagnosing myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, offering a potential advance in reliable identification and management of the condition.

Novel blood test for chronic fatigue achieves 96% accuracy

Scientists at the University of East Anglia and Oxford Biodynamics have developed a high accuracy blood test to diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS).

medicalxpress.com

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 3d

Money is definitely the difference between being seen as 'eccentric', or needing the intervention of mental health professionals, because WTF.

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 3d

Every time someone gets on Beyonce's internet to whine about adult fantasy by blaming YA, I they should have to read one (1) recently released YA book first.

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 3d

RIGHT, I think I've got bibliography up to date except for some weird bugs that are with my webmaster
BTW, in case you missed it, I've got two free stories:
-Angsty f/f Annatar/Celebrimbor
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
-Death, grief, letting go and dragons: frictionlit.org/descendant/?...

The Breaker of Mountains and Rivers - Uncanny Magazine

Content note: torture Imawane has lost track of time, hanging in the chains—everything contracting to the pain in her legs, the pull of the chains on her wrists, the broken ribs, the breath that rat...

www.uncannymagazine.com

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Shannon Knight @shannonknight.bsky.social · 4d

Insiders is in Kobo's Thanksgiving Sale (CA, US) for $3.99 from Oct. 9-14. 💙📚

Grab your copy!
Kobo www.kobo.com/en/ebook/ins...
Amazon www.amazon.com/Insiders-Sha...
All stores books2read.com/Insiders

Kobo's Thanksgiving Sale (CA, US). Karasi Kwei, the
captain of Jacks,
has no desire for
a stowaway.
But found family
arrives in many
styles--even
stuck to your hull.
Book cover of Insiders by Shannon Knight. Illustration by Isabeau Backhaus of a young woman floating in space wearing a plant suit and surrounded by a ring of plants.
https://shannonknight.net

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Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · 4d

Many very cool people had good things to say about AWAKENINGS, not the least of which is the queen of ride-or-die m/f pairings, Nicole Kornher-Stace <3

buy.bookfunnel.com/1fbixxop4u

♠️🌈📚 💙📚 #fantasy #QueerAdultSFF

“Awakenings masterfully combines adventure, coziness, friendship, and board games--all the major food groups! If you've been pining for books that center friendship instead of romance, you're going to want this on the very top of your read list. An absolute delight from start to finish, and I'm stoked as hell that this series is only beginning." Nicole Kornher-Stace, Author of FIREBREAK

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Cara N. Delaney 💖💜💙 @caradelaney.bsky.social · 4d

Iris Grey returns to her hometown hoping to heal old wounds. Instead, she finds a cold welcome, a family keeping secrets, and a sinister plot at the heart of the town.

DARK HEART OF ILMOURE - now on sale on Kobo! 50% off for all of October!

👉 tinyurl.com/ilmoure-kobo

🌈📚😱 - 📚💙

The cover for the novella "Dark Heart of Ilmoure" by author Cara N. Delaney. Pictured is a woman in white clothes with her back to the viewer. She is standing in front of a dark, foreboding house, about to enter. The windows are black and there is no view of the inside. The title is in red at the top, the author's name in white at the bottom.

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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 6d

oh hey i have a BOOK out today! The re-release of RAVEN CALLS is available now! How exciting!

After a year of adjusting to having shamanic powers, Joanne Walker has leveled up—and now she’s got to start all over again...

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXQ9GPH...

The cover to CE Murphy's RAVEN CALLS, book eight of the Walker Papers urban fantasy series, features heroine Joanne Walker in a dramatic Irish setting, with a castle and a golden glowing sky in the distance. She holds her rapier horizontally in both hands, as if offering it to someone. A glowing blue magical raven fills the sky above her shoulder. Cover art and design by G&S Cover Design Studio.

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