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

It’s just like throw any characters and they just go “wtf” and get a “wtf” is response. Arcane is really good, I’m not fully caught up though, I lost Netflix access a few years ago :(

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

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 · 12h

#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 · 12h

#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 · 12h

into What We Do in the Shadows would be worth it just to watch them try to figure out why these vampires are like that.

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 12h

sisters historical WIP + Bridgerton: Anne would endure approximately one social season before deciding everyone around her was exhausting. Eliza would be having the time of her life. Margaret would sit in the corner silently judging every single person there. And honestly, putting ANY of my casts...

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 12h

world almost too easily. Exploitative systems built around magic, huge class divides, revolution brewing under everything? They'd arrive and immediately find themselves involved in somebody's uprising. Rehn's history with prophecy and the powerful using xir as a pawn would not help My Whitford...

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 12h

#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 · 13h

instead. People repair what they can, trade skills, salvage from old caravans and ruins, and build lives around cooperation rather than how much magic someone can provide. Kashra is quietly dangerous to the Empire. It proves people can survive outside the rules they were taught were necessary.

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 13h

#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 · 13h

religious horror novel about a town that gives its sins to a being called Mercy, and planning a newsletter serial told through a small-town newspaper as something slowly takes over the articles, ads, classifieds, and editorials.

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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 13h

#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 · 13h

#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 · 13h

#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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Aspen Rayne - The Colors That Haunt Us coming October 8th @aspenrayne.com · 19h

Oh yeah I have them all scheduled except the day of already.

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C. Lockheart @lockheartfiction.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

keep what it loves as it blurs the line between devotion and obsession. You can find it anywhere you get books, or follow links at my website: www.aspenrayne.com/books

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

#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 · 02/10/2026

fear. Gilded Essence: When a prophecy sends adventurer Rehn after an ancient artifact, xe discovers the quest was a trap and must survive a world where magic is money while unraveling the empire that stole xir power.

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

cosmic horror. Mercy: In a town where every sinful thought is confessed to a captive demon and purged through ritual sacrifice, a devout young woman chosen as the church’s next holy vessel must survive a year of divine punishment while falling in love with the being her faith taught her to...

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

#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 · 02/10/2026

#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 · 02/10/2026

Even when I try to write something light it ends up dark. Which I'm sure says something about me but oh well.

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

#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 · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

Oh I am very prone to spinning a wheel. I keep a list of all my ideas so I can randomize them as needed.

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

#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

70k, I'm already at 90k. It's about Rehn, an adventurer chosen by a prophecy. But it's a trap and Rehn loses everything, including xir magic, in a world where magic is both currency and lifeblood (literally, without magic you die)

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

someone in the community to elected to take in Mercy, a demon imprisoned under the town that takes their sins and makes the town perfect. Until the Year of Mercy happens, where the sins are acted on and revenged upon The fantasy novel i'm editing: I'm doing major rewrites for it, I started at...

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

one grabs me first. I talked about them earlier but they're: The X Times: (name is still a wip) A newsletter that goes out weekly to biweekly that is the newspaper of a small town where there's something happening in the background. Mercy: a sapphic religious horror where every few years...

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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

Oh don’t get me wrong, both ideas are very gay and very horror. But Mercy (the sapphic religious horror) is much harder to describe in the limits of a Bluesky post

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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

birthday to me, my book is released." So why am I struggling to write it and put it in my scheduler? I have no answer, if you have one, I would love it.

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

the 8th itself. Why? because I hate finishing things. My brain fights against endings so hard. I haven't finished shows I know end well because then it's over. (And we won't talk about never starting things, that's a different completely related issue) This last post is literally just a "happy...

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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

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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

an ancient city most people have good reason to avoid. Naturally, my characters have to cross it. (What?? Aspen is talking about another book for the first time in forever? Yeah. Unfortunately The Colors That Haunt Us, isn't a book with worldbuilding as it takes place in the real world)

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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

worlds that are beautiful right up until you look too closely. Basically, if it’s queer, a little weird, and something is probably haunting someone, I’m interested.

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