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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 2h

One last excerpt before The Colors That Haunt Us is out in the world. Rosenfeld Manor has always wanted people to stay. Whether that means it loves them is another question entirely. October 8. www.aspenrayne.com/books #TheColorsThatHaunt #BookSky #QueerBooks

“The house likes being the place people return to,” she said quietly. “That is not the same as being wanted by it in any way that ends well.”

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 4h

#QueerPrompts #TheColorsThatHaunt Queer history shapes Suzette’s story. Her 1890s relationship survives through letters calling her lover a “dearest friend,” records naming her a “close companion,” and places where that woman’s name was erased. The story is about uncovering what was hidden.

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 4h

#AwesomeCharacters #TheColorsThatHaunt Clara laughs often, but it’s usually dry, strained, or a pressure valve when things get too awful. Genuine laughter means she’s been caught off guard. Suzette laughs less. When it’s real and unguarded, it usually means she feels safe.

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 4h

#LitHodgePodge The Colors That Haunt Us + Crimson Peak: Clara would take one look at the gorgeous haunted mansion and decide she absolutely had to investigate it. Suzette would know this was a terrible idea and follow her anyway. Gilded Essence + Arcane: Rehn and Thara would fit into the...

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 4h

#OctoberWorldbuilders Kashra sits at the edge of the desert, built by people the Empire had little use for. A lot of its residents are magicless or have been pushed outside the systems that decide who gets security, status, and opportunity. So the community has learned to rely on each other...

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 4h

#LGBTQWriteAThon This month is a little up in the air, because apparently I need options. My main project is Gilded Essence, a fantasy novel where magic is both currency and life itself. I’m hoping to make some solid progress on the first draft. I may also spend some time plotting Mercy, my...

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 4h

#WIPSnips Dent, notch, what's the difference? This is right when Clara starts realizing things are weird.

Then, after a hesitation, she crossed to the easel and dragged the back of her thumbnail against the frame beside the altered door, leaving a shallow notch in the wood. A mark. Proof. If it shifted again, she wanted to know exactly where.

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 5h

#FirstDraftFall Each are standalone, though The X Times is going to be a serial so each one is kinda a standalone on its own.

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C. Lockheart @lockheartfiction.bsky.social · 21h

I do! You can order it now and get it on the release date of Oct. 17th! bookshop.org/p/books/shad... #WeeknightWriters

The book "Shadow Cursed" against an LGBT+ flag.

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 22h

#WeeknightWriters I do! I have my sapphic gothic horror novel that comes out in one week, on my birthday! The Colors That Haunt Us is about Clara, a grieving artist, who accepts a residency at Rosenfeld Manor, where she meets her impossible muse, dangerous paintings, and a house that wants to...

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 22h

#WeeknightWriters The X Times: A small town's newsletter documents the community's normal life even as impossible sightings, missing residents, altered memories, and something vast pressing closer with every issue turn its articles, ads, classifieds, and editorials into a record of an unfolding...

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 23h

#WeeknightWriters I think word count, but I haven't decided I think I'll try for the 50k, I know I can do it, but my editing might drag word count down.

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 23h

#WeeknightWriters The X Times: cosmic horror, slice of life, epistolary (more format than genre but still) Mercy: religious horror, fantasy, minor romance Gilded: dark/dystopian/political fantasy

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 23h

Hi! I'm A.M! I write books that center black queer characters. My project is a historical queer horror about a cult victim who has an evil god shoved in his body. My #FirstDraftFall planning is going well! I've been reading books on/that take place in the 1920s and Black horror. #WeeknightWriters

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 23h

#WeeknightWriters Welp I kinda answered this one already. Editing one thing, potentially writing one novel and one not quite a novel.

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 02/10/2026

#WeeknightWriters Hi! I’m Aspen, an indie author writing queer speculative fiction across fantasy, gothic, horror, and romance. My planning is going... okay. I still haven’t fully decided what I’m actually drafting yet, so right now I’m mostly staring at my various WIPs and waiting to see which...

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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

mothed man

various doodles of mothman , with the word mothman in the corner stylized to look like a mothman

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dissected @trepanation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i am experiencing

cat sitting under a ray of light. enjoying the light

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 01/10/2026

#LGBTQWriteAThon Hi! I’m Aspen, an indie author writing queer speculative fiction across gothic, fantasy, horror, and romance. My october goal is to decide what my next project(s) are, prep them, and work on editing the fantasy novel I'm working on.

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Talli 🎃 Shattered City 10/6! @tallimorgan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

5 DAYS UNTIL SHATTERED CITY 🌙 (SCREAMING LOUDER) pre-order? 🫵🏻 books2read.com/cos-shattered-city

5 days until the release of Shattered City (City of Silver, book 2)

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 01/10/2026

I am torn between two, a town's newspaper where the articles tell a story you have to look to find, and my sapphic religious horror. I might do both? Neither. Might work on three different projects tbh. (Currently editing a fantasy novel that I will definitely not be done with in time)

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 01/10/2026

So let's talk about today, I rarely just post on here because I rarely have stuff I think is worth saying and I spent too much time writing to do anything else. But today I finished scheduling my posts through to my books release. Exciting, right? Wrong. I actually haven't done the last post for...

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Bramble ~ Sci-fi and Fantasy Author @thebrambler13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hello, you can call me Bramble! I tell short stories set in a post-apocalyptic Wales, which follow a young girl learning how to be a knight from her adoptive father. They're called Raven & Bear and are free to listen. #LitHodgepodge #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Raven+Bear

Two lists with various words highlighted. The lists are titled "Literary This or That". Doodles of books and flowers are in the background, which has an aged brown paper texture.

[If a word in the list has 1 beside it, it was highlighted].

List 1 :
Paperback 1
Series 1
Tears 1
Coffe
Hero 1
Character-Driven 1
Computer
Sweet 1
Silence
Bookmark
Plotter
Lush 1
Vomit Draft
Morning

List 2:
Hardcover
Standalone
Laughs
Tea 1
Villain
Plot-Driven
Pen & Paper 1
Salty
Soundtrack 1
Dog-Ear 1
Pantser 1
Minimalist
Slow Craft 1
Midnight 1

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 01/10/2026

ONE WEEK!!! The Colors That Haunt Us comes out in seven days, which feels both completely impossible and somehow way too soon. I’m excited. I’m overwhelmed. I keep looking at the calendar. October 8. #TheColorsThatHaunt #BookSky #QueerBooks

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 01/10/2026

Today, in the UK, begins Black History Month. Pictured is a photo of the British Black Panthers, c1970. Learn more about Black working-class struggles in Britain in the 20th-century in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...

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Jeannie (Jay) Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓 @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Do you want a 🎵SPOOKY PLAYLIST🎵 with your witchy Spooktober read? Of COURSE you do! 🫶 Qobuz open.qobuz.com/playlist/352... Spotify open.spotify.com/playlist/7uX... #booksky

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 01/10/2026

#OctoberWorldbuilders The southern desert is not particularly interested in being crossed. Endless dunes bury old paths, sandstorms can erase landmarks, and the heat gives way to brutal cold after sunset. Ruins and abandoned settlements still dot the landscape, including Xareth,...

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 01/10/2026

#WIPSnips #TheColorsThatHaunt No use of injury directly, but Clara is hurting and in pain, so close enough?

Clara could feel the wrongness with perfect clarity now, the way a body feels fever before the thermometer confirms it. Her wrist hurt. Her fingers were cramping around the brush. The headache behind her eye had spread into a hard band across her forehead. And still the relief of painting was immediate, seductive, almost tender.

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 01/10/2026

#QueerPrompts Finished editing one fantasy, started rewriting another. Just about to release my first book and spent most time working on the posts for that. As well as came up with two new projects to start soonish.

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 01/10/2026

#LitHodgePodge Hi! I’m Aspen Rayne, a queer indie author who writes speculative fiction across horror, fantasy, gothic, and romance. Genre-wise, I’m all over the place, but my stories tend to come back to queer characters, complicated relationships, transformation, grief, strange magic, and...

Literary This or That (* means the circles option)

*PAPERBACK – HARDCOVER
*SERIES – STANDALONE
*TEARS – LAUGHS
*COFFEE – TEA
HERO – *VILLAIN
*CHARACTER-DRIVEN – PLOT-DRIVEN
*COMPUTER – PEN & PAPER
*SWEET – SALTY
SILENCE – *SOUNDTRACK
*BOOKMARK – DOG-EAR
*PLOTTER – PANTSER
*LUSH – MINIMALIST
VOMIT DRAFT – *SLOW CRAFT
MORNING – *MIDNIGHT

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 01/10/2026

#AwesomeCharacters #TheColorsThatHaunt Clara writes herself one quiet morning where the house behaves, the coffee is good, and she finishes a painting she actually likes. Suzette writes herself an afternoon at the piano where she remembers every song, every name, and nothing hurts to recall.

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 01/10/2026

The Colors That Haunt Us is almost here, and I’ve reached the strange part where there’s very little left to do except let people have it. New on the blog: A Note Before Release www.aspenrayne.com/post/a-note-... #TheColorsThatHaunt #BookSky #AspenWrites

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 30/09/2026

The Colors That Haunt Us is almost out in the world, and after spending so long with it as drafts, edits, notes, and files on my computer, people are about to actually hold it. Read it. Have opinions. That part still feels wild. aspenrayne.com/books #TheColorsThatHaunt #BookSky #QueerBooks

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When Clara Taylor accepts a mysterious artist residency she never applied for, it feels like the perfect escape. Thirty days in an isolated manor. No distractions. No expectations. Just enough time…

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 29/09/2026

Rehn marks time by thirst, pain, and how much magic remains when xe reaches for it.

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 29/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters #TheColorsThatHaunt Clara thinks she sees herself clearly, but she’s better at spotting everyone else’s problems than admitting when grief is steering her. Suzette knows her view of herself is distorted. Too much of her past is missing for her to trust who she remembers being.

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 29/09/2026

#SongsofSeptember #TheColorsThatHaunt Since I missed so many, here's a few: Day 9: Band For The Story: If I had to give The Colors That Haunt Us to one band, it would be The Amazing Devil. Their mix of haunting folk, messy grief, desperate love, obsession, and beauty that always has something...

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 29/09/2026

#QueerPrompts #TheColorsThatHaunt Clara. Absolutely Clara. She'd start with a legitimate complaint, get increasingly stubborn when no one listened, and somehow end up at, "Fine. Burn it down." Suzette would claim she disapproved while quietly handing her the matches.

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 29/09/2026

#WIPSnips #TheColorsThatHaunt Going to be so honest here, I forgot that the word well was more than just the noun so I went to search it thinking that I wouldn't have any uses. It's been a long morning and it's only 10 am.

She only understood how far she had gone when her brush slipped in her hand and her wrist flared with pain. Clara stepped back, blinking, and saw that the canvas had moved well past the sketch into something close to finished.

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 28/09/2026

Clara would be a lemon tart: Carefully made, sharper than expected, and sweet underneath all that bite. Also liable to crack under pressure. Suzette would be a madeleine: elegant, old-fashioned, and tangled in memory, especially what she’s trying to recover. #TheColorsThatHaunt #AwesomeCharacters

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 28/09/2026

#QueerPrompts #TheColorsThatHaunt The Colors That Haunt Us takes place in the real world and has queerphobia in its historical sections. In the modern day when the story takes place, we only see society through Clara's eyes and with those she surrounds herself with it's perfectly ordinary.

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 28/09/2026

#WIPSnips #TheColorsThatHaunt I had a choice between this and a mention of primed canvases. This one felt much more atmospheric.

Roses.

Their scent hung thick in the air, rich to the point of spoilage, like blossoms a day past their prime. Beneath the floral weight came something sharper: oil paint, turpentine, the faint metallic edge of linseed and pigment left uncapped too long.

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sarah l. hawthorn (A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING '26) @slhawthorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"AI is taking over, it's inevitable-" The only inevitability is the heat death of the universe. Your effort is insignificant, yet you still side with the endless hate machine. "You'll get left behind-" Leave me to the woods, forget my name, and fall into those cold arms alone and unremembered.

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's time to reintroduce The Chronicles of Nerezia as a whole <3 With FRAGMENTED releasing on October 9 and concluding Disc One, I thought we could go back to some basics. Always feels weird to try to encompass so much in so little words 💚 DISCOUNTED ON ITCH: itch.io/s/200863/fra...

The Chronicles of Nerezia. Displays nine covers in a row that form a continuous canva with text below.
An ever-failing apprentice, an anxious artificer lizard, and an amnesiac elf with strange powers travel within a sentient self-propelling wagon, seeking the forest haunting the elf’s dreams. In their quest for answers, they will need to traverse a world haunted by Fragments, dangerous shards that can possess travellers--and will slowly unravel the mystery behind those, too.

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 25/09/2026

So far so good actually. Went up to the mountain yesterday and con today-Saturday but I suspect burn out is coming soon

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 25/09/2026

#WeeknightWriters hi I’m Aspen! My WIP I’m currently editing is Gilded Essence a fantasy novel where magic is life and currency and about the danger of others defining your life. My writing week is not going great, but it’s a Con weekend so prepping my D&D games have taken so much time.

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 24/09/2026

In 14 days, The Colors That Haunt Us will be out in the world. I’ve spent so long writing, revising, formatting, and talking about this book that it’s strange to finally be this close to people actually reading it. October 8. www.aspenrayne.com/books #TheColorsThatHaunt #BookSky #QueerBooks

14 DAYS UNTIL
ROSENFELD MANOR
OPENS ITS DOORS

The Colors That Haunt Us
October 8
Preorders Open

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 24/09/2026

At FanX running D&D one-shots inspired by The Colors That Haunt Us! No book spoilers, just Rosenfeld Manor, haunted art, and bad decisions. I’ll release the one-shot for free after the book comes out! (I’ll just need to do some tweaks post con) #TheColorsThatHaunt #FanX #DnD #AspenWrites

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 24/09/2026

TWO WEEKS until The Colors That Haunt Us! I’m hosting a readalong from Oct. 8 through Halloween. Read at your own pace, share theories, yell about questionable decisions, and visit Rosenfeld Manor with me. Join: app.thestorygraph.com/readalongs/2... #TheColorsThatHaunt #BookSky #QueerBooks

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 24/09/2026

Some choices only look inevitable once you’re already falling. A short excerpt from The Colors That Haunt Us. October 8. www.aspenrayne.com/books #TheColorsThatHaunt #BookSky #QueerBooks

The choices did not feel like choices at all. They felt like different names for the same descent.

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