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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

📝 #FantasyIndiesSeptember 📝 I have been going down the rabbit hole of 10,000 Maniacs this week. Lots of earworms on repeat. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📝 #FantasyIndiesSeptember 📝 The Eververse has (mostly) the same history as our world until 1968, when an alien ship crashes in Break Pointe. Things go sideways after that. World War III (they call it something else) happens in 1983, and Kit's parents meet at an Elvis concert in the 90s. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📝 #FantasyIndiesSeptember 📝 I always struggle with comma placements. Pretty sure I imagine commas where there aren't any because of how I speak and think. I'm always at war with them. Someday. Someday, I will win. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you enjoy what I do, consider supporting me on Patreon! For the cost of a cup of coffee, you'll get access to posts and podcasts about writing, publishing, and all things in nerdom, as well as early access to upcoming works. 🧵 #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We're in the last few days of my #Kickstarter for the Eververse! Back now before it's too late! #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📝 #FantasyIndiesSeptember 📝 There are a few power-hungry characters in BREAK POINT, including Heavy Waters, a former cop who now leads a vigilante group styling themselves as the BPPD replacement. He won't stop at simply patrolling the streets. He has to run them, too. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

📝 #FantasyIndiesSeptember 📝 Saturday Snippet (opening from BREAK POINT): Broke-ass girl. Crashed alien spaceship. Instant powers. You know. Same old story. Well. There might be one or two exceptions. Actually, I’m leaving out a lot. I’m holding everything in. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

📝 #FantasyIndiesSeptember 📝 Winston is read for the weekend. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today is the official retail release for ASTRA IDARI TAKER OF THE DAWN, the final book in my epic space opera trilogy. If you've preordered the book or you backed it on Kickstarter, it would mean so much if you'd leave a review either on Goodreads or Amazon. Your support means so much! #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📝 #FantasyIndiesSeptember 📝 Kit would write a comic book, and SPOILERS, she's actually doing so in Break Point. I don't want to say any more, but you actually get to see a little bit of this in the new book... #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We're down to the final week for the Eververse Limited Edition Hardcovers campaign! If you have ever wondered what happens when you don't pay your superhero bill, back the campaign today! #kickstarter #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oddly, this is for book two in the series. Let's just say it wasn't a straight path to get here. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

RIP the amazing Annie Dillard, who once said the only advice any writer needed was to keep their overheads low. Live small. Dream big. Write like you're going to die any minute. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📝 #FantasyIndiesSeptember 📝 I imagine my characters would describe as overly oppressive, given all the trouble I put them through. Don't think I'd be a popular guy at the Darbyverse mixer. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📝 #FantasyIndiesSeptember 📝 There are some harsh lessons for Kit in BREAK POINT, which have series-wide ramifications. For myself, I learned with this book you can tell any story you want in indie publishing. You have enormous freedom to experiment, and you should. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📝 #FantasyIndiesSeptember 📝 Kit wants neither the knowledge nor the power she has (which is cosmic), and she doesn't want to use it. That becomes increasingly difficult, especially in Break Point, where she faces her greatest test yet. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📝 #FantasyIndiesSeptember 📝 Kit Baldwin has superpowers! She fused with a cosmic entity called The Ever and can manipulate matter and energy on a molecular level. She mostly avoids this for reasons made stark in the books, but she can also fly, make things go boom, and more. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The illustrated map @adamcbassett.com did for my new #Kickstarter is amazing. It's a real joy to see Break Pointe, a city in my head for over ten years, come to life for the first time. The map is full of Easter eggs for fans of the Eververse... look close. 👀 #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's ALIVE! The Eververse continues with my latest #kickstarter campaign, live now on the platform! You can get the fifth (!) book in the series, BREAK POINT, for the first time! If you're new to the series, you can also get the entire series in gorgeous limited-edition hardcovers. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📝 #FantasyIndiesSeptember 📝 Kit did not like school, as she never fit in for various reasons (being an undiagnosed autistic person key among them). Add in the schools in a town with the wreck of an alien spaceship sitting in the middle of it probably aren't that great, and... #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

📝 #FantasyIndiesSeptember 📝 Something in Break Point that really surprised me was how fraught the book ultimately gets. The stakes have never been higher, and Kit never suffers more than she does in this book. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

📝 #FantasyIndiesSeptember 📝 My next WIP is doing fairly well. I'm about 41k into it, though it's really fighting what it wants to be. I do know I want to write something I've never written before. I want to challenge myself creatively, and some days I feel like the work is all blah. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

📝 #FantasyIndiesSeptember 📝 I collect too many Star Wars figures (most of them since 1978), comic books, and books. I've long been past the point where I'm good with what I have, especially the toys. Books... you can never have too many books. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

📝 #FantasyIndiesSeptember 📝 Kit gets a big education in BREAK POINT on the limits of her power and also the true villain of the entire series. For the first time, she gets her eyes on The Never, and the result is not pretty. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

📝 #FantasyIndiesSeptember 📝 How do you choose your next read? Whatever speaks to me. I'm reading a lot of different books right now, including West of the World by Mike Shel, Return of the Sistah Samurai by Tatiana Obey, and most of the Absolute DC comics. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📝 #FantasyIndiesSeptember 📝 I'm Darby and we're just one week away from the launch of my #Kickstarter for the Eververse Series hardcovers, including BREAK POINT, book five. What happens when you don't pay your superhero bill? Nothing good... #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The official retail release of Astra Idari: Taker of the Dawn is almost here! The trilogy is finally complete 🚀

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A.J. Calvin @ajcalvin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's September, and that means new books are coming soon! This month's new release post is live: ajcalvin.net/the-indie-au... #booksky #newreleases #indiebooks #fantasy #scifi #horror

The Indie Author Sci-fi/Fantasy/Horror New Release List
September 2026

Featured image book covers: Sold to the Dark Vampire Prince by Kat Kinney, Astra Idari: Taker of the Dawn by Darby Harn, The Chosen One Con by Trudie Skies, Weak in the Head by Jan Miklaszewicz

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

🌙 #FantasyIndiesAugust 🌙 I go back and forth on series or standalones. I love vanishing into a series as much as I enjoy a solid story that is inherently complete. I waffle on this in my own writing, too, because my brain is always like, well. There could be more. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

You can still pick up hundreds of ebooks from the Narratess Indie Sale! #booksky 💙📚🪐 Link below!

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🌙 #FantasyIndiesAugust 🌙 Saturday Snippet Read the first three chapters of BREAK POINT! #booksky 💙📚🪐 darbyharn.com/break-point-...

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Narratess Indie Sale is here! Find hundreds of fantastic indie ebooks for 2.99 or less, including my latest Dead Malls! Click the link below and go to town now through 8/31! #booksky 💙📚🪐 indiebook.sale

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A.J. Calvin @ajcalvin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Narratess sale is live! Over 280 books are participating this year, and everything is on sale for $2.99 or less, now through August 31. indiebook.sale #booksky #onsale #fantasy #scifi #horror

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🌙 #FantasyIndiesAugust 🌙 Free Friday Less than two weeks away from my #Kickstarter for the Eververse and even this is my fifth (!) campaign, I'm very nervous. I was hoping for more prelaunch followers. I worry it's been too long since the last book (two years). #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🌙 #FantasyIndiesAugust 🌙 What have I learned recently? I've learned life never gives you a story. Life often just gives you the same tired beat over and over. Why, I don't know. All I know is we make the story, and we have to value our storytellers, or we're just hitting the beats. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🌙 #FantasyIndiesAugust 🌙 Dolly Parton is a legend in any universe, including the Eververse, where she would have been established before this alt-reality diverged. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🌙 #FantasyIndiesAugust 🌙 Kit shares her secrets mostly with GAMMA, her trusty android assistant. She tells him something pretty key in this book, which has reverberations far beyond its pages. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🌙 #FantasyIndiesAugust 🌙 A few names have special meaning in BREAK POINT, but one in particular stands out. Chip, a ghost Kit meets in the book, is named after Samuel R. Delaney. Delaney, a legend in specualtive fiction, goes by the nickname 'Chip.' #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🌙 #FantasyIndiesAugust 🌙 Most of the best advice I've gotten is to stay the course, both in your career and your art. Don't give up. Don't write things you don't like (or want to read) just to 'make it.' #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🌙 #FantasyIndiesAugust 🌙 Really looking forward to a future book to movie/TV adapation of the Eververse someday. 👀 #booksky 💙📚🪐

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A.J. Calvin @ajcalvin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Any indies have SF/F/Horror books coming out in September? I'm building next month's new release post, and there's room for new titles! You can submit the book info using the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #writingcommunity #writesky #indiebooks #booksky

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Calling Indie Authors with new releases comin in September 2026 for Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror. My new release list has space for plenty of new titles!
*Please do not submit books created using genAI. Thank you.

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🌙 #FantasyIndiesAugust 🌙 One sentence pitch for BREAK POINT: The lone superhuman willing to help in a city where help is illegal unless you pay for it, Kit Baldwin now faces her biggest challenge... wannabe cops. #booksky 💙📚🪐

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