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📖 THE DOOR BETWEEN NO WALLS✒️
The Night Circus meets The Midnight Library
She/her • writer • lil neurospicy
Quiet wonder in a loud world. Also, a zoo.

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Shan (and zoo) 🐕🐕🐇🐇🐍 @shanreeb.bsky.social · 22d
Publishing industry rejection isn't keeping me down. It's a numbers game. Self-publishing it is.

The Door Between No Walls ~ A Tale of The Night Market.

Quiet magic in our inflammatory world. This story doesn't shout. It whispers.

Crowdfunding campaign coming summer 2026...ish.💙📚 #writersky
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Kami, who’d been fanning herself and looking around like she was seeing the Market for the first time, snapped toward Serena with wide, angry eyes. “Oh. No. He. Did. Not!” Serena drew her head back and raised her eyebrows. Kami’s hair draped behind her as she looked to the heavens and groaned in frustration. “I thought he was just being his drama queen of a self and venting a dumb idea. I didn’t think he was serious!” Serena snorted. “Well, now I know for sure.”
February 14, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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💙📚 Books speak, and this one shouts. Our differences are what makes us beautiful.

That being said... great beginning, slow AF in the middle, ending full of heart but still kinda meh. I give it one splooted Mr. Binx.

#booksky #bookreview #bunny #rescuerabbit
The cover of Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune. A black lionhead rabbit lying under a wood table with its feet spread behind it.
February 13, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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"Vibe" is a bit too rough of a word to describe the Market, but it describes this part of the core story well...

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February 12, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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The Night Market has a BAR
*eyebrows eyebrows*

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Serena inspected her drink as Mick prepped the other orders. The liquid rippled in a deep, clear blue with specks of silver like fairy dust. And it was delicious. Blackberry and ginger and somehow the crisp air of a frigid night.
February 11, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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Animals don't speak in this novel. But that doesn't mean they don't have personality...
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Sated, they returned to the car they got from the noisy place with the flying things, what humans called “airplanes”. The pup loved airplanes. They took him to new, interesting-smelling places.
February 8, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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What are the benefits of negative reviews? I recently read an ebook that wasn't worth the $2 I paid for it; it failed many basic writing principles. Can posting about it be helpful in any way, or just make me seem like a know-it-all a-hole?
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February 8, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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Why do writers love pubs?
Drafts on tap.

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January 30, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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A small snip from the opening chapter of The Door Between No Walls - A Tale of The Night Market.
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Before them lay a quiet clearing, bright despite the imposing branches hovering above. Most creatures would dismiss it as a simple break in the trees, about the size of a large bedroom. Wholly unremarkable. Except for the ground.
February 6, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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This is gonna be like looking into my partner's brain 😏

Wonder if Darcy leaves cabinets open too.

(Jellybean for clout)

#booksky #nextread #neurodivergent #adhd #bunny
February 5, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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A little info about our protagonist...
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They covered almost every surface in every room. Spider plants and ferns hung from the ceiling, ficus and monstera popped out of floor vases, herbs sat on windowsills. Serena looked over at a small cactus holding a prominent position on her desk. It looked fine, of course. It’d been through much worse than a few days without water.
February 5, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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Iggy is (*spoiler alert*) my first trans character. Being cishet, this was new, and I welcome feedback from the trans community (on whatever you can glean from this snort snippet, anyway 😜)

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But that wasn’t all. Iggy seemed so comfortable and confident that Serena couldn’t imagine him any other way than what she knew. A fabulous and bright (and slightly erratic) character trapped in a body that didn’t feel like his own. For all Serena’s challenges with her inner thoughts and feelings, that wasn’t something she could understand. But she empathized.
February 4, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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A small introduction into the man behind the Market...

From 'The Door Between No Walls - A Tale of The Night Market'

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“I grew up in New Orleans, raised by my mother, a fortune teller. And a damn good one, too. She was somewhat of a local celebrity. “My father, now… he was as different from her as two people could be, particularly in that time. He climbed the academic ladder to become a world-renowned physicist. “The two met while my father was vacationing in New Orleans with friends. Despite their differences, they connected in a deep, profound way. Love doesn’t always make sense… but love her, he did. Though they lived in different states, they made time to see each other regularly for a few years. “Of course, mixed-race couples, ah, ‘went against polite society,’ shall we say, and my father’s friends and colleagues worried about his future. They convinced my mother to end their affair since they knew my stubborn father would not do it himself.
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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halt! this is a bookish checkpoint.

last book: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars - Christopher Paolini

current: Somewhere Beyond the Sea - TJ Klune

newest on TBR: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch

next: The Fragile Threads of Power - VE Schwab

#booksky 💙📚
January 31, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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Hmmm... wonder what 'It' is... 😉

A snippet from "The Door Between No Walls - A Tale of The Night Market"

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It suggested a fierce desire to believe in the unbelievable. If someone could escape their day-to-day grind and bring up a specific, happy time in life, why question how it came about?
January 31, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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Crazy name coincidences from my novel, Post #1

There were a lot of strange coincidences with names I chose for my book characters.

#1: I called two Japanese sisters Kami and Sakura.

My partner and I adopted two bunnies... With those names. AFTER I named my characters!
#WriterLife #WriterSky
January 29, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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Am I alone in being disappointed when I see an obvious spelling/grammar mistake or extra word that wasn't deleted in a book's first chapter? Should be the most scrutinized part of your book! It's not a dealbreaker, just ruins the first impression a bit...
#writersky #authorsky #indienovels
January 27, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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Are you willing to share what writer's block feels/looks like for you?

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January 24, 2026 at 2:35 AM
shanreeb.bsky.social
Publishing industry rejection isn't keeping me down. It's a numbers game. Self-publishing it is.

The Door Between No Walls ~ A Tale of The Night Market.

Quiet magic in our inflammatory world. This story doesn't shout. It whispers.

Crowdfunding campaign coming summer 2026...ish.💙📚 #writersky
January 23, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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💙📚I'd forgotten Paolini wrote a space epic. Stumbled on it at the library.

It's HUGE. I didn't expect to love it.

It inspired me to give a new epic I had in mind to write a shot. Exactly the push I needed, at exactly the right time-which, ironically, is one theme of my novel...
#booksky #paolini
January 22, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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I remember reading about how the themes of movies and shows today are less romance-based and more about the self and coping with trauma... And Wayward is the perfect example.

#childhoodtrauma #cptsd #WriteSky #storytelling
October 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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A small look into the main setting of my novel The Door Between No Walls - the ethereal Night Market. A place to connect with the past you may not be done with... 📚💙

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September 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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We can eat in front of the TV, why can't she? --my partner ❤️😅🐕

#greatpyrenees #dogsky #zolarbear

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September 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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A moment pulled from my own experience.
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A lingering apprehension squeezed her chest and would continue doing so for a few hours, if not days, but the worst subsided. Serena closed her eyes, still breathing.
September 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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A short snippet because the rest gives too much away 😁

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August 20, 2025 at 4:20 AM