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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff"

@authorlevai.bsky.social
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She/her. PhD in Egyptology, now I write fiction. The Night Library of Sternendach is my novella in sonnets. The Glass Garden is space horror and family drama. Will boost almost anything with a bat in it. linktr.ee/authorlevai

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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It's that time of year again. If you're a human artist who makes such images and you haven't put together a calendar that's fine, but you're leaving my money on the table.
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hey, @hoopladigital.bsky.social, has any progress been made on this issue? I don't want to waste a borrow if not.
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Put my hold at the library yesterday and can't wait to read this!
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 12h
The internet tell me yesterday was National Coffee Day and tomorrow is International Coffee Day so to split the difference, I will post this here today. linktr.ee/authorlevai
The kaleidoscopic cover of THE GLASS GARDEN with arrows pointing to it from words "Coffee" "Adult sibling drama" "Eldritch horror" and "Academics… in space!"
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Aleksi Remes @aleksiremesart.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
My recent Vampire Hunter D illustrations 🩸
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy Michaelmas, everyone!
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"It says here you're going to die soon. That you need to remember the inevitability of death and accept it with good grace. That you are dust, and to dust you shall return. Go well. This has been MEMENTO MAURY. Thank you, and good night."
A picture of Maury Povitch reading from a cue card.
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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/09/2026
Today is my birthday! Please buy my books, I'm so broke
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pleased to report, despite worries to the contrary, that I have survived my viewing of LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this.
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Copy of The Night Library of Sternendach next to a red candle. The text reads: It's raining and you're bored? But the internet still works? Sternendach is $1.99 on Bookshop.org!
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If anyone asks why I'm baking powdered milk in the toaster oven: a) I am so bored, and we can't make beer bread until the 16yo finishes practicing b) youtu.be/9ACL_dqA25g?...
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Alton Brown Cooks Food | Episode 8: Loco For Cocoa
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just watched MOTHER MARY. I'm not sure I got it, and I didn't like all of it, but overall I liked it. If that made sense to you, then maybe this movie would, too.
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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Copy of The Night Library of Sternendach next to a red candle. The text reads: It's raining and you're bored? But the internet still works? Sternendach is $1.99 on Bookshop.org!
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So bored my 16yo and I baked two things.
On a counter, a square dish holding black bean brownies, while a round apple cake rests on a cooling rack.
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In my part of the world, wind is picking up outside. The air has a distinct chill. There's gonna be torrential rain the whole weekend. Sounds like a good time to be cozy with a book in a vampire's library, or perhaps exploring a planet with a dry climate and amazing… artwork. linktr.ee/authorlevai
My two novellas against a starry background: THE NIGHT LIBRARY OF STERNENDACH: A VAMPIRE OPERA IN VERSE, which has batwings, fangs, and a book on the cover. THE GLASS GARDEN has white letters on a kaleidoscope image.
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have just learned that the eBook of Sternendach is on sale at Bookshop for $1.99! If you've been waiting to try my romantic, bloody, opera in sonnets, now is the time! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Night Library of Sternendach: A Vampire Opera in Verse
Kunigunde is destined to become the next in a long line of Heller clan vampire hunters--but her soul is drawn to books, poetry, and the vampire Graf. Set in 1960s Europe, The Night Library of Sternend...
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Kent Priore @kentpriore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The first page of my award-winning literary dark fantasy/horror novel, THE MONSTERS AMONG US. Want to read more? You're in luck: it's on sale for only 99 cents! books2read.com/u/m27rzr
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Patrick Glancy @pglancy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thanks, Gabino! Not going to get into specifics, but if I can sell just a couple copies of Shivering in Hell today, I will hit a milestone. A modest milestone, but significant all the same. So if you've been waiting to get your copy, today would be a great day to do it! a.co/d/0g7vvfUv
Shivering in Hell available wherever books are sold! So why read this graphic of people talking about how awesome the book is when you can just order Shivering in Hell and read it yourself!
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S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Have fun in France @gabino.bsky.social and thanks. #FridayReads 1985, southern California, Coming-of-Age horror, Sammy McCammon goes trick-or-treating wearing a gimp mask, handing out bible tracts, and his Alpha-Bits cereal is talking to him in the bathroom. Grab it! bookshop.org/p/books/scre...
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Scream Like a Prayer
A perfect capsule of growing up, or trying to, in 1985. Except this 1985 is seeping blood, and blood, and more blood.-Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times Bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunt...
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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy #FridayReads Gabino! My latest dark fantasy-horror book DWELLER IN DARKNESS came out on Tuesday from @timberghostpress.bsky.social. If you're into flintlock fantasy mixed with cosmic horror, this book is for you! Here's the launch trailer:
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good on you!
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not even my French tour can stop #FridayReads! Let’s share some books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. No witty stuff today. I’m in France for two weeks because of this book, which is only $2.99 right now! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CP...
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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ry lost his job to AI and Erin is barely squeaking by teaching. The last thing they need is to be hunted by Bigfoot but here we are… Wildcat Thicket is a bloody piece of a comedy/horror, out now! mybook.to/WildcatThicket
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I bought a really nice scented jar candle and damn if the wick isn't too small for the container. 2 hour+ burn and it still doesn't reach the edges. I've burned hundreds of candles. I've made dozens. I don't claim to be an expert, I don't know the correct wick size, but this ain't it.
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I was reading the page for a #NoKings event near me and it said you should come and "waive (sic) your signs." So… don't bring the signs, then?
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 25/09/2026
Happy Autumn 🍂
illustration by Abigail Larson depicting the ghost of a woman walking under a ruined stone arch. Three goblins watch her from the top of the ruins. The image has an Autumnal atmosphere, dead leaves are falling.
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I love tzatziki. *clicks post*
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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s the first day of fall, libra season, the autumn equinox, Persephone’s descent and my birthday! 🎂 🍂🥳 Any shares of my art would be lovely and appreciated 💛
Black and white illustration representing Persephone during the autumn equinox. A frame surrounds the whole thing split in half in black and white. The black half of the frame surrounds the white section and vice versa.The middle horizontal section is torn in half like a piece of paper representing the division between the above worldand the underworld. In the bottom right corner are wispy swirling smoke lines going towards the centre with 3 bats of hades flying from right to left. In the bottom left is the symbol for Persephone. In the middle are two pomegranates one whole and one cut in half. In the top half on a black background is a bee in reference to Persephone’s name as “honeyed one” and the myth that they lead her to the underworld each year. On a circular medallion with narcissus flowers (the flowers she is said to be picking when hades grabs her) dropping petals around it. As the petals drop to the underworld they turn to black. In the top left is the Greek word for Persephone written vertically. 
Altar prayer card for the goddess Diana. A rectangular card has a black border with parts of the Orphic hymn for Diana surrounding it as a border in white text. In the bottom right are twin arrows over a crescent moon representing her and Apollo. In the bottom left and top right are white outlined 8 point stars. Inside the border is a marble shockwave black and grey pattern with white outlining that forms an arch at the top with lining to look like columns on both sides. In the middle is a stag skull with painted antlers of a diamond and star pattern. Behind the skull are smaller 8 point stars and cloud ripples. Above the skull is a scraggly branch of queen Anne’s lace with small dots above. In the top corners are two constellations for Sirius as her hunting dogs and Roman numerals for 13 and 8 for the date of the Nemoralia festival.Swatch card of my Lunar Hydrangea Pattern- swatch card has text “BABE&OAK
LUNAR HYDRANGEA
REPEAT PATTERN
COLOUR-WAY: COBALT” with embossed logo in the lower right section of the rectangle frame. The swatch card has a large scale of the print in the middle and is on a background of a smaller scale of the print

Lunar Hydrangea Repeat Pattern in cobalt colour way - repeat pattern inspired by plaster church tiles of arches with painted  pale pink crescent moons and ombré faded stylized hydrangea deep ink blue flowers in the middle over the crescent moon. The arch tiles alternate directions in each stacked line with each two lines Night Magic - Black and white ink illustration of a magic filled Victorian house with an ominous surrounding.  of a shrub framing the left side and bottom of the page. In the middle is a Victorian revival house with a spire to the right and a porch. Over the porch is a bison skull and the windows are celestial stain glass. The roof is black with cosmic looking weather vanes. 5 Crows are flying overheard from the back to the front of the house and the sky is The sky is textured with swirling pattern of lines and with black dot stars
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 23/09/2026
We are very excited about the authors already writing stories for next year. Help us meet our funding goal and let’s read them together! 74% there and only 7 days left! Back us here kck.st/4x4r1oz
Headshots of Gemma Amor, Gemma Files, A.T. Greenblatt, Shane Hawk, Jordan Kurella, Arkady Martine, Sam J. Miller, Suzan Palumbo, Sarah Read, Eden Royce, A.D. Sui, Michael Wehunt, Kelsea Yu, along with the 3LBE masthead
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Finally turned these useless dishtowels into placemats, where I figure they will serve better.
Two placemats made by the poster from dishtowels. They feature images of Tiny Chef, a small, round, green cook in a toque whose online videos are a delight.
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N.S. Dolkart sans nap @nsdolkart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’ve been searching for the roll call vote on this to see how my legislator voted, and the MA Legislature website is incredibly unhelpful. Anyone know where I can find these roll call votes?
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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
QRP your bird art!
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
So we'll ruin the banks And we'll cripple the courts And we'll take on the world for America's sake And we'll take all the land And we'll take back the country And we'll take and we'll take and we'll take and we'll take… youtu.be/XQWX1U9Th30?...
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The Saddest Song
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I finished a draft of a story and now I just need to write it over with a new outline and this is perfectly normal why are you looking at me like that it's fine! #writing
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just a reminder that it's the perfect season to read my dark, romantic, vampire opera in sonnets. linktr.ee/authorlevai
The Night Library of Sternendach, a book with red batwings, vampire fangs, and a book on its cover, posed against a dark background beside a lit red candle.
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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 21/09/2026
Today is your monthly reminder! Back. Up. Your. Stuff. 💻💽💾 Art, writing, personal photos, etc etc... Back it up back it up! Repost to remind a friend and save a life
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm always surprised when someone finds my election flash horror on my website. Now you can, too! jessicalevai.com/2022/11/07/p...
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Flash Story: “A Party for the Dead”
On a cool day in the September of an ordinary election year, cities all over the country saw men and women in their best suits present themselves to clutches of reporters and announce their candida…
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just a reminder that it's the perfect season to read my dark, romantic, vampire opera in sonnets. linktr.ee/authorlevai
The Night Library of Sternendach, a book with red batwings, vampire fangs, and a book on its cover, posed against a dark background beside a lit red candle.
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wow, this story really is good!
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Massachusetts Authors Against Book Bans @massaabb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Now that Massachusetts has passed a right to read law, what's next for freedom to read activism? Here are some thoughts...
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My once-a-year indulgence. I just backed The Odyssey & The Time Machine CHOCOLATE BARS on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/geg...
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The Odyssey & The Time Machine CHOCOLATE BARS
Olive Oil & Rosemary in Dark Chocolate. Hibiscus & Jasmine in Milk Chocolate. Handmade, Bean-to-Bar. Woman-Owned Small Business.
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The other day my eldest asked if I'd rather give up tea or candles and that was just not fair. I still don't have an answer.
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Dear restaurant I was eating at last night: I would rather watch sports than a Ross Douthat interview while I eat. And I hate sports.
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a dance off. If you see this, post a dance!
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Barbie Movie 2023
ALT: Barbie Movie 2023
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Lu @rendernev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cat-Bat~
My little drawing of a cat-bat combo creature.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Goooood morning! The 2026 Snail Facts Calendars are OUT! We've got 24 days of scratchable snail fact goodness, designed by Philly artist Kelly Nichols! Advent calendars are cute as hell, a delightful tradition, and keep @skypeascientist.bsky.social funded! Get one at SquidFacts.net Pls repost ❤️
An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anybody on IG wanna vote for Sternendach in this poll! My indie-published book could use a boost. www.instagram.com/p/DdUlbgBH__...
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anybody on IG wanna vote for Sternendach in this poll! My indie-published book could use a boost. www.instagram.com/p/DdUlbgBH__...
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