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Halley D. Roache
@halleydroache.bsky.social
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Writer/artist, working on YA & Adult Fantasy ✨ (She/Her)
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Halley D. Roache @halleydroache.bsky.social · Nov 9
Hiya!
My name's Halley & I'm working on a YA fantasy mystery series & 2 adult fantasy romcoms. I'm also working on 2 contemporary WIPs under a pen name. I love blending humor with dark themes & writing about diverse characters in alternate versions of the UK. Let's be pals 🥰

#WritingCommunity
A half-South Indian, half-Caucasian Canadian in her thirties with tan skin, dark wavy hair and dark eyes. She's standing in front of rolling hills covered in autumn trees and wears a dress with burgundy, gold and black stripes. A mood board with three columns. The first column contains a boy in shadow holding a knife, lightning striking the sea and a dagger embedded in the ground. The second column contains a seaside town and a silhouetted girl standing atop a rock. She's leaning back as crows swirl around her. The third column contains a spooky girl reaching towards the camera, a pair of gravestones covered in vines and the dark staircase of a manor house.
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jeffdeboer.bsky.social
Today I finished the prototype 16th century mouse that is going to be on exhibition at the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg for two years! This museum is a German castle that has one of the best preserved armour collections from the period. I am doing an edition of 12 if you’re interested in one.
November 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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atypicaltiff.bsky.social
Some days the thing is a god, incomprehensible as the edge of the universe. Some days it merely #perches on my shoulder & plays at the corner of my smile.

We met in a lake, its mouth beneath my toes.

Today it's everywhere, breath heavier than the sky. I feel it. I fear it. I swim anyway.

#whistpr
December 2, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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jeremycshipp.bsky.social
My newest creation is this fabric art, wintertide tree that I designed and hand-sewed. The ornament is a mild, almost ineffective charm that will help you receive a hot drink that's almost the perfect temperature. The charm will also give you slightly creepy dreams that feature cranberry goblins.
Here's a lovely pic of a green fabric art tree hand-embroidered with red flowers, white snowflake arms, and yellow stars. The edge is blanket stitched with red floss. There's red paper in the background.
December 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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stephallen.bsky.social
I see I've gotten some new followers, so hello! I guess it's time to do another intro post! 👋

✨I'm a YA & NA fantasy writer. My current WIP is full of demons and pretty dresses, and everyone is anxious and queer.

✨I, too, am queer and full of anxiety (and caffeine, usually).

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A photo collage I made for my WIP using images from Canva. It's in shades of light brown, beige, and white. The top left is a medium brown block that has text reading "Her Gilded Cage". Beneath that is a picture of a cup full of tea sitting on a white blanket. The bottom left picture is a closeup of old books on library shelves. The top right photo is a pair of dried flowers lying on a white background. The bottom middle photo is a feminine figure wearing a cream lace dress and veil. The bottom right photo is an overly formal sitting room with a chandelier, ornate wallpaper, and a matching chair and sofa.
November 9, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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adwills.bsky.social
If it sucks today, and it sucks tomorrow, and it sucks the next day, and sucks next week, and sucks next month, I keep going, and maybe eventually, it won't suck, but that shit doesn't happen if I give up. It's easier said than done. It is. But man, I've got to keep going. And I hope you do, too🍀
November 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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aledthompson.bsky.social
We've decorated so I think it's time to start sharing some winter themed art ❄️
A red fox is sat in a snow covered forest looking out over some snow covered hills lit by moonlight
November 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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elizmanderson.com
it's awards season, and my queer cozy fantasy THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS is eligible for a Hugo, a Locus, and a Nebula!

there's a brief book description in the post, or you can click this link: www.elizmanderson.com/keeper-of-lo...

#author
The Keeper of Lonely Spirits: awards eligibility. Hugo Award for Best Novel, Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and Nebula Award for Best Novel. Text is in a translucent text box against a background of yellow flowers in the sunset, with the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Keeper of Lonely Spirits to the right. The cover features a lonely cottage, surrounded by headstones, with smoke drifting from the chimney, atop a tall green hill dotted with trees and yellow flowers against a starry sky, with the tagline, "Living forever can be mighty lonesome..." An old man cursed with immortality hunts ghosts rather than making mortal friends who will die one day. When residents of an Ohio town beset by a vengeful spirit adopt him as their own, he must decide: leave to protect his heart, or stay to save their lives? Text is in a translucent text box against a background of yellow flowers in the sunset, with the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Keeper of Lonely Spirits to the right. The cover features a lonely cottage, surrounded by headstones, with smoke drifting from the chimney, atop a tall green hill dotted with trees and yellow flowers against a starry sky, with the tagline, "Living forever can be mighty lonesome..."
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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abigaillarson.com
Take 20% off my prints at @gallerynucleus.bsky.social November 28th-December 1st with code THANKS20 🖤
Shop here: gallerynucleus.com/artists/abigail_larson?category=prints
infographic showing vampire lovers in black and white with text that reads "11/28 to 12/01 take 20% off your purchase with code THANKS20 at gallerynucleus.com excludes current exhibition, Disney collection or framing"
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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ethankocak.com
I think most artists hit a point where they’re like, well if I can’t be the best artist, I shall be the most ME artist.
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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jeremycshipp.bsky.social
If you're planning on shopping during black Friday or cyber Monday, why not consider supporting artists, writers, creators? Buy a book, purchase an indie video game, commission an art piece, gift someone a Patreon. Your support means everything.
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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vanessagillings.bsky.social
@gallerynucleus.bsky.social is having a Black Friday sale where everything except Disney products will be off 20% from November 28th - December 1st with the code THANKS20. A number of originals of mine are still available (including this one!) plus prints!

www.gallerynucleus.com/artists/vane...
watercolor and gouache painting of a witch sitting in front of a tree looking up at a blue butterfly waiting for the inspiration for a spell
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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theangrynoodle.com
Made a little bread chef. 🍞 🧶

He’s got little bread hands. 🙌🏾
A happy little slice of bread with a chef’s hat holding a sausage with some lettuce against a dark gray background.
November 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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jennygaitskell.bsky.social
red leaves on the sea
north wind
steals me away

🍂

#DailyHaikuPrompt (north wind)
November 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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wolfskulljack.bsky.social
The Moon Eater- 2020
Digital art, my work. A raven
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
There are still a few of my '26 calendars left in this final printrun.I create each of my 📷s using recent research into the beneficial effects on the brain of looking at plants & items arranged neatly.
Each calendar's 12 high quality frameable prints-make smashing gifts:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
The 12 photos that make up my 2026 botanical calendars-looking at each image is very likely to alleviate anxiety & lift mood
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social
Here is a fairy
drawing of a fairy with antennae on a paper background decorated with moss
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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atypicaltiff.bsky.social
Also waaaateeeer
A dark, shallow creek flowing over rocks and spotted with fall leaves
November 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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adwills.bsky.social
creatives walking through a haunted house of horrors, but it's jsut monsters jumping out asking: you're still working on that? when will it be done? what are you going to do with it? how much money are you making from this?
October 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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lindzmcleod.bsky.social
It's absolutely wild to me that a book I wrote for the love of my life (@pegasusunder.bsky.social, if you didn't already know) woven through the language of flowers and two Jane Austen characters who frankly NEEDED their sapphic freedom, already has over 800 ratings on Goodreads.
My heart 😭
The pale yellow cover of THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET by Lindz McLeod, against a background which fades from pink to green and is bordered by leaves and bright flowers.
November 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
halleydroache.bsky.social
Jenny’s a master wordsmith. The Hollow Pool totally enchanted me 🥰

#writingcommunity #booksky
jennygaitskell.bsky.social Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · Oct 28
Hello lovelies. Ghost Light Lit's Myths and Monsters finds beauty and hope in the darkness.

I'm so excited that my story is included with these inspiring works of poetry and fiction.

Hope you enjoy. 🧡

#amwriting #fiction #writingcommunity

www.ghostlightlit.com/read.html
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Ghost Light Lit
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November 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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caasbrey.bsky.social
Reasons to Visit your Local Haunted Bookshop 1. Open until very late. 2. Staff with nine hundred years of experience. 3. Home delivery by headless horseman or flying fiend. 4. Readings from famous authors. 5. Stay and browse forever.
October 31, 2025 at 12:23 AM
halleydroache.bsky.social
Hey #writesky let’s take a little walk to a haunted beach together 🥰

First we walk through this marsh… (1/4)
A boardwalk zigzagging through a marsh at sunset. In the distance are rolling hills covered in pine trees. (Don't fall into the marsh, Smeagol isn't here to pull you out 😅) We're still walking, and to the right is a small forest on an island. An old fellow once told me that the island is home to some Swamp Soggers (octopus-like creatures with human heads) but you shouldn't believe him because everyone knows that the Swamp Soggers actually live in the water 🐙 Now we've left the boardwalk and we're heading up a little sandy path that cuts between some pines 💕
October 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
halleydroache.bsky.social
Things are getting very spooky & cozy on this server 🎃

Everyone is welcome if you want to pop in - we chat about books, folklore, writing and all-things Halloween 🥰

#booksky #WritingCommunity
An ad for the Writers & Readers of Ghost & Magic Discord Server. There are three picture in a row: a woman reading a book while sipping coffee and sitting amongst autumn leaves a smiling witch with her face half-covered by a cloak’s hood ...and a latte with a ghost made of foam swirling on its surface ☕
October 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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timothyhelmuth.com
my spell worked
a black cat on a yellow rug surrounded by a circle of tiny orange pumpkins
October 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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adwills.bsky.social
by the way, you're not doing nothing. Slow creative days happen. Rough days happen. Believe me, I get it. But staring at your WIP, visualizing, adding a note for later, hell even just italicizing a single word. that shit counts. it's something. you're making an effort. that's never nothing.
May 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM