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Mark Hayes
@markhayes.bsky.social
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Novelist, Blogger, Quantum Pagan
Dancer on the shores of midnight
Unrepentant Goth residing on the fringe of everything
Founding (and only) member of the cravat appreciation society
"A cravat is not just for Sundays"

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · Feb 10
A post Newtonian Magic Victorian Urban fantasy
In Kindle, Paperback, or hardback
#newbook #scifi #steampunk #urbanfanasy #booksky
#magicalrealisum #newreads #kindleunlimited #amreading

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DWMWJ927
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Its not the longest book I have ever written (just 10 short stories across 160 pages), but it is the prettiest
(also available on kindle and in paperback, but seriously its is so pretty in hardback)

#booklover #newbooks #newreads #scifi #scifibooks #steampunk

mybook.to/N40W2
December 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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A reminder of the rules of writing

1. Avoid Alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid cliches like the plague. They’re old hat.
4. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
5. Be more or less specific.
6. Writers should never generalise.
Seven. Be consistent.
December 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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When facing cosmic horrors, which is almost a daily experience these days, it best to be armed. Which is why the Lexicnomicon is now available in hardback
#lovecraft #books #reads #horror
mybook.to/Lexicromicon
September 2, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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The daily quote thing, mostly from sci-fi writers or philosophers (which are often the same)

#quotefortheday #quote #scifi #fantasy #amwriting

Today, a quote form one of my favorite people
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December 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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The story of Samuel Colts younger brother, the cravat, the hatchet, the printer and the oblong box, and how this inspired our dear Edgar Allen Poe to write a story not quite as interesting as the real one...

#poe #bookblog #reads #amreading #booksky #blog

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Dear Edgar 48 ~ The Oblong Box
In September 1841 John C Colt, the brother of renown gunsmith and industrialist Samuel, found himself in the unenviable position of being choked to death with his own cravat. In fairness to the ele…
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December 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
markhayes.bsky.social
The story of Samuel Colts younger brother, the cravat, the hatchet, the printer and the oblong box, and how this inspired our dear Edgar Allen Poe to write a story not quite as interesting as the real one...

#poe #bookblog #reads #amreading #booksky #blog

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Dear Edgar 48 ~ The Oblong Box
In September 1841 John C Colt, the brother of renown gunsmith and industrialist Samuel, found himself in the unenviable position of being choked to death with his own cravat. In fairness to the ele…
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December 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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the joy of a research rabbit hole
John C Colt (the brother of Samuel) killed himself with a knife on the day of his execution
John was a legend in the world of double entry book keeping, and killed a printer in a dispute about a textbook
Proving again accountancy is more dangerous than arms dealing
December 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Metaphysical musings disguised as a story (and a joke about Newtonian physics) in this edition of Dear Edgar

#blog #reads #bookblog #amreading #poe

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Dear Edgar 47 ~ Mesmeric Revelation
Poe, Newton and hypnotism
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December 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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The daily quote thing, mostly from sci-fi writers / philosophers and the occasional Pagan (which are often the same people)

#quotefortheday #quotes #scifi #fantasy #amwriting #quotesky
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
markhayes.bsky.social
The daily quote thing, mostly from sci-fi writers / philosophers and the occasional Pagan (which are often the same people)

#quotefortheday #quotes #scifi #fantasy #amwriting #quotesky
December 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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reinventing the also by page (or possibly self indulgent waffle)
#amwriting #writerslife #writer #writersky #books #blog #bookblog #reads #sciencefiction #steampunk

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The Also By Anomaly
I decide to do something different for Auguries of Euryale, my forthcoming anthology of my own work. I decided instead to write it in a more narrative style, telling a story of my novels and other …
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November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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A look at @templemom.bsky.social book which is a window on humanity soul, our pagan past, and the mythology that is the seed from which we grew

#bookblog #reads #pagansky #paganisum #pagan #books #blog #amreading #art #mythology #myth

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Minoan Dreams
a window on humanity soul, our pagan past, and the mythology that is the seed from which we grew. Yes these are modern interpretations and yes the are based on mere fragments, but even so these sto…
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December 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
markhayes.bsky.social
The daily quote thing, mostly from sci-fi writers / philosophers and the occasional Pagan (which are often the same people)

#quotefortheday #quotes #scifi #fantasy #amwriting #quotesky
December 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
markhayes.bsky.social
The daily quote thing, mostly from sci-fi writers / philosophers and the occasional Pagan (which are often the same people)

#quotefortheday #quotes #scifi #fantasy #amwriting #quotesky
December 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Thanks to the wonderful @katebaucherel.bsky.social recording an audio book version of Lucifer Mandrake: The Esoteric Cricket Ball I have had to do an audio book version of the cover
Much swearing was involved in getting everything to line up again

#books #fantasy #urbanfantasy #booksky
December 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Because of @katebaucherel.bsky.social I need to take a one month free trail of Canva professional
Honestly I am sure people just like making me work...

(I will explain at some point just how wonderful Kate is BTW)
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
markhayes.bsky.social
A look at @templemom.bsky.social book which is a window on humanity soul, our pagan past, and the mythology that is the seed from which we grew

#bookblog #reads #pagansky #paganisum #pagan #books #blog #amreading #art #mythology #myth

markhayesblog.com/2025/12/01/m...
Minoan Dreams
a window on humanity soul, our pagan past, and the mythology that is the seed from which we grew. Yes these are modern interpretations and yes the are based on mere fragments, but even so these sto…
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December 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Buy your significant entity a lovely hardback bluffers guide to the writings of HP Lovecraft this Yule.
Also available in other formats, but the hardback is the nicest
#Lovecraft #books #newbooks #cthulhu #reads #geeky #HorrorCommunity
mybook.to/Lexicromicon
November 25, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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Absolutely fantastic read - a fast-paced thriller of steampunkery and mystery.

#books #reads #steampunk #booksky

mybook.to/zfCv2
December 7, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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Love, death and the wisdom of cats
May contain Inuit saga's, Horticultural demonology, flint-eyed gunslingers, wolf creation myths and the right way to drink brandy
#scifi #horror #fiction #books #reads
amazon.co.uk/Passing-Plac...
November 25, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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editing... a WIP I have let sit for too long...... So anyway came across this :

“Parsomonious Gleb was begat of Elissia Cloverheart and Temberous Feelgood in the second age and was granted by the grace of the King the title of Keeper of Soddimaous Enteritus.@
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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The perfect gothic romance plot... in the middle of a piece of perfection by Poe

#amreading #horror #booksky #blog #bookblog

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Dear Edgar 46 ~ The Premature Burial
In 1844, the second great cholera pandemic (1826 – 1837) had been over for seven years, fear of the disease had not lessoned and minor outbreaks had continued to occur. More importantly perha…
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November 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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As it is black Friday, all my books are at their usual price, the value I place upon them remains the same

I also did not inflate the price of the books the week before so I could discount them today
November 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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I just spent a couple of minuets trying to spell the word gruesome before I realized the reason I was failing and the WordPress spell check wasn't helping me out, was because it doesn't start with a 'c'

no, I have no idea why I tried to spell gruesome 'crusome' either
Dyslexia is my superpower
November 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
markhayes.bsky.social
The daily quote thing, mostly from sci-fi writers / philosophers and the occasional Pagan (which are often the same people)

#quotefortheday #quotes #scifi #fantasy #amwriting #quotesky
November 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM