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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 45m

Morning, theydies and gentlefolk! Today's the day! We'll see you in a couple of hours.

Ignyte Awards 2026: Winners Announcement Oct 3 @ 12pm ET

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 5h

It is bizarre to watch people use the words "restorative justice" to center the need of someone who assaulted someone else. You simply cannot talk about restorative justice in this context without centering his victim.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 5h

Restorative justice doesn't mean "nothing bad ever happens to you." It means, "in determining what happens from here on out, we center the needs of your victim to repair what happened to them over your own needs."

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 3h

Sometimes you wake up in the morning and the world's like, "Didn't I fucking tell you," and you're in full agreement with, "Yeah you did."

Sunrise over apartment rooftops in a glorious band of golden light brushing the underbelly of a cloudstretch in a wonderful chiaroscuro

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 2h

Go ask your questions about making our very very cool Nerezia covers!

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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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Nico Martinez Nocito 🏳️‍⚧️ @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social · 11h

This is an absolutely BRILLIANT piece! Do yourself a favor and give it a read!

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🎃CALL THE STORM live on Backerkit now!🌙🦎 @roannasylver.com · 18h

GOOD MORNING. OFFICIALLY HALF FUNDED. IN LESS THAN TWO DAYS. 🔥🌈🦎🌙💜🧡😭

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 23h

AHHH, BLUESKY! DON'T YOU DARE BE SOUR! CLAP FOR YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS! AND FEEL THE POWER!!! #Booksky It's BUY A BOOK FRIDAY, yes it is! The rules are simple, you see a book by myself or one Bluesky's talented artists, YOU BUY THAT BOOK! Help support us and enrich yourself! 🧵 BELOW, LET'S GO!!!

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Mx M @mxmreads.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In case you need something unbearably cute on your TL today, my colleague found four abandoned hedgehog babies in her garden, so she and her family are now raising them. Part of that is weighing them to check if they're growing well. And they do it like this. 🥹♥️

Photo of a small hedgehog baby inside a tiny little planting pot on top of the smallest kitchen scale they could find. The little hedgehog is barely big enough to look over the rim of the pot.

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tRaum Books @traumbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Less than a month until THE LIVING COPY by Alex DiFrancesco comes out! ❣️Pennsylvania coal country ❣️alternative future-ish United States ❣️beautiful, experimental prose ❣️generational female hauntings ❣️family ghosts in the closet Pre-order options below~~~ traumbooks.com/the-living-c...

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember: Darwin's note of "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything" was written on Oct 1 (1861). Thus we are free to celebrate Very Poorly And Very Stupid Hatred Day today.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 30/09/2026

Not sure if I'm supposed to wait for an official announcement on this one, but as it's available to order, I may as well share the link: goldsborobooks.com/products/the... Gender, trauma, toxic families, non-consensual shapeshifting ... and sprayed edges. What more could you want in a book

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The Animals We Became

You exist because of a crime, because of a curse, and because of a trick.Blodeuedd never asked to be made.Created from flowers of oak, broom, and meadowsweet to marry a man cursed never to have a huma...

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've heard cases like this repeatedly the last month, as well as increasing difficulty to get Amazon to price match in a timely manner or at all

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

actual hot take: y'all, generally speaking, are not interested in supporting BIPOC and queer authors when they are not writing about Hurt and Trauma because it's not educational to you. even if the books have BIPOC and queer casts and are in new settings.

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

marketing bears this out: books marketed using identity sell more than books marketed without identity. i'm real tired of y'all picking books to make you feel good as opposed to having a genuine interest in what someone like me has to say.

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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been published multiple times by Apex, so of course I'm eager to see them continue, but, honestly? I WANT TO SEE THE STRETCH GOALS HERE, particularly the STRANGE OCEANS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF DARK SEAFARING. So, fund away! (Apex is also offering a pretty cool T-shirt as one of the backer rewards.)

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Guess who's got an awesome new writing gig! IndieReader is letting me gush about backlist indie titles for them, and of course my first one had to cover LD Lewis' The Dead Withheld. indiereader.com/marquee-colu...

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Alex Brown on The Dead Withheld by L.D. Lewis | IndieReader

Hugo-nominated, Ignyte Award-winning critic Alex Brown takes on L.D. Lewis' The Dead Withheld, a queer, neo-noir urban fantasy from Neon Hemlock.

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🌈📚 FANTASY NOVELLA SERIES May contain... 🧡 Friends meeting in dangerous circumstances 💜 Bonding through board games 💙 A roadtrip in a sentient Wagon 🧡 Aromantic, asexual, and non-binary MCs 💜 Plenty of fantasy mysteries SERIES DISCOUNT TO CELEBRATE THE NEW RELEASE: itch.io/s/200863/fra...

A banner with a title saying “The Chronicles of Nerezia” with banners for nine covers. Arrows go from one to the others, and the background changes as it goes. The last two novellas are blank rectangles. At the bottom is written “Your story is my story…”

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Write the stuff that makes your weird little heart sing. It’s so much livelier than the safe stuff. Just use the damn journals and inks. Pretty things are meant to be used. Your boss will read your books. There’s nothing wrong with it. But be prepared for that.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Phew, the news is dark. Here’s a moment of beauty to catch your breath 🌿

The sun sets in a layer of yellow sky at the horizon and the blue sky and pink clouds above and a line of trees silhouetted and a dark stone wall in the foreground. It’s very peaceful.

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A.J. Calvin @ajcalvin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's October - and there's a great lineup of new releases coming this month! You can view the full post here: ajcalvin.net/the-indie-au... (There are a lot of amazing titles! I'll tag the authors in the comments.) #booksky #newreleases #indiebooks #comingsoon

The Indie Author Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror New Release List: October 2026
Promo image features:
Her Bloody Vengeance by NC Scrimgeour
Children of Wrath by Cheyenne Brammah
The Ruin of Rage and Reckonings by Steven Pannett
Forest of Stone by Emma L Adams

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Go go go. Cannot overstate how much I love this series and how fundamental and formative it was to my early indie years

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🎃CALL THE STORM live on Backerkit now!🌙🦎 @roannasylver.com · 30/09/2026

TONIGHT OH MY GOD. AAAAA, 😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WERECONIFER is the sequel to WERECOCKROACH. Some months after the first book, Rin and their friends are asked to help find a missing shapeshifting tree. Generally gentle with a queer found family and also aliens. #AroAce #QueerBookSky More information: www.polenthblake.com/words/weretr...

The cover of WERECONIFER by Polenth Blake is at an angle on a brown background. The cover has hand drawn letters and a Scots pine tree with multicoloured round decorations (lights) drawn with felt tip pens. Captions surround the cover in a childish messy font with arrows pointing at things.

Captions pointing at the tree: pine needles, festive lights, tree.

Captions for the book: aliens wearing socks, book two, queerplatonic, also cockroaches, bonus cats, this is a sequel, i drew this, rainy winter, multiple aspec characters.

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andi knows SO much about this topic and has given me so much helpful advice over the years! I subscribed!

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:

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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Long shot: Do I know anyone on here who's good with audio design / audio editing? I would like to hire someone for a tiny project -- a one-minute loop of spooky ambient sounds, like using stock audio -- but it's gotta happen today, as the deadline is tonight. I had someone but they totally flaked.

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🎃CALL THE STORM live on Backerkit now!🌙🦎 @roannasylver.com · 29/09/2026

TOMORROW NIGHT. HOLY CRAP. TOMORROW NIGHT!!!

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XX Dovelin ⏾ Illustration @xxdovelin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PLEASE BACK 😭😭😭 4 days!!!

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Thanks for the reposts everyone! We've exceeded our goal and there's 2 days to spare. 😄

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can get all 8 previous novellas for $20 👀 Go on a big adventure binge, they're only a few hours each! :D

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Talli 🎃 Shattered City 10/6! @tallimorgan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm binge reading these currently and they're an absolute delight. I highly recommend buying them all together bc once you start reading you won't want to stop 🙂‍↕️

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*whispers* wish me a lot of very cool birds in the forest in the next 10 days <3

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Mike Dixon @socal-miked.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

late entry for #BirdOfTheDay theme: #BokehBirds - any bird captured with a soft, muted or blurry background and alt: #AwkwardAvian - any bird captured in a silly, clumsy or strange position! snacking goldfinch. #EastCoastKin #birds #birdnerd #birdsky #PhotographersOfBlueSKy #shotoncanon

goldfinch hanging upside down to eat a drying flower

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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #Awkward Turkey vulture appears to be clinging to a tree but it's really perched on a tiny nubbin.

Turkey vulture looks back over its shoulder with its back to the camera as it stands perched on a nubbin so small it makes the bird look like it's clinging to the tree like an enormous woodpecker.

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Gwen 🌈🌺📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This Brown- headed Nuthatch is my #BirdOfTheDay with softly blurred spring leaves in the background. Bokeh balls! #BokehBirds 🪶

A brown headed nuthatch is on the edge of a suet feeder perch with blurred leaves in the background.

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Long long car ride tomorrow so of course we finally got our hands on the latest Murderbot audiobook for it :3

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iasmin omar ata | delta 🌟 @deltahead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i am so beyond thrilled to launch my new webcomic: PRAYERS TO THE FUTURE! it's a muslim-themed post-apocalyptic adventure about coming together to breathe life into a struggling world. the first update is now live at prayerstothefuture.com - the comic is free to read + updates every monday. ENJOY 🧿

an illustration for the launch of my (iasmin omar ata) new webcomic PRAYERS TO THE FUTURE. the main character, irfan, poses with an obsidian sword. the rest of the comics cast (a mystery for now!) is depicted in various shapes behind her. the title of the comic is written outside of a circle behind irfan, with "by iasmin omar ata" written on the underside of the circle. within the circle, a post-apocalyptic desert is shown, with a tall obisidan obelisk at the center and a giant crystal floating atop it.

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 29/09/2026

Any day, #SpaceX could send in bulldozers to destroy the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Musk’s company wants to build a rocket test site and road through this vital wildlife habitat in south #Texas. We’re in court to stop this public land giveaway. Please support our fight ⬇️

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Give Now to Save the Wild

Join the fight to protect wildlife and wild places with a gift to the Center for Biological Diversity.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

late entry for terrible comic day

A comic drawn in pencil on a post it note. A person in the distance points at two large letters, an I and a T. The person says, “Far be it from me”

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Talli 🎃 Shattered City 10/6! @tallimorgan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In anticipation of SHATTERED CITY coming out soon, SILVER BLOOD and its companion novella SWEET SORROW are on sale till 10/4! silvercrescentpress.itch.io/silver-blood / books2read.com/silverblood silvercrescentpress.itch.io/sweet-sorrow / books2read.com/cos-sweetsorrow

Series Sale: September 28 - October 4. Silver Blood and Sweet Sorrow are $0.99 on all digital retailers.

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love this book, but it’s hard to cram into a capsule description. It’s rich and immersive (I found in-world script and gossip rag excerpts delightful). It’s both rough and tender, with some heavy themes, but full of love and hope. And a v good cat, & a side romance I almost wish had its own book.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Nicole Field’s ‘The Widow and the Raven‘ runs Mina Harker’s journal straight into Poe’s ‘The Raven,’ a mashup that could have been a gimmick but instead lands its ending well.” From a generous review by Andrew Byers for OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM on @hellnotes.bsky.social ❤️🙏 See full review below!

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🎃CALL THE STORM live on Backerkit now!🌙🦎 @roannasylver.com · 28/09/2026

HA HA HOLY CRAP THREE DAYS 🔥🌈🦎🌙🎉

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We are REAL CLOSE... come back #OpportunityWindow, get some awesome #timeloop stories!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

screenshot from the backerkit website showing OPPORTUNITY WINDOW is at 1567/2000 with 96 backers and 4 days left to go

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