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This one really hurts. I featured someone only to support their work, and instead of a message or a conversation, I was simply blocked. I’m only trying to do good here. Sometimes that lands harder than the block itself. #Booksky #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #indieauthors #AuthorDiscovery

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Reminder for Featured Author Friday If you’d like to be considered, please DM your work or recommend an emerging author. Otherwise, I curate independently Poetry. Excerpts. Short stories. #FeaturedAuthor #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #Booksky #AmWriting #Unagented #IndieAuthors #DebutWriters

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This is how I write my poetry, scraps, crossings-out, pages that argue with themselves until a line finally stays. And you? How does your process look? #poetry #writinglife #amwriting #poetsofbluesky #firstdrafts #Booksky

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1/3 Feature Thursday @upfromsumdirt A poet whose work moves by sound and association, where language does not explain itself so much as unfold. This is poetry that trusts the reader. #Booksky #Poetry #BlackPoets #PoetryCommunity

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Today at Author Discovery Poetry Micro Flash Thursday Short work. Small forms. Lines that carry more than their length. Sharing poems and flash pieces that prove brevity can still leave a mark. DM me or I curate. 💙🦋 #PoetryCommunity #FlashFiction #AuthorDiscovery #Booksky #AmWriting

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Many have told me I’m only here to charge for services. That’s fucking bullshit. I’m not. They’re running scared — and they know it. #Booksky #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBluesky #IndieAuthors #AuthorLife #AmWriting

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Mouse days good night to all loyal followers. 🦋💙 #booksky

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In 1969, at the height of America’s racial tension, Maya Angelou published I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, a Black woman insisting her story mattered when many said it didn’t. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” #BlackAuthors #BlackLiterature #Booksky

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This is a draft of my poem Mirror Lies. Unfinished. Crossed out. Still arguing with itself. This is what the work looks like before it pretends to be clean. #AmWriting #PoetryDraft #AuthorDiscovery #Booksky

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/3 This week’s Voice and Craft Wednesday Winner is Freya Anduin. Her piece stood out for its calm authority, its gentle confidence, and the way it trusts the reader. A voice that doesn’t perform — it guides. Congratulations, Freya. #Booksky #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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If you have a poem, a paragraph, or a small piece you care about, I’d love to see it. Anything with voice, intention, and craft. This is impossible to curate alone. Submissions are welcome. Thank you for trusting me with your work. #VoiceAndCraft #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #Booksky

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Every once in a while I share something of mine. Just a small moment, a memory, a mirror. Hope you like it. #poetry #Booksky #amwriting #writersofbluesky #Cornerwriter

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Introducing Voice & Craft Wednesday at Author Discovery. A weekly feature focused on narrative voice, style, structure, and the choices writers make on the page. Craft notes. POV. Rhythm. Risk. Submit to be considered or let me curate. #VoiceAndCraft #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #Booksky

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1/3 First Lines Tuesday — Where stories first speak. Today’s spotlight features an opening from unagented fantasy writer Amanda Turek (@acturek.bsky.social). This is where discovery begins. #FirstLinesTuesday #AuthorDiscovery #Booksky

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Author Discovery now features a curated literary theme every day. This is where new voices are found before the world sees them. Submissions are welcome and encouraged. Otherwise, I curate. DM me if you would like to be featured 💙🦋 #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #Booksky #AmWriting

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Good morning. Sun up, road open, coffee steady, and “Far Behind” by Candlebox blasting! This song always reminds me that falling behind isn’t failure, it’s just proof you stayed human while the world sprinted. #GoodMorning #MorningDrive #Candlebox #FarBehind #CoffeeFirst #WritingLife #GenX #Booksky

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1/3 Gwendolyn Brooks did not write about Black life from a distance. She wrote from inside it. Born in 1917 and raised on Chicago’s South Side, she made everyday Black experience the center of American poetry. In 1950, she became the first Black writer to win the Pulitzer Prize. #Booksky

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Introducing: First Lines Tuesday. Where stories first speak. Opening lines. First pages. Beginnings that linger. Tomorrow we’ll be sharing curated first lines from unagented writers. The moment a story takes its very first breath. #FirstLinesTuesday #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #Booksky

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Post 1 Manuscript Monday — Where stories begin. Today we’re spotlighting a work-in-progress from unagented fantasy writer Amanda Turek @acturek.bsky.social Character-driven epic fantasy in the making. #ManuscriptMonday #AuthorDiscovery #Booksky

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Manuscript Mondays Where stories begin. Works-in-progress, drafts, revision journeys, and early excerpts from unagented writers. Stay tuned tomorrow for a brand new curated WIP. New theme every day. #ManuscriptMonday #AuthorDiscovery #Booksky

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This is mine. Written with tears in my eyes, and a lump in my throat.

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I don’t trust the lines that come easily. The ones that stay with me are the ones I had to fight for. Writers—what line cost you the most to write? #Booksky #Poetry #Writer

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“For now I know…” A reminder that love, memory, and distance speak the same language. — Pablo Neruda Shared in the spirit of Author Discovery: honoring voices that endure. #PabloNeruda #Poetry #AuthorDiscovery #LiteraryVoices #Booksky

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2/3 Run by TC Parker & Shauna McEleney, Nefarious Bat Press champions intersectional feminism and bold voices that don’t play it safe. This is indie publishing done right. #SmallPressSunday #Booksky

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1/3 Small Press Sunday spotlight ✨ Today we’re featuring @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social A women-owned indie press publishing queer horror, crime, and dark fiction. Sharp, fearless work worth your time. #SmallPressSunday #Booksky

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Good morning. Coffee in hand, “A Murder of One” playing, words waiting, day wide open. Wishing you a quiet start and something worth writing toward today. #Booksky #Music

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Obsidian Voices @author.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I’m pretty much apolitical. But don’t tell me to stay silent while you grab at a country like it’s property. That’s not politics. That’s bullshit. Hands off Greenland 🇬🇱 #HandsOffGreenland #Enough #SilenceIsNotConsent

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“To make space for trans people is to make space for a world where anyone can be anyone.” — ALOK Visibility is not a favor. It’s a necessity. 🖤 Author Discovery #AuthorDiscovery #ALOK #TransVoices #QueerPoetry #LGBTQLiterature #PoetryCommunity #Booksky

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Obsidian Voices @author.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Good morning ☕️ Installed the washing machine myself after the delivery crew proved utterly incapable. Turns out YouTube + common sense still beat “trained professionals.” Coffee earned. Laundry pending. #GoodMorning #Adulting #DIY #SpainLife #Booksky

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Author Spotlight 1/3 Meet Bronwyn Elsmore — a writer whose work feels intimate in the best way. Her storytelling carries the quiet emotional weight of memory, love, and reflection, the kind that lingers after you’ve put the book down. #Booksky #BookCommunity #IndieAuthors

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Built together. Always free. Always community first. #Booksky #BookCommunity #Authors

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A quick thank-you to @moochie6us.bsky.social 💙 Always one of the first to repost and support our authors. Quiet, consistent encouragement like this is what keeps communities strong. We see you, and we appreciate you. #AuthorDiscovery #Booksky #WritingCommunity

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