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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

In a month, I'll be co-teaching "Harvesting Our Screams to Energize Our Workings" with Sam Wise. Join us for this 3-day path at Worldwide Witchcamp! 13-16 Nov. Register soon to hold your slot!!! worldwidewitchcamp.com #WitchSky #FediCoven #Witch #Justice #ReclaimingTrad #pagan

A dark cauldron filled with swirling green-toned liquid holds a large stone. Steam rises from the cauldron. Text in golden font: Worldwide Witchcamp online 13 - 16 November. Stone Soup. In dark and in forests we dream, the ancient ones teach us always, each only a drop in the cauldron but together we're brewing new ways!

Black text on light blue background: Harvesting Our Screams to Energize Our Workings with BrightFlame and Sam Wise How can we harvest our built-up rage, grief, and other emotions to power our spells, our workings, our projects? To make our work vibrate with urgency? In this path, we will explore the screams that shake all the worlds. What is raging in the deep places inside of us, fighting to be expressed? How can we join our scream with the screams of others in a cry of power? This is a path about transforming separate emotions into shared nourishment, solidarity, and purposeful action.

Black text on light blue background: (continued...) Through a combination of trance, ritual, and off-camera creative work, we will each give voice to our own "scream" through the method and medium that best expresses what we need to express. We will feel into these screams—that may express as art, movement, or other forms rather than as vocal screams—and experience the energy carried within. Together we will explore ways of connecting to the screams of our communities, our nonhuman neighbors, and our planet as we raise and shape collective energy. We will explore means of refilling our own energy reserves for this critical work, knowing community will hold the work when we step back.

black text on light blue background: We will join our voices together as a force for change across all the worlds! Online 13-16 November in Scarlet Path Slot Register soon to save your space: WorldWideWitchcamp.com BrightFlame and Sam Wise look forward to being with you!

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Antidote to a dreary rainy day: a black & white* and coffee! Will help me finish a story draft by tomorrow. *About a month ago, a writer posted about these cookies for their birthday (I forget who). Craving ever since and just found this gluten-free one. Haven't had since NYC childhood!

Round large cookie half iced in chocolate and half in vanilla. Green table is background.

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Added the Sat night Autograph Session to my @capclave.bsky.social schedule. Buy The Working & I'll sign with my magic pen! 🪄 🖋️ 12:30p Sat I'll read from The Working & throw #Tarot. Plus Fri 8p I'm on a Magic panel. #Capclave #BookSky #book #SFF #Witch #SpecLit

Capclave banner across the top in red, black & orange with gray Dodo birds sprinkled among white text: Capclave. @capclave. capclave.org. Below: black text on orange background: Oct 2-4, 2026. Rockville MD. BrightFlame's sessions. Fri 8p, Washington Theater. Magic Rules Rulz. Sat 12:30p, Wilson. Reading a selection from my witchy contemp fantasy, The Working. The coven throws Tarot to see who threatens. I'll read Tarot as part of the session! Saturday, 8:30p. Eisenhower. Master Autograph Session. Buy The Working and I'll sign with magic pen!

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Next week @capclave.bsky.social ! Friday eve, I'm on a panel about magic rules. Saturday 12:30p, I'll read a bit from The Working where the coven throw #Tarot to find out who's threatening them. I'll throw cards as part of the session like I did at Readercon. Come and play! #BookSky #SFF #author

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Vax day ahead of going to in-person @capclave.bsky.social and @philconconvention.bsky.social this Fall. fyi: US Wastewater data shows #covid concentration HIGH. Yes, it's still a thing. Yes, vaccination helps minimize spread. Yes, #LongCovid is also a thing & vax helps. Why would you want covid?

screen grab from wastewater data site stating SARS-CoV-2 virus High. "Upward trend in the last 21 days and high concentration"

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

So much fun at Read Mill Books last night in NJ. We discussed my book, The Working. Lovely to see the new release in people's hands! And sign with my magical pen. @press-android.bsky.social #BookSky #WitchSky #solarpunk #SpecLit #WritingCommunity #author

Selfie photo with 6 light skinned women smiling and holding up their copies of The Working.

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hiking and a house off the trail has Dolly's music playing through the woods. Hail the goer!

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's fun for me to see what guest bloggers offer. Recently musings on #solarpunk Nature #technofascism #justice global representation, colonization, interconnection, & #rewilding by @tkrex.bsky.social @renanbernardo.com @yenooi.bsky.social & @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social More soon brightflame.com

gold letters on blue background: Recent guests on my blog. more soon! T.K. Rex, Rachel A. Rosen, Renan Bernardo, Yen Ooi.

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

So many writer friends are heading to #Worldcon. Thus, this sentiment. But, hey, I have my eye on Montreal next year, going en masse with my @bsfwriters.bsky.social friends! Would be my first in-person Worldcon. Maybe I'll get to see my Montreal #Witch friends, too. #writerslife #WritingCommunity

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The river is same color as my iced mocha following recent storms.

Looking through green foliage to a brown river.

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Working is the Aug book club pick at Read Mill Book in NJ! They pair discussion w activity each month. For my book, making seed paper! Cool! (and aligned w the eco flavor of The Working! Join us if you're near 8/25: www.readmillbooks.com/events-2-1/b... Great space & people #WitchSky #BookSky

On purple background, red-outlined mill with water wheel sits on open red book with red Witch hat above. Text in yellow: Bell, Book & Candle. A Witchy Book Club

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

7/10-12 is @writehive.bsky.social annual online con & I'm thrilled to offer my workshop "Writing Hopeful Futures." In addition to me, features author friends on why & how to write hope. Join us? Sun. 12p EDT www.writehivecon.org #solarpunk #hopepunk #hope #SpecLit #SFF #WritingCommunity

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

NYC: "Harvesting Our Screams to Energize Our Creative Work" - June 13th, Governors Island. Join me for a crafty & restorative workshop, increase our effectiveness. Info: luma.com/kdyjqd7a #climate #justice #activism #writer #artist #WritingCommunity @bsfwriters.bsky.social @sirensconference.org

white text on burgundy background, Harvesting Our Scream to Energize Our Creative Work. Yellow lightning bolt with words (Horror, Grief, Despair, Rage) points at blue and white starburst on the ground.

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Quick! Register for Wiscon, the #feminist #SpecLit conference! It's online this weekend. @wiscon.bsky.social I'm on 3 great panels and hope you'll join us. wiscon.net #hope #feminism #SFF #SFFH #WritingCommunity #books #BookSky fyi @bsfwriters.bsky.social @sirensconference.org

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Here's a grid of my most recent blog posts. The one I'm working on is the same lime green background and royal blue stick figures as the on on top left. So the new would be same colors and adjacent. That will throw off my grid and feel unbalanced!

grid of square featured images from blog posts. Some are hand drawn doodles with stick figures. One is an autumn foliage photo against blue sky. The middle square reads Bright Green Futures on white background.

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

The land is beginning to dance with wildflowers! Trout Lily and other Spring ephemerals peak out. Trees are budding and some early ones flowering. Soon, I won't be able to see through the Winter landscape to the cliffs beyond as the forest wears her full green. #Nature #NativePlants

closeup of yellow trout lily with 6 petals open. Brown-mottled green leaves stand behind.

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I'll be on 3 panels at Philcon this weekend. Two adjacent to #climate fiction and #solarpunk, which are my jam. If you're in the Philly area, join us. philcon.org #WritingCommunity #SpecLit #BookSky #SFF

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Excited to offer a #Tarot seminar for #SFF #writers with @leftlanesmith.bsky.social at the upcoming @sfwa.org Quasar online conference. We've begun some juicy convos as we prepare. Hope you'll join us! www.sfwa.org/events/ (Free for Nebula attendees or $50) #SpecLit #WritingCommunity #writing

Two headshots amidst a teal and purple nebula cloud. Text: Tarot Need-to-Knows for SFF Writers. 11am PST, Nov 16th. events.sfwa.org

Same imagery with text: Join us at Quasar, SFWA's Fall Online Nebula Event. Virtual Panels & Seminars, Grand Master Keynote, Office Hours. sfwa.org/events. Free for Nebula attendees! $50 for new guests!

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I'm procrastinating from a story deadline. So here's a little chipmunk for you. #WritingCommunity #WritersLife #Writing (not) #WillIMakeThisDeadline? @susankayequinn.bsky.social , I think you can relate! #SpecLit #SFFH

brown chipmunk with darker brown back and white stripe on side stuffs their cheeks with chewed leaves. They sit in a flower pot filled with green leaves of many shapes--all volunteer plants.

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I was tickled to find two 5-star reviews for THE WORKING in a place I didn't think to check (smashwords). Thank you! Here's a peek at what I found. Read my #witchy #solarpunk novel? Consider adding a review someplace 🙏! #BookSky #WItchSky #SpecLit #SFF #hope #books #reading #WritingCommunity

screen grab of 2 reviews against burgundy background. From Eldritchsun: "Loved it! Engaging characters given great depth through the web of their interactions. The use of short chapters written from the PoV of each of the five characters created this depth as well providing suspense and developing satisfaction for the reader. Through careful and well judged expostion of what the coven all thought of each other, their actions and reactions to, their relationships became both the heart and nervous system of the text. Would definitely recommend and read a sequel!" From madikonrad: "Excellently written and tightly plotted! I enjoyed the exploration of a modern coven pitted against both supernatural and all-too-mundane obstacles. The author also flitted between character POVs quite skillfully. Very few words were wasted. Highly recommended!"

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Filled me to be in W Philly (US) all day with 100s of #pagans . This year, a number of people sought me out to buy my book, The Working. 🥰 Nice to offer workshop early in the day so I could just hang! Bought 3 interesting #tarot decks! #PaganPride #WitchSky

My novel The Working displayed with its large poster. Red tablecloth showing off the black and green cover with its blue hues inside pentacle.

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

... if you want to join us, pop over! 2p concert precedes 3:30 workshop. Details and rsvp: lu.ma/6fj7b53n Looks like delightful weather to ferry over to the island! #solarpunk #hope #climate #justice #activism #WriteSky

teal cosmic swirls and gold stars on black background. Text: How to change the world with Solarpunk. A workshop led by BrightFlame. Aug 3. Climate Imaginarium, Governors Island

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

One more item on my @readercon.org stash: the subversive, abolitionist, decolonial LIBERATED ARCHIVES from @worldofkir.bsky.social ! Did you grab a copy as well? What an inventive and art-full medium for this flash literary puzzle. #BookSky #WritingCommunity #SFF #SpecLit @bsfwriters.bsky.social

cover of innovative zines of The Liberated Archives "The Legend of Bin Lin Hai and the Founding of the Children of the Flame." On heavy ivory paper stock with slash symbol cutout on front.

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

🧵 of my #Readercon stash. The hardcover special edition of @ceciliatan.com 's Magic University is ga-ga stunning! But no way would it fit in my luggage. So I settled for book 1. Because... #tarot! #BookSky #SFF #magic anti-Potter #SpecLit #reading #books

Bookcover: young person in red plaid flannel shirt flinging tarot cards towards viewer. Text: The Siren & the Sword.

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

🧵 Lovely to hang with @randeedawn.com and grab her latest #book. (How large is my TBR now???) We both read during #BroadUniverse rapid-fire #reading. #BookSky #SpecLit #WritingCommunity #author

On bookcover, two women on stage hold giant guitar with magical swirls around them while audience looks on. Text: The Only Song Worth Singing. Randee Dawn.

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

A few of my #readercon stash. 🛢 Not only grabbed @romiesays.bsky.social 's new #book, I chose her best 😅 collage button at the "Unpredictably Topical Panel" = panelists spilling latest publishing gossip! @brklyndragon.bsky.social @acwise.bsky.social @lyndsayely.bsky.social @readercon.org #BookSky

Book cover: pen & ink of figure diving backwards with orange sky blue water behind. Text: Nothing in the basement. A horror novel by Romie Stott. Collage button is dinosaur head with text: Firmer & Radiant.

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

... the #solarpunk workshop sponsored by the #Climate Imaginarium, Climate Cafe NYC, & NYC Climate Writers Collective. Hope to see you! #WritingCommunity #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #Justice #writing #activism #eco #SpecLit Please spread the word. (see 🧵 for link) @bsfwriters.bsky.social

teal cosmic swirls and gold stars on black background. Moon in sun in gold. Text in gold: How to change the world with solarpunk. A workshop led by BrightFlame. August 3, Climate Imaginarium, Governors Island.

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Oooh 😍 lovely graphic Lena of #ClimateImaginarium created for my upcoming #solarpunk workshop. Near NYC? Hope you'll join us on Aug 3rd! Setting = Governors Island in NY Harbor! ⛴️ #Climate #ClimateCrisis @climatefiction.bsky.social #CliFi @bsfwriters.bsky.social #activism #Writing lu.ma/6fj7b53n

gold stars and teal cosmos swirl on black background. Gold crescent moon within radiating sun ato the side of text: How to change the world with Solarpunk, a workshop led by BrightFlame.

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I'll be on the "con train" 🚂 to Readercon in a week. YAY: seeing old friends & meeting new!!! In addition to these 2 sessions and hanging around the Water Dragon & Broad Universe tables, karaoke with my awesome writing group Sat night! @bsfwriters.bsky.social @readercon.bsky.social #SFF #SpecLit

Burgundy background with yellow lightning bolt and sun doodles. Text in white: Me at Readercon: Friday 3:30p Rapid-fire Reading with Broad Universe. Sunday 11a "We Demand Stories" with BSFW. The Working on sale at Water Dragon table--happy to sign with my magical pen

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

This is my fave from a #NoKings protest today . (Small city in Southeast PA)

Protestor holding sign: I prefer my ICE crushed!

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Me, on the other coast. Small city in PA that isn't usually active... 1000s in the streets!

Portion of a NoKings march, people lining a street holding signs and flags

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Couldn't resist a photo before Amy Sherald's potent "Trans Forming Liberty" with my dear friends @starhawk-spiral.bsky.social and Ynestra King. We 3 #justice activists agree with the artist that YES! Liberty applies to all, including #trans people. #WitchSky #activism #feminist #Witch #LadyLiberty

3 white-haired women before larger-than-life painting of Black model posed as Lady Liberty in royal blue slit-leg form-fitting dress & pink hair with left hand on her hip. Torch held high in right hand has flames composed of yellow & orange flowers

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

My #solarpunk story is free thru 5/20! 👀 BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES anthology by @susankayequinn.bsky.social 😍💝☀️@singingtotigers.bsky.social @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social @daniellearostegui.bsky.social @tkrex.bsky.social @renanbernardo.com. #climate #hope #justice #SFF susankayequinn.com/books/ancest...

brown trunk and green leaves on thick branches of massive tree in background with white book cover for "Ancestors, Descendants" in foreground. Text: FREE until May 20th"

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Signs from today's protests. 100s here alongside busy highway intersection. #HandsOff #RiseUp #justice #activism #MayDay

2 holding signs: "elect a clown, expect a circus." Picture of a tick aside tRump labeled DANGEROUS! Deer tick. Lunatic.

View from behind of 100 people holding signs along a road

Closeup of a segment of protestors holding signs standing on grass

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#MayDay in small town Pennsylvania (US) that's more red than blue. So I felt it's important to show up here vs a larger city. About 100+ people arranged around a square on both sides of street. #HandsOff #resist #StandUp #justice #Occupy #Rise

Woman holding sign. "Trump Lunch Special. White bread full of bologna with Russian dressing & a small pickle"

Cluster of protesters holding signs and colorful banners

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Feel like a movie star posing in front of event backdrop! No red carpet, though. This was "We Demand Stories about #Climate with a Future" hosted by @bsfwriters.bsky.social with Jamie Liu and Miranda Nayyar joining me as panelists, @brklyndragon.bsky.social moderating. Go Brooklyn! #solarpunk #hope

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

hmm I used the wrong April 17 QuickRead photo yesterday. @kristinosani.bsky.social was missing! Looking forward to this fun FREE event. signup: tinyurl.com/SWSWApr17 and say I sent you! @swsworlds.bsky.social @authorterribruce.bsky.social @johannamation.bsky.social #BookSky 💙📚 #reading #SFF #book

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

My #solarpunk novel is a blueprint for creating the world we need! I'm reading an excerpt Apr 17 evening during @swsworlds.bsky.social quick read. free, online + we'll have giveaways! #SFF #SciFi #books #fantasy tinyurl.com/m5n37k5n @swsworlds.bsky.social (incl nonbinary & woman-identifying folk)

headshots of 6 authors on purple background. Text: Strong Women, Strange Worlds presents Third Thursday QuickReads of SciFi, Fantasy & Horror. April 17, 7pm ET, free on zoom

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Trying to decide which passage from THE WORKING to read during the April 17th Strong Women/Strange Worlds event @swsworlds.bsky.social Hope you'll join us! tinyurl.com/m5n37k5n FREE + giveaways! #SFFH #reading #books #SpecLit #WritingCommunity #BookSky 💙📚 #SciFi #fantasy #BookTok #author #SFF

Headshots of 6 authors on purple background. Text: Strong Women Strange Worlds presents Third Thursday Quick Reads of Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Horror. April 17, 7pm ET. Free on Zoom

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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Still glowing from this wonderful review of my #solarpunk novel, THE WORKING. Yes, it's a blueprint we need right now! (I'm still donating all royalties to #justice orgs.) #Witch #books #SFF #activism #feminist #SpecLit #WritingCommunity @boneweaver.bsky.social #WitchSky #BookSky 💙📚

screen clipping of book review overlayed with quote in blue: "BrightFlame brings magic to life and shows us the way to a brighter more equitable future..."

screen clipping of book review overlayed with quote in orange: "The Working is a blueprint for how each of us can bring our piece of change we wish to see in the world."

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