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Matt Shay @twelveautumns.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Started a new pathfinder game and the party vibes are unmatched (art by @chillydoodles.bsky.social)

Six stick figures with drawn heads over them sit around a train. They each have a thought bubble trailing from their heads that reads ‘these people are so weird. Thank god I’m the only normal person here’.

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Matt Shay @twelveautumns.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The three laws of magick in Cairnadal: - The Law of History. Magick can never turn back time or alter the past. - The Law of the Boundary. Magick can never truly bring someone back to life. - The Law of Balance. Magick always takes in equal measure what it gives, and every blessing has a price.

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c.m. briary 🦌 @cmbriary.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

i seriously find myself reeling from how insanely romantic sherlock and watson get. like, it’s not subtext, it’s just TEXT. geez anyways i loved the house of silk! 4/5 stars

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kellen graves 🦇 @skellygraves.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

🩸COVER REVEAL🩸 I'm SO EXCITED to share the cover for Rowan Blood Volume Four, VESSEL OF WOVEN NIGHT! 🌙 VOWN is coming FEBRUARY 28, 2025, find the summary and links below!! ✨ Art by @morlevart.bsky.social 🖤

The front cover illustration for VESSEL OF WOVEN NIGHT by Kellen Graves. The title is overlaid on a digital illustration featuring three characters, Saffron, Cylvan, and Ryder, alongside a shadowy wolf, and an red-eyed owl. They are in a fall-colored landscape, with overcast sky and snowy mountains. A red thread weaves around the figures.

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c.m. briary 🦌 @cmbriary.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

deeply upset by the exploitation of interns and commissioned artists with a certain literary magazine but you didn’t hear it from me

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itch.io @itch.io · 25/11/2024

🍂 Our Autumn Sale kicks off this Wednesday! 🎉 Don’t miss amazing deals on games, tools, & more 🌟 PLUS: Creator Day returns this Friday—100% of your purchases go directly to creators! 💖 buff.ly/4eQWzoG

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Az~ @azrielgreen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Assuming all fanfiction is written poorly really just shows you've never been caught in the chokehold of a 150k slowburn that changed the course of your life at 2:40am written by someone whose username has 4 Zs in it and they only wrote one fic and then vanished like an ethereal legend.

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Jennifer van der Kleut - Thriller THE BETTER MOTHER Out Now! @jennvdk.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The 3rd book in my friend @dhawkinsauthor.bsky.social 's "Single in Seattle" series is up on NetGalley! You can now request "So Not My Type." And "Not in the Plan" (book 1) and "In Walked Trouble" (book 2) are available on Kindle for $2.99! Excited #WritingCommunity #sapphicromance #reading #books

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c.m. briary 🦌 @cmbriary.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

NOOOO DONT MAKE ME REWRITE MY STUPID INTRO TO MY WIP BRAIN PLEASE

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Forbidden Fae Dice @forbiddenfae.com · 25/11/2024

To celebrate reaching 3000 followers, we are doing a Bluesky giveaway! To enter: 🎲 Like 🎲 Follow 🎲 Repost this post We will randomly pick and DM a winner on Friday, November 29th, and they will have 24-hours to respond. This giveaway is international with shipping paid for by us, so good luck!

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Aimee Donnellan (queer fantasy author) @aimeedonnellan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

My book is finally out! I love these angsty, pining sapphics so much I can't contain it. I can't believe so many others feel the same way 💕🌈

A book cover with a night time forest, the partial moon shining in the background. Two women are depicted in a close half-embrace. One is tall and muscular with medium brown skin and a strong nose, with a wolf-print tattoo on her upper arm. Her hair is dark and up in a practical bun, and she’s wearing a leather breastplate piece of armour. She is holding the other woman who is pale skinned and has soft strawberry hair, and wears a pale dress with a leather jacket over the top. This woman is leaning into the taller one’s neck, with fanged teeth bared, as if to drink from her. Both regard each other with an intimate intensity and seem deeply affected by their proximity. The taller woman’s left hand, where it rests on the shorter one’s waist, is furry and clawed.

RELEASE DAY: A Crimson Covenant, Aimee Donnellan, Nightwalkers of Concord

Lesbian werewolf
Demi vampire
High magic
Adhd & depression rep
Lifelong acquaintances to lovers
Petty grudge vs one-sided pining
Horny biting
Sapphic romantasy

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Echo @denimecho.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

My OC Tariq

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Tana @justmostlymemes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

i either read for 8 hours straight or don’t touch a book for 8 months there is no in between

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c.m. briary 🦌 @cmbriary.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

yall the house of silk is so good I think im gonna dump like every sherlock holmes book on my Christmas list after this LOL

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c.m. briary 🦌 @cmbriary.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

casual plug, but if you ever need a print / digital mockup of ur book for advertising purposes, I do a ton of those!

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c.m. briary 🦌 @cmbriary.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

the last hour between worlds looks tempting… but also I need to read an education in malice. also sins on their bones. and priory. UGH

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c.m. briary 🦌 @cmbriary.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

getting the urge to write holiday inspired fiction. must.. resist..???

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Makayla Leigh 🌿🌊⚔️ @themakaylaleigh.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

AGENTS/EDITORS, here is my #AgentsGuide to BURN THE SHIPS, a NA romantasy about an assassin prince & a bounty hunter pirate who get stuck in a blood pact 🌊deadly quest including dragons ⚔️break the Mark or kill each other 🖤rivals to enemies to lovers to ??? ✨querying soon✨

background: side view of the ocean from a ship

words: An agent/editor’s guide to “burn the ships” na romantasy by: makayla bryant

background: side view of the ocean from a ship

words: WARNING: Falling in love will result in death
While being thrown into a quest with an unlikely group of thieves, an assassin prince and a bounty hunter pirate get stuck in a blood pact where they can't kill each other, but they must in order to break the bounties placed on their heads. The only problem? They may have fallen in love.

background: side view of the ocean from a ship

words: Favorite quote: "I think we're playing a very dangerous game." He admits, his throat bobbing.
"I thought you enjoyed dancing with danger, or was everything you told me at the ball a lie?" I whisper, following how his eyes drop to my lips as I speak.
His gaze traces a path back up to mine.
"Only if the danger is you."

background: side view of the ocean from a ship

words: tropes and comps:

high stakes with a group of thieves like SIX OF CROWS
the themes of romantic tension and banter in POWERLESS
intricate world-building of FOURTH
WING
enemies-to-lovers slow burn of
SPARK OF THE EVERFLAME & THE BOOK OF AZRAEL

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

You’ve heard of the golden retriever romance novel love interest now get ready for the weasel love interest: he’s short he’s spry he’s got cunning schemes and he can talk his way out of anything

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Cerberus Supplies: Makers Cooperative for Production/Fulfilment @handle.invalid · 15/11/2024

✨Giveaway - Dice!✨ In support of The Witch Coven & their new Kickstarter tomorrow, we will be giving away 1 dice set a day from their old one! bit.ly/4hG6bWd 👍Rules Are: To Enter, Like & Repost 🎲 That's it! Winner is chosen from random, todays set is Starlight Cascade #dice #ttrpg #giveaway

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Fran @galacticidiots.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

It’s a privilege to undress someone but an honour to help them get dressed. To button them up slowly, fingers lingering against their skin. To bundle them up in layers, half theirs, half yours, and tie their laces into complicated knots only you can undo.

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catherine hellens 🪷 @lapisleaves.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

plopping down a guide to my strange theater book i #amquerying for #litagents and #editors! TGGT—The Great Glavenisean Theater—is a twisty, decadent, trippy labor of love, and i’d love nothing more than to find someone to champion it 🎭

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

If you're serious about writing, you have to read your peers. If it's good, it will inspire you. If it's bad, it will really really inspire you.

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Noelle Monét | BOUND BY FURY out now!! @noellemonet.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

✨HOW IT STARTED // HOW IT'S GOING✨ I'm THRILLED to announce that my debut YA fantasy BOUND BY FURY will be published with S&S in Spring of 2026! I am endlessly grateful for my incredible agent Jenissa Graham at Bookends Lit & DREAM editor Sarah McCabe for making my dreams come true! 🧵 1/11

photo of the first ever printed version of this manuscript, formerly titled BLACK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY

Kai and Harper from BOUND BY FURY in the bottom left corner, a green zodiac wheel behind the announcement with forest in the back.

BOUND BY FURY
By Noelle Monet
Children's: Young Adult Fiction
Today
Noelle Monet's BOUND BY FURY, a debut contemporary fantasy pitched as Legendborn meets Mystic Falls, where a rage-inducing encounter awakens abilities in a sixteen-year-old, leading her to an elite boarding school in the North Carolina Mountains, where she unravels a tale that spans generations, but the truth about her family's connection to the town's racist past comes at a cost—becoming a prophecy incarnate, to Sarah McCabe at Margaret K. McElderry Books, in a six-figure deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2026, by Jenissa Graham at BookEnds (NA). UK: jgraham@bookendsliterary.com

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The Boooook Shepherd 👻 @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I regret to inform you that I do sometimes judge a book by its cover.

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c.m. briary 🦌 @cmbriary.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

in a production of hamlet I did, our hamlet was my friend ethan who embodied emo teen angst lord to the EXTREME. his costume was a ripped up my chemical romance t shirt and black jeans ( and I was horatio, clad in plaids and blacks for a supportive punk aesthetic )

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c.m. briary 🦌 @cmbriary.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

yall convince me to read priory of the orange tree

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

my #UnhingedPit for LOVE, GODS AND SINNERS is an ingredient list, ft: - "take her out" "to date or kill?" core - girlkisser shego and kim possible - a dialogue exchange that goes "please buy another bra "that's my emotional support one" - another excerpt below - this art by CALICOTURE on twitter:

Just to be clear, I might hate both the sin (being an asshole) and the sinner (the asshole herself)—but I’m not morally corrupt enough to think throwing Harper Leong out a window was an acceptable thing to do.

Two girls, the left in black with a dagger and the right in a silver armour with a sword, both fighting. They are haloed by a neon pink oval, with angry expressions.

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c.m. briary 🦌 @cmbriary.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

“Please. Let’s try something more balanced— I’d like to be reasonably drunk within the hour.”

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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Announcing #BluePit! The first BlueSky exclusive writing pitch event open to all genres! Much of the #WritingCommunity is migrating due to Twitter's new AI & block policy, so the time has come to bring pitch events with us. Agent participation is welcome & public feeds will be provided!

Please visit BluePit.carrd.co to review the rules for #BluePit.

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c.m. briary 🦌 @cmbriary.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

should i make an accountability thread over here for detectivewip? :)

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It's Me! It's TK! @tkjoinsthefray.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Bloodbath WIP: A Carmilla x La Maupin coalpunk horror story 🩸 Undead revenants eager to feast on the lower classes 🗡️Sapphic lovers to immortal enemies ⛰️Church, coal mines, and corpses 🌲 Folklore and culture from 1900s Black South/Appalachia ⚔️MC inspired by La Maupin ✊🏽 Butch, Black, Beautiful

A collage of four different pictures and a background. Background is a textured dark red and black. From left to right (all in black and white):

A misty forest
A blurry face
A dilapidated stairwell leading to an open door
Multiple hands reaching up in desperation

Text reads: When he draws his gaze upward again, the red sky is awash in bruised purple and blue, with the sickly sliver of a moon desperately trying to shine silver light between the newly sprouted leaves.

A dense forest, rendered eerie with warm tones and contrast, shadows, and highlights tuned to unnatural ranges. Text reads, "Late spring has come to the forest surrounding Paav, and the children are not yet dead."

A moodboard depicting the following photographs in black and white... Top Left: a red sun setting. Top Right: the interior of a stone church, desaturated with no ceiling. Center Left 1: a dark forest path with a shaft of light, desaturated. Center Left 2: text reads "Pray that I do not catch you and kill you...and we will see if God is listening." Center Right 1: text reads "Who should I kill instead, Kette, my dear, my sweet?" Center Right 2: a shrine of saints inside a church, cast in red light. Bottom Left: the interior of a cave, cast in red light. Bottom Center: text reads "Her head is like a broken flower bus on a stem..." Bottom Right: a pair of Black women's hands, gently holding one another, desaturated.

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G.M Bennett @gabbybennett.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

“oh my god you’re a writer?! can i read your stuff?” me:

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Matt Shay @twelveautumns.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Late night cooking and I can feel myself shutting down, but HOPING to have this idea that is very cool in my head done tomorrow

Alignments are devotions or bindings that your woodlander has with certain forces of the world of Inkwarren. There are four Alignments: the King (representing devotion to the traditions and ruling society of Inkwarren), the Queen (representing devotion to commerce, trade, and criminality), the Knight (representing devotion to philosophies, knowledge, and faith), and the Page (representing devotion to the common folk and general downtrodden of Inkwarren).

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 22/10/2024

Cassandra "Cass" Coates is Magica Riot’s second-in-command, lead guitarist, and backing vocalist. As the magical girl Riot Yellow, Cass is as skilled in fights as she is on stage, and never backs down from a threat. Meet Cass & the rest of the girls when Magica Riot arrives Nov. 1st! magicariot.com

A bearded twenty-something in a flannel shirt shouted back.
"They're trying to mug us or something!"
"Well take care of them," Sara said as the five of us started to close the distance. "You folks need to get out of here, right now."
"I don't understand," flannel guy said. "What's going on? Who are you?"
"We're professionals," Cass said.
"For real! You gotta scram," Nova said.
Flannel guy stared at us for a moment in confusion before re-lenting. "Yeah, okay, okay. Thank you, whoever you are."
He and his companions slipped past the creatures and took off running down the street. One of the creatures turned to follow.
"No, no, no," Cass shouted. "You're dealing with us now!"

The character Cass from the queer magical girl novel "Magica Riot." She is a Black magical girl with golden eyes and twist-out hair with yellow highlights, wearing a black and yellow magical girl costume that blends rock aesthetics and magical girl cuteness, standing in front of a field of purple.

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c.m. briary 🦌 @cmbriary.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

one of my magic users is the left, the other is the right. same book! 🙂‍↕️

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c.m. briary 🦌 @cmbriary.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

I love constantly battling the first 75 pages of a new book. I know im going to like it once I get past those 75 pages but... man....

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kellen graves 🦇 @skellygraves.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

“You will be made my caller of the shore,” the humming, growling voice spoke between their mouths, making Alba’s heart race. “My bride of the salted air, my brine witch." Alba & Eridanys from A BONE IN HIS TEETH #queerbooks #transbooks #transauthors 🌈📚

Illustration of the two main characters from A BONE IN HIS TEETH by Kellen Graves; Alba with long red hair braided to one side, with his arms held over his head by Eridanys, who has long white hair and pale white skin.

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