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Anaïs Chartschenko @anaisbelieve.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Started watching #Heartland and it's bringing on the nostalgia. I can almost feel the brisk Alberta air. Talked to my mom about missing hay baling, of all things! I could even go for mucking out a stall. 😭

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JD Estrada @jdestradawriter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

When a wizard works together with an angel to solve unsolvable cases, weird things usually happen. Oh, and tea. Tea definitely happens. Tricks & Ladders Semi-Private Detective Agency 1st chapter goes live net week on Substack Cover, animation, and music haphazardly made by moi without AI.

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I bet you've been to at least one of this places...here are all the Chicago locations in my new book HER TIME TRAVELING DUKE! @berkleyromance.bsky.social @artinstitutechi.bsky.social @blockclubchi.bsky.social @chicagotribune.com @chicagosuntimes.com #booksky #art #romance

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I'm so thrilled that my magical romcom novel HER TIME TRAVELING DUKE is out in the world! Please consider getting it this week--you'll boost it before it gets lost in the holiday chaos! And please repost! ✨ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/749981... #booksky #romancelandia #chicago #christmas

author Bryn Donovan, outside in Chicago, smiling and looking up, holding her romance novel HER TIME TRAVELING DUKE

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JD Estrada @jdestradawriter.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

It’s always good to do a book event and I wanted to reshare this recap from my presentation of Penumbra at El Book Stop in Santurce. If you’re looking for books to gift during the holidays, remember that shopping local is now more important than ever. open.substack.com/pub/jdestrad...

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Talking Books at El Book Stop in Santurce

First book event in years

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Anaïs Chartschenko @anaisbelieve.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Get to know your mutuals: list 10 random things you like. 1. reading books to my mom so I can hear her opinions 2. my heated vest 3. pins & broaches 4. unique boots 5. libraries 6. casual music nights 7. hoodies 8. red rose tea 9. trees 10. painting

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Writers, MASTER LISTS FOR WRITERS: GOLD EDITION is out today! On the blog, I’m telling you exactly what’s in it, so you can decide if it’s for you. Here’s the link: www.bryndonovan.com/2025/11/04/%... #writesky #writingcommunity #booksky #nanowrimo #screenwriting

Paperback edition (360 pp) of MASTER LISTS FOR WRITERS: GOLD EDITION by Bryn Donovan, on top of sweaters, with a watch, pinecones, and a pair of glasses and some other stuff nearby, so it just looks cozy

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JD Estrada @jdestradawriter.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Last day to get both volumes of the Daydreams on the Sherbet Shore for free. Thanks to everyone who's joined in the celebration. Hope you like the adventures in Draem www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZ5JPYM3

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Anaïs Chartschenko @anaisbelieve.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Working on a short story and also my sanity lied about one of those two things

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Anaïs Chartschenko @anaisbelieve.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

oh, really? .... combining my natural skepticism with enough eyeshadow to blot out the sun

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Eric Klein @ericlklein.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Rainbows aren’t just for Leprechauns: A speculative anthology, Reimaging colors Come see the colors of the rainbow in ways you never expected. This anthology is not for the easily offended. Pre order it at amzn.to/4kaqEU5

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Anaïs Chartschenko @anaisbelieve.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Weird going to the record store and seeing new cassettes. I'd thought my collection were relics.

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Anaïs Chartschenko @anaisbelieve.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The best way to start the new year! :)

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Assaph Mehr 📚⚔️🕵️👻🏺🏛️🤖 @assaph.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Poor Dead Larry - a short #mystery for DS Jack Finkel, Unusual Crimes Squad. Continues here: egretia.com/2024/12/18/p...

Ding dong!
The old lady opened her front door. “Yes?”
“Hello, I’m Detective Sergeant Jacob Finkel, Unusual Crimes Squad. Are you Lorna? Did you report a haunting of your house?”
“Yes, thank you for coming, detective. It’s my poor Larry.”
“And Larry is?”
“My late husband.”
“Larry has come back to haunt you?”
“No. Well, yes, but that’s not what I meant. It’s been a while. Why don’t you come inside, and I’ll make us a cuppa? It might take a moment to explain, and I’m sure you’ll do your detecting better after having some tea.”

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JD Estrada @jdestradawriter.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

“Easy 5-minute craft video” proceeds to show a video that even sped up lasts longer than 5 minutes, has 83 steps and requires knowledge in 6 techniques and to have 14 tools.

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Anaïs Chartschenko @anaisbelieve.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I could have used that extra moon. 😒

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Paul Broks @paulbroks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I’m writing a book about Coincidence. A nice one: The Stones recorded ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ in June ’68. They changed “Who killed John Kennedy” to “Who killed the Kennedys” when news came through, while recording, that Robert K. had been shot. From last year: www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...

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Are coincidences real?

The long read: The rationalist in me knows that coincidences are inevitable, mundane, meaningless. But I can’t deny there is something strange and magical in them, too

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JD Estrada @jdestradawriter.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Always impressed with how hands on @anaisbelieve.bsky.social is with all her work, from cover to what she writes and one of the most unique things is the album interpretations of her work. Artistic doesn't begin to describe her. Want poetry that hits hard? She's one of 3 autobuy poets for me

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JD Estrada @jdestradawriter.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Curious how many people ask me when I'll write my next series that haven't left a review lol. Not to be saucy, but come on, readers, make us writers unable to ignore the demand ;)

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King Meliodas Tech⚙️ @kingmeliodastech.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

And She/he is like "what?"

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Anaïs Chartschenko @anaisbelieve.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The front and back cover paintings I made for my book The Liminal Hymns. I like them anyway.

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Anaïs Chartschenko @anaisbelieve.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

throwback to building my first ridiculously lit up pc

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Anaïs Chartschenko @anaisbelieve.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I've not had anything good to say, so I've been silent.

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Anaïs Chartschenko @anaisbelieve.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I save up strong emotions for when it matters and don't care about the rest. I recently realized I got that from my dad. His favorite word is whatever.

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Anaïs Chartschenko @anaisbelieve.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

"fugue" painting by me I use leftover take out chopsticks, old sponges, and crusty acrylic paint because it's there and I don't want to spend $$$ at the art store. Probably not going in a gallery anytime soon so it really doesn't matter.

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Christie Stratos @christiestratos.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Some things of note on the Metropolitan Hotel breakfast menu from 1859: • children sitting at a public table were charged full price • breakfast wines were offered • lunch was strictly from 1 to 2 p.m. • meat/protein was the main offering —NY Public Library, the Buttolph Collection #19thc 🗃️ 🍜

Metropolitan Hotel paper menu printed in black ink with a border that has large swirly flourishes in each corner. Written on it is the year 1859. The menu says, "Children, occupying seats at the Public Table, will be charged full price. All Meals. Lunches, Dessert, or Fruits, sent to rooms, will be charged extra. Lunch from 1 until 2 o'clock, P.M." The menu includes in its "Breakfast Bill of Fare", just as an example:
Tea. Coffee. Chocolate.
COLD: Tongue. Mutton. Ham. A la Mode Beef. Corned Beef. Roast Beef.
BROILED: Rump Steaks. Pork Chops. Spring Chicken. Tenderloin Steaks. Veal Chops. Bacon. Tripe. Chicken. Mutton Chops. Salt Mackerel. Salmon. Ham.
FRIED: Ham and Eggs. Fish with Pork. Fish Balls. Tripe. Pig's Feet. Sausages. Calf's Liver with Pork. Oysters.
STEWED. Oysters. Hashed Fish. Kidneys. Tripe. Hashed Meat, Boiled Mackerel. Liver. Clams.
The menu is stamped in blue ink NY Public Library Buttolph Collection 1900-1908.

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Anaïs Chartschenko @anaisbelieve.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Congratulations 🎊 👏 💐 🥳 A major achievement and inspiration! Go @bryndonovan.bsky.social go! Cheering for you and here's to many more books!

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Anaïs Chartschenko @anaisbelieve.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I am nerves exposed Synopses firing, pain is Panic searching for a sign, Signs are brains piecing patterns Like quilters and mine are messes Threads ravel gather in the cord to Find if there’s consciousness worth Repeating while seizing please, I am falling I am- I am or I’m not

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Anaïs Chartschenko @anaisbelieve.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

song i wrote & recorded on a really old battered piano anaisbelieve.bandcamp.com/track/hit-a-... So if you have a scalpel If you have a mind Will you send your heart To tell me mine’s alright

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Hit A Nerve, by Anaïs Believe

from the album Darker Waters

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Anaïs Chartschenko @anaisbelieve.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

we are going to miss all the emotions that tie the world together

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Anaïs Chartschenko @anaisbelieve.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Dido's Lament from the opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell to a libretto by Nahum Tate

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Barnes & Noble @barnesandnoble.com · 17/11/2024

Don’t like a book? Don’t read it. Pretty simple.

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Anaïs Chartschenko @anaisbelieve.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚👀 #BookChallenge Day 1

Paul Broks book titled Into the Silent Land travels in Neuropsychology

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Anaïs Chartschenko @anaisbelieve.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I wrote Sailing Toward Us a lifetime ago. Right as it was published, Roe v Wade was overturned, making my novel about abortion historical fiction. a.co/d/b12Flg3

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The House of Pod @kavehmd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

It’s hard to explain but BlueSky feels like the Portland of social media.

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Assaph Mehr 📚⚔️🕵️👻🏺🏛️🤖 @assaph.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

You can also find my new series, Unusual Crimes Squad, on my newsletter. I publish short storied with DI Jack Finkel, the Australian police detective who deals with ghosts and creatures in modern day Sydney and Tasmania. Novel in the works, free shorts here: egretia.substack.com

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Felix The Fox's Newsletter | Assaph Mehr | Substack

Musing from Assaph (and Felix) on the Three-R's — Reading, Writing, and Romans — of Felix the Fox Mysteries. Subscribe for a FREE NOVELLA! Click to read Felix The Fox's Newsletter, by Assaph Mehr, a S...

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Assaph Mehr 📚⚔️🕵️👻🏺🏛️🤖 @assaph.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Publishing! I run @purpletoga.bsky.social, together with @ericlklein.bsky.social. We are currently publishing a series of themed anthologies, collecting #indieauthors of speculative fiction. Check out purpletoga.com for what we published and what's in the works.

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Purple Toga Publications

Specialised niche publishing services

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Assaph Mehr 📚⚔️🕵️👻🏺🏛️🤖 @assaph.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

My novels! 3 novels in the Togas, Daggers, and Magic series, plus a free novella and shorts: telling the cases of an occult detective in a fantasy world based on ancient Rome. (So far, 3 History PhDs have approved 😁⚔️) Latest novel just released, with an intro by Harry Turtledove 🤯

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Assaph Mehr 📚⚔️🕵️👻🏺🏛️🤖 @assaph.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

My blog, including book reviews, stories, and history: egretia.com My reading tastes are... eclectic 😅 But mainly speculative fiction (fantasy, history, sci-fi...)

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FELIX THE FOX MYSTERIES

Visit the post for more.

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JD Estrada @jdestradawriter.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Leading with kindness when everything goes your way is good, but life sometimes tests your resolve and throws a tsunami your way to see if you’re really kind

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