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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

A must-read, if you’d like to read more diversely. Moira Millán is an activist from the Mapuche Indigenous community in Argentina. #diversebooks #booksky

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I knew that NASA was going to censor the passing of 3IAtlas near Mars. I had zero hopes in them being honest and sharing the sights of an interstellar object with humanity. So I’m just hoping that someone else somewhere has nice footage to share with astronomy enthusiasts from around the world.

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there. I have that part, I mean… ArgenFinn, I have it on both sides. The issue is that I’m a hermit by nature.

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The topic of OBEs has always been interesting to me. But I don’t like to paint it as “sunshine and rainbows” like I’ve read in some fiction, and don’t even get me started on those new age forums... I’d like to explore other angles, and that’s why I’m working on this scifi trilogy. 1/2

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Today was the first time I had a dream where I saw my sci-fi novel at a bookstore. What bookstore? I don’t know. It was a dream. Maybe it’s because of my visits to bookstores on Tuesday. Some dreams are like the processing of earlier experiences. 💙📚🌎 #DiverseBooks #scifi

Book cover for The Weaving Spider and Moth by Dal Cecil Runo. The cover shows a gradient green background with faint stars, and in the center there’s an illustration of a circular spider web with a moth flying towards it and a spider hanging by a thread. The title and the author name are also in white letters.

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

My new novella is out, and it’s always going to stay free to read. ❤️‍🩹🌳 #fantasy #indieauthor

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

My new novella, The Trail of Lady Shajarah, is out, and it’s always going to stay free to read.

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Cover Reveal. This novella will be released on July 23rd. It’s going to stay free. #indieauthor #booksky #fantasy

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Tomorrow I’ll have a cover reveal for my upcoming novella, The Trail of Lady Shajarah. Hope you like it. ❤️‍🩹🌳

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Last night I fell asleep while still working on my novel. I’m aware that what I write is not for “the market,” so I work harder on making the writing itself better.

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

It’s Disability Pride Month in the states, which means, I finally “count” as a person worth reading.

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

So… Beautyland. I’m currently reading.

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Tonight I tried to come up with a story idea that could become my quick sellout book that maybe pays the bills, but… I am not culturally equipped to write that sellout book, yet. My ideas are too alien at this point in my life. But I’ll keep on trying.

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

For people who have read The Weaving Spider & Moth, who is your favorite character? Why? I’ve never asked that question and I feel silly for not asking sooner. #Indieauthor #DiverseBooks #Booksky #scifi 💙📚🌎

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Very thankful for the person who gave my book a chance this month. It means everything. Thank you. 💚💚💚 #Booksky #DiverseBooks #SciFiBooks #IndieAuthor

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Now some people know a bit more of my writing process in real time. 🤣 It’s very messy. There’s a lot of research involved. I think I finished something and then, nope, go back, add this and that. 💬📚💙

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Authors, from all the characters you’ve written, who is the character that pushes you out of your comfort zone the most and why? 💬📚💙

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Book 2 has been the “I finished a chapter! … No, not quite, not yet” kinda book. I care deeply about stuff that many wouldn’t even notice, or I feel like many won’t notice. Perfectionism.

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Remember when NaNoWriMo defended generative AI instead of supporting writers? Well, they shut down recently. So, Duolingo, you might be next.

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I’m a fan of books I can’t predict, where there’s a lot going on, and romance doesn’t take over the whole plot. I realize that I’m in the minority of readers in the Anglo market, but hey, we exist.

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I love when other writer friends make playlists as soundtracks for their books. 💜 I’m not alone.

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Books are like dreams. Let them surprise you instead of expecting the same thing you’ve already met from previous books.

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rampancy @jancheta25.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

For all of my fellow folks in the #WritingCommunity in the trenches writing essays for lit mags, here's a really poignant piece on rejection, persistence...and petty dishonesty from Seth Kaplan. (Thanks to Margo Steines for recommending it!) www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...

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DREAMS: ON DISCOVERY, LOVE, FAILURE, A HEIST AND A RECOVERY IN THE LITERARY WORLD by Seth Kaplan

I. I started hoarding cash. I needed about fifty dollars that could not be traced back to me, so I stashed bits here and there: $3 change from the ice cream shop, $4 paying for a round of drinks...

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The Weaving Spider & Moth is a sad sci-fi with parapsychology. You’re not safe here. You won’t be comforted here. OBEs aren’t an easy escape here. #diversebooks #booksky #parapsychology #scifi 💬📚💙📚🌎

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Tonight was just adding a sensory detail to a scene that was already well revised. I know… it doesn’t seem like big progress, but I prefer to have achieved this than nothing at all. #booksky 💬📚💙

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 02/05/2025

For fanfiction writers, it can feel like generative AI is closing in on all sides. #AO3 has been scraped multiple(!) times, readers are using AI to finish authors’ fics … But isn’t *writing* the whole point? The incomparable @elizabethminkel.bsky.social shares her take: ellips.us/3RM407F

A sinister Hugging Face emoji waggles its eyebrows over an abstract word cloud with falling papers and AO3 logos.

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Braille homework and weightlifting aren’t that different. Both make my arms hurt. 🤣

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Whoever you are, I appreciate you very much. Thank you for reading my work. 50 sales overall on Draft2Digital. Thank you. #Booksky #indieauthor 💬📚💙

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Opening paragraph of The Trail of Lady Shajarah. If everything goes well, I will release this novella next week.

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Gratitude post. Thank you for reading my work and giving me a chance. I have no prestigious publishing house to back me up. It’s just me. It means a lot that my first novel has found its way to different parts of the world. It has traveled more than me and that’s all thanks to you. 💬📚💙📚🌎

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Free Palestine. Free Kashmir. That’s the post.

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I added the “author’s note” and included a short list of book recommendations for whoever reads my little novella. So, I did that. Slowly getting ready to publish this next work of fiction. My “10,000 words of grief.”

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Cloudnine Cameo @cloudninecameo.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I’m so excited to be apart of this charity anthology for the ACLU! Check out these short stories from a wonderful group indie authors. 💕 *Disclaimer this independent anthology is not affiliated with or endorsed by the ACLU

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Annette J @annettej.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Nothing beats a great book and coffee - currently reading This Too Shall Burn by @catrector.com

Kindle showing the cover of This Too Shall Burn by Cat Rector which has a beautiful young woman with smoke coming from her fingertips against a forest backing. In thr background is a coffee mug

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

It’s the weirdest feeling ever, to wake up from a dream where you got into an argument with one of your characters. Yes, he’s fictional and I’m not, but in the world of dreams we all exist the same way. That’s why I said, it’s a weird feeling to wake up from that.

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

(Fictional character nonsense) Jen: note to self. Never, EVER mention Chatuchak to Tibi, or something’s gonna burn. Muna: don’t even think about that near him. Jen: don’t be so dramatic. He doesn’t read minds. Muna: (in her mind), no, darling, he’s… he has other tricks up his sleeve. #scifi 📚💙

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

More than 600 words written last night, and I started the new chapter, and I had fun. Hiding foreshadowing in something seemingly mundane. I live for these moments. 💜 #BookSky #writing #scifi

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Let’s see if I can finally return to writing the next chapter. I think it’s because chapter 18 needs some rework in the outline itself before I dive into the manuscript. We’ll see…

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Tonight’s writing session is hard, but not impossible. It’s all about those sensory descriptions. I am struggling, but once I get the hang of it, I’ll have something better than the rough draft. This is a difficult scene. This entire chapter is emotionally difficult, but I’ll do my best. 💙📚

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

What is the best to encounter in a fiction book? What are your favorite scenes? 💬📚💙

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This current chapter’s rough draft is not good. The idea is there, but the writing is not. I have a lot to fix.

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Writing update: I’m enjoying not being on socials. But writing has been difficult today because I had a lot of interruptions. My mind is still at work.

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Book 2, chapter 16, here we go. There’s definitely too much sisu in this one. Too much, in a bad way. #amwriting #booksky #bookskychat 💙📚🌎

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Tonight’s writing: One of my characters is consumed by rage, and I’m truly scared of dealing with him right now, but I have to. One sentence at the time. Sigur Ros music playing in the background… #authors #amwriting #booksky #bookskychat 💙📚🌎 💬📚

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Craft @craft.do · 20/03/2025

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I’ve reached the halfway point of my 2nd novel. Although it’s “just a draft,” I feel that this is much better than the initial rough scenes I wrote back in 2018/19. The #productivity tool that has helped me immensely to overcome the difficulties of writing a sequel is @craft.do #amwriting

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This book has disabled representation. This book was written by a blind human. Thank you for reading. #DiverseBooks #scifi #DiverseSciFi #indieauthor #authors #Booksky 💙📚🌎

Book cover for The Weaving Spider and Moth by Dal Cecil Runo.

The design is a simple white illustration of a circular web with a moth flying towards it and a spider hanging from a thread. The background is a gradient of greens with fading stars. The title and author name are also in white text.

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Dal Cecil Runo - author @dalcecilruno.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I’ll make sure to return to my chapter revisions in a couple of hours. I’ve left my characters in such a bad scene, and I mean most of them. Chapter 16 is kinda the middle of the novel, and everything is going downhill. My poor children. ❤️‍🩹📚 The image is a sketch of the cover, not the final design.

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