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Faith Gardner @faithgardner.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a horror film where children are picked off one by one and Charlie is the final girl, change my mind

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Faith Gardner @faithgardner.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I love it every time I see an indie author crushing it

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Faith Gardner @faithgardner.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Me nearing the end of dry January this year

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Faith Gardner @faithgardner.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Is it clinical depression or is it just 2025

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Well, I have to give it to this app, it's been really great at putting more books on my radar. #booksky

Covers for the books Below Economic Thresholds by Adam Hulse and The mirror house girls by Faith Gardner. Above the books there's a line of text that reads "what I read because of BlueSky this week". Below the books are ratings of 4/5 for Below and 5/5 for mirror house.

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Blue sky is awesome because a bunch of people who like to make jokes and a bunch of people who are incapable of identifying a joke are forced to share space

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J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com · 17/01/2025

Eligible in the Stoker’s Nonfiction category, this grief soaked story of a horror author tells not only my story, but my mom’s, the nation I live in, and the culture that led to me breaking cycles of family trauma. It’s something for teens to centenarians. This is life—and it’s scary. #FridayReads

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41: An Autobiography a book by J. D. Buffington

Arkansas, 1979, an 18-year-old young woman from the Bronx gives birth to her second son and is promptly run out of town by her in-laws. Thus began aa halting and jerking life for author J.D. Buffingto...

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Faith Gardner @faithgardner.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I would watch the shit out a mob movie that was set in an old folks' home. Cast De Niro, Pesci, and all the actors we loved watching in mob movies and the Sopranos but they're all in a nursing home still trying to put out hits on each other.

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Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Thanks Gabino!! #booksky

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m bringing you a lot of ghosts, blood, revenge, and monsters from beyond the reef for only $4.99. That’s less than a cup of coffee! Get some. Thanks! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CP...

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Faith Gardner @faithgardner.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

My book THE MIRROR HOUSE GIRLS came out this week! If you like realistic cult thrillers and character-driven stories that showcase the insidious power of psychological manipulation, this is for you. #booksky

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The Mirror House Girls: A psychological thriller

Amazon.com: The Mirror House Girls: A psychological thriller eBook : Gardner, Faith: Kindle Store

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

‘do you ever stop talking about books?’ N 　 O 　　　 O 　　　　 o 　　　　　 o 　　　　　 o 　　　　　 o 　　　　。　　　。　　　 . 　　　 . 　　　 . 　　　　 . 🎙️

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V.Castro @vlatinalondon.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

BUY SOME BOOKS 🖤 SALES MATTER SO MUCH TO PUBLISHERS. Preorder THE PINK AGAVE MOTEL THANK YOU! bit.ly/4bO0Sk9 amzn.to/4bwRaSB bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Beverley Lee @beverleylee.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Did you get a new Kindle for Christmas? Fill it with something dark for the princely sum (see what I did there? 🤭) of 99p/99c - limited time only. THE SUM OF YOUR FLESH is a chilling, dark fiction, genre-blending novel with themes of persecution, loneliness, & atonement. mybook.to/SumofYourFlesh

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Bill Gauthier @billgauthier.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

For the last #FridayReads of 2024, I point out my books. ECHOES ON THE POND, a novel; CATALYSTS, a short story collection; and ALICE ON THE SHELF and SHADOWED, novellas. www.amazon.com/stores/autho...

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Robert Kluver @robertkluver.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Thank you, Gabino! Sometimes it just takes a nightmare-eating demon to get the family back together. Send Me Your Nightmares is a tense, character-driven supernatural thriller for only $2.99. It's only a copy or two away from hitting triple digits in sales. So close. www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTXZG2S6

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Send Me Your Nightmares

Amazon.com: Send Me Your Nightmares eBook : Kluver, Robert: Kindle Store

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Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Got gift cards? Check out my sci-fi detective comedy series narrated by a footnoting coffee machine robot. "A constant delight" —Publishers Weekly starred review and PW Picks 2020 "A great and witty time" —Vulture's Best Comedy Books of 2022 www.amazon.com/dp/B08RB4S319

Private detective Frank Harken could really, really use a cup of coffee.
Can you blame him?
His new case features a missing woman, a flaky client, a cranky security officer, a mysterious assassin, an overbearing mob boss, an ice-cold enforcer, and the best mini-golf the world has ever seen. Did we mention the fate of millions is at stake?

“Stein delivers a madcap sci-fi take on the hard-boiled detective genre in this fun, near-future romp that’s chock-full of rapid-fire wit, tongue-in-cheek literary allusions, and playful futuristic absurdity… Stein keeps the stakes high and the laughs coming … Sure to appeal to fans of Douglas Adams, this zany, uproarious mystery is a constant delight.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Get ready for some super great fun! The Great American Deception is a hilarious (and deeply disturbing) voyage through a futuristic netherworld of caffeinated robots and diet pizza. Somewhere—possibly nowhere—Douglas Adams is sighing pleasurably with a combination of approval and afterlife indigestion.”
—Gary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure and Lake Success

“The Great American Deception is by far the most enjoyable novel told from the point of view of a futuristic coffee machine I have ever read!”
—Ben Schwartz, actor and writer

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Stephanie Campisi @stephcampisi.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Thanks, Gabino! If you're after some whimsical, lightly murdery reading to round out your year, you might like THE LITTLE COFFEE SHOP OF TERRORS! www.amazon.com/Little-Coffe...

The post author holding up a copy of THE LITTLE COFFEE SHOP OF TERRORS, which is extremely yellow, and shows a bloody cup of steamy coffee sitting on a counter

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 27/12/2024

Thank you, Gabino! Hope you had a good holiday. I had a Christmas crime story published on the big day by @shotgunhoney.com as part of its amazing “Merry Crimes-mas” series: shotgunhoney.com/fiction/your...

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You’re a Mean One by Casey Stegman

The large digital clock above SunLand Savings ticks from the last minute of Christmas Eve to the first minute of Christmas Day. And out there in the middle of Richmond Street, Frank’s entire crew l…

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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Shout out to libraries 🔥 (Sorry - whisper out)

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

It’s the last #FridayReads of the year! Let’s boost all signals and make it a great one. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Trying to get a new contract in 2025 and every copy of this little monster that finds a home makes a difference! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

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Faith Gardner @faithgardner.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 20 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

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Faith Gardner @faithgardner.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 19 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

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Faith Gardner @faithgardner.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 18 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

My pet peeve is when people round down a book by a POC or LGBTQ author instead of rounding up if it's a number plus .5 (3.5 for example). One because it's mathematically correct to round up not down, and two because these authors are often judged more harshly and have to endure things like book bans

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Chris Thorburn @cbthorburn.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

she’s perfect

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Happy Birthday Shirley Jackson, Horror Icon ✨ “I delight in what I fear.”

Book flatlay against a swirling cosmic background. When Things get Dark anthology, The Lottery and Other Stories, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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Faith Gardner @faithgardner.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 17 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Another idea is a “book that shuts the fuck up,” where the author, alive or dead, is not turned into worthless content slurry for some dickhead CEO to make more money. The book sits atop the large language bank that is only the book and nobody converses with shit, you just fucking read it.

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Faith Gardner @faithgardner.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I love the stage that happens before the writing starts: the daydreaming, the thoughtful pacing, the jotted notes, the long walks imagining stories that aren't on paper yet, the endless possibilities.

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Faith Gardner @faithgardner.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 16 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

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Faith Gardner @faithgardner.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 15 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

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Faith Gardner @faithgardner.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 14 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

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Faith Gardner @faithgardner.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 13 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

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Moniza Hossain @monizahossain.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

“I have too many books” -judgemental -boring -implies impulse-control issues “The books... they have me.” - mysterious - occult - implies you are at the mercy of a library of books that have gained sentience and are holding you hostage #readingcommunity

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Faith Gardner @faithgardner.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 12 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

"I feel so bad today..." —Richard Brautigan #poem #poems #poetry

I feel so bad today
that I want to write a poem.
I don't care: any poem,
this poem.

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Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

New authors! Things you absolutely do not have to pay for: -Being published -Being interviewed on a podcast -Book reviews Things you should be paid for: -Being published -Your time and expertise It doesn't matter how new you are. You never need to pay to play 🖤

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Thea Lyons 🌈 Updates Only. Please 👀 at my 📚. 💜 @alethearlyons.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I'm hoping to get some short story reads on KU. They're both queer and dark. One's fire, one's water. bit.ly/PoA-Kindle bit.ly/CMSS-Kindle

Cover for The Price of Admission with a mask and two women almost kissing.

Cover for Carry My Soul to the Sea with a ship being hit by lightning and a woman swimming under the sea.

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S.H. Cooper @pippinacious.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Thanks, Gabino! This isn't a book, but it is an evening of horror stories read by their authors to raise money for the ACLU! Happening tomorrow at 7 PM EST on YouTube. www.youtube.com/@Pippinacious

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Faith Gardner @faithgardner.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

That feeling when you finally get to hold the book you’ve been dreaming up for years! I’m so excited to share The Mirror House Girls with you all. #fridayreads. a.co/d/5ozf18J

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

On the road, but nothing stops #FridayReads! Let’s boost all signals and put books in front of readers. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m bringing you a horror/crime hybrid about vengeance, friendship, ghosts, and creatures from the deep. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

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Faith Gardner @faithgardner.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 11 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

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Faith Gardner @faithgardner.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is the stunning sky I woke up to this morning

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