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Halley D. Roache
@halleydroache.bsky.social
Writer/artist, working on YA & Adult Fantasy ✨ (She/Her)
https://linktr.ee/halleydroache
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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
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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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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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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.
December 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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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).

#WritingCommunity
November 9, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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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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We've decorated so I think it's time to start sharing some winter themed art ❄️
November 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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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
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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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
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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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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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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@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...
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Made a little bread chef. 🍞 🧶

He’s got little bread hands. 🙌🏾
November 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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red leaves on the sea
north wind
steals me away

🍂

#DailyHaikuPrompt (north wind)
November 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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The Moon Eater- 2020
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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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...
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Here is a fairy
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Also waaaateeeer
November 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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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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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 😭
November 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Jenny’s a master wordsmith. The Hollow Pool totally enchanted me 🥰

#writingcommunity #booksky
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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October 31, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Hey #writesky let’s take a little walk to a haunted beach together 🥰

First we walk through this marsh… (1/4)
October 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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
October 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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my spell worked
October 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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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