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Rose Black
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Author of queer adult fantasy, professional computer wrangler, cheese devourer

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Rose Black @wordsofrablack.bsky.social · Oct 22
Can I offer you an ebook in these trying times? My next book is almost half off as a pre-order special offer. If you like

-Sailing ships
-Found family
-Sea monsters
-Fighting fate
-Captain and first mate mums
-Sweet romance
-Trauma. Lots of trauma

Now is a good time to pick it up.
The cover of fates Winds and Promising Seas with sea serpents either side. Above it says special pre order price and below it says £6.99 / $6.99 until November 19th
wordsofrablack.bsky.social
Counting down to publication anniversary, part 3: the dedication.

This is a book about people who have been broken by their experiences, and the difficult and often dangerous choices they've made to carve out a space for themselves.
text reads: Convincing you to read my book with the dedication - for the misfits, the damaged, the dreamers. You belong
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
wordsofrablack.bsky.social
Day two of counting down to my book's pub anniversary. This story possessed me on an October morning. I wrote it faster than anything I've written before.

It is by far the hardest book to pitch. because really, it's two stories curled around each other, like serpents.
text reads Convincing you to read my book with the pitch: Imprisoned for a crime he can't remember then freed by a sea monster, Lucky finds himself on a ship of misfits and heretics. To keep his freedom, he must uncover what happened ten years ago, and why his new companion seems so familiar...
November 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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wordsofrablack.bsky.social
In a week, it will be the anniversary of my second book coming out, and my second anniversary as an author, so I'm going to count down the days by trying to convince you to read it, starting with the cover - designed by Lydia Blagden and art by Mia Carnevale.

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Cover of Fated Winds and Promising Seas. Text around the outside reads convincing you to read my book with the cover
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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ascrowder.bsky.social
I love this book so much.
wordsofrablack.bsky.social Rose Black @wordsofrablack.bsky.social · 2d
In a week, it will be the anniversary of my second book coming out, and my second anniversary as an author, so I'm going to count down the days by trying to convince you to read it, starting with the cover - designed by Lydia Blagden and art by Mia Carnevale.

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Cover of Fated Winds and Promising Seas. Text around the outside reads convincing you to read my book with the cover
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
wordsofrablack.bsky.social
In a week, it will be the anniversary of my second book coming out, and my second anniversary as an author, so I'm going to count down the days by trying to convince you to read it, starting with the cover - designed by Lydia Blagden and art by Mia Carnevale.

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Cover of Fated Winds and Promising Seas. Text around the outside reads convincing you to read my book with the cover
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
wordsofrablack.bsky.social
I'll commission some proper art if I get some Christmas money, but for now, picrew of my two idiots, Seth, royal bodyguard, empire hater, and now murder investigator, and his bratty trans charge, Prince Laurence.
Drawn image of a man in a dark suit and tie, with dark hair, smiling at the camera. Man in brocade coat and cravat, with blond hair down to the collar.
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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kadoore.com
Sure, it's been a hot minute.
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
From the Perfect Assassin. Chapter 1. The wind tore at Amastan's wrap, trying to slide warm fingers beneath the fabric and unravel the knots. It tasted of heat and dust,
November 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
wordsofrablack.bsky.social
I've written 21k so far this month and the book is now at 60k. Murder train is really flying!
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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danaiwrites.bsky.social
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence! Show me yours if you want

VILE LADY VILLAINS, cover reveal this Friday
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
wordsofrablack.bsky.social
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence! Show me yours if you want
The four walls of his cell had become Lucky’s closest companions. Four grey walls, cold hard stone
November 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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leebaileswriter.bsky.social
Lucifer bee just dropped... 🐝https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c051yjv90dmo
New 'Lucifer' bee with devil-like horns found in Australia
The native bee was found near a rare wildflower, prompting scientists to call for the area to be protected.
www.bbc.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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wordsofrablack.bsky.social
Murder-train book is now up to 50K! I'm really excited about how this book is shaping up. It's fun, it's exciting, it's full of secrets and mysteries, and it's very queer and anti-empire too.

Tag yourselves in the chapter headings.
CHAPTER ONE – MAKE SURE I GET A FANCY STATUE CHAPTER TWO – WHIP ME YOURSELF YOU COWARD CHAPTER THREE – HIS HIGHNESS IS IN A BAD MOOD CHAPTER FOUR – AN INTERMITTANT PERSONAL PROBLEM CHAPTER FIVE – ONLY WANT YOU FOR YOUR BODY CHAPTER SIX – WHAT A LOSS TO THE WORLD CHAPTER SEVEN – BEFORE YOU CAN SAY CHOO-CHOO CHAPTER EIGHT – YOU’RE CUTE WHEN YOU’RE BEING TREASONOUS CHAPTER NINE – IF WE BOTH GET HURT IT WILL BE YOUR FAULT CHAPTER TEN – I DESEVE A LITTLE KNEECAPPING CHAPTER ELEVEN – THE HIGHEST OF THE HIGHER UPS CHAPTER TWELVE – AN OBSCENE NUMBER OF PILLOWS CHAPTER THIRTEEN – I’LL EAT LAURENCE’S CRAVAT CHAPTER FOURTEEN – WHICH WAS BAD FOR SETH CHAPTER FIFTEEN – PURE ACCIDENT CHAPTER SIXTEEN – LESS THAN IDEAL CHAPTER SEVENTEEN – NOT SO SPECIAL IN CHAINS CHAPTER EIGHTEEN – IT WAS ALWAYS FUCKING STARS CHAPTER NINETEEN – PROBABLY NOT EVEN A PRETTY FACE CHAPTER TWENTY – WHETHER TO SHOUT, CRY, OR THROW UP
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
wordsofrablack.bsky.social
Murder-train book is now up to 50K! I'm really excited about how this book is shaping up. It's fun, it's exciting, it's full of secrets and mysteries, and it's very queer and anti-empire too.

Tag yourselves in the chapter headings.
CHAPTER ONE – MAKE SURE I GET A FANCY STATUE CHAPTER TWO – WHIP ME YOURSELF YOU COWARD CHAPTER THREE – HIS HIGHNESS IS IN A BAD MOOD CHAPTER FOUR – AN INTERMITTANT PERSONAL PROBLEM CHAPTER FIVE – ONLY WANT YOU FOR YOUR BODY CHAPTER SIX – WHAT A LOSS TO THE WORLD CHAPTER SEVEN – BEFORE YOU CAN SAY CHOO-CHOO CHAPTER EIGHT – YOU’RE CUTE WHEN YOU’RE BEING TREASONOUS CHAPTER NINE – IF WE BOTH GET HURT IT WILL BE YOUR FAULT CHAPTER TEN – I DESEVE A LITTLE KNEECAPPING CHAPTER ELEVEN – THE HIGHEST OF THE HIGHER UPS CHAPTER TWELVE – AN OBSCENE NUMBER OF PILLOWS CHAPTER THIRTEEN – I’LL EAT LAURENCE’S CRAVAT CHAPTER FOURTEEN – WHICH WAS BAD FOR SETH CHAPTER FIFTEEN – PURE ACCIDENT CHAPTER SIXTEEN – LESS THAN IDEAL CHAPTER SEVENTEEN – NOT SO SPECIAL IN CHAINS CHAPTER EIGHTEEN – IT WAS ALWAYS FUCKING STARS CHAPTER NINETEEN – PROBABLY NOT EVEN A PRETTY FACE CHAPTER TWENTY – WHETHER TO SHOUT, CRY, OR THROW UP
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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cymerafestival.co.uk
Writing is a lonely business?! Not for our panel, who have embraced co-creation with others. Come along to find out how it works.

Join us for Cymera's Writers' Conference on Saturday, 22nd November: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...
October 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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rainewilson.bsky.social
LOOK WHO HATCHED!

New books are in my very own paws & they're looking so damn pretty I can't!

(Please admire the teensy spine orca whomst I adore)

(Also have I shown you my spite dedication? I can't remember)

@solarisbooks.bsky.social @literaryfey.bsky.social
Freshly hatched copies of The Salt Oracle hardback and We Are All Ghosts In The Forest paperback on a green cloth, looking handsome Close up of the base of both book spines, showing a tiny leaping orca on The Salt Oracle The dedication page from The Salt Oracle, that reads: To Mr Short, My secondary school science teacher who told me, repeatedly, that girls weren't cut out for science. My PhD and I beg to differ.
October 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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cj-dotson.bsky.social
Good morning, friends!

Look, a giveaway!

Between now & Halloweeeeeeeeeeen (which is coming up way too soon, gosh I don't want October to end) you can enter for a chance to win a paperback ARC of my upcoming dual-timeline haunted house novel, THESE FAMILIAR WALLS!

www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...
It's time for another GOODREADS GIVEAWAY. Now through Halloween you can enter for a chance to win one of 25 paperback copies of THESE FAMILIAR WALLS! https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/enter_choose_address/419013-these-familiar-walls In 1998, desperate loneliness pushes preteen Amber to ignore the misgivings of her family, particularly her younger sister, when she befriends the troubled new kid in the neighborhood—a boy with dead eyes, a fascination with fire, and no remorse. Their turbulent relationship is brief but creates lasting consequences. Twenty-two years later, in 2020, he resurfaces to kill Amber’s parents, and is in turn betrayed by his accomplice and killed in Amber's childhood home. After the deaths, Amber inherits the house and, in an effort to save money, moves in with her husband and two children, hoping to reclaim some sense of stability in the grief and chaos surrounding her. Instead, she finds that the familiar walls are haunted by more than just bitter memories and lockdown stress. She shifts in and out of dreamlike trances, her reflection won’t blink, and a menacing voice whispers to her from the gathering shadows. Although she tried to brush off the strange happenings as stress-fueled hallucinations, Amber is soon forced to admit that something much more real—and more dangerous—haunts her family. But Amber has deadly secrets of her own, and she must resolve these long-buried truths or lose the life she’s contrived for herself.
October 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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vesperdoom.com
Just popping on to say that there will be audiobooks for both Bloom Mountain and Metropolis Down in the spring.
October 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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lgbtqreads.bsky.social
Fave Five: Fantasy with Transfem MCs

Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane The Calyx Charm by May Peterson Princess of the Pomegranate Moon by Emily Wynne Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson Bonus: These are all Adult, but in Middle Grade, check…
Fave Five: Fantasy with Transfem MCs
Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane The Calyx Charm by May Peterson Princess of the Pomegranate Moon by Emily Wynne Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson Bonus: These are all Adult, but in Middle Grade, check out The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki Smith, and in Young Adult, hang tight for the upcoming Queen of Faces by Petra Lord
lgbtqreads.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
wordsofrablack.bsky.social
Okay I already have plot notes. I don't want to stop writing the anti-empire murder train book, but this is gnawing at my brain.

Maybe I'll outline it...
wordsofrablack.bsky.social Rose Black @wordsofrablack.bsky.social · 23d
I really want to write Silent Hill IP. Or maybe be part of a Silent Hill esque anthology? Places that are shaped by the character's trauma, that shape them back in return. Webs of places that exist of the periphery of existence, until we find ourselves trapped in them.
October 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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markpopham.bsky.social
hey I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere but - if you're using Chrome and you don't want this gross little AI Mode button to pop up in your address bar, paste "chrome://flags" into your address bar and search the flags for "AI Mode." find "AI Mode Omnibox Entrypoint" then you can just disable it!
screenshot of edge of address bar with "AI Mode" button screenshot of the chrome "flags" page with "ai mode" in the search bar; the search result "AI Mode Omnibox entrypoint" is highlighted, with an option box to the right set to "Default"
October 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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jamellebouie.net
the other thing i’ll say here is i am a bit frustrated with the narrative of online radicalization that treats it as akin to brainwashing. it lets individuals, families and communities off the hook for the choices they make and the environments they foster
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24d
this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!
October 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
wordsofrablack.bsky.social
I really want to write Silent Hill IP. Or maybe be part of a Silent Hill esque anthology? Places that are shaped by the character's trauma, that shape them back in return. Webs of places that exist of the periphery of existence, until we find ourselves trapped in them.
October 22, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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tillybridges.bsky.social
right wing bigots have admitted

- the “trans women in bathrooms” issue

- the “trans women in sports” issue and

- the “trans kids getting surgery” issue

were all MADE UP TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY

are you paying attention?
Anti-trans group admits bathroom predator myth is made up Dec 07 2018 • Written by Sofia Lotto Persio Swimmer Riley Gaines Admits She's Just Using Sports to Make Trans Rights "Crumble" Helen Joyce reveals plans to use fears around trans kids as stepping stone to eliminate "trans" in public life by Mallory Moore & transsafety.network
October 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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transiness.bsky.social
I'm just posting this again, because we all need to be completely clear that despite sex differentiation starting at 10 wks gestation, every cell in anyones body is very unlikely to be 100% "male" or 100% "female".

Maleeessss and feeemaaalles ❌
We're all a vibrant mix ✔️

phys.org/news/2025-09...
Why our organs cannot simply be classified as male or female
Biological sex is usually described in simple binary terms: male or female. This works well for germ cells (sperm versus eggs), but for other body organs it is of little help.
phys.org
October 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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heatherpaterson.co.uk
CARDIFF
12:20pm Sat 1st Nov
Bute Place
October 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM