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Sunkissed Peaks @sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

It’s really frightening.

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Rasheed Abueideh - Now crowdfunding Dreams on a Pillow 🍉 @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I’m NOT excited and I’m NOT thrilled. I’m honestly scared to share this, but I’m not a coward. I have to show you what you helped us create. None of this would have been possible without your help, and we can’t finish it without your support www.launchgood.com/1948 youtu.be/D4qh1FAPEUo

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Dreams on a Pillow - Official Gameplay First Look

YouTube video by Rasheed Abueideh

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Just in case you missed it yesterday! Publication date: Jan 12, 2027.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Tell me about your (currently open) WIP! 👀 Amongst my many WIPs, today I've been working on the sequel to The Wish and the Demon, which is now at 81300+ words. It's getting there~. My poor upset MCs, though. They are *going through it*. 😭 Yours? [ #booksky ]

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H.S. Kallinger (he/him) @xakana.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

You love vampires, right? In May of 1897, Bram Stoker published Dracula, and we're celebrating the anniversary! All these books & comics have at least one vampire in them, from scary to sexy. As they are all rated mature, please be aware of content warnings 🖤 itch.io/b/3663/dracu...

Black background featuring clusters of blood red roses with green leaves and curling red-brown vines surround the words: Dracula's Anniversary Bundle! 28 books for $25. Horror, romance, suspense, and erotica. May 14th-May 31st. Itch.io

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Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her @calling33.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

*Steps up to the mic & taps it* GOOD GENTLEFOLK, MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION It's here! The next installment of GrimToon is *gorgeous* (seriously that art is 🤌) in which Thoran & Killy get to know each other better in the most sweetly awkward way. You should check it out. tapas.io/dashboard/se...

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Your home for the world’s most exciting and diverse web comics and novels. Discover stories you’ll love from all genres, only on Tapas!

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

🧙 wild witches 🐦‍⬛ a crow (or two) 🔮 portal fantasy 🐈‍⬛ a cat who wanders in 👨‍❤️‍👨 true love 🗡️ revenge 👑 evil faeries 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/rlEOgP 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/enlil-aris-t... 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... [ #booksky ]

Cover for ‘Enlil and Aris: The Complete Collection by Rebecca Crunden’. Cover is purple, yellow and orange with white font. Image shows two silhouettes of men with a crow above them, the sun behind.

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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

If you are a mother, had a mother, act like a mother, or know a mother - have a fab day!

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Katta Kis (she/her) @kattakis.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I'm experimenting with my ebook covers for my angsty musician series Pagans & Pop Stars, trying some new people-centered, stock image based versions (only on the Zon as a test). What do y'all think? www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ142PP... #romancelandia

Cover for Love in the Liner notes by Katta Kis, book 1 of the Pagans & Pop Stars series. Features an interracial couple in a tender embrace on a tarot card labeled "The Lovers" background is purple with music notes and stars

Cover for Love at the Rock Show by Katta Kis, book 2 of the Pagans & Pop Stars series. Features 3 cards: a white woman with sunglasses, brown hair, a purple shirt, and a rainbow scarf, a black man with locs, a beard and a yellow shirt, and a bus with a couple on top, labeled "The Chariot"

Cover for No Love in LA by Katta Kis, book 3 of the Pagans & Pop Stars series. Two cards: an androgynous person in all black with black hair playing a guitar and a white woman in a leather jacket with spikey sunglasses, red lipstick and white blonde hair, labeled "The Devil"

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Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her @calling33.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Come on, folks, let's start a new streak for Alan. He's an awesome writer with some cracking books.

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naila (labonno) 🇧🇩🍉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ @nailamoonsi.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The Queerly Beloved Bundle is ongoing...! A flowery May's exploration of queerness and romance. If you want to support queer and allied creatives in their endeavors, consider checking out the 32 books, stories, comics and games within. Find it here: tinyurl.com/2026isgay 📚📦📚🌈📚🪐📚 #queerbooks

Queerly Beloved Itchio Bundle 32 stories, comics, & games for $10- May 2026
Background: pink lavender sparkles with a velvety violet background
Book covers for:
Well of Souls
Strange Grey Everything
Lightbringer
Moongatherer
Emergence
The Protector and the Annihilation
Curse of Souls
To Drive the Hundred Miles
The Protector's Memory of them Under the Sunlight
No Love in LA
Warrior of Hearts
The Wolf and his Witch
Still so Illegible

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Demelza, a world-weary witch, and Uliana, an even more exhausted vampyre, work together to send wayward demons, ghosts and otherworldly creatures back to where they came from. But some jobs are more difficult than others. 🔖 story: mybook.to/RXIIkD 💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/on-demon-wra...

Cover for On Demon Wrangling and Interpersonal Relationships Between Weary Immortals by Rebecca Crunden; purple background with a cat and flowers.

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

You may think since Star Wars day is over we should stop plugging sci-fi books. But you'd be wrong, for #TheFourthWillBeWithYouAlways Get this bundle of 23 sci-fi books for $10 until the end of the month! itch.io/b/3668/may-t... 💙📚🪐 | 📦📚

Banner for the May The Fourth Scifi Bundle. A robed person with pointy ears is holding a glowing laser sword (art by @Columbina on the Indie Book Spotlight discord server). Around this centerpiece are displayed the covers of several of the books in the bundle.
Text: May the Fourth Scifi Bundle. A bundle of Star Wars-inspired and general Sci Fi books!

Books:
The Elitist Supremacy by Niranjan
Kyx by Jennifer R. Povey
Wherever the Stars Call by S. Jan
The Re-Emergence by Alan K. Dell
Event Horizon by Dan F. Bispo
Invasive
Dragons of Atlanta
Ancient as the Stars by Maya Darjani
Beating the Apocalypse by Joyce Reynolds-Ward
Holding Onto Day by E. H. Timms
From the Grave of the Gods by Alan K. Dell
Walking the Knife's Edge by Elise Carlson
Deeper Chaos by Niranjan
Alien Exploration by Simon Wolfe
The Sarchophagus of Lamia by Rebecca E. Reyes
War of the Space Dragons by L'Poni Baldwin
Wraith Revolution by RJ Calvin
The Observers by L. B. Shimaira
Daylight Chasers by Rue

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Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her @calling33.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

tapas.io

Your home for the world’s most exciting and diverse web comics and novels. Discover stories you’ll love from all genres, only on Tapas!

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anita@escrevendo gays 🌈 @anakidd.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

a new hot bundle in your area 📢📚 "English isn't even my first language!" Find 20 new perspectives from ELS authors for only $17 until May 23 📝 my short story Doce Drosera is there representing Brazil 🇧🇷 link here: itch.io/b/3658/engli...

Image with blue background with a title in white letters: English isn't even my 1st language! Below we see the covers of the 20 books featured in 2 rows of 7 covers and 2 rows of 3 covers. Next to the 3rd and 4th row we have a colorful text box written: 20 stories for $17 May 2 - 23 - itch.io. The bottom of the image has 7 country flags representing the countries taking part in the bundle: Brazil, Czech Republic, Italy, India, Germany, Luxembourg, and Malta.

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Lynn🦊 @clamlynn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Falin on the brain #delicousindungeon #dungeonmeshi #falin #clamarts

digital colored sketch of falin from dungeon meshi wearing a feathered dress

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"Professor" Chris Mitchell @professormitchell.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

As a reminder, there's only just over a day left on this bundle sale of the first two books, so don't forget to check it out too! itch.io/s/183187/hei...

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A.J. Calvin @ajcalvin.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Hey - it's May! And that means more new indie books! The full list of books is here: ajcalvin.net/the-indie-au... #booksky #indiebooks #scifi #fantasy #horror

The indie author sci-fi/fantasy/horror new release list: May 2026

Promo image features covers for:
Death Show Colossus by Bill Adams
Countering the Hands of Crime by Elise Carlson
Together is a Distant Star: An Anthology of Belonging (stories by 12 authors)
The Color of Time by Millie Abecassis

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 01/05/2026

In which I discuss why cutting right to the Inciting Incident is a terrible idea, especially if you want to have a Protagonist with a deep and emotional character arc. Don't give into the fear mongering of "but attention span!" #writing #writingcraft dreaming.daxmurray.com/why-you-cann...

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Why You Cannot Simply Open with the Inciting Incident

Advice that may be leading you astray....

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Kai Zeal 🐱📘🔮 @kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com · 01/05/2026

it's tiiiime: the Grey Aces bundle has gone live! Want some sus aces in your life? Then this is the bundle for you 😎 🔗 riyati.ink/greyaces 📚️ 💙 #QueerSFF #QueerAdultSFF

Grey Aces: morally grey asexual characters in fantasy
May 1 - 31
itch.io bundle - 6 books for $6 - riyati.ink/greyaces

Six book covers are shown, top left to bottom right, as follows:
City of Strife by Claude Arseneault
Merchants of Knowledge and Magic by Erika McCorkle
Forest of the Morning by Emmylou Kotze
Sidetracked Part 1 by S. K. Kelley
Riyati Rivals by Kai Zeal
Lantern by Burgundy Athena Pendragon

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Jenn A. Morales 🏳️‍🌈 📚 @bornangelauthor.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

it's Newsletter Day! And Book Bash Day! Though, this week, you get to read about the prep work that went into it. www.thebornangeluniverse.com/the-blog/new... #Bookbash2026 #Booksky #WriteSky #Excited

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S. Morgan Burbank the Ankle-Posting Harlot @anotherindiewriter.com · 18/04/2026

Hello BlueSky. Do you like lesbians? Of course you do. You're on BlueSky. You can get 94 sapphic and lesbian books for just $40 all week next week. It includes Kotov Syndrome and Woodpusher, as well as many books more famous than mine. I am very excited to get it. itch.io/b/3635/lesbi...

A pink background decorated with rainbows and dashed lines in the colors of the lesbian pride flag. The text reads, “Lesbian Visibility Week Bundle; 94 sapphic & lesbian books for $40 USD; 4/20 - 4/26; exclusively on Itch.io”

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marlo @marlo.ooo · 19/04/2026

all my bills are coming in and im getting really anxious. i’m sorry.

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Medical students in Gaza restore one of the oldest libraries after it was bombed by the Israeli occupation.

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 17/04/2026

Happy Friday and enjoy this free advice

['Morning Tea' by Richard Houston, 1758: a woman is sitting sipping tea with a tea set in front of her]
Text: To stay out of hot water when brewing a pun
It's best to use subtle tea

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Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel @neurodivergentrebel.substack.com · 17/04/2026

RFK Jr is trying to pretend he never said THIS… let’s make sure everyone sees this video, so he can’t get away with his lies!

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Seann, or: a Wretched Beast @seannb.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I move NEXT WEEK! My fiancée and I (and Edgar Allen Pig) are in need of help to settle in and get everything squared away. Please consider donating! Every little bit helps! www.ko-fi.com/seannb/ #moving #help #mutualaidrequest #Kofi #guineapig

A black guinea pig, by name of Edgar Allen Pig.

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Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her @calling33.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

'I'm not crying; this is merely the salt leaving my body.' (Vile Lady Villains) Man, if I can write half as good as this line, I'll be happy. #writingcommunity #WriterSky #authorsky #writerlife ##ReaderSky

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Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her @calling33.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I think I crocheted too close to the sun and now my arm hurts 😅 #crochetsky

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Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her @calling33.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This book (Vile Lady Villains)! 👌 Just look at this line - 'Her touch sears me. A thousand unseen birds caw in my head. Colours erupt everywhere.' So good. #ReaderSky

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Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her @calling33.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

If you see this quote with a picture of you in glasses

Selfie of me in glasses and a Nirvana jumper

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 14/04/2026

Draft2Digital just dropped the news on their blog that they'll be charging everybody who sells less than a hundred dollars a year a maintenance fee. Note, they already make a commission off of every sale. draft2digital.com/blog/underst...

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Understanding D2D's Activation and Maintenance Fees - Draft2Digital | Blog

A brief explanation of D2D's activation and maintenance fees, which accounts are subject to them, and what this means for you.

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🌛Caio Santos Art🌜 @blacksalander.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Opening up 5 Commission slots 🎨 Dm to get a link to the commission form

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Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her @calling33.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

It's Aussie April and I'd love for you to check out my books. They're bite size stories featuring feral enby and strong older female MC fighting tyranny and even the Aussie landscape features. Oh, and vengeful spirits and forest magic. 📚 linktr.ee/Calling33 #BookSky #SFF #AdultQueerSFF

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Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her @calling33.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Closing out the autism bundle with 24 sales!!! Thanks to everyone who bought one 🫶 📚 #ReaderSky

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Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her @calling33.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

My post got liked by Chiitan today and I think I've won the internet today (and if it's not actually the real one, shhh)

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Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her @calling33.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

We're this 🤏 close to making our goal for the autism bundle. We'd love to get some more sales to get all the way there. There's some absolute bangers, including my personal fave, Enemies to Enemies, an hilarious and endearing tale of a shifter that becomes a human. 📚 itch.io/b/3598/autis...

Autistic SFF & a 'lil other Book Bundle
34 Books by autistic authors, for $30
April 1st to 14th, (first half of Autism Awareness Month)
Graphic border: all 34 book covers
Shadow’s Light
The Blood Divide
Event Horizon

Walking the Knife's Edge

First Snow
An Alien Space
Enemies to Enemies
Tempest Take Me Home
Merchants of Knowledge and Magic
Synthetic Sea
Bisection
Yours, Insatiably
ProtoViolence
Lantern
The Skyship of Truskal
Seure the Tempered

Killing it on Campus
The Final Voyage of Avery Mothmere
The Last Lady of Lună

A Life In Too Many Margins
Song of the Wolf

The Sarcophagus of Lamia
Into the Forest

Non-Player Character

Fairyland

A Demon to Save Me

A Stage Over Ruthless Stars

The Last Gift-Knight

Conch
The Damsel

CyberSnow
My Ex Is A Vampire
Rainbow Nightmares

A Touch of Magic

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Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her @calling33.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Realised so far this year that all my reads have either been by queer, trans or women authors and I'm totally OK with this. 📚 #ReaderSky

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Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her @calling33.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Oh my god, this book. I'm only two lines in and I'm in love. So good #ReaderSky

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 13/04/2026

Last day of the Narratess sale! If YOU are one of my author friends/mutuals and YOU have a book in the sale, let me know! Some of you go by pen names different from your Blue Sky names and I don't recognize it😂 I want to have ALL my friends' books!

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Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her @calling33.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Me knowing I'll love this book from the Shakespeare and Agamemnon quoted 🤩 Anyway, finally starting Vile Lady Villains 😃 📚 #ReaderSky

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The British Fantasy Awards have begun! Learn more about how you can get involved below...

The graphic provides information about the British Fantasy Awards. The suggestions list closes April 12th. We crowd source titles that are eligible for the awards. You can add your own works at this stage. If no-one knows your work is eligible, they won't know they can vote for it when voting opens. The voting period is from April 16th - May 3rd. This is when voting properly opens. You cannot vote for your own works, but you can campaign. BFS members and Fantasycon ticket holders can vote. Shortlists announced May 19th. Jury panels are May 19th - September 1st. Unlike many other SFFH awards, the BFAs are not just a popularity contest. Once the public voting is tallied, each category goes to a jury of peers for final decision making. Awards are announced at Fantasycon. Learn more at britishfantasysociety.org/about-the-bfs/the-british-fantasy-awards

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Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her @calling33.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Great news out of Hungary as Orbàn's swept out of power in a landslide win for the opposition. Congrats to Hungary 🇭🇺

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Pixies a/k/a Map Nerd @mcburnellauthor.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The Three Faces of Dissatisfaction is mantastic, and this weekend, you can get it and tons of other amazing books for $1.99 OR LESS #NarratessIndieSale indiebook.sale or in these bundles itch.io/b/3634/narra... itch.io/b/3629/narra...

The background is sunrise or sunset spilling across placid waves, all in pink and blue pastels. Dialogue bubbles on either side of the screen mimic a text conversation.
Speaker 1: FS is perfect for the 'mantasy' trend! MC is a badass ultra-powerful sorcerer-man who broods?! Confetti-celebration emoji.
Speaker 2: The clothes-horse. Yeah. Doesn't he like instantly adopt a kid?
Speaker 1: Who is a BOY a/k/a a future MAN! Plus Ephrem! Famous scholar, eh?
Speaker 2: He's the one with the gay romance, right?
Speaker 1: red angry face emoji
Speaker 2: Haven't you said the real villain in this story is toxic masculinity?
Speaker 1: 'Masculinity!'
Speaker 2: There are multiple powerful POV women
Speaker 1: MANTASY
Speaker 2: ... (to be clear, it's just an ellipsis, indicating that this person is giving up).
At the very bottom of the image is a text bar, empty, with the standard photo/ voice/ video/ and plus icons common to a smartphone.

Centrally, a gorgeous pearlescent dragon lying on its belly reading a book, fantasy imagery around it.
Indie Book Sale: indiebook.sale
Fantasy, sci-fi & horror - 11- 13 April
Framing it, the covers of these books:
Audrey Simmons - Child of the Sun
Matthew Zorich - Maiden of Storms
Josiah Blizzard - That Which Follows You Home
Lincoln Law - Nestled with the Nameless One
M.C. Burnell - The Three Faces of Dissatisfaction
Steve Hugh Westenra - The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle
Andrea H Rome - The Standard Book of Anything
Matt Falcon - Tethered to Darkness
Elise Carlson - Walking the Knife's Edge
L. K. Fleet - Errant
Warner-Thompson - Moon Torn Hearts
Renee April - Her Crown of Fire
Morgan Burbank - Guitar Concerto in C Flat Major, Op. 12_ Lucina
Sara Codair - Junk Junction

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 11/04/2026

The Narratess Sale is on NOW! For this weekend, you can get a TON of indie fantasy, sci fi, and horror for cheap! indiebook.sale I have Merchants of Light and Bone in the official sale, but Merchants of Knowledge and Magic is also on sale -Epic, dark fantasy -Queer themes -Worldbuilding galore

Merchants of Light and Bone
Sculptor Amiere could be set for life when a trove of demon-slaying crystals is discovered, but grief overwhelms him when his daughter dies in the crevice
For $1.99
Left side shows the cover of MoLaB
On the bottom is an image of a dragon, skulls, crystals, and planets
"Indie book sale"
indiebook.sale
Fanatasy, Sci fi, and Horror
11 - 13 April

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