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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 4h

We've got ghosts, goblins and gothic tales! Witches, warlocks and werewolves! Demons, dreams and Hallowe'en themes! Book sizes range from short stories to longer, full-length novels filled with all the autumn and magical vibes! itch.io/b/3904/chill...

Graphic for the Chills, Thrills & Kills October Itchio Sale. 93 books for $69. A VERY BIG AND SPOOKY BUNDLE of creepy and cosy reads perfect for this year’s Hallowe’en Season! Hosted by Indie Book Spotlight.

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 5h

I love how Deliveroo spams me with notifications like those old school adult pop-ups promising like "hot chicken singles in your area". More galling is them crying free delivery from the last place I ordered, knowing full well I'm in the extended zone, so it's actually £2.99+ Bastards.

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 6h

So Sony has announced QSSR for the PS5 Pro, one letter better than PSSR which now stands for Peasant because everyone's getting it, and the Q stands for Quick. I can't wait for them to announce Rapid SSR, then Super SSR, then Tera SSR Then

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 8h

This VERY BIG AND SPOOKY BUNDLE of creepy and cosy reads is perfect for this year’s Hallowe’en Season! All by incredible indie authors! itch.io/b/3904/chill... [ #booksky ]

Chills, Thrills & Kills October Itchio Sale. 93 books for $69. A VERY BIG AND SPOOKY BUNDLE of creepy and cosy reads perfect for this year’s Hallowe’en Season! Hosted by Indie Book Spotlight.

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 10h

This #SpookySeason, face unknowable cosmic horrors in the depths of space, far from home, where no one can save you and the light of the stars shines pale and cold. THE GOD SUN www.alankdell.co.uk/... 💙📚🪐 | 🩸📚 | 📢📚

Book cover for The God Sun over text of comp titles: Event Horizon x Dead Space x Project Hail Mary.

Tablet mockup of The God Sun on the right in front of a space background of an ominous red dwarf star. On the right are selected review extracts. The text reads: “Brutal, bloody, and disturbing”, “Brilliant read. Well written. 100% recommended”, and “It had that creeping discomfort I’ve come to expect from space sci-fi stories that lean towards the dark side”. Underneath the book, the text reads: “Available widely. Books2read.com/thegodsun.”

In the centre of the image is a tablet mockup of the book cover for The God Sun. The cover features bold distressed title text in orange and red overlaid on a fiery image of a red dwarf star, with tendrils of stellar matter spiralling outward. Between the words “god” and “sun” is a slender silhouette of a spaceship. The book is on a background of a more saturated version of the red dwarf star, and is surrounded by arrows and text about the book. The text reads: Quick read (under 50 pages), doomed rescue mission, malevolent cosmic entity, grisly murders, space madness, cosmic horror, stranded spaceship, space exploration, lost alien civilisation, ancient artefact, and violent cultists.

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 11h

🚨New Bundles Alert🚨 Spooky season's here with two excellent spooky bundles for you to rake with your grasping talons: Chills, Thrills & Kills: 93 books for $69 (noice.) itch.io/b/3904/chill... We Have Always Been In The Darkness: 37 queer horror for $10 itch.io/b/3876/we-ha... 💙📚🪐 | 📦📚

A spooky haunted house with ghosts flying around. Chills, Thrills & Kills 93 books for $69. A very big and spooky bundle of creepy and cosy reads perfect for this year's Halloween season.

We have always been in the darkness Itch-io bundle. 37 items for $10. Horror e-books, visual novels, and narrative games, either with queer character and themes, or by queer authors. Often both.

These stories are dark, we do not deny it. But darkness is familiar, to people like us. Those who told themselves they own the daylight may have done their best to deny we exist...

...but we have always been in the darkness.

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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 14h

This is the perfect start to spooky season! 93 books for $69, there's no better deal out there.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 16h

The Chills, Thrills and Kills October Itchio book sale is live!!! Get this amazing deal of October-themed reads that'll last you until next year! 80+ books for just $69! Less than a dollar a book and all the jokes you can make about the price! itch.io/b/3904/chill...

Graphic 2 for the Chills, Thrills & Kills October Itchio Sale. 93 books for $69. A VERY BIG AND SPOOKY BUNDLE of creepy and cosy reads perfect for this year’s Hallowe’en Season! Hosted by Indie Book Spotlight.

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 23h

And so we return to Zero Day. September started off strong with three sales in the first few days on Amazon and one sale on Kobo, but then I opened my big mouth and went "yippee!" and the book gods punished me by making the rest of the month dry up. Roll on a better Spooky Month.

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Katta Kis (she/her) @kattakis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Halloween time is my favorite. If it's yours too, check out this itch bundle, featuring all levels of Halloween-y fun! 🎃 Contains No Love in LA, my goth enemies to lovers rock star romance w/ a Satanic metal singer & the sexy stern enby who definitely doesn't like her back 😉 📚🌈🌶️📢💙 buff.ly/qnKoVow

Purple background with haunted house, pumpkins, witches and spiders. Text: Chills, Thrills & Kills A very big and spooky bundle of creepy and cosy reads perfect for this year's halloween season. An October Itchio sale, 93 books for $69, Hosted by indie book spotlight

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚀 spaceships 🌡️ dark conspiracies 🎭 brotherhood ❌ no romance 🐛 strange creatures 🤖 futuristic 🪐 other worlds 🐈 a rescue cat 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/schU 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/dust-lightning 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56... [ #booksky ]

kindle cover for dust & lightning by rebecca crunden; image shows a dark planet in purple lighting, a moon in the background, volcano canyons below

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Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As this post is blowing up, I'm legally required to mention that I write books that people generally like. Who knows, you might like them, too. bsky.app/profile/barr...

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JCM Berne; author of Wistful Ascending @jcmberne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mortality Gauntlet. Turn Nine of the Hybrid Helix. Coming October 20. The shadow must fall. a.co/d/04bbyGiS

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 28/09/2026

Stoked that Unsaved made it into this year's SFINCS!

Unsaved cover on a phone, with arrows saying betrayal, a dying earth, novella, tech like magic, ancient android, and out of time around it.

Behind it, a pale sun burns on nothing but a command engraved into the fabric of the Membrance.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

✨🍂🥀 SHORT STORY 🥀🍂✨ 🕯️ dark fantasy horror 🗡️ girls protecting girls 🍃 a forest of spirits 🎭 two sisters 🪦 a deal made in a cemetery 🗝️ children outsmarting adults 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/JeltBy 💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/bailuchien 📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... [ #booksky ]

cover for bailuchien by rebecca crunden; image shows an orange heart with flowers and plants growing out of it, branches come out of the heart's centre and come out of the border too. the title font is dark red and dripping blood. the name font is pale white.

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You like books. You like thing. I have books. Books like thing. You buy books, buy books like thing. Happy because thing good and books good. Here things books like you like! 💙📚🪐 | 📢📚

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My list of comp titles for Legacy of the Gods was definitely easier to come up with than for The Flight of the Aurora, and The Shadow of Arcadia. So far I have: Ad Astra, Chasm City, The Shadeward Saga, Leviathan Wakes, Battlestar Galactica

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Never mind, I remembered the Bajoran Lightship episode of DS9 and I'm going to use that as one. So far I've got: FTL (2017 short film), FTL by Kevin D Randle, Ad Astra, Lightyear, and Explorers (DS9) That'll do.

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trying to find more comp titles for The Flight of the Aurora but everything similar is just called "FTL" 🫪🫠 (I have put Ad Astra, too, because Neptune) I know few people have read it, but I need some help on this one, please! 😄😭

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

Which books can you request at your Local Library? Or read with a Kobo Plus subscription? Library & Kobo Plus Books Thread!🧵 Authors drop your; Genre, pen name, titles Book/ series description (in graphic if needed!) Kobo link (series 🔗 if you've got 'em 😉) Books graphic 🌈📚🪐📚💙

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Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have used up far too many spoons lately, so why don't you treat yourself this weekend and buy yourself a #book? #BookSky #ReadSky #sff #scifi #fantasy #KU #audible #audiobook #ebook

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Conrad Altmann 📚🪐🌱 @conradaltmann.com · 27/09/2026

Want to read the future, but with a twist? How about a past with an oddly limited technology? Or cautionary tales about meddling with genetics? Dive into this bundle of Punk Spec Fic and expand your imagination! Steampunk, Hopepunk, Ecopunk &+ #booksky #punkfiction itch.io/b/3913/punk-...

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Conrad Altmann 📚🪐🌱 @conradaltmann.com · 27/09/2026

“When people come to believe that nothing is genuinely true and that principles are hollow words, then the fuse in their hearts is lit for new eruptions of intolerance and aggression.” #magnificahumanitas pt207

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Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great trailer for my Amethyst Lantern series! The final book, a prequel, comes out October 20 via @press-android.bsky.social. THE DAWN OF DUSK AND TWILIGHT tells the story of how it all began for this Lunarpunk future after the end of the world. #books #sff #scifi #fantasy

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Will Madden @willmadden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Does crocheting multiple Cthulhu stuffies feel like an act of devotion toward The Great Old One? Kinda. A little bit.

A green, red, and light blue crocheted Cthulhu stuffies

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#NewBookDay Just got these in the post. Inherit the Stars was recommended to me by an older gentleman I spoke to at a craft fayre once when I was exhibiting and it sounded great. And I've been on the lookout for Michael Moorcock books for a good while now. 💙📚🪐

Vintage paperbacks of Michael Moorcock's The Swords of Corum trilogy, and James Hogan's Inherit the Stars.

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The 2nd draft is when you find out that the internal layout of the spaceship you wrote with ✨ pure vibes ✨ doesn't make any sense so you need to draw diagrams and realise this means the scene of the characters moving through it will be less dynamic 🙃 Every. Damn. Time 🫠 #writerslife 💙📚🪐

Notebook with an annotated pencil drawing of a spaceship on it.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Starting my reread of The Fellowship of the Ring feels very special today!

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Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Decades after nuclear war, magic returns to Earth. As spies and artists alike discover how to use this new power, one will stop at nothing to have it all for themselves. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "The Hunger Games is like fast food compared to this." Link: relinks.me/B09XJBQMRK Print/ebook/KU/Audible ♥️📚 #BookTok

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

All these newfangled "modern" Star Trek series have a huge problem, and it's absolutely ridiculous. I mean, I watched a bit of Discovery and a bit of Lower Decks but I definitely haven't even TOUCHED any of the others.

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So this new Meta One news re limiting links in posts to twice per month has absolutely borked Facebook Pages. To be clear, it is only Facebook that's affected by this. The call to action button is an actual nice new addition. Shame it's been overshadowed by a metric ton of horseshit.

Screenshot from my Facebook Page showing an ad for Meta One offering the ability to have more monthly links in posts.

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ngl feeling this rn 😂 💙📚

A vicious cycle of reading for book bloggers: Start a new book, procrastinate on it, panic, finish it in a binge, review it, we're so back.

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Azalea Forrest 📚 A Witch in Isenshire @azaleaforrest.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A Bitter Drink is a high fantasy romp full of colorful characters, treason, and hedonistic apathy coming back to bite you in the ass. books2read.com/abd azaleaforrest.itch.i... 💙📚 #writing #highfantasy #books #reading

Rowan Moss: Dahlseid from Gresha. A green skinned plant man with leaves for hair, wearing lavender colored robes and holding a glass of wine. Arrows with words point at the character: wino, ambassador, magic, confident, is a good boi (deep down), idiot, loyal, plant man plant hair, clever, has the hots for everybody (but especially Dagan), hedonistic. From A Bitter Drink by Azalea Forrest.

Clover Ironhammer: Dwarf from Denerth. A redheaded dwarf carrying a huge hammer over her shoulders. Arrows from words say: kind & forgiving (but don't mess with her friends), sunshine, music lover, foodie (and fantastic chef), singing, passionate, the goodest, can and will crush you (with her hammer). From A Bitter Drink by Azalea Forrest.

Dagan Oyibo: Human from Outer Bisia. A dark skinned human male with dreads tied up in a ponytail, wearing a rucksack and holding a staff. Words with arrows point to the character: farm boy, philanthropist, has stick, will use, empathetic, lightweight, patient, vagabond, maybe too trusting (but not too naive), just a cinnamon roll, is a gooder boi (hands down all around). From A Bitter Drink by Azalea Forrest.

Tani Iohel: Elf from Esterfall. A purple haired elf wearing all black with a sword and arrows. Arrows point at the character: grumpy, "no good deed goes unpunished" (does it anyway), intense, has a thing for redheads (one specific redhead), blunt, neither good nor bad, themby (and she/her), spy, magic, will stab you for fun. From A Bitter Drink by Azalea Forrest.

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Azalea Forrest 📚 A Witch in Isenshire @azaleaforrest.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A Witch in Isenshire is a bold cup of coffee made with determination, personal growth, and adventure. A hopepunk story, living with loss and coping with the speed of tech in a once magical society. Now on Audible! www.books2read.com/awii azaleaforrest.itch.i... 📚💙 #writing #books #fantasy

A Witch in Isenshire by Azalea Forrest. An arrow graphic of tropes pointing towards the book cover, with broomsticks, crystals, tarot cards and gears. Automatons, living with loss, personal growth, old wounds, coping with change, hopepunk, cozy adventure, technomancy. books2read.com/awii Also available on itchio and ko-fi.

A Witch in Isenshire by Azalea Forrest. Now on Audible! 7 hours, narrated by Sami Ro. books2read.com/awii Background image is of a snowy forest at sunrise. A media device shows the cover of A Witch in Isenshire with headphones.

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Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just noticed some kind soul bought an ebook of The Child of Fire and Earth. To whoever you are: May your Kindle never run out of charge; May you always have time for just one more chapter; May no one try to interrupt you whilst you're reading. #BookSky

Book cover for fun fantasy adventure The Child of Fire and Earth by Barry Ryerson. A boy in a yellow top sits atop a red dragon and flies towards a rugged coastline.

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Alex Arch @alexarch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Woah!! Am I and award-winning author now! I SoS won best mental rep in the Indie Ink awards!!

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here are some* of the many, many indie books I have thoroughly enjoyed which you should totally read! I have reviews for all of them, so if one looks intriguing to you and you want to read my review, please don't hesitate to ask! Check them out! 🧵⬇️ *I know I forgot some favs. Forgive me!! 🩷

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The Sword In The Stone: Merlin's Magic

Alt: The Sword In The Stone: Merlin magically putting books into his bag

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Doing editing tonight and I've got The Shadow of Arcadia open for referencing for continuity, and I keep getting pulled in to reading random passages. It's honestly a crime that so few people read through to this one. I love it so much. I still consider it some of my best work.

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Saturday 19 September is the perfect day to buy a new spooky book. And the best choice for a spooky book on this specific day is THE GOD SUN. Source: I made it the fuck up. (But you should still buy it)

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Crossed off a bunch more stuff on my editing list today, and yet the word count continues to grow. I was expecting this really, because when I read through the first draft it felt like there was a bunch of stuff missing. It's the sideways replacements coming out longer that are surprising me.

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Disappointed that I never did anything with my law degree, and that I went from retail to being a church office admin worker. Impressed that I took up reading again. Absolutely mind-blown that I got through LOTR finally, and managed to write a bunch of books.

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Confession: For the last decade, I have not been able to sing I'll Make A Man Out Of You from Mulan without singing the line, "With all the force of an angry campfire; mysterious as the dark long of the shoe". And I have no regrets.

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Believe it or not, "all the choice they had had had had no effect on his book sales" is a grammatically correct sentence. If like me, you think that is some bull shit then buy my books. 💙📚🪐

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