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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Thanks to the wonderful Coe, I can say TETK is an award-winning novel!💪 If you're looking for one of those to read in October (or to buy now & read in November or December or January or February, or--- Well, you can find it on #sale: books2read.com/u/boB9YL steve-westenra.itch.io/the-erstwhil...

A graphic showing the cover of Steve Hugh Westenra's The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle, surrounded by moons demonstrating the moon cycle. "Winner! Coe's Oddly Specific Book Awards 2025! Best Actor & Best Creature Effects" is written on a ribbon.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🗡️ fantasy novella ⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals 🏹 gallant knights 👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom 🌲 enchanted plants and forests 🥀 romance and friendship 🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR 💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-... 📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... [ #booksky ]

Ebook cover for ‘A Light for the Dead to Follow’ by Rebecca Crunden. Cover image is of a skull surrounded by red-pink flowers. There are vines at the top beside the title. The title font is black and maroon, the name font is white.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's #SapphicSeptember and this is a thread of my sapphic books and short stories! OF SOCIALITES AND PRIZEFIGHTS, a butch/femme sapphic awakening in 1920s London with magic. Cursed to turn into a leopard every night until she finds true love's kiss. Amz and KU: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSC1JHLV

Of Socialites and Prizefights illustrated cover art: two women in silhouette, one butch, short, and white, the femme tall, slender, and brown, dancing in a field of tiger lilies against an orange background.

Sapphic September Readathon bingo card with butch/femme, indie or small press author, and part of a series squares marked.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here's a silly little drawing for today's #SciArtSeptember and the theme of #ruby red forg :)

Stylized digital drawing of a red frog sitting on a green leaf against an abstract blue background that suggests splashing water.

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Annette J @annettej.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Happy release day to one of my most anticipated releases of the year, a beautiful ending to the series www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Today seems to be going well. I've sold 5 books and a merch pack so far, with two hours to go. This feels like a great time to remind you that they are all available from my direct store for UK readers. Including the special offer on the old Re-Emergence cover! www.alankdell.co.uk/store 💙📚🪐

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Annette J @annettej.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I've got this on my TBR, glad to hear it's good

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Annette J @annettej.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Hello Womble, as always I've got a few on the go Our Ways Unmasked by @cblansdell.bsky.social Doe by Rebecca Barrow Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke and If Books Could Kill by Kate Eberle

Image shows a kindle displaying the cover of Our Ways Unmasked by CB Lansdell, along with a mug of coffee

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Annette J @annettej.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This sounds amazing , I need it immediately!

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Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Look what just arrived in the mail!! Congrats and thank you to @thatwilliambeck.bsky.social and #HorrorWritersChat for putting this together in honor and memory of Matt Mason. It looks wonderful and I’m excited to come by the fire (candles lit at home) to read everyone.

Book “THE SHADOWS THAT WE CARRY: A HORROR ANTHOLOGY.”

Cover features a close-up illustration of a face with eyes closed and relaxed expression while fire burns around them in bright red, orange, and yellow against a black backdrop.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 19/05/2026

🌟 OUT NOW 🌟 A stunning anthology from 12 indie-authors, coming May, 19th! Stories of love, loss, breaking ties, finding home, hope of change, bitter-sweet justice. Stories of finding belonging. itch -> klykkebo.itch.io/together-is-... other -> books2read.com/DistantStar 📚💙

Paperback and smartphone with ebook cover of Together is a Distant Star. Cover: A red, purple, orange, yellow cover. Title in yellow "Together is a Distant Star", a sci-fi and fantasy anthology on belonging. Clouds, trees and hills in the background. Two hands reaching toward each other each with a piece of a broken star.

In clockwise order starting in top left corner: “Wicked” child selected as village sacrifice, Golem created for obedience discovers purpose, disillusioned flesh alchemist risks everything, intergalactic agent hunts her terrorist ex, rebels with giant war mechs, empathically bonded noble twins defy family & duty, famished girl tries to escape cannibalistic family, postpartum woman embarks on perilous voyage to assume her dying father’s throne, time-traveling shapeshifter tries to stop genocidal war, unwanted daughter with burgeoning powers breaks cycle of abuse, trans twins on a military mission, alien CEO looking for love.

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Annette J @annettej.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The River Has Roots is so beautiful

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Annette J @annettej.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Good morning Womble! Currently reading The Shadows That We Carry: A Horror Anthology from the authors of the #HorrorWritersChat and for some light relief Field Guide For the Formerly Villainous by Autumn K England

Cover of the Shadows That We Carry shows a drawing of a face fading into red and yellow flames on a black background

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Annette J @annettej.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

If you are looking for some spooky Saturday reading this excellent collection of short stories supports a very worthy cause

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Annette J @annettej.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Have to say it was one of my favourite stories

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Reminder: I have 3 in between short stories for the Reanimator Mysteries FOR FREE on my website. 1.5 is a short Valentine's Day story 2.5 is a vacation that ends in 💍 3.5 is a Halloween party going wrong You can download them onto your ereader or read them online. (PS- these are not standalones)

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Freebies

Welcome to the freebies page! I have several short stories that are free to my readers. Most are short stories that come between books, so please make sure to read the books that come before them f…

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Maya Darjani | SFF author @mayadarjani.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

My pretty proof. Standalone sequel series to The Star-Crossed Empire

Queen Beyond the Rift proof copy on top of a copy of Star-Crossed Empire

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airbusch1 @airbusch1.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Kris - A Fictional Escapist @afictionalescapist.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Join the authors of Together is a Distant Star and I for the official launch! We are so excited to bring this book to light and share these wonderful stories of belonging with the world! May 18th at 9pm UTC and May 19th 12 noon UTC! youtube.com/live/X_sSwD0...

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Together is a Distant Star - Launch Party 1

YouTube video by A Fictional Escapist

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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Coming this summer! They’re back! NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT II: BACK FOR BLOOD available August 18, 2026 @shanehawk.com @tvayyyy.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788213...

AN INDIGENOUS
HORROR ANTHOLOGY
NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT PART II: BACK FOR BLOOD
Edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

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Annette J @annettej.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

That is one creepy story, it definitely lingers

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Iseult Murphy @authoriseult.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The first two books in the 7th Hell series 🧟‍♀️ Zombies 🐶 Clever dogs 🏡 Vacation from hell 🌃 Urban nightmare 🎃 Halloween horror 🔗⬇️⬇️⬇️ 📢📚 #Horrorsky

7 Days in Hell’s front cover focused on the wild, staring eye of a young woman. Her eye rimmed with gore. 7 Weeks in Hell’s front cover focused on the gore rimmed mouth of a young woman. Both books test on a blue blanket with yellow stars.

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Azalea Forrest 📚 A Witch in Isenshire @azaleaforrest.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

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.

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Amanda James (Mandy) @amandajames.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Out in three weeks!😀📚😍 Some stories never end. They wait to be found. Discover the magic hiding between the lines... mybook.to/NCV13Gz #writingcommunity #booksky #reading #magic #cornwall #mystery

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Annette J @annettej.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

One of the most unforgettable short stories I've ever read

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William Beck @thatwilliambeck.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The ebook for The Shadows That We Carry is up for preorder! For those who have missed it; this is a horror anthology featuring tales from members of the #HorrorWritersChat community, raising money for Macmillan cancer in honour of a lost friend. Release date May 7th amzn.eu/d/09Hq0xka

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The Shadows That We Carry: A Horror Anthology

The Shadows That We Carry: A Horror Anthology eBook : Beck, William: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Annette J @annettej.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

What a lovely idea, I've ordered my copy

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

🥀 estranged husbands 💪 close brothers x2 🗡️ an mc who is 100% done 🐺 a love interest ready to grovel 🏫 a haunted, gothic school 🔍 buried secrets ❄️ snowy setting 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/aBMB 💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-strange-... 📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... [ #booksky ]

Ebook cover for The Strange Grey Everything by Rebecca Crunden; cover shows a shadow of a grey wolf above a forest that's dark green and black and foggy. Text is gold and greyish-white.

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Annette J @annettej.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

To say I'm excited about this is an understatement!

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Annette J @annettej.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Another Indie bargain that I can recommend!

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Annette J @annettej.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Narnia, Heidi, The Secret Garden, Black Beauty and slightly weirdly Jane Eyre

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Bella Dunn @belladunn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

What if I told you that the Fae live amongst us? Embark in this whirlwind romance set in the Scottish Highlands as Lizzie and Brun unravel an age-old mystery and are transported to a hidden magical land! Snatch this #romantasy for less than $2.00! Links in comment! #booksky