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Vermillion @byvermillion.bsky.social · 1h

Need everyone to know I think I just made my first library sale (that I’m aware of)!!!!! That’s the freaking goalllll that’s at the top of the list! Let’s go shiver me!

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Vermillion @byvermillion.bsky.social · 8h

lol cue all authors freaking out about the great goodreads ratings change of 2026… my opinion is star ratings shouldn’t have any effect on author income! Give us healthcare! Give us UBI! No one should freak out about five stars because it’s the only way to convince a reader to read

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Vermillion @byvermillion.bsky.social · 13h

Having just finished this draft, I feel so proud of this book! I went out on a limb in some ways and I think it paid off! She’s adventuresome, hot, incredible … idk I can’t wait to see what everyone thinks

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Vermillion @byvermillion.bsky.social · 13h

Did you know Shiver Me’s on Kobo Plus? That means you can read for free if you have the subscription!

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

LA PEOPLE! October 14th I'll be talking to Jasmine Guillory about her new YA romance IT'S ONLY DANCING at REP CLUB Bookstore! Scoop your ticket today! www.eventbrite.com/e...

Join Rep Club for a discussion on 'It's Only Dancing' by NYT bestselling author Jasmine Guillory and moderator Rebekah Weatherspoon

WHO & WHAT: Join Rep Club for a discussion on 'It's Only Dancing' by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory in conversation with Rebekah Weatherspoon.

WHEN: Doors at 6:30pm, event promptly at 7pm.

WHERE: Reparations Club, 3054 S. Victoria Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90016

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm about halfway through my e-ARC of @kjcharleswriter.com 's Think, Write, Edit Romance, and I can already genuinely say this is the best book on writing romance that I've EVER read, and one of my new favorite books on writing in general, too. www.kjcharleswriter.com/all-books/th... #romancelandia

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Think, Write, Edit, Romance — KJ Charles

KJ’s guide to romance writing, from blank page to clean, professional manuscript!

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💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live.

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Vermillion @byvermillion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

3 more chapters! I think I can finish this draft tonight… what if told you I deleted 30k words and added 20k back? What would you say

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 02/10/2026

the thing about Ensign Kellogg on TNG being played by a stealth trans woman really is like we as a community always say…we've ALWAYS BEEN HERE. Just because people didn't realize it doesn't mean we weren't here.

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Vermillion @byvermillion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love being an indie author because it feels both AMAZING and horrible to get a $13 payment from June

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Vermillion @byvermillion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Listening to a totally normal amount of Lana Del Rey to finish this draft… absolutely not one song on repeat for 6 hours

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Vermillion @byvermillion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why is there no Piranesi old man yaoi?

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Vermillion @byvermillion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I did put someone’s thumb in someone’s ass in this book and I think that’s beautiful

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Vermillion @byvermillion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Do governesses deserve love? Topic locked by Bluesky admin at 100000 replies

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Vermillion @byvermillion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BUDDY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER WHATS WRONG WITH ME

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Vermillion @byvermillion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nw the old buddy the vampire slayer movie it’s so funnn

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Vermillion @byvermillion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Any books make you yell lately??

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Vermillion @byvermillion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wahh I’m writing a really hard scene why did I become a writer

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Vermillion @byvermillion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you want emails from me (I forgot to send one in September) you can get on my list at readvermillion.com I will send one for October maybe with costumes for Connor and Regula… what would they be for Halloween?

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VERMILLION – byvermillion@gmail.com

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Vermillion @byvermillion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Probably no better feeling if you were a book than when someone new started reading you

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Storm / Caleb @calgarchowstorm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It would probably be Stormlight Archive. I really want to make a fantasy world and setting people can actively love and engage in. One that people can find characters they can relate to, wanna be like, or learn from. If only I wasn't such a slow writer.

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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 29/09/2026

As a kid I read "The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf" by Gene De Weese from the Weekly Reader Book Club over and over until the book's spine cracked. Years later I wrote urban fantasy thriller novels featuring the modern-day remnant of an ancient clan of werecats. 😼😼😼

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Hugo Dabas @hugodabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Philip K. Dick’s A Maze of Death. Actually, all of Philip K. Dick. I’m obsessed with walking the line between paranoia and trusting your own perception of reality, and I’ve drawn on every story of his I’ve read.

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Vermillion @byvermillion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you’re tired of faeries, knights, & demons in your fantasy romance, you should definitely read some pirates, that’ll cure you! books2read.com/u/3LMzk0

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Shiver Me by Vermillion

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🦇🔞𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔞𝔩 @grimalkinz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Warrior cats, it never leaves

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Loren 🦇 FORMERLY CIRCUSLOLLIPOP @vesperanth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hm, probably A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin

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Holly R. Collins @hrcollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

See, I want to say Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park, because no lie, I reread that book and listened to the audiobook DOZENS of times as a kid/teen. But my writing style certainly has evolved to be way different.

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Alberto Pupo @authoralbertopupo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Wheel of Time and A Song of Fire and Ice.

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C.H. Schwartz @chschwartz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is a really tough one. If we're going like most recent writing, it's @rebeccathorne.bsky.social 's Tomes and Tea making me realize what I wanted in both cozy genre and effective prose. Overall it's Brian Jacques' Salamandastron for making me like fantasy to begin with People should read both

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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 28/09/2026

Disney On Ice: Into The Magic

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Wakahisa Sensei @wakahisasensei.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

WIP 1: It’s either Bleach or Ninja Gaiden. Not really sure which is more influential. WIP 2: Dante’s Divine Comedy. WIP 3: Star Trek TNG probably. Mr.Shang side project: Believe it or not…the Jackie Chan Adventures cartoon.

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Aud Connelly: transcribing #Dogwood3 (73.2/95k) @audconnelly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Casson Family series by Hilary McKay might be the single greatest reason I'm a writer at all.

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Jessamine @jmlowrey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rosa by Jonathan Rabb. I read it before he taught a writing about place class at my college, which led me to thinking about place as character, how to write characters being at cross purposes, and focusing on small, in between moments among larger events. Reading it sent me down the path I’m on

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Brooke @tryhardmushroom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Writing style? Tolkien and Murakami Haruki. Subject matter/genre/characterization? Brandon Sanderson.

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Mothman Paulson @adorkablesmile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'd have to say Ann Leckie. The Empire of the Rad'ch trilogy - I take a lot of cues from how she builds her worlds and try to do some similar things for my own.

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Sab 🔮 @sgkhan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ursula K. Le Guin, my goat

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GenderUnknown's Battlenouns @aldehydebackhand.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Probably SOMA but more specifically my frustration with the protagonist of SOMA

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Roan | S&T Rewrite: 143.4/150k @faindriart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not a novel, but Fullmetal Alchemist (manga) altered my brain chemistry at 15. I think it continues to influence my storytelling to this day.

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your pal finn @attorneytrash.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

not even a stylistic thing but i think in terms of my romance writing it might be Love, Hate and Clickbait by Liz Bowery. really changed how i looked at romance and i what i was "allowed" to do with the characters.

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The Brain Cutter 🔪🔪🔪🩸🩸🩸🩸 @briancutter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good morning BlueSky and especially #Scriptsky. I'm gonna go with (legitimately, this isn't a joke) Mel Brooks, the Zucker Brothers, and Chuck Jones But also Paul Dini, Brannon Braga, and Dave Filoni

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Ewan Stone ✍️🔞 @ewanstone.uk · 28/09/2026

Gotta be Jordan/Sanderson's Wheel of Time ✨

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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'March Violets' by Philip Kerr for my crime novels 'The Difference Engine' by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling 'On History' by Eric Hobsbawm for my alternate history essay collections

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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'Agent of Byzantium' by Harry Turtledove for my alternate history writing 'The Goblin Tower' by L. Sprague De Camp for my fantasy books

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Chandra Storm @chandrastorm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There is no single one. Seriously, I read too many books for that from early childhood onward, and they all shaped me and my writing. In recent years and with a direct influence on what I write now, though? Probably the Original Sinners series by Tiffanny Reisz. www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...

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The Siren (The Original Sinners, #1)

Notorious Nora Sutherlin is famous for her delicious wo…

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Random Chick 2D-3D Artist @randomguyladypfp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Even though A lot of Writers in Horror was "Inspiration." The one that clicked for me was most certainly The anime Series - "One Piece." Manga is good to. The Pure imagination of Oda's Mind. Really inspires me. As a kid I had an imagination just as wild as that. :). Still do.

The Manga Cover? I am not quite sure. As I watched the Anime. But, the Anime is pretty much the same as the Manga Series Oda had written for years. Animation in Season one? Eh.
But holy fuck? Wano? WOW! Insane.

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