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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd

@theelleboyd.bsky.social

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Writer, bookaholic, Bluenoser, cat lover. 🇨🇦 Links to some of my shorties: https://elleboyd.com/ Unsolicited DMs will be ignored like the scourge they are.

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · Jul 13

A shy store clerk. A plain Jane. A near-hermit. An unlikeable jerk. An ambitious perfectionist. Their common link? A new pill that promises lucid dreams, but delivers scary side effects. The line between dream and reality blurs as they discover its origin. #BluePit📖 #Q #SF

Three vertical fantastical images: Reddish tree in distance, some reddish-coloured grass, what looks like sand; Asian woman sitting holding glowing white orb in blue "room"; city scape at night.

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you for the reminder! 💉

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 2h

You can feel your head pounding before you open your eyes.

-Memory House, a second-person CYOA-type supernatural story stuck between novella and novel length, aka literary limbo.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 16h

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 16 📚

What type is yours?
* Creates emotional tension
* Holds a contradiction
* Disorients the reader slightly
* Raises questions while seeming diffinitive

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat

October #writinglifemonthly Day 16 Share the first line of your book
Build Community - Share. Like.Comment in Group. @traceyleewrites

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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 1d

We've opened submissions for a special online issue of @barrelhouse.bsky.social. The Dirty Issue will be edited and produced by my students at Temple University. Send us your fiction, poems, art. More details on what we're looking for here, on Submittable:

Barrelhouse Submission Manager

Thanks for submitting your work to Barrelhouse! Before you proceed, a note about open and closed categories. If you don't see the category that fits your work, we're not open for that thing. We keep ...

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 12h

It's #ThrowbackThursday! I'm still stuck in the 80s, and I'm okay with it. 😄

Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) (Official Video)

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Penstricken @penstricken.bsky.social · 12h

It's free to submit your #fiction, #poetry and #nonfic about #writing to Penstricken (and always will be), but you can also request a detailed critique of your work and/or a faster response in exchange for a donation of £2 or more. Just our way of saying thank you 😊.

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Issue 5 – SUBMISSIONS

Submissions Open Submissions for our Winter 2025 issue, Glamour, are now open! See below for full submission guidelines for this issue. Please note we are presently unable to provide monetary compe…

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 2d

Are you out there picking up strays? 🐶

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 2d

Awww, someone listened to me! 😂💙 I hope you find it as useful as I did.

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 2d

The main reason I had to rehome most of my plants when I adopted my kitties a few weeks ago.

Tiahnan @tiahnan.bsky.social · 2d

Warmup of my cat desperately trying to eat the plants that make him puke

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations on being published! 🎉 And I found Donald Maass's workbook super helpful.

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 2d

Share a cartoon from the past kids today probably never heard of.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much for the shoutout, Rod! 💙 There are some great authors in this list - everyone should check them out.

Rod Mannix #WritingCommunity @rodmannix.bsky.social · 3d

#WritingCommunity
It's #Thanksgiving in Canada. Perfect time to check out the work of these authors from Canada.
@theelleboyd.bsky.social
@natehendley.bsky.social
@cornellwriter.bsky.social
@wendybayne.bsky.social
@timothyforner.bsky.social
@reneegendron.bsky.social
@taggartrehnnauthor.bsky.social

Check out the work of these highly-rated writers.

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 3d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

Veal
Thelma & Louise
Wrecking Ball

Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 3d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

Tripe
The Martian
Vienna

Ginger Nuts of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 3d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

Sushi
Cocktail
Stairway to Heaven

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 3d

Since today is a holiday here in Canada, when I say "Happy Monday!" I really mean it this time.

a happy monday sign with a smiling sun

ALT: a happy monday sign with a smiling sun

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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 4d

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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E.M. Anderson | the author too hot for BlueSky @elizmanderson.com · 5d

oh hell yeah bless you for this (easy-to-follow steps btw)

Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 6d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 5d

😭 Such a talented performer. RIP.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5d

Keaton was best known for her roles in Annie Hall, Reds and The Godfather films.

Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton dies aged 79

Keaton was best known for her roles in Annie Hall, Reds and The Godfather films.

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 6d

Lots of good vibes coming your way! ⚡⚡⚡ (Just pretend those are vibes)

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 7d

CONGRATULATIONS! 🎉😍🎉 That is so awesome!

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 7d

Just showin' off my socks. Check out those leopards, man.

Orange background, large pattern of leopards, like three between cuff and toe.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 9d

#9 is the reason I'm such a slow reader.

Jerry Smith, writer, motorcyclist, Sophie's dad. @jerrysmith6559.bsky.social · 12d

This reminded me that I once posted something with a spelling error and five minutes later my ex called me on the phone to make sure I was all right. #booksky #amwriting #authors

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 10d

I don't normally read thrillers, but Catherine Steadman's Mr. Nobody caught my eye.

Catherine Steadman on top, Mr. Nobody on bottom, large tall letters. Beach nearing sunset, nice yellows and oranges, silhouette of a man standing on purplish sand.

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Penstricken @penstricken.bsky.social · 10d

There are exactly 20 days left to enter our Flash Fiction Competition for your chance to win £25 + your story and author interview published in our winter issue, Glamour 👠✨. See link for competition rules and how to enter. 👉🏻 Penstricken.com/competitions

#writersky #flashfiction #writingcontest

Competitions

Competitions Winter 2025 Flash Fiction Competition Subtext: the delicate art of saying one thing while meaning another. It’s also one of those things that separates good writing from exceptio…

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 10d

What kind of October is this??

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 11d

A book I didn't know existed that I need in my life. Love Simple Minds. 💙

Graeme Thomson @graemethomson.bsky.social · 11d

My first sightings in the wild. Good to see a stack of copies of Our Secrets Are The Same at Waterstones in Princes St this weekend

A table of books at Waterstones in Edinburgh under the signage Favourite Faces, including several copies of Our Secrets Are The Same

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 12d

If you see this post a picture from your device without explaining it

White painted wooden owl on a little unpainted wooden base on a wooden TV tray. Lotta wood here.

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