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Gary Kruse
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Indie Author of gripping, gritty thriller/horror fiction.
OUT NOW:
Badlands - 💀🏄🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒
Mistress of the Crows -🐦‍⬛👻🧙🏻‍♀️🧛🏻
Bleak Waters - 👻🛥️💀🔪
Pre-order Ruins here: https://mybook.to/Ruins
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Fancy picking up 3 tales of dark deeds and ghostly goings on, set in stunning British locations, for under a fiver?

Check out the Dark England supernatural thrillers here: mybook.to/Dark-England

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#booksky #horror #HorrorAuthor #thriller #crimefiction #cornwall #norfolkbroads #norfolk
The books Badlands, Bleak Waters & Ruins against a white and red background.
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Hey, here’s another book I liked. You might like it too. #BookSky
#FridayRecs
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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A “brilliantly chilling compilation of creepy tales” with “some delightful modern takes on classics in the genre”, The Mistress of the Crows features 9 “skilfully written ghastly tales” of #witches, #vampires, #ghosts & human #monsters.

mybook.to/MOTC

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#booksky #horror #HorrorAuthor
Amazon.com: The Mistress of the Crows : Nine tales of vampires, witches, ghosts and human monsters. eBook : Kruse, Gary: Kindle Store
Amazon.com: The Mistress of the Crows : Nine tales of vampires, witches, ghosts and human monsters. eBook : Kruse, Gary: Kindle Store
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November 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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It’s two weeks since the release of my supernatural mystery, Ruins!!

Thanks to everyone who’s read it so far! It’s been my best launch ever!

Missed the release? Check out the book here: mybook.to/Ruins

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#booksky #writingcommunity #horror #HorrorAuthor
The book ruins standing on a spooky road
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Welcome to the final day of our blog tour for

༻*·A Virtuoso in America: Adrian·*༺
by Fred Raymond Goldman!

Check out our last tour stops, sharing extracts from this remarkable novel!

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#HistoricalFiction #WWII #BookSky
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November 14, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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The #Horror tropes of Ruins:

🏰The abandoned place
👀 Feeling of being watched
❓The mysterious stranger
👹 Monsters everywhere (but of the human kind)
👩 A “final girl”? Or not?
😱 A sinister warning
💀 Anyone can die

mybook.to/Ruins

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#booksky #HorrorAuthor
The book ruins next to a ghostly hand
November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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I’m upstairs in the Loft at the minute.

The lights are low and the rain is pattering on the windows.

A perfect autumn evening.
a silhouette of a cat looking out a window with rain drops on it
Alt: a silhouette of a cat looking out a window with rain drops on it
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November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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🗡️ fantasy novella
⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals
🏹 gallant knights
👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom
🌲 enchanted plants and forests
🥀 romance and friendship

🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR
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Ebook cover for ‘A Light for the Dead to Follow’ by Rebecca Crunden. Cover image is of a skull surrounded b y red-pink flowers. There are vines at the top beside the title. The title font is black and maroon, the name font is white.
November 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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#BookSale!
Just 99c!

Swan Castle, Cleves, 1521

Nestled deep in a land of myth and legend, the story of Anne of Cleves begins...

This Whiteness of Swans
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This Whiteness of Swans: The Surface and the Deep: Story of Anna of Cleves
This Whiteness of Swans: The Surface and the Deep: Story of Anna of Cleves - Kindle edition by Lawrence, G. , D'Anna, Giusy. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading This Whiteness of Swans: The Surface and the Deep: Story of Anna of Cleves.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Book 1: A daring WWII mission. A pilot who risks it all.
Book 2: The true tale of Nancy Wake, the Gestapo’s most wanted spy.
Book3: A deadly cipher. A traitor in the shadows. A battle to protect Britain’s future.

mybook.to/HeroesofWar
#KU
#WWII #histfic #Booksky
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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This #ThrillerThursday, dive into the dark heart of Cornwall with Badlands, a twisting #thriller of deception, betrayal and conspiracy.

Only 99p/c on #kindle or read for FREE with #kindleunlimited

mybook.to/Badlands2025

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#booksky #crimefiction
Review of Badlands around the cover of the book.
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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This winter I'm teaching Creative Writing Essentials Tues in-person at StoryStudio Chicago!

We're going to talk about prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essay, all of it!

Let's explore what is creative writing, how do we do it, and maintain a practice.

www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
Creative Writing Essentials Winter 2026 with Cynthia Pelayo - StoryStudio Chicago
What is creative writing? What is storytelling? How does one even get started writing? How do I build a creative writing practice? And well, what is it that we even want to write? In this eight-week w...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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#writingcommunity #authors #fiction #author #writing #amwriting #amediting #LateNightWrite #writer
Essential Guide to Navigating Self-Publishing Services
Discover how to navigate self-publishing efficiently, choose the right services, and make informed decisions as an author.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Would you like some free horror books? There's a selection here for you to browse.

#Books #HorrorWriting #BFP
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November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Now [re-]reading:

MG Mason @chaoticauthor.online: The Residents of James Hotel

Read it already [twice] and know it's good. Never wrote a review bc life, AuDHD burnout and scatter brain.

Time to repeat the experience.

A worthy candidate for review #100.

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#AmReading 👀📚💙📚😱
#KindleUnlimited 🩸📚📢
MG Mason: The Residents of James Hotel - A ghost story Book cover
November 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Reviews for authors are like blood for vampires!

Essential for our very existence!

Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating a tad, but if you’ve read any of my books please do leave a review on Amazon/GoodReads.

Thanks! 😎🤙🏻

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#horrorauthor #thrillerauthor #booksky #indieauthor #bookreviews
The Dark England series against a white and red background. Mistress of the Crows against a background with ghosts in.
November 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Good morning #skywriters! 😎🤙🏻

We’re halfway through the week.

Went back and fixed a scene that had been niggling at me in Badlands 2 last night. As written it threw up a couple of plot holes, so these are fixed now.

How’s your #WIP going?

#indieauthor #authorlife #WriteSky #writingcommunity
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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If an enigmatic stranger stirred up the dark secrets of your village…

And the ghosts of your youth returned to haunt you…

What price would you pay to find the truth?

Bleak Waters - a supernatural mystery, out now.

mybook.to/BleakWaters

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#booksky #HorrorAuthor
#horror #mystery
The book Bleak Waters a spooky village scene.
November 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

(Here's the opening of The Grotesque)
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Here's mine (opening of Flowers from the Black Sea)
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

(Here’s the opening of Ruins)
CHAPTER ONE STORM CLOUDS GLOWERED on the wide Norfolk horizon. In the passenger seat of her mother's black Mercedes, Marie Knight flicked a strand of mahogany hair out of her eyes and turned the page in her book, the paper rustling against the front pocket of her black hooded top. She drew her legs
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Chapter 4: Liverpool Horror Book Con is going to be freaking massive 👻

Join 45 indie horror authors from the UK and Europe on 11 April for a day you won’t forget!

We are delighted to announce @killianhgore.bsky.social as one of our attending authors.

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Photograph of Killian H Gore, an author attending Liverpool Horror Book Con
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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November sunrise over The Loft this morning.

Had an unexpected couple of hoers to write so hit 42.5K words on Badlands 2 last night.

Then I watched Point Break. Good night all round!

Have a good one #skywriters!

#indieauthor #authorlife #WriteSky
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November 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Chapter 4: Liverpool Horror Book Con is going to be freaking massive 👻

Join 45 indie horror authors from the UK and Europe on 11 April for a day you won’t forget!

We are delighted to announce @bradthomasauthor.bsky.social as one of our attending authors.

🩸📚😱📚💙
Photograph of Brad Thomas, an author attending Liverpool Horror Book Con
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Long winter nights call for cosying up with a spooky tale or nine…

mybook.to/MOTC

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#booksky #writingcommunity #horror #HorrorAuthor
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November 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM