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Cal Black
@thatcalamity.bsky.social
Author: Legends & Legacies, Shattered Spirits: The Fall of Ishcairn, Cat mom, She/Her, cryptid of the wilds 🍁🇨🇦

https://superstitionpub.com
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And my books! #AMoRaR #BookSky

- characters in Skylark in the Fog deal with grief, trauma, abandonment & self-image issues
- a main theme of Imbued is the MC's journey with her trauma and CPTSD

I'm also having a menty b about encountering the expression menty b for the first time over here... 😅
November 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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#AMoRaR #BookSky my time has come again

- Inner Universe books by @nataliekelda.bsky.social - depression, anxiety
- No Land for Heroes by @thatcalamity.bsky.social - PTSD
- Coal Gets In Your Veins by @catrector.com - generational trauma
- Perception Check by @astridknightauthor.bsky.social - trauma
Daily Challenge 27: Menty B - Share an indie book with mental health rep.

#AMoRaR #BookSky
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
well, I'm sold. I do love me a ghost cat.
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Choosing the thing that is in your budget instead of the top shelf thing you really want is not comparable.

At my brokest, I signed up for bookbub and got freebies and also hit the public domain like a tornado and my kindle has more books on it than I have weeks remaining in my life as a result.
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
... *really*? the ebooks are like 5$ CAD or less.

If you can't afford that, save for it.
Or read any of the free stories on Wattpad, Royal Road, etc. Don't steal from small business that already operate at a loss
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Today's the day! Here is the cover for the paperback edition of METROPOLIS DOWN! Done by the amazing @kjetll.bsky.social, it is everything that I wanted and more besides.

Pre-Order today at: ko-fi.com/vesperdoom
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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33 seconds of Ozzy making biscuits. Sound on for purring.
November 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
We all need to see that there is a way forward that isn't *gestures at the disasters happening*
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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BIG NEWS!
We’re crowdfunding for a special 5th anniversary hardback of Indie Bites!
Sign up to our prelaunch page now to be notified the moment the Kickstarter goes live:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/268...
Coming soon: The Quintessential Indie Bites: Five Years of Fantasy
From quarterly fantasy magazine Indie Bites, a plush hardback featuring 20 of the editors' favourite stories from the past 20 issues.
www.kickstarter.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Very important content for those who love libraries.
It's A Month of Rain & Reads, and earlier today, we shared an article by Cat Rector @catrector.com about getting books into libraries.

Now, we have an article with Cat herself, to give her a chance to talk about her own books.

www.readindiefantasy.com/amorar-inter...

#AMoRaR #BookSky
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
As a person with a weak immune system, more of this please!
I have books to write and people to take care of. I don’t have time to get Covid or a cold!
November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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seascape 🌊✨
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Some more #CrookedMoon pieces for @avantris.bsky.social AD: @suzannehelmigh.bsky.social

These were all a lot of fun, playing around with crazy colours and very dramatic compositions.
#ttrpg #illustration #avantris
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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ok but let's say we want to go *down* the stairs and disappear into the earth for a while to commune with old gods and let the above-world pass me by?
Want to walk into and through an actual Iron Age house…and UP THE STAIRS?
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.

Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
November 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
ok but let's say we want to go *down* the stairs and disappear into the earth for a while to commune with old gods and let the above-world pass me by?
Want to walk into and through an actual Iron Age house…and UP THE STAIRS?
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.

Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
November 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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It's A Month of Rain & Reads, and it's cold and miserable over here.

To cheer everyone up a little, here's an interview with author and gnome enthusiast D. Hale Rambo ( @dhalerambo.bsky.social )

www.readindiefantasy.com/amorar-inter...

#AMoRaR #BookSky
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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yay now theres two! matching siblings <3

#hollowknight #silksong
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
November 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Happy six months to Astrophobia!

This book was my first time contributing to an anthology and I think everyone involved did some damn fine work 😌

If you don't have a copy, the curious can find it here:
books2read.com/astrophobia
November 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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He's on a Mission...from God.
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
just looked outside. Cloudy. I don't know what the odds are of having a cloudy night every. single. night. there's been auroras the last two years, but by god, Ottawa's done it.
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 AM
He's on a Mission...from God.
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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A little aurora & Milky Way combo from last night. Not too shabby for far southern Oklahoma, eh? #photography
November 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM