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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 16h

#Booksky Today is a great day to buy werewolf books! Catherine Lundoff’s Wolves of Wolf’s Point books are available in print, ebook and audiobook everywhere and SILVER MOON is out in German translation from @ylva-publishing.bsky.social! queenofswordspress.com/product-cate...

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Werewolves

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Bex @musicgamer460.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

www.bookfrenzi.com/fantasy/bald... here it is, my thoughts on Baldur's Gate 3: Astarion by @tkingfisher.com it's good, it's really really good but it is also DARK!! This story is not for the faint of heart (I'm deadly serious!) but it is still so GOOD! Hope you enjoy it :)

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Baldur’s Gate 3: Astarion - Review

The first novel about everyone’s favorite vampire in Baldur’s Gate III, Astarion, is here from T. Kingfisher and it is an amazing, if extremely dark, story.

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Dining Table Discworld @dtdiscworld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Discworld RPG Review We take another brief interlude to take a look at the new Adventures in Ankh-Morpork Discworld Roleplaying game from Modiphius. It's a review rather than an unboxing, but there is some background noise of dice, bags and pages. diningtablediscworld.podbean.com/e/dining-tab...

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Dining Table Discworld - Discworld RPG Review | Dining Table Discworld

We take another brief interlude to take a look at the new Adventures in Ankh-Morpork Discworld Roleplaying game from Modiphius. (Who's name I'm sure I mispronounce every time I say it!) We have a look...

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy 479th Birthday to Miguel Cervantes who was born #onthisday in 1547 🎂 In his most famous work Don Quixote, the title character charges at windmills, mistaking them for monstrous giants with swords, so in tribute we're all going up Burgar Hill in #Orkney to tilt at the wind turbines. 🎉

The cover of the Penguin edition of Don Quixote

A painting of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza at a windmill

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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 29/09/2026

Come see me flail using a flail.

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 29/09/2026

I honestly think #AI companies will be junk shares in a few years time. Their business model is unsustainable, based on theft, and most people don’t want what they have to offer. It’s only because the technology is being forced on people and massively subsidised that they have survived this long.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rare example of the questioning sentence going against Betteridge's Law

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 29/09/2026

They're SO CHEAP why would anyone copy these with AI when they're LITERALLY SO CHEAP Anyway, for absolute peanuts, get yourself a pumpkin stencil designed by a REAL HUMAN ARTIST, tried and tested by REAL HUMAN CUSTOMERS!!

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm going to tell you a story and then, at the end, I'm going to ask you if anyone happens to have the niche knowledge I need to help... The story begins, as so many of my stories do, in an ancient church in the middle of a city. But it's not now. And it's not hundreds of years ago. It's the 1960's

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But I don't know anything about tapes or digitisation or anything like that. I don't even know how I would play this. I don't even know if it's still in good enough condition to play. So my question is... How? How do I take these two tapes, this two part performance, and make the choir live again?

An open box of scotch polyester tapes, showing the reel inside

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good news everyone! I found the ginormous spider that vanished mysteriously last week, when I turned my back to find a suitable extraction vessel. This week I had a dry empty pint glass that was *just* big enough to put her leggy, jumpy self in. She had big flappy teef too.

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On pre-order, our very Welsh Kickstarter project. They Are Still Here features stories of resistance and resilience in Welsh community, with a little help from our supernatural friends. wizardstowerpress.co...

The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd).

The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left.

Art by Josh Arklin.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

From the introduction to the Hookland Tourist Board I=SEE STRANGE HOOKLAND book:

REMEMBER:

Don’t go out by yourself at night. Many things in this book are thought to be imaginary, but being out by yourself in the dark can still be dangerous – even if you don’t encounter the Danebury Grim.

If you see something that scares you, tell a parent or a trusted adult such as a teacher. In extreme cases where you can’t find an adult you can trust, you could even tell a police officer.

Don’t provoke Faeries of any type. You would not like people shouting your name, poking you in your bed with a stick or throwing stones in your bath, so don’t do it to Faeries. No-one likes ill-behaved children, least of all the Elves of Hookland.

Don’t signal for UFOs with torches. It is not only a waste of batteries, it can be misinterpreted by the emergency services. Besides, we can’t promise that all UFOs are friendly or interpret your signal as a positive message.

Show some respect for the graves of the dead. If you were buried in the ground you wouldn’t appreciate another child dancing on your grave or trying to dig it up would you?

Remember to take extra care when looking for things around water – both by the sea and along rivers and pools. Even if he is imaginary, the King-Under-the-Sea should be shown some deference and Stay Belows not encouraged to grab at you when dangling your legs or trailing your hands in cool, apparently calm water.

Imaginary things can’t hurt you unless you believe in them with all your heart and then they are really quite dangerous.

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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 28/09/2026

Today’s interview is a particularly special one for me. I’m talking to one of the most wonderful people I know, and one of the most talented writers working in dark fiction, Tracy Fahey. We talk crones, case files, memory, history, and the past that has a habit of finding its way back.

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Tracy Fahey Interview: Crones, Cold Cases and Memory

Tracy Fahey interview: Queens of the Crone Age, her noir collection Down We Go Together, open endings, and why horror film keeps making the Hag a villain.

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RJ Barker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Then on the 3rd of November - PRIDE OF THE WILD BLACK. and the 1st of December -- LOST IN THE WILD BLACK And on the 5th of January a paper omnibus of all three.

This time it's a bear in the space suit. Who doesn't love a bear?

And in the final one a cleaver little rook.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Space cats! SPACE! CATS!

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s excellent you wants this

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For just 3 more days, if you're in the UK, you can scoop up the ebook of my (award-winning!) cozy-spooky fantasy rom-com Wooing the Witch Queen for only 99p! Snap it up: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/step... #romancelandia

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Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis

A delightful, funny and seductive romantasy trilogy begins in Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis. In a gaslamp-lit world, hags and ogres lurk in thick…

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RJ Barker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Like CATS? Like SPACE? Like MECHS? Like SHOOTING STUFF. Like QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ETHICS OF CONSENT IN UPLIFTING ANIMALS AND ALSO THE HEALING OF TRAUMA THROUGH KINDNESS Then, my friend, put the 6TH OF OCTOBER in your diary. Audio and EBOOK release of BEASTS OF THE WILD BLACK. (Tell everyone.)

A cat is looking out of a human space suit at you. That's what we call in the trade, a visual metaphor. Now comes the blurb.

Years ago, Deep Strike cadet Min Law was left behind during what was meant to be a routine operation. Though he survived, the resulting trauma almost ended his career. Now, as captain of the DST Thunberg, he is preparing to take his crew on a similar journey to a seemingly quiet world following a garbled distress signal. The mission is simple on paper: find the source of the call, offer aid, return home.

But nothing is simple in the Wild Black at the edges of the unexplored universe. As the crew of the Thunberg searches for the signal’s source, they find strange ships and corpses that shouldn’t be there. The mysteries begin to pile up. What happened out here? And why does some of the technology look horribly familiar?

Fortunately, Min’s team of animal counterparts is prepared for anything. The bear, Sitka Pete, is eight hundred pounds of loyal muscle. The rooks are quick and coordinated, perfect for reconnaissance. And the cats, Oz and Hinder, well, they’re just cats. But together they’re more than up for whatever the Wild Black can throw at them—even if this region isn’t quite so unexplored after all . . .

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frank: print witch @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

now printing the first layer of this 👀

a gold linoprint of a white stag on the ground, his antlers are trees with skulls and apples growing off them. He has a crown around his neck with a chain attached

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Mare Pan @paarsec.com · 24/09/2026

I want you to try removing the autocorrect from your phone for a week, just to see how you type after a decade of using it. That's what's gonna happen to every single skill that you offload often to AI

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy smally like a hand day for all who celebrate

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Stephen Cox - "funny, raunchy, romantic, satisfyingly twisted" @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Book Quote Wednesday 'knew'. An inquest. "The coroner knew that the jury were much taken with Miss Svensson’s profound and dignified grief, and Mrs Gittens’s dreadful situation as a widow who had lost her son... The coroner charged the jury not to indulge in harmful speculation." #books #BQW #read

The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Terror
A striking book cover with the title and author name dominating.
The lettering and detail are pale against a dark and sinister red-brown. The Title is in large Victorian lettering emphasising the word Terror by size of font and red added to letters – not dripping blood! - and framed by gold. Three roundels show icons related to the book; left, a half folded cutthroat razor streaked with red, top right, pearl jewellery with three pearls and a pearl effect locket; bottom right a burning railwayman’s lamp.
The effect is striking and Victorian.

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Saw a comment about the new sense and sensibility film being "bold". Brain read that as "bond" and now I need a regency, female-MC, secret service heist, with slight peril, and utterly deadly handfan combat. TIA.

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Gabrielle Steele ⚔️ Echoes of Chaos out now! @eldris.thellian.com · 24/09/2026

Echoes of Chaos is out today in ebook!! It’s set 200 years after Reborn in Ash but is a separate story. - epic fantasy - empathic bonds - animal companion - prophecies - elemental magic - romance subplot Ignore that the website says pre-order. I’ll update it when I’m properly awake 😅 #BookSky 💙📚🪐

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Echoes of Chaos - Gabrielle Steele

Echoes of Chaos, an epic fantasy book by Gabrielle Steele. After years of failing to destroy the twisted beast that was once the woman she loved, Eryn makes a costly deal with an imprisoned immortal, ...

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imyril @imyril.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And now so do I. …and so do you.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 23/09/2026

Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a human-made creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.

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Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The OED has just added ‘bwbach’ to its list of Welsh loan words in English, but what does it mean? And how should you treat one if you meet one? This book will tell you.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 22/09/2026

More paperbacks are arriving! 👀

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 22/09/2026

Lucas says so!

Photo of an extremely handsome fluffy tricolour Pembroke corgi smiling at the camera

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Me to security person at Dublin Airport: I was given a lemon as a prize today. Can I bring my lemon through security? Security person (solemnly): Yes, you may bring your prize lemon through security.

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Stephen Cox - "funny, raunchy, romantic, satisfyingly twisted" @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

we launched on Saturday and it was launchy. The simplest way to buy print, signed is online via the bookshop website or to visit. They rub the magic lamp and I come and sign them. The first one is in stock. allgoodbookshop.co.uk/order-items/... what they don't have they can usually get #books

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The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Terror by Stephen Cox

PUBLISHED 14 SEPTEMBER 2026 - Book launch Saturday 19 September 2026 True terror is a murderer you can’t stop. London 1882. A carpenter is killed by a train – an eerie, brutal crime. Flamboyant medium...

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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As Steph always fails to mention, this was the winner of the Romantic Novelists’ Association Award for Best Romantasy/Romantic Fantasy Novel of 2025, so it's an exceptional book!

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Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk · 20/09/2026

I’m making a guest appearance on Writeopolis this evening. Come join us on the Discord!

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is absolute perfection.

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Me: oh, there's a pretty yellow butterfly on the lavender, I'll just get a quick photo PYB: too slow monkey! _Flaps away giggling in insect_

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oof, so...our family is now on its seventh (!!!!) round of covid, and my daughter is really sick with the highest fever and most agonizing sore throat she's ever had. IOW, it's going around again, and it's really worth taking precautions, everyone. ❤

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Kathryn H @tallstories.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Morning! I've just started Mortedant's Peril. Too soon to have an opinion on it but RJ Barker has never let me down before.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have just finished Wickhills, and it is a TREMENDOUS piece of writing.

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Harvey Carman @composercarman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thank you so much to everyone who played Alawon at Tokyo game show! Sincere apologies to those who couldn't try it because I only had 1 station. I hope you'll look forward to the demo release later this year🙏

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Masterpiece of Turkey Cleverness @turkeycleverness.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't feel as if @ravenswordpress.com's Inheritance series gets nearly enough love. I think people get scared away by the trigger warnings, which...sort of fair, BUT everything is handled so well! It's not just trauma for the sake of causing characters more trauma, or for the love of trauma.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you ever need your faith in the sciences restored after having it so violently compromised by techbros masquerading as technologists, I encourage you to check out the breakthrough after breakthrough ongoing in oncology.

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