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Ella Piro @ellapiro-writing.bsky.social · 2h

I actually liked using em-dashes when writing non-fiction…these days I double-check myself each time just to not give anyone even the idea something I have actually written could be AI-generated 🫤

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 17h

95 hours of my Dartmoor inspired moorland scene are done! This is the last full update you'll see of this aerial embroidery until its complete now, maybe 20 more hours? I've decided the tor-based area of the landscape will be sloped so I need to work on the little hill :) 1/2

A large embroidery hoop containing an embroidered aerial-view landscape. It shows green moorland, meadows and woodland, all cut through with roads and lanes.

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Ella Piro @ellapiro-writing.bsky.social · 19h

'Binding Escape' opens the door to the Known Lands! Follow the story of Grace and Sadiyah as their fates entwine and they encounter an enemy hiding in the dark. 💪 strong female lead ❤️ slow burning romantasy 📚 a mystery to unravel Available at your favourite bookstore: books2read.com/BindingEscape

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

Binding Escape by Ella Piro

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Good morning to everyone, but especially the dictionary.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary explaining the origin of ‘Goodbye’ meaning ‘God be with you’. And someone responding asking for evidence.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary giving evidence of the etymology of ‘goodbye’.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary saying they are the dictionary and not making things up.

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Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

#Onthisday 16 October 1847, Jane Eyre was published to great acclaim. One of the first reviews stated: "This is not merely a work of great promise; it is one of absolute performance...one of the most powerful domestic romances published for many years."

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 15/10/2026

On Wednesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—please join us as we announce the recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! The announcement will be on YouTube at 9 am Pacific time. www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...

Nine books in a stack:
Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell
Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur
Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman
One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed
Slow Gods by Claire North
Audition by Pip Adam
Sunward by William Alexander
The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes
Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta

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Renee Scattergood 🇦🇺 @reneescatts.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I write terrible choices from the inside out:  Believable motive  Incomplete information  No safe option  Enough pressure to make the worst decision feel necessary Then I let the consequences reshape the character. reneescattergood.au #WritingCraft #CharacterArc #DarkFantasy

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🐾🐾🤍..

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The British Fantasy Society does not allow the use of generative AI in any of its spaces. For more on this, read the interview with outgoing chair Shona Kinsella from earlier this year. This position has not changed since last week's AGM. ⬇️ britishfantasysociety.org/its-a-cheat-...

Text says We say NO to generative AI in the creative arts

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🏳️‍⚧️Mel💜they/them🏳️‍⚧️ @meltheparadox.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Happy Thursday gorgeous Bluesky Stars 🌟✨✨✨ ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🤍🩶🖤 I hope everyone is doing well today 🫂🫶🏻☃️💖💖 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🤍🩶🖤 “Your true value comes from who you are, not from what others think of you” ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🤍🩶🖤 Take care of yourself and each other 🌈✨🫶🏻🌻 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🤍🩶🖤 Have a day that’s perfect for you 🌟💛🤗 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤎🤍🩶🖤

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Ella Piro @ellapiro-writing.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Wrote myself into a dead end yesterday, had an epiphany and now my story is blooming and coming together in great, totally unexpected ways - writing rocks! #amwriting

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Slowly reinventing the normal-sized library

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/10/2026

And while we're on the subject: there's no ethical use of a product brought to market through unethical means. It doesn't matter whether the product is "AI" or chocolate or diamonds. Most generative "AI" was knowingly developed through massive theft from creatives; we have the emails admitting this.

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The Story of Writing @sownow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

New Zealand novelist Katherine Mansfield was born on this day in 1888. She experimented with style, writing stories in pieces – not in a linear way. She felt this better expressed her characters’ psyches. This helped re-shape literary modernism. #WriterSky #BookSky #History #BOTD

Katherine Mansfield, 1914
Photo: © photos.com/Getty Images
Source: Britannica

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Ella Piro @ellapiro-writing.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

my author copies of 'Binding Escape' have just arrived 🥳 #writers #BookSky #bookish #RomanceReaders #indieauthor #fantasybooks #books books2read.com/BindingEscape

3 author copies of Binding Escape, showing front and backside views of the book, partly laying across each other

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Happy launch to my two talented *British Fantasy Award-winning* pals @clhellisen.com and @annabelcwrites.bsky.social !! Love both of these books so much, and deserving of all the success ✨️🖤

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Katie *Your Writer Big Sister* Masters @katiemasters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I DUNNO WHO NEEDS TO HEAR THIS BUT Your story is needed. Desperately. Please finish your book. .... No seriously, go finish it! #writerslife #authorlife #WritingCommunity #bookworms

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MicheleMuse 💙🌈🦋🇺🇦 @michelemuse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

go.bsky.app/CmusjX3 Came and join us.

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Ella Piro @ellapiro-writing.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Here are a few of my favourite books that have entertained me and at the same time have shown me something new, taught me something or shone the light on a new aspect of the world #BookSky #books uk.bookshop.org/lists/open-y...

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Open your mind

books that entertain, grip and show you a new aspect of life, history or the world altogether

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🧵Just over the Lancashire border lies the enchanting (the only word for it) hamlet of Wycoller. The ancient village has three notable bridges although the beck is bridged seven times in total. One is the medieval packhorse bridge below dating from between the 13-15th centuries although

The medieval packhorse bridge at Wycoller dating from between the 13-15th centuries although probably reconstructed at a later date. It is also locally known as "Sally's Bridge" after a member of the Cunliffe family who lived in nearby Wycoller Hall. Image: Karl Davison CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ooh, I'm so guilty of this 🙋‍♀️💝 📚📗📘📖📚 There is a Japanese word for buying more books than you can read. But don't you just love being surrounded by stacks of beloved books that you could read anytime you wanted to, but haven't? 😂 (Narrated by @spine.breakerbooks) #books #loveofbooks #reading

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Ella Piro @ellapiro-writing.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

So, I finally finished ‘A little Trickerie’ by Rosanna Pike and the ending has left me feeling conflicted - I guess this book will stay with me for a while 📖🧐 #BookSky

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Grant Snider @grantdraws.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

What's on your bookshelf this weekend?

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Jane Eyre was recently added to the banned book list. We have two copies in stock. carpelibrumbaltimore.com

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Paul @paulwritespoems.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Last year throughout November and December, The Book Bag Christmas List was viewed by a few thousand people. This year The Book Bag Christmas Gift Guide is looking to replicate and improve on last year. Submitting is easier this year. Take 5 and boost a press or poet today.

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cbnewham @parishchurches.org · 10/10/2026

Bookish architecture This huge monument to Sir Henry (d.1630) & Mary Yelverton is squeezed into the east end of the north aisle of Easton Maudit church (Northants). It features a superstructure made from piles of books. Two bedesmen with cushioned heads support the canopy.

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StoreyBook Reviews @storeybookreviews.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It is that time of the year…pumpkin spice, blankets, sweaters, and more. Of course, in Texas, the blanket may or may not happen until November or December. But we can always hope! #cozyreading #givememorebooks #readmorebooks #ilovetoread

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Ella Piro @ellapiro-writing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Grace Turnpike, born into privilege, caged by society, fights relentlessly for every shred of freedom and to protect those she loves.
Sadiyah, Crown Prince of Samara, comes to Balindor to defeat a plight that haunts his people and puts their most powerful secret at risk.
Can Grace and Sadiyah escape the bounds of their responsbilities, society and old wounds asthey join forces to defeat an enemy lingering in the dark?
Enter the Known Lands to follow their story and experience a new world unfold...

Binding Escape by Ella Piro, The Turnpike Chronicles Vol. I - book cover

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It was foggy yesterday morning so I cycled down to Scarness by Bassenthwaite Lake to see the trees. Sure was cold.

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Ella Piro @ellapiro-writing.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A cat and a little, overgrown pond, all mossy and mysterious

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Ella Piro @ellapiro-writing.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"so many thoughts flitting through your head, so few you can actually hold on to" - things I say to my cat (he is not the brightest of the bunch)

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Congratulations to Anne Carson! She was awarded the #Nobel Prize in Literature this morning! 🥳 The Canadian poet and essayist won "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature." #LitSky #Canada

nytimes.com

Canadian Poet Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (Gift Article)

The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This cat, Kitty (Finn) is insisting we need to reopen the bookstore in a brick and mortar format so we can adopt him and have him be our new shop cat, so we started a sale on our website in his honor. Get 20% off your order with promo code Finn at checkout. carpelibrumbaltimore.com

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Jeff Sunbury @jsunbury.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Prairie Smoke (Geum triflorum) The flowers are arranged in umbels of 3 to 5 flowers: their ring of silvery pink stamens sometimes resemble plumes of smoke.

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Creative Crone @runatroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you like a creator's work, tell them. Otherwise we stare & questioning our life choices. Like @chuckwendig.bsky.social said: "Authors are like Tinkerbell. If you don't clap for us, we die. Please remember if you like a book, tell the author and post reviews. It means the absolute world to us."

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anne Carson. Yes. Just absolutely, yes.

THE PARIS REVIEW

INTERVIEWER
In the writing world, particularly in and around M.F.A. programs, there's a lot of discussion around things like "character" and "perspective," the mechanics of narrative. Do you think about
"craft" in these terms?

CARSON
Never. I don't think about it. I think people should just quit that stuff. Just think about something and follow it down to where it gets true.

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Ella Piro @ellapiro-writing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I put together a short, eclectic book list - if you feel the need for escapism and are curious to explore genres, feel free to check it out 📚 #books #BookSky uk.bookshop.org/lists/ella-s...

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Ella's Little Varied Escape Bubble

Check out this list on Bookshop

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Ella Piro @ellapiro-writing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

yes on both accounts - book one was really only the start of their story, they still have some challenges ahead of them

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Matthew Green @mehjg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Many of the best books are weird when they're published, even though they sometimes spawn a trend or a genre and their weirdness becomes more mainstream.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The work of Anne Damer (1748- 1828), English sculptor. Described as a "female genius", one of the 1st recognised women sculptors, who lived with her lover, Irish actress Elizabeth Farren #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a sculpture of the upper half of a woman in a greek style

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Ella Piro @ellapiro-writing.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

'Binding Escape' - the First Book in the Turnpike Chronicles has just launched! 💪 strong female lead ❤️ slow burning romantasy 📚 a mystery to unravel available in digital and print at your favorite bookstore: books2read.com/BindingEscape

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.". Dear, troubled, Edgar Allan Poe, who we lost on this day in 1849. #books #livres #horror #horreur

A Penguin Classic edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue

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Ella Piro @ellapiro-writing.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have already started work on the next book - it is still in its fledgling stages but I am exciting to be back with Grace&Sadiyah and follow their journey :)

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hands up - are you guilty? I know I am! 🙈 #WritingCommunity

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