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A. Keyes📚Book Coach & Editor @abigailrkeyes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

If you're not working on your book because you're just trying to survive... I've been there. And you're not alone. Your book will be there when you're ready to return. I promise. 💖

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A. Keyes📚Book Coach & Editor @abigailrkeyes.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Avoid these 6 nonfiction writing mistakes and write your book faster! And, TBH, some of these mistakes are good problems to have... like having too much to say for one book. Read more at my Substack, Inside the Inkhorn. You know where the link is. 😉

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A. Keyes📚Book Coach & Editor @abigailrkeyes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Nonfiction authors! Are you writing your first chapters before you've really determined who your book is for? Make sure to define your target reader before you start drafting. Why? Read my article on Inside the Inkhorn. inkhorn.substack.com/p/your-ideal-nonfiction-reader

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A. Keyes📚Book Coach & Editor @abigailrkeyes.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Villains are having a moment right now. For this blog post on writing villains, I pull from fiction and real life in this time of bro-llionaires and broligarchs. Read on my website or at Inside the Inkhorn on Substack. More below!

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A. Keyes📚Book Coach & Editor @abigailrkeyes.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

If new authors figured out their POV character before they wrote a scene, I swear they'd be able to avoid so many other common writing pitfalls. Check out how in my new post on Inside the Inkhorn.

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A. Keyes📚Book Coach & Editor @abigailrkeyes.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Like AOC suggested, I'm leaning into the things that I do well, and that's writing and educating. Right now, I'm focusing on a series of blog posts that address some of the biggest structural issues I see in draft manuscripts. 1/

Photo of glass inkhorn with a white feather quill, in a color palette of beige and dark blue. Dark blue text readers: Articles on the craft of writing. inkhorn.substack.com, akeyeswriting.com

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A. Keyes📚Book Coach & Editor @abigailrkeyes.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

There really is nothing like making my little social media carousels about writing while a South African billionaire/tech-douche takes over the US government and steals all of our financial information.

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A. Keyes📚Book Coach & Editor @abigailrkeyes.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

h/t @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social By saying that high-risk people can just "stay home" or that they'll "fall by the wayside" or that "I'm over covid," we become vulnerable to eugenicist thinking. High-risk, disabled, and chronically-ill people deserve access to public spaces and community too. 1/

Some people are confused why every "what can I do to stop fascism" conversation has suggestions to mask up N95s. In my opinion the confusion comes from underestimating the endgoal of the people we collectively just handed state power. Genocidal intent isn't always expressed via death march. Sometimes it's a statement made on TV that if you live in a blue state they'll let the fires take you or a gesture paying tribute to eugenicists. Resistance is protecting the people marked for death.

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A. Keyes📚Book Coach & Editor @abigailrkeyes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

May I present to you the most amazing piece of spam email I think I've ever received. I actually worked on Libya in my time as an analyst, before the Arab Spring, which makes this even more hilarious.

Screenshot of email:

nice to meet you I came across your e-mail contact prior to a private search while in need of your assistance. My name is Aisha Al-Gaddafi, a single Mother and a Widow with four Children.

I am the only biological Daughter of my late father, Late (Colonel Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi) was a Libyan revolutionary, who ruled Libya from 1969 until his assassination by rebel forces on 20 October 2011). I have investment funds worth Twenty Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollar ($27.500.000.00) and i need a trusted investment Manager/Partner because of my current refugee status, however,

I am interested in you for investment project assistance in your country, may be from there, we can build business relationship in the nearest future.

Your Urgent Reply Will Be Appreciated if really this transaction interests you. Contact me at this my private email address for further explanation about the funds.

Best Regards

Mrs. Aisha Al-Gaddafi

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A. Keyes📚Book Coach & Editor @abigailrkeyes.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This right here. If you're not wearing a mask in public because you're worried you might "look weird," or "no one else is doing it" or (my favorite /s) "it's not required," what else will you not do if sh*t really hits the fan? 1/

Screenshot from Threads. User destiny_sugarbuns: You can wear a mask in public to show that you're willing to make small sacrifices to protect vulnerable people. Resistance doesn't have to be one big gesture, sometimes it's a choice to not go along with the erasure of reality, a willingness to quietly salt vibes in order to protect the lives of the people considered expendable.

User rspaterson: Everybody says "don't wait until book burnings and camps", "stay aware and don't let them gaslight you", "do something!" But what can I do? I'm genuinely asking, what can I do to help?

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A. Keyes📚Book Coach & Editor @abigailrkeyes.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I'm not leaving Meta. But I am diversifying. My presence on some of these platforms is still small, but I'm working to deliver education and inspiring information to help you write your book, whether it be a sci-fi epic or the next great personal development workbook. Links in alt text.

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A. Keyes📚Book Coach & Editor @abigailrkeyes.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I reached my goal of 10 people registering for my upcoming free class on how to start writing a nonfiction book 🎉 Can we make it 15? Replay available for registrants, of course! www.akeyeswriting.com/write-your-h...

Blue and teal text on beige block background, with photo of desk with laptop and woman writing in a journal and a full latte on her right: Start Writing Your Helpful Book. Gain clarity, build confidence, and create momentum to write your nonfiction book. Free class on Zoom! Tuesday January 14 @ 2pm Pacific with Abigail Keyes

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A. Keyes📚Book Coach & Editor @abigailrkeyes.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

AND my historical fantasy novel set in ancient Egypt! Can 16-year-old Sati survive military training and stop a plot to overthrow the pharaoh? Read and find out! $5 of every purchase of a signed copy goes to charity helping vulnerable people in the US. 5/5 akeyeswriting.com

Book cover for Daughter of Sekhmet with tropes: Ancient Egypt, 1st person POV, Historical Fantasy, Military Training, Queering Antiquity, Political Scheming, Lethal Secrets, Inconvenient Romance, A Meddling Goddess.

Cover features watercolor illustration of main character Sati, a young woman with sun-tanned skin and chin-length straight black hair crouching in a field of blue water lilies, looking left and holding a fighting staff behind her back while the glowing image of the lioness-headed goddess Sekhmet appears behind her.

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A. Keyes📚Book Coach & Editor @abigailrkeyes.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

@timrayborn.bsky.social and I have already raised $170 for marginalized and at-risk people in the US. Help us reach $200 by purchasing a signed copy of my novel, Daughter of Sekhmet, or Tim's novel, The Forbidden Summoning. We're donating $5 from every book purchase! #Fantasy #HistoricalFiction

Image of two book covers: Daughter of Sekhmet and The Forbidden Summoning with website to order: inkhorn-creative.square.site

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A. Keyes📚Book Coach & Editor @abigailrkeyes.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

Lots of people still COVIDing are looking for ways to move their body. So I'm offering a 4-week online class series: Belly Dance Basics! Attend live or do the recordings. If you're "still COVIDing" and want to take a fun, gentle dance class, comment, and I'll give you the discount code.

Woman with short brown hair in her early 40s in a sheer, sparkly black sleeveless dress with black and gold sequinned hip scarf standing beside blue reflecting pool with background of cypress trees. Belly Dance Basics online class: 4 weeks, February 8 - 29, Thursdays 5pm - 6pm Pacific time.

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A. Keyes📚Book Coach & Editor @abigailrkeyes.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

Many thanks to @timrayborn.bsky.social for gifting me these reads from delilahsdawson.bsky.social and drlindseyfitz.bsky.social ! Never enough books about disturbing subjects on my bookcase, apparently. 🤣

Photograph of 2 books—Plague-Busters by Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris and Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson—on a side table with a candle tin, small box with brass filigree and a brass pomegranate.

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