Eric Avedissian
@scribe.bsky.social
Author, English Professor & Word Slinger.
Associate Member @sfwa.bsky.social & @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social
THE BOOK OF WINE AND SORROW (2025)
Opinions expressed are my own.
Associate Member @sfwa.bsky.social & @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social
THE BOOK OF WINE AND SORROW (2025)
Opinions expressed are my own.
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Eric Avedissian
@scribe.bsky.social
· Nov 14
*initiating promotion mode*
Cover revealed!
The Book of Wine and Sorrow, the fourth and final book in The Martyr’s Vow series, is coming your way Dec. 15 from @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social.
Cover illustration by Claire Leslie.
#books #urbanfantasy #horror #Armenia #mythology #magic
Cover revealed!
The Book of Wine and Sorrow, the fourth and final book in The Martyr’s Vow series, is coming your way Dec. 15 from @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social.
Cover illustration by Claire Leslie.
#books #urbanfantasy #horror #Armenia #mythology #magic
Right now every ebook in the Martyr’s Vow series is 99 cents for a limited time!
The Martyr’s Vow is a horror/urban fantasy series that blends the supernatural with ancient Armenian mythology and folklore. Clicken yon link for more info.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0G2...
The Martyr’s Vow is a horror/urban fantasy series that blends the supernatural with ancient Armenian mythology and folklore. Clicken yon link for more info.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0G2...
Wine and Sorrow (The Martyr's Vow Book 4)
Amazon.com: Wine and Sorrow (The Martyr's Vow Book 4) eBook : Avedissian, Eric: Kindle Store
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December 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Right now every ebook in the Martyr’s Vow series is 99 cents for a limited time!
The Martyr’s Vow is a horror/urban fantasy series that blends the supernatural with ancient Armenian mythology and folklore. Clicken yon link for more info.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0G2...
The Martyr’s Vow is a horror/urban fantasy series that blends the supernatural with ancient Armenian mythology and folklore. Clicken yon link for more info.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0G2...
Voting is now live for the Indie Ink Awards! My novel, THE OCEAN HUGS HARD, is up for two awards: Best Use of Tropes and Writing the Future We Need: Asexual or Aromantic Representation. Any help you can give will be appreciated!
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Indie Ink Awards 2025 - Indie Story Geek
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December 15, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Voting is now live for the Indie Ink Awards! My novel, THE OCEAN HUGS HARD, is up for two awards: Best Use of Tropes and Writing the Future We Need: Asexual or Aromantic Representation. Any help you can give will be appreciated!
indiestorygeek.com/a/indie-ink-...
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The Book of Wine and Sorrow by @scribe.bsky.social is out now!!
You can purchase here: books2read.com/u/bpew96
#booksky #writesky 🪐 📚 💙
You can purchase here: books2read.com/u/bpew96
#booksky #writesky 🪐 📚 💙
December 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The Book of Wine and Sorrow by @scribe.bsky.social is out now!!
You can purchase here: books2read.com/u/bpew96
#booksky #writesky 🪐 📚 💙
You can purchase here: books2read.com/u/bpew96
#booksky #writesky 🪐 📚 💙
This has been a horrible weekend. It’s okay to take a break from social media and hold your loved ones close.
December 15, 2025 at 4:22 AM
This has been a horrible weekend. It’s okay to take a break from social media and hold your loved ones close.
Hey Bluesky!
I’m a speculative fiction author, educator, and New Jersey diner aficionado. Follow me for news about my writing projects, literary musings, and the occasional food photo. I also post stuff about horror, too. #writing
I’m a speculative fiction author, educator, and New Jersey diner aficionado. Follow me for news about my writing projects, literary musings, and the occasional food photo. I also post stuff about horror, too. #writing
December 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Hey Bluesky!
I’m a speculative fiction author, educator, and New Jersey diner aficionado. Follow me for news about my writing projects, literary musings, and the occasional food photo. I also post stuff about horror, too. #writing
I’m a speculative fiction author, educator, and New Jersey diner aficionado. Follow me for news about my writing projects, literary musings, and the occasional food photo. I also post stuff about horror, too. #writing
Rise and shine, you writers, wordsmiths, and scribes! Time to create worlds and torment your characters. Work your writerly magic before the sun rises. Craft your stories, you puckish word-monkeys and ink-stained dream weavers! Onward! 📖✍️🐵 #5amwritersclub
December 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Rise and shine, you writers, wordsmiths, and scribes! Time to create worlds and torment your characters. Work your writerly magic before the sun rises. Craft your stories, you puckish word-monkeys and ink-stained dream weavers! Onward! 📖✍️🐵 #5amwritersclub
News! My novel The Ocean Hugs Hard was nominated for the 2025 Indie Ink Awards in the following two categories: Best Use of Tropes and Writing the Future We Need: Asexual or Aromantic Representation. Thanks to those who enjoyed my novel and nominated me. I am humbled.
December 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
News! My novel The Ocean Hugs Hard was nominated for the 2025 Indie Ink Awards in the following two categories: Best Use of Tropes and Writing the Future We Need: Asexual or Aromantic Representation. Thanks to those who enjoyed my novel and nominated me. I am humbled.
It’s Krampusnacht! Krampus wants you to check out my latest book or he’ll shove you in a burlap bag and beat you with chains. Hey, it’s what he does. 👹
www.amazon.com/Wine-Sorrow-...
www.amazon.com/Wine-Sorrow-...
Wine and Sorrow (The Martyr's Vow Book 4)
Amazon.com: Wine and Sorrow (The Martyr's Vow Book 4) eBook : Avedissian, Eric: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It’s Krampusnacht! Krampus wants you to check out my latest book or he’ll shove you in a burlap bag and beat you with chains. Hey, it’s what he does. 👹
www.amazon.com/Wine-Sorrow-...
www.amazon.com/Wine-Sorrow-...
Time to awaken and write that thing you’ve been putting off. Slap that story onto the page, you bleary-eyed and barely conscious word warrior. You can’t edit what you haven’t written, so write your future opus now. #5amwritersclub
December 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Time to awaken and write that thing you’ve been putting off. Slap that story onto the page, you bleary-eyed and barely conscious word warrior. You can’t edit what you haven’t written, so write your future opus now. #5amwritersclub
This is where I post from:
December 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is where I post from:
The Book of Wine and Sorrow, the final book of The Martyr’s Vow series, is available for preorder. Publication date is Dec. 15.
Armand must summon the courage of his ancestors and sacrifice himself for love, or the Scribe of Death will come for his beloved.
Preorder here: books2read.com/u/bpew96
Armand must summon the courage of his ancestors and sacrifice himself for love, or the Scribe of Death will come for his beloved.
Preorder here: books2read.com/u/bpew96
November 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The Book of Wine and Sorrow, the final book of The Martyr’s Vow series, is available for preorder. Publication date is Dec. 15.
Armand must summon the courage of his ancestors and sacrifice himself for love, or the Scribe of Death will come for his beloved.
Preorder here: books2read.com/u/bpew96
Armand must summon the courage of his ancestors and sacrifice himself for love, or the Scribe of Death will come for his beloved.
Preorder here: books2read.com/u/bpew96
Sweet potato pie > pumpkin pie
November 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Sweet potato pie > pumpkin pie
Tuesday’s fortune cookie tells me tomorrow will be the best day ever. 🥠
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Tuesday’s fortune cookie tells me tomorrow will be the best day ever. 🥠
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I have done another artwork for @scribe.bsky.social
The fusion of fantasy and history is an incredible armored knight, a winged wolf, a flaming stallion, and the wise scholar all turning this land into a mythic world. 🗺️✨
Had a great time working on it!!
The fusion of fantasy and history is an incredible armored knight, a winged wolf, a flaming stallion, and the wise scholar all turning this land into a mythic world. 🗺️✨
Had a great time working on it!!
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I have done another artwork for @scribe.bsky.social
The fusion of fantasy and history is an incredible armored knight, a winged wolf, a flaming stallion, and the wise scholar all turning this land into a mythic world. 🗺️✨
Had a great time working on it!!
The fusion of fantasy and history is an incredible armored knight, a winged wolf, a flaming stallion, and the wise scholar all turning this land into a mythic world. 🗺️✨
Had a great time working on it!!
I am now on Substack! Follow for all your weird fiction/writerly needs: ericavedissian.substack.com
Eric Avedissian | Substack
I’m a speculative fiction author and adjunct professor. Member of SFWA and HWA. Opinions are my own.
ericavedissian.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I am now on Substack! Follow for all your weird fiction/writerly needs: ericavedissian.substack.com
I had a book signing and reading at Philcon today! I read an excerpt from my upcoming short story “Kindness is the Rarest Thing,” which will be published next month in Interesting Times: A Hopepunk Anthology by End of the World Publishing.
November 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I had a book signing and reading at Philcon today! I read an excerpt from my upcoming short story “Kindness is the Rarest Thing,” which will be published next month in Interesting Times: A Hopepunk Anthology by End of the World Publishing.
I can confidently say that I’ve sold more books than John Fetterman.
"The Barnes and Noble in York—where Fetterman was born and raised—had sold zero copies. The Barnes and Noble in Philadelphia had sold two copies. An independent store in Pittsburgh and an independent store in Philadelphia each told me they weren’t stocking Unfettered" defector.com/john-fetterm...
John Fetterman's Memoir Is As Low-Effort As His Senate Tenure | Defector
John Fetterman’s just-released memoir, Unfettered, argues that he’s turned a corner and has everything under control. Fetterman was a “stubborn asshole” (his words), he was clinically depressed, he wa...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I can confidently say that I’ve sold more books than John Fetterman.
I hate how the rich and powerful get away with everything and we plebs can only watch.
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I hate how the rich and powerful get away with everything and we plebs can only watch.
Drop something BLACK & WHITE 🖤🤍
November 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Drop something BLACK & WHITE 🖤🤍
Reposted by Eric Avedissian
Ahhhhhh! Excite!
Eric really does write masterfully and you need to check it!
#booksky #writesky 💙
@scribe.bsky.social
Eric really does write masterfully and you need to check it!
#booksky #writesky 💙
@scribe.bsky.social
Pre-order! Pre-order! PRE-ORDER!!!
We are pleased to present the opportunity for everyone to pre-order Eric Avedissian's (@scribe.bsky.social ) newest novel, The Book of Wine and Sorrow, the final installment of The Martyr's Vow series.
#booksky #writesky 💙
We are pleased to present the opportunity for everyone to pre-order Eric Avedissian's (@scribe.bsky.social ) newest novel, The Book of Wine and Sorrow, the final installment of The Martyr's Vow series.
#booksky #writesky 💙
November 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Ahhhhhh! Excite!
Eric really does write masterfully and you need to check it!
#booksky #writesky 💙
@scribe.bsky.social
Eric really does write masterfully and you need to check it!
#booksky #writesky 💙
@scribe.bsky.social
Reposted by Eric Avedissian
Pre-order! Pre-order! PRE-ORDER!!!
We are pleased to present the opportunity for everyone to pre-order Eric Avedissian's (@scribe.bsky.social ) newest novel, The Book of Wine and Sorrow, the final installment of The Martyr's Vow series.
#booksky #writesky 💙
We are pleased to present the opportunity for everyone to pre-order Eric Avedissian's (@scribe.bsky.social ) newest novel, The Book of Wine and Sorrow, the final installment of The Martyr's Vow series.
#booksky #writesky 💙
November 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Pre-order! Pre-order! PRE-ORDER!!!
We are pleased to present the opportunity for everyone to pre-order Eric Avedissian's (@scribe.bsky.social ) newest novel, The Book of Wine and Sorrow, the final installment of The Martyr's Vow series.
#booksky #writesky 💙
We are pleased to present the opportunity for everyone to pre-order Eric Avedissian's (@scribe.bsky.social ) newest novel, The Book of Wine and Sorrow, the final installment of The Martyr's Vow series.
#booksky #writesky 💙
*initiating promotion mode*
Cover revealed!
The Book of Wine and Sorrow, the fourth and final book in The Martyr’s Vow series, is coming your way Dec. 15 from @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social.
Cover illustration by Claire Leslie.
#books #urbanfantasy #horror #Armenia #mythology #magic
Cover revealed!
The Book of Wine and Sorrow, the fourth and final book in The Martyr’s Vow series, is coming your way Dec. 15 from @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social.
Cover illustration by Claire Leslie.
#books #urbanfantasy #horror #Armenia #mythology #magic
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
*initiating promotion mode*
Cover revealed!
The Book of Wine and Sorrow, the fourth and final book in The Martyr’s Vow series, is coming your way Dec. 15 from @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social.
Cover illustration by Claire Leslie.
#books #urbanfantasy #horror #Armenia #mythology #magic
Cover revealed!
The Book of Wine and Sorrow, the fourth and final book in The Martyr’s Vow series, is coming your way Dec. 15 from @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social.
Cover illustration by Claire Leslie.
#books #urbanfantasy #horror #Armenia #mythology #magic
I’m thrilled to reveal the full cover for The Book of Wine and Sorrow, Book 4 of The Martyr’s Vow series! Illustrator Claire Leslie did a remarkable job with this cover, revealing symbolism and detail from Armenian myth and lore. Preorder link in comments.
November 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I’m thrilled to reveal the full cover for The Book of Wine and Sorrow, Book 4 of The Martyr’s Vow series! Illustrator Claire Leslie did a remarkable job with this cover, revealing symbolism and detail from Armenian myth and lore. Preorder link in comments.
Countdown to the cover reveal! What horrors await with this detail from THE BOOK OF WINE AND SORROW’s cover? Full cover reveal is Saturday, Nov. 15! #coverart #book #urbanfantasy #horror
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Countdown to the cover reveal! What horrors await with this detail from THE BOOK OF WINE AND SORROW’s cover? Full cover reveal is Saturday, Nov. 15! #coverart #book #urbanfantasy #horror
Last week I signed a contract for my story “Rage Room,” which will be published June 2026 in the Villains anthology from Shadow Spark Publishing!
November 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Last week I signed a contract for my story “Rage Room,” which will be published June 2026 in the Villains anthology from Shadow Spark Publishing!